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...models are both centrex and emergency phones and are equipped with strobe lights to attract the attention of police cars responding to a call, says Director of Yard Operations Merle Bicknell...
Seven outdoor Centrex phones, which are equipped with emergency call buttons and flashing blue lights have been installed...
...pathetically short. Our lives do not end at 8 p.m., and we should be able to enter all dorms at all times. The current system forces students who wish to visit another house to wait by the locked entrance for admittance. They must either call a friend from a Centrex phone to ask to be let in or wait idly for a resident of the House to walk by and open the door. This wait for access places students in a potentially dangerous situation...
...safety by quickly entering the dorm. She would have had to wait by herself in the dark for someone to let her in, and the stranger following her in the car would have been able to catch up with her. Whether she would have had time to use the Centrex phone to reach Harvard police is questionable. Even if she had been able to call for help, I doubt that Harvard Police would have been able to respond to the scene before the stranger forced her into his car. These dangerous situations are real...
...related topic, the lack of blue-light emergency phones outside the Yard is appalling. True, there is an emergency button on every Centrex phone, but these phones are only located near house entrances. What does a student who is walking home to the Quad do if she needs help near the Cambridge Commons? Harvard should install blue-light phones all over campus...