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...addition, the HUCEP program should be modified to better meet student safety needs. The plan currently calls for roaming pairs of students beginning at 7 p.m. on weekdays in three regions: the river Houses, the Yard and the Quad. But the majority of the assaults this past year occurred before 7 p.m. The escorts would be more effective if they began patrolling at dusk instead—changing the starting time in accordance with the seasons. Furthermore, given the huge area included in the river House and Quad zones, HUCEP ought to employ more than one pair of escorts...
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...
Students also shouldn’t hesitate to contact HUCEP even if they’re walking in groups. Students, being social animals, tend to walk around campus with their friends. Encouraging groups to use HUCEP would lend a relaxed air to the service, which would make students more...
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...
When their safety is at stake, students should never be ashamed to call HUCEP. And come to think of it, being escorted to Weld wasn’t even that embarrassing—it was nice to have company on the long walk home...