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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 14. 1990
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KBI stats show increased theft burglary at KU
Kansan staff writer
By Debbie Myers Kansan staff writer
Stolen bus passes and KUIDs accounted for an increase in thefts and burglaries on campus, said Lt. John Mullens of KU police.
There were 224 thefts on campus during the first half of 1988 and 239 thefts during the same period this year, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported. Incidents increased from 140 to 166.
In 1988, 17 KUIDs with pass buses were stolen, Mullen said, and 103 KUIDs with bus passes were stolen in the first six months of 1990. In Fall 1989, it became cheaper to replace stolen bus passes than to replace lost bus passes.
Mullens said thefts occurred when people took something from a public area or an area they were authorized to be in. Burglaries occur in areas that are unauthorized.
He said that KU police responded to crime problems on campus by devoting at least half of its crime prevention programs
in residence halls toward theft and burglary prevention.
"We start stressing 'Don't leave your valuable property unattended if you want to keep it,'" Mullens said.
Except for the numbers of thefts and burglaries, the numbers of other major crimes on campus are somewhat dependent on decreased from last year.
Major crimes are murder, rape,
robbery, aggravated assault/battery,
burglary, theft and motor vehicle theft.
Major crimes in Lawrence increased by about 54 percent, according to the KBI report. Aggravated assaults increased from 52 in the first half of 1989 to 119 for the same period this year. Burglaries increased from 475 to 824, thefts increased from 805 to 1,132 and motor vehicle thefts increased from 55 to 70.
Crime on Campus
The number of crimes on campus has increased
Jan-Jun 1990 Jan-Jun 1989 % Change
University of Kansas 433 377 +14.9
Kansas State 262 295 -11.2
Wichita State 104 101 +3.0
Emporia State 89 65 +36.9
Pittsburg State 41 41 0
Ft. Hays State 34 36 -5.6
KU Med Center 122 144 -15.3
Source: The Kansas Bureau of Investigation
KANSAN
Replacement fee for passes to rise
Kansan staff writer
By Jennifer Schultz
KU students will pay a higher replacement fee for stolen bus passes next semester because of an increase in bus pass thefts reported to KU police in the past year, a KU on Wheels official said.
Students will pay $30 to replace a bus pass student in the beginning of next semester and $20 to replace one stolen later in the semester, said Mary Ellen Henderson, KU on wheels coordinator. Students now pay $7.50 for a replacement.
A police report must be filed to qualify for the $7.50 fee, Henderson said. Students pay $40 to replace a lost bus pass.
Ll John Mullens of KU police said he thought the number of stunk IDs with bus passes was reduced by the cost of replacing the passes
Mulens said he thought people had removed bus passes from KUIDs, reported the passes stolen, purchased replacement passes and then sold their original passes for profit.
"We definitely think something is afoot," Mullens said. "I would go to back to the higher price or just to react to the reaction it has on reported them."
Mullens said 214 KUIDs with
mullets and 41 KUIDs without
passes were reported stolen in
1989 and the first six months of
2003. Of these, 11 KUIDs with bus
passes and 11 KUIDs without
passes were reported stolen.
Mullens estimated that there were 6,000 KUIDs with bus passes and 20,000 without. He said it was suspicious that more KUIDs with bus passes were reported stolen than KUIDs without passes.
Henderson said the transportation board had not caught anyone abusing the system.
About five times as many KUIDs with bus passes were stolen in the last year than KUIDs without.
Danny Kisner, of Clinton, Mo., installs trim to windows in the basement of GSP-Corbin Hall.
KU housing staff readies for move to GSP-Corbin
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
Fred McEhlenne, associate director of student touring; said the housing department would be located on campus.
Student housing personnel will leave their cramped quarters in McColium Hall and move to a new office in Corbin Hall at the end of this month, a student housing official said yesterday.
He said the move was scheduled for Sept. 29. The office will reopen Oct. 1.
