(04-02-2012 09:00 AM)uakronkid Wrote:  I had actually looked up the FBI's violent crime rate statistics for colleges and universities a while ago but never posted anything about it. A lot of campuses are safer than their surrounding areas, but some are surprising.

Here are the number of violent crimes on various campuses from 2010.

MAC:
Akron - 5
Ball State - 24
BGSU - 3
Buffalo - 9
CMU - 10
EMU - 5
KSU - 2
Miami - 9
NIU - 5
Ohio - 10
Toledo - 16
WMU - Not listed

Schools of interest:
App State - 0
Cincinnati - 49
Delaware - 8
Illinois State - 27
JMU - 3
Michigan - 18
Michigan State - 23
Ohio State - 14
YSU - 3

What the hell is going on in Muncie IN? Gang wars? Fraternity insurection? Student for terrorism?

(04-02-2012 10:36 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  What the hell is going on in Muncie IN? Gang wars? Fraternity insurection? Student for terrorism?

By the fact that there is not much to do in Muncie, perhaps it's wild, bawdy, lewd, lascivious, and gluttonous sex on the streets. I will leave immediately to check it out and report back to all of you.

Great stat. Thanks. Now if only the media, high school students and their parents would believe this. I am sick and tired of defending NIU as a safe place. NIU is still losing outstanding students because of the perception it is an unsafe place.

(04-02-2012 10:51 AM)NIU75 Wrote:  Great stat. Thanks. Now if only the media, high school students and their parents would believe this. I am sick and tired of defending NIU as a safe place. NIU is still losing outstanding students because of the perception it is an unsafe place.

+1

I'm sure the next excuse would be, yea, the campus is safe but the town surrounding it, DeKalb, isn't. We would need crime figures for that too.

What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

You have to give Cincinnati a break the school is right in the middle of the city. The dorms look like high rise condos. But what is great about the school the new stadium is the center of campus.

(04-02-2012 12:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

Many here blame the "media" but it is far more sinister that that.

(04-02-2012 12:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

Uninformed, not true and ignorant.

(04-02-2012 12:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

For murders and crime reporting, we are part of the Chicago area. For football and basketball, we are out of the area. F_ck the Chicago media.

(04-02-2012 12:24 PM)niubrad00 Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 12:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

Uninformed, not true and ignorant.

nope...
A few days after the last shooting/murder that happened the day before Thanksgiving there was a shooting on the UIC campus parking garage the very next day. Yet the NIU shooting got more news than this did.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-...ark-rosati

There were also series of violent crimes (rapes and mugging) that were happening very near the NU campus. The news reports always said the neighborhood and did not say something like (just off Northwesters campus) as they did with our story.

(04-02-2012 12:32 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 12:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

For murders and crime reporting, we are part of the Chicago area. For football and basketball, we are out of the area. F_ck the Chicago media.

+1 but I think they have been getting better with the sports stuff.

(04-02-2012 01:04 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Yet the NIU shooting got more news than this did.

I look at it this way; since NIU is larger, more prestigious and more nationally known than UIC, we garner more attention.

/silver lining.

(04-02-2012 01:23 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 01:04 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  Yet the NIU shooting got more news than this did.

I look at it this way; since NIU is larger, more prestigious and more nationally known than UIC, we garner more attention.

/silver lining.

Not entirely true. A major part of the UIC campus is the College of Medicine and the Medical Center. It is THE college of medicine for the U of I. UIC is home to the largest public college of medicine in the nation. Where the shooting occurred was in a parking garge less than a half-block from the entrance to the UIC Hospital.

(04-02-2012 01:04 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 12:24 PM)niubrad00 Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 12:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

Uninformed, not true and ignorant.

nope...
A few days after the last shooting/murder that happened the day before Thanksgiving there was a shooting on the UIC campus parking garage the very next day. Yet the NIU shooting got more news than this did.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-...ark-rosati

There were also series of violent crimes (rapes and mugging) that were happening very near the NU campus. The news reports always said the neighborhood and did not say something like (just off Northwesters campus) as they did with our story.

Keep telling yourself that.

It must be a conspiracy against NIU!! Oh no!!!

(04-02-2012 05:39 PM)niubrad00 Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 01:04 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 12:24 PM)niubrad00 Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 12:09 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(04-02-2012 11:32 AM)EA3 Wrote:  What am I missing? A quick online search doesn't indicate DeKalb being a dangerous area.

Nasty stereotypes?

It’s because every single murder and shooting with an injury that happens in DeKalb is pointed out by the Chicago media.

ISU/UofI doesn’t get the same focus because they are outside of the Chicago TV viewing area. Same goes for WIU, EIU & SIU.

Unfortunately NU & UIC somehow ($?) are keeping the media quiet to most of the things that happens ON their campus.

Uninformed, not true and ignorant.

nope...
A few days after the last shooting/murder that happened the day before Thanksgiving there was a shooting on the UIC campus parking garage the very next day. Yet the NIU shooting got more news than this did.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-...ark-rosati

There were also series of violent crimes (rapes and mugging) that were happening very near the NU campus. The news reports always said the neighborhood and did not say something like (just off Northwesters campus) as they did with our story.

Keep telling yourself that.

It must be a conspiracy against NIU!! Oh no!!!

Wow imagine that another sarcastic put down from Brad.

No, I am not saying it is a conspiracy against NIU. It just seems rather convenient for NU and UIC that major sorties like these seem to not be connected to those Universities by the Chicago media like any NIU stories.