Archive for August, 2006

Cyber Safety Tips »

Such popular social networking sites like Facebook, My Space, Orkut (if you are Brazilian or Indian- they have a lot of users) and the like have become immensely popular in the past several years.  Like any good thing there is often a dark side that comes with it, or grows out of it.  If you […]

Just How Safe Are College Campuses »

To begin, lets take a look at some numbers.  According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (2002) some general characteristics of crime on college campuses are:

41% of the offenders were thought to be using drugs or alcohol
72% of the off-campus crimes occurred between 6PM and 6AM
66% of the assaults were unarmed
58% were committed by strangers.  […]