TO THE EDITOR:
Campus life is busy and hectic. A typical day for a UNC student may include long campus walks and study sessions, meetings and trips to the gym to relieve stress.
Because there is so much to do in a day, students often complete some of these tasks late at night.
As a result, although it is not preferable, it is a reality of campus life that students and others sometimes walk alone late at night or through areas where they don’t feel completely safe.
The University has a number of resources in place to help improve safety.
Rave Guardian and Smart 911 are two resources that work together to enable a registered cellphone to be used as a personal safety device — and it’s free to students, faculty and staff.
To take advantage of these safety tools, you simply go online to register your phone and create a caller profile that can be used by the Department of Public Safety to help locate you if there is an emergency.
Then, anytime 911 is dialed from a registered phone the caller’s general location and information such as physical description, class schedule, campus address, medical conditions and OneCard photo is automatically made available to DPS.
Once registered, users can call Rave Guardian from their mobile phone at any time to activate a “follow me” feature when traveling on campus.
