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...weeks after I was offered a ride home from Cambridge's police department, another student, Clarice Ballard, was refused one from Harvard's Why? She was using the police escort service too often--a sadly twisted reason for refusal. The University police should not have hesitated to give her frequent rides--she was returning to the same isolated home night after night and many in her neighborhood recently had been victims of armed robberies...
...three American students will meet inWashington before leaving for the Soviet Union sothey can compile their independent research andget briefings from the Soviet Embassy, accordingto Northern Illinois University Professor M. JackParker, who will serve as coach and escort for thestudents
...little to step up service for students. Instead, the police went so far as to deny one woman graduate student a ride after dark because, according to chief of Harvard's police, Paul E. Johnson, she was "abusing" the service. Her offense had been to take rides with the escort service six times from Larson Hall to Peabody Terrace after her Wednesday evening class. This denial of protection is an abdication of the police responsibility to protect students, and it must be condemned...
...most other universities, such poor security and lack of concern for students' safety is unheard of. Unlike Harvard, twenty-four-hour walking and driving escort services are standard at campuses across the country. The lack of such measures contradicts the reputation for safety about which admissions officers boast to prospective freshmen...
...College's Committee on Security is considering a recommendation that HUPD purchase a second car for the escort service. A more extensive security system, including improved lighting and prompt police patrols--not just a better escort service--is clearly in order. However, HUPD claims that it doesn't even receive enough money to pay for one more escort car. When the safety and well-being of the student body are at stake, it is hard to believe that the University can't find a little extra in its pocket for campus security...