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  The Campus Murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Campus Murders is a 1969 paperback novel by Gil Brewer (1922 - 1983) published under the name Ellery Queen.
In The Campus Murders, McCall is sent to Tisquanto State College to investigate the disappearance of a female student.
However, the murders are nothing to do with radical student politics: In a drug-induced frenzy, the killer has murdered the people who stood in his way to personal success or who were threatening to expose his criminal schemes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Campus_Murders   (313 words)

  
 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
murder murder, criminal homicide, usually distinguished from manslaughter by the element of malice aforethought.
Murder, Inc. Murder, Inc., name given to the band of professional killers who operated (1930-40) throughout the United States as the enforcement arm of the Syndicate, composed of the national heads of organized crime.
Phoenix Park murders Phoenix Park murders, name given to the assassination on May 6, 1882, of Lord Frederick Cavendish, British secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his undersecretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
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 The Campus Murders -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Campus Murders is a (Click link for more info and facts about 1969) 1969 (A book with paper covers) paperback novel by Gil Brewer (1922 - 1983) published under the name (Click link for more info and facts about Ellery Queen) Ellery Queen.
The first victim is one of the conservative ((Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals) deans, who is stabbed after his life-size (A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)) effigy has been burned on a stake specially erected by a group of students.
The missing student is found near a river, severely beaten up and in a (A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury) coma.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_campus_murders.htm   (440 words)

  
 Crime in Higher Education (NCVRW 2003: Fulfill the Promise)
There were 395 campus-related murders between 1998 and 2000 reported in the statistics supplied to the U.S. Department of Education by security offices at colleges and universities around the country.
Two thousand and eight acts of arson were reported by campus security in 2000, up from 1884 reported acts of arson in 1999.
Campus security offices reported that 6765 arrests for illegal weapons possessions were made in 2000, a substantial increase from the 3554 arrests made in 1999.
www.ojp.usdoj.gov /ovc/ncvrw/2003/pg5d.html   (416 words)

  
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North Carolina, University of North Carolina, University of, main campus at Chapel Hill; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1789, opened 1795, the first state college to open as a university.
Puerto Rico, University of Puerto Rico, University of, main campus at Río Piedras, near San Juan; land-grant and commonwealth; coeducational; founded 1903 as successor to a normal school.
He became an adviser to Mary Queen of Scots and was involved in the murder of Lord Darnley.
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 The Campus Murders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In The Campus Murders, McCall is sent to Tisquanto State College to investigate the disappearance of a femalestudent.
McCall, who is in his early thirties, is confronted with radical,violent, long-haired, dirty, drug-taking, and promiscuous students on the one hand and traditional faculty on the other who areunable to understand what is going on on campus and who do not know how to reactadequately to the demands voiced by hippies and yippies.
However, the murders are nothing to do with radical student politics: In a drug-inducedfrenzy, the killer has murdered the people who stood in his way to personal success or who were threatening to expose hiscriminal schemes.
www.therfcc.org /the-campus-murders-20515.html   (344 words)

  
 University of Pennsylvania-Campus Security Act Review
Campus is defined as any "property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to.
Federal regulation requires that an institution comply separately with the requirements of 34 CFR § 668.47 for each campus A branch, school or administrative division within an institution which is not within a reasonably contiguous geographic area with the institution's main campus is considered to be a separate campus.
Federal regulations further define a campus to be any building or property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution's educational purposes.
www.campussafety.org /schools/cleryact/pennpr.html   (3487 words)

  
 UCPD Department History | CU-Boulder Police Dept   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The establishment of the variously labeled "Campus Police, Campus Security Police, and Security Force" was prompted by two campus murders in the preceding nine months.
This murder remained unsolved until 1956 when a former Engineering student walked into a VA hospital in Los Angeles, CA and confessed to the murder.
The eighties were marked by the murder of a student in family housing and the smothering death of a newborn infant in Williams Village.
www.colorado.edu /police/about/history.html   (695 words)

  
 Archived: May 1996 Dear Colleague Letter on Campus Security Issues
An institution must make timely warning reports to the campus community on certain crimes that represent a continuing threat to students and employees and that were reported to officials with significant responsibility for student and campus activities, campus police, or local police.
Campus officials with "significant counseling responsibility," however, are not subject to the timely warning requirement.
An institution is not relieved of compliance with the reporting requirements of the campus security regulations when the institution refers a matter to a disciplinary committee, rather than to the institution's law enforcement unit or directly to the local authorities.
www.ed.gov /Speeches/06-1996/coll.html   (1208 words)

  
 Report Details Campus Crime Dangers For First Time
There was an overall one percent increase in reported on-campus crime in 1999 over 1998 with increases in 5 major categories, and a drop in murders and aggravated assaults.
In 1999 there were 11 on-campus murders, down from 24 the year before; 1,842 forcible sex offenses, up from 1,772 for 1998; 1,997 robberies up from 1,862; 3,777 aggravated assaults down from 3,856; 26,035 burglaries up from 25,685; and 6,201 motor vehicle thefts up from 6,050.
Of the 215,558 crimes broken down by geographic category, 41,667 occurred on campus (14,259 of those in residence halls), 17,085 occurred at campus related properties like remote classrooms and fraternity houses, while the majority 156,806 were reported for areas around campuses.
www.securityoncampus.org /reporters/releases/01192001.html   (343 words)

