Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESPITE incidents like these, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) persistently claims that a two-car escort service satisfies the needs of the Harvard community. And the University continues to claim that an escort service run between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m. is all the protection its students need...
...next night my roommate called to ask for an escort. She was told that there was a waiting list and that they would call her when a car was available. Half an hour later she called a taxi. Another half-hour later the escort called to say they would pick her up in 15 minutes...
...live off campus we seriously considered safety issues--particularly in light of Harvard's seeming inability to respond adequately to a rape and persistent assaults on campus. One of the main reasons we chose Harvard-affiliated housing--although it is more expensive than other housing--is because the escort service does run between campus and our apartment building...
...really fault the police department for most of the problem. They have enough things to deal with. If Harvard saw the security of its community as a priority, the administration would establish some other office to be responsible for the escort service...
People argue that Harvard's bureaucracy is big enough already and that creating another office would be a mistake. But the escort service could easily be handled by the Facilities and Maintenance Department--whose name is already on the sides of the cars. And, anyway, as long as there is a situation like this, Harvard's bureaucracy is not big enough to provide for its students needs. That, in the end, has to be the scale on which the system is judged...