November 11, 1976
The Reader Interviews
Daooo@§ KL Pa®o
The Peanut Posher
By Diane Lewis
Campus security personnel
are often thought of as simply
law enforcers who’s biggest
thrill is giving traffic tickets or
making an arrest, but there is a
need in any community for
enforcement of the laws which
protect the safety and property
of those who live there.
The man responsible for
providing that protection at
Capitol Campus is James H.
Paul, Chief Security Officer.
Bom in PwekskiU, N.Y.,
Chief Paul served in the Marine
Corps and with the Federal
Government for 24 years in
intelligence services. After
retiring he worked in several
community security depart
ments before coming to Capitol
six and a half years ago.
hi an interview this week
Chief Paul talked about the new
policies regarding campus
security and other aspects of
his job.
The dissatisfaction of the
administration with the Globe
Security personnel who were
previously contracted to help
with campus security has led
the college to establish a 24
hour campus security force, the
chief said.
The force will have complete
jurisdiction over the campus. It
will consist of five sworn
officers and the student patrol.
So far the Sargent and two
patrolpersons, one male, one
female have been appointed.
Chief Paul said that al
though there have been many
applicants for the two re
maining vacancies he is trying
to find qualified and well trained
persons who will increase the
professionalism and effective
ness of the department
“Our efforts will continue to
be directed to the preclusion of
students being cited in civil
court,” Chief Paul said. Though
duties still entail investigation
and determination of the guilt
factor, lessening the charge if
possible.”
Although the department’s
aim is to prevent students from
leaving Capitol with a police
record, if the violation is of
serious nature the charges
would have to be filed before
the district justice, according to
Chief Paul.
Anticipating a question of
Records Policy
ConHdwitMlly from pg. 1
In an emergency situation,
information necessary to pro
tect the health or safety of a
student will be released.
Information not permitting
individual identification may be
released to educational organi
zations for the purpose of
developing, validating and
administering predictive tests
and measurements.
Parents of dependent stu
dents have access to confiden
tial information, the report
states.
Correction
hi last week’s Reader we
mistakenly printed that Peter
Lund had painted the lEIEEI
Nimbus in Vendorville. We are
sony, the artist was actually
Jack Beuiy.
double jeopardy, because the
college always makes an
investigation of complaints, the
chief hastened to explain that
the campus investigation is
administrative while the civil
one would be a criminal
investigation. It would be
possible, however to be found
guilty in one and innocent in the
other.
Thlking about his position at
Capitol, Chief Paul said, he was
a little apprehensive when he
first came here but the constant
challenge and the people here
have made it an interesting and
pleasant place to work.
He said, “this year the
outlook of the entire student
population has changed for the
better, they are more mature,
thoughtful and responsible
citizens.”
He also had praise for the
student patrol who he said are
hard working, enthusiastic and
often more professional than
regular security personnel.
“One of the policy changes,
continued Paul, “was to include
the Resident Assistants in the
student patrol training program.
There is now empathy between
the two groups malting for a
better working relationship."
Chief Paul is a part time
instructor at Harrisburg Area
Community College in the state
and municipal police program.
He is also a licensed polygraph
operator. As a professional law
enforcement officer he feels
there should be a good
relationship between the se
curity force and the rest of the
college community.
Toward that end Chief Paul
said he would be happy to
arrange for any interested
student to go on patrol with one
of the security officers to see
what a typical day is like.
Since traffic violations are
frequent on campus Chief Paul
gave this hint When the
security officer stops a motorist
for a traffic Violation he must
decide before he approaches
the violator whether the offense
is serious enough to be written
up or is a warning sufficient
No matter how bad the
drivers attitude is he will not be
issued a ticket if the officer
does not feel the violation
warrants it but if the officer is
going to issue a ticket a polite
attitude could make him change
his mind.
Sam Undertable from pg. 2
were saying, ‘them’s mighty big
odds agin an incumbent so they
bet on Ford. The news media
helped out by pointing out all
the campaign blunders and
pretty soon we had a tight little
race with all the new money
betting on Ford.”
