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By pushing a button on a pendant that looks like a car remote, women on the campus at Butler University IN can alert campus police to a crime, providing them with a sense of greater security on campus.
The alarms work within 200 feet of 18 Code Blue emergency poles on campus, causing the lights to flash and the police to arrive. So far students and at least two faculty members on campus have bought 170 alarms, called Circle of Safety Wireless Personal Alarm Systems. The private university on the north side of Indianapolis is the first college in the country to offer the personal alarm system.
Although there is no major crime on the Butler campus of about 4,300 students, the 2002 crime statistics reported to the federal government include four robberies, three aggravated ...