CDonarch COessenger
College Tlews
Monday, November 1, 1999
College Campus Safety Guidelines And
Recommendations
From the National Center for Victims of Crimes
• Don’t walk alone after dark,
• Be alert! Look around you; be aware
of who is on the street and in the area. Make
it difficult for anyone to take you by sur
prise. (Blaring stereos, wearing head
phones, radios, etc. make you vulnerable.)
• Whenever possible, it’s a good idea
to “dress for safety.” This means wearing
loose-fitting clothing and comfortable
shoes that make walking and running easier.
• Stay on populated, well-lighted
streets, stay out of shadows.
• If a car follows you or stops, change
directions; walk or run toward people,
stores, or a house if necessary.
• If you are near a public phone, call
the emergency number 911 or your campus
police number whenever you feel that
you’re in danger.
• If you must walk through the campus
alone at night, call the campus police and
request an escort.
• Before you get into your car at night,
be sure to scan underneath it for a poten
tial attacker. If you see someone lying un
der your car, walk past it quickly and seek
help.
• Carry a flashlight with you at night.
This not only helps you to see, it also
serves as a good weapon if it proves nec
essary.
• Take self-defense classes!
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Don't let this be you!
Methodist College Gets RAD This Fall
By Cindy S. Bridges
Editor
The Methodist College Police and Pub
lic Safety Department will offer Rape Ag
gression Defense (RAD) training this fall.
RAD is a nationally recognized program of
self defense developed by campus law en
forcement professionals and designed spe
cifically for women.
The primary goal of the RAD program
is, in the words of Lawrence Nadeau, the
Rape Aggression Defense Systems
founder, “to develop and enhance the op
tions of self-defense, so they may be vi
able considerations to the woman who is
attacked.” The RAD program is a compre
hensive course for women that starts with
awareness, prevention, risk reduction and
avoidance, while progressing on to the
basics of hands-on defense training.
According to Bart and O’Briens’ publi
cation, Stopping Rape: Successful Swvival
Strategies, the most often used strategy
for avoiders of rape “appears to have been
a combination of screaming and use of
physical resistance.” The RAD program
offers no-nonsense, practical techniques
of defense and provides static, fluid, and
dynamic hands on training. RAD is not,
however, a Martial Arts program and it is
only offered to women.
The course at Methodist College will
be taught by certified RAD instructors. Se
curity officers, Sgt. Janet Bird and Officer
Linda Mason, became certified in this pro
gram in August of this year. They attended
the Rape Aggression Defense Instructor’s
Course at Wake Forest University.
The Police and Public Safety Depart
ment, Student Life, Residence Life, and the
Student Activities Committee, all contrib
uted towards sending these officers to the
training course.
Sgt. Bird stated that this course “is not
about fighting.” She emphasized that “it is
about avoiding being raped.” She said that
the self-defense course was “to learn how
to fend someone off so (a woman) could
get away.” Sgt. Bird said that the RAD pro
gram primarily helps improve a woman’s
confidence and self-esteem. “It teaches
them to depend upon themselves.” The
RAD course will empower women through
self-defense.
Officer Mason said that it “will benefit
students to learn how to protect them
selves.”
Both of these officers believe that this
will be a valuable experience for the women
of Methodist College. The class is limited
to 20 people at a time and will be nine hours
in duration without simulation and 12 hours
with simulation. The plan is to offer the
training class once each semester. Partici
pants of the class will receive a workbook/
reference manual that outlines the entire
physical defense program. The RAD pro
gram at Methodist College will be free to all
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Sgt. Bird and Officer Mason will instruct RAD course this fall
Photo by Cindv S. Bntiges
female students, faculty, and staff Sgt.
Bird hopes women will enroll in this
course. “I want to give to others what I
got out of the class.”
The RAD program is being taught at
colleges and universities all over the na
tion. The ease, simplicity and effective
ness of the tactics taught, thorough re
search, legal defensibility, and unique
teaching methodology all contribute to
the success of this program.
Dave Reece, Chief of the Police and
Pubhc Safety Department at Methodist Col
lege, stated, “I am very excited about the
RAD program and the cooperation and
support that we have received from the
RHA, SGA, and other student organiza
tions, as well as the offices of Student Life.
With their continuous support we will con
tinue to offer exciting and rewarding pro
grams for the students of Methodist Col
lege.”