  
 Ohio University Today, Spring 1997, Campus Safety   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
With talk of campus crime rates and federal mandates on campus crime reporting on the lips of parents of prospective and current college students nationwide, Jones and other Ohio University officials say the institution has worked long and hard to create a safe atmosphere to work, study and socialize.
Department of Campus Safety would tend to back up their claim that the Athens campus carries on its business in a relatively safe environment - that is, if you believe in the reporting of campus crime statistics at all.
Three campus rapes reported to OUPD in 1996 raised more than a few eyebrows on campus and attracted their share of negative publicity, as did a series of drug raids involving Ohio University students this winter.
www.cats.ohiou.edu /ohiotoday/spring97/safety2.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Work & Family: Colleges ward off overinvolved parents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A new generation of overinvolved parents are flooding campus orientations, meddling in registration and interfering with students' dealings with professors, administrators and roommates, school officials say.
The trend reflects societal fears about campus safety, amid growing media coverage of campus murders and deaths, mounting mental-health problems, and rising alcohol and drug arrests at colleges and universities.
Campus officials say they're seeing a growing number of freshmen lacking basic skills -- negotiating for what they need, getting along with others in a shared space, using common sense to stay safe, and solving their own problems.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05209/545149.stm   (840 words)

  
 Campus Mysteries
J.S. Borthwick sets a delightful series on a campus in Maine where her graduate student in the English department solves hoary murders in the New England landscape with her physician boyfriend.
Another concentration of campus - oriented mystery writers is found in the Midwest.
His hero is Peggy O'Neill, a campus cop, at a fictionalized University of Minnesota, is very trouble prone but also very talented.
www.dartmouth.edu /~gjdemko/campus.htm   (518 words)

  
 Latest murders highlight rise in campus crime | csmonitor.com
UNIVERSITY MURDERS: Police investigate the scene of a double shooting at Broward County College in Davie, Fla., Jan. 18.
Campus crime is on the increase according to new figures.
Despite the increase in the homicide rate, authorities point out that there were about.14 on-campus murders per 100,000 students compared with a murder rate in the general population of about 5.5 per 100,000 people.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/0122/p03s01-ussc.html   (925 words)

  
 Drug and Alcohol-Related Arrests Increase at Colleges
Carter said that schools are reacting to campus violence and other criminal behavior more thoroughly now than a decade ago, focusing on the community's specific needs with better resources.
According to the annual study, which tracked crime reports at the nation's major colleges and universities, there were 7,897 drug arrests in 1997, up from 7,370 in 1996, and 17,624 alcohol-related arrests, up from 17,019 in 1996.
Reports of aggravated assaults were down, and the number of murders on campus fell after increases the previous two years, from 15 in 1995 and 19 in 1996 to 13 in 1997.
partners.nytimes.com /library/national/052399campus-arrests.html?...   (471 words)

  
 Crime on Campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In a two year study of 65 separate incidents of reported campus crime only a quarter of the off campus cases and an eighth of the on campus assaults involved strangers (Meilman and Jackson 1996).
On this campus there is a clear relationship between alcohol consumption and unwanted sexual activity, rape and violence.
For the categories of murder, hate crimes and arrest for weapons possession, all three universities reported zero incidents for both 1997 and 1998.
www.txwesleyan.edu /futurestudent/CrimeonCampus.htm   (2747 words)

  
 Campus theft hits new high - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
That means, in the past four years, the rate of theft on campus has increased by 50 percent.
Whenever there are drug problems on campus, local law enforcement is called in to deal with the problem.
For the past few years, assaults have been at a minimum, there haven't been any murders on campus and in the past three years there was one weapons violation.
www.universitychronicle.com /news/2004/03/25/News/Campus.Theft.Hits.New.High-641498.shtml   (606 words)

  
 domesticviolence.htm
Over the next year, the coalition will arrange for domestic-violence awareness training for pastoral, hospital, community, county, and court workers in East Cleveland and show them ways to help domestic violence victims navigate the legal and social service systems to find safety.
Ohio Campus Compact, an organization of 45 higher education institutions, supported Chapman's project, "Building Community Capacity in Response to the Crisis of Domestic Violence" with a $6,000 fellowship.
Murders in Cleveland have decreased over the past three years, but during this time, domestic violence deaths have risen by 46 percent, according to the April 2001 Domestic Violence death Review Committee.
www.cwru.edu /menu/research/domesticviolence.htm   (565 words)

