After a night of drinking that spanned into Sunday morning, three Tufts University freshman women found themselves far from their uphill dorm this past weekend.

Only two days after a graduate student was robbed at knifepoint at the intersection of Packard Avenue and Powderhouse Boulevard, one of the students called for a campus safety escort, a service provided by the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD). She was under the impression that the service could be utilized in such situations.

But when a squad car arrived to pick her and her friends up, the officer gave the students an uncomfortable “lecture” about underage drinking before taking them uphill, the student said.

“The impression that I got obviously was that if you’re going to drink, don’t use the escort service,” the student who called TUPD said. The officer “made me feel like it was better if the three of us girls just walked back up Packard Ave. just by ourselves at four in the morning … just after [Friday’s] incident occurred.”

In response to encounters like this one, the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution on Sunday recommending that TUPD make its escort service more accessible to students, advertise it better and expand its scope. The resolution focused in particular on students calling for help from off campus.