The Campus Chronicle

Volume 3, No. 10
January 24, 2003

SCAD computer art senior John Coburn (right) helps freshman Brittany Michel register her bike as part of the Campus Safety Fair held in Weston House Jan. 17.
Photo by Dan Saelinger

Safety fair stresses responsibility

By Hannah Pittard

In order to introduce new students to the safety programs available to them at SCAD, the campus safety department sponsored a Campus Safety Fair in the Weston House lobby, Jan. 17.

"The purpose of the safety fair is to promote and raise awareness of the personal responsibility for safety," said Gene Friedman, director of campus safety. "Each individual must be the primary guarantor of their own safety. A student’s parents, the police, campus safety, and faculty or staff can not be with each student 24 hours a day. Thus, students must learn to live on their own."

To this end, campus safety used the fair as an opportunity to provide students with some of the tools they will need to keep themselves secure, including personal safety flyers, brochures, informational literature and magnets with critical telephone numbers.

Reinforcing the safety department’s cause with their presence were five additional non-SCAD entities: Chatham Emergency Management Agency, Crime Stoppers, Savannah Police Department, Rape Center and Victim-Witness Assistance Program.

Sgt. Roger Flannery and crime prevention officers Yvonne Taylor and Tony Lopez, all with the Savannah Police Department, were present at the fair in order to lend support to the safety department’s efforts and offer advice of their own. "College kids need this safety information," said Taylor. "We’re here to teach them how to be safe."

According to the police, college students are constantly at risk, but there are several preventative measures that all students can take to help reduce the chances of being the target of a crime. "I’d like to see kids get more organized," said Lopez, who encourages students to get to know their neighbors in order to keep their neighborhoods and dormitories safe.

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