Spring Break
An update on your safety
Eirinn Disbrow
Issue date: 9/20/07 Section: News
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Over the past few months Campus Safety has been helping to install some new changes at the College. One of these changes includes new forms of emergency communication for students, faculty, and staff. Campus Safety has been working closely with the Office of Information Technology and the administration since last summer to install an emergency text messaging system called E2CAMPUS.
Campus Safety strongly suggests that everyone at the College sign up for this text messaging service because it is the quickest and easiest way to alert everyone of an emergency. Any student can sign up on the College's message board which can be found by typing in http://192.168.252.70/messageboard/. There should be a yellow tab in the upper right hand corner that says "Alert Me! Sign up Now!" There are step by step instructions for signing up and the entire process should only take a few minutes and does not cost any money. About 54% of the Student Body has already signed up for E2CAMPUS, but as Ken Lupole, Director of Campus Safety and Security, explains, "We would like to have that number raised greatly over the next few weeks."
There have been other precautions installed by Campus Safety which include emergency email notifications, emergency telephones and an emergency horn for those who are not anywhere near a computer or telephone. The horn will be activated in an emergency situation to alert everyone on campus to seek out information and share it with others as quickly as possible.
Campus Safety is planning a trial for all of these communication systems and will be letting us know when they have picked a date for their trial run.
Campus Safety has also been involved with the Student Council Safety Committee in trying to encourage the use of bikes on campus. This change is still in the early stages but the main goal is to promote bike riding to diminish vehicular traffic.
The plan is to start out by taking a few old or abandoned bikes, repair them, and then leave them in the bike racks for student use. Lupole explains that "one of the problems is that students here are very attached to their vehicles. Instead of thinking of another form of transportation, they just automatically go straight to their automobiles. What we are trying to do with this program is remind them that there are other ways to get around." This program will take about a month to establish and with the winter season approaching, we may not see the bikes around campus until next semester.
Along with embarking on these new programs to improve the College, Campus Safety has also been very busy investigating the many vehicle thefts and property damage around campus. The vehicles that were broken into in the past few weeks were all targeted because of the expensive equipment inside of them. All valuables left in a vehicle should be carefully hidden from others. In general, valuables should never be left unattended.
Last week there was a lot of property stolen at the Maingate Club when purses and other valuables were left at the bar. Lupole would like to remind members of the College community that guarding personal property and walking around in big groups are necessary precautions that everyone must take. Campus Safety can always be reached by dialing ext. 3110 whenever there is a problem.
Campus Safety strongly suggests that everyone at the College sign up for this text messaging service because it is the quickest and easiest way to alert everyone of an emergency. Any student can sign up on the College's message board which can be found by typing in http://192.168.252.70/messageboard/. There should be a yellow tab in the upper right hand corner that says "Alert Me! Sign up Now!" There are step by step instructions for signing up and the entire process should only take a few minutes and does not cost any money. About 54% of the Student Body has already signed up for E2CAMPUS, but as Ken Lupole, Director of Campus Safety and Security, explains, "We would like to have that number raised greatly over the next few weeks."
There have been other precautions installed by Campus Safety which include emergency email notifications, emergency telephones and an emergency horn for those who are not anywhere near a computer or telephone. The horn will be activated in an emergency situation to alert everyone on campus to seek out information and share it with others as quickly as possible.
Campus Safety is planning a trial for all of these communication systems and will be letting us know when they have picked a date for their trial run.
Campus Safety has also been involved with the Student Council Safety Committee in trying to encourage the use of bikes on campus. This change is still in the early stages but the main goal is to promote bike riding to diminish vehicular traffic.
The plan is to start out by taking a few old or abandoned bikes, repair them, and then leave them in the bike racks for student use. Lupole explains that "one of the problems is that students here are very attached to their vehicles. Instead of thinking of another form of transportation, they just automatically go straight to their automobiles. What we are trying to do with this program is remind them that there are other ways to get around." This program will take about a month to establish and with the winter season approaching, we may not see the bikes around campus until next semester.
Along with embarking on these new programs to improve the College, Campus Safety has also been very busy investigating the many vehicle thefts and property damage around campus. The vehicles that were broken into in the past few weeks were all targeted because of the expensive equipment inside of them. All valuables left in a vehicle should be carefully hidden from others. In general, valuables should never be left unattended.
Last week there was a lot of property stolen at the Maingate Club when purses and other valuables were left at the bar. Lupole would like to remind members of the College community that guarding personal property and walking around in big groups are necessary precautions that everyone must take. Campus Safety can always be reached by dialing ext. 3110 whenever there is a problem.