Notes on topics of interest, such as a new computer-based system designed to provide more anecdotal information about student performance than that provided on traditional report cards, and a security program in which after-hours security guards check in hourly by telephone with a computer. (JF)

Police use a middle school at Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, as a nighttime headquarters. At several colleges and universities students are supplementing professional campus security departments. (Author/MLF)

Short descriptive notes discuss new developments in curriculum, such as student use of television cameras to record vandalism damage; and development of new games in which the element of winning or losing is either eliminated or sharply deemphasized. (JF)

Three short articles describe (respectively) a student security advisory council at one high school that involves students in security work, emergency telephone systems on two university campuses, and tips for hiring security guards for colleges. (Author/DN)