Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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...
...seems almost ridiculous to address the question of whether an escort service which ends at 3 a.m. is adequate. As one of Harvard's many students who has to work late into the night on an activity, I have to question the University's rhetoric in support of extracurricular development. If Harvard expects us to get involved in these activities, it should provide us with some way of getting home safely...
...hope it won't take another rape--or any more assaults--on Harvard's campus to make the much-needed changes in the escort service. But I fear that it might...
...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...