The school social scene for girls first semester freshman year are to sit in your room, because even the common rooms have students living in them or you go to off campus parties. You are banned from any fraternity party because you will be black balled before January when you rush. Just last week, I was awoken again with a campus notification that there was an assault on a female student by two men with a knife ON CAMPUS! This was not the first notification, but it was the first this year that actually occurred within the campus grounds. I immediately called campus housing because my daughter lives on one corner if its huge campus, but goes out on the weekends with friends at the other furthest corner. I was concerned because she was either coming home alone or crashing at her friends dorm when her friends roommate was away. This roommate is transferring out of IUB at semester, so I asked if my daughter can move in there so she would be safer coming home at 2 in the morning. I was told that under any circumstances YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE YOUR DORM ASSIGNMENT. They offered me the option of her calling the IU police to pick her up from her party to take her home (because the campus bus does not go near all of the off campus parties). Side note for anyone who might comment on the transportation options: A year ago, friends put their drunk friend into a cab at an IU bar thinking that was the safe thing to do.....she never made it home and was found murdered. So as we all know, safety is in numbers. So, I asked her why would you think any underage student would call the police? They were giving me unrealistic solutions. The conversation became heated because of the shear ignorance of what is going on at that campus and their intent to follow their new rule as opposed to looking at each situation individually. The conversation ended with the person from housing explaining to me that my daughter was breaking rules and she could be written up for staying at someone else's dorm room. Today my daughter was informed that she can no longer stay anywhere else but her own room. So, they figured out who she was and followed through with enforcing that rule, even though it may bring her into more unsafe situations. My advice : look into the crime at this school (and I know its everywhere), and look at specifics, such as you cannot change your roommate, what they will be doing on the weekends and where/how they will get home.
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