What are the most common threats to college campus safety?
One of the most common threats we see on a college campus is student behavior itself. Very commonly, students on campus involved with safety incidents where there’s some type of death or injury have been involved with drinking or use of drugs; and one of the first things I think college students need to understand is that they are at much higher level of risk when they’ve been drinking or using drugs, and their judgment may be impaired. Often we see young people who are not used to alcohol indulging to a far greater degree, and from the incident this year where a student was cut in half by an elevator to people falling out of balconies to drunk driving accidents to sexual assaults, armed robbery and homicide. A lot of times, we see that type of connection. The next is probably where the student is in a completely new environment. They may know the risks in their home community, but now maybe we’re away from home as a student and not aware of dangers in and around our campus, and not ta
