Campuses from 8 Started with just seven volunteers in 1977, it now has 200 part-time student employees who shepherd more than 100 students a night around the 411-acre campus. In addition, vans provide nearly 385,000 rides a year. Thanks to escort and van services, says John Barber, chief of U.C.L.A.'s police, violent crime is five to six times lower on campus than in surrounding communities. Curb alcohol abuse. According to studies by Towson State University, alcohol is involved in 80 percent of rapes, assaults and acts of vandalism on campus. Most states have raised their legal drinking age to 21, disqualifying roughly three-fourths of undergraduates. But the laws are useless unless schools enforce them. Since Texas raised the drinking age in 1986, alcohol consumption at Rice University in Houston has dropped markedly. "Alcohol-related crimes at Rice--assaults, criminal mischief and walking home alone at night. They can use U.C.L.A.'s campus escort service. public intoxication--are trending downward too," says Mary Voswinkel, chief of the Rice police. A key factor has been the involvement of Rice students in designing the school's policies. Any campus party where alcohol is served must have a student bartender trained by Rice's police to know when to cut off an intoxicated person's liquor before trouble starts. Parties that last more than two hours and have more than 200 people must have two university police officers in attendance. And trained student "drunk sitters" stay with intoxicated party-pers until they sober up. At first, attendance at on-campus parties was down, but no longer. "Before the law changed in 1986, the main draw was all the alcohol you wanted for only a dollar," says Scott Wiggers, a recent graduate. "Now alcohol is secondary, and people are having fun just dancing and socializing." Even Rice students out on the town are protected, thanks to a tranportation service that picks up those who have had too much to drink at area bars. The school also has a conseling center to --:•::::E:::::ili:: i i ki::i] t ilit..lllllll :•.;;;;;;:q i i ia: Ai i :ii ii i i i;i ii•i iik ii i k ..., lilitobilittiiiiiiiikili ... ,..,:cull*liNg0::.totilitOillit**0$111111 11111111111111111 111 iiiik..........„::: iip,..::,:::::i iir7.::ii:-.! 0...144 :i iiil 1.::- .1100141 i $.; •:: -..lllEll,llo„L,:%Hf:":"::sl4pz!i:34 m:::..gi eetmiiiiiiilki%-: ::itililigii,4. :ii *::".iriailik,V.winxlk...gbgus :::ikfiti:4l4:.ili *iiiii%iiiii3i:::e.:llAlg,:li!ti..loM4l49.• ?::114Miiiiiiikiiiakilaktb: littloWattit#ll74.::...:4•Alglikili ktletil lattiatil :fi •-•'''''",""*.%**•:vs::•:iirrk.::•::i::**:::::•:. : A...:,::,:::::::::Skiti:: ' :::,:o:::::K:i:446:2.