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...year-old senior was interviewing the Dalai Lama in his palace of exile in Dharmsala, India. She also spent time in Tibet, where she was arrested for posing as a tourist, but not before smuggling out four hours of contraband video. In Algeria she traveled with an armed escort, and in Iran she was threatened with detention. And she still got back in time for the start of classes in September...
...addition, Witt said, dispatchers will check to make sure that drivers' watchers are synchronized, will not provide callers with an approximate time for their wait and will call students back when the escort arrives for the pick...
SBFVS was created this fall when the Escort Service, formerly run by the Harvard University Police Department, was merged with the shuttle services...
...dilemma: If I try to find a phone inside the Science Center or across the street from Johnston Gate to complain to the shuttle service, the shuttle might come and leave me behind. If I call Harvard's escort service, the controller will tell me to take the shuttle, or that there will be an hour's wait for the escort. So I walk home, cursing the shuttle powers-that-be, glancing behind me at two-minute intervals to make sure I'm not being followed by would-be rapists, and arriving at Currier House 15 minutes later cold, scared...
...Call the escort service, some might say. After all, it's open from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Well, I have and I do. But if you call before 10 or 11 p.m., you're more likely to get their voice mail than a human being. If you do get a human being, he or she isn't even allowed to tell you how long it will be--only that you're "fourth in line," which could mean 15 minutes or 45. Or they'll give you a time to dissuade you, as when I called Tuesday night...