Re: Kenyon Visit Report and Dorm Security

StitchInTime
Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:31:13 +0000

quote Kenyon has a team of lawyers and Gocial is out. If you lock your room door you really won’t have any problems. Your largest danger at Kenyon is getting hit by a car if you don’t look before crossing the street or breaking an ankle on the Milk Carton hill after a rainstorm and drinking a lot at a different party before attempting the descent.




Lawyering-up does not bring back a loved-one and is an expo facto response to a situation (like the [Jeanne Clery murder](http://www.e2campus.com/jeanne_clery_act_story.htm) which resulted in the [Clery Act](Clery Act - Wikipedia)) that can be prevented.

According to the [Kenyon Collegian](http://media.www.kenyoncollegian.com/media/storage/paper821/news/2007/12/06/News/Swipe.Card.Forum-3137431.shtml), the “danger[s]” go beyond the ones cited:

…McConnell said that there has been a discussion about dorm safety for several years in the parents committee, but it gained importance this year [2007] because of a convergence of three issues: the four bomb threats on campus this fall, Virginia Tech and the fact that there have been 23 trespass letters sent in the last three years that banned people from campus. McConnell said that there are about 130 thefts on campus each year…