SINGING VALENTINE: The Texas A&M University women’s chorus is offering its services to campus romantics this Valentine’s Day. For just $15 students, faculty and staff can send their sweetheart a singing valentine. A trio from the chorus will sing one of four songs - “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” “Babyface,” “You are My Sunshine,” and “Love Me Tender” - and deliver a balloon bouquet, candy and a card.

EYE ON SAFETY: Residence halls at Michigan State University will install peepholes in room doors for increased safety. Ninety-three percent of respondents to a recent survey said they felt safe in residence halls, but administrators at the school say safety is an ongoing concern. Ten thousand of the peepholes will be installed this spring.

WATCHING CAMPUS: A University of Cincinnati program gets students involved in crime prevention on campus. Ten volunteers in the Campus Watch program provide campus police with additional eyes and ears, walking through campus monitoring parking lots and buildings every evening. They’re armed with only portable radios and are instructed not to intervene in dangerous situations. Rather, they radio police the minute they see a problem.

BERKELEY BLACKOUT: California’s rolling blackouts won’t have the impact on the University of California, Berkeley, campus that they will elsewhere. Most of the campus is connected directly to a power grid deemed too important to subject to the temporary blackouts. The biggest impact on campus of the energy crisis may come in the power bill. Berkeley may face a 90-day price hike to offset skyrocketing wholesale electric prices.

UK SMOKEOUT: The University of Kentucky Hospital and UK College of Pharmacy have teamed up to offer a free smoking cessation class. A trained pharmacist leads the 12-week sessions. The recently completed first class had a 50 percent success rate.