Key Safe Program Kryptonite
Marie Ota
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This leads us to ask, how can we identify our kryptonite? We need to inspect what we expect. Audits, inspections, quality control or whatever you want to call them are important to the success of any process. Without conducting inspections any process, safety or otherwise will degrade overtime, people will take shortcuts. Inspections alone are not enough we must turn those inspections into data to paint a picture of what is happening in our facilities. This data then be used to develop actions to correct issues identified and start back at the beginning. We can never afford to become complacent in our efforts because unlike Superman our kryptonite changes and we have to identify it before it destroys us.
The New York Lock provides ultimate security in urban, campus and other high theft danger areas. Its 16mm hardened Kryptonium steel shackle resists bolt cutters and leverage attacks. Double deadbolt locking provides extensive holding power. This lock features a center keyway that defends against leverage attacks and includes a high security disc style cylinder. A dustcover protects the cylinder from grit and grime. Plus, a lighted key and an optional $3,000 Anti-Theft Protection Offer are included. Protective vinyl cover, anti-rattle bumpers, EZ Mount transportation bracket (STD only) and Key Safe program are also included.
The Gorgon Cable is a vinyl-coated, 20mm braided-steel cable lock designed for security in moderate crime areas. This braided steel cable has a greater core density than a twisted cable and provides increased cut resistance. The Gorgon includes a high-security disc-style cylinder and a transportation bracket. This lock is a part of the Key Safe program.
The RCL III is perfect for safeguarding bicycles in low-risk areas and for locking quick-release components and accessories. Its thick, 12mm steel cable is 6-feet long for plenty of reach and self coils for easy storage. For easy carrying, it includes a hook-and-loop strap and a transportation bracket. This lock features a 4-digit resettable locking mechanism and is part of Kryptonite's Combo Safe program.
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Despite a University prohibition on riding bicycles in Harvard Yard and constant calls from the guards on duty, two roommates in Mather House say they hold timed bicycle races through the walled-in area.
"I think it's an unjust law," says Kobach. "If a person rides courteously, there's really no danger. The Yard rule is discrimination against people who are late to class. It's like racing on the highway. It's a rule that was made to be broken."
College regulations, multiple satety precautions, and Cambridge traffic--even Boston's icy weather--may deter ordinary bikers, but Harvard's bicyclists persist, riding their bikes around Cambridge in all kinds of traffic and in all kinds of weather.
Most students and faculty members who own bikes say they use their vehicles primarily for afternoon rides along the River and weekend escapes from the city. But hard-core cyclists say the best reason to have a bicycle on campus is for transportation--not to and from the city, or vacations in the country, but to and from class.
Biking often gives its devotees a distinct advantage. "In Cambridge, you can actually go faster than the cars if you're biking," says Kris Kobach. "It's probably the fastest means of transportation here."
But Harvard bikers readily admit that there are problems with biking in Cambridge. Bad weather, potholes and one-way streets are just some of the hazards. But of all the dangers they face, student cyclists say Cambridge traffic is one of the worst.
Farzad Mostashari '89 says he has bought three bicycles since his arrival at Harvard. One was ruined by the Cambridge road conditions, and his second was stolen. "The costs add up, definitely," he says.
"I had a bike stolen with a Kryptonite lock on it," he says. "I guess I just didn't lock it up right." It is not unusual for two or three bicycle thefts to be reported to the Harvard University Police in a single week.
In an effort to reduce crime, the University now asks students to register their bicycles with the police as soon as they arrive at school. That way, the police can help locate the bicycles if they are stolen.
The frequency of thefts has led many students to keep their bikes in their rooms instead of in the racks outside the dorms and houses. Some say they even bring their bicycles into the lecture halls during class.
In addition to manmade problems, bikers must also face natural hazards. Cambridge's notoriously bad weather and poor snow clearance deters some bikers from riding. But some Harvard bicyclists say they continue to ride in any weather.
"Ice? No problem. It makes it more of a challenge," Wechsler says. "I like biking in the winter more. Sometimes it's a bit of a problem with clueless pedestrians. They expect you to drive over a pile of snow when they can just as easily step aside."
"There's not much planning for bicycles," says Hastings. He also says that conditions are better for cyclists in Japan and Germany, where he has lived. In both countries, special areas are marked on the sidewalks for bicyclists, he says.
Zomopoulos says she recently bought a new bicycle, but it was stolen only a month and a half after she bought it. Rather than replace it with another new bike, she decided to buy a used bike instead. "If you have an old bike, very few people will want it so you're pretty safe," says Zomopoulos, who describes her current bike as an "ugly bright green Schwinn."
Hastings says that he owns two bicycles, one 10-speed bike for summer riding, and a balloontired three-speed with special foot-brakes, that he rides during the winter and wet weather, when hand-brakes do not always suffice.
Bicycle Exchange employees say they try to provide another solution to the weather problem, by selling different styles of bicycles to Cambridge bikers. Employees say that the store has recently sold more flat-tire bikes. Because these vehicles are designed for use on all kinds of terrain, they can be used throughout the city in all kinds of weather.
The store usually suggests the City Cruiser, "the perfect city bike," to student bikers and city bikers who are not serious about the cycling sport, Weber says. The Cruiser is a three-speed bicycle, which can survive the rough, badly paved streets of Cambridge, employees say. The model also lasts forever, says Weber, because it does not break down in icy or rainy weather.
"I don't really have time to worry about locking up the bike, or getting the bike stolen," he says. "There are potholes all over the place around here. When I did bike, it would take just as much time to lock up the bike, which kind of defeated the purpose."
For the Cambridge police, the more students who follow Feldman's example and stop riding, the better. Cambridge policemen blame a large part of the city's traffic problems on the bikers. The bicyclists' blatant disregard for the laws of the road, they say, adds unnecessary problems to the already congested Harvard Square.
"It's a disaster," says Thomas E. Donahue, traffic patrolman and safety officer. "There are just so many bicycles. They're everywhere. They drive anywhere they want. They don't stop at lights, they don't follow the flow of traffic. A lot ride right down the middle of Mass. Ave."
However, Cambridge police say that while bikers cause problems for city traffic, Harvard students are not the main source of trouble. Problem bikers also include elementary school students and employed adults who commute to work, says Donahue, who runs a bicycle safety program at local elementary schools. "There are [lots of] people coming into Cambridge every day. You can't just pinpoint students at Harvard," he says.
Gingerich says that he obeys all of the biking laws. "After seeing CAT-scans of brain-damaged people, I always wear a helmet," he says. "I never ride in the Yard. I would never pull anyone off their bike. I think evil thoughts about them, though."
Henebry says that he follows most rules because he understands why they are made. "Too many bikers speeding always irritates me as a pedestrian," he says. But even he does not obey all the rules. "I never wear a helmet," says Henebry. "Part of the fun of riding is the wind blowing through your hair."
Employees at the Bicycle Exchange, a bicycle store in Harvard Square, say that they always encourage customers to follow traffic rules, "because motorists don't follow them," says Betsey J. Moore, head cashier at the store.
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