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...often cites a recent study, published on news Web site the Daily Beast, which ranked MIT and Harvard the fifth and 20th worst schools in the country, respectively, in terms of crime against students—a statistic that Cheung calls “shameful...
...last word perhaps belongs to former CBS news anchor Dan Rather, who knew Halderman from his time at the network. "This is obviously a tragedy," Rather told the website the Daily Beast. "Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished ... than if you came riding through my apartment on a hippopotamus...
Rounding out the rankings are heavyweights like Brown at #18, MIT at #5, Tufts at #4, and Emerson College, located in downtown Boston, as #1. How exactly did the Daily Beast, an online news media best known for its Cheat Sheet on "read this skip that", decide that Harvard, along with what seems like all of the schools in Boston, is so dangerous...
...turns out that since the passage of the Clery Act in 1986, schools are required to report annually to the U.S. Department of Education crimes on and near campus—including murder, assault, sexual offenses and robberies. The Daily Beast, using the data from the two most recent years, analyzed more than 4,000 schools, weighing more than 50 different criteria for crime. The methodology seems legit. But urbanite schools such as NYU, Columbia, UChicago, failed to make an appearance, which struck FlyBy as slightly...
Some good news though: these rankings are not foolproof. The Daily Beast admits that information portrayed may not necessarily be 100 percent accurate due to imperfections in the numbers reported by schools to the Department of Education. Some schools reportedly "game the system"—downplaying their crime rate for fear of bad reputation, while other schools remain "steadfastly honest." Congress is soon expected to make the Clery Act's guidelines more stringent. Let's all hope that once that's done, Harvard may strip itself the honor of being on this list. If not, the only solution that...