University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1985
Page 9-B
CAMPUS AND AREA
Youth see police work from inside
By BOB TINSLEY Staff Reporter
Emotions run high as jurors trade arguments. Divisions in opinion widen, drawing the jurors further from a verdict.
Then a buzzer sounds and the jurors scoop up their books and spill noisily into the corridor.
The courtroom becomes the classroom once again.
The jurors are ninth graders in Jack Schreiner's social studies class at West Junior High School, 2700 Harvard Road. A mock trial, held in their classroom, is one of the activities included in the Lawrence Police Department's Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Program for area junior high schools.
Officer Jim Frink, a patrolman and 10-year veteran of the force, presents the two-week program annually to ninth graders.
Frink and four other officers assume the roles of prosecuting and defending lawyers, plaintiff, defendant and witness, to give the student-jurors a taste of what the court system is really like.
SHOWING STUDENTS that beneath the badge, police are human, too, is the goal of the program. By having students with patience, rather than intimidated by force, authorities hope to show students that policemen are friends.
"We'll help them in any way we can, and yet we have a job that we have to do." Frink says. "When we leave here where we have to effect an arrest, we are not doing it because we don't like you, but because it's our job."
Maj. Ron Olin, assistant police chief says, "For example, people on the street will come up to me and say, 'Are you still a police officer?' I had you when I was in the ninth grade at West.' And that was sometime eight or nine years ago."
Authorities think that through the program, they build rapport with the citizens they serve.
OLIN, WHO developed the program in 1975, has been a policeman for 15 years. He earned his doctorate
in developmental psychology from the University of Kansas in 1883, and taught the enforcement program until 1977.
"Frank can walk into a crowd that may be unruly, and because of the personal relationships he's developed over the years with most of the students, can completely change the mood of the crowd," Olin says.
Frink took charge six years ago. Olin says student response to Frink is evident in his work.
ANOTHER DAY'S lecture provided students with a history of the ancient profession of law enforcement, from the ancient Greek origin of the word "police," to the sheriffs of medieval England, and finally the agencies of today.
"I hope you'll never see me on the other side of that ticket book," he told the students.
During one day of the program,
students passed handcuffs, night-
sticks, thick sheeps of traffic tickets
and even a tear gas mask from row to
row, while Fink handled the fire-
and described the tools of his trade.
Students also receive an explanation of a system that can affect them most directly - juvenile court - from Officer Lee Rader of Court Services.
"Juveniles are always wanting to know, 'Just what are my rights? How far can I go?' Frank says.
On the most popular day of the program, Frink is joined by his colleague, Officer Ed Brunt, a third-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, to demonstrate police self-defense techniques. The two perform some of their feats together, but for most demonstrations, students, some reluctantly, assume roles as criminals. They then are "subdued" by the officers to the delight and amusement of their classmates.
The students are warned not to resist. "The more power you put out, the more power I'll put out, and in the end, I think I'll忍." Brent save
"They have a blast," Frink says. "We've had no injuries whatsoever. We do it all in a safe manner and they love it. They eat it like candy."
Students seem to agree.
Quantrill's continued from p. 1-B
: Haq then takes history into his own hands for the next part, the tornado scene.
"I thought it would be a good idea to have a mythological tornado. It previews the violence," he said. "Contsoki had written several books."
of Kansas and Polish poetry but had never written a poem about the raid, he said. That was Hog's idea.
Contoski said, "I've written a lot about Kansas, and I've always been interested in music. Hoag brought up the idea of Quantrill's Raid. I had
only touched on the idea of the raid in some poems of mine."
Contoski had written the text for a previous piece of work by Hoag, so the collaboration was not new. Hoag said writing music for poetry was easy for him.
The performance also is scheduled to include "Dona Nobis Pacem," by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Members soloists for that work will be soprano Stefanie May Humes, Remington, Ind., graduate student, and baritone Wayne Kempelien, Minneapolis, Minn.
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