Safety ranked high in GC student satisfaction survey
Vice President for Student Life Bill Born reported that campus safety and security at Goshen College was ranked third highest
in overall satisfaction on the Student Satisfaction Inventory survey (Fall 2004 semester). Campus administration has worked hard to achieve this result and will continue to hold high standards for safety practices.
We hope these efforts will provide some measure of peace of mind as you send your child to Goshen College, so you have every opportunity to celebrate this exciting chapter in their lives.
CBS News reports on fire hazard in nation's residence halls 
At Seton Hall University, three students died and 58 were injured in a residence hall blaze in January 2000. Since that horrible incident, Seton Hall has made the investment of installing sprinklers - but many colleges and universities have not.
This spring, CBS News documented just how important a sprinkler system can be in a dorm setting. They set up two dorm rooms in the burn lab of a large insurance company; one dorm room was equipped with a sprinkler and one was not. Then fires were started in each room in a trash can filled with paper. Although both rooms had smoke alarms which sounded off at approximately 1 minute after the fires were started, the temperature in the first room, without sprinklers, reached 1,000 degrees (Fahrenheit) at the
4-minute mark, and the room was completely destroyed. Anyone living in this dorm room would have had only minutes to escape, and the fire could have easily spread to other rooms. In the second room, the sprinkler activated 1 minute and 34 seconds after the fire was set. Almost immediately, the room was cleared of smoke and the flames were largely extinguished.
Watch the video of this story as it appeared on the CBS Early
Show Consumer Watch segment, March 25, 2005:
Preventing
Dorm Fires
"Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge." Psalm 16:1