63 Northwestern University said he knew of an incident where campus police stopped a crime in progress because a student used the security telephone. They're normally not being attacked. People sometimes call in if they see someone else's problem. The blue light phones are only part of a larger campus security program that involves other crime-prevention techniques, such as roaming officers and shuttle services. I don't think it's fair to say that students think that because they have the phones everything's going to be safe.
Students are smarter than that.
But while picking up a blue light phone may not be of much help to a student being robbed at gunpoint, most say the telephones serve as a more passive deterrent to potential criminals, who know that their crime will be immediately reported. Lee Drutman is a student at Brown University . Inc. Read our Web Site Agreement. We abide by our Privacy Policy.