  
 CollegeBound Teen Magazine Online
For example, while forcible sex offenses actually decreased from 1,868 reported instances in 1999 to 1,858 in 2000, the number of murders on campus nearly doubled, albeit from a low 11 campus killings in 1999 to 20 in 2000.
As director of campus safety of Harcum College (Bryn Mawr, PA), Joe McBride has a list of safety measures that's a little more extensive: "Things [students] shouldn't do are walk down dark streets or put themselves in situations that would place them in harm's way.
We are allowed to have alcohol on campus but you have to be of age.
www.collegebound.net /collegeboundteen/issues/n_spring04/safety.html   (1116 words)

  
 Metropolitan Campus is ranked among the safest in New Jersey - The Equinox - Safe or Scared on Campus
In contrast, Fairleigh Dickinson's Florham Park Campus, where alcohol is still permitted, included in its 2002 data: 181 alcohol and 11 drug referrals, seven burglaries, two nonforcible sexual offenses, two aggravated assaults, three motor vehicle thefts and a drug abuse arrest in residences.
The state government had created the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, but it was amended in 1998, requiring colleges and universities to disclose figures on specific crimes and to issue "timely warnings" of continuing crime to students, parents, faculty and prospective students.
At the Rutgers New Brunswick campus, 2002 crimes included one case of rape, two robberies, seven aggravated assaults, 71 burglaries, 530 thefts and larcenies, 36 motor vehicle thefts, and one case of arson.
www.equinoxnews.com /news/2004/01/26/SafeOrScaredOnCampus/Metropolitan.Campus.Is.Ranked.Among.The.Safest.In.New.Jersey-587202.shtml   (749 words)

  
 Official Regulations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Off campus, care and alertness are required as students, faculty, and staff explore the city's many riches and attractions.
The 1993 statistics for the Morningside campus: 0 murders, 5 robberies, 10 aggravated assaults, 87 burglaries, 0 motor vehicle thefts, and 0 forcible and non-forcible sex offenses.
The Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act of 1990 was amended to require all colleges and universities to develop and distribute programs, policies, and procedures about rape and other sex offenses, both forcible and non-forcible.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu /dept/ps/bulletin/bull0051.html   (2675 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Theft, the biggest crime problem on campus, was reported 1,476 times in 1992 and 1,355 times in 1993.
For the seventh consecutive year, there were no murders on campus.
Although the university is one of the few that reports crimes to the Department of Education as precisely outlined by federal law, Michalec says it is difficult to compare safety risks on various campuses merely by comparing raw numbers.
www.osu.edu /osu/newsrel/Archive/94-03-04_Campus_crime_continues_decline_at_Ohio_State   (487 words)

  
 Murders based on urban legends make for predictably hokey thriller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The murders are courtesy of urban legends, or stories passed down from generations.
When students and faculty begin to die in increasingly unusual ways, the students, one by one, begin to consider the possibility that the urban legends they study in class just might be coming to life.
Throw in the stereotypical spooky janitor, the eccentric college professor and the sassy campus security guard, and you have a cast of characters who, excuse the pun, have been done to death.
www.kstatecollegian.com /issues/v103/fa/n025/aande/ae.legend.crable.html   (442 words)

  
 US Education Department Press Releases: 5/2/94 Campus Crime Data Available   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
College students and their parents are entitled to receive campus crime data under final regulations published by the U.S. Education Department.
Campus staff with "significant counseling responsibility" will be expected to provide statistical data for the report, but may continue to honor the confidentiality of victims.
These staff persons are not included in the definition of "campus security authority" and are not required to report crimes to law enforcement officials.
newssearch.looksmart.com /p/articles/mi_puca/is_199405/ai_666483907   (546 words)

  
 Colombian Coke murders spark call for N.Y.U. campus-wide ban
A yearlong student campaign to ban Coca-Cola products from the New York University campus failed to win support from the All-University Senate at a meeting on March 3, but organizers for the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke aren’t retiring yet.
campus joined the group’s ranks in March 2004, after Colombian labor union SINALTRAINAL filed suit against the corporation and its bottling facility in Miami courts for human-rights violations.
Written permission of the publisher must be obtainedbefore any of the contents of this newspaper, in whole or in part, can be reproduced or redistributed.
www.thevillager.com /villager_99/colombiancokemurders.html   (519 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: National News: Lethal Weapon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A 14-year-old boy wading in the Wabash River found a hammer that police believe was used to kill two South Korean women on the Purdue University campus.
Yeunkyung was a Purdue doctoral student in biological sciences, and her sister was visiting the West Lafayette campus from Chicago.
He faces two counts each for murder, murder while committing or attempting to commit burglary or robbery, burglary, robbery, theft and criminal confinement.
www.asianweek.com /2001_08_31/news_purdue.html   (365 words)

  
 The Princeton Murders (Big Crime on Campus)
It turns out that the author could not have committed one of the linked murders for reason she was in New York City.
It didnt take long to ascertain the method in which the character was murdered and it was even easier to determine who the next victim would be (and why).
Before I reached the middle of the book I already knew who the murderer was, yet the characters remained completely clueless until the murderer nearly succeeded in killing off the storys protagonist.lt;pgt;The predictability of the storyline wasnt the books only flaw.
www.wkonline.com /a/The_Princeton_Murders_0425188205.htm   (1225 words)

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