May 27, 1976
SGA Asks
Questions
On Security
From Page 1
way, with the township,
borough or other police
department?"
Paul: “No, it is a university
organization, solely.
Martin: Do your Police
officers have the right to
arbitarily make any arrests
you want?”
Paul: “No, there is a
procedure that must be gone
through. A report is received
on a complaint or a detection
on the part of the officer is
made, and a preliminary
investigation is made to
determine if in fact a
violation of Federal Law,
State Law, local ordinance,
rule or regulation (occurred)
and if so then it is...dis
cused with my supervisor,
and a determination is made
on what action will be taken.
Martin: “Do you have to
have concurrence or permis
sion from any authority to
conduct a search and or
seizure, and if so, from
whom?”
Paul: “Yes, I must have
concurrence from Dr. South
or the Provost and must also
have a warrant unless it’s a
consent search.
Martin: “In past years, who
did you report directly to?”
Paul: “Initially to the
business manager, then to
the administrative officer
and presently to the dean of
student affairs.
Martin: In your professional
opinion, who do you think
the department of safety and
security should report di
rectly to ?”
Paul said, “I objected to
the move,” but declined to
say who he would prefer to
report to.
Vice President Martin
then turned his questions to
Dr. South and asked: “Why
was security taken to your
office?”
South: “First >of all, the
provost was not satisfied
with the way the Campus
Security Department was
operated.
Secondly, he wanted to
see if its primary part, the
Operational Security Pro
gram, pertains to students.
He also wanted to see the
effect of the reporting
structure upon the relation
ship of the Security Depart
ment to other offices that
were directed with students,
and if the security depart
ment could have a closer
coordinated effort with those
offices.
Thirdly, he wanted
someone to spend a year
getting to know the Depart
ment of Security here;
getting to know what
materials were available in
University Security Depart
ments and to complete that
year with a report to him.”
Martin: “Personally, as
James D. South, which of
the responsibilities of your
office is most important to
you?”
South: “The most important
one to me is to insure that
every decision made on
campus has, as a considera
tion, the student’s welfare.”
Martin: “On what basis and
on who’s decision were the
criminal cases taken off
campus?”
South: “Mine.”
Martin: “Are you making a
report to the provost that’s
due on July 1st?”
South: “...On or about July
Ist, there will be a fairly
extensive report made to the
provost.”
Martin: “Are you suggesting
personnel changes in Secur
ity and planning on sug
gesting the removal of the
reporting structure from
Student Affairs?”
South: “Yes, there will be
some personnel changes
made, if I have my way. I
have recommended to the
provost, and it has gone
through two budget read
ings, that there be additional
people added to the campus
security force to give us the
capability of maintaining a
24 hour seven day a week,
year round security force on
campus—As far as remov
ing personnel from the
Security Department, I can’t
answer that.”
ichards Assigned By OAS
Dr. R
Dr. Winston A. Richards,
associate professor of
mathematics and statistics
and BSU advisor, has been
assigned by the Secretariat
of the Organization of
American States (OAS) to
offer technical assistance to
the Government of Trinidad
and Tobago this summer.
While in Trinidad,
Richards will undertake both
teaching and advisory du-
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Dr. Gujar Rao
Dr. Rao To Teach
In Massachusetts
Dr. Gujar Rao, assistant
professor of engineering in
the water resources pro
gram, has been granted a
leave of absence to join the
faculty of the University of
Massachusetts for one year.
During this time, Rao will
teach classes in hydrology
on a limited basis, and will
also do research on “small
watersheds hydrology” at
the University’s Water Re
sources Research Center.
The University of
Massachusetts and
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology are the two most
prestigious schools of en
gineering in Massachusetts.
He will offer a statistics
course at the University of
the West Indies, St.
Augustine Campus, to sen
ior technical and profes
sional staff of the Central
Statistical Office.
He will provide advisory
services to the Ministry of
Finance (planning and de
velopment) staff, and will
also be responsible for the
Council Probes
Paul's Duties
From Page 1
Dr. Brewster, that Campus
Security be taken out from
under the Student Affairs
“umbrella” where Dean Jeny
South and Chief Paul have
involvement in all discipli
nary cases from beginning to
end.
The only remaining com
plaint against Chief Paul was
one lodged by council
member John. M. Jones,
who maintains the Security
Chief violated John Lane’s
civil rights during his arrest.
All possibilities of this
infringement on Lane’s
rights are now being actively
investigated by Jones, not
under the auspices of the
faculty council, but as
Lane’s personal counsel.
The investigation into
Paul’s powers and conduct
first came to a productive
head when the Faculty
Council’s chairperson
Susan Richman consulted
the Dauphin County District
Attorney’s Office along with
South, who had previous
overall coordination of the
three month program.
For the past seven years
Richards has served on the
University Faculty Senate,
and was recently nominated
for the post of chairperson of
that organization.
Richards will be accom
panied by his family on the
OAS mission, and he will
return in the fall to continue
his teaching duties here.
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arrangements to make simi
lar inquiries, to determine
the exact extent of James
Paul’s jurisdiction and du
ties.
According to one faculty
member, any previous ques
tions on Paul’s status had
been answered with the
application of Act #149
which few people are able to
interpret and which had
never been passed into the
Pennsylvania State Penal
Code in its entirety. “It was
just waved around without
anyone really knowing what
it meant.”, the faculty
member said, “And I found it
really frightening that we
accepted it that way.”
Another faculty member
has made the suggestion
that some type of investiga
tion or study be done to
define discretion for Chief
Paul in the event more
arrests are to take place. He
said, “We had better make
sure it is clear though,
because Paul goes by the
book, and there is no
straying away from it.”
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