CSU, Chico News

To look for ways to make the campus a safer place, a second "Moonlight Safety Walk" will be held tonight, Oct. 10, at California State University, Chico.

Volunteers are invited to gather at CSU, Chico's Selvester's Café-by-the-Creek at 6:30 p.m. for pizza and beverages. Soon afterwards the group will divide into four teams to cover different sections of campus looking for possible safety issues, such as low lighting or overgrown brush. CSU, Chico President Paul Zingg is planning to participate.

The event is sponsored by CSU, Chico's Public Safety Advisory Committee. The first safety walk was held last April 6.

Political science professor Matthew Thomas, chair of the Public Safety Advisory Committee, said he hopes the Moonlight Safety Walk will become an annual event. He said the event has been moved from the spring to the fall so that volunteers could see the campus with trees "fully leafed," which could reveal problem spots that might otherwise be missed.

The Moonlight Safety Walk is modeled after a long-standing event at CSU, Northridge. Along with taking notes about potentially unsafe spots, volunteers will test CSU, Chico's blue-light safety phones that are distributed around campus.

After the campus walk, notes will be combined and presented to the departments of Risk Management, Environmental Health and Safety, and Facilities Management and Services for review. Thomas said findings are categorized into immediate fixes, such as burned out light bulbs, and longer term issues, such as pathways that might need to be moved.

For more information about the safety walk, contact Thomas at 898-5738.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 8:30 am and is filed under 2006 Fall.