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...Crimson Staff is correct in its assessment that students ought to take personal precautions in unsafe times. This is partly achieved through simple steps such as walking with companions late at night or calling upon the complementary Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP) when alone in an isolated area. However, the Staff’s suggestion that this crime wave has come about primarily because of lack of attention by students to their personal safety ignores several key factors at play in this issue. First, the Staff glosses over the substantial role that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) does...
...result of this attitude, Harvard services, intended to keep us safe, remain far under-utilized. In Dean Hammonds’ response to the three robberies, she reminded us of the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP). From 10:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. (and 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday), volunteers remain on call to walk home any Harvard affiliate who dials their hotline. According to HUPD spokesman Steven Catalano, on average only 10-12 people request an escort each month—about two to three per week...
...Ultimately, the stigma against HUCEP seems like poor justification for walking alone when you feel unsafe. If the thought of being seen alongside a neon-vested escort sounds mortifying, ask yourself why. None of us can realistically expect to go through life in complete self-sufficiency, and refusing to consider help as an option seems foolish at best. We are lucky to attend a university that provides us with services for the times when we simply shouldn’t go it alone. But it’s up to us to accept that help, and be wise enough...
APRIL 1 McCain sees "encouraging signs" while touring a Baghdad market, draws derision from the press and Democrats for his heavy security escort...
Ambassador Lasha Zhvania is a senior Georgian official. One morning this week, he was pacing back and forth at a Russian military checkpoint just outside the war torn city of Gori, talking angrily on his mobile telephone . For more than two hours he had been attempting to escort a delegation of European officials to Gori from the capital Tbilisi. A journey that ordinarily should take 40 minutes was already into its third hour. "I am the foreign relations committee chairman in the Georgian Parliament and it just took us 40 minutes to go a few meters," he told...