It's a fact that most students, faculty and visitors who enter a school or college building eventually will use that facility's restrooms. Whether the destination is a lecture hall or classroom, the gym or other sports facility, the cafeteria or the student union, the human flow of restroom traffic is steady--year-round for some facilities and 24…

Elevator vandalism has increased recently. Suggestions are offered for reducing the problem. (MLF)

This bulletin provides suggestions for the components of a comprehensive approach to reducing student vandalism on college and university campuses. Numerous facets of the problem are addressed, including: the association of binge drinking with vandalism and school policies that tolerate or even facilitate binge drinking; a school's drinking…

The central element of this teaching museum is an open sculpture gallery on the third-floor level, beyond the reach of vandals. (Author/MLF)

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)

Nationwide, colleges are developing independent and unique approaches to school security. (Author/MLF)

The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to establish if members of the university community (students, faculty, and staff) have been victims of selected crimes or incidents while on the University of Missouri--Columbia campus that were not reported to the police; (2) to establish a range of reasons why these incidents were not reported to the…

To prevent unauthorized entrance to school buildings, preventive measures must be applied to the total entrance system including the door, entrance frame, and hardware. (Author/MLF)

A quality police force professionally maintains a safe and orderly campus. (Author)

Results of a survey of college business officials and their perceptions of security problems, their reactions (including personnel and mechanical measures taken to deal with them), and their expenditures. (Author/MLF)

Effective measures to decrease vandalism on the Oswego campus include replacement of damaged items with more resilient materials, the maintenance of communication between campus police and residence hall personnel, and a variety of measures to encourage community ownership and pride. (MLF)

Twenty-two states now specifically outlaw such activities as entering a research laboratory without permission, releasing animals, disrupting experiments, and removing documents and photographs related to research. Several expand the definition of criminal activity to include videotaping or photographing facility interiors. Penalties vary by…

Book thefts and mutilation remain common problems in college libraries. This article: demonstrates that some government publications are rare and valuable; recommends ways of identifying which documents are in danger; and suggests strategies for protecting those documents are at risk. (Author/AEF)