The answer is not to lock down the campus and prohibit anyone not a student or faculty member on campus, but the answer is found in a common-sense approach to campus safety. For instance, the peeping tom found in Chapel Hill is believed to have been at Wake Forest as well and allegedly has tapes and pictures of people from campus in various states of dress.

This could be easily solved if everyone took the time to shut blinds and windows when undressing. I can't imagine that anyone wants to look at me while I'm dressed, much less undressed, but it's just the thing to do to show common decency. Our resident campus stalker, however, requires a few stronger measures to combat.

If you haven't heard yet, you probably will hear about the "nice man" who came to south campus and snuck into some of the women's bathrooms there and generally made a nuisance of himself. He has been caught as well, but that doesn't change the fact that nobody should be allowed into the dorms unless you either know them well enough to know that they are a student, and not just somebody who comes and hangs around outside the door every day.

I have guests from off campus come visit me, and I always tell them to call my extension from downstairs, and if they fail to get me, call some of my friends to let them in. I know it's sometimes inconvenient to leave your room to let some people in who might be family members or people who go to other schools, but let's face it, obviously we can't just assume that everybody that wants to get into the dorms has a valid reason for being there. There have been other incidents that bear this out as well.

I don't want to give too much away, but there has been some talk of other people being followed and people being seen in places where they shouldn't be.

We all remember the indecent exposure artist that showed the entire campus what he was made of, so to speak, this past fall, but the horror does not end there. The fact of the matter is that everywhere on campus, there are areas where we need to work on safety.

One instance is people getting into dorms and the Miller Center, as well as other areas where university students are required to use a keycard to enter.

To let somebody in who is just waiting by the door is the height of folly. It may indeed be true that they are just waiting for somebody or that they have forgotten their card, but at the very least if you don't know them you should take some note of it. If it's a dorm, ask them where they're going and who they're coming to see. If it's somewhere such as the Miller Center, mention it to a staff member there. It's not too invasive of their privacy, nor is it too burdensome on you to at least make the effort.

In conclusion, I'd like to thank all the members of the Wake Forest University security council for bringing this to my attention. I don't want to make this out to be too much of a lecture on security, but I think that our campus is a great place and I hate to see it ruined by a few people who are determined to do things they shouldn't and a few people who let them by not keeping an eye out for occurrences that are out of the ordinary.