Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
ANYONE WATCHING DAYTIME TV this week will see loud people arguing over topics like "You Want More Sex Than I Do," "I Want to Be an Escort" and "My Girlfriend Is a Guy." To some viewers that's entertainment. To others it's idiocy. To former Education Secretary William Bennett, it's cause for alarm. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker, noted gangsta-rap haters, have joined with Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Sam Nunn of Georgia in a campaign to wean Americans off what they call "cultural...
...alert also contained information about escort and shuttle services and reminders about how to use emergency blue-light phones
Most students who want to travel at night use the Harvard Evening Van Shuttle Service. The van service replaced the escort service the Harvard Police had run until this fall...