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FRIDAY, FEB. 1 to SUNDAY FEB. 3, 2013 VOLUME 108 ISSUE 49
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Safety on campus is a topic of frequent discussion, and part of the survey addressed that issue. Students were asked to rate this statement from one to seven on a Likert scale: I feel safe in my room, apartment or suite. Generally, any score above four is considered positive. The average for oncampus housing was 5.96, the highest score being in Frear Hall with a score of 6.21 and the lowest in the Hale Noelani and Wainani apartment complexes with a score of 5.37. Data from this question was analyzed across gender, ethnicity and the area where students live. “There’s some design fl aws, I think, in the apartment complex, like if you walk along the corridors outside peo-
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Student Housing Services is seeking the voice of residents to analyze trends and uncover problems in dormitories, From Oct. 28 to Nov. 6, a survey was available to the 3,537 students who had bed spaces at the time, and 1,250 students finished the survey for a completion rate of 35 percent. The surveys began in 2009, when Associate Director of Housing Nick Sweeton began working at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. “In the first year of my job, I was kind of assessing where the organization was at, how students perceived their experience, and I wanted information on how to prioritize and work on improving because you can’t do everything at once,” he explained.
ple’s apartments, their screens are right there,” Sweeton said. As a result, a screen replacement project will be conducted and is scheduled to be completed in mid-summer. Higher-grade steel will be installed, which will make it harder for the screen to be cut. Sweeton also addressed the issue of sexual assault. According to the Crime Statistics Report for the Mānoa campus, 12 sexual assaults were reported on campus in 2011. In his 15-year career, Sweeton said he only encountered one case of sexual assault where the victim did not know the alleged perpetrator. “The vast majority of sexual assaults are between people who have some connection with each other, and usually there’s alcohol involved in one or both parties,” he explained. “And so we always send the message that you need to be aware and alert of strangers around you, but you need to also be careful about people you know.” Though overall crime statistics at UH M ā noa are lower than other campuses in urban areas according to Sweeton, he addressed another important issue regarding safety. “We want them [residents] to be reasonable and prudent to take measures to protect their safety, but we don’t want them to feel unsafe. Whenever you have a strategy like that, you have to be careful with how you balance things because you don’t want to build a perception that things are less safe than they actually are,” he said.
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CAITLIN K ELLY News Editor
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