Lehigh University freshman Jeanne Ann Clery was murdered on her Pennsylvania college campus in 1986.

Clery’s parents, unaware of her safety on campus, fought for years to make what is now known as the Clery Act a reality.

The act requires American colleges and universities to inform students of the crime statistics around campus.

In compliance with the act, the Department of Education released UNF’s 2007 crime statistics Oct. 1.

There were 307 crimes reported in 2007 including 281 drug and alcohol violations, which would cause the threat of student-induced crime to drop less than one percent, according to the report.

Students, faculty, staff and administrators joined together for the Susan G. Komen Race
for the Cure Oct. 18 at Metropolitan Park.

They chose to complete either the 2K or 5K run to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer patients and research.

The 57 team members of the Healthy Osprey Race for the Cure team raised $690 for the event.

As the largest UNF group there, it consisted of faculty, staff and administrators, but its main populous was students, said Mike Kennedy, team captain and assistant director of Health Promotions.

“I really felt like this event would be a great opportunity to go [and] see what we can do to rally the campus around this event,” Kennedy said.

Oct. 15 – Burglary (Building 41) – UPD was dispatched to investigate a burglary from a vehicle.

Because of no forced entry into the vehicle, police concluded the vehicle was not locked. A parking decal was stolen.

There are no known suspects at this time.

Oct. 15 – Theft (Building 26) – The complainant caught a man stealing money from a locker room of the Aquatic Center. Police listed one suspect in the theft case. The suspect was also referred to Student Conduct.

“I can’t find anything.”

This is what Director of Facilities Planning Zak Ovadia, who came to UNF four years ago, said his initial reaction was upon arrival on campus.

“Wayfinding” is a generic term meaning to find one’s way around. It is a concept adopted by universities, hospitals and airports all across the world due to confusing and difficult floor plans.

A concept that is not new to Ovadia, it is one he wanted to introduce to UNF after noticing its absence on campus.

It’s often said someone makes money even in a bad economy.

Cody Bass just didn’t know how much.

“A hundred thousand dollars,” the 22-year-old college senior said.

That’s the annual salary that Bass – who is still a semester away from receiving his bachelor’s degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla – is to be paid for his first job out of college.

The university has recently launched a new online survey platform called Enterprise Feedback Management Community to replace the existing WebSurveyor program.

EFM Community was designed to provide faculty and staff the ability to author questionnaires, post surveys, collect responses and disseminate findings, according to an ITS statement.

The preexisting software, WebSurveyor, was originally given to UNF through a grant. Once the company was bought out by Vovici, WebSurveyor was termed to discontinue its service in June 2009, said Alison Cruess Information Technology Services communications coordinator.

Gallup Daily Poll for Oct. 21 has Sen. Barack Obama with a 10-point lead over Sen. John McCain. The lead varies between 7 and 10 percentage points among likely voters, depending on turnout expectations, according to Gallup.

Commute or get a dorm?

That is the question many students find themselves asking, and many factors go into this decision.

There are more than 16,000 students registered at UNF.

However, 2,173 of these students live on-campus, according to the UNF Housing Department. So what goes into the decisions to live on-campus or stay at home?

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It’s as fast as 25,000 high-end laptops linked together. It has enough capacity to store 30 million novels.

And someday, it might help keep you safe in severe weather.

This is the Bluefire, an IBM supercomputer so powerful that scientists think it will accurately predict how global warming will affect the planet during the next 50 years.

Specifically, the computer should project whether hurricanes will develop with greater frequency and more intensity. It also will forecast a host of other conditions, from excessive rains to severe drought.