University Daily Kansan
Monday, August 28, 1971
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Advice given on theft prevention
Based on the belief that prevention is the best defense against crime, the University of Kansas Police Department and the residence hall staffs are making a joint effort to advise students how to prevent larceny.
Jeanne Longaker, KU police sergeant in charge of residence hall crime prevention, recently said that if students would form habits like locking room and car doors and securing items in their rooms, many thefts would be prevented.
She said larceny accounted for 80 percent of the crimes reported on campus.
Although prevention efforts are the heaviest in residence halls, she said, "we're not trying to stop it."
frequently than thefts in other areas on campus or at apartments of campus.
"There are only 12 to 14 persons complying a residence halls' staff, and from this point onwards the staff will be but really with only 12 or so persons on the staff, that is a limited number of staff to take over."
Outside traffic is anybody not living on campus who visits residence hall, she said.
“FRESHMEN DON’T realize the outside traffic we really have.”
Because so many students, faculty and staff regard the campus as safe from problems of the outside world, intruders and then easy victims, Longaker said.
Record amount of aid received by students
The cost of going to college is increasing and so are reguests for financial aid.
More than $3 million in financial aid was distributed by the University of Kansas financial aid office, Weinbierberg, assistant director of the office, said Friday.
The $3.53 million received in student
funds was the largest amount ever
distributed by the school.
"in total dollars," Weinbern said, "there is no question a record in the amount paid."
Weinberg said there were 15,000 to 18,000 financial aid files on students, but those figures do not reflect the actual number of students. Weinberg said that students who have a file receive aid, he said.
Weinberg said the record amount of aid was attributed to three factors: an increase in student financial aid requests, the addition of the Higher Education Loan Program to KU's financial aid programs and the reduction of the loans from commercial banks.
HELP began last October. Money loaned through the program is an increase in the
total amount awarded by the financial aid office, Weinberg said. In the past, commercial banks distributed loans to students, and the university distributed through the financial aid office.
About $1.85 million of the more than $3 million awarded in grants comes from federal, state and commercial programs, $1 million comes from grants and $500,000 comes from University and other scholarships, he said.
The addition of the HELP program, Weinberg said, provides aid for those students who do not meet requirements of other financial aid programs.
The HELP loan program allows students who are unable to obtain a guaranteed loan from a commercial bank to borrow as much money year but no more than $7,500 in four years.
KU has distributed $1,175,240 in HELP loans since the beginning of the program. The HELP program is open to all students and financialcircumplements-hailed.
An intruder, she said, could be anybody. In campus police files, statistics indicate that the ratio of students to non-students is 16:40. Students with theft on campus is about one to one.
"Thefts in residence halls occur when residents leave their room for just a few minutes to visit someone down the hall or to go to the restroom. Ten seconds is enough time for someone to pick up an unsecured item left on a desk," Longaker said.
The program is guaranteed by the Higher Education Loan Foundation instead of the DHS.
But she said another serious problem was offices being left open. Because someone has his name on a desk in an office, she said, "I will not want to think anything sitting on the desk is secure."
The interest rate on HELP loans is 7
months annually, beginning nine months
after graduation.
"Women tend to leave their purses lying while they leave their seats for a break, and men's billhills tend to work out of their back pockets while they sit it. When then they get up, it's very easy for someone to come along and picket them," she said.
SHE SAID calculators, purses and bilffolds were frequently stolen from offices. Other places where thefts are heavy are sports events and concerts.
Longaker said the campus police, instead
of the Lawrence police, should be contacted after thefts on campus.
Calling Lawrence police would delay response, Longaker said, because the Lawrence police would then have to relay the call to campus police.
She said recovery of stolen items was much easier if the items had been engraved with an identification number. Each person must pay for police offer free engraving for valuables.
Longaker said bicycle theft was also a common problem. Bicycle licensing is required by state law, she said, and is helpful in recovering stolen bikes. Bicycles can be licensed in the campus police office in Hoch Auditorium for 25 cents.
She stressed that prevention should be made a habit.
"If the opportunity were not there, if a person sees something that's not secure, it encourages him to pick up what he otherwise wouldn't."
"But our problems are normal for a university. We're a normal campus. If we work together we can make the opportunity more feasible, we will have less problems," she said.
