Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Rose Mary Woods-esque

I emailed Heather Reed and Captain Stubbings and asked K-State to resend the April 18-24 police log today. According to my inbox, I think they skipped right over those dates and published the April 25 log. The missing gap in police logs brings with it a gratuitous and unmerited conspiratorial reference to Rose Mary Woods and the Watergate era. Only those 45 and older have any shot of recalling the 18 1/2 minute gap. In the case of the April 18-24 police log gap, I'm sure it's just an honest omission. Speaking of the K-State police log, the latest version appears to be police log lite - partial sentence descriptions of various events.

This came from today's log:

OFFICERS AND EMS RESPONDED TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY AT THROCKMORTON HALL.
TRANSPORT BY EMS WAS REFUSED.

Here was the police log earlier this year, describing a medical emergency the campus police responded to:

WEST HALL
OFFICER AND EMS RESPONDED MEDICAL EMERGENCY AT WEST HALL ROOM (XXX-omitted here but room number is present in the published police log). REPORTING PERSON ADVISED FEMALE SUBJECT LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. VICTIM REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS ON ARRIVAL. TRANSPORT BY EMS WAS REFUSED


Perhaps KSU police and Campus Security Officer Heather Reed are cutting back on details of incidents in the police log in regard for students right to privacy. If so, I can't fault them for that, but only wonder why it wasn't done sooner.



Rose Mary Woods demonstrating how she may have erased tape recordings
Rose Mary Woods demonstrating how she may have erased tape recordings



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