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Fall 2011 Issue 2 Page 6 September 2011

New data shows spike in Alcohol, Drug violations

Luke Kerr Dineen, News Editor

The number of University of South

Carolina Beaufort students found

to be in illegal possession of drugs

and alcohol on campus has been

growing faster than any other

public university in the state since

2005, and has at times reached

levels that rival schools with up toten times more students.

According to a Tidal Tribune anal

ysis of campus crime data gathered

by university police nationwide

and published annually by the

U.S. Department of Education, the

growth in illegal campus posses

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the schools enrollment numbersover the years, but also shows a

more rapid increase in violations

than in new students coming to the

school.

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Henry Garbade, USCB chief of po

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The University of South CarolinaAiken, who is the closest compari

son to USCB in terms of size, has

arrested about 75% of the number

of students they have issued refer

rals to in the past ten years. USC

Upstate, the second closest in size,

arrested just under 50% of their

total number of violators in the

past ten years.

Before this year, our philosophy

was to handle these kind of in

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