Lehigh has it's priority's backwards

Colleges & Universities Lehigh University
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<p>People will blast me for blasting on Lehigh, but the administration at Lehigh has so many of it’s priorities backwards. They would rather screw a good student who makes one mistake then to really open their eyes to the real world. I’ve cut and pasted an article in Todays’ Brown and White. I removed the name of the author. </p>

<p>Enforce safety before it’s too late </p>

<p>Letter to the editor
4/22/2007</p>

<p>As a parent I am extremely concerned about the safety and security situation at Lehigh and its surroundings. Do we need to wait for a tragedy before we take aggressive action to secure student, staff and visitor safety?</p>

<p>Lehigh, like many of America’s great schools, borders on or is surrounded by areas of urban decay. In Lehigh’s case this decay is written in a minor key compared to New Haven, Philadelphia or New York City (Yale, Penn and Columbia), but in our case, as in that of those bigger city schools, the proximity of privilege and deprivation provides ready opportunity for criminal predation.</p>

<p>You now report the occasional mugging, assault or random gunshot. Will it require a murder or rape before the town and campus police enact the strictest possible enforcement and patrol policies?</p>

<p>When the inevitable occurs, please do not act shocked or surprised; recent incidents reported here, and doubtless others that will never be reported provide ample warning. Remember, at Virginia Tech the warning signs were noted by many. It was the failure to respond to those signs that enabled the tragedy to occur.</p>

<p>Again, as a concerned parent, I beg the administration and the law-enforcement community to recognize the signs of danger for our students here at Lehigh and to take the most proactive approach possible.</p>

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<p>Seriously, who do you think you are, and what impact to you feel you are having on the CollegeConfidential community? Most people who have found their way to this message board have a genuine interest in attending Lehigh. You very vaguely describe what it is you wish Lehigh would do about this “problem”. Do you propose a fence that shelters Lehigh students from the lower-class Bethlehem community? Do you think that they should spend all of their discipline budget and efforts on watching the borders to keep crazy poor people from coming on campus? I don’t know what it is you want, but your credibility on this particular message board is just slightly above chicken****. I suggest you check out the Lafayette board for a “how hard to transfer” thread…</p>

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<p>…pwned…</p>

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<p>justaperson - if you are so disenchanted with life at Lehigh, why don’t you transfer out? Of all your posts, not one has a single positive statement about Lehigh.</p>