From the event description:

What role does safety play as the university commits to fostering a campus community of belonging and thriving? What role does prevention play in this conversation? In this dialogue, panelists will draw from professional and lived experience to articulate pathways to a culture of safety that extends beyond policy and into the daily lives of the folks on, around, and beyond campus.

While this event is only open to berkeley.edu email holders (including students), we can ask our Bears to join and raise issues like::

• The feeling of constant vulnerability created by rampant crime around campus, in the residence halls, and in the surrounding community prevent students from feeling like can participate fully in the UC Berkeley community

• The ease with which intruders repeatedly gain access to residence halls is especially traumatizing because this is like letting dangerous people into your house, while you are powerless to do anything about it. One of these intruders committed sexual battery last year in Unit 2, while in another incident a homeless man entered Griffiths Hall and walked into a shower with a female student there.

• The lack of safe night transportation prevents many students— especially female students —from going out in the evening. They complain on internet forums they do not feel safe venturing out at night due to crime, and swap stories of being chased, shouted at, and otherwise made to feel extremely insecure.

Please encourage your students to join & raise their concerns about safety.

Go (Safe)Bears!