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...desks awaiting a telephone call. David A. Bell '89, Liam T. A. Ford '91 and Christopher M. VanDyke '89 have volunteered to be the SafeStreets team for the evening. Tonight, it's their job to accompany anyone who calls 5-TROD or drops by looking for an escort anywhere on campus, excluding the Business School and destinations across the River...
SafeStreets, a student escort service, started up on March 6 under the leadership of Abigail N. Sosland '91. Sosland brought her idea to the Women's Alliance--which helped create the service--in the wake of the Science Center rape last December. The Undergraduate Council subsequently helped fund SafeStreets, as did the office of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Sosland intended for the service to supplement the overburdened two-car University police escort program, she says...
...escort service is just not sufficient," says VanDyke, who is volunteering tonight for the second time since SafeStreets' inception. "With just two cars, they're often swamped with calls--not to mention that the cars can't go everywhere we can go on foot...
...service that it must operate on a buddy system, so that no students are ever made vulnerable by working alone. "If there is an odd number on any given night we either send someone home or try to get another volunteer, because you need groups of two to escort as well as two people here at home base at all times," says Bell...
...Pretty neat, huh?," says VanDyke, as he explains how the equipment is used. "We have the [sashes] as well as SafeStreets' identification so that the person waiting for us can easily recognize us. Each escort pair gets one beeper so that home base can give us our next assignment while we're out walking someone else. And, the particulars about each assignment go in the log book--you know, time of call, whereabouts of caller, destination, escorters' names...