Campus safety for women?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<p>Okay..call me a paranoid mom, but I'm worried about campus safety for my daughter.</p>

<p>According to a college guide that I read, UVA has had a problem with sexual assaults and, according to the campus crime statistics website, there were alot of sexual assaults reported on campus (23 in 2004 alone). And I even found a website: <a href="http://www.uvavictimsofrape.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.uvavictimsofrape.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Is this something that I should be concerned about? Or is it just sensationalized hype (ala Cornell is the suicidal capital of the college world)?</p>

<p>How would current students rate the safety of UVA for women?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>Well, I would always say the issue of rape is something to be taken very, very seriously at any university and something you should definitely continue to look into. </p>

<p>Overall, I would feel very safe walking almost anywhere by myself on campus. Then again, I am a male (though it IS possible for men to be sexually assaulted, even if their cases aren't taken as seriously), so I wouldn't have the same fears. The campus is the kind that doesn't directly mix with the city/town, so in that aspect its safer than, say, VCU which is right in Richmond. I'd say to not let this issue to be a major deterrant, but it's very important to talk to your daughter about safety precautions if she decides to come here.</p>

<p>Rape IS a problem, as it is at many university campuses, but I felt that the resources and the university were very helpful when we were talked to about them. It seems as if there is a stronger initiative to stop such crimes, but I didn't realize it was still such a problematic issue for people on that site. Of course, those are people who have directly dealt with it, so I would weigh their word strongly and not dismiss it as sensationalized hype (this is very different from suicide, which is a crime against the self than against another). The resources I've looked at over the last semester seemed pretty detailed and the supporting groups/organizations such as the all male One-in-Four are very respectable means in education and prevention. The following site is the main page of UVA's Sexual and Domestic Violence office: <a href="http://womenscenter.virginia.edu/sdvs/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://womenscenter.virginia.edu/sdvs/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>UVa is one of the safest schools...........................</p>

<p>100000000x safer than Harvard, MIT, UPenn, Georgetown...etc</p>

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<p>My sister had someone attempt to break into her apartment while at UVa, but other than that I've never heard of anything bad about UVa.</p>

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<p>Crime isn't a terrible problem at UVA, but there have been rapes/assaults in the past. The situation isn't any worse here than it is in any comparably sized town/city, and it's likely much better than it would be at a school like NYU or UPenn.</p>