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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Visionaries:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I read something in the Daily News (that I can't find now) where the UI ranked 36<sup>th</sup> in the top 50 safest colleges (ISU came in at #7) according to stats compiled by the Daily Beast, and there were two points I wanted to make.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>First, BSU didn't make the Safest List <b>at all</b>, so perhaps BSU's Bob Kustra should be focusing his hot air on what he needs to do to make his college safer (or figure out why student health insurance at BSU has to be so expensive due to an extraordinarily high MLR) rather than ripping into the UI & Moscow for being nasty, inebriated, and uncivil.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Second & more importantly, this data makes it all the more . . . curious why the UI chose to spend Big Bucks hiring notorious AlliedBarton at a time when the academic experience at the UI is suffering due to a lack of funding. It seems pretty clear to me that <b>property</b> safety -- rather than safety of the <b>people</b> in the UI community -- is the explanation for the foolish decision to reduce (read: cut) MPD's excellent service to the UI community & hire a private security firm with a pretty troubled history on college campuses and off. And don't let the UI convince you otherwise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/college-safety-rankings">http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/college-safety-rankings</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>There’s no such thing as a crime-free campus, but based on The Daily Beast’s rankings, these schools come very close.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>For The Daily Beast’s second-annual ranking of the safest and most dangerous colleges in the U.S., we pored over the three most recent calendar years of campus security and crime data (2006-2008) compiled by the U.S. Department of Education, as well as the FBI and the Secret Service, in conjunction with the Clery Act, the federal mandate requiring all schools that receive federal funding to disclose crime information annually. The data reflect incidents reported to campus or local police, not convictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Some ground rules: We only ranked colleges with residential facilities, as well as at least 6,000 enrolled students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. We also deferred to the NCES in determining what a “campus” is—for example, it groups the two campuses for Tufts University as single entity, even though they are seven miles apart (Tufts’ Boston campus is the reason it ranked so poorly). This produced a total comparison of 458 schools across the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The statistics account for nine types of criminal incidents, which we weighted based on a subjective judgment of violence, asserting that an incident of murder represents a higher level of intrinsic threat to public safety than a robbery. Burglary carried the lowest value, with car theft weighed twice as much, assault or robbery six times, arson 10 times, negligent manslaughter 20 times and murder 40 times. All totals were then divided by the number of enrolled students, so that midsize and large campuses could be accurately compared.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>__________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>