SafetyWalk hopes that the proposed move will also increase the program's visibility since a Science Center location would be close to Cabot library--making the program more accessible for students returning to their rooms from the library.
Ideally, Neumann said, the program will eventually become as ingrained in campus culture as service groups like Room 13 and Peer Contraceptive Counselors.
Lin A. Chin '02, a student eating lunch in Adams House Dining Hall yesterday, said there is still a stigma attached to the notion of calling other students to walk you home.
"There's of course the feeling of lameness...that I'm an adult and I can't walk myself home," Chin said.
It is this hesitance that SafetyWalk hopes to extinguish by making the program move visible.
Still, Babkes and the current crew feel confident that they're moving in the right direction.
In past years, "a lot of people didn't know about [SafetyWalk]" Babkes said. "A lot of people are looking at it more seriously now."