After a few muggings and a carjacking took place at campus parking lots, officials at the University of Kansas decided it was high time they installed some outdoor security cameras. They’ve done so this summer—and so have Kansas State and the University of Missouri at Columbia, where a professor was killed in a parking garage in January, according to the Associated Press. Of course, safety doesn’t come cheap: Kansas’s cameras cost about $280,000, plus the salaries of eight students who will use them to monitor the lots. (Lawrence Journal-World)
For more on campus surveillance, see an article from The Chronicle by Jeffrey R. Young.
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