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The surrounding town is a suburb, an hour from Columbus, the closest
major city. The suburb is very white-the only diverse community members
are professors!, and very safe. The campus is not very safe at all,
contrary to what you'd think. This is true of most college campuses
however. There will always be violent people in any chunk of society.
The number of actual crimes reported is a huge underestimate compared to
all the things that go on that people don't report, for fear of
retaliation or their reputation. A realistic estimate would probably be
that out of 2020 students, 55% are women, and probably 1/3+ of them have
been sexually assaulted or raped. However, this is a problem on all
college campuses. The campus is beautiful, but has many dark corners,
and not well-lit areas. Combine the isolated areas with a dark night and
drunk students, and you have a problem. There are safe-walk officers,
and campus patrol-the campus patrol like to stay in their expensive SUVs
though, and miss most of campus crime happpening right below their eyes.
Female, minority and gay students need more education at first year
orientation about staying safe, walking in groups and not alone, and
safe drinking practices. While it has a high gay and minority and
international student population for a school its size, their are campus
hate groups who commit crimes against people, and somehow are never
caught by security. Apart from that vocal part, there are a lot of other
accepting faculty and administrators and alumni and students. Housing
facilities and academic buildings are undergoing a lot of renovations
which should make the campus first rate. The dorms were typical dorms-
gross, with old furniture and carpets, and gross bathrooms. Some older
buildings probably have mold problems underneath carpets and walls. If
the residential life staff don't plan well, then the first year class is
scrunched in horrible small rooms, 2 in a single, 3 in a small double.
Residential life doesn't do tons for the students.There are substance
free and smoke free dorms available, adn one female only dorms, although
one woman said, girls' boyfriends stayed over a lot there. Other dorms
are coed, with same-sex roommates, and same-sex bathrooms and floors or
wings. Dorms had key card systems-you couldnt get in supposedly without
them, and after 12pm, if you didnt live in a dorm, your key card wouldnt
let you in that specfic one. However, you can always get someone to hold
a door for you-so thats not really a good safety measure. Patrolling
within dorms is minimal unfortunately. Many students steal textbooks,
stereos, jewerely, coats-dont leave your door unlocked or your bike
unlocked or unattended. The dining halls are constantly improving,
trying to incorporate more student favorites. It could be worse, it
could be a lot better, it could be $8.50 per meal you spent somewhere
else-like a nice restaurant. Students have to live on campus, and most
eat in the dining halls unless they have a kitchen. This is annoying
that seniors have to live on campus,always a contention point. Parking
on campus is greatly improved with new parking deck. Townies and
Granville police and students don't get along too well. Granville police
are always trolling for students, following them through town on
Saturday nights, bothering people, busting up parties after townies call
them. Granville is dry I think, and also has a strict no open container
policy.
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