By VICTORIA SHNAUFER, Student Reporter
For the third year in a row, Northwestern had at least one forcible rape or sexual assault in 2015.
In fact, the campus saw two such crimes, which are reported yearly in the Fire and Safety Report that is required by law to be completed by Oct. 1. Police made three arrests in connection with those assaults.
The 51-page report also shows one weapons violation and thirty-five administrative acts, situations that have been dealt with by administration such as fights in the dorms, etc., on the Alva campus. There were no fires to report on, each fire drill for the 2015 year was recorded in the report.
Northwestern’s Fire and Safety report is fifty-one pages of certain requirements for handling incidents of sexual violence and emergency situations and has proved itself to uphold a safe campus community
“We feel strongly that Northwestern campuses are safe and the statistics bear this out. First and foremost, we have great students,” said Associate Vice President for University Relations, Steve Valencia. “We also have a climate where Campus Police and personnel in Student Services communicate with students and are made aware of any potential illegal actions.”
Each year college campuses across the United States that are associated with Title IX are required under the Clery act, to give a detailed report on campus rules, regulations, consequences and actions to be taken on breaking the rules to the public to ensure a safe campus.
The Clery Act is set in place to keep present and future staff, faculty and students aware of what takes place on campus. The Clery Act is named after Jeanne Clery who was sexually abused and murdered by a stranger on April 5, 1986 in her college dorm room. The act was set into place in 1990 and has been amended twice. The last amendment took place in 2013. The act requires public, private and secondary schools participating in Federal Student aid programs to keep on record a daily crime log that is open to the public.
Campus police maintains said log for collecting and preserving crime reports that take place on campus.
“Northwestern has invested in student safety by installing security cameras inside and outside campus buildings, and by establishing a confidential tip line where students and employees can anonymously report information on possible unlawful activity.” said Valencia, “I believe these actions have aided in deterring crime on campus.”
Each year college campuses across the United States that are associated with Title IX are required under the Clery act, to give a detailed report on campus rules, regulations, consequences and actions to be taken on breaking the rules to the public to ensure a safe campus.
For more information on the Fire and Safety report contact campus police chief, LeRoy Burks by phone at (580) 327-8511, or Dean of student affairs and enrollment management, Calleb Mosburg, by phone at (580) 327-8415.