Anonymous web tipline helps keep campus safe
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON — Administration has been getting a little help in addressing student’s concerns about issues on campus from an online reporting tool.
MySafeCampus, owned by Business Controls Inc., provides students from all over the country with a safe and anonymous way to report crimes and concerns to university staff.
UH has been using this service since January 2005 and the team that handles them usually receive reports about human resources, management and employment issues, discrimination assertions, fraud and abuse, statue and policy non-compliance and health and safety issues.
UH typically receives between 40 and 50 reports a year, Dona Cornell, Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel, said in an email, and the reports are handled by a team that includes, but is not limited to, the chief financial officer, the internal auditor and the general counsel.
“Every report results in a greater understanding of issues affecting the campus,” Cornell said. “We estimate that less than 20 percent of the reports filed result in official disciplinary action.”
-The Daily Cougar
By Joshua Mann
College Republicans, Democrats assemble 3,000 flags to honor Sept. 11 victims
OHIO UNIVERSITY – Members of Ohio University’s College Republicans continued their yearly tradition of honoring 9/11 victims with a flag display, and for the first time this year, they were joined by members of College Democrats as well.
The flag display is a national event that College Republicans nationwide have hosted since 2002, said Allison Arnold, communications chairwoman for the College Republicans.
“What we hope people will get out of this is that 9/11 is a day to remember; not to focus on the things we disagree on, but a day to remember this horrible event, the people who were killed and the first responders,” Arnold said.
Exactly 3,000 miniature flags were displayed on College Green today, and they represented both the 2,977 people who had died as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks and the people who responded to the attacks and were injured, Arnold said.
College Democrats and Republicans, as well as members of Student Senate, set up the flags last night, along with lights, and stayed at the display throughout the night as students and Athens residents passed by.
College Democrats President Nick Tuell said he thought the collaboration between the two groups was important.
“No matter your political views, 9/11 is an American thing, not a Democrat or Republican thing,” Tuell said. “We were honored to be a part of it this year.”
Arnold stayed by the display since 5 p.m. yesterday.
“It’s been really great,” she said. “We’ve had students stop by, community members. It was really cool to talk with some of the young kids. I was 10 when (9/11) happened, and there was a little girl here who was 10, so we were able to make that connection.”
-The Post
By Rebecca McKinsey
UB hosts Science and Technology Forum
UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO – UB is sponsoring the 2011-12 Western New York Science and Technology Forum “Horizons of the Sciences,” a 16-week lecture series that will expose elementary, middle and high school teachers from local districts to new scientific developments across a spectrum of fields.
“We deal with the newest and most exciting information in the science world,” said George Nancollas, Ph.D., professor and Larkin chair of chemistry.
In 1969, as the provost of natural sciences and mathematics, Nancollas founded the UB Science and Technology Forum to stimulate interest in the sciences and to ensure that UB was part of a progressive future.
This year marks the 42nd year UB has hosted the forum. In the last few decades, Nancollas has heard countless stories from educators who believe the forum has had a major impact on their teaching. Hearing about new and important scientific research has helped many teachers rekindle their own passion for the subject.
Nancollas created the forum to better the relationship between the university and Western New York science teachers.
By providing educators with information on cutting-edge scientific research, Nancollas hopes to increase the number of pupils in school who receive current information from their teachers and are inspired by the sciences.