Monday, December 15, 2008
Campus evangelism - a crime?
Here is a link to the following free speech story.
The so-called "free-speech code" of Yuba Community College District is under federal court scrutiny.
"A campus police officer came over and told him that if he continued to do so without a permit that he would be possibly expelled or arrested, and so Ryan stopped immediately," she explains.
Hacker says Dozier thought the case was closed, but he was apparently mistaken. "Three weeks later he got a certified letter from the president of the college stating that his actions were the subject of a campus crime report," she adds. "Last time I checked, sharing your faith on a public college campus was not a crime."
But the letter informed him he could face expulsion if he shared his faith on campus again. ADF filed suit, and a federal judge has ordered the college to suspend enforcement of its highly restricted free speech policies until the lawsuit is resolved
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Campus crime headlines
Police are investigating what officials at Kutztown University have said may have been a hit-and-run that seriously injured a student on a parking lot of the school's South Campus in Berks County early this morning. We're told a university police officer found Christine McGhee, 20, lying in a parking lot.
Court to decide if campus evangelism is a crime
California student, Ryan Dozier, decided to spend some time on campus sharing his faith and handing out tracts to fellow students, generating conversations about Christianity. Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorney Heather Hacker comments on the situation.
“A campus police officer came over and told him that if he continued to do so without a permit that he would be possibly expelled or arrested, and so Ryan stopped immediately,” she explains.
Hacker says Dozier thought the case was closed, but he was apparently mistaken. “Three weeks later he got a certified letter from the president of the college stating that his actions were the subject of a campus crime report,” she adds. “Last time I checked, sharing your faith on a public college campus was not a crime.”
The Daily Campus has a new police blotter policy: questionable timing
As of last Sunday, The Daily Campus has enacted a new policy regarding its weekly police blotter. The policy, which has not been announced to the paper’s readers, dictates that the popular weekly feature will be removed from the paper’s website after it has been up for a week (previous policy dictated that the story stay up indefinitely).
In theory, the move, which was approved by the paper’s editors, is okay. Proponents of the change would argue that having arrest information online can haunt someone years down the road, when potential employers google their names. Opponents would say that the blotter is simply a factual record of an arrest, and it is not a newspaper’s responsibility to babysit people’s reputations.
However, that argument does not interest me. What does interest me is that the DC made the decision to take the blotter off the web the week after a close friend of its editor-in-chief was arrested. More after the jump.
Sexual assault more prevalent than reported
Sexual assault is three times more common at Yale than the University’s official crime statistics reflect, according to a new report issued by the campus sexual offense resource center.
The report from the Sexual Harassment Assault Resources & Education Center records the number of calls to the center’s response line in the 2007-’08 school year. By that count, there were 24 reported incidents of sexual assault at Yale last year.
The University Report on Campus Security, however, lists just eight alleged forcible sex offenses in 2007.
In response to allegations that Yale was underreporting sexual offenses, the U.S. Department of Education began investigating the University for its compliance with federal reporting requirements in 2004. Since then, the University has reviewed and reformed its protocols for handling reports of sexual crimes.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Missing person - ask for help
She was last seen in Emporia, Ks and was with a guy named Christopher Eagen, seemingly a little older than she is. He is approximately 5'9". olive coplexion , dark hair and thin moustache. He has friends in Emporia apparently, and perhaps has ties in Colorado, New Mexico...Midwest to Southwest perhaps.
Please contact your local police immediatly if you have any info and the Emporia Campus State police at
602-341-5337
Follow this link for a photo and info to post, Please!!!
Please help us look for her and pray for her safe return and prayers to her family, especially her mom.
No to lower drinking age
From the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission:
The Sept. 22 TEXAN noted the Amethyst Initiative, an effort by 100 college and university presidents to lower the legal drinking age to 18. Saying the current law leads to a “culture of dangerous, clandestine ‘binge-drinking,’” the educators suggest that lowering the drinking age to a point where most kids have even less wisdom will result in more responsible drinking habits.
These guys never went to high school, I guess. They don’t remember the culture of dangerous, clandestine (because it was illegal) binge-drinking that I remember. I didn’t hang out in risky places or with wild kids and my parents didn’t keep booze in the house, but I was offered alcohol regularly by the time I was 17—a few times at college parties. I didn’t inhale but I didn’t lack opportunities. Lower the age to 18, and 16-year-olds will be clandestine when they drink, except at college parties where there’ll be little need. And nothing about the change will make anything less dangerous.
Here’s another interpretation of the Amethyst Initiative. As it is, most undergraduates are not legal drinkers. Colleges and universities have a real problem with student alcohol abuse. Some of those problems would go away if nearly all students came to college legal to drink. Sure, some kids would still drink too much but it wouldn’t be illegal. The crime rate on campus would go down and campus security wouldn’t have to card anyone on campus. The proposal is to do away with an unpleasant, difficult task because it’s unpleasant and difficult. Any actual benefit to the students or society is strictly blue sky thinking. If nothing changes except for the end of the campus’ responsibility to enforce the drinking age, it’s a winner to the administration.
The college presidents also trot out the old, “old enough to fight, vote, serve on a jury, etc.” argument. It still doesn’t fly. Just because an 18-year-old can serve on a jury, for example, doesn’t mean he should. It seems unlikely that recent high school grads are often appointed to criminal juries. Officers of the court would not trust their judgment in the way they might trust that of a 21-year-old.
Perhaps the presidents are making a better argument for raising the age of majority in general. Is their intent to argue for fairness, legal practicality, an easier time for the administration, or for the good of the students? The last reason seems the least likely.
Of course, there’s an educational aspect to the Amethyst Initiative. One idea has students who want to drink while enrolled in the university taking an alcohol education course before they could get their “beer card.” So I guess campus security is back to carding people. Certainly the wise young people only drink too much because they haven’t been given the facts. The education course just might solve all the problems, right? Another idea offered at the initiative’s website is that students between 18 and 20 would be allowed to drink only 3 percent alcohol beer and no stronger drinks.
