Members of the Government of the Student Body joined members of the Ames community and the ISU greek community Monday to improve the safety of Campustown.

Walking the streets south of campus in groups of four or five, participants combed the area for possible safety hazards.

Ames Police officer Addi Johnson delegated groups to certain streets, reaching from Hayward Avenue to Beach Avenue and Storm Street to Lincoln Way.

Each group documented burnt-out street lights, possible sidewalk hazards, such as cracks, and overgrown shrubbery to aid the Ames Police Department in improving the safety of Campustown.

The Campustown Neighborhood Safety Walk has been managed by the Ames Police Department for three years, but was previously conducted by the university on campus for several years, Johnson said.

“They kind of inspired us to get on the ball,” she said.

GSB President Daniel Fischer, senior in agricultural business, along with Erin Curtis, Office of Greek Affairs Collegiate Panhellenic Council Vice President of Risk Management and junior in kinesiology and health, gathered students to go on the walk.

Fischer said GSB and members of the greek community work together on the event.

“We’re doing it about the same way and on the same streets [as last year],” he said. “Attendance is pretty comparable.”

Fischer believed the walk to be a good chance to work with city leaders, aiming to find out their expectations of what makes the city safe.

“Most students think Ames is pretty safe,” Fischer said.

Still, he said, there are parts that could be potentially dangerous or inconvenient to residents and students.

Neal May, electrical engineering assistant at Ames electric services, said bad lighting could be hazardous to both drivers on the road as well as pedestrians. He said making sure the area was illuminated is important.

“It could protect them [pedestrians] from predators of sorts,” May said.

As the groups made their rounds, they tied yellow ribbons around the burnt out lights and recorded the whereabouts of the potential problems for the Ames Police Department to revisit later.

Johnson said she will begin work based on the results of the walk as soon as Thursday.