Campus Safety

Are female students safe on college campuses? Over the past few years, more and more women have filed reports about being sexually attacked or assaulted on their college campuses.

As a student of the University of San Francisco two years ago, we would receive emails about twice a week warning students of current reports are assaults. The school goes to great lengths to protect their students on campus. In order to enter into a dorm building, you much successfully swipe your access card to get through two door. Then you must walk past a receptionist and show her your ID and picture. If you wish to bring in a friend who does not live in the dorm, the guest must check in the ID at the front desk and leave it on file until you exit the dorm. All guest must also leave the dorm by 10 pm or else you will get written up. The school goes to great lengths to protect students, yet there are still several reports on a weekly basis.

When I was a student at USF, I was informed that several female students were sexually assaulted in the bushes directly in front of my dorm building. There are campus safety who drive around to "protect" students, but it still seems like these crimes are occurring on a regular basis.

At Cal University, there is a sexual predator who has been walking around campus and lifting girls skirts and trying to manually penetrate his victims. This has been going on for several weeks now, and he is up to 19 victims. The police and campus safety are investigating this case and trying to prevent it from happening again, but it has not stopped! I believe that a more intricate system needs to be put into action to protect these women, especially on large campuses like Cal's because there are more places for people to be alone and attacked.