Watch this 1-minute video to learn useful tips for staying safe while living on TU’s campus.
For additional videos on important campus safety topics, go to TU’s YouTube page. For crime prevention tips and information, visit the TUPD’s Safety website.
RESIDENCE HALL SAFETY
- Don’t let others “piggy back” when entering residence halls and report immediately anyone who you see helping others to “piggy back”.
- For the safety of ALL residents, do not prop open any exterior residence hall door.
- When in the residence hall never leave your room unlocked, even while making a short trip down the hall, taking a shower, or sleeping.
- Refrain from posting notes on your door informing others that no one is in the room.
- Don’t leave valuables like your wallet, checkbook, or jewelry, in open view.
- Register valuables in TUPD’s FREE Personal Property Registration Database at www.towson.edu/personalproperty. Items may be registered any time.
- Engrave or mark property with a unique number or symbol so that itcan be identified as yours later. Contact TUPD’s Community Policing Unit at 410-704-5622 to schedule engraving.
- Keys should not be attached to University identification.
- Take care of your keys. Don’t give anyone a chance to duplicate them.
- If you lose your key, report it to the on duty RA immediately.
- Be a good neighbor; look for suspicious activity or people in the residence halls and report them to the on duty RA or contact TUPD.
- Try to avoid entering an elevator alone with a stranger. Stand near the control panel and note the location of the emergency alarm button. If attacked, hit the alarm button and as many floor buttons as you can.
