Dear Clark Community Members:
Over the course of the summer of 2012 your Clark Undergraduate Student Council has worked diligently to continually represent student safety concerns and work to both forward your concerns to administrators to improve safety conditions, as well as work directly on our own to address and productively solve both on-campus and off-campus safety issues. Seeing that this collection of concerns related to the topic of campus safety reach effectively all members of our Clark Community this will continually be this Undergraduate Student Council’s top priority, and the issue to which this administration will become devoted to productively and proactively approaching.
Though the majority of students return home for their respective summer breaks, a large portion of students remain physically in the Worcester-Clark area, either living on-campus or off-campus, so safety continues to be a top concern as those students are in these areas.
To continue and build off the campus safety dialogue last semester, my fellow Executive Board members and I are hosting a “Summer Safety Forum” on Monday, July 23rd, from 6 to 7pm in the Grace Conference Room in the University Center so that students, faculty, employees, and administrators can all discuss issues related to safety over the summer, and work productively together to make real, genuine, lasting changes to these conditions. I would like to cordially invite all that can attend to this event so that these important concerns can be addressed.
If you would like to raise a concern, or ask a question, and you don’t feel comfortable asking it at the event publicly, feel free to email me with it directly, or type and submit it to the Student Council Suggestion Box on our webpage at http://web.clarku.edu/students/cusc/.
Over the course of the past few weeks, we have worked with administrators to move back the fence covering the Campus Blue Light Call Box on the corner of Florence and Charlotte St. so that construction equipment is no longer covering the box, allowing it to be open to use by students in need. Likewise, secondly, in response to the increased amount of students living in the Shirley St. area we are working with administrators and members of Physical Plant to install a Campus Blue Light Call Box on the corner of Shirley St. and Florence St. to account for the fact that there was no call box for an extended section of the Florence St. area. Third, we have also began the initial planning stages of collaborating with a myriad of student groups to create a Self-Defense course, that would be open to all students, to help teach how to react in given safety situations.
If you have any questions regarding campus safety, the summer safety forum, or any other related topics, please feel free to ask!
Thank you, and best regards,
Andrew Schuschu, ‘13
President
Clark Undergraduate Student Council
