2008 Woodie Awards
Public Safety shows disregard for students
Issue date: 3/3/05 Section: Letters to the Editor
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It disappoints me that Public Safety has yet to clean up its act. I too was a Journal staffer, who briefly covered the crime log prior to 2001, and faced similar problems to those expressed by Jennifer Nahlik in her letter to the editor ("The obscure world of campus crime," Feb. 24).
Additionally, I lived in Maria Hall in 1997 and a girl on our floor was sexually assaulted by an intruder from her suitemate's room. The incident was reported to Public Safety, and although The Journal was not covering the crime log at the time, I was appalled that the students, even those living in the dormitories, were not notified of the attack. Not until many weeks after the victim was relocated to another floor, and the locks changed on her door, did we begin to hear of the assault through her friends.
That same year, many non-university individuals entered dorm rooms and stole laptops, money, etc. Luckily, the individuals in both cases were apprehended, but I never saw a record of the sexual assault in Maria Hall, and it was The Journal that notified campus of the thefts only after an investigative story broke the case.
This is continuing evidence of Public Safety's disregard for the welfare of Webster's students, and it demonstrates that this is not just a blip, and that eight-plus years of deliberate neglect of the Jeanne Clery Act is too many.
Plesah Mayo
Alumnus, 2001
Additionally, I lived in Maria Hall in 1997 and a girl on our floor was sexually assaulted by an intruder from her suitemate's room. The incident was reported to Public Safety, and although The Journal was not covering the crime log at the time, I was appalled that the students, even those living in the dormitories, were not notified of the attack. Not until many weeks after the victim was relocated to another floor, and the locks changed on her door, did we begin to hear of the assault through her friends.
That same year, many non-university individuals entered dorm rooms and stole laptops, money, etc. Luckily, the individuals in both cases were apprehended, but I never saw a record of the sexual assault in Maria Hall, and it was The Journal that notified campus of the thefts only after an investigative story broke the case.
This is continuing evidence of Public Safety's disregard for the welfare of Webster's students, and it demonstrates that this is not just a blip, and that eight-plus years of deliberate neglect of the Jeanne Clery Act is too many.
Plesah Mayo
Alumnus, 2001