Campuses

Here in America, we have experienced or heard about one senseless shooting after another on high school, college, and even elementary school campuses. Each time an incident occurs, it brings the gun issue closer and closer to the forefront to the American people. The United States of America was founded and has incessantly evolved as a free society. Despite that fact, there is still that a great fear of a dictatorial government that encourages the idea that a gun is needed for safety and…

doesn’t exist just to make yourself feel better, your just as bad as the perpetrator. Knowledge is the key to everything in my opinion and if we can learn about the problem maybe we can solve it. Sexual assault has become a major issue on college campuses and many people will never know, because they pretend it doesn’t happen. Sexual assaults are very underreported mostly because of shame, fear and victim blaming. If students even speak about sexual assaults I 'm very sure that their thoughts…

The Hunting Ground, is a documentary film about rape and sexual assault on college campuses. The purpose of the film is to arouse public support for victims of sexual assault. While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark are the two rape survivors that are the main focus of the movie. These two women, despite all that they had to go through at the school, inspired the initiation for the attainment of Title IX investigations, which forces colleges and…

all? College campuses have brainwashed you and your parents believing you inevitably safe and you possibly are not Enjoying class and earning a degree has never had a security issue? Or has it? College campus has lately been danger zones in the recent years involving rape, assault, robbery and feeling unsafe in a learning environment. Security on campus has become a serious issue but is perceived as hidden or lost cause. Officials are looking into making solutions to make campuses and…

Should Guns Be Allowed On College Campuses We have been hearing about gun related violence across the country in recent years and some of the occurrences have been at schools. Many people question if our schools because of these events. People are torn down the middle about “Gun Violence”, some people say it is the person who commits the crime while other blame the gun used in the offence. Everyone now has more safety concerns everywhere we go and that is no more prevalent than in our schools.…

The push for concealed gun on campuses is a pretty big topic in today’s modern era. Students in some states are allowed to carry a concealed gun around school. Most people who choose to carry a concealed gun are allowed to carry a concealed gun on campus. In the United States it is illegal in all states except for 8 states that allow students to carry a concealed gun on campus. For many years now, the push for concealed guns on campuses has been a debated topic of who believes in it and who…

weapon? This wouldn’t solve anything at all. Allowing students to have a concealed carry permit will only create more possible violence on college and university campuses, therefore this should not be allowed. The people that are for the right to have concealed handguns on campus argue many good points. They say that permitting guns on campuses would allow students to defend themselves from anything that will harm them, making people think…

framework pertaining to issues such as discrimination, vulnerable students, and improving campus climate. In the U.S. higher education context, research synthesis on the campus climate demonstrates that race is one of the most significant factors on campuses. Harper and Hurtado (2007) stated that it is an institutional (e.g. administration, faculty, and researchers) responsibility to make a regular…

the book “A Criminology: A Sociological Understanding” it talks about the different definitions of offenses. Many different offenses can happen on a campus that is either large or small like the University of South Carolina- Aiken. For instance the campuses that I examined the data of all had offenses of burglary. The book says, “Burglary: unlawful entry, completed or attempted, of property form another’s possession that does not involve force, threat, of force, or fraud; examples include thefts…

article “More campuses have smoking bans,” the author, Olivia Dimmer, discusses smoking bans that are being brought to more colleges in the U.S. Dimmer discussed how thousands of colleges have banned smoking and many of them are also completely tobacco-free. She has proven evidence that the smoking ban has actually helped decrease the tobacco use on campuses. The University of Michigan gave a number of 64 percent of students and faculty member that have seen a decrease of smoking on campuses…