April 5, 1986 was one of those days that changes everything, or at least, that is how many in higher education have come to feel. This was the day that Jeanne Clery was “tortured, raped, sodomized and murdered2 at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. This event, and Jeanne Clery’s parents’ response to it, has made lasting impressions on campus safety. The Clerys’ response to this tragedy resulted in the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act or Act). Whether one agrees with the necessity or effectiveness of this legislation, or whether it has positively impacted campus safety or not, everyone can agree that the Clery Act has increased awareness of crime on American college campuses. The mere fact that a special edition of this law review is being devoted to campus safety illustrates the impact that the Clery Act has had on higher education. The Act certainly has raised the awareness about campus crime and campus-safety issues, and the commentary about it in the higher-education, legal, and popular press has been extensive.