Smith's Campus Rates Among the Safest in the Nation

The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported yesterday that, according to Reader's Digest, Smith has one of the lowest crime rates of any campus in the country based on 2004 and 2005 campus crime statistics collected by the Department of Education to determine college crime rankings.

The news comes just four days after officials at UMASS, roughly ten miles up Rt. 9 from Smith, sent out an e-mail to more than 30,000 people on campus pleading for peace after violent incidents, including sexual assualts--already disturbingly high on campus--spiked.

UMASS has one of the highest violent crime rates of any university in the country.