University of Virginia Library

Department's Letter
Advises All Students

Recent reports from city police about serious assaults on public
streets and on private property near the University make it
necessary for this written warning to be distributed to all students,
faculty members, and staff.

Because of reports of assaults and attempted assaults on
unaccompanied females this year, oral warnings about walking
procedures had been given female University students in dormitories
specifically concerned, and at meetings of female students, and
some improved lighting installed in the University. Reports of
molestations on University Grounds were subsequently reduced.

It is strongly recommended that females plan their walking-routes
both in and near the University so that they do not walk
alone in unpopulated or unlighted areas. It is further recommended
that only main walking-routes be used, and that short-cuts around
buildings or plantings or across fields be avoided at night.