BEYOND THE HEDGES: Campus security resolution passed in Congress

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"This resolution will ensure the Department of Education gives priority status to this important responsibility [of protecting students]," Goodling said.

"The act mandates free access by students to police reports and school crime policies in an accessible log kept by a university's campus police," Goodling said. "The legislation came in response to complaints that some institutions did not release all of their security reports to students.

"Colleges are trying to hide [crime incidents] because they're in a very competitive business. There's no question they are putting students in danger if they try to cover up the crime that's going on in order to recruit students," Goodling said.

Goodling introduced the resolution after being contacted by Connie Clery, whose daughter was murdered by a fellow student in her dorm room at Lehigh University. Clery discovered what she believed to be lax enforcement of the Campus Security Act.

Clery's organization, Security on Campus, has published campus safety tips and other assorted information regarding student safety which is available on the internet at SOConline@aol.com .

Source: The York Dispatch, Aug. 6.

This item appeared in the News section of the September 20, 1996 issue.

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