Word: sos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Campus Security Committee, a student/faculty group charged with improving student security at Harvard, may implement a walking escort program in which students willing to walk in groups would identify themselves to other students by wearing lapel buttons. Elizabeth M. Einaudi '83, a member of Students Organized for Security (SOS), proposed the program at a meeting of the security committee yesterday...
Students Organized for Security (SOS) intends to work with Harvard police in establishing self-defense classes in the Houses, Elizabeth Einaudi '83, head of SOS, said last week...
There are complaints about the worth of the statistics, too. Elizabeth M. Einaudi '83, a founder of Students Organized for Security (SOS), expressed major concern that police do not collect statistics on crimes against students not committed on Harvard property. For example, one student was raped near Mather House, but the incident did not make it into the police records, because it occurred on non-Harvard property...
...meeting of SOS, Saul L. Chafin, chief of University police, explained that police do not collect these statistics because such crimes fall outside of Harvard's jurisdiction, an answer which failed to satisfy most of the SOS members in the audience...
Some members of SOS say that the low level of attention given to security--as indicated in the failure to report off-campus rapes--is a deliberate effort on the part of University administrators striving to maintain Harvard's "ivory tower" image...