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Illinois Leads in Campus Crimes

By Nicholas D. Kristof

URBANA, Ill.--The university of Illinois in Urbana had more violent crimes in 1979 than any other college campus in the country, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported in its annual crime report. Fifty violent crimes--rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults--were reported at the university in 1979.

Also ranking in the top five were University of Florida, with 48 violent crimes; the University of Maryland at College Park, with 46; the University of California at Berkeley, with 45; and the University of Oklahoma, with 44.

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