Sunday, September 9, 2012
Safety on Campus
For my semester story I am going to see how safe campus really is to how safe we students think it is. There have been different incidents on campus that students hear about as rumors, but they never get reported either in the Witt Alerts, or just in The Torch. I plan on talking to people that have had an issue with "townies", and any other crime on campus or times that they haven't felt safe. I also planned on talking to professors, because they live in Springfield with their families, so it could be interesting to get their perspective on the people around them.
The one thing I would want to do on here after I start writing the article is start writing how it compares to be on other campuses. I know that being in downtown Cincinnati is obviously not a safe place to be, but what is it really like compared to like Wittenberg, since Cincinnati is so big. They just have a larger group of criminals to pull from to mess with the students. Then there are campuses like Miami (Oxford) where you can do basically anything, because the only people surrounding that campus are farmers.
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I suggest taking a small poll around campus. That could help with your story.
ReplyDeleteI would suggest using what we JUST did in class; look at Clark County's public records. It seems that we were all astonished by the sheer number of sexual offenders within a mile of our campus and that there's a halfway-house right on campus. Are other students aware of this?
ReplyDeleteI like Mac's idea of perception v. reality, and I have often wondered that myself. Are students claiming that Witt is safer or more unsafe than it actually is? That, I think, would be a good hook to this story.