Chief to start fourth year
Only 23 men guard Mount Oread
By WILL HARDESTY
Would you believe there are 500 campus cops? 100?
Actually there are only 23, but if they give you tickets like they give them to me, it seems like there is one for every student.
THEIR CHIEF, E. P. Moomau will begin his fourth year as head of Traffic and Security in mid-February. He came to KU the day after he retired from the Kansas highway patrol. He has been in law enforcement since 1929.
The police force is responsible for protecting the KU campus and student body, and enforcing the traffic rules and regulations on the campus.
Traffic and Security men must be citizens of Kansas, 21 years
old, with no criminal record, and according to Moomau. "we prefer a high school education."
THE KU POLICE and the local law enforcement agencies have overlapping authority. The campus police are special officers for the City of Lawrence. This means they have all the powers of a regular Lawrence policeman, but are not paid by the city. KU police have Douglas County deputy sheriffs commissions and they are also Kansas law officers.
This overlapping jurisdiction is no problem according to Moomau.
On the other hand, all other Kansas lawmen have authority on the campus because it is state property. Lawrence police and Douglas county officers have authority on the campus, too.
"We have the closest co-operation between local enforcement
agencies of any place I've ever been."
EVERY Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Moomau meets with the heads of the local agencies. The county attorney and his assistant, the sheriff, the police chief and his assistant, a highway patrol representative, a Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) representative and sometimes a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) representative meet and talk over their mutual problems.
How does this overlapping authority affect the average KU student? Any speeding ticket given on the campus is a city ticket, and it counts toward loss of driving privileges. The city police may issue speeding tickets on the campus, too. KU parking is left entirely up to the campus police.
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PERSONNEL'S PERSONNEL
KU's Sigma Psi was born last night in the Union's Kansas Room. Twenty-two new members were initiated into the personnel fraternity, including these officers: Mason R. McIntire, Oregon, Mo., senior and Vice President; Joanna S. Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., senior and Secretary-Treasurer; Janet Rubin, Overland Park senior and Corresponding Secretary, and Rick Noble, Independence senior and President.
The new members and their guests heard speakers Marvin Mothersead, president of the Personnel Management Association of Greater Kansas City, and John Seimens, Regional Vice-President of the American Society of Personnel Administrators.
"Of course, at all times, we are
BESIDES GIVING parking tickets, the police are concerned with overall traffic regulation on the campus. This is accomplished through the control stations located at the five entrances to the campus. The police also escort and protect money, primarily the funds of the KU Athletic Association in Allen Field House, the Business Office in Strong, and the money collected from the Bookstore, cafeteria, Prairie Room, etc. in the Kansas Union. "Of course, at all times we are
IF AT FIRST . . .
looking out for the KU campus, staff, and student body," Moomau said.
The biggest traffic problems come when campus sports events are held. Over the years, traffic patterns have been established, and the police are prepared to handle them.
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The traffic and security-type police receive on-the-job training. The next training sessions will be held during the semester break. The training program has no set schedule, but courses are generally scheduled during university vacations.
Buildings and Grounds has crew of 15 men who act as night watchmen for the central academic area. These men patrol the buildings, looking for fires, turning off lights, and maintaining the safety of the academic buildings. They have less rigorous standards of qualifications, and wear no uniforms.
AT A TYPICAL basketball game, men from all three shifts work. Men actually working the game are usually from the day and late night shifts, leaving the regular shift to do its regular tasks. Buildings and grounds sends an auxiliary force of six to eight men to help direct traffic into parking zones.
The city and county send men to help route traffic into the field house area and the highway patrol will normally have from eight to ten extra men in the Lawrence area. The turnpike's patrol also converge on the area to keep traffic moving on and off the turnpike smoothly.
"WE IMPORT instructors from all over—the Lawrence police, KBI, FBI, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, or from wherever we need and want them," Moomau said.
More special help is in the area at times of K-State events; particularly on the highways between Manhattan and Lawrence.
Campus police get help patrolling the campus on a regular basis from two special groups of security men.
THE RESIDENCE HALL department hires nine men to make night patrols of the dorm areas. These men have the same qualifications, salary, and uniforms as the Traffic and Security men, but are responsible to the dormitory department.
How is the respect of the KU student body for the campus officers?
"Generally, it's not bad," Moomau said. "It's improving all the time. We're trying to earn the students' respect through fair and impartial treatment.
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"We also are stressing courtesy. The traffic control stations are the doors to the university. We have a big public relations job to do. We work for KU. KU is the students, the faculty, the people of Kansas. You aren't rude to your boss, and we try to be polite to ours."
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