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SafeStreets volunteers are a diverse group--only one similarity, in fact, brings them together late at night: they have all taken an active role in campus safety...
Daniel Sheinberg '91 is an Applied Math concentrator who's a Thursday night "regular." "I was actually working the very first SafeStreets shift in which someone actually called," says Sheinberg. "In the beginning, all our business came from walk-ins who stayed at the Science Center late to work...
Sheinberg says that the volunteers are optimistic, and hope that SafeStreets will gain popularity by next year. "I have a great time doing it and the loss of sleep really doesn't bother me," Sheinberg says. "I stay up late to do problem sets on Thursday nights anyway...
Because of the difficulty inherent in recruiting people to volunteer late-night hours, Sosland says she hopes that SafeStreets may evolve into an organization that can afford to pay its workers...
...significant portion of our work comes from people staying up late in the Science Center to work on computers or to study," says Bell. "But even then, we average about four to six calls on weekdays and a little more on weekends, mostly from women. That average excludes the first two weeks of operation when virtual nobody knew about...