Student Government will host this year’s spring Night Walk tonight with students, faculty and staff breaking into groups to scour campus, looking for any safety problem areas.

“The Night Walk is an event that we do each semester in which we get a group of students together and break up into problem areas on campus — areas that are not safe at night to walk around in,” Mandy McGhee the director of community service for Student Government and a senior in communication, said. “We make a list of problem areas and we turn it into the campus police — they fix these problems and they have the funding to do it.”

Lindsay Womack, a freshman in economics and international studies, is a co-director for the Night Walk. Womack said the Night Walk provides an excellent opportunity for students to help in the process of creating a safer environment on campus.

“We’ve been trying to find volunteers and students and get their feedback on where they think it’s unsafe at night or when you get an uneasy feeling when you’re walking back from classes,” Womack said. “As a student body you can feel more in control. As a girl, you don’t feel that great about walking late from class and you want to feel like you’re safe on your own campus.”

Dominic Scimeca, a sophomore in physics and applied mathematics, said he believes there are many problems with walking late at night that should be addressed.

“They have the campus escorts that ferry people back and forth from class when they feel scared but it doesn’t cover all of the transportation that people need late at night,” Scimeca said. “Some people still walk anyway and it’s really important to know about where the campus is really vulnerable.”

Kelsey Whitehouse, a freshman in chemistry, the co-director of the Night Walk explained said the Night Walk allows for students to work with faculty, staff, and administration to work on campus security.

McGhee said it is a way to show that Student Government isn’t all about campaigning during elections.

It provides connections between Student Government officials and students; it is a really great way for the administration, staff, faculty, Campus Police, and students to all come together and assess the campus,” McGhee said. “We are going to be looking at Greek Court, College of Design, areas around the library — we have been getting feedback from students on where the problem areas are.”