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High Noon: Idaho State 5th Safest

After the murder of Yale doctoral student Annie Le, The Daily Beast ranked the most dangerous college campuses in the country. Now, the blog has ranked the safest campuses, including four of the colleges located in the Inland Northwest: Idaho State, at No. 5; Montana, No. 6; Utah State, No. 13; and Brigham Young, No. 17. You can read which colleges make The Beast list of top 25 safest as well as the 25 most crime-ridden here. Of Idaho State (student population 13,208), The Daily Beast said: "Want a sign of safety? Pocatello, Idaho, bills itself as the Smile Capital of the US. In 1948, Pocatello Mayor George Phillips passed an ordinance making smiles the only legal mouth expression in Pocatello, following an unusually cold winter. Phillips would smile if he could see Idaho State’s place on our list."

Question: Are you confident that your student's college campus is safe?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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