THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 201
STUDENT SENATE
Advisory board meets to di
MIRANDA DAVIS
news@kansan.com
The Student Senate Safety Advisory Board met with members of University administration and the Public Safety Office Thursday to discuss on- and off-campus safety projects and priorities for the 2014-2015 academic year.
The main concerns brought up included the state of campus and off-campus lighting and the need to spread the word about SafeRide and SafeBus to students who need rides home.
The Board has an approximately $100,000 surplus to spend on projects, which has built up from years when the Board did not meet frequently. Because of this surplus, there is no student safety fee allocated in the current semesterly student fees.
Garrett Farlow, a junior from Topeka and chair of the Board, said there was a 50 percent decline in SafeBus and SafeRide users in the last two years.
The Board plans to display SafeBus routes in popular bars near campus so students can easily figure out which route to use to get home. SafeRide's marketing campaign will also include providing keychains on all residence halls' room keys.
Student Senate Chief of Staff Mitchell Cota said his main goal is working to prevent sexual assault in Lawrence bars. He said that since the bars are off-campus, they would have to work through partnerships with the businesses.
"Something that I'm really concerned with are safe bars and how the sexual assault culture can be bettered within the main three bars near campus, like the Hawk, the Bull and the
Wheel, and just what we can that," Cota said.
Public Safety Captain Ja guiano acknowledged the sa cerns at the bars.
"We had a sexual battery to end of the [spring semester] people were just getting in Anguiano said. "That was so we learned in the invest there were more people do who weren't harmed, but we into cars because that perse them a ride."
The concerns aren't limit campus sites. In 2013, then assault cases reported to the Safety Office, up from 24 in sex offenses and three rape most since 2009-were also
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