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...area, she created Students Organized for Security, a program to provide volunteer escorts for students wary of walking from libraries to dorms late at night. She also helped lead the first "Take Back the Night" march, an annual demonstration calling for better protection for women in general. Through SOS and the marches, Einaudi and other students put the issue of student security on the administration's agenda. The University responded by creating the College Security Committee, a group of administrators and students who have published pamphlets on rape and security awareness and issued recommendations on issues such as lighting...
...president of Students Organized for Security (SOS), a two-year-old group of about ten undergraduates who lobby Harvard administrators for security improvements, came up with the idea of writing "Playing It Safe" last spring. The student-Faculty Committee on Security approved the idea, and Orr spent the summer in Cambridge working on the project with Thomas A. Dingman '67, senior tutor in Leverett House and assistant dean of the College for the House system; Marlyn M. Lewis, senior tutor in North House; and Saul L. Chafin, chief of University Police...
According to Police Chief Chafin, much of the credit for the new lights at Radcliffe should go to SOS, which pushed vigorously for them after the rape last year. The effect of the lights, he adds, "will be to increase both security and the perception of security" at the Quad...
...SOS members say they are pleased by the changes in security over the summer and expect the campus to be safer this year. Nevertheless, they plan to push for further improvements, including better security in the Mather House area, an all-night escort service, and "victim advocacy" in rape cases. "It's not perfect and it never will be perfect," says Elisabeth A. Einaudi '83, former president of the organization. "But I think things are getting better."Eight new mercury-vapor lamps, slated to be installed at the Radcliffe Quad by mid-October, are part of the increasing effort...
...side trusts the other." Admiral Hyman Rickover, 81, irascible founder of the nuclear Navy, is especially mistrustful. "They don't care if they manufacture horse turds or ships," Rickover snarled at a May hearing of a House subcommittee on defense. "I wouldn't give those so-and-sos any more contracts until the problems are resolved...