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Harvard’s failure to notify students about the termination of SafetyWalk and its continued publicizing of the program that no longer existed engendered a false sense of security among students and jeopardized their safety...
...University and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) have flouted their responsibility to students and parents by trumpeting a program that has not been in existence for months. While SafetyWalk has “not completed their registration forms” to remain a registered student group, according to Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, neither McLoughlin nor anyone else at the University made this fact public until last week. Until then, the University and HUPD had continued to cite the service as active...
...groups most directly responsible for student safety allowed news of SafetyWalk’s dissolution to slip through the cracks and promulgated a farcical safety provision: the College continued advertising SafetyWalk to students on blue light security phones, fire doors and in the Guide for the Class of 2007, and HUPD listed SafetyWalk’s phone number in its Guide for Keeping Safe at Harvard. Much of the information listed was not only outdated and inaccurate, but inconsistent as well. The SafetyWalk telephone number listed on some fire door stickers, for instance, directed students to the office...
While administrators are focusing on promoting the shuttle and van services, some students have expressed interest in restarting SafetyWalk, McLoughlin said...
...shouldn’t go on old presuppositions,” McLoughlin said. “We don’t want to be back in place, advertise for one year, then have the leadership [of SafetyWalk] graduate and be back where we started...