LSU Gets "B" for Campus Safety

[GeauxTo]

Safe schools: A report by Reader's Digest into campus safety assigned B grades to LSU and Tulane University and an A to Loyola University New Orleans. The study, which was done in the wake of the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, graded campuses on a variety of factors, including security at dorms, the number of university police and orientation programs warning students about binge drinking and rape. No other Louisiana schools were included on the list, which can be viewed here (http://www.rd.com/images/content/2008/0802/College-Safety-Survey-Results.pdf).

[Cianne]

I'm pretty sure whoever did this study for Reader's Digest didn't actually go to the school. It's probably a bigger deal with the smaller colleges on the list. Example, Millsaps College. I can't remember anywhere on campus where a parking lot has a security camera which it says there is. Most of campus is not lit at night, including parking lots, despite listing 100%. Virtually all doors in the dorms can be set to self-locking yet it lists 0%. The man co-ed dorm, "New South," houses the security offices yet it says no dorms have security personel. And frankly, surrounding area should have been an indicator for campus safety. Gun shots were often fired across the street from the campus in the drug-ridden apartment complex.

[GeauxTo]

I'm pretty sure whoever did this study for Reader's Digest didn't actually go to the school.

You're probably right; that would have been a huge undertaking and pretty expensive, IMO. Perhaps by phone, e-mail questionnaire, or the like.

[The Ramp]

i dont' know how the rest of the schools do but i live right off campus and we've had two murders and two robberies this year all two blocks from my house. when i was LSU (all ten years...lol), i don't ever remembering it being this bad.

[GatorBait15]

No matter how safe something is there is always someone that can break the system nowhere is safe anymore...