These students would willingly put their lives on the line for you.
Campus Safety is one of the hardest working and most under appreciated groups on campus. They are the only position on campus that runs twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, three-hundred and sixty-five days a year. Not only that, but the majority of their makeup is students from our own population.
While Campus Safety already has an unsavory reputation with the trouble makers on campus, recent events seem to have spread these feelings to the rest of the student body. Any and all shortcomings during the events of last nights lockdown have had the blame placed securely on their shoulders, simply because misinformed students need to point fingers. Campus Safety is rarely recognized for its achievments and sometimes heroic actions, but is always the first to be held responsible and it’s flaws pointed out.
I would like to set the record straight. Members of Campus Safety are the hardest working students on campus. They deal with drugs, alcohol, assaults, thefts, suicidal students, medical emergencies and more, and don’t ask for special treatment because of it.
If the events of last night had turned out not to be a false alarm and there was a gunman on campus you can be assured that these STUDENTS would be the first on the front line. They take their job seriously, and take pride in being the protectors of this campus.
I suggest that the next time you pass an on duty officer, or receive an escort in one of the safety vans that you appreciate the work they do and offer a simple “thank you.”
I agree completely.