While the College tries to insure safe housing situations for all participants in its study abroad programs, it is of course impossible to guarantee absolutely safe accommodations. In this regard you must do your part in keeping your temporary home secure. Here are some suggestions.
- Whether you live in an apartment, a residence hall, a pension, or a family, you need to take steps to keep your temporary home "off-limits" to strangers.
- Whether you are setting out or returning, you should get in the habit of locking your front door as soon as you close it behind you. If you have engaged in the dubious practice of leaving your Chicago dormitory room unlocked, you need to put that sort of naive behavior behind you.
- Don't admit strangers to your home. Repairmen should be asked for identification.
- As soon as you arrive in your new abode you should make an inventory of doors and windows and mentally map out a set of escape routes in case of fire.
- The telephone can be the means of invasive attentions and the harbinger of unsolicited physical contact. The only proper response to a prank caller is an immediate dial tone. If you experience a pattern of harassing calls, report them to the authorities just as you would in this country.
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