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Harvard starts a new campus escort program in the wake of the rash of gropings in the Square and the disbanding of the Safetywalk escort program...
...month after taking office, McLoughlin was asked to be a member of the safety committee which instituted the Harvard University Campus Escort Program (HUCEP) in response to growing concern over pedestrian safety following a rash of on-campus assaults. The program, which will continue in the fall, has been applauded by students and has been more effective than its defunct predecessor SafetyWalk...
...rash of incidents quickly revealed Harvard’s lackluster crime prevention and awareness programs. After one of the first assaults, administrators urged students to use SafetyWalk, a much-advertised volunteer-run walking escort service. But it was soon revealed that the program had quietly become defunct the previous year. What’s worse, while it had been Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) policy to send an e-mail to officials in the Harvard community within 48 hours of an assault, in many instances these e-mails languished in administrators’ inboxes, and many students did not receive...
During this past year, the College extended shuttle and van operation hours, deployed more HUPD patrols, e-mailed safety alerts directly to students, launched the Harvard University Campus Escort Service Program (HUCEP) to replace SafetyWalk and created a centralized hotline to help students keep track of the new services and dispatch late-night police escorts...
Although the walkers aren’t constantly escorting someone, HUCEP is still a very useful service. Many students already use HUCEP—the walkers have escorted students over 600 times since its inception in February. And more importantly, HUCEP has quickly become a recognizable safety presence on campus. Most of us know at least one person who works as an escort. Even if no student ever used it, the service would still be worth keeping—if only as a neighborhood watchdog...