July 13, 2007

Eastern Michigan U. Is Found to Violate Crime-Reporting Law on Multiple Counts

By SARA LIPKA

Eastern Michigan University violated federal crime-reporting law on multiple counts by failing to warn students and employees of a murder on the campus in December and by inconsistently logging and disclosing other crimes over a three-year span, the U.S. Department of Education said in a report released last week.

In December university staff members discovered Laura Dickinson, a freshman, dead on the floor of her dormitory room, naked from the waist down, with a pillow over her face.

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