Campus escorts offer safe walks
By Mask Trampe
Staff Reporter
While many students are thinking
about schedules and homework, the
UNL Campus Escort Program wants
to assure students that campus safety
hasn’t been forgotten.
Marco Ritzo, head of the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln Campus Es
cort Program, said the service’s vol
unteers want students to tread a safe
path home from class.
Safety in numbers is the idea em
ployed by the program, Ritzo said. This
simple idea has proven effective in five
years since the Residence Hall Asso
-ciation started the program, he said.
Ritzo said students can get escorts in
three ways:
—Call the program office at 472
1167 Monday through Thursday, from
6:30 p.m. to midnight. After hours,
leave voice mail or contact the program
director and request an escort.
— to an emergency, students can
use the blue phones on campus. The
UNL police department puts callers in
touch with the escort service.
— Students with night classes can
schedule escorts on a regular basis.
When a student calls the escort of
fice, a dispatcher contacts two volun
teers for assistance. The volunteer es
corts normally arrive anywhere on
campus within five minutes of the call,
Ritzo said.
The volunteers are sent out in pairs
— either two females or one female
and one male. They carry heavy-duty
flashlights, cellular phones and wear
white jackets identifying them with the
escort program.
Ritzo measured the program’s suc
cess by the increase in escort requests.
Calls to the service have doubled in the
past two years.
About 50 to 75 people take advan
tage of the service. Some call only
once, while others call regularly.
“It’s important that the word gets
out,” Ritzo said.
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