OK, just so we understand—students might have to take a course, get a license, and can only drink lower alcohol beer. This isn’t treating the younger students as though they are less responsible than other adults, it’s not prohibition, and it’s not going to be an absurd enforcement problem? Our academic brain trust is undermining their own argument by trying to make it more palatable to those of us who see nothing but bad news in lowering the legal drinking age. I also think they’re trying to push their problems off on those who try to educate younger students.
It’s a bad idea from every direction at the same time. I don’t believe the best interests of the students enter into it at all.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Warning chill
Warning chill to the world
It is every parent's nightmare, the worst turn imaginable, when we bundle up our children and send them off to school.
That's how it is with our toddlers in pre-K, our growing children in elementary and high schools.
It is no less the case when our sons and daughters leave the nest and head off to college. We want them to succeed, and we want them to be safe. It's a dangerous world, and there are so many things that can go wrong.
At the University of Central Arkansas, the world intruded on idyllic campus life Sunday night when four men — none of them were students — unloaded their weapons. That's the storyline police, who hold four suspects in custody, are investigating.
Dead in the wake of the mayhem were Ryan Henderson, 18, and Chavares Block, 19, both UCA students and Arkansas residents. Police believe they may have been simple bystanders when the shooting commenced.
"This is an incredibly heinous case," local prosecutor Marcus Vaden said. "When you have a situation where it appears some, if not all of the victims, were innocent bystanders, that's bad."
Bad on the two young men who lost their lives. Bad on a third young man, a non-student, wounded in the leg. Bad on a student body that believed their scholarly corner of the world was same from the heresy of random crime. But not now.
It was bad, too, on Monroe-area students at UCA, among them Matt Dickerson and Darrius McNeal, Neville High graduates, who fielded inquiries throughout the night from friends and family who worried for their safety. Everyone, it seems, knows somebody there.
Dickerson called his father to assure him he was OK. McNeal said he had class with one of the shooting victims.
Both young men described the mood on campus as somber, as authorities sifted through the wreckage of Sunday's events to solve the crime. Somber at UCA. Somber in Conway, a pleasant town some 30 minutes from Little Rock.
But the tragic events that played out there have likely shaken the confidence of parents of all 12,500 UCA students. No one bargains for this when they search with their sons and daughters for colleges, drive them to campus and decorate their dorms rooms.
Come Monday, UCA parents might have been a million miles away from the alleyway where one victim died, finding his final rest on a sidewalk between a dorm and the fine arts center. But their thoughts had to drift to what had happened.
It's not a long ride from Central Arkansas to northeastern Louisiana, where three colleges and a community college are located. It doesn't take a great stretch in imagination to consider that no matter how hard campuses try to ensure safety, bad things can happen.
They know that at Central Arkansas, where a cold-blooded crime sent a warning chill to the rest of the world.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
University of Alaska Anchorage - Making sense of the stats
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act require that every university that participate in federal student aid programs must disclose information about crime on their campuses. The act is a response to 19-year-old Clery's rape and murder at her residence hall at Lehigh University in 1986. Clery's parents found out after her death that 38 violent crimes had occurred on campus in the three years prior.
According to our Campus Safety and Security Report 08, 139 liquor law violations and 25 drug law violations were recorded in 2007. The report also shows that there was only one forcible sex offense recorded on campus.
The Anchorage Police Department considers UAA in it's South Anchorage service district, where there were 154 cases of sexual assault reported in 2007 according to numbers provided by APD. That is the highest number of assaults in all Anchorage's reported districts.
At UAF, four sex offenses were reported in 2007. The city of Fairbanks has a smaller population size than Anchorage and the student body at UAF is just under 10,000 students - about half the number that UAA has.
UAA's report shows that a number of students on campus are partaking in the consumption of alcohol, a substance that is proven to alter judgment, so it's a surprise that the number of sexual assaults on campus remains so low.
For the incident of rape to be documented and accounted for, it must first be reported by the victim. And while many victims do not step forward following an assault, as a student body we should be able to report any criminal incident at any time without fear or worry.
In the case of a sexual assault, The Sexual Assault Reponse Team will report to the crime scene. This team is made up of a state trooper or a police officer, a nurse examiner, and a STAR advocate, who is present to support the victim. Although our school has this team of expertise to offer students in the incidence of a sexual assault, it is possible that some sexual assaults are not being reported to the officials.
Students must be educated on the presence of sexual assaults and all crime, for that matter, on campus and in the community, in order to better protect themselves and be aware of what takes place on our campus.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Orange Taylor trail - Eastern Michigan
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Theft
The mom, trying to give here daughter a pep talk said, "Now I can't come over there and find your car for you - keep looking and you'll find it."
But Mom....
As it turns out, the girl searched the entire parking lot and it was gone, with the spot she though she had parked it littered with broken glass.
The car was stolen and hasn't been recovered. Someone said that students at KU have had so much problem with theft at KU that some have left messages on their window that "There's nothing worth stealing in here"
Who are these thieves? Certainly the days of leaving the computer and bike unattended, the cars unlocked and the dorm room door open are long gone, never to return.
Older, sadder and wiser.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
NYT: Curbing binge drinking
Of all the advice parents give to children heading off to college, warnings about alcohol — and especially about abusing alcohol — may be the most important. At most colleges, whether and how much students drink can make an enormous difference, not just in how well they do in school, but even whether they live or die.
Every state has a minimum drinking age of 21, and the vast majority of college students are younger than that. Yet drinking, and in particular drinking to get drunk, remains a major health and social problem on campuses. Car crashes and other accidental injuries, sexual assaults, fights, community violence, academic failure and deaths from an overdose of alcohol are among the consequences.College students spend about $5.5 billion a year on alcohol, more than they spend on books, soft drinks and other beverages combined. Alcohol is a factor in the deaths of about 1,700 college students each year.
The consequences can be particularly severe when people binge drink, a drinking pattern adopted by 44 percent of college students, national surveys have shown. Binge drinking is defined as consuming five or more drinks for men or four or more for women in a row, usually within two hours.
