Alarmed by increasingly frequent rape attempts on their campus, students at Pennsylvania State University are taking the law into their own hands.

Led by student Mike lnga, more than half a dozen students there have signed up for security patrols modeled on the New York-based Guardian Angels, who have set up civilian patrols designed to deter street crime in many major U.S. cities.

The group which wants to be active by the end of the term, would patrol the campus in an attempt to stop, or at least deter, physical assaults on women.

But unlike the Guardian Angels, who train and use physical force, the student security patrol would not Instead, they hope their presence alone would be enough of a deterrence to stop such assaults.

Some students are not even sure they want the group "I'm worried because I think things can go wrong with it I'm worried that they might take the law into their own hands, kind of like a vigilante group," said Jennifer Gould, vice president of the Association of Residence Hall Students. The PSU Daily Collegian