Campus Coverage Project salutes Linsdey Hobbs of Otterbein University in Ohio, recipient of the eighth annual Betty Gage Holland Award recognizing excellence in college journalism. Hobbs and the student newspaper at Otterbein, The Tan & Cardinal, were honored for their continued coverage of increased secrecy surrounding campus crime in 2012.

by Jill McCarter
Butler University

Butler University's Police Department refused to release the full incident report of a pellet gun shooting that occurred Sept. 11 at Apartment Village.

Officials initially cited the Family Education and Privacy Rights Act as the reason the report could not be released.

Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, told The Collegian in an email that since the case had been turned over to student affairs, it was no longer a law enforcement document and is now a disciplinary issue.

by Lindsey Cook
University of Georgia

There have been 16 documented cases of assault on University study abroad trips in the last five years, according to documents obtained by The Red & Black.

The incidents range in severity — in one case there were several citations of sexual harassment by a male stranger on the street, while in others, students were sexually or physically assaulted.

Five students were reportedly given the date-rape drug.

by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis

Several students say the man arrested for allegedly raping a University of Memphis woman in March was living in an on-campus apartment and masquerading as a student.

Demetrius Winters, freshman health and human performance major, said Cortney Cortez Adkins had been staying with him in the Thomas G. Carpenter Student Housing Complex off and on since February. Campus police arrested Adkins on March 26 after a student reported he had raped her.

by Lindsey Hobbs
Otterbein University 

This is the second in a two-part series about the newly minted Otterbein University police department's handling of criminal records. Read the first story, "Exploring an alternative justice system," also by Lindsey Hobbs, here.

Once readily available, public records dealing with safety issues have become sparse since Otterbein University commissioned its own police department.

by Christopher Whitten 
University of Memphis 

A registered sex offender who may have been living in a University of Memphis dormitory was arrested March 26 for allegedly raping a student on campus.

University police held 23-year-old Cortney Adkins, who has been a registered sex offender since 2010, on a $100,000 bond.

Memphis police said the alleged rape occurred within the Thomas G. Carpenter Student Housing Complex, apartment-style dorms adjacent to a university childcare facility and early childhood center.

by Chelsea Boozer
University of Memphis 

A student who lives in Carpenter Complex at the University of Memphis typically pays about $3,000 for a room per semester, but some are getting the same lodging for free.

Since August 2011, three incidents of an unauthorized person using a vacant room in a residence hall have been documented on campus, according to Director of Residence Life Peter Groenendyk. Two of those took place in Carpenter Complex, the apartment-style housing on the north side of campus, across Central Avenue.

by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis

Though suspended following an arrest on assault charges in January, football defensive back Derek Howard never missed a scheduled team workout, practice or scrimmage and was granted his appeal to the suspension through a policy for athletes who are arrested for a crime.
 
He appealed to the designated committee under the Student-Athletes Conduct and the Criminal Justice System policy that was designed in 2007. 
 

By Chelsea Boozer
University of Memphis 

Kaile Pippin never thought it would happen to her.

She was a sophomore at the University of Mississippi two years ago, working as a resident assistant, when she was raped. After months of dealing with campus police, the Office of Judicial Affairs and state prosecutors, the charges were dropped and Pippin was left feeling campus officials knew there were rapes but didn’t care and wouldn’t help the victims.

by Lindsey Hobbs
Otterbein University 

In the first of a two-part series on campus security, Lindsey Hobbs digs into the process that protects some Otterbein University students from the criminal records they might earn off-campus.