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University Daily Kansan, April 28, 1983
Desire to help people attracts many to law enforcement jobs
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
"Daddy, when I grow up, I wanna be a policeman."
That's a frequent response from a child who is asked what he wants to be.
Although police officers at first offer glib reasons why they got into law enforcement, most of them finally admit that they donned their gold badge out of an interest in helping people.
Lawrence Police Chief Richard Stanwix said it was hard for him to remember why he chose law enforcement as a career more than 30 years ago.
"I was just out of the Army, and it looked like very interesting work," he said. "It gives you a sense of self-complishment."
STANWIX SAID HE ALWAYS wanted to help his native city Lawrence.
Stanwix started as a patrol officer in 1933 and moved up through various positions to his present one as chief. He says he has seen many changes.
"But I have absolutely no regrets," he said.
Susan Hadl, a Lawrence police officer, said she had always wanted to be a police officer.
"I can remember watching 'Mod Squid' and thinking that what was"
I wanted to do," she said. "But I've found out that it's not at all like that."
BUT DESPIITE THAT, HADL said,
she does not regret choosing to be a
police officer.
polarize.
"It's one of the best ways to interact with people," she said. "I think that's what I like best about it."
Hadi said that being a woman had not really affected her career choice.
"I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it, she said. "The fact that I was a woman didn't really come into it all that much."
Ron Olin, assistant police chief, said he, too, entered law enforcement to help people.
"I've always thought that being a police officer offered an unequal opportunity to be of service to the community," said Olin, who will soon receive a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of Kansas.
"I think the most frequently offered reason by applicants is the desire to help people.
"More students should consider police work, if for no other reason than to find out how the real world works."
ED BRUNT, WHO HAS BEEN A Lawrence police officer for five years, at first offered this reason for choosing law enforcement: "It sure beat flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, which is what I was doing at the time."
"I really get off on helping people in trouble, if for nothing more than to help them with car trouble," he said.
But later, Brunt gave his real reason for being a police officer.
"I guess I always liked being a knight in shining armor. But I also get to be the person to whom all the crap flows."
JIM DENNEY, KU DIRECTOR OF police, said he just happened into law enforcement while he was working on his degree at KU.
"I'd had some experience in law enforcement before, and so when I heard they had an opening here, I applied," he said.
But Denney said he had no delusions about solving the world's problems. "We can't do it," he added.
Peggy Cobb, who has been a Law-
rence police officer for five years, said,
"I just enjoy being outside, meeting
people and making my own decisions.
"Police officers who come into it thinking that they will eliminate crime or evil don't stay in it very long," he said.
"When you are out there, dealing with an immediate situation, you have to be able to make your own decisions, and I like that."
SHE HAD BECOME INTERESTED in law enforcement, Cobb said, because several of her relatives were in police work.
None of the police officers put fighting crime as their number one reason for getting into law enforcement
they all said that working with people was a big part of their career choice.
3 calls warn army college of explosion
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon got three telephone calls that warned that a bomb was about to go off before a small device in a flower shop blew up. The Nuclear War College at Fort McNair, Army officials said yesterday.
An anonymous male caller also telephoned United Press International minutes before the explosion Tuesday night and talked in a barely audible voice about "U.S. policies," "American bases and Guatemala."
But officials said no individual nor group claimed responsibility for the blast.
THE COLLEGE, NEAR THE Potomac River in south-west Washington, provides high-level training for the nation's top military leaders.
The explosion shortly after 9 p.m. CDT blew out windows in the college where a NATO meeting had ended several hours before. No injuries were reported.
"We don't think the bomb has anything to do with the NATO meeting, but we're checking to make sure." said Col. Robert Delaney.
GLSOK petition seeks to show student support
By ANNE FITZGERALD
Staff Reporter
"It's not a gay petition, but it is for anyone who supports our services," said Ruth Lichwartd, Lawrence sophomore and director of the group.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas is waging its own petition drive as a show of support for its programs after some students started a petition drive against the group, the director of the organization said yesterday.
LICHTWARDT SAID GLOSK decided on its campaign as a response to a petition circulated by some students, including at least one student senator, asking that $493 allocated to the group be withdrawn for next year.
"I am not concerned about the other effort. I have complete confidence that the administration is not going to get into this one," she said.
The petition states that the actions of those opposed to Senate financing for GLSOK are the "result of misinformation and flagrant discrimination by a group of students supposedly speaking for the vast majority."
She said the petition would be in the GLSOK office until 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, when it would be delivered to the chancellor's office.
Lightwizard said, "We scare people, and when people don't understand how we work," he added.
THE GROUP EXISTS TO educate people about homosexuality, she said. "The group is a powerful force."
there is going to be this hysteria." she said.
John Hisey, Lake Stevens, Wash., graduate student and one of the organizers of the petition to rescind the Senate allocation to GLSOK, said he thought that some students might feel discriminated against by being forced to financially support the group.
Peter Helyar, Lawrence senior, said he was shocked to find out about the intolerance for homosexuals at the University.
"If people care about justice and tolerance, if they mean anything, then they have got to exercise them," said Helyar, who was one of the first non-gays to suggest GLSOK's counter petition.
JOE BALDWIN, OVERLAND Park sophomore and GLOSK's office manager, said the group's petition was not a display of anger at anyone, but rather a show of support for Senate financing for the group.
This is the first time GLSOK has been allocated Senate money, he said. Before, the group relied largely on the sponsors to raise operating expenses.
The Senate funds will pay for office rent and phone costs, he said, and will allow the group to expand and upgrade its services.
"Ours is a student organization that deserves funding." Baldwin said. "We're pushing for the same rights that other organizations have but that we just haven't sought."
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