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Granite Hall gets a safety lesson
by Frangelica Odell
Exchange Staff
Dressed as a "suspicious" man, head of Campus Safety Stuart Mitchell helped sophomore Whitney Greiner, a C.A. of Granite, hold her first safety event for her hallways, but the students failed to report the danger.
Greiner's event focused on teaching her residents how to protect themselves from unwelcome visitors and vandalism. "Stuart Mitchell was asked to dress in clothes that would make him look suspicious: he had a bandana on his head, sunglasses on his head, and he was carrying around a nonalcoholic beer in his pocket covered in a brown paper bag so it looked like a real beer," Greiner said.
Mitchell was then asked to try to get into the building without a key and Greiner said he had no trouble doing this.
Mitchell said,
"I was able to get three students to let me into the building, and found one
door propped open. My presence was not challenged by anyone."
Mitchell walked around the Granite building from 6
until 7 p.m. and during that time he sat on the steps of the hallways,
drinking from the can in the paper bag. "Again no one called or came to find
me or the other C.A.s in the building. At the end of the hour no one had
called and Stuart Mitchell left," Greiner said.
Greiner then had meetings with her three hallways to
discuss what had taken place. She spoke to her residents about the dangers
of letting people they did not know into the building. She said she stressed
the importance of this, telling freshmen of Granite Hall that Mitchell could
have been a man wanting to harm students.
Amanda Fortier, a freshman of Granite Hall, said of the
event, "He [Mitchell] was creepy.
However, when I walked inside I saw him talking to someone who looked pretty
official so I did not think I needed to say anything."
Of what she learned of the event she said, "Because
we live on an open campus, we need to be very careful about who let in to
our buildings. Anyone can come around and it is better to be safe than
sorry."
After talking with each hall, Greiner gave each of her
residents a form with instructions on how to contact Campus Safety.
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