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Workers: SAFEwalk Is Understaffed
Escorts Walk Students Home At Night
UPDATED: 3:25 pm CDT May 5,
2008
MADISON, Wis. -- Employees said that a University of Wisconsin-Madison program that walks students home safely at night has been understaffed when its services are in high demand after a student's killing last month.The SAFEWalk program has turned away several students seeking escorts in part because the university refused to increase staffing levels after the April 2 murder of Brittany Zimmermann, according to employees.They said that many of the callers accepted free cab rides in place of escorts but others walked home on their own.Lance Lunsway, director of UW-Madison Transportation Services, which runs the program, said that officials didn't increase staff after the killing because they thought it wasn't necessary.He said that they will likely do so after high-profile crimes in the future.
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