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SURVEILLANCE: