CURRENT STUDENTS AT TECH
Frances Keene, director of Tech’s judicial affairs and the office of student conduct, currently works with Spencer’s office to handle cases of students who are arrested or convicted of a crime more serious than a minor traffic infraction while in school.
“We have sharing agreements with all the local law enforcement agencies,” Keene said. “If you’re arrested in Blacksburg, we’re going to be notified.”
Graves said local law enforcement in Charlottesville work with UVa police to notify the university of students who are involved in crimes off-campus.
Spencer said the Blacksburg Police, Montgomery County Sherriff’s Office, Radford County and Radford University Police “routinely send reports of Tech students” involved in criminal incidents.
If those incidents are serious enough, they are passed to Keene’s office, where she said “someone reads every single report.”
Though Spencer and Keene both like the idea of implementing a statewide system of universities and police organizations sharing information about arrested students with one another, Keene said she didn’t think it would be logistically possible.
However, Keene said, if a student from another university is arrested on Tech’s campus, “I’ll fax it to their institution.”
Spencer said Tech’s safety and security committee, which he sits on, is looking at implementing a system at Tech similar to the one recently put in place at UVa.
“We’re sitting back looking for UVa’s experiences,” this school year, Spencer said.
Possibilities for future questions Tech students might be asked when, for example, logging into HokieSpa, are open.
“We’re going to be in conversation with UVa,” Keene said. “I support the idea.”
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A version of this article appeared in the Aug 24 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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Are you people stupid? Only a moron would answer 'yes' to any of these questions! How would they know? It's not like they can run your criminal history (which would be illegal to do for something like this). Nor could they run criminal historys on thousands upon thousands of students every couple of months. This is just a stupid 'feel-good' regulation that makes the administrators look like dummies. Yes, I am sure that if I was the kind of guy who kidnapped & raped girls I would be honest enough to answer these questions truthfully - NOT! UVA = fail.
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Oh, and I really like this quote from Johnson "“We’re counting on people paying attention to the honor code,†he said."
Too bad there is nothing in the honor code that prohibits kidnapping & raping girls! lol. After all, rapists & kidnappers are so honorable. dummies!!!!
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I don't get it. That crime was perpetrated by a common street criminal, a serial rapist and possibly a serial killer. How does anyone protect everyone from someone like that? I can see how criminal history on campus may help to predict future behavior, but at this young age, how many have really advanced to such serious crimes yet? Also, I'll never forget the words of a campus police officer when I had my wallet stolen on campus years ago. I was worried about my library card, and he told me, "In my experience, criminals usually aren't big scholars."
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