Nathan Silva
12/10/15
Research Methods Whittier College Campus Safety Discrimination As Whittier College students, we are all actively roaming the campus whether we are going to class or engaging in social activities. It may or may not be apparent to certain individuals, but we are under the constant supervision of Campus Safety Officers. On the Whittier College website, Campus Safety explains their mission statement saying, “Our mission is to provide a safe and secure environment in which our college community members can live, work, study, and enjoy the overall experience that is Whittier College. To fulfill this goal, campus safety provides 24/7 security services using a combination of foot and vehicle patrols”. As a student …show more content…
I define Safety Vigilance as the continuous surveillance of students by Whittier College Campus Safety. Discrimination is described as treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing is perceived to belong to rather than on individual merit. Along with Campus Safety surveillance, I plan on observing their degree of aggression and attentiveness to a certain situation. I believe this is an observable phenomenon and I plan to elaborate on compiled data I gathered including: my personal experience, other students experiences, surveys, and also physically sitting on campus observing the behavior of campus police. In the beginning of my study I was looking for trends in behavior, and if all data was collected as planned, I could analyze it looking for similarities between categories like gender and race. Every student has their unique understanding and perception of Whittier College Campus Police and I was interested to discover individual’s personal experiences. I plan to conclude with strong data that correlates certain gender and racial attributes with the treatment they …show more content…
The students felt like while on campus, they could always feel the presence of a Campus Police officer. After analyzing the data I saw that seven out of ten informants listed alert or around, and five out of seven of those students are female. So why is there such a high percentage of females listing this as a campus police behavior, and what is the relevance? This answer illuminates my study because it is known that females are subject of assault and other overpowering situations on college campuses. It shows that females notice the constant surveillance of campus police and men overlook it. This is significant because females receive different security treatments men do not get just because of their gender. Overall, this statistical finding is important because it again reveals different attitudes towards campus police from different student categories, this time being male to female
12/10/15
Research Methods Whittier College Campus Safety Discrimination As Whittier College students, we are all actively roaming the campus whether we are going to class or engaging in social activities. It may or may not be apparent to certain individuals, but we are under the constant supervision of Campus Safety Officers. On the Whittier College website, Campus Safety explains their mission statement saying, “Our mission is to provide a safe and secure environment in which our college community members can live, work, study, and enjoy the overall experience that is Whittier College. To fulfill this goal, campus safety provides 24/7 security services using a combination of foot and vehicle patrols”. As a student …show more content…
I define Safety Vigilance as the continuous surveillance of students by Whittier College Campus Safety. Discrimination is described as treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing is perceived to belong to rather than on individual merit. Along with Campus Safety surveillance, I plan on observing their degree of aggression and attentiveness to a certain situation. I believe this is an observable phenomenon and I plan to elaborate on compiled data I gathered including: my personal experience, other students experiences, surveys, and also physically sitting on campus observing the behavior of campus police. In the beginning of my study I was looking for trends in behavior, and if all data was collected as planned, I could analyze it looking for similarities between categories like gender and race. Every student has their unique understanding and perception of Whittier College Campus Police and I was interested to discover individual’s personal experiences. I plan to conclude with strong data that correlates certain gender and racial attributes with the treatment they …show more content…
The students felt like while on campus, they could always feel the presence of a Campus Police officer. After analyzing the data I saw that seven out of ten informants listed alert or around, and five out of seven of those students are female. So why is there such a high percentage of females listing this as a campus police behavior, and what is the relevance? This answer illuminates my study because it is known that females are subject of assault and other overpowering situations on college campuses. It shows that females notice the constant surveillance of campus police and men overlook it. This is significant because females receive different security treatments men do not get just because of their gender. Overall, this statistical finding is important because it again reveals different attitudes towards campus police from different student categories, this time being male to female