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...Escort drivers will no longer pick up students flaggin down escort cars or requesting escort service to off-campus locations, Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, said yesterday...
...delays for the escort car seem unduly long between midnight and I am, it is because calls begin to stack-up during that hour. The fact that the shuttle bus runs less frequently at this time creates a sudden upsurge in the number of students requesting escorts...
Another factor causing delays is abuse of the service. For example, calls for escorts increase dramatically during rainy nights; the inference being that people don't like to walk in the rain. Many times the driver arrives at the called-for location to find multiple escorts such as 5 or 6 people who could safely walk in a group to their destination. Likewise, the escort driver is confronted by the lone caller who insists that she/he has to be escorted to a location deep into the reaches of Somerville, North Cambridge or some other off Campus location, usually...
...escort service was never intended to be a private livery car nor a substitute taxicab. Instead, it was designed to convey students from one point to another when no other safe means of transportation is available. The fact that one has to wait 40 minutes between shuttle bus runs does not mean that the shuttle bus is an unavailable means of transportation and that the bus rider should instead call the escort car. It means that the particular student should be prepared to wait for the next bus, or time his/her departure around the bus schedule...
...final analysis, I and my fellow Police Officers take professional pride in being of service to the Harvard Community and in keeping Harvard a safe place to work and study. We encourage students to use the escort service and are gratified by its increase in demand. However, we encourage you with a note of restraint in our words: Please use the escort car when you really need to, not because it is a mere convenience. If everyone uses the escort only when really needed, everyone who really needs as escort will get one. Arthur G. Luongo, Sergeant