Columbus, Ohio-Stacy Bogart (pictured right with S. Daniel Carter of Security On Campus, Inc.), a former Ohio State University (OSU) student, was honored on the OSU campus today by Security On Campus, Inc. (SOC), a national non-profit campus safety organization, for her work to improve how OSU and other schools handle sexual assault.

“We are pleased to honor Stacy Bogart as one of the 2005 student recipients of the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award,” said Connie and Howard Clery, SOC’s co-founders. “Stacy, the survivor of a 2002 sexual assault at Ohio State University, demonstrated incredible courage in seeking justice and in working to improve how OSU and other colleges respond to student rape complaints.”

Bogart, the plaintiff in a federal civil rights lawsuit, Jane Doe v. Ohio State University, alleging that the University improperly responded when she reported her sexual assault in a campus residence hall, has been an outspoken advocate for changes at OSU and other campuses nationally. Among other appearances she has been interviewed for an upcoming episode of Dateline NBC devoted to campus sexual assault.

The Clery Award was presented to Bogart during an afternoon ceremony held at the Ohio Union on campus and hosted by Women and Allies Rising in Resistance (WARR), a student organization at OSU. Jennifer Yoder of WARR spoke, and S. Daniel Carter, SOC’s Senior Vice President, presented the Award, represented by a small Gold colored clock along with a certificate, to Bogart.

The Clery Award, given each year by SOC, was established in 1994 by the Clerys to honor schools and individuals that have done extraordinary things to make college and university students safer. It is named in memory of the Clerys’ daughter Jeanne who was brutally raped and murdered at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University in 1986. The other honorees this year are Villanova University and a group of student journalists from Texas who wrote a series of expose articles on campus crime.