“Most alcohol-related harms experienced by college students occur among drinkers captured by the five/four measure of consumption,” Henry Wechsler of the Harvard School of Public Health and Toben F. Nelson of the University of Minnesota wrote in July in The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
A petition circulating among college presidents seeks to lower the drinking age to 18 on the theory that it would reduce the number of students who binge drink beyond the boundaries of college campuses. But opponents say there is no hard evidence for this belief and a better plan would be to change the drinking culture on campus.
About half of college binge drinkers arrive on campus having engaged in similar behavior in high school; an equal number acquire this behavior in college, Elissa R. Weitzman of Harvard and colleagues reported.
Every year, tens of thousands of college students wind up in emergency rooms suffering from the life-threatening effects of alcohol intoxication. And every year, about a dozen students, including some of the best and brightest and most athletically talented, die from acute alcohol poisoning. In one study of students who suffered alcohol-related injuries, 21 percent reported consuming eight or more drinks in a row.
Although Greek houses, which have the highest rates of binge drinking, are infamous for a free-flowing alcohol culture, studies have found that student athletes and sports fans are also among the heaviest drinkers, often gathering to drink to oblivion after an athletic event.
A Community Approach
A concerted effort has been made in the last decade to define the factors that prompt binge drinking on campuses and devise effective methods to combat it. What has become most obvious to researchers is that colleges cannot achieve this on their own.
“Basically, having programs to reduce binge drinking on college campuses in the absence of broad-based community interventions to do likewise may be a bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” said Dr. Timothy S. Naimi of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, which began in 1993, has identified several environmental and community factors that encourage binge drinking. Dr. Wechsler, who directed the study, said in an interview that high-volume alcohol sales, for example, and promotions in bars around campuses encourage drinking to excess.
“Some sell alcohol in large containers, fishbowls and pitchers,” he said. “There are special promotions: women’s nights where the women can drink free; 25-cent beers; two drinks for the price of one; and gut-busters, where people can drink all they want for one price until they have to go to the bathroom. Sites with these kinds of promotions have more binge drinking.
“Price is an issue,” he added. “It can be cheaper to get drunk on the weekend than to go to a movie.”
Although it is a college’s duty to educate students about the effects of alcohol and the risks of drinking too much, “education by itself doesn’t work,” Dr. Wechsler said. “You must attack the supply side as well as the demand side.”
More than half the alcohol outlets surrounding colleges that participated in the Harvard study offered promotions with price discounts, and nearly three-fourths that served alcohol on the premises had price discounts on weekends.
The study found that the sites of heaviest drinking by college students were off-campus bars and parties held off-campus and at fraternity and sorority houses.
Among the factors associated with lower levels of drinking were strong state and local drunken-driving policies aimed at youths and young adults, as well as state alcohol-control policies like keg registration and laws restricting happy hours, open containers in public, beer sold in pitchers and billboards and other types of alcohol advertising.
College sports events should not be sponsored by alcohol purveyors,” Dr. Wechsler said.
Community measures that helped to curtail binge drinking during the eight-year course of the study included a limit on alcohol outlets near campus, mandatory training for beverage servers, a crackdown on unlicensed alcohol sales and greater monitoring of alcohol outlets to curtail under-age drinking and excessive consumption by legal drinkers.
Campus practices that resulted in small but significant reductions in binge drinking included greater supervision of fraternities and sororities and more stringent accreditation requirements for Greek houses, policies to notify parents when students have trouble with alcohol, an increase in substance-free residence halls and more alcohol-free activities like movies and dances, especially on weekend nights.
But, Dr. Wechsler said, “college presidents can’t do it alone. They need help from legislative and community leaders. Alcohol is sold and consumed in the community. Residents need to get together to get it under control.”
What Parents Can Do
Dr. Wechsler urged that parents “put pressure on schools.” They should ask officials at the schools their children attend, or plan to attend, what they are doing to control drinking — especially binge drinking. When visiting schools, parents should check out the quality of life in the dorms. If they detect problems suggestive of heavy drinking, like excessive noise or vomit in the bathrooms, “they should demand that these issues be addressed,” he said.
Of course, he added, “parents should talk to their kids about drinking. Parents shouldn’t think that if it’s a beer and not a drug it’s of no consequence. Beer kills more people than drugs.”
Parents might also make it clear to students that they are expected to perform admirably outside the classroom as well as within it. Studies have shown that there is less drinking by students concerned about their grades, but also by those involved in volunteer work and other activities on and off campus.
K-State Collegian: Don't involve parents
With the recent notification that parents will be informed upon a student’s second drug or alcohol violation on campus, there has been a concern that this puts a restriction on our freedom as young adults.K-State officials might feel it is necessary to keep parents involved in various matters of their students’ life at college. What they might fail to realize is that many students here are independent in a sense that they pay for their own college costs, so why do their parents need to be informed of any accidents?Being in college and making mistakes is all a part of growing up and becoming an adult. When we leave college, we need to be able to solely rely on ourselves to make important decisions. Making mistakes in college creates room for improvement and gives us a chance to fix these aspects of our lives before we leave K-State.Another significant concern is that this could create a decrease in the K-State student population. Unfortunately, these are things that might cause students to transfer schools or even avoid coming to K-State. When students are looking for a university, one of the things they look for is freedom. The last thing they want is a repeat of middle or high school where they feel constricted by the bounds and policies of a university.We applaud K-State for trying to decrease underage drinking among students. However, we think we can fight underage drinking in another manner. Maybe creating more of an awareness on campus or a different consequence other than parental notification will be the best solution. However, this new policy will cause students to feel their freedom is being restricted — and this is not the best way to go.
SDSU death
A 22-year-old student was stabbed to death and three other students were wounded during a street fight early yesterday on the San Diego State University campus.
The Medical Examiner's Office identified the man who was killed as Luis Felipe Watson Dos Santos, a Mesa College student from Concord.
San Diego police homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney said the four victims, all men, had just left a party shortly after 2 a.m. and were walking on 55th Street near Peterson Gym Drive when they began arguing with a second group of four men.
The altercation turned into a fight in the middle of 55th Street, and the four victims were stabbed by a member of the other group, Rooney said. No arests were reported as of late last night.
Santos died at the scene, and the other victims, ages 20 to 24, were taken to hospitals with wounds not believed to be life-threatening, Rooney said. Their conditions were unavailable.
