Students with concerns about the safety on campus have the opportunity to voice them Tuesday.

The Student Government Association’s Legislative Affairs and Student Services Committees will host a campus safety forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

“(It’s a) chance for students to come and voice their concerns,” said SGA president and Harbor Beach senior Dan Nowiski.

Nowiski said he hopes students will come out and take advantage of the forum.

The event will include a panel consisting of CMU Police Chief Stan Dinius, Associate Director of Residence Life Shaun Holtgreive and representatives from Facilities Management and Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates.

David Squires, Commerce Township senior and SGA Legislative Affairs Committee chair, said this is the first time SGA has done a campus safety forum and it seemed fitting for the semester.

Squires said SGA wanted to have the main groups dealing with safety throughout campus represented.

Last week a student was allegedly kidnapped. The suspect in the case also has been charged with criminal sexual conduct.

Squires said SGA had planned for SAPA to come before the recent incident, but after the incident, it reaffirmed their intentions, he said.

“Students deserve to feel safe on their college campus and from the concerns that my committee has received, it seems many students do not, especially at night,” said Clare Monsour, Troy senior and Student Services Committee chair.

Monsour said the university has the Night Rides service, which provides rides to students at night, and blue lights, which have phones that connect directly to the CMU police, but the concerns are whether students know about the two options. The forum is designed to discuss these issues, she said.

Monsour said the Student Services Committee discussed some safety issues that students had brought to the committee with Dinius last October.

Some of the questions to the panel will concern those issues and whether improvements have been made, she said.

Another issue that will be discussed is theft in the residence halls.

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