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Campuses announce great expectations.(safety measures for women)(Brief Article)
At the University of Kentucky, administrators are taking women's safety seriously. The school is spending more than four times the $350,000 it spent last year on special campus safety measures for women.
It hopes to turn around results from a study in which more than 35% of UK women reported having been victims of physical assault, sexual assault or stalking.
Although 82% of the perps were friends or acquaintances, more than 75% of the women said their greatest fear is of strangers. "This tells us we need to do a much better job of preventative education so that women will know where the real risk is," said Carol Jordan, director of the UK Center for Research on Violence Against Women.
* At the University of Hawaii, women's safety is also center-stage. Interim president David McClain pledged to increase security over the next two years to make the school's 10 campuses ...
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...international company for ensuring safety measures in Aladdin Amusement Park within next...being taken in view of inadequate safety measures in this recreational site of the metropolis...death of a child also points out poor safety measures in all amusement parks including Aladdin...
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