San Diego Community College spokesman Rich Dittbenner said Santos and two of the other victims were Mesa College students. The fourth victim attends SDSU, Dittbenner said.
San Diego State University spokesman Jack Beresford said he did yet know whether the party that the victims attended was at a university residence hall, sorority, fraternity or private residence. SDSU's Fraternity Row is just south of where the fight occurred.
Details of the incident began circulating yesterday among students.
Sophomore Dave Brager, who lives on Hardy Avenue, said his housemates encountered the crime scene on their way home from evening activities.
“They said there were cops everywhere, and they said somebody got stabbed, but then today I heard that one was dead,” Brager said. “I heard it was a murder. It's scary because it's right in my backyard. It's where I walk every day. I think of campus as a safe area. There's not too many thugs around.”
Grant Garske, a student government vice president, said the stabbings were “terrible and tragic.”
“I don't like it when any student gets hurt. I don't like it when any student fights,” Garske said.
Usually students fight over trivial matters, he said, and regret it the next day.
“In this case, I'm sure every one of those students regrets what they did,” Garske said. “Life is clearly more important than a fight.”
Russell Hunter, student president of the Interfraternity Council, said many parties are held in the area.
Campus police have found no fraternity connection to the fight, said Gina Speciale, an SDSU spokeswoman.
Beresford said the university issued a crime alert that was distributed around the campus and posted on the college Web site.
The assault was being described as an isolated incident, but Beresford said students are advised, in general, not to walk alone at night and to program the campus police telephone number into their phones. That number is (619) 594-1991.
Anyone with information is asked to call the San Diego police Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Despicable
COLUMN: JuicyCampus.com successful despite despicable defamation
Eric Combs/The Daily
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sometimes I wish Al Gore, or whoever it was, never invented the Internet.Sure, the World Wide Web has offered a great deal of convenience over the years, including things like instantaneous communication, access to hoards of information in seconds and the ability to pirate overpriced music for free. But every advantage has its drawback.
For a long time, I thought Facebook and MySpace were the worst things ever spawned from the information superhighway. That was until I heard the words “JuicyCampus.com” and “University of Oklahoma” in the same sentence. JuicyCampus.com — a Web site to which people can post anonymous gossip — is the new undisputed champion of appalling when it comes to surfing the Web. And the man who created it is a commercial genius. But he’s also a jerk.
Can you think of many things more fun than publicly defaming your worst enemies? Can you think of any easier way to do it than by sitting behind the anonymity of a computer screen that doesn’t require you to sign in or post a username? That’s apparently what Matt Ivester, the founder of this thing, figured out in October, 2007.
If you attended high school within the borders of the United States, you’ve figured out by now that people enjoy some good gossip. However, the same gossip that flies down the hallways of fraternity and sorority houses at twice the speed of electricity used to lack the threat of mass publication due to slander and libel laws that our Constitution thankfully contains. uicyCampus.com took care of all that.I have to admit that looking at the site itself and scouring through the OU section is quite interesting. If you were wondering who the easiest girl to pick up at a Campus Corner bar might be, there’s a thread for it. Ever wanted to publicly question the sexuality of an entire fraternity? You can do that too. Or maybe you want to insult an entire race or religion. Regrettably, that’s also fair game. I’m not at all surprised at the Web site’s success, even though it’s been in existence for such a short time.
But I’m disappointed that such useless banter, much of which is likely false or exaggerated, is so powerful a tool in spreading erroneous and derogatory information concerning enemies, ex-girlfriends and the like. The issue here is not that the site’s content is childish, wrong or even salacious in nature. I’d say it’s fairly obvious and agreeable that it is. The problem is that there are some perfectly decent people (and some not so perfectly decent people) who are having their reputations smashed by people who may or may not even know them.
The problem here is that the people who operate this defamation machine are essentially fostering an environment in which intolerance and hatred are the status quo. The sad part is that even with all the public outcry and complaints, I don’t envision the site’s popularity suffering much because of the ease and anonymity it virtually promises visitors. The site will remain popular because gossip sells advertising, which is why people like Jerry Springer and the lovely women from Sex and the City can be wealthy and popular in this country.
I’m certainly not going on a campaign to try to entice people to quit using the site. I’m smart enough to realize that’s not going to happen and that the site’s popularity is likely in its infancy. The only thing my fellow naysayers and I can hope for is that Ivester and company will eventually grow so tiresome of complaints and lawsuit threats that they’ll get rid of the site for good. Until then, the rumor mill continues and the OU greek community’s cyber-battle rages on. But here’s hoping that, as JuicyCampus.com’s grasp on collegiate life continues to grow stronger, so too will the outrage at the consequences it produces. Here’s hoping Ivester and company will have some sort of epiphany that inspires them to rethink their career path.
If not, I’ll just paraphrase a line from a film that starred award-winning actor and noted academic Pauly “the weasel” Shore. Folks, stop wheezing the juice.
Eric Combs is a journalism senior. His column appears every other Tuesday.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Planter through the door - Sept. 22
Minor in Possession: Britta Irene Tjaden: 20
Criminal Damage to Property: Dykstra Hall glass door was damaged by a
planter object thrown into the door. Loss is estimated at $300.00
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
Friday, September 19, 2008
Public nudity "treated like other crimes" at TT
While it is not a common offense, Tech police officers recently have made arrests for disorderly conduct based on a lack of clothing.According to the Texas Penal Code Title 9, chapter 42.01, subsection (a)(2), a person commits a disorderly conduct crime if they make "an offensive gesture or display in a public place, and the gesture or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace." The offense is classified as a Class C misdemeanor. Col. Gordon Hoffman, deputy chief of the Tech police department, said although the department does not see many of these violations, they handle them the same way as any other arrest.A non-student was arrested during the Texas Tech vs. Southern Methodist University football game Sept. 13 in the C-2 parking lot, near the Jones AT&T Stadium, for exposing their genitals.On Sept. 9, a non-student was arrested in the 2500 block of Broadway Avenue for public intoxication after he was seen naked in the fountains.Hoffman said the responding officer has discretion on whether to jail the person or give them a warning. The officer will give the person something to cover himself or herself with if available, otherwise the person will go to jail naked.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Bike thefts
Bike theft arrests:
Shari Ann Singleton 20, and Logan Curtis Spangler 21, were arrested and issued a notice to appear for criminal damage to property and theft.
