The bike patrol. Shiny reflective yellow jackets stopping crime under every shady tree and by every ancient stone wall. Not a bad idea actually. I like the fact that campus safety is making an effort to step up their protection of the campus. I also like the fact that the school is trying to make students feel safer by instituting a walking escort where students working for campus safety will walk others home from the library or the campus center.
Students help out in other areas of campus safety.
The Umed club has kids on duty every Friday and Saturday night to care for any student who may potentially party a little to hard, and all week long there is a community patrol that shadows security officers as they do their rounds. It seems that there is a lot of student involvement in securing the safety of Union s campus. No insult to the student involved in these programs, but we need professionals doing these things. Think of the high profile incidents that happen this year. The break-in and assault in Richmond.