Tell me about security at ND

notre_dame_AL
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:26:35 +0000

Compared to most campuses, ND is probably one of the most secure! We visited a Lot of campuses, east to west coast never thinking that security would become such an issue given the incidents on campuses during the past two years, and I can tell you that ND is very high up there with regard to security. We have visited our student many times-sometimes with car, sometimes having flown in and staying at Morris Inn. Security guards have always stopped us and on at least one occasion when we arrived on an afternoon to move son back into dorm (in January), guard would not let us thru stating that dorms would not officially be open until the next morning. While we don’t pretend that incidents could happen on campus, we feel relatively confident that our student is in a safe environment on campus. Student has always had to swipe card when we have visited in dorm as well. We just spoke again about safety on campus since our student was home for a couple of days for spring break. I think bigger safety issues exist if students stray from campus and as our student does not have a car and workload is such that leaving campus is almost non-existent. Hope that helps from a parent point of view–perhaps more current students could address this issue as well. We can’t ever be too careful!