Excellent points Shannon.  I love these nice flowery attempts to inform us
"delicate and vulnerable" ladies about the dangers lurking for us.  Perhaps,
the time and resources it takes to produce these "laughable" attempts to
increase safety would be better spent improving dangerous conditions on
campus, offering real safety and prevention workshops, or self defense
classes.

Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning as well.

Lisa Keylon


-----Original Message-----
From: UTC Staff E-Mail List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Shannon Marie Smith
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:10 PM
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Subject: [UTCSTAFF] Safety?


Though I understand and appreciate the sentiment behind this installment of
the Safety Gram, I'm glad I was finally informed that, as a woman, I must
not carry cash, walk in the dark or wait for buses.  Not to mention I must
have a chaperone to go shopping, because it is the only time your purse is
snatched, when you are shopping and that, of course, is a woman's prime
directive in life.

In fact, let's consider the fact that at UTC if I go to work out at the
Wellness Workplace on a game night, I cannot park by the arena because it is
reserved for Athletic Donor parking and the garage is paid parking.  Because
the "well-lit" side of the street is torn up with construction, I end up
walking a block or so, in the dark, past a desolate graveyard with no lights
and lots of good places for someone to hide.  But, I suppose because I don't
have my purse nor am I on my way to go shopping, I have nothing to worry
about.

Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but this really
stuck in my already well-filled craw.