University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 14, 1978
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Staff Reporter
Anti-crime program to begin
Bv HENRY LOCKARD
Statistics compiled by the Lawrence police Department suggest that a thief in Oakland has a strong ability to steal.
That's why patrolmen Mark Brothers and David Cobb have spent the past two months laying the groundwreck for the department's new crime prevention campaign, which is targeted at preventing off-campus students from being victimized.
Cobb said last week that students made it too easy for thieves because students didn't know where to find them.
"Students come to Lawrence from bigger cities and get hailed into a state of not being concerned, he said. "They see the city in which they live, and it is so small that nothing will happen to them they leave their car windows down with their purses or backpacks or tennis rackets sitting in the seat while they go do business it is they need to take care of."
He said the same attitude was responsible
for shels from apartments that were not secured while no one was home.
BY TAKING a few precautions, Cobb
at least would have to better
his methods.
Ron Olin, crime analyst for the department, keeps the statistics on crimes and incidents.
In the year he has been with the department he has filed proof that 55 percent of the residence burglaries were reported as having forced no entry.
In other words, those were burglaries in which entrance into the apartment was gained through unlocked windows or doors. Of those, 36 percent, were through doors.
"They took no effort at all." Olin said.
Brothers said he and Cobb would start contacting apartment complexes and other off-camp student housing units this week in the wake of the disagreements of reasons so many thefts occur.
Brothers said the police would come to any one's apartment free of charge to inform them.
AMONG THOSE recommendations are marking items with identifying numbers, checking _screws on door pieces and reporting suspicious persons.
recommendations for security improvements.
The gist of the campaign, Cobb said, is to police the public to work with the police at home.
Brothers complained that too much police work 'reactive' work instead of "proactive".
"Reactive is just like that," he said. "We react to a crime that's already taken place. We'd rather work before the crime instead of after it."
Cobb put a lot of the blame for thefts on students' attitudes about renting.
He said too many times renters thought they were renting security along with the room. And if the renter was lucky enough to be given a ticket, he said; then that security often was neglected.
He said that neglect for security and of security accounted for steep renters' interest.
HOWEVER, CALLS to 12 of the more than insurance companies in town proved that he was not a fraud.
Although Gary Petersen, an MFA insurance agent, said that theft coverage was the biggest hassle in renters' insurance and that qualifying for coverage in the first place was difficult, he said there were companies that would insure renters.
For a year's coverage on $6,000 in furniture, clothing and other items, prices given by companies contacted ranged from $50 to $85.
Jack Armstrong, an agent for Charleton Holmes-Peek and Brown, Inc., said the reason his agency did not insure student loans is in keeping track of those who moved away.
Nevertheless, as Brothers said, a lot of crimes could be prevented and insurance companies would be more receptive to advice he and Cobb offered was followed.
"And these precautions we're advising," Cobb said, "are not expensive and don't damage the system."
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A man you can believe,and believe in! Willie Amison
Although construction is on schedule, the completion date could be set back by imple-
mentation.
"If the rainy season starts we'll have problems," he said.
Satellite Union work depends on weather
Contractors have completed the foundation and basement floor of the new Union and are pouring the concrete slabs for the building said. The building will have three levels.
He said contractors would try to have the
RvSAMVANLEEUWEN
Staff Reporter
Lawton said B B Andersen Construction Co., Topeka, contractors for the estimated $2.5 million Union, had completed 35 percent of the project.
44th District Representative Bonnie Wells, Treasurer
Completion of the project is scheduled for fall 1979.
Construction of the Satellite Union near Allen Field House should be completed on time if the weather cooperates. Keith said director of facilities planning, said recently.
Willie Amison
$2 million price tag for Marvin, Lindley renovation projects
Wiechert said that KU is working on assuring the continuation of funding for Lindley and Marvin mails. He said he would work with the university the year before requesting funds for Flinn.
Also discussed at the meeting were ways to deal with a new state law that calls for periodic inspections of all state-funded capital improvement projects.
Slightly more than $2 million is expected to be spent on the renovation of Lindley Hall. On the Marvin Hall project, $2,555,000 remains to be funded.
Republican for Kansas House of Representatives 44th District
He said that no final figure had been set for the renovation of Flint but that it would be a major challenge.
The directors of facilities operations at the Board of Regents schools met in Topeka Friday to update their capital improvement shopping lists for the next legislative
SECOND ON the schedule for improvements is Flint Hall. No funds have been allocated for the building's renovation and have been requested by the Regents.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning at the University of Kansas, said yesterday that KU had established its priorities for capital improvements in December and would not change them this year.
The first priorities for improvements at KU are Lindley and Marvin hills. Planning funds for both buildings were approved by the Kansas Legislature last year.
Normally the architects hired for the projects would arrange for inspections, but Wiechert said many of the projects being built were done without roof or repair roofs, did not require the services of an architect and therefore the University would have to arrange for the work.
Two million dollars of the $2.5 million cost
financed by bonds and bonds approved
by the Securities Commission.
Every fall and spring semester, $6 from students' activity fees goes to the Satellite
paid political advertisement
Union. The rate is $2.50 during summer sessions.
The rest of the money will come from
the trustees, funds and bonds
amended by the Board of Regulators.
When completed, the Satellite Union will contain a book and supply store, cafeteria, meeting rooms, social activity room with an adjoining patio and a storage area.
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