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But the annual campus crime database that serves as a monument to Clery’s life shows that of the more than 300,000 crimes reported at the nation’s 9,200 colleges and universities in 2005, 11 were for homicide. Most were petty crimes, such as underage drinking, committed by students, not against them.

‘’Worry that their computer will be stolen, or that they’ll be arrested for drinking, or that they’ll get lousy grades,’’ said George Mason University Detective Thomas Bacigalupi, who founded the nation’s largest annual campus crime conference, just outside Fairfax, Va. ‘’But murder on a college campus is not something they need to be concerned about. It’s just incredibly rare.’’

Based on the U.S. Department of Education crime statistics only made possible in the wake of Clery’s death, a college student is more likely to win $1 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery, and twice as likely to be struck by lightning, than be murdered on campus.

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They may as well try to control lightning strikes.