Security scare

In light of the muggings, rape and assault that happened in worrying abundance this past weekend my friend and I began discussing campus security as we hurried through the streets to her brothers’ house. As we recalled students were mugged in the drama department at four in the afternoon, which is not an unreasonable time to be walking around campus or to be practising in the drama department. We also recalled that there is always a security guard who sits outside of the drama department. This observation led us to wonder about the standard of the security that us Rodent have to fork out for annually. We also began to wonder about the safety of these Blue Routes that are supposedly there to protect us from crime. But if the security guard at the drama department could do nothing to stop three armed thieves from mugging students in the light of day, how on earth can we expect them to do it in the dead of night? We know that security is never full proof but we as students need some form of reassurance that if we press the SOS buttons on the Blue Route that someone will actually come to our rescue. If we have to go through endless fire drills to illustrate that we can get ourselves to safety, should the guards then not have to do the same to show us that that too can secure our safety, which seems to be fading at a rapid pace everyday.