University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1982
Page 7
Med Center staff watches for crime
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY. Kan—Some University of Kansas Medical Center employee now know what it is like to be fingerprinted and photographed.
Yesterday, the employees had their mug shots and fingerprints taken by Med Center police as part of a crime prevention program.
The employees were participants in the Crime Watch program, sponsored by the Med Center's police department. The program, in operation for a little over a month, is an expansion of a continuous crime prevention program (Sargent, KU division commander of community services, said yesterday).
"The program is nothing more than a copycat and modification of the old Neighborhood Watch program," he said.
The program's two-fold purpose is to get people involved in watching for possible crime and to inform them about how police respond to a call, he said.
"For too long people have gone through life believing the police would protect them. We are asking people to help themselves," he said.
POLICE OFFICERS very seldom are in the exact position to observe crime, he said.
"A vast majority of arrests are made by citizen informants," he said. "Police officers can't operate without citizen cooperation."
The concept is simple, he said Employees have to be aware of
suspicious activity and not be afraid to report it, he said.
Sargent defined suspicious activity as anything that seems out of the ordinary. For example, staff members should approach loitering
strangers and ask if they need help, he
people. Who people are to be committ
a crime said not like to be talked to,
he said, and the best way to find out
if they are not supposed to be in the area
is to question their presence.
"We have a tendency to mind our own business in our society and we don't like to be called busybodies," Sargent said.
BUT BUSYBODIES are good, he said, because they are the ones who notice suspicious people tampering with a cars or removing furniture.
"We're getting what we want. We're getting more suspicious calls," he said.
Capt. Ralph Oliver, Med Center police officer, said police officers responded to a call as quickly as possible, but because they were understaffed, it took longer than people thought was necessary.
HE SAID there were five police officers on duty at the Med Center at any one time. One officer is a supervisor, one is permanently assigned to the emergency room as a result of two shooting deaths in March 1981, one patrols the outside grounds and the other two officers split supervision of the Med Center's buildings.
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
One student is a retired Methodist minister interested in religion, history and political science courses.
Senior citizens audit courses
Another, a woman auditing James Gunn's science fiction class, has written three romances and two historical novels.
A third woman never went to college but has audited 40 hours of classes the last three and a half years.
All have two things in common: they are over 60 and they want to keep leavers.
The 66 members of the KU Division of Continuing Education's Senior Scholars program do not take classes for credit. Rather, they take them because they love to learn, Bealul Duncan, program director for the division, said recently.
MARGARET HOLMS, 2814 Riage Court, audits Pschology and the Law and five other classes. She said she had taken more than four hours over the last week.
Duncan said the senior citizens had audited 82 classes this semester, ranging from History of the Second World War to Japanese I to Psychology and the Law.
Holmes, a native of Chicago, said
that although she did not go to college, she had had many life experiences. The KU courses have given her a chance to up on a lot of new knowledge, she said.
She also loves to meet the students in her classes, she said.
"A lot of them kind of look to me as a mother figure." Holmes said.
She said many women students asked her for advice about problems they were afraid to discuss with their parents.
Gideon Carlson, 304 Bowstring Drive,
also said he enjoyed talking to young
people, as he had for years as a
Methodist minister.
STUDENTS AND classes are more casual now than 55 years ago when he went to Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Ill., Carlson said. He said students were afraid of their professors when he went to school.
Carrison is taking classes in Russian grammar, Russian thought and theology.
Carlson said he preferred the history classes of today, which stress social problems, to those he took at Illinois Wesleyan, which emphasized names
Richard McNabney, 1649 Vermont St. holds a master's degree in history
and a bachelor's degree in education.
Since receiving his master's from the University of Washington in Seattle he attended all 8 classes and audited 72 hours of classes at KU.
"I've had more schooling, I guess, than most Ph.D.'s," he said.
MCNARBNEY, WHO said he had always taken a diverse range of classes, said he thought he was taking too heavy a load.
Besides auditing three classes, McNabney plays the autoharp in the Senior Scholar Band. The band is a chamber orchestra of theOFKU music therapy program.
The 22 senior scholars in the band are beginning musicians who practice once a week. They have performed for other groups at, or at South Park, downtown Lawrence.
Monette Cummings, who audits a science fiction writing class, also is
Cummings, who never went to college, has written four novels since retiring six years ago as editor of an automotive trade magazine. She said she was working on a contemporary romance, "Scandalous Widow."
Accused murderer linked to Tylenol plot
"I just read everything I could get my hands on," she said.
By United Press International
CHICAGO-A man sought in an extortion plot linked to the Tylienol cyanide-poisoning deaths of seven people was identified yesterday as a man once charged with murder in Kansas City, Mo.
Police increased their efforts to track down Robert Richardson, wanted since 1997 by the extortion warrant. Richardson was identified in Kansas City police as the man accused
of a 1978 murder in which extortion was the motive.
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Police would not elaborate on the Kansas City extortion angle or the connection between Richardson and the murder victim.
Authorities also said they did not know the true names of Richardson and his wife, identified as Nancy Richardson. 33.
ILINOIS ATTORNEY General Tyrone Fahner said, "We still have no direct evidence that these people were involved in the cyanide-Tylenol deaths.
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Known to Kansas City police as James Lewis, Richardson also was still wanted in Missouri for theft and forgery in a land-fraud scheme.
Richardson had originally been ruled out as a suspect in the killings of seven Chicago-area people who swallowed cyanide-labeled Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules but was accused of mastering the drug. The plot against the makers of Tylenol.
hoax initially, but the murder charge and previous record puts it in *a*
HE SAID that after the FBI Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Richardson, Kansas City police Sgt. David Barton saw pictures of Richardson and knew them live newscast and recognized them as James and Leann Lewis.
"The extortive demand we took as a
The FBI continued its search of the Texas Panhandle for the Richardsonss, believed to be in the vicinity of Amarillo, Texas.
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