'We have been crowded since we began and we are still crowded.'
associate director of student housing
--high-ranking ROTC officers.
—Fred McElhenie
Administration, food services, maintenance and facilities and residential life sectors of the department will be housed in Corbin, McElhennie said. The sector offices now are on three different levels in Mcolum
McEhennie said he thought the housing office would remain in Corbin for a long time.
"There have not been any great increases in staff,"
he said. "We have been crowded since we began and"
he added.
McEllenie said releaions of sectors of the housing department had been in response to changes in the depreciation tax rate.
The student housing business office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall still will accept resident fee payments, he said.
In the early 1960s, the housing department was located in Strong Hall, in the office which now houses the new school.
McEhlennie said residence halls at that time were administered by the dean of men and the dean of women.
In 1978, there was a reconfiguration in the Office of Student Affairs, McEhene said. The Office of Residential Programs was created, and resident activities no longer were separated by gender. The office, which moved into Strong Hall, was under the direction of the Office of Student Life.
"It will be handy to have all the people on the same floor, and in the office." he said.
In 1985, the Office of Residential Programs began reporting to the department of student housing. In 1987, the Office of Student Housing reported to
Petition's protesters harbor no regrets
By Debbie Myers
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said more space at Corbin had allowed Jayhawk offices to be opened.
Kansan staff writer
Two KU students who protested a petition Wednesday regarding HOTC commissioning ceremonies on camels that they did not regret their protest.
ROTC students Mike Frison, Leavenworth junior, and Christopher Wallingford, Leavenworth freshman, said they were glad they stood up for their cause. Paul Krueger, Leavenworth senior, protested, but is not an ROTC student.
A. Budig to sign a University Council resolution that would prohibit ROTC commissioning ceremonies on campus.
Frison and Wallingford were concerned that the petitioners were trying to get ROTC banned from campus, which would force ROTC scholarships to be taken away. Frison also he received an ROTC scholarship.
Frison said he had offered friend-
ship to homosexuals he had offended
Wednesday and had asked them to go
with him to Leavenworth to speak to
The petition asks Chancellor Gene
"We're not necessarily against homosexuals, but we feel that ROTC is not to blame and we hope they would understand that." Fireside said.
Wallingford said that he wished he would have changed the wording of the sign he held Wednesday.
"I don't regret the cause that we were for," Wallingford said. "I just regret that we didn't do it more tactfully.
His sign said "No Fags in my Foxhole." After a comment from a bystander, he crossed out the word
"fags" and replaced it with "gays." Wallingford declined to comment about his affiliation with ROTC
Lt. Col. William McGaha, prose-
or of military science, said that
Wallingford was enrolled in Army
Military Science 101, but he was
not kicked out of class or reprimanded
for his actions.
"Obviously a student on the campus has a right to express his opinions as a student," McGaha said. "He doesn't have the right to express an opinion for the ROTC or the Army."
KU information coordinator leaves after 10 years
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
For 10 years, Patricia Kehde has overseen three telephones and a group of students that fields calls from KU students who want to find out where to enroll, what's on television and a variety of other facts.
devote more time to Raven Bookstore, 3 E. Seventh St., which she coowns.
Kehde, the coordinator of the University of Kansas Information Center, will leave her position today to
The information center fields about 650 questions a day concerning library hours, graduation requirements, bus schedules, various campus fees and other issues, Kehde said.
Although the information center was established to control campus
rumors after the April 1970 bombing of the Kansas Union, its function soon expanded to cover virtually every state, and led to a general information, Kehde said.
The service was intended to be temporary, but so many students used it that it was made permanent, she said.
some of them were true," Kehde said.
The small room in the back of the Union receives calls from all over the world, Kehde said. Former KU students move away but often remember that they can get the answer to a set of questions by dialing 843-506.
"There were a lot of rumors, and
"If there's a bird that's hurt in the front yard, we can help," Kehde said.
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