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New chief means changes for campus police
▶ CHANDLER BOESE
@Chandler_Boeese
After being officially appointed last week, the new chief of campus police is looking to make some changes.
Chief Chris Keary said he wants to streamline the office's administration and put more officers on the street. The move represents his focus on officer visibility and student protection, he said.
The office has gotten rid of their assistant chief position, which had been open since Keary was promoted to interim chief at the beginning of this year. Previous captains James Anguiano and Bobby Williams have been promoted to deputy chief positions
and will split the duties of the assistant chief between themselves and Keary. As a result, the office will be able to add another patrol officer.
"Eventually, when we get everyone hired, there will be more officers on the street, responding to calls and taking care of the University than there was before," Keary said.
Keary said this new setup will allow the administration to function more efficiently and effectively, as well as improve the Public Safety Office's visibility.
"It's always important for us to be seen," he said. "Even unconsciously, just seeing officers around will make people feel a little bit safer. That's one of the
things we like to have to make sure we have a safe community."
Anguiano said this change is about reflecting what the PSO considers important actively protecting members of the University community.
Cassidy Hintz/KANSAN Chris Keary was officially appointed chief of police last week.
"We have a good handle on the administration office, but we need a little extra hand on the street," he said. "We need to have another officer out on the street to promote visibility and help protect students, faculty and staff."
Keary, who has worked for PSO since he was an undergraduate attending the University, always emphasizes being visible and interactive with the community, Anguiano said.
"In the amount of years
that Chief Keary has been at the University, he's really emphasized that safety is a community effort," Anguiano said.
Keary said he hopes the members of the University community understand their role in helping to keep people safe.
"One of our major goals is to make sure that people understand that they are part of that answer," Keary said. "It's important that people look around, be observant, if they see something that doesn't look right, give us a call, give us a chance to look into it."
Visiting historian talks academic activism
MATTHEW HARVEY
@KansanNews
At the Commons in Spooner Hall Tuesday, Alice Dreger, a bioethicist and visiting historian of medicine and science, discussed the important findings of her bioethics research, "Good Causes, Bad Acts: Scrutinizing Ends and Means in Academic Activism," as well as some unjustified consequences at universities.
Bioethics focuses on the controversial issues that often emerge from advances in biology and medicine. Dreger's work specifically focuses on research surrounding sex, sexuality and gender.
Dreger's books address issues of gender, sexuality activism, and medical and scientific research.
Bettina Bugatto/KANSAN Bioethics Alice Dreger speaks to a crowd of people at The Commons in Spooner Hall.
Her most recent work, "Galileo's Middle Finger," explores the conflicting relationship between science and social justice.
Here are some takeaways from her talk:
The search for truth and justice
"The values that our parents really instilled in us," Dreger said. "The search for two things; one of which was searching for truth and the other for justice."
Dreger began the talk by speaking about the search for truth and justice.
Dreger went on to address the problem today.
"We have a system in America where, increasingly, the search for truth
and the search for justice are at odds with each other."
"You can't really have justice without truth," Dreger said. "And you can't really do the search for truth without justice."
Despite these conflicts, Dreger argued that both are necessary.
Politics and beliefs shouldn't overshadow research and evidence
Dreger explained that there were several times she experienced backlash for research that contradicted activist movements movements, she was
"I feel very strongly that it is important that we protect academia from having a system in which we let our politics simply rule what we deem to be true," Dreger said.
- movements she was
Dreger went on to discuss her claim that research and evidence should hold academic priority over personal beliefs and political opinions.
apart of.
She also criticized the shutdown of discussions by some students and staff who feel certain conversations should not be held because they are offensive to historically oppressed groups.
Dreger said she sees this kind of silencing of opposing voices as dangerous and counterproductive to the progress of academia.
"Our national system depends on having a place where research can be safe and looking at facts can be safe."
The University is not a corporation
The final point of Dreger's talk was that the modern university is not what it used to be.
"What we see today is that students are talked about as if they are customers," she said. "Faculty are treated as if we are salespeople... the donors treated like corporate shareholders."
Dreger said she thinks
Senate committees fail CLAS seat bill
CONNER MITCHELL
@concernmitchellO
A bill which would have potentially reapportioned seats for College and Liberal Arts and Sciences senators was debated Wednesday in the Student Rights and University Affairs Committees.
The bill required a two-thirds majority, and passed in Rights Committee by a count of 14-7. It failed the University Affairs Committee by a count of 4-11-1.
According to the bill, one-fifth of the overall CLAS seats would have gone to the At-Large section and the seats allotted to the other sections would have been determined by the enrollment headcount on the 20th day of classes.
bill author, presented the bill to Rights Committee members, saying it would divide the seats given to CLAS senators into six different categories in an effort to coordinate with academic interests.
"The whole reason why I brought up this bill is I really do feel like academic seats should correlate with academic interests, rather than how many credit hours you have," Zabel said. "As a student government, we should have representation that reflects the academic interests of the
Taylor Zabel, Finance Committee chair and
inness gave a negative speech on the bill, saying the current system of filling seats in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is not broken, and the bill is simply changing for the sake of change.
The categories included students in arts, humanities, international studies, natural science/ mathematics, social/behavioral sciences fields, as well as At-Large seats.
"[With this bill,] we start to exclude people from being a part of Student Senate based on an arbitrary category that didn't need to be put in place in the first place," he said.
Junior/Senior CLAS senator Chance Mag-
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in an email. "They simply filmed Britani Potter speaking at several public campaign events, which is a very common practice in campaigns."
Snitsar is currently a sophomore at the University and a senator in the School of Journalism. Snitsar is also one of the seven Student Senate representatives on University Senate.
Snitsar could not immediately be reached for comment.
Moon, now a graduate student in the School of
Both Moon and the Student Senate office declined to comment on the allegations.
regulations, and he was not removed from his position.
Business, served as Student Senate chief of staff in the 2015-2016 school year, where he underwent impeachment proceedings after being criticized for his lack of support of multicultural students. The impeachment ultimately did not find Moon to be in violation of any
this type of system lends itself to situations where the political opinions of the shareholders and administrators are greatly overshadowed by the evidence of the researchers and professors.
Ultimately, Dreger's research and ideas centered on what is integral in today's society of scholars teachers and learners. It is a society in which, she said, "there's a lot of good to be done."
CORRECTION An article in the Sept. 14 Kansan, "Campus Remembers 9/11" misidentified the veteran peer mentor. His name is Roy Parker. The Kansan upologizes for the error.
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