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University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1984
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Where crimes occur
Types of crime
source: University of Kansas Police Department
Campus Watch aims for student security
By CAROLYN COLEMAN Staff Reporter
Robison, a sergeant of community services with the KU police department, said that she hoped people who didn't listen to their mother's safety tips would listen to her.
Mary Ann Robison's job is to tell you that your mother was right. Mom told you not to park in dark, isolated places. She told you to lock your doors and warned you about walking alone at night.
Robison directs "Campus Watch," the KU crime prevention program.
THIS FALL SHE will introduce the program to residence hall students on a floor-by-floor basis and train residence hall staff and student security monitors in crime prevention.
As a part of the "Campus Watch" program, KU police will door-to-door engraving ster-
oes, bicycles and other values if the residence hall director requests the service, Robison said.
Nearly $30,000 worth of students' possessions were reported stolen from residence halls during the 2016 school year. campus-wide, KU police estimated that the value of stolen property totaled $83,000.
If a driver's license number is engraved on valuables, then police can contact the owner if the property is recovered. Robison
According to KU police statistics, nearly half of campus crimes in 1983 occurred in residence halls or in their parking lots.
WHILE OFTEN POLICE didn't know what time a crime occurred, in the cases where they did know, they found that most incidents of crime on campus in 1983 were between 4 p.m. and midnight.
Unwanted telephone calls can be traced in Lawrence
However, during the summer most crimes happen between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
By CAROLYN COLEMAN Staff Reporter
Death threats, obscene suggestions and mysterious silences plagued at least 8,040 Kansas telephone customers last year.
Of those reported cases, some people were harrassed 30 or 40 times a day — sometimes every 30 seconds
— said John Schmitz, a customer service supervisor for Southwestern
However, the telephone company is working with police and customers to try and stop this misuse.
Schmitz said that in about 5,000 cases last year the phone company used equipment to monitor incoming calls.
IF USING AN unlisted number for a month or hanging up the phone immediately doesn't stop unwanted calls, customers can make a police report and sign a waiver that allows the phone company to put line identification equipment on the telephone line.
With electronic switching equip
ment, installed in Lawrence in 1981, the phone company can use the computer at its central office to print a log of every call to a number, the time of the call and the number the call was made from.
Customers keep track of the time and dates of problem phone calls, and police match the customer's record with the phone company's log to find the origin of the unwanted calls.
Sgt. Don Dalquist of the Lawrence Police Department said that harassing calls were often made from a phone booth or from a private phone. Hanging up usually stopped the calls from phone booths, he said.
"They aren't going to want to go out there and spend a quarter just to have someone hang up on them right away," Dalquist said.
When customers report repeated harrassing calls to the telephone company, Schmitz suggests that they first change to an unpublished number for 30 days.
"With threatening calls, we insist the call they call the police. "Schmitz
What could make your semester
Come to the
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PH: 864-3161
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The University of Kansas
119th Opening Convocation
Monday, August 27, 1984
Hoch Auditorium
9:30 a.m.
9:30 am, classes will be canceled for convocation.
All faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.
Note: Parking permits will not be sold during convocation.
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