1. National Campus Safety Awareness Month Initiative Launched

2. ALERT: Campus Crime And Degradation Exposed

3. Campus Crime In The News

Dear Friends,

Last fall we received yet another confirmation that our 18 years of hard work to make college and university campuses safer is paying off. In a tremendous example of students themselves taking the initiative to make their and other campuses safer the Student Government Association at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay came to us with the idea of establishing September as "National Campus Safety Awareness Month."

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students. From Left to Right: Mitch Bruckert, Rachel Abhold, Adam Ruechel, and Jon Virant. Not Pictured Sarah Oldenburg.

Mitch Bruckert, Director of the SGA Campus Climate Committee at UWGB, began developing the idea of a national safety month after reading news accounts of student deaths and missing students across the country. "Today is the day that students, parents, and administrators alike rise up to create safer campuses nationwide," he said.

We are thrilled to see these college students take such an active role for U.S. campus safety and hope they will inspire other student government associations to join the effort. From our experience September has proved to be the most dangerous month of the academic year on our college campuses, especially for freshmen!!! It is so important that critical programming and safety awareness about issues including acquaintance rape, binge drinking, residence hall fires, and hazing occur right at the beginning of the year, which makes September the perfect month for this effort.

Supporting and participating in "National Campus Safety Awareness Month" would save many students' lives in the future, maybe even someone you know or love!

Please call us to find out how you can help make "National Campus Safety Awareness Month" a reality and to have your campus participate.

Congratulations to the UWGB SGA members.

Thank you all for your continuing support.

Connie & Howard Clery, Co-Founders
Security On Campus, Inc.

"I Am Charlotte Simmons" by Tom Wolfe [Fiction]

Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the uppercrust coeds of Dupont, sex, Cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.

Mr. Wolfe accurately pinpoints all of the major problems endangering the well-being of our college students. He has given us a well-researched story about life on our college campuses in 2005. It is shocking but true, Fiction=Fact.

"Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood" by Koren Zailckas [Biography]

From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at sixteen, a blacked-out sexual experience at Syracuse University, and total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at age twenty-two, when she realized she had to stop, and all the depression, rage, troubled friendships, and sputtering romantic connections in between.

Ms. Zailckas offers an eye opening view of campus binge drinking from the inside out, and the day to day consequences that it has had in her life and in the life of her peers. Young people, their parents, and college officials alike can all take important lessons from reading this book.

Koren Zailckas hid her drinking problem well. Now she's telling everyone. (Boston Globe; 02/08/05)

'Smashed': Between Drinks, a Coming of Age (The New York Times; 02/07/05)

Bush's Official Reading List, and a Racy Omission (The New York Times; 02/07/05)

Facebook Cancels Beirut Tourney (The Harvard Crimson; 02/07/05)

UD frat suspended following death (The News Journal; 02/03/05)

Starting at an early age, Americans are bombarded with glamorous images of alcohol (The Oklahoma Daily; 02/01/05)

Law enforcement best way to deter underage drinking (The Register-Guard; 12/27/04)