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University Daily Kansan
Deputy sheriff doubles as daytime student
Bv WALT BRAUN
Staff Writer
Jack Armbrister, Lawrence senior, wore blue jeans and a brown and green print shirt when he walked across campus yesterday. Five nights a week, however, he wears the pressed light blue uniform of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.
Armbraster, who works from 1 p.m. until
7 o'clock. a.m., he did not get much chance to
work on the morning shift.
"Two days a week I have an 8 o'clock class, and sometimes I go into it pretty tired," he said. "It's even tougher to find time to spend with my family."
Armbristler his schedule as a deputy
sheriff had turned him into a stress studier.
"Like most working students, I just don't have the luxury of being able to study everything at one time," he said. "I usually study only for my next deadline or exam and, unfortunately, everything else has to slide until its turn comes up."
ARMRISTER, who was a dispatcher for the KU Police Department in 1967, also worked as a security policeman in the Air Force from 1968 to 1972. He was a Lawrence city policeman for two and one-half years before he joined the sherrif's department.
He said he became a deputy sheriff partly because the problems in rural areas, although less frequent than elsewhere, usually were more serious when they ooc
"I usually received 10 to 12 calls during a shift with the city, but many of them were complaints that people could have solved themselves, like barking dogs next door," he said. "In the county, the calls are fewer, and they realize there is a real problem before they call in."
Student sheriff
Working the night shift from 11 p.m. to t.m.a. and having a *o*'clock class two days a week can be pretty diring, says Jack Armbruster, Douglas County deputy sheriff.
Armbrister said a disadvantage to sheeriff's work was that deputies rode alone, unlike city police. The nearest backup, he said, was several minutes away.
"But I have a rural background and I really enjoy it," he said.
Armbrister said he chose a career in law enforcement because of the challenges it offered.
"WHEN I GO TO work, I know I won't be sitting behind a desk, and I know I won't be putting up a building," he said. "I know something, will happen that I don't expect."
Armbristner said that education could be an advantage and a disadvantage in day-to-day life.
"I don't think any education is bad," he said. "His major advantage is that it helps a person keep his mind open to alternatives, and provide a certain amount of healthy questioning."
Armbrister said, though, that too much questioning of values by a policewoman could have led to his arrest.
Armbrister said that education also could be harmful to an officer if he tried to overanalyze a situation. He suggested that officers should have withinstinct when an officer is on duty.
"When the time comes, if it ever does, that I seriously question the laws I uphold and enforce, then it will be time to move on," he said.
"If an immediate decision is called for, an officer can't afford to wonder what elements in a person's background led him to commit a crime he committed," Bramister said.
HE SAID that many of the misunderstandings between law enforcement officials and citizens were caused by poor communication on both sides.
"A lot of people only deal with cops when they need help or when they have committed a crime or received a ticket," he said. "Few people accept tickets gracefully. For some reason, people often blame police for fact that they were going $5 in a 40 zone."
Armbrister said that police officers, in giving tickets, actually were reporting to the courts offenses made against society's rights and did the judging, he added, not policenumber.
He said he thought people would be less inhibited and resentful of police and deputy sheriffs if more patrolling was done on foot or bicycle, and less by automobile.
Armbrister said law enforcement officials were partly to blame for poor communication.
"Officers are virtually locked up in their cars unless they have a specific reason to do so."
HE ALSO SAID that policemen were as susceptible to good and bad days as everyone else, but that few people realized it or cared.
"The anxiety on policemen before they go to work is tremendous," he said. "There is a lot of stress."
Armbirrate, who has been a deputy sheriff for the last two and one-half years, said he was working toward a triple major in sociology, psychology and political science.
"I'll have enough hours for a degree in sociology this spring, but I just continue until I qualify in psychology and political science, too," he said.
Armbrister said he had been enrolled in 10 to 14 hours a semester since 1974.
"IT WOULD BE PRETY difficult to go back to school without the encouragement and support of your friends." "There are at least four others in the sheriff's department in college now, some of whom are earning advanced degrees. And I know several police officers who are in school in here."
Working, studying and sleeping leave Armbrister little time for his family.
Arbisterhist, Barbara, works full-time at KU and is a graduate student in the School of Business. The couple has a three-year-old daughter.
"I'm pretty busy day in and day out, but I can count on at least one week a month."
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October 3 Monday
BAKKE SUPREME COURT CASE
to oppose the
DAY OF STUDENT PROTEST
Allen Bakke claims he was a victim of 'reverse racial discrimination' and that affirmative action programs are unconstitutional.
BAKKE AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION -A day of Workshops- Monday, October 3
1:30 3:35 Affirmative Action: How it works, Parlor B, Union Bonnie Rittier, Director, K.U. Affirmative Action Program
Sexual Preference and Affirmative Action, Parlor A. Union, Carlton Hadden, Homophile Alliance, Sedwick County, Kansas
When The Court Speaks: Cases and their Ramifications, Parlor C, Union Prof. Robert Casad, K.U. Law School
3:30 5:15
*Reverse Discrimination*, *Parlor C, Union*
*Prof. Ed. Dutton, K.U. School of Social Welfare*
Affirmative Action: How it works, Parlor B. Union Bonnie Ritter, Director, KU. Affirmative Action Program
The Bakke Case: Background, Parlor A, Union B, A.L.S.A., KU Chapter
5:30 - 6:45
5:30 6:45 Meadowlark Room, Union Informal gathering of workshop leaders and participants, to eat and talk about the Bakke decision, the days events, sign petitions and share interests and concerns.
7:00 8:45 Affirmative Action and Labor Issues, Jayhawk Room, Union Panel of Labor and Civil Rights leaders; Luis Jimenez, Lawrence Human Relations Commission (Moderator)
'Reverse Discrimination,' Parlor C. Union Prof. Ed Dutton, K.U. School of Social Welfare
Sexual Preference and Affirmative Action. Parlor A, Union
Carlton Hadden, Homophiliance Alliance, Sedgwick County, Kansas
The Bakke Case; background, Parlor B. Union
B.A.L.S A., KU Chapter
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KU.Y STUDENT ORGANIZATION AMERICAN LAW STUDENT ASSN
GAY SERVICES OF KANSAS