INITIAL ALERTEmail
Approximate reconstructionReconstructed from Bowdoin Safety and Security's public Timely Warnings page that lists a March 5, 2025 stalking timely warning; the detailed alert text is restricted to authenticated Bowdoin community members811 chars
Bowdoin Timely Warning — Stalking: Bowdoin Safety and Security is issuing this Timely Warning pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act regarding a recently reported stalking incident affecting a member of the Bowdoin community. Specific details, including the location of the incident and a description of the suspect, are available to Bowdoin community members through the Safety and Security authenticated portal at www.bowdoin.edu/security. Any member of the community with information is asked to contact Bowdoin Safety and Security at 207-725-3500. Resources for victims of stalking, including confidential support through the Bowdoin Counseling Service and external advocacy through Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine, are available.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
Bowdoin is unusual among NESCAC peers in keeping the detailed text of timely warnings behind an authentication wall — most NESCAC peer institutions post full text on a public Safety pages or in a student newspaper
Stalking is a VAWA-defined Clery crime: under Clery Act amendments effective 2014, stalking, dating violence, and domestic violence joined the original 1990-era Clery crime categories
Bowdoin's March 5 timely warning is one of the earliest stalking-category Bowdoin alerts in the post-2014-VAWA-amendments era to be publicly indexed (even if the full text remains restricted)