stalking/abuse

Over the years I got magazines like Seventeen; in those magazine articals there is usually at least something about rape, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and in one case that I can remember there was an issue on stalking.  The artical about stalking really caught my eye.  A female had wrote in talking about how she kept on seeing a male walking around outside her apartment, and she saw this man around more and more especailly after she and her boyfriend broke up.  Months went by and this man appeared closer and closer to her apartment.  Sometimes she would walk outside in onto her front deck and she could tell the chair had been moved, or items knocked down.  She would wake up in the middle of the night, look outside and think she saw him staring at her through the window.  She called the police, had higher security installed, and a security patrol man on duty 24/7.  Eventually she moved out and never saw the man again.  She is lucky enough to never have a true encounter with her stalker, becuase many people who have stalkers are eventually hurt by them.  After reading this artical and the readings in the book it does frighten me to walk alone at night.  I have many night classes, and my boyfriend lives only a few blocks away; I often walk back from his house at night and I have found myself more than once walking VERY fast (pretty much running), looking foolish, but being very scared from walking back from his house. 
Things like the University Safe Walk is comforting to know that it is available, but I never really think to call them at all.  Other things like this should be available to all kids.