Susquehanna, like Bucknell, has the appearance of being safe. It seems idyllic. In working to try and create a safer campus, students and administrators must form a partnership. Numbers such as these are particularly frightening on a college campus because women aged 16-24 are at the highest risk for sexual assault and alcohol is often a factor in these attacks. Better lighting and more call boxes are not the only solutions to preventing campus crime, according to Butler.
Education is one of the strongest tools available.
Programs must be put into place to raise awareness of sexual assault, teach self-defense, help survivors of sexual abuse and inform students of what to do if they are assaulted, she continued. Woods and Butler agreed on the importance of educating not only women, but male students as well. Sophomore Tori Hull expressed her concern that campus safety was being made into too much of a women's issue, rather than a student issue. Junior Amy Kimball said that she would like to see prevention of sexual assault more heavily covered with freshmen in College 101 classes. Garlock reminded students of one warning device that all students already possess.