This includes programs like Rape Aggression Defense, a self-defense course offered free of charge to undergraduates and a recent program to make laptop computers harder to steal or resell.
"We're making the target of crimes harder to victimize."
Simple theft declined from 648 incidents in 1997 to 512 incidents in 1998.
Because of changes in federal campus-crime reporting laws included in last year's Higher Education Act reauthorization, schools like Harvard must now divulge more information about crime on their campuses to the Department of Education (DOE).
More than 100 campus administrators, administrative board members and certain staff members are designated as "reporters," meaning that they are legally obligated to report crimes they become aware of in the course of their job to the HUPD.
Peggy A. McNamara, the department's manager of information systems, has spent the past several weeks collecting data from the "reporters."
But, she says, the fact that the DOE hasn't yet written the regulations detailing the new system of reporting crime statistics is hampering her efforts.
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