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"There was never any communication between staff,
faculty, students and ourselves," said Terrence Laehy, a
full time police officer on Capitol Campus's police force.
The significance of this seemingly terse statement
extends beyond simple semantics and it concerns the
entire campus community
Officer Laehy's statement is the prelude to a fresh,
working relationship between C.C. police and faculty, staff
and students; it is the end of the estranged relationship
which prevailed for so long, especially between students
and police.
The campus police expressed concern about students
viewing the department as merely being an inflexible and
relentless "ticketing agency." Recently appointed Police
Supervisor Aleksy, replacing chie7 Paul and now in charge
of C.C. police, hopes to dispel that reputation by
concentration more on what his department can do for
the campus community.
Under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Commision on
Crime and Delinquency, the C.C.police department is
developing an ongoing crime prevention program. As part
of the program, officer Leahy recently completed a course
in basic crime prevention
The course covered such things as the hi3tory of crime
prevention, loss prevention, security hardware and organ
izing neighborhood crime watch programs.
Members of the campus community are welcome to
contact the police for assistance in any aspect of crime
prevention -- securing car or apartment against burglary,
for instance. _ .
Many other useful services are also available from the
C.C. police dept. For example, property engravers may be
obtained from resident assistants at Meade Heights and the
dorms, as well as from the C.C. police office.
Students are urged to have their valuables engraved
with their drivers' license number.
Thieves will hesitate before stealing engraved, trace
able items. Also, recovered stolen property which is
engraved may be easily returned to the owner.
Another useful service, especially to vacationing
students, is the police house check. Before leaving the
campus for any length of time, students should call the
C.C. police and inform them of when they will be leaving
and how long they plan to be gone.
Regular police checks on the residence will be made
until the student returns -- an excellent deterrence for
would be burglars
These services and more are availbe to every member
of the campus community; all a student needs to do is
make a telephone call to receive them.
To be sure, an ex-officer who issued tickts with
monomaniacal zealotry did much for creating the strained
relations which now exist between police and students.
However, it would behoove all students to know that
this "iron hand of tenatious ticketry" is no longer with the
C.C. police force -- surely a consolatory note for many
about campus.
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editor, lyda baker, news editor, carol evesehild; feature editor, sue girolami; sports editot,
mike cocciardi; photography editor, bob foster, copy editors, louisa baskin, ruth grady;
staff, Jane reinstadt, pan ldein, vito valvano, debbie morrow, tony romeo, Jeff drinnan, sue
middleton, gayie greenwald; cartoonist, joe horvath.
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Letters To Editor
Editor
This is a letter of apology to
those smokers who either don't
know. or don't care that there
are certain designated NO
SMOKING areas clearly
marked in Vendorville.
Please take note that there
are a significant number of us
who either don't smoke of don't
care to breathe smoke while we
are eating.. .
Therefore, when one of us
ignorant, narrow-minded non
smokers make a remark •like:
(1) "oh, I thought that this was
the NO SMOKING area •but
perhaps I'm mistaken.", (2)
"Would you mind not smoking
here? THIS IS DESIGNATED
NO SMOKING are a.", or (3)
"Hey stupid, do you know this
is aNO SMOKING area?"
Please understand what we are
trying to say.
Also understand, that some
of us are less vocal than others,
and there are many of us who
may not say, anything, but we
did sit there because we
thought that no one would
smoke there.
So, we apologize for the
inconvenience we may cause
you when we ask you not to
smoke around us.
Non-smoker, MDET term 11
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A newspaper is to print
news for its area, your area
Capitol Campus. As an officer
of an organization, I tried to
inform you of our club news;
but only to be told there is no
space available. After seeing
the Jan. 11 issue, I noticed
space available.
The article "Spring Week
end Favored by Majority" was
totally unnecessary and incom
plete. What it did do was tell us
something we already knew. To
me this is not news.
To quote the paper "The
overall interest was for a spring
weekend with several events
such as a picnic, sport tourna
ment, an art festival, club car
nival and live music." This is
not news but tradition.
"Rites of Spring" have been
going on for seven years now
with srtong support for their
events.
Things normally start in
early May, by M.H.8.0.C. and
some other clubs. Past events
have included open air keggar,
chicken picnic, clam bake, gong
show, road rally, pig roast,
bath tub race (PSPE), olympic
games (dorms), end of year
picnic (Beta Chi and Accty
club), casino night, friday night
conceit (J) and it all ends with
the spring concert (GPP).
If anyone wishes to help out
during this years "Rites of
Spring" contact the clubs men
tioned above. Past records
show that these events are
favored by almost everyone.
I hope in the future you do
not put any half-finished arti
cles in and call it news when it
is tradition; and then tell club
officers there is no space avail
able for them.
Articles that got axed were
Project Helpline reopens, Jack
Rivers, poem, and 2 letters to
the editor (will this one make
it?).
Anyone of the above clubs
could have been in the space
occupied by "Spring Weekend
Favored by Majority."
Mark Kowalski
c.c. Reader
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We have been getting a lot of
hassles from students and clubs
concerning our Feb. conceit
This will help clear things up
1. Why a jazz concert, why not
rock or country? A rock con
cert is not possible in our area,
due to restriction by the own
er's of the Forum, Hushey Park
Arena, Zembo and the Farm
Show Arena.
Therefore our closest sight
for a rock concert is Baltimore,
MD. Who wants to drive to
Baltimore for a concert?
The vote was in with jazz
#l, rock #2 and country #3.
These were student votes,
mainly hroin the fall term.
2. Why not get a well known
artist, other schools get them?
They cost money. We do not
have it. We are spending about
$8,400, but other schools spend
about $15,000. Other schools
are members of NEC, thus
getting a discount on all artists.
Our SGA approved fund, in
Oct., for our membership; but
never sent us the application.
Because of this we missed out
on group bookings.
3. Why can't we cancel the
contract? We can, but we must
find another suitable date 'for the
artist preforming, if not we pay
anyway (typical contract).
GPP has changed its struc
ture and we need people to fill
these new positions. They are:
promotion, internal, external;
public relations; work force. If
anyone wishes to join, contact
Mark at 944-7831.
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