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Award Recipients For 2005 |
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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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 It is with great pleasure that we have selected Villanova University (pictured at right receiving the Clery Award from Catherine Bath, Executive Director of Security On Campus, Inc.) to receive one of this year’s Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Awards. The award honors those who have taken extraordinary actions to make students safe. It is awarded in memory of our beloved daughter who was murdered on the campus of Lehigh University in 1986.
Villanova is receiving the award in part because they have the distinction of being the first university in the nation to require AlcoholEdu of each and every incoming freshman. In addition, their Center for Health and Wellness Education does a superb job in educating students about important health and safety issues. Villanova’s peer education program, “POWER” is exceptional, as are the people involved with it, Cathy Lovecchio and Stacy Andes. Our organization has had numerous interactions with POWER and we have been impressed every time.
Her assailant, a friend from high school and then a fellow freshman at OSU, pled guilty to sexual imposition in the fall of 2004, and a federal civil rights lawsuit against OSU is now pending over their failure to remove him from campus until a year and a half after the assault was reported. She has also gone public, writing an editorial that appeared in our "Campus Watch" newsletter and doing an interview for an upcoming segment of Dateline NBC that sheds light on problems with how campuses deal with sexual assault. Stacy is currently majoring in Communications at Kent State University.
When they started working on the project they were going to look at crime statistics in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and then see if they matched up with what the schools were telling their students. What began as a local search, however, turned statewide when students from the University of North Texas agreed to collaborate on the project. Together, according to SMU journalism Professor Craig Flournoy, “students compiled crime statistics from more than 100 colleges and universities in Texas from 2001- 2003.” Each of the group members took on a handful of universities to research, looking for a correlation between the crime numbers themselves and what was told to the student body. Following the statistical examinations, the team decided to visit a few of the schools in order to get feedback on what they found. At each school they talked to students trying to ascertain if the campus police were doing their jobs properly. The group compiled an impressive article on the issue of safety among Texas schools entitled “Insecurity on Campus.” Read the whole article at: http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=862. Congratulations, and thank you again for your dedication to serving the public and your efforts to make college campuses safer and save lives.
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We are pleased to honor Stacy Bogart (pictured at left receiving the Clery Award from S. Daniel Carter, Senior Vice President of Security On Campus, Inc.) as one of the 2005 student recipients of the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award. Stacy, the survivor of a 2002 sexual assault at Ohio State University, demonstrated incredible courage in seeking justice and in working to improve how OSU and other colleges respond to student rape complaints.
We are also honoring the “Insecurity on Campus” Student Journalism Team From Texas a group of journalism majors (including Megan Connolly, Pablo Lastra and Jessica Savage pictured at right) from several Texas colleges who took an in-depth look into college police departments across Texas.