The university is providing vans ready to be dispatched anywhere on campus for students, faculty and visitors in need of a safety escort from 8 p. The university vans will pick up people on campus who call during those hours and then drop them off only within the campus' grounds, Oweis said.
The service will assist those who took a bus to campus or parked their car in a remote campus lot and have to walk a ways back after dark, Oweis said. The university has its own campus bus system that runs to a. The new campus safety effort, done in conjunction with the university's housing department, is a temporary pilot program to assess whether there is enough participation to continue it, Oweis said. Oweis said that Taser-type devices are illegal to carry on campus while pepper spray canisters of less than 2.
The campus has an alert system, CruzAlert, that sends notifications of emergencies by text and logins may be obtained at cruzalert. The college's administration held a public forum to discuss safety on the campus Wednesday night, a campus police dispatcher said.
Around noon on Sunday, a year-old woman, who was not a student, was raped and beaten while walking in a wooded area of campus near the Upper Quarry Amphitheater and the Classroom Unit building, Oweis said.
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