Fa ade, Parking, Financing, and Public Safety. The city's commitment to the program has helped enormously. There is also a business match for the upgrade. Plans for a new building in Campustown to house a high-tech center are progressing. Champaign has also agreed to fix sidewalks and roads in the area and to provide street-scaping.
Planning is still in the talking stage.
Attacks of the first type can generally be controlled by getting the perpetrators off the street. Frequently one person is responsible for many attacks so a few arrests can radically alter numbers for the better. These problems are difficult to control and found on campuses across the nation. Sexual assault accompanied by substance abuse is growing and is particularly troubling. No one knows the true numbers because so many assaults go unreported.