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Thursday, March 30, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Bookstore stocks protection devices to deter crime
By LINDA FINESTONE
Staff Writer
Jeanne Longaker likes the idea of the
Union Bookstore selling anti-de-
crime devices.
Longaker, a detective with KU police, said recently that self-protection devices such as those sold at the bookstore could be good deterrents to criminals, especially in urban areas.
Self-protection is important at this time of year, she said, because the incidence of all kinds of crime usually increases in the spring.
"I was impressed with what they have and feel it's a step in the right direction," she said.
bought a bookcase.
The Union Bookcase last month began offering a line of seven personal protection devices.
Among the devices are a chain lock that sounds an alarm when opened without a key, a combination pin-secure flashlight and a doorbell. The device is an alarm when a door is opened against it.
Other security items include case-hardened steel chain locks in 4-foot and 6-foot lengths, a flashlight with lights on both ends combined with an alarm, which is available in two sizes, and a marking pen that shows up only under ultraviolet light.
Another item is a shriek alarm, a hand-
held cylinder about four inches in length.
When a button on the cylinder is pressed, the
cylinder rolls to the right. Each cylinder contains 40 such shrieks.
The devices range in price from $2.99 for the purse alarm to $15.99 for the door stop device.
Bette Brock, general manager of the Kansas Union bookstores, said last week that she originally had not planned to stock such items until the fall. However, she said that with urging from the dean of women's books, a bookstore obtained the items for this spring.
"I had no idea there was such a need for this," Brock said.
Brock said she had been told last week by the National Association of College Book
Stores (a nationwide group of college bookstores) that the Union Bookstore was the first college bookstore in the country to provide personal protection department of this type.
Brock said more items probably would be added to the department later.
One item that Brock said she refused to stock, however, was a small device that could read a keypad.
"I have samples of it but I will not sell it in this climate," she said.
Brock said winds could catch tear gas or mace and blow it in the eyes of the user, rather than into the face of an attacker.
According to Patty Boyer, a bookstore employee, some shriek alarms, a chain lock alarm and some purse alarms have been sold. Brock said that even if sales were slow, he would still stock them.
"As long as there is a need, we'll carry it," she said.
**Figures from Lawrence Flood Show that**
1978 178 rapes, 6 murders, 46 robberies, 788
178 murders
burglary and 189 auto thefts were committed in Lawrence. Longaker said there were a number of cases where the suspects
Longaker, who gives talks and demonstrations on self-defense, said the awareness that items were available was itself a need.
1. the need is the awareness that people are beginning to have," she said. "The need is to be aware."
Longaker said that although law enforcement agencies had no way of knowing how much self-protection devices actually deterred criminals, precautions such as locks and alarms could help prevent assaults of all kinds.
She said such devices would not stop a professional, but could deter an amateur. However, Longaker said it was rare in the hospital to be able to attempt to attack a burglary or assault.
In addition, Longaker said the warmer weather was a good reason for people to stay indoors.
"It spring and summer we do things on impulse," she said. "We don't take time to plan."
Senate approves education pilot
TOPEKA (AP)—The Kansas Senate passed yesterday and sent to the House a bill to implement a one-year pilot program for competency-based education. The state will provide funding through the Board of Education to initiate a program of testing students in 20 or 39 school districts.
Stripped from the bill in a Senate committee was a House-approved provision to allow certain groups to vote.
KANSAN On Campus
Events
TODAY: STUDENT SOCIAL WORKERS meet at 11:30 a.m. in Ableb of B the Union.
THE UNCLASSIFIED WOMEN'S ADVERTISING UNIT meets at noon in the Meadowlark Room of the Union. KU HONOR STUDENTS meet at 12:30 p.m. in the Union's Council Room. THE INTERRATERNITY COUNCIL's Executive Committee meets at 2 p.m. in the University Crusade room at 12:30 p.m. in Ableb of E the Union. A COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM is at 4 p.m. in the Room of the Union. AN ARCHITECTURE DINNER is at 5:30 p.m. in the Union's Centennial Room.
