The State - News from March 13, 1987

University of California Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman said that the head of the state’s Little Hoover Commission was wrong in claiming that the Berkeley school has the nation’s highest campus crime rate. “The people who study and work here don’t face a high risk of becoming victims of crime--despite what has been said and written lately,” Heyman wrote in an open letter. “I’m concerned if people are discouraged by misleading information from studying or teaching at Berkeley or from visiting or attending events on the campus.” Heyman said many crimes did not occur on campus, but in neighboring areas patrolled by UC police. Nathan Shapell, chair of the commission, said Heyman is nit-picking. “It doesn’t matter if they’re No. 1 or No. 2 or No. 3,” he said. “There is too much crime on the campus.”