MADISON, Wis. -- A University of Wisconsin-Madison student government group is pushing for changes to make students safer on campus.

After a year-long examination, Associated Students of Madison released a series of safety recommendations on Tuesday. The ASM report comes amid heightened safety awareness among students, staff and police because of two sexual assaults on UW students in the past month.

ASM campus safety intern Kelly Arendt said that students want a neighborhood watch program. UW fraternities and sororities have been conducting bar-time walks, which are popular among students. ASM leaders said that they want the program expanded campus wide, WISC-TV reported.

"Students were saying they wanted more presence on the street," said Arendt. "They didn't want to be the sole one walking down the street late at night and they didn't necessarily want other police officers walking down the street either. They want their own personal freedom."

ASM leaders are also contacting landlords in order to get them to offer rent incentives for students to donate a set number of hours to a watch program. However, no landlords have agreed to the plan, officials said.

The report suggested creating a Campus Safety Advisory Board which would meet on a regular basis to assess the safety program. Student leaders said that they felt a regular analysis would keep safety a top priority even where there are not spikes in crime on campus.

Free self-defense classes were suggested as an easy way for students -- both men and women -- to learn safety tips and how to protect themselves if they must walk alone on campus at night.

On Monday, Madison police said that they believe the two campus-area attacks on young women who were walking alone are related. Both victims were UW students who were abducted and then assaulted.