Fox 8 News was on the UNCG Campus late last week just as clouds were rolling in over Tate Street’s Aycock Auditorium. The news crew was on site to do a segment on the police department’s crime prevention initiative. Theft of cars and laptops is a big issue on college campuses and police are using an SOS alert system that takes advantage of social networking systems. Police are making efforts to be more visible and are driving Segway-like scooters. Police are offering self defense classes. Read more about this initiative in the News & Record (here).

Aycock Auditorium, featured in the photo above, has been a hub of arts for UNCG since the auditorium opened in 1927. It has recently undergone a $19 million dollar renovation. You might want to try to peek inside if you are at the Tate Street Festival this Saturday. We didn’t get to watch the Fox 8 segment but we’re glad that they are up on current events at local universities. Let’s just hope that crime is kept at a minimum all over campus and especially on this corner, right across the campus police stations.