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Fiona J. Fox '91 is one of the program's supervisors. "I'm [Sosland's] roommate, so it was kind of hard for me to not get swept up in the whole SafeStreets project--not that I didn't want to get involved anyway," says Fox. "Hopefully SafeStreets will be around for a long time...
SafeStreets, a student escort service, started up on March 6 under the leadership of Abigail N. Sosland '91. Sosland brought her idea to the Women's Alliance--which helped create the service--in the wake of the Science Center rape last December. The Undergraduate Council subsequently helped fund SafeStreets, as did the office of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Sosland intended for the service to supplement the overburdened two-car University police escort program, she says...
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...
...been worrying that interest will die down. After doing a six-hour shift in the middle of the night, a lot of people become unhappy at the effects it has on their schedule," says Sosland. "If we can prove to Dean Epps that there is a definite need for our service, SafeStreets will hopefully become a work-study program...
Some of the most interesting parts of the story are still a mystery - "John Smith," for example. In the midst of all the secret haggling between the Soviets and the grain companies, Morton I. Sosland, the editor of a key trade paper in the milling and baking industry, began receiving transatlantic phone calls to Kansas City from Mr. Smith, who claimed to be a British journalist with inside dope on the bargaining. Smith's name and job proved to be phony. But his information on the ultrasensitive purchases was amazingly accurate, and it helped get out to a broader...