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Editorial
By Edit Board
Issue date: 10/30/07 Section: Opinion
Professors and administrators should also move into the South Side, rather than miles away. Students alone cannot fix the South Side's problems, and it is unlikely that faculty could truly understand the South Side without being fully immersed in its culture. The administration already gives some incentives for professors to live in the South Side, such as cash grants, but most professors choose to live elsewhere.
Students also need to report if they've been robbed to police, even if they feel it is unlikely criminals will be caught. Police adjust their coverage in certain areas and can look for patterns in robberies, unless students don't tell them where they've been robbed.
The police need to work to build more positive relationships with students, work to decrease criminal and drug activity, create better neighborhood watch programs and install the blue-light emergency call stations into the South Side.
We all live here, so let's do what we can to make Bethlehem safer.
Students also need to report if they've been robbed to police, even if they feel it is unlikely criminals will be caught. Police adjust their coverage in certain areas and can look for patterns in robberies, unless students don't tell them where they've been robbed.
The police need to work to build more positive relationships with students, work to decrease criminal and drug activity, create better neighborhood watch programs and install the blue-light emergency call stations into the South Side.
We all live here, so let's do what we can to make Bethlehem safer.