The arrests were a result of a bike theft investigation.
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Marijuana "debate"
You couldn’t smell any marijuana in the crowd Monday night during the “Heads Versus Feds” SUA event, but there were plenty of tie-dyed, 1960s band shirts sprinkled through the crowd of 440 people.
Steve Hager, editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, and Robert Stutman, a retired special agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency of New York City, argued until they were both red in the face about the legalization of marijuana in front of an emotionally charged crowd, but they also inspired a few laughs.
Hager took to the stage first, and he listed five reasons why cannabis should be legalized:
- It is useful for medicinal purposes.
- Hemp is good for the environment.
- Criminalizing marijuana has led to crowded prisons, with 900,000 people arrested for possession each year.
Keeping marijuana on the black market provides dealers and criminals a cut of the $500 billion-a-year industry.
- It’s part of his culture.
“That’s most important to me,” Hager, an Illinois native, said of his affinity for the counterculture of the 1960s. Hager said he first smoked marijuana at 15 and was one of the first in his high school to do so.
Many in the audience were amused when Hager said George Washington was a hemp farmer and that hemp was used for books, ink, lamps and ropes.
“The first American flag was made from hemp,” Hager said.
When Stutman took the microphone, he said that Hager, his friend of seven years, passed off his own beliefs of marijuana as facts.
“Don’t fall for half-truths,” Stutman said.
Stutman fired back at Hager’s hemp statements, saying he didn’t think most Americans cared about the counterculture or about making hemp ropes.
After 25 years in the DEA, Stutman said he had arrested more than 15,000 people on drug charges.
Although Stutman disagreed with the recreational use of marijuana, he said Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, a substance found in cannabis, could be used for medicinal purposes.
Stutman said only 16 million people in the United States were regular cannabis users.
“You know why?” Stutman asked. “Because it’s not legal.”
Stutman said it should remain illegal because cannabis could lessen depth perception and impair a person’s ability to think and reason logically.
Kelley Rushing, Lawrence junior, said both Stutman and Hager did a reasonable job of presenting both sides of the argument.
“But I came because I believe in marijuana,” Rushing said. “I know you shouldn’t smoke and drive. And while Steve presented a logical and reasonable argument about a harmless drug, Bob made us think and sound like we are blind followers.”
Kristen Lervik, Mulvane freshman, said she did not smoke marijuana but was interested in the event because some of her friends did smoke.
“I don’t look down on people that smoke,” Lervik said. “I have never smoked and never will. It’s a personal choice, and it’s just how I am.”
The event was open to a question-and-answer session after points about the legalization debate were presented.
Many questions involved states’ rights to legalize marijuana, the medicinal uses of marijuana and why the government won’t allow it to be used for both medicinal and recreational purposes.
“I smoke weed. I’ll admit it,” one student said as he stepped up to the microphone.
Another student asked if the DEA confiscated marijuana and then sold it back to the public — a question which incited laughter from Hager and Stutman.
“No, we burn it,” Stutman said.
Although some assume Hager would spend most of April 20 stoned, Hager said he’s usually debating.
“I think there’s a meaningful significance to 4:20 though,” Hager said. “It’s the socially acceptable time to smoke.”
Hager said out of 140 schools, Stutman has won over the crowd with his arguments only twice.
Will Coquillette, Lenexa senior, said both speakers appealed too much to the emotion of the audience.
“I wanted more prudent evidence from both; more concrete facts,” Coquillette said.
Hager said marijuana was part of his religion, and people shouldn’t fear cannabis users.
“We are good people,” Hager said. “We’ve done good things for America, and we’re as American as apple pie and baseball. So, please, can I get a little freedom of religion in America?”
— Edited by Lauren Keith
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sexual predators at State U
As college students settle into the fall semester, they may be surprised to learn that their off-campus neighbors may include paroled sex offenders.
Hundreds of communities in almost half the nation's states have banned registered sex offenders from living close to places frequented by children, such as playgrounds and elementary schools. But in most cases, those laws do not include the areas surrounding university campuses — so convicted sex offenders have moved in.
"A convicted sexual felon should not be able to live next door to your college student," said Jamie Ison, an Alabama state representative who sponsored a bill that would include universities under the legal definition of a school.
Some schools, such as the University of Washington, have sought to push sex offenders out of campus neighborhoods without the aid of legislation. The university is one of the first in the nation to begin establishing a buffer zone that would be off-limits to sex offenders.
Gov. Chris Gregoire raised concerns earlier this year with a landlord whose tenants included sex offenders. The landlord then ousted 13 of the 25 parolees living near the U. of Washington's Seattle campus.
But critics say banning convicted sex offenders from living within a certain area only creates different problems. "Such laws and ordinances do not provide effective community protection, and they threaten offender stability and reintegration into society," said Jack King, the director of public affairs for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a group that opposes any residency restrictions on convicted sex offenders. King said that those laws create an atmosphere where sex offenders trying to stay on the straight and narrow are forced into the street or back into jail for giving false information to police. "Most sex offenders would rather die outside prison than die in prison," he said. Washington's Department of Corrections is trying to avoid placing convicts near the Seattle campus. But that effort does not extend to the city's other colleges and universities, including two private four-year schools in areas with more sex offenders than the University of Washington. "It's a real problem to find them a place to live," said Anne Fiala, a corrections administrator. "People end up living under bridges or in cars. We would prefer they have a roof over their heads." Sex offenders are finding homes near universities nationwide. In Los Angeles, 60 offenders live within a mile of the University of Southern California. Nine live within a mile of Duke University in Durham, N.C. In Chicago, six can be found within a mile of Northwestern University. There are 93 paroled sex offenders within a two-mile radius of Jacksonville University in Florida . Some states, like Arkansas, have tried to ban sex offenders from living close to institutions of higher learning. But Ison's bill died on the last day of the legislative session after critics raised doubts about whether there had been any reports of sex crimes instigated by registered sex offenders living near a campus. A 1990 federal law, the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, requires college security to know if there is a registered sex offender living on campus and, upon request, to inform students and staff where they can find that information. "They don’t go out and openly publicize that — a lot of the reason for that is so much of the crime that they deal with on campus is student-on-student and with sexual assault," said Alison Kiss, program director for the organization Security on Campus. "Registered sex offenders don’t seem to be the problem." Still some students insist it's the state's responsibility to protect them. "I think student safety should be a top priority for all schools," said R.B. Walker, a University of Alabama senior who lobbied for the Arkansas bill. "Anything less is unacceptable."
