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...harmless, humorous tone of the play drastically alters when Don announces that he won't be able to make their golf date next week; as a member of the State Department, he has been assigned to pick up Napoleon Duarte up from the airport and escort him around town. For Angie, this disclosure sparks off both empty self-pity ("my whole life revolves around these weekends") and vague, shrill accusations against the Salvadoran leader. An unlucky combination, but Don's replies are no better, consisting mainly of lines like "Women.." and "It must be the bad time of the month...
Unfortunately, the escort service does not, as my roommate's story and many others like it prove, serve its true purpose: protecting Harvard students. As the program operates currently, it protects only Harvard from being responsible for incidents that occur on University property...
Strangely enough, the student escort service will accomodate students going to Harvard-owned buildings which are farther away than some non-Harvard owned buildings. During the year, this policy operates primarily against the small percentage of students who are live in non-Harvard housing. But during the summer more than half of the students in Cambridge do not live on campus and of those a substantial number do not live in Harvard housing...
These are the students for whom the escort service should have been created. These are the students who face the greatest risk in walking home alone late at night. Crime prevention officers caution against people travelling alone, yet with the present escort service some have few other options...
...policy change that might solve this problem would be to establish a region in which the escort service would travel no matter where it was going...