TONIGHT: RAPE VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES meets at 6 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union. CAMPUS VETS meet at 6 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union. AN SUA BOARD DINNER is at 6 p.m. in the Parkside Room of the Union. THE ALLTOWN HALL COUNCIL meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Union's International Room. SAU BRIAGE meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Union Parliars. PHI CHI THETA meets at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union. SENATE LEGAL SERVICES meets at 7 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union. CHRONICLER meets at 7:30 p.m. in Cork 2 of the Union. CHANCELLOR EMERITUS RAYMOND NICHOLS is speaking to the KU Honor Students at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union. SIGMA DELTA CHI is sponsoring a Freedom of Information Panel at 7:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE MEETING meets at 8 p.m. in the International Room of the Union. THE KU BALLOONING ASSOCIATION meets at 8 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS meet at 8 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union. LAWRENCE STONE, Princeton University, is giving a humanities lecture, "The Social History of Civil Rights," in p. woods Audruffrittum. KUAD is having a party at 8:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Union.
Michaelis has an 83.0 average, followed closely by Doyle with 83.5. Plattner has compiled an 84.2 mark. Gebert, who experienced difficulties in the season opener at Pinehurst, seems to have gotten his game back on the right track.
TOMORROW: SUA will have an Outdoor Recreation Bike Clinic in the Pine Room of the Union. PHILIP SMITH, bookbinder, will present a Library Slide Lecture, "Book-Binding for Library Users," and Riding Library Auditorium. UPWARD BOUND will meet at 6 p.m. in the Union's Cottonwood room. FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY will have a dinner at 7 p.m. in the Watkins Room of the Union. THE CREATIVE FANTASY CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Parkors B and C of the Union. The CREATIVE FANTASY CLUB will present a student rectal at 8 p.m. in the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont.
Palmer leads the team with a 79-stroke average. He is the only player to have played at Shawnee, firing rounds of 77:74:76 as a sonhorem.
Golfers to compete in Oklahoma meet
The tournament will conclude tomorrow with one 18-hole round.
the state during the 1979-80 school year, but the results of the pilot program in the 1979-80 school year are not available.
After two straight last place finishes, the Jayhawks will get a chance to escape the collar when they compete in the Shawnee, beginning today with a grueling 30-hole round.
Perhaps the third time will be a charm for the University of Kansas men's soil team.
The Jayhawks will get to see just how they rate with the other big Eight teams. They are all on the same team.
Men's golf coach John Hanna has selected Craig Palmer, Jim Dyle, Steve Gebert, John Cain and Tim Reilly.
Also passed by the Senate were tax relief bills expanding the Homestead Property Tax Relief Act and refunding the sales tax on food to poor and elderly Kansas.
The Kansas National-Education Association and the Kansas Association of School Board Administrators had opposed the plan to put a program, urging instead the pilot program.
The homestead bill passed 36-2 and the food tax refund measure was approved, 38-1. Both go back to the House for concurrence of Senate amendments.
Eligibility for the homeestead property tax refund would be raised to those making up to $10,214 a year. The current ceiling is $8,150.
The food tax refund measure wood give those with incomes of less than $10,000 a year a check for $20 to cover the average cost of the 3 percent sales tax on food.
The House approved a bill already passed by the Senate to permit drive-in bank facilities to make consumer loans and issue or redeem U.S. savings bonds, a move fores argued was another step toward full-bloom branch banking in Kansas. Approved 69-51, the measure goes back to the Senate because of amendments.
The House also struck 18 bills from its calendar as the last day for debate of most bills passed. Among those given special treatment and retained was one to create a presidential primary election and another to legalize Laetrile.
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She also cautioned that the posture and attitude of a person walking could make a difference.
People who leave doors and windows open because of the warm weather often forget to close or lock them, she said, making theft much easier.
"If you walk more leisurely, with your head down or looking around, this type of walking, especially at night, might indicate that you are in the case of the person he can take on." she said.
"We'll let people know what is available, we said, 'Then they have to go find out for us'."
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