The e-mail message said students can also call the Safety Walk Program, a volunteer student organization sponsored by HUPD, to escort them in Cambridge from 10 p.m. to 3:40 am Sundays through Thursdays.

Echoing the administrators' concerns, students are also advocating more awareness of safety issues.

Last night the Law School Council, HLS's student government, unanimously passed a resolution which called for greater police patrolling outside Langdell and suggested that the administration publicize safety and emergency numbers through stickers given to students and signs posted around campus.

"The infrastructure is there," said Manoj S. Mate, the student body president and a second-year student. "The University can do more in making sure students have ready access."

"This [resolution] is to do everything it can do to make sure the University is committed to promoting awareness," he added. "The Council wants to keep the pressure on the University and make students aware."

Citing the "recent rash of evening violence on and around the Harvard Law School campus," the resolution "strongly recommends that the Harvard Law School, through Dean [Robert C.] Clark and the Office of Student Life work with the Harvard University Insurance Office and Harvard Transportation Services to make the extended evening off-campus shuttle services into a permanent fixture at Harvard, as in years past."

Mate said one idea for increasing security around Langdell is to permanently station a security guard outside the library.

The resolution "gives us some type of bargaining power or leverage if we are to meet with [the administration]," he said.

While Mate said HLS has reacted appropriately and quickly in this case, he said the resolution is "not really applauding or congratulating the University," serving as more of a position statement.