A small
group of representatives from the Student Government Association,
the Campus Resident Student Association and the Physical Plant conducted
the second Campus Safety Walk of the semester to identify unsafe
areas on campus.
The walk took place Sunday night, with the group making its way
around the campus.
“The point of this second walk is to make sure the stuff we
identified on the last one has been fixed,” said Amy E. Greer,
director of student affairs, Sunday. “The main problem is lighting
dark areas on campus.”
No representative from the administration or the campus police attended
the walk.
“There’s normally someone from the campus police here,”
Greer said. “But the person who usually attends resigned, and
I wasn’t able to contact Chief Doerr in time to get another.”
According to Greer’s report, only two items from the first
safety walk were not fixed, including lights on the walkway behind
W.H. Plemmons Student Union and a missing rail near White Residence
Hall. The report also identified several new items, most of them
lighting problems.
“Another issue concerns the tunnels; a person was mugged in
one of them two weeks ago,” Greer said. “People are spray
painting over the lights; this is an issue SGA will need to address
next semester.”
The walk was originally scheduled for Dec. 4, but had to be re-scheduled
due to weather conditions and impending exams.
“I don’t think the fact that there are less people here
makes the walk less effective,” said Katy M. Ellis, a member
of CRSA, Sunday. “The fact that there are people out here shows
we’re doing something about this, following up on it.”
“I actually felt there were too many people along for the last
safety walk,” Greer agreed. “It didn’t seem any more
or less effective because there were more people there.”
While the Campus Safety Walk has been around for several years,
one of the campaign promises of the Eller-Williams SGA administration
had been to increase the walk to twice a semester. |
