Weeks Muggings Prompt Patrols

The University Police have decided to detail one officer every night to patrol the Cambridge side of the Weeks Memorial Bridge. The decision follows an attack made there Tuesday night on three Harvard students.

University officials may also request further protection of the bridge area by the Metropolitan District Commission. Frederick C. Cabot '59, acting Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House, said yesterday that when the Administrative Board meets next Tuesday he will ask it to send a letter to the MDC requesting that the University and the MDC "get together on a better system of policing the bridge area."

Cabot also explained that because the bridge area is solely under MDC jurisdiction, University Police cannot patrol the bridge or either bank of the Charles River. However, the University Police will have one officer walking a beat every night on the north side of Memorial Drive between Winthrop and Dunster

Several muggings have occurred previously this year but none has been as serious as the one Tuesday night. Charles C. Vines Jr. '66 suffered a chest wound and was operated on early Wednesday morning for a collapsed right lung. Peter N. Mear '66 was treated for incerations of the face, chest, and back.