Several students were assaulted on campus this week, the university has put out a statement

UH has had call boxes for decades and I’m sure cameras have been added since the 1990’s.

That being said, GT is doing something right because the amount of homeless around the campus is multiples more than at UH. but I feel safer walking the GT campus or riding a scooter to my hotel across the freeway at 1am than I do walking around after a UH football game.

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What was pointed out was that that parking garage costs over $600 per semester to park in. Should have more security for that price.

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There’s going to be a large student protests on campus this Wednesday I think.

More students have shared their testimonies of UHPD not doing much. Security reform is finally going to happen.

Once again, Millennial and Gen Z Coogs have been and will be the two greatest generations this university has seen.

We came to UH because we wanted to not because we have to. We invested a lot of money into this school and as a result, we have to see a return on our investment.

UH makes $1.08 million a year on Welcome Center parking garage fees alone. The money is there to make security changes

An interesting stat(s) would be number of assaults per student divided by number of days between assaults as compared to:
Other neighborhoods
Other college campuses
Other cities
Other population densities
Other major gathering places?

Let’s not unnecessarily make it a problem defining UH.

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Tell that to the girl that got raped.

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This is poor form. 2 things can be and are true here.

Will and should campus leaders keep implementing initiatives to make campus safer? Yes.

Is UH uniquely more unsafe than other campuses? No.

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Literally nobody is arguing against this. The only argument going on is in your head with Casper.

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Two of the universities on that list with worst campus crime are online universities so I just don’t know about the accuracy.

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Why shouldn’t/wouldn’t anyone want to ask if this is uniquely a UH problem or if nothing else matters but the location?

Not sure what the point is.

No one is dismissing, excusing, defending or ignoring this.

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Okay… try this list… A&M is still on this list but UH does land on this list for 88 crimes committed on campus… I’m assuming majority are thefts.

When I was at school some junkie kidnapped a male studdnt, made him drive down to Stafford and pull out money from an ATM then had him drop him off at his drug dealer’s apartment…

They caught him soon after.

I’m very surprised this guy was able to get away with raping that poor girl in the welcome center garage. I also agree that shouldn’t be something students should have to worry about but I think that’s more of an issue with our society than our university.

When I was in China I noticed that women would walk through parks alone at night without even batting an eyelid… if we started killing rapists I bet there would be a lot less rape in the USA.

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To dear Coogs (and others) on campus, please stay alert and safe.

Sadly, though, as others have noted, this is not a problem restricted to the University of Houston; these kinds of incidents happen across the country, including places like Cornell university.

Umm are we going to pick up the school and move it somewhere else? The issue is the location, not the students. Also, rape/sexual assault is a huge problem on every college, not just urban ones.

This is more about lack of proper law enforcement; fact is, when I was at UH, the school PD was more interested in giving out parking tickets and DUI citations than stopping violent crime.

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no…you know those mansions along McGregor…that was once the Jewish River Oaks so it WAS a good area when our campus was built. We missed the opportunity to take over those houses and make it a stately Greek Row, and entry to our campus.

The issue isn’t “the area” the issue is there has not been development around campus to support a 50,000 student large public University like every single other campus our size.

“the surrounding area” is a lame boring un-creative excuse.

There are many urban campus that have worked around that problem…In fact, I’d say the area around the baseball facilities at Ut is very similar to the 3rd Ward

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ABC 13 was on campus today and will probably be covering the rally.

If the university thoroughly addresses the concerns, this could be revolutionary on improving UH.

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I challenge the 83 crimes on the Alabama campus. Its nearly mathematically impossible. Oats only has 12 guys on his roster.

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Location? Did you write location?
I had classes at night. I never had any issues walking in the 3rd Ward, TSU or late on on campus.
Psychos do not pick their school eastcoastcoog. I am hoping that this p.o.s. gets his day in court, gets welcomed in jail for what he did.
p.o.s. are not exclusive to U of H, our campus, our neighborhoods. They are scum of the earth and only belong in jail.
Here is another point I would like to bring up by asking the following questions:
Do we have signs saying you are on camera in areas deemed dangerous?
Do we have cameras in areas deemed dangerous?
By the way I almost bet you that the same areas deemed dangerous at U of H are the same at any given school.
Lastly I will ask the following:
Is the victim going to get justice?
That is what everybody should be concerned about. Nothing will make this horrific attack by this scum bag, p.o.s. go away.
Do your job justice system.

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Grizzy Hood News Facebook posted that at 9:15 tonight 4 suspects robbed a UH student on campus.

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Yeah there’s some conflicting reports. Some are saying it happened in front of the UC others are saying it bappened at a metro station and the student filled out the report at the UC.

Either way, aomethings gotta give here. Students are talking about getting licenses to carry on campus.

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