Emergency Phone Nos. on Student Cards

OHIO STATE STUDENTS TO CARRY EMERGENCY NUMBERS

     COLUMBUS -- In the next two weeks, all Ohio State students
residing in Franklin County will receive safety information cards
that they can carry with them at all times.

     The cards, a service of the Greek Community Awareness
Council, will carry telephone numbers to call for emergency and
other safety services, including Columbus and Ohio State police,
the Undergraduate Student Government Crime Watch Escort Service,
Poison Control Center, Rape Crisis Center, AIDS Hotline, and
Suicide Prevention Hotline.

     Additional numbers will allow students quick and easy
references for obtaining information concerning their financial
aid, course registration, fees, and other services.

     "The card is made of flexible plastic which is light-weight,
and easy to carry," said Harris Levinson, co-director of the
Greek Community Awareness Council.

     Levinson, a senior from Long Island, N.Y., majoring in
consumer affairs, said: "A lot of people on campus don't know who
to call in case of emergency or university numbers to get their
scholarship money, etc.  This card is the only thing students can
carry with them all the time.  Students can carry it to the bars,
the restaurants.  It's portable and it's convenient."

     Students will receive the cards with their winter quarter
registration materials which are to be mailed the first week of
October.  Students who live outside Franklin County can pick up
the card at various student services offices and several campus
area businesses that are helping to sponsor the card.

     The Greek Community Awareness Council is a joint effort of
the Women's Panhellenic Association and the InterFraternity
Council at Ohio State.
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Contact:  Harris Levinson, (614) 297-1909.

Note to reporters:  Honors students will be stuffing safety
information cards and winter quarter registration materials into
envelopes Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Royer Student Activities
Center, 85 Curl Drive, in the North Campus residence hall area.
Levinson will be available to talk with reporters during those
hours.


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