Tuesday, October 27, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
New safety officers take to the street
On the beat
Left to right: Joey Jaramillo, Sylvester Birdsong, Dusty Wilson, and Josh Leon pose in front of a University of Kansas Police Department cruiser. All four officers are new to the department. Photo by Jeff Severin/KANSAN.
Eight-week academy required before joining KU Public Safety Office
By Kelll Raybern
Kansan staff writer
Four new officers completed their first duties Saturday with the KU Public Safety Office at the Kansas-Colorado football game.
The new officers have been training to work for the office since July 27.
Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office said the new officers assisted with crowd control after the game.
"They were all about it," he said.
The new officers stood in the end zones to discourage the crowd from taking the goalposts.
"That wasn't successful, so we pulled back and monitored the
situation," Mailen said
"It was great — what an experience." she said.
Dusty Wilson, one of the new officers, said she enjoyed working at the game.
New officers Sylvester Birdsong, Josh Leon and Joey Jaramillo are rookies. They completed eight weeks at the police academy in Yoder on Oct.
2 and returned to Lawrence for inhouse training with Wilson.
"Iwant to help people. It sounds corny,but it's true.I didn't do it so I could shoot guns and drive fast."
Wilson served with the Baldwin Police Department for three years before coming to the University.
The officers finish all training this week and begin regular work Sunday.
Joey Jaramillo
"They're very enthusiastic," Mailen
said. "They were really anxious to get their uniforms."
Police officer
The officers said they were ready to work after weeks of training.
Birdsong said he learned a lot at the academy but that it was not a
good time.
"It was class," he said. "You had to be there. It was stress."
Birdsong joked that his favorite parts of the training were graduation and lunch.
Jaramillo disagreed.
Birdsong said he enjoyed the academy's driving course more than the
"The food was horrible," he said.
"That was the fun part until the test came," Birdsong said.
rest of the training.
Jaramillo agreed.
"After I was finished, I wanted to go back and do it again." he said.
Jaramillo also said he hoped to enjoy the work he had been preparing for at the academy.
"I want to help people," he said. "It sounds corny, but it's true. I didn't do it so I could shoot guns and drive fast."
Leon said being a police officer was the only thing he could really see himself doing.
"My grandpa was a cop, and my dad was a cop," he said. "It was bred into me."
Mailen said the officers were hired to replace people who had retired or left the department during the last four years.
He said Wilson, Leon, Birdsong and Jaramillo would serve the department well.
"We've got a great bunch of officers in these four," he said. "They're ready to hit the streets next week."
Milk Mustache seeks KU smiles
By Julie M. Sachs
The Milk Mustache campaign stops at the University of Kansas today from noon to 2 p.m. in the lobby of the Kansas Union and will be offering students health tips and a chance to appear in a milk mustache advertisement.
Kansan staff writer
One KU student's mustache picture will appear in the Lawrence Journal-World, The University Daily Kansan and on the Milk Web site.
A national winner also will be selected from the 50- college campus tour to appear in an ad in a future issue of Sports Illustrated.
Besides getting their own milk mustache photo, students also can get free milk merchandise including a calendar and posters of new milk mustache celebrities.
Students also can get their picture taken with life-size cutouts of supermodel Tyra Banks and football star John Elway.
Motivation behind the tour is to educate students on the benefits of drinking milk, said Matt Wagner, account coordinator for Bozzell Sawyer Miller Group Marketing Communications.
"A dietitian will be there giving education about food and health," said Tracie Schuler, SUA graduate advisor. The campaign also is drawing upon studies that show only college athletes are consuming the amount of calcium they need.
recent studies have shown that milk is the No. 1 beverage college students stop drinking when they head to college. The "Rethink Your Drink" survey showed that college students rated soda as the top beverage they could not live without at school, Wagner said.
He said the strong support of athletes at the University also influenced why the campaign would be stopping on campus.
roy Williams, Jarrod Haase and Marian Washington may be making an appearance at the event.
The event, which is sponsored by SUA, is free of cost for the University.
Kansas and Nebraska are the only two Big 12 schools where the campaign will stop.
DOES A BODY GOOD
- Fat free milk has 80 calories; 1 percent low fat milk has 2.5 grams of fat and 100 calories per 8-oz serving.
■ The National Academy of Sciences recommends that college-age men and women should consume 1,000 mg of calcium each day - drinking at least three 8-az glasses of milk to help meet this daily calcium requirement.
Calcium is a vital nutrient needed to help prevent the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, which afflicts 25 million Americans.
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