MADISON, Wis. -- A popular service that ensures University of Wisconsin-Madison students get home safe might not be around much longer.

The student government, the Associated Students of Madison (ASM), wants to scale back funding for SAFEwalk, which provides walking escorts for students on campus, and beef up support for the SAFEride Cab Service.

They said that more students use the cabs, which offer free nighttime transportation, WISC-TV reported.

University officials said that they want ASM to eventually take over funding and control of SAFEride Cab Service out of concern that students use the program as a free ride from party to party, WISC-TV reported.

"We felt that if this is the program that students want to continue to fund, when they don't want to fund the SAFEwalk, then they would have the ability to take that over and manage it themselves," said Lance Lunsway, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Transportation Services.

Some ASM members said that university's position creates problems.

""It's just not fair to make a threat like that," said Dylan Rath, ASM vice chair. "They're saying that if we don't pay for a service they provide, then we're going to have to provide the service. That would be crazy."

There are two ways SAFEride cabs could come back next school year: ASM could run and fund the program on their own or give the university the funding that they asked for.

The university will pay for SAFEwalk in full next year, WISC-TV reported.