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Crime report brews alcohol improvement
Student veterans compete in statewide competition
By KIM [email protected]
The Annual Campus Security Act and Fire Safety Report for 2011 was released on Oct. 1, showing a significant decrease in the number of crimes and arrests that took place on cam-pus from 2009 and 2010. This report showcas-es information regard-ing campus crime sta-tistics and procedures for fire safety, as well as statistics showing drug and alcohol violations on campus for the last three years. Charlie Edelen, IUS Police chief, said this re-port can be very useful for students who want to find out how safe the IUS campus is. “This report gives stu-dents a quick look at the last three years of crime on campus,” Edelen said. “If you’re consid-ering a school, I would think that safety would be one of the things you look at before you actu-ally go to the school.” Edelen said com-pared to other univer-sity crime reports, IU Southeast’s is very good. He said he believes the small amount of crime has a lot to do with the university loca-tion because it is not in an urban environment. Edelen said the most common incident re-ported on campus is theft, and most thefts reported are because of students making mis-takes. “Thefts usually oc-cur because of someone leaving their car un-locked or leaving some-thing out,” Edelen said.
“Last semester, we had two or three laptops stolen. People just leave them on a table and just walk off. I think people feel safe, and so they feel like if I leave here for five minutes, every-thing will still be here. A lot of times it may be, but it only takes once or twice.” Edelen said every parking lot is equipped
with cameras, but not every inch of the park-ing lots are covered. Edelen said the de-partment had a recent upgrade of 135 cameras campus-wide. “Even with the cam-eras we do have, often we see something that is happening, but it’s not good enough to make a positive identification,” Edelen said. “They do
help, but they’re not a solution.” For a crime to be in-cluded in this report, it has to be one of the seven major crimes: criminal homicide, sex offenses, robbery, ag-gravated assault, motor vehicle theft, arson or a hate crime. There are four different types of hate crimes within the report — vandalism, in-
timidation, larceny-theft and simple assault. Edelen said a hate crime is based on what the offender’s beliefs were, not on how the victim felt. Edelen said the IUS Police Depart-ment also counts how many arrests and how many disciplinary refer-rals are made and that information is included in the report under the
three specific catego-ries of liquor, drug and weapon laws. Edelen said a disci-plinary referral is when a student 21 years or older is caught on cam-pus with alcohol. “The [IUS] Police Department does a re-port, and the report gets referred to the vice chancellor of Student Affairs,” Edelen said. “From there, it’s han-dled administratively. It is not a criminal charge.” The report does show in 2009 — the first year for the lodges — more than 50 disciplinary re-ferrals were written for alcohol violations, and 16 were written for drug violations. Edelen said the high number of violations was contributed to outside students com-ing into the lodges and bringing drugs and alco-hol with them. In 2010, the number of alcohol violations de-creased by more than half but rose slightly in 2011. Drug violations de-creased from 16 in 2009 to one in 2010 but rose to two in 2011. Peter Felice, music composition senior and community adviser for Meadow Lodge, has been a community ad-viser for nearly three years. He said he has no-ticed the decrease in al-cohol related issues. “If the number of in-cidents is larger, it is simply because more people are being caught in the act due to chang-ing factors that en-hance the safety of our
By TAYLOR [email protected]
The IU Southeast Student Veterans’ Organization placed second in the Indiana State Student Veterans Hall of Fame Competition on Oct. 27 at the NCAA Hall of Champions in downtown Indianapolis. Sponsored by the Military Family Research In-stitute at Purdue University, this event allowed In-diana college campuses to showcase their achieve-ments and give them a chance to compete against the top SVOs in the state. Shelley MacDermid, director of MFRI at Purdue University, described the purpose of the competi-tion. “One purpose is to give visibility and recogni-tion to Student Veteran Organizations,” MacDermid said, “but another is to try and create a way for stu-dent veteran leaders to get information and sugges-tions on how to make their organizations success-ful.” Schools that participated alongside IU Southeast included Ball State University, Ivy Tech Blooming-ton, Ivy Tech Sellersburg, Ivy Tech Wabash Valley, Purdue University and the University of Evansville.
See REPORT, page 2
Courtesy photo
Shannon Jackson, elementary education junior, and Dale Brown, general studies senior, speak to the panel of judges on behalf of the IUS Student Veterans’ Organization at the Hall of Fame Competition on Oct. 27 in Indianapolis. IU Southeast placed second and received a $2,000 grant. See HALL OF FAME, page 2
Arrests
Liquor LAws:YeAr: 2009 2010 2011totAL: 21 0 3
Drug LAws:YeAr: 2009 2010 2011totAL: 4 11 6
DiscipLinArY referrALs
Liquor LAws:YeAr: 2009 2010 2011totAL: 53 21 28
Drug LAws:YeAr: 2009 2010 2011totAL: 20 6 2
Annual Report of Crimes
Source: IU Southeast Campus Security Act and Fire Safety Annual Report 2011
Graphic by Claire Munn
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