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THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSLETTER lf DECEMBER 1994

 

 

Safe Walk
service up and
running

ou don’t have to walk alone at

night any more, thanks to a new
volunteer Safe Walk Program which

started last month at Douglas College.

The free service allows students,
employees and visitors at the New
Westminster campus to be escorted
anywhere within three blocks of the
College - to parked cars, homes, or the
SkyTrain station - by a two-person Safe
Walk team. Each co-ed team consists of
a female and male volunteer equipped
with a two-way radio, flashlights,
personal audio alarms and picture ID
badges.

The project was organized by
criminology student Joe Spear and is
based on other successful programs
already operating in institutions such as
the University of Alberta and McGill
University.

“Safety and security is not a large
problem in the College and we want to
make sure that it stays that way,” says
Spear. “We’re offering a safer alternative
to walking alone.”

Spear says the program is designed to
deter incidents through the presence of
volunteers, but he stresses that team
members will not intervene physically in
any confrontation. However, each
volunteer is trained to contact the radio
dispatcher of the College’s security
service. All of the volunteers are
presently students, but College
employees would also be welcome.

Canadian institutions already offering
similar services report beneficial results.

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The scale model of
the Pinetree Way
campus is drawing
a lot of attention
these days. Site
development starts
immediately on the
real thing, and
should be
completed by
September 1996.
Velma Smith (left)
of the Office
Administration
program and Dean
of Community
Programs &
Services Jim Doerr
looked the model
over at an
information session
for the new campus
on November 17.

 

 

 

 

PINETREE’S OFFICIAL... TWICE!

wo events were held in late
November to mark the official
announcement of money to build
Douglas College’s Pinetree Way
campus in Coquitlam.

It’s more than 20 years since
Douglas College’s founders circled a
spot on the map in Coquitlam, and over
four years since plans for the project
were first announced with the City of

Coquitlam and School District No. 43 as
partners.

On November 22, the three partners
gathered with Ministry officials and
community members in a crowded public
reception at the Aquatic Centre adjacent to
the building site on Pinetree Way in
Coquitlam. Their announcements brought
all the hard work of the past four years into

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