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...months that followed, the rape did not disappear. Its memory remained in the endless Undergraduate Council debates about how to improve security. It lived on in the faces of the uniformed security guards who arrived at the Science Center. And in the 2 a.m. phone calls to the escort service, made by women who would no longer walk alone...
There are still complaints that the escort services on campus are largely inaccessible, that much of campus is still poorly lit and that women are still afraid in a campus that is supposed to be their home...
...meeting this week provided yet another reminder of how intractable the security issues raised by the rape are. At a Committee on College Life (CCL) gathering Monday, the topic was campus security and its inadequacies. Representatives from the Women's Alliance, the student-run escort service SafeStreets, the Undergraduate Council ad hoc committee on campus security and the Harvard University Police Department debated the issue...
Soviet officials are already meeting in Moscow on a deepening crisis in Afghanistan as, 5,000 miles away in Washington, members of an American task force are rushed by police escort to the Old Executive Office Building. The U.S. President and Vice President have been disabled by a poison-gas attack. The Americans receive an intelligence briefing suggesting that maverick Soviet agents, seeking to undermine Mikhail Gorbachev and his international peace offensive, may have been behind the assassination attempt...
...long as the police are running a 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. escort service they have a responsibility to provide what they say they will provide. That means that someone who calls at 2:40 a.m.--or 2:59 a.m.--deserves a ride home. And "Five to 20 minutes, wait outside" is not an appropriate response...