When the sun goes down, Campus safety offers to keep students safe

Kristoffer Hayward Staff Writer

With night coming around five in the afternoon now, Myron Fritts hopes to keep the students and staff safe on their way to their vehicles.

Fritts offers this martial law suggestion when the winter months come as night rolls around faster, caring for everyone’s safety. Frits says, “I want everyone to know I’m serious about their safety and that everyone’s safety comes first.” There have been no records of attacks on campus, “I have been here 11 years and I haven’t heard of anyone being attacked,” says fritts.

Fritts has offered up a cellphone number to call him directly for escorts on top of calling the security office. While the recorded message starts, Fritts explained, it may sound like the line is only used in the event of emergencies. While the line does serve that purpose, hitting zero brings the call through to the campus safety radio.

The radio call doesn’t work like a normal phone, though, and requires a 30 second connection time as well as a few seconds of silence so the safety officer can reply back. Either way, it puts anyone on the line with campus safety.

Walking the students to their vehicles isn’t an official policy adopted by the school, but a decision Fritts made in order to keep the students feel and be safe. As it stands, anyone one of the officers at night are willing and ready to adopt Fritts’s idea and only ask the students to keep in mind that it will take them a few minutes to get to their location.

“To me, everybody here, weather you work here or are students are like my extended family,” Says Fritts “I care a great deal about everybody here”