For women students attending classes in the University's Law School and Graduate School of Business Administration, the evening hours are a source of fear.
In the wake of 15 rapes which occurred in Charlottesville and Albemarle County during 1976 the North Grounds Security Committee has targeted several parking lots and sidewalks which pose dangerous threats to students' security.
The panel's recently released report recommends:
-increasing the lighting at the rear of the Law and Business Schools and in the immediate vicinity of the new cafeteria;
-finish the installation of the courtyard lamps;
-increase the lighting in the Copely III parking lot through the installation of low posted lamps;
-clear the underbrush around the sidewalk along Arlington Boulevard and increase the number of street lamps on that road and/or install low posted lamps along the walk;
-install lighting in the University Hall parking lot, especially around the bus stop;
-improve bus service, including increased frequency of evening runs, earlier evening service along Arlington Boulevard, and expanded service on weekends; and
-construct an adequately lighted sidewalk between the Law and Business School and University Hall.
The panel polled over eighty women last year to learn what areas are considered unsafe. Among the results of the survey, the panel learned that a "surprising" number of women felt that the sidewalk on Arlington Boulevard Extended was "so dangerous" that they walked in the streets instead of on the sidewalks.
The panel singled out University Hall's parking lot for particular criticism in the five-page report, calling it "isolated and dark."
"There is not a single light across its entire width," the report said. "During the fall, most students were able to park in the lots adjacent to the schools in the evening, but with the commencement of Phase II construction (in the North Grounds), the parking accommodations at the North Grounds have been cut by approximately half."
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