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<\/a>Glover says that this latest college contribution helps keep staffing a bit more consistent, which has long been a struggle for Walk Safer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe program has been dependent on volunteers for years, but volunteering has sort of gone up and down in terms of what people can commit,\u201d he says. \u201cSo we\u2019ve been trying to stabilize the program, and the college has given money to that effect for a number of years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Glover says the donation allows more students to patrol campus. He says he is still trying to extend the program to more locations throughout campus; he also wants the program to have longer hours; it currently runs from 6:30 pm to 10:20 pm at Lansdowne, and from 6:30 pm to 10:10 pm at Interurban.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re here a good chunk of time after people have left,\u201d says Glover.<\/p>\n
Walk Safer Lansdowne shift supervisor Shannon Soares says the root of the job lies in keeping the Camosun grounds and its people safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone says no place is safe enough, and it\u2019s true,\u201d says Soares. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some people talking to us and they\u2019ve been not necessarily physically, sexually assaulted, but they\u2019ve been looked at in inappropriate ways. People have some pretty scary stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Soares says that Walk Safer gets around 15 calls on an average night but says that it varies, with some nights seeing \u201cabout 40 people\u201d calling, while a recent night only had two. He points out, though, that the majority of high-volume nights are due to bad weather, particularly at Interurban, where the campus is more spread out, making for longer walks between buildings. Still, he says that Victoria\u2014and Camosun\u2014is less safe than people think.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Victoria is] not as safe as they actually make it out to be, and Camosun isn\u2019t either,\u201d he says. \u201cEven though all people may not actually come and use the service, just the fact that they know we are available to them, I think, makes life so much more comfortable, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Soares says that doing a job that centres on the comfort and safety of others is very meaningful.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels good,\u201d he says. \u201cWe don\u2019t only help people. Sometimes people just want someone to talk to; people come to our table and just talk to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Soares says most of the time, people and events around campus are fine, but that\u2019s no excuse for not being prepared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only worry I have is people not taking enough precautions,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause they think everything around them is safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Walk Safer table is located at the entrance to the Fisher building at Lansdowne and at the main entrance to the Centre for Business and Access at Interurban.<\/p>\n
Walk Safer staff and volunteers do approximately five campus rounds per night in golf carts at each campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Camosun College recently contributed $10,000 to the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) Walk Safer program. The program assists students who want to be escorted to or from their car or between Camosun\u2019s buildings; Walk Safer staff also patrol the campuses in the evenings. Walk Safer is staffed primarily by work-study students and volunteers. \u201cWe asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue","category-news","category-november-16-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12868,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions\/12868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}