Bookstore manager hopes shoplifting sprees will stop
Shoplifting season starts today at the Kansas Union Bookstore.
Bookstore officials say that they know the bookstore is a prime target for sticky-fingered thieves, but that they do not know how much merchandise is stolen each year.
And they say the best way to combat shoplifting is to discourage the urge.
"A frustrated customer shoplifts. A customer that feels they are treated discutently (by employees) shoplifts," said the Union bookstore manager, said Saturday.
Brock said she was confident that employee attentiveness would help prevent people from shoplifting during this week's expected textbook buying crunch.
Employees at the bookstore attend sessions on customer relations to help customers make informed purchasing decisions.
shoplifters from impulsive shoplifting,
Brock said.
However, she refused to comment on specific precautions taken to prevent
She said it had been proved that potential shoplifters do not steal until they are made aware.
A noticeable addition to the security at the bookstore is a KU policeman. According to Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Union, one uniformed KU policeman is on duty at all times and his salary is paid out of bookstore funds.
"By calling attention to it, even putting signs up, 'Shopillers will be prosecuted,' you can turn people who would not normally shoplift into shoplifters." Brock said.
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However, the policeman is on duty primarily to watch cash registers and not
Events
TODAY: APPLIED ENGLISH
EVENTS: will start at 1 p. in the
union hallroom;
TONIGHT: THEATER AUDICTIONS will start at 7 p.m. at the University Theatre in Murphy Hall. TAU SIGMA DANCE ENSEMBLE will meet at 7 p.m. in room 220 of Robinson Gymnasium. MORTAR BOARD will meet at 7 p.m. in room at the Union DENNIS KING, represent a student recital at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
TOMORROW: SOCIAL WELFARE FIELD LABORATORY MEETINGS will be held all day in the Union. STUDENT TEACHERS MEETINGS will be held 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the rooms in the Union. MARIA DOBYZ will present a doctoral thesis, "The Role of the King Figure in Selected Middle High German Epics of the 12th Century," at 2:30 p.m. Wisconsin Willow. We will present a doctoral thesis, "Comparison of Three Experimental Methods used in Determining the Thermal Performance of Flatplate Solar Collectors," at 2:30 p.m. in 3032 Learned. COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 10 a.m. in the Council room of the University Building. We will give a doctoral recital at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recalct Hall in Murphy Hall.
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Thunderstorms Strike Kansas
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Late Saturday afternoon 100 mph winds were clocked at the Johnson County Industrial Airport in Kansas. Johnson and Johnson are the worst damage from the thunderstorms in Kansas.
In Gardner, Kan. students at one junior high school were told not to report to classes
Severe thunderstorms driven by gusty winds struck northeast Kansas Saturday causing power failures, downing trees, and crashes and blowing on the roofs of several buildings.
Winds of 75 mph were reported in Topeka, where a tree uprooted, tearing a gas line. The area was blocked off to traffic while repairs were made. One tree toppled into side of a house knocking down several walls. No injuries were reported in that accident.
Monday. Winda blew off the roofs of the school's English and science buildings. The Johnson Cohley sheriff's office also said it was clearing trapped occupants trapped blown over east of Gardner.
THE PAST
THE LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE A HISTORY AND A FUTURE
THE PRESENT
In September of 1875, Opera House Investments, Inc. acquired the building and set out to make it a museum. In April 1876, Opera House Investments acquired the recalls of the dwellings on the Brownswick Opera House and remind all of you that this history is historically important.
The first building on the site of the Lawrence Opera House was erected in 1854 and stood until Quinn Street was completed. In 1867, the third stage of the building, the addition of two bays, the building was dubbed 'Little Hall', a mourning hall graced by Henry Ward伯森; Harcelle Grebe and other historical figures in 1883 I.D. Bowersock acquired 'Little Hall'; and the grand opening of the auditorium in 1902. In 1911 the building burned to the ground, but Mr. Bowersock acquired it in 1912 and continued its use as a concert hall.
THE FUTURE
In order to once again make the Lawrence Opera House a source of entertainment for all people, we recognize that we must provide diverse facilities and entertainment. We are presently, and intend in future years, to be able to accommodate the needs of our community within the facility inside and out and with the help of the citizens of Lawrence we can accomplish these goals. Your patronage is appreciated, your suggestions solicited and your help requested in turn.
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