Members of Student Government volunteered Monday night to conduct the annual light walk in order to locate areas on campus in need of more lighting.
The walk, designed to enhance security and deter crime on University grounds, surveyed the entire campus.
Meredith Westbrook, music junior and senator for the College of Music and Dramatic Arts, said the group divided into eight sections to search the campus for any broken lights or areas that need additional lighting.
Matt Wyatt, natural resource ecology senior and senator for the College of Agriculture, said his group inspected the north side of campus.
“The main problems we found were broken lights along the sides of the Pentagon buildings,” he said.
Wyatt also said the group noticed the main light in Foster Hall was out, as well as some lights along the streets near the Music and Dramatic Arts building and the Student Health Center.
Westbrook said she is scheduled to meet with James Mayne, associate director of Facility Services, in the upcoming weeks to discuss the walk’s results and see what can be done to increase campus safety at night.
“We want to make sure that walkways where people will be walking are well-lit,” Mayne told The Daily Reveille on Aug. 30.
Mike Durham, University director of Environmental Health and Safety, said the light walks have been a joint effort between SG, LSU Police Department and Facility Services for the past 14 years.
“Students provide the manpower while staff provides knowledge of the campus and security for our volunteers,” he said. “We let staff familiar with each area lead the students in their walk, and it gives us a chance to look at the campus as a campus.”
 
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