Crime is increasingly characterizing the contemporary college experience. In a post-Columbine, post-Sept. 11 world, the "It can't happen here" response to such violence has been replaced with "Oh Lord, not again." In response to the loss of their daughter, and the lack of institutional support they received, Howard, and Connie Clery filed suit against Lehigh University, citing "negligent failure of security and failure to warn of foreseeable dangers on campus." Their subsequent settlement included the university's agreement to take specific steps to make the campus safer. After their daughter's death, the Clerys founded Security on Campus Inc., a nonprofit organization designed to work on a national scale toward crime prevention on campus, and to assist other victims of campus crime. The Clerys assess their personal ordeal on their Web site, www.securityoncampus.org, and say because of the murder, they discovered "crime on campus was one of the best-kept secrets in the country." To lessen the secrecy about safety issues that helped seal their daughter's fate, the Clerys, along with other victims of campus crime, advocated for the creation of the federal Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, which in 1998 was renamed the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Statistics Act. Enforced by the U.S. Department of Education, this federal mandate requires those U.S. colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid to submit an annual statistical report tallying crimes on and around their campuses. Catherine Bath, program director of Security on Campus Inc., says the organization is most famous for its policy work. "We are a unique resource," Bath explains. "Victims find us on the Web and often call after some judicial system (has failed them). They (usually feel they) have been double wronged and then contact us. We can and often do intervene on behalf of the victim, contact (college and university) presidents and administrators and put them on the radar," she says. "We've seen a lot of changes since we started in 1987," Bath says. "The Clerys were powerful advocates (for change). There was no more hiding behind the ivory tower. The public is now more aware."