Sept. 12-15 KSU Police Log - Cases of Note
Cases of Note:Theft: Fatima Anis 28: Reported a Stolen Bicycle Value $160.00
Criminal Damage to Property: Julie Richerson 20: Reported her 2000Toyota was damaged in Parking Lot D-2. Damaged was a side window anddoor frame. The damage was less then $1,000
Minor in Possession: Jacob Norby 18
Unlawful Hosting of Minors: Jason Collett 21
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sept 9-10 Police log
Theft: Dana Seiler reported art supplies stolen from 222 Willard Hall.
Arrest from September 6th.
Minor in Possession, Obstruction of legal process, unlawful use of a drivers license. Ethan Louis Shalz 18
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
An end to Ipods?
Anyone who has visited a college campus recently can testify to just how attached students are to their iPods and cell phones. But in the wake of an attempted attack on an 18-year-old student at El Camino College, students must reassess their personal habits and become more safety conscious.
Police at the Torrance area college issued a campus alert Sunday after a student fought off an attacker in a campus parking structure. The incident took place 6:45 p.m. Friday as the student was walking alone to her car in the Lot F lower parking structure along Redondo Beach Boulevard.
Police said she was grabbed from behind but was able to fight off the assailant, who fled the area. The woman, who was listening to an MP3 player at the time, was not hurt. Campus police should be credited with quickly issuing the alert and getting the information to the media over the weekend.
Over the past year, two other women were sexually assaulted on the campus. Such cases are not easy to solve. The only description of the assailant police released in the most recent case was "unknown sex, race, height or weight possibly wearing gray sweat pants and white Nike shoes hands had the strong odor of a tobacco product."
This week campus police are reminding students to be especially alert and to recognize that the use of iPods and cell phones can distract students when they truly need to be alert to their surroundings. Other good advice is not to walk alone on campus, especially at night. A campus security shuttle now operates from 5:30p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday to help students get around safely. And when in a campus parking structure, don't park next to vans. Their sliding doors can be used to pull crime victims inside. We trust that the safety benefits that were promised to voters when they approved a bond measure for campus improvements in 2002 will begin to pay off. The proceeds of Measure E are allowing the college to move forward with installing video cameras, better lighting maintenance and a system for mass e-mails and text messages during emergencies. Of course, none of those things can guarantee the safety of all students on the campus, where the enrollment exceeds 25,000. That's why students need to continue to exercise caution and report any unusual or suspicious activities to the campus Police Department.
CU police plans - one year after stabbing
CU administration is continuing efforts to address countrywide campus safety concerns.
Security at CU became personal for local students last year when then freshman finance major Michael Knorps was slashed outside of the UMC by a former university employee. The university immediately came under scrutiny by students for their hiring practices. In a statement released last September, CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said the university had taken steps to prevent hiring potentially dangerous workers again by introducing mandatory background checks for every employee.CU Police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley said the police look at campus safety and continue to work closely with the university in order to evaluate safety concerns on a regular basis."Every time there's a major incident, we look at the incident and try and determine what was done well, and we look at our operation and see if any of that can be applied to us," Wiesley said. "After Virginia Tech, one of the things we focused on was communication with the campus. At the time, [Virginia Tech] used email and Web site updates, the problem being that people were still asleep or not at computers."Wiesley added that the RAVE CU system, a text messaging-based security project that sends alerts to students of possible threats on campus, was installed just one week before the stabbing because of lessons learned at Virginia Tech.The university is also making sure that those who don't carry cell phones will receive warnings as well."We have to use many different means to reach the broadest population," said campus Fire Marshal Mansour Alipour-fard.Newly constructed or renovated buildings, such as the business and law facilities, have been outfitted with numerous speakers. In the event of an emergency, CUPD will be able to broadcast voice messages to a total of 35 buildings from their offices via a console, Alipour-fard said.The university is also considering installing a large outdoor PA system similar to systems used in tornado and flood warnings, as well as an emergency alert broadcast system on the numerous flat-screen monitors located in the UMC and business schools, though neither idea is currently underway.Lauren Shapiro, a sophomore business major, said she was impressed with the university's efforts."I don't really think you can ever be prepared for violence on campus, but I feel better knowing that safety is such a big issue," she said.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Call for assistance
The Kansas State University Police Department is looking to speak with two women who may have helped a victim of a sexual assault on September 7, 2008 at about 700 PM in the area of Kerr Drive in the Jardine Apartment Complex. The Kansas State University Police continue to
investigate this case and need information from anyone who may have been in the area during this time with information that may help with the investigation. Those who may have information should call the Kansas State University Police Department at 532-6412 and ask for investigations or can leave tips at www.ksu.edu/police/silent.
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
Monday, September 8, 2008
KSU Police Log - Cases of note - Sept. 5-8
Cases of note:
Theft: Andrew Mcgowan reported the theft of a bicycle
Notice to Appear: Minor in Possession: Steven Edward Mendenhall 19
Notice to Appear: Minor in Possession,Obstruction of the legal process:Paul Dominic Prather 19.
Notice to appear Minor in Consumption: Logan S Keck 18
RAPE REPORT: On Saturday September 6, 2008 a rape was reported to the Kansas State University Police Department. The victim stated she was raped by an unknown male while walking in the Northwest part of campus near the Jardine Apartment Complex. The incident occurred at about 7:00 PM. The suspect is described as a white male 6 feet tall and less then
200 pounds. Anyone with any information should contact the Kansas State University Police investigations at 532-6412 or anonymous tips can be left at www.ksu.edu/police/silent
Large Alcohol Seizure: The Kansas State University Police Department seized 669 cans of beer at a large tailgate party where underage drinking was taking place. The Kansas State University Police have been pro-active in the enforcement of underage drinking with assistance from a grant to help combat underage drinking during the football season. (A
photo is attached.)
