THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA  AT CHAPEL HILL
Office of the Assistant to the Chancellor and Senior University Counsel		Campus Box No. 9100, 103 South Building The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-9100
	November 9, 1998

MEMORANDUM
 
 

TO:	Deans, Directors, and Department Chairs
FROM:	Susan H. Ehringhaus, Convener, Campus Security Committee
SUBJECT:	Evening Activities on Campus--Safety and Security Considerations

As the autumn days grow shorter, the Campus Security Committee requests that you remind faculty, staff, and students who attend classes, meetings, and other campus and community activities at night to be conscious of their personal safety when Traveling to and from those activities and when they are working alone in campus buildings after regular business hours. Please circulate and/or post this notice and mention it at meetings with faculty, staff, and students.

Faculty, staff, and students should keep doors locked while working in labs or offices at night. When walking at night, they should plan their routes in advance so they can stay in well-lit areas, remain alert to their surroundings at all times, and never walk alone. As preferable alternatives to walking, they should call Point-to-Point, or catch the U Bus or the P2P Xpress.

• Anyone who notices something suspicious or out of the ordinary should notify University Police at

962-8100 (routine calls) or, for emergency calls, 911.
• Emergency call boxes with direct lines to the University Police are located around campus. Call boxes are activated by pushing a button.
• The fare-free U Buses circle the campus in both directions between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
• During the fall semester between dusk and dawn, the Point-to-Point Campus Shuttle (P2P) is available to transport faculty, staff, and students around campus and to their cars in campus parking lots seven days a week. To arrange for a ride, call 962-7867 (TDD 962-7142 for hearing impaired only).
• For those driving to campus after dark, there are blue and red P2P communication boxes in seven campus parking lots. Just drive up to the box, push the button, and you will be talking to the P2P dispatcher. This allows you to stay in your car until the shuttle arrives to pick you up. P2P boxes are located in the following lots: Bell Tower (BG), Bowles (S-1 1), Manning (F), P lot, PR lot, Craige Parking Deck, and the Health Affairs Parking Deck.
• The P2P Xpress runs from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. seven days a week during academic semesters for faculty, staff, and students. Shuttle arrival times (at 15 minute intervals) are posted at the 6 fixed- schedule stops. Riders must show a UNC One Card or University ID. Service may be suspended briefly during special events.
• The SAFE Escort service provides escorts (for solo students only) on the main campus during the semester from 7 p.m. to I a.m., Sunday through Thursday. Call 962-SAFE (962- 7233) to arrange for an escort to meet you at your campus building. You can also stop by the SAFE Escort desk 'in Davis Library (until midnight) or in the Undergraduate Library (from midnight to I a.m.).