Page 8 University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980
Security necessarv for students
By CHUCK ISAACSON Staff Reporter
Twenty secconds after spotting something valuable in an unattended residence hall room, a thief can duck in and be down the hall. The majority of thefts are not from breaking and entering, but simply from a thief entering when the occupant leaves for just a minute.
Most items stolen in this fashion are small and easily picked up, said Jeanne Longaker, a lieutenant with the KU police Community Services office.
"Many, many of the residence hall they're should not occur." she said.
Security is inconvenient, she said, but it soon becomes table- and habits aren't inconvenient. Residents should lock their doors even if only going down the hall to the bathroom or to visit a friend.
"I was only gone a minute" in the story we hear most often," she said. Ninety-mile percent of all that happens unlocked and even left open, she said.
PEOPLE THINK of the hall as home. Longaker said, and the University encourages this. But a droom is not the bedroom at the folks' house and
must be secured like a house's front door.
Leaving doors and windows unlocked also is a problem for students living off campus. Nineteen percent of all illegal entrances were through -unlocked doors, and another 19 percent were through unlocked windows, said Mark Brothers, crime prevention officer for the Lawrence Police Department.
"We have to at least get the doors treated in apartments to prevent theft," Brock wrote.
Another way to help to prevent larceny is for neighbors to be aware of apartments around them and to immediately report any suspicious activity.
As a rule of thumb, he said, if it is suspicious enough to concern you, it is enough to call the police. Ninety-nine times out of 100, no crime is involved.
"It's the other one that we're after," Brothers said.
MARKING VALUABLES and recording serial numbers is as important as preventing the theft, both Longaker and Brothers said. Even if a owner is discovered, return to the owner is impossible if there are no identifying marks.
A driver's license number is the best identification because it offers a quick, easy way for the police to match up a marked object with its owner. The driver's license number is better than a Social Security card and provides additional months to find the owner. The license number takes only minutes.
Both the University police and the Lawrence police participate in Operation Identification, a nationwide program to mark valuable and other easily stolen funds. The University police engrave to loan, and they also are available from the Lawrence police department for off-duty students.
- Keep the doors locked. This seems obvious, but bait mimics theft because someone sees an opportunity and takes it. Lonkker said.
- LONGAKER OFFERED some tips for students:
- Don't loan room and car keys.
• You may not be aware of the need for them.
- Don't leave cash and credit cards
  about. Find a secure place and
use it. Don't flash large amounts of
data. Don't advertise a large storage system.
- Don't leave 'back in 15 minutes; come on in!' note. Longaake said it was too late for the bus.
- Be aware of unfamiliar faces and
  reporting strangers to the residence.
FOR STUDENTS living off campus, Brothers recommends leaving a light and a radio on when the apartment is empty. It is a great deterrent, he said.
A majority of victims of residence hall thefts are men, Longaker said, and are between the ages of 17 and 19. More thefts occur in men's and coed halls than in women's halls, she said, and more women are outside traffic in the women's halls.
Residence hall theft is a never-ending problem, Longaker said, but “with the help of students watching out for each other it can be diminished.”
Brothers stressed that the Lawrence police can help if crimes are reported promptly and if reasonable precautions are taken.
"We're here and we're concerned. You should be too," he said.
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Tighter GPA standards to take effect this term
By VANESSA HERRON
Staff Reporter
When the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' new grade requirements take effect this fall, students with low grade scores may be required to ship out by the end of spring semester.
The probation policy was approved by the College Assembly in May 1979, Teri Carswell, assistant to the dean of the College, said Tuesday.
When the policy takes effect, the College of Health Sciences will be the only school that does not have a similar policy.
"The policy is really a help for students to know where they stand." Carswell said. "A student could have two classes and get a score of 2.0, he's never going to graduate."
Students on probation will be returned to good standing if their cumulative and semester GPAs equal
THIS • FALL, freshmen will be required to maintain 1.0 cumulative and semester GPAs, and sophomores will need 1.5 averages. Juniors and seniors will need 2.5 averages to stay in the College and to graduate from the University of Kansas.
At the end of this semester, all undergraduates who fail to meet the College's requirements will be placed in the position for the spring 1981 semester.
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or rise above the minimum requirement.
AFTER DISMISSAL, students must petition the College to be readmitted.
The committee found that in 1977, the average freshman had a 3.37 GPA and the average sophomore had an 3.57 GPA, and the seniors averaged 3.9 grade points, and the seniors averaged 3.9 grade points.
They'll stay on probation if their cumulative GPAs stay below the minimum and they will be dismissed if neither their cumulative nor their semester average equals or exceeds the College's standards.
According to a study by the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, which suggested the probation policy two years ago, most students have a good chance of meeting the College's requirements.
THE MINIMUM requirement policy should affect the third of a聘 with the employer in the order in which it is proffered to the other.
"In effect, the committee said, 'If students aren't making at least that much progress in their studies, we need Chris Wiss, Kansas City, Kan., senior and assembly member."
Grade requirements for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are lower than those of other schools. The schools of Architecture and Fine Arts require 1.8 GPA's for freshmen, and the School of Engineering requires a 2.0.
Dillingham loses job
Rv BILL VOGRIN
Staff Reporter
Clarence Dillingham, an instructor in social welfare who made a controversial three-week trip to Iran last December, has not been rehired by the university, according to David Hardwick, dean of the School of Social Welfare.
Dillingham, former acting director of the office of affirmative action and a four-year employee of that office, was hired by the School of Social Welfare in October 1974 and signed to a nine-month contract, Hardcaste said. Dillingham was not offered a new contract when the old one expired.
Hardcastle said. "He simply wasn't rehired."
"There were no particular political reasons for our not rehiring Dillingham," Hardcastle said. "In fact, I'm getting a little teed off that everyone is inferring those types of reasons."
"Clarence was given a one-year an open search to replace Ken Wedel."
Wedel was associate dean of the School of Social Welfare and left the university to take a director's position with a peer institution. Hardcastle said.
Dillingham did not agree with the simple explanation for his not being rehired. He said that he thought he had performed on an equal level with his colleagues and there must have been another reason for his dismissal.
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