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Cases of Note
Cases of Note:
Parking permit theft. Kelsey Alleninger reported that a parking permit
was stolen from her vehicle parked at her residence of campus.
Damage to Property: The Danforth Chapel glass door was broken causing
close to 500.00 in damage. At this time there are no suspects.
Theft arrest: Officers responded to the Facilites Grounds Building for a
reported theft in progress. Upon officers arrival the suspect fled on
foot and was arrested by officers after a foot pursuit.
Grant Theodore Zoller 24. was arrested and charged with theft and
obstruction of the legal process.
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
Search continue for Tech student
Here is a story from Texas Tech about a missing older student and the search for clues. From the article:
Park rangers are conducting aerial searches of a Utah wilderness area for a 61-year-old Texas Tech graduate student who has been missing since July.
Michael Leonard Krasnick was last seen on July 29 in Austin and planned to go on a camping trip somewhere in Utah, Arizona or New Mexico before returning to Lubbock, where he moved from Austin earlier in the summer, according to a Tech Police Department incident report.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Strange tale
On September 2, 2008 at about 8:00 pm the Kansas State University Police responded to the KSU Student Union for a report of drug use in a vehicle occupied by the guest speaker who was scheduled to address Kansas State University students. During the course of the investigation occupants of the vehicle were questioned by officers and released without arrest.
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University
Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506785-532-6412785-532-7408(fax)
KSU police report: arrests
Arrests
DUI: Travis John Ternes 20
Disorderly Conduct Arrest: Trent Shelton Lawrence 21
Subjects issued citations for Minors in Possession/Consumption: Tyler
David Becker 20, Sean Taylor Shoemaker 19, Brecklyn Anne Bolan 19,
Samuel Lanahan Denvir 19, Prince Carl Edward 20, Kevin Matthew Dawson
19.
Criminal Damage to Property: Jesse Ray Smith 23
Minor in Possession, obstruction of official duty, and battery to a law
enforcement officer: Luke McIntosh 19
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Daily Texan - UCrime
A crime database Web site is allowing students to see where crime is occurring around college campuses on a Google Maps background.
Colin Drane, founder of UCrime.com, said the site offers a geospacial way of displaying campus crime information, which may be easier for students to use than a traditional police blotter. The site, which will double in size within the next two weeks, creates mappings based on crime information provided by campus and surrounding cities' police departments and is updated when this information is received, he said.
The site offers users the ability to search for different types of crime on a campus, including vandalism and thefts. Drane said this information could help students decide where to park or where to look for housing, and could coincide with information provided by emergency awareness programs enacted by universities.
"We are more of a latent alert system," Drane said, adding that a recent attempted kidnapping at the University of Maryland would not be included in the college's emergency awareness program but would be mapped on the UCrime site.
Drane said he hopes the Web site will prompt university police departments around the country to compete in how quickly and often they update the crime information available to students.
University Police Department Chief Robert Dahlstrom said the department has considered mapping crime statistics in the past but was limited by GPS mapping management around campus. He said he supports any way that can make students aware of what happens on campus but is worried that crime in surrounding areas, which is also displayed on the map, may confuse people who are not familiar with the area.
"If you're a parent looking to send your child [to the University], that site could be a little misleading," Dahlstrom said. "At the same time, I'm for being totally open about what's going on."
Dahlstrom said he encourages everyone from the UT community to visit the UTPD Web site and sign up to receive Campus Watch, a daily log of crime information on campus. Students can also sign up for Mobile Campus, which provides updated crime information and warnings to users' cell phones, at https://longhorns.mobilecampus.com/.
UCrime
Prof arrest
A University professor was arrested and placed on involuntary leave last week.
Thomas A. Schreiber, professor of psychology, was arrested Friday after failing to appear in court for two traffic violations.
Schreiber is scheduled to have his first court appearance this afternoon, but he will be held at the Douglas County Jail until his $375 bond is paid. His next court appearance is Friday.
Greg Simpson, chairman of the psychology department, declined to comment on why Schreiber had been placed on leave or when he would come back.
However, Ernest Smith, a friend of Schreiber’s, said Schreiber told him that his office had been entirely packed up and that a secretary at the department said he would not be coming back any time soon.
Schreiber said the leave was possibly a punishment for keeping his cat, Persephone, in his office at Fraser Hall and for having a disorganized office.
Schreiber said he did not appear at court on the designated day, Aug. 22, because he mistakenly appeared on Aug. 21.
He said it was unlikely he would be able to make bond soon because of financial problems. He said he had put all of his money into his research.
Schreiber contacted The University Daily Kansan on Aug. 13 claiming to have found the treatment for several diseases including Parkinson’s and alcoholism. Schreiber said his findings had not yet been published because the University refused to help him.
After several meetings with the University’s Center for Technology Commercialization, Schreiber said he was given a waiver from the University that would require him to give the University 70 percent of the profit from his research.
Schreiber said he was also turned away from University Relations this summer.
Todd Cohen, director of University Relations, said he was familiar with Schreiber but could not discuss the details of Schreiber’s current situation.
Schreiber was scheduled to give seminars about his research today and Thursday at the Museum of Anthropology, but they have been canceled.
Katherine Leslie contributed to this article.Friday, August 29, 2008
Reconsider drinking age?
The UT Vice President's Council recommended by unanimous decision Thursday that President William Powers not sign a controversial statement by university presidents from across the country calling for a reconsideration of the legal drinking age.
The Amethyst Initiative, led by former Middlebury College President John McCardell, is supported by 129 university and college presidents who agree that a culture of clandestine binge-drinking has formed on college campuses because "21 is not working."
The initiative's statement, written by McCardell, stops short of spelling out a desired policy, but urges elected officials to support a civil debate on the current drinking age.
Powers learned of the initiative days before the statement was released Aug. 20 and said he would consult with the University's vice presidents before deciding whether to sign on.
