Award Recipients For 1995

The "Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award" was established in 1994 by Howard & Connie Clery to honor schools and individuals that have done extraordinary things to make college and university students safer.

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Saint Cloud State University, Public Safety Department

The women and men of St. Cloud State Univ. Public Safety Department are committed to accurately reporting campus crimes. They receive all information concerning sexual assaults on campus from the Women's Center and include these statistics in their annual report.

University of Washington, Police Department/Bicycle and Crime Prevention Units

The Univ. of Washington has been reporting campus crimes through their POLICE BEAT newsletter prior to the enactment of the Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act of 1990. They've found that by truthfully informing students campus crimes have decreased.

Josh Gerstein

Josh Gerstein has been a lifelong crusader for openness in the educational and criminal justice systems. While a student at Harvard University, he wrote legislation which required college and university police departments to maintain a public log of all reported crimes and arrests. The bill was signed into law in Massachusetts in 1991 and has since become a model for similar legislation in other states. Josh now works as a producer for ABC News in Washington, D.C.

Jennifer Byron

Jennifer Byron began two organizations when she was a junior at Barnard College, Columbia University. The first was GUAVA (Greeks United Against Violence and Assault). This inter-Greek board works in conjunction with administrators and other student organizations to oversee student confrontations. The second organization she formed was Concerning Women, a national computer-based network linking anti-violence programs among college campuses. Jenny is now in her second year at Brooklyn Law School.

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