These Cornell Students Get Paid to Go to Parties with Their Friends — to Help Protect Them

Alessandra Rigamonti stepped through the crowd at a Cornell fraternity party when she noticed a very drunk girl on the dance floor, with a much less drunk guy holding her up. As she helped the girl, she had to decide whether the girl needed an ambulance or just a friend to make sure she didn’t drink any more that night.  Her co-workers, also Cornell students, were busy too. They were all working for a student-founded, student-run nonprofit called Cayuga’s Watchers, designed to keep people safer at parties.