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Crime report brews alcohol improvement By KIM KERBY Staff kdkerby@ius.edu 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 campus from 2009 and 2010. This report showcases information regarding campus crime statistics 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 report can be very useful for students who want to find out how safe the IUS campus is. “This report gives students a quick look at the last three years of crime on campus,” Edelen said. “If you’re considering a school, I would think that safety would be one of the things you look at before you actually go to the school.” Edelen said compared to other university 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 location because it is not in an urban environment. Edelen said the most common incident reported on campus is theft, and most thefts reported are because of students making mistakes. “Thefts usually occur because of someone leaving their car unlocked or leaving something out,” Edelen said.
Annual Report of Crimes Arrests Liquor Laws: Year: 2009 Total:
21
2010
2011
0
3
Drug Laws: Year: 2009 Total:
4
2010
2011
11
6
Disciplinary Referrals Liquor Laws: Year: 2009 Total: 53
Source: IU Southeast Campus Security Act and Fire Safety Annual Report 2011 Graphic by Claire Munn
“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, everything 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 parking lots are covered. Edelen said the department had a recent upgrade of 135 cameras campus-wide. “Even with the cameras 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
2010
2011
21
28
Drug Laws: Year: 2009 2010 Total: 20 6 help, but they’re not a solution.” For a crime to be included in this report, it has to be one of the seven major crimes: criminal homicide, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft, arson or a hate crime. There are four different types of hate crimes within the report — vandalism, in-
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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 Department also counts how many arrests and how many disciplinary referrals are made and that information is included in the report under the
three specific categories of liquor, drug and weapon laws. Edelen said a disciplinary referral is when a student 21 years or older is caught on campus with alcohol. “The [IUS] Police Department does a report, and the report gets referred to the vice chancellor of Student Affairs,” Edelen said. “From there, it’s handled administratively. It is not a criminal charge.” The report does show in 2009 — the first year for the lodges — more than 50 disciplinary referrals were written for alcohol violations, and 16 were written for drug violations. Edelen said the high number of violations was contributed to outside students coming into the lodges and bringing drugs and alcohol with them. In 2010, the number of alcohol violations decreased by more than half but rose slightly in 2011. Drug violations decreased 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 adviser for nearly three years. He said he has noticed the decrease in alcohol related issues. “If the number of incidents is larger, it is simply because more people are being caught in the act due to changing factors that enhance the safety of our
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Student veterans compete in statewide competition By TAYLOR FERGUSON Staff tayfergu@ius.edu
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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.
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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 Institute at Purdue University, this event allowed Indiana college campuses to showcase their achievements 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 competition. “One purpose is to give visibility and recognition to Student Veteran Organizations,” MacDermid said, “but another is to try and create a way for student veteran leaders to get information and suggestions on how to make their organizations successful.” Schools that participated alongside IU Southeast included Ball State University, Ivy Tech Bloomington, Ivy Tech Sellersburg, Ivy Tech Wabash Valley, Purdue University and the University of Evansville.
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