Vice President for Student Affairs Juan Gonzales said he made it clear to the other vice presidents that the initiative was not intended to prescribe a particular policy solution but to start a conversation on university campuses. He said the council based its decision on existing research linking a rise in the legal drinking age to a drop in alcohol-related deaths.
Gonzales said legislators ultimately are responsible for leading discussion on matters of policy.
"This is a matter of public policy, and there are elected representatives that are responsible for creating and voting on public policy," Gonzales said.
Student Government spokeswoman Chelsea Fosse said SG representatives have not decided whether to take a stance on the initiative.
Fosse is a member of the Alcohol Task Force, a working group composed of representatives from across UT considering issues related to alcohol abuse on campus. The task force expects to make recommendations to Vice President Gonzales on how to improve the University's policies on alcohol abuse sometime during the upcoming academic year.
Formed in 2007, the task force is still in an information-gathering stage, but Fosse said she hoped the recommendations would emphasize a more proactive approach to alcohol abuse. She said such an approach could involve a campus administrator advising student organizations on how to address alcohol use.
"The most important thing is making it not just a retroactive disciplinary policy on alcohol but something that's proactive and embraces whatever the organization's culture is," Fosse sai
Thursday, August 28, 2008
UCrime to cover K-State
Survival training
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any "improvised weapon," from a backpack to a laptop computer.
The program—which includes a video showing a gunman opening fire in a packed classroom—urges them to be ready to respond to a shooter by taking advantage of the inherent strength in numbers.
It reflects a new response at colleges and universities where grisly memories of the campus shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University are still fresh.
"Look at your environment through the lens of survival," said Domenick Brouillette, who administered the course at Metropolitan Community College, which serves more than 20,000 students. "Survivors prepare themselves both mentally and emotionally to do what it takes. It might involve life-threatening risk. You may do something you never thought you were capable of doing."
Nearly 300 professors at Metropolitan Community College were shown the video as part of a training exercise before the first day of classes on this downtown campus. The training, produced by the Center for Personal Protection and Safety, a for-profit firm based in Spokane, Wash., is also available for the school's students.
The training drills teachers and students in a "survival mindset," said Randy Spivey, a former U.S. Department of Defense hostage negotiator who is executive director of the center. The center's roster includes retired FBI agents and others with federal law enforcement experience.
"There are two extremes. On the one hand is paranoia, and on the other is oblivion," he said. "We're just trying to get people to keep this on their radar."
The training discourages cowering in a corner or huddling together in fear, Brouillette emphasized at the Kansas City session.
Instead, Metropolitan Community College faculty members were taught to be aware of their surroundings and to think of common classroom objects—such as laptops and backpacks—as "improvised weapons."
The program has been bought by nearly 500 colleges, which tailor the company's safety messages—laid out in instructional videos and other training guides—to craft localized violence prevention programs. Spivey expects that by year's end that number will have grown to about 1,000 schools.
Schools may provide the training to students as well as staff, as at Metropolitan, or limit it to instructors or security personnel.
Campus safety experts interviewed by The Associated Press said they are not aware of any similar survival training courses marketed specifically to college campuses.
"It's a dark subject," Brouillette said. "But we can't say 'It's never going to happen again.' It's 'When is it going to happen?' And we have to be prepared to survive that."
The sort of aggressive survival response cited by Brouillette troubles school violence researcher Loren Coleman, a retired University of Southern Maine professor.
Showing students violent images of school shootings could trigger post-traumatic stress or other reactions that resident advisers, graduate assistants and similarly untrained workers would be unequipped to handle, Coleman said.
And the techniques shown in instructional videos such as "Shots Fired" could provide inspiration for troubled students considering their own acts of violence, Coleman suggested.
"You more or less are giving them a blueprint for how to avoid law enforcement," he said.
At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, officials are looking for ways to incorporate the training as part of the school's "Alert Carolina" program. Campus police chief Jeff McCracken said the school may offer hands-on training to students and faculty, or simply post a link on the university Web site.
Despite the relative rarity of deadly violence on campus, colleges can no longer assume that they are immune from such problems, McCracken said.
"I do think it's important that we talk to our folks and give them some guidance on how to protect themselves and others," he said. "It's not something that 10 years ago we thought we'd be talking about. But unfortunately, it's something we need to do now."
Todd Bowdish, a Metropolitan Community College life sciences professor who participated in the recent training session, agreed that today's classroom climate requires extreme caution.
"It's a really basic thing," Bowdish said. "We have drills for fires and tornadoes. This is just another tool for the toolbox."
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
MU freshman held in case
A man who was arrested after police found his mother's body in the trunk of his car and his younger brother, who was also detained by police, were both taking classes at MU.
Police pulled over MU freshman Daniel Sanders, 19, on Aug. 14 in response to multiple complaints his car had been swerving and driving without headlights, Columbia Police Capt. Brad Nelson said. While searching the vehicle, police found a body wrapped in a blanket in the trunk of his Mercury Marquis, Nelson said.
The body was identified as Helen Sanders, his mother. The car was also registered to her, Nelson said.
Daniel Sanders was unwilling to cooperate with initial inquiries regarding the body, Nelson said.
"He refused to answer any questions about the body in the trunk," he said.
Daniel Sanders' younger brother Gary Sanders, 16, who takes classes at MU, was detained in their home on Melrose Drive.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
UCrime gets more press
Seattle's University District is peppered with fists, robbers and handcuffs, according to a recently-launched Web site that tracks crime near college campuses around the country.
That's code for assaults, burglaries and arrests. Take a look at the map produced by UCrime.com, which tracks police data to for a comprehensive look at criminal activity near more than 100 schools.
TK: As I'm seeing the stats, K-State and Baylor are the only Big 12 schools not on this system. Why aren't Baylor and K-State on board? A good question for our student newspapers.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Rape report - Residence hall
Rape report: The Kansas State University Police Department is investigating a rape which, occurred in a resident hall on August 22, 2008. The suspect was known to the victim. The case is still under investigation.
Captain Donald Stubbings
Support Services Commander
Kansas State University Police Department
108 Edwards Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-6412
785-532-7408(fax