Annual Security Report — Fall 2009
Overview
The Federal Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act, Public Law 101-542, (“Act”), and Iowa law require that certain information concerning Maharishi University of Management’s campus security policies and programs, and crime prevention, history and enforcement be provided to our students and administrators. This report is provided to you to satisfy those legal requirements and to inform you of Maharishi University of Management’s policies on these matters and how the University seeks, with your help, to create a safe, secure, and crime-free campus.
Ideal Education for Orderly Behavior
Compliance with all national, state, and local laws and ordinances is a prerequisite for ideal citizenry and an ideal society and is an absolute requirement for all members of the Maharishi University of Management community. However, not only is lawful behavior a requirement, but practical and proven techniques for enabling the individual to satisfy this requirement and avoid the self-destructive cycle of short-sighted criminal behavior are provided to all students and ideal administrators. What we believe to be the first line of defense against crime, the practice of the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® programs, is practiced in groups twice a day by all members of the University community. It is a required, credit-bearing course for all students.
Scientific research has demonstrated that positive tendencies grow dramatically among those practicing these techniques, and negative tendencies diminish. Studies conducted on those in prison environments and upon release from prison, e.g., at Walpole State Prison, Folsom Prison, and other institutions, show that these techniques are proven, effective procedures for eliminating crime at its source, the mind of the individual. External regulation of behavior through the creation of national and local laws is necessary when society and all its members are not operating in accord with Natural Law. However, the only practical and complete solution for disruptive and destructive behavior is to bring the orderly and creative qualities within human consciousness to the surface in every member of society. The individual experience, through the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, of the total potential of Natural Law within the consciousness of every individual awakens this internal source of orderliness and creativity.
Authority of University Security Personnel
Maharishi University of Management Security personnel are authorized to act on behalf of the University in enforcing all University rules, regulations and procedures relating to safety and security. The University Security personnel do not have authority to arrest individuals. They work closely with state and local police agencies, principally the City of Fairfield Police Department and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, who are called on campus to physically detain and arrest individuals if necessary.
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