Friday, February 27,1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Start taking precautions to protect your property
By Ronnie Wachter
wachter@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The east side of Mount Oread is not always the safest place for KU students to live, according to Lawrence police reports.
Every day, Lawrence police officers respond to five to 10 reports of burglaries, criminal damages and thefts in the area between Ninth and 17th Streets, an area that is heavily populated by KU students.
"You could be a target just because you live in a college neighborhood," said Lawrence police officer Tom Moore.
Recent incidents in that area include a Feb. 22 burglary in the 1000 block of Alabama costing a student more than $4,000 in stolen property and a Feb. 20 burglary in the 1000 block of Ohio that cost an Alumni Association employee $950.
Moore said police have a checklist of safety inspections they recommend people employ to make their homes
harder targets for thieves. When homes are robbed, police often inspect the site themselves.
"We'll take an outside look at it and imagine that we're burglars and find the best points of entry." he said.
Moore said he did not think the crime rate in this area had risen significantly since 1997, but he expected it to grow in the near future.
"It always goes up during spring break unless precautions are taken," he said.
KU police Sgt. Chris Keary said precautions should be taken at all times.
"No matter where you are, whether it's a house, an apartment or in the dorms, you should lock your door all the time even if you're inside," Keary said.
Keary also said the "neighborhood watch" mentality was good to have when living in the residence halls or apartment complexes.
"In the long run, you're probably protecting yourself, because if someone is thinking about burglarizing your neighbors, they're probably thinking about burglarizing you, too."
"I take care of your neighbors as much as you can," he said.
Keary suggested students engrave their property with either the serial number of the item or their driver's license number and the two-letter state code.
"Preferably both, so if it's recovered at a pawn shop or in the back of a car, we can trace it back to the owner and possibly make an arrest," he said.
Keary said an engraved serial or driver's license number could be spread to law enforcement agencies throughout the country using the FBI's National Crime Information Computer.
By entering the information into the computer, Lawrence and KU police can alert the entire nation to a TV stolen from a droom or a stereo taken from a car parked on Ohio Street, Keary said.
AVOIDING HOME THEFT
- Protect yourself by locking your room,
apartment or house door at all times,
even if you are inside. Do not leave
anything valuable in your car.
- Protect your neighbors by reporting any suspicious activities in your building or neighborhood to the police.
- ■ Engrave your valuable property with the item's serial number or your driver's license number and the two-letter state code. If the item is recovered, it can be traced back to you from anywhere in the country.
- Don't have stereos, computers or other valuables in plain sight through a window.
- Place a rollley bar or broom stick on a sliding-glass window to keep it shut.
- Put lights on timers when you are gone for long periods of time.
- Have the newspapers or mail put on hold at the post office while you are gone.
Trim the shrubberry around windows so burglar cannot hide behind it.
Lock storm doors as well as regular doors.
Kassebaum Baker to speak at high school
Former U.S. senator will speak about arts
By Brandon Coplep
bcpole@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The lecture, which is sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities, will take place in the Free State High School auditorium. The lecture is open to the public.
Former U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker will be in Lawrence Monday to deliver a lecture on the importance of the humanities in education.
Kassebaum Baker serves on several corporate and non-profit boards including the NCAA Foundation.
Her lecture is part of the Humanities Lecture Series, which has sponsored about four speakers per school year for 50 years.
Most of the speakers are University professors, but Janet Crow, executive director of the Hall Center, said the series tried to bring in distinguished individuals to speak on any subject of interest to the University community.
"During her term in the Senate, Nancy was very supportive of the humanities," Crow said. "She spoke in favor of most major funding votes for the National Endowment for the Humanities."
Crow said humanities lecturers usually spent two days at the University, holding faculty colloqui
ums in addition to the lecture,
but Kassebaum Baker's schedule only permitted one evening in Lawrence.
Kassebaum: Will speak at Free State High School
degree in political science. She had grown up in Kansas the daughter of Alfred Landon, a one-time governor who lost the presidential election to Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. She attended graduate school in Michigan and
then moved to Maize. Kan.
In 1978, Nancy Landon Kassebaum was elected to the United States Senate. When she retired at the end of her third Senate term in 1996, she was chairwoman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee.
In 1996, she married Howard Baker, a former senator from Tennessee and the former White House Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan.
Today, the two former senators split their time between Washington. D.C., Kansas and Tennessee.
On April 7, Chancellor Robert Hemenway will deliver the final humanities lecture in this year's series. His topic is "Humanities and American Politics."
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