Snow fell Saturday on a small crowd gathered on the corner of East 14th Avenue and Pearl Alley as Ohio State students cut the ribbon on the first off-campus emergency telephone.It was dedicated to Stephanie Hummer, an OSU student who was abducted and killed in 1994. Saturday marked the fifth anniversary of her death.”I look at this as just a start to better safety, not a one-time thing,” said Dan Hummer, Stephanie’s father. “I hope this really helps to cut the boundary down that says this is campus and that is Columbus. It is all still one community.”Stephanie’s parents were among university and city representatives who made remarks at the Evans Scholars House prior to the ribbon cutting.”Stephanie’s pet peeve was people who complained about things, but never did anything about them,” said her mother, Sue Hummer. “She would be proud to see what [the students] have done.”The phone, like those found on campus, is capped with a blue light. It was the first in a pilot project to place seven others in various off-campus locations. Similar attempts have been made in the past and failed. OSU Evans Scholars – a group of golf caddie scholarship recipients – and Undergraduate Student Government are sponsoring the project, which is a six-month collaboration among OSU students and administrators, city officials and the Columbus Division of Police.”There is a key word here: partnership,” said Shane Hankins, a USG cabinet member and project coordinator. “This project showed that students, the university, and the city of Columbus can work together to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood.”The partnership has created ties that will facilitate future safety initiatives, said Executive Vice President and Provost Ed Ray.”This project is a lot more than one phone on one corner,” Ray said. “Now as we find other safety issues that need improvement, it will be a lot easier to make the necessary connections to get them done.”He said in a speech that the project is a commentary on Hummer’s spirit because she continues to touch so many lives and cause students who did not know her to take action.”If you have ever heard anyone talk about Stephanie, it really makes you want to do something,” said Mike Moeddel, president of the Evans Scholars committee and coordinator of the project.Hummer was an Evans Scholar, but none of the Scholars responsible for the dedication were OSU students when she died. Moeddel and many other members of the scholars said they felt very close to Hummer despite having never met her.”I was in high school in 1994, and I feel like I am friends with Stephanie Hummer,” said Steve Leffingwell, president of the Evans Scholars.He also said that he thought Hummer would be proud to know that because of her death, campus will be safer.In a poem Hummer wrote before her death, she said when she was gone she wished for the world to be a better place and for people to remember her.”We did this both in memory of Stephanie and to improve the community,” Moeddel said. “This way we could make both her dreams come true.”In his remarks during the dedication, Hummer’s father challenged residents and businesses in the area to contribute to the project so future students might benefit from it, because his daughter and past students could not.