The second phone will be installed just outside Johnston Gate by the end of this year.

If these new phones are successful, five new units will be installed later this year and may eventually replace the older models.

The new models are both centrex and emergency phones and are equipped with strobe lights to attract the attention of police cars responding to a call, says Director of Yard Operations Merle Bicknell.

These high-tech phones are monitored by a computer system that automatically checks their operation and sensitivity every hour.

Bicknell says that the phones have internal heating devices to prevent the keypad from freezing over during the winter months.

"We received calls complaining the keypads were hard to operate in the cold, and we responded with the new style phones," says Bicknell.

Safe at Home

Perhaps the most jarring type of crime is home invasion and theft.

According to a flyer on dorm security distributed by HUPD, 99 percent of thefts from students' rooms are caused by leaving the suite door opened, ajar, or unlocked.

That means of the 97 burglaries committed last year, almost all were caused by student negligence.

"Our principle policy is that we have two locked doors between students and the street," Epps says.

"I haven't found an instance [of campus theft] yet where a door was kicked in," says Riley. "It's too easy for thieves to find an open door."

While key card access has had a positive impact on campus theft, students who don't lock their doors are jeopardizing the safety of others within their building, police say.

"There's a false sense of security within the houses that you can leave doors open," says Riley.

"But the policy is to have those two locked doors there to protect students, and when you leave your door open or let someone in [to the building] you're breaking one of the barriers," he says.