Award Recipients For 1997

Tufts University

Tufts University has exhibited a continuing commitment to excellence and honesty about its campus crime rate. Their annual campus security report, compiled pursuant to the Campus Security Act of 1990, appears to be one of the few that actually meets every requirement of that law both in letter and spirit. We were especially pleased to see that cases of "date rape reported to and adjudicated by the office of the dean of students" were included in the report.

Crystal Paulk

Crystal Paulk's work as one of the first "campus courts" reporters and later as editor of that beat for the Red & Black student newspaper at the University of Georgia played a significant role in establishing the professional coverage of those newly opened proceedings that was necessary to accurately inform her fellow students about what criminal activity was occurring on campus and what kind of "justice" they were receiving. Her work has continued after her graduation with the Society of Professional Journalists and she represented the nation's student journalists during July 1997 Congressional hearings on campus crime reporting.

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