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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
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help students deal with alcohol abuse,
stress, depression and other problems.
Fight rape with education. The
chances of a woman's being raped at a
college are astonishingly high. "Some
25 percent of the female college
population have been victims of rape or
attempted rpae,", says Claire Walsh,
director of the Sexual Assault Recovery
Service at University of Florida. In most
cases, the rapist is an acquaintance or
date.
Gang rapes, which typically occur at
fraternity parties, "are all too common
on many campuses," report Julie Ehrhart
and Bernice Sandler, who studied the
subject for the Association of American
Colleges. They've documented 100 such
cases at colleges of every stripe-public,
private, big, small, religiously affiliated
and Ivy Leauge.
Determined to reduce rape, Claire
Walsh established Campus Organized
Against Rape (COAR) in 1982. Her
research shows that women who
recognize potential danger are better able
to avoid an attack. So COAR runs
awareness seminars, which are attended
by men as well as women. Walsh
stresses that men need to take
responsibility for stopping rape and that
most men are allies of women in the war
against rape; they have an interest in
protecting their mothers, sisters and
girlfriends.
Walsh's advice to women for
avoiding rape: Date in groups until you
get to know your dates. Avoid being in
any isolated situation. Don't drink with
people you don't know well. Beware of
men who talk about women as conquests
or as adversaries.
Keep students and parents informed.
"Students must be aware that there is
crime on campus," says Dan Smith,
Stanford University's special services
manager. Since 1984, Stanford has
issued a 48-page booklet on safety,
covering everything from protecting
dorm rooms or apartments from burglary
to describing a suspect. The university
also offers crime-prevention seminars.
Clean up bad neighborhoods. No
college can isolate itself from the
community. If a school is surrounded
by a high-crime area, crime will seep
onto campus unless people fight back.
The typical response is to close ranks
and battle crime at the gate. Lt. Calvin
Handy, of the University of California at
Berkeley campus policeforce, took
different approach.
On Friday and Saturday nights, more
than 1000 teen-agers would swarm onto
Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue to hang
out. Gangs saw an opportunity, and rat
packs of ten or 12 youths began robbing
and assaulting students and residents
alike. Vagrants and panhandlers were
drawn to the area; drug-related crimes
were reampant.
Then Handy began working with
Berkeley police to clean up this
Southside neighborhood. He
aggressively moved his troops off
campus. Joint city and university police
foot patrols were increased. Task forces
were established, which over the past
two years have made more than 1000
drug- or weapons-related arrests.
Doormen were installed in university
buildings and residence halls to check for
school ID cards. Campus lighting was
improved, escort services were increased,
and crime-prevention seminars taught
students to protect themselves.
Although crime has not been
eliminated, results have been dramatic.
Stranger rapes were reduced from seven
in 1986 to zero in 1988. Violent crimes
were cut 40 percent. The rat packs have
been driven out. Most important,
students and residents have reclaimed the
community from the gangs, drug dealers
and other criminals. "Statistics don't
measure fear," says Handy. "Our
students had given up the Southside.
Now they have it back."
To ensure the safety of students,
colleges must develop an aggressive
strategy against crime. Parents should
encourage college administrators to adopt
proven safeguards, and students must
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exercise common-sense precautions. If
all do their part, the scandal of campus
violence can be ended.
Editors note: Penn State Harrisburg
has an escort service available to
students. Anyone needing an escort
should call police services at 948-6232.
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and further renovations will not be
finished until they have the money in
hand.
Peavy said lots of people have
misconceptions about what the facility
is. Even after they know it is a nursing
home, many are surprised to find
women among the residents, since the
Order is restricted to men.
Whenever we have to explain who we
are, we begin by telling them "We're not
all all odd, and we're not all fellows,"
Peavy said.
He said the home welcomes
volunteers, and students and area
residents alike are encouraged to get to
know their neighbors in the stately brick
mansion.
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