“Wow,” I said, “that’s sound
logic, but suppose it hadn’t
worked.”
“There you go showing your
ignorance again. We knew
Carter was gonna win,”
Undertable insisted, “we were
the ones that said it was too
close to call.”
“By the way, Tim, how much
did you wager,” Sam asked?
“Two dollars,” I answered
sheepishly.
“Well," Sam said, “you
should have no complaints
then, you got what you paid for
peanuts.”
C.C. Reader
Students from the University of Zambia preparing to board the buses
Police search students’ belongings
Gilmore In Zambia
Zambia from pg. 1
Asked if he would go back
there, Dr. Gilmore replied
“Surely, I would very happily go
back there any day.” He said it
was very satisfying to know that
the people recognized and
appreciated what he could offer.
Besides this, he also had an
opportunity to meet personali
ties he might never have met in
the States; the Secretary of
State, Henry Kissinger the
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
and former Governor of
PSPE
Capitol's Pennsylvania So
ciety of Professional Engineers
student chapter will feature a
guest speaker at their November
meeting. Hie meeting will be
held Thurs., Nov. 11 at 7:00
p.m. in the Student Center
according to professor Robert
Kormanik, assistant professor
at Capitol Campus and advisor
to the chapter.
Dr. George J. McMurtry,
co-director of the Office of
Remote Sensing of Earth
Resources and professor of
electrical engineering at
Pennsylvania, Bill Scranton;
and Mrs. Coretta King, wife of
Maritin Luthur King Jr. when
she went there to open a
cultural center.
“Sure I would go back. I
have many good memories of
my stay there,” Dr. Gilmore
reminisced. During the
one-year stay, he had travelled
almost all over. He went to
Johanisburg, South Africa;
Kenya; Swaziland; Egypt; and
Britain. He also visited
Guest Speaker
University Park, will be the
guest speaker. His talk is
entitled “Applications of Earth
Satellite Data” and will include
a film presentation.
Dr. McMurtry is a senior
member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, a member of the
lEEE group on Automatic
Control and a member of the
Adaptive Systems Committee of
the lEEE group on Systems
Science and Cybernetics. He
has served as organizer and
chairman of various IEEk
Botswana where Elizabeth
Thylor and her husband spent
their honeymoon.
The University of Zambia,
Dr. Gilmore indicated, is
interested in establishing a
student/professor exchange
program with the Capitol
Campus. According to him, he
is now working on the
arrangements. So who knows,
may be before long, some of our
students and professors will
have the opportunity to go to
Zambia and learn and enjoy at
the same time.
Zambia had her indepen
dence from the British masters
in 1964. At independence, she
had a population of nearly four
million, but only 960 Africans
with high school education, and
less than 100 with college
degrees. Her copper-based
economy, heavily dominated by
the British, had to be
Zambianised. She looked
outside, and still does today,
for expertise training of
Zambians, but like any other
country, strongly resents any
interference by foreigners in her
internal affairs. Like most other
developing countries, she does
not have very much room for
opposition.
She is at a stage of ‘State
Controlled Capitalism’, but is
steering towards socialism, and
hopes to achieve her ultimate
goal: humanism (a man
centered society.)
This is an area thata lecturer
on Business Policy formulation
and analysis, who believes in a
capitalist economy, would have
problems, but somehow, Dr.
Gilmore seemed to have had
none.
Socially, “there was nothing
from the standpoint of dislike,
that I could see, differences
were only a matter of customs,
and never really stood in the
way of social interactions,” said
Dr. Gilmore. He noted that the
Africans were very sociable and
hospitable.
symposiums, as official U.S.
delegate to foreign seminars
and as a panel member of
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and Land In
ventory Applications Survey
Group reviews.
The Penn State Professional
Engineers student chapter is an
organization of engineering
students at Capitol. ' The
purpose of the organization is
to stimulate professional think
ing among engineering stu
dents.
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