Award Recipients For 2001

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.

Tulane Men Against Rape

For their cutting edge efforts to raise the consciousness of male students about aggression against women, we are pleased to present Tulane Men Against Rape with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for 2001! We hope that their organization's work is duplicated and implemented on college campuses across the country.

Tulane Men Against Rape: (l-r) Barrett Conrad, Emily Moran, Wilce Gilbert, Kenny King, B.J. Gossnick and Michele Levine.

University of Delaware

When colleges gave up "in loco parentis" regarding student behavior in the 1960's, drug and alcohol use increased dramatically. Although the Warner Amendment, giving colleges and universities the right to notify parents when their child has violated alcohol policies, was enacted in 1998, the University of Delaware instituted a parental notification policy a year earlier, in 1997.

The University of Delaware now has what they call a three strikes and you’re out plan: under the new policy, parents are notified after the first violation and students are fined $50. The second violation brings another call home and a $100 fine. After the third violation, students are suspended for a semester and forfeit their tuition and any credits earned that semester.

For pioneering use of parental notification, for uncompromising efforts to reduce abusive drinking among University of Delaware students, for setting a precedent for colleges across the country and for recognition that cultural and community influences need to be addressed, we are pleased to present the University of Delaware with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for 2001!

University of Delaware: (l-r) Timothy Brooks – past Dean of Students, University of Delaware President David Roselle, Vice President of Student Life Roland Smith and Director of Public Safety Larry Thornton.

College of the Holy Cross

In 1999 the Chaplains' office began sponsorship of a campus chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous. The closed meetings provide a comfortable setting in which students can connect with peers experiencing similar difficulties with alcohol. For their great foresight in recognizing that students' needs are different than those of the community at large and for their uncompromising implementation of zero-tolerance policies addressing underage drinking and campus crimes, we are pleased to present the College of the Holy Cross with the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for 2001!

Holy Cross President Michael C. McFarland, S.J.

Holy Cross V.P. of Student Affairs Jacqueline Peterson