Episode 88: Assignment #8–Looking at
College Housing and Safety
Listen to
The Security Brief with Paul Viollis, coming to a TV station near you this fall
and currently a podcast on CBS radio. Paul Viollis is truly the expert on this topic.
So, if you
visit a campus housing facility with your teenager, notice whether there is an
adult uniformed security guard with sign-in and sign-out books at the entrance
of that residential facility. Ask whether the security guard is there 24 hours
a day. I know that many college students find these security guards to be a
drag, and I know that this amount of supervision is one reason some students
prefer to move into off-campus housing after the freshman year.
But, I can tell
you as a parent that I loved seeing that security guard at the entrance to my
daughter’s super-attractive high-rise of apartment-like suites in the middle of
Manhattan at Fordham University‘s Lincoln Center campus? even if I did have to
get out my driver’s license and sign in and sign out every time I stopped by.
Obviously,
uniformed guards provide a higher level of security than a reception desk
staffed by students who are working part-time jobs or work-study jobs. And some
colleges, as a matter of fact, do not have anyone on duty monitoring the flow
of traffic in and out of residential buildings; students just go in and out
with their own keys or cards, as I did years ago at Cornell.
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