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Personal Safety Tips

Walking Around:

• Avoid walking alone at night. Travel in groups when possible and always walk in well-lit, heavily traveled areas.
•  Learn where the campus emergency phones are located and how to use them. Their locations are identified by blue lights.
• Call the University Police, X2330, after dark or when you feel weary walking alone.
•  Learn the best routes between your home or residence hall and your classes, work and activities.
•  Take the safest route, not the fastest route. The safest route is usually the best lit, most traveled one.
• Gauge the social scene on and around campus, at local bars and other favorite spots.

At Home:

• Doors and windows to your residence hall, apartment or home should be locked. Do not loan out your key or access card.
• Don't leave exterior doors propped open. If you find one open, close it. At night, these doors are locked for your protection.
• Do not leave your identification, wallets, checkbooks, jewelry, cameras, and other valuables in open view.
• Program your phone's speed dial memory with emergency numbers.
• Record the serial numbers of valuable objects you have in your room, home or office. Engrave such objects with your name or driver's license number.
• Mark clothes with a laundry pen or thread and needle in a spot other than the label.
• Do not allow people you do not know well to stay overnight in your room, apartment or home.
• If you are receiving threatening or obscene phone calls contact the Police.
• If you notice a person attempting to gain entry to your residence or attempting to look into your residence, call the Police.