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These student-written stories demonstrate watchdog journalism happening on college campuses across the United States. One hundred and fifty students from 30 different colleges participated in Campus Coverage Project over the last two years, and these articles represent some of their work. Follow the links and read the stories to find out what’s happening and to glean ideas for research and writing on your own campus.
by Jill McCarter
Butler University
Butler University's Police Department refused to release the full incident report of a pellet gun shooting that occurred Sept. 11 at Apartment Village.
Officials initially cited the Family Education and Privacy Rights Act as the reason the report could not be released.
Ben Hunter, chief of staff and executive director of public safety, told The Collegian in an email that since the case had been turned over to...
by Sarah Boswell
Ball State University alum
Campus Coverage Project, '11
Just 22 students graduated from New Lima High School this year, but the 400-seat auditorium was full.
Family and community members crowded in to support one of the smallest graduating classes in one of the smallest districts in a state that ranks near the top nationally for its high number of school districts per capita.
As lawmakers look for ways to reduce the more than $2 billion...
by Lindsey Cook
University of Georgia
There have been 16 documented cases of assault on University study abroad trips in the last five years, according to documents obtained by The Red & Black.
The incidents range in severity — in one case there were several citations of sexual harassment by a male stranger on the street, while in others, students were sexually or physically assaulted.
Five students were reportedly given the date-rape drug.
On one...
by Allison Prang
University of Missouri
Companies are obtaining students’ directory information to market products and services to them.
The companies are obtaining the information legally through the Missouri Sunshine Law, which states student directory information is public information.
The Maneater obtained all sunshine requests submitted to the UM System by outside businesses for the time period of Jan. 1, 2011 through Feb. 21, 2012. Most, but not all,...
by Mac Cerullo
University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut sold fewer tickets to its own appearance in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl than any other public school that has competed in college football's Bowl Championship Series over the past three years, according to bowl documents obtained by The Daily Campus.
The university sold only 2,771 Fiesta Bowl tickets out of its allotment of 17,500, absorbing $2.9 million in unsold tickets as a result. Both figures...
by Mac Cerullo
University of Connecticut
It was a milestone for the University of Connecticut football program: the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona.
The 2011 Bowl Championship Series marked the first time the school had earned the Big East’s automatic bid to the compete in the series. And it meant the school would play Oklahoma, one of the nation’s most prestigious teams, in a nationally televised game on New Year's Day.
But the...
by Christopher Whitten
University of Memphis
Several students say the man arrested for allegedly raping a University of Memphis woman in March was living in an on-campus apartment and masquerading as a student.
Demetrius Winters, freshman health and human performance major, said Cortney Cortez Adkins had been staying with him in the Thomas G. Carpenter Student Housing Complex off and on since February. Campus police arrested Adkins on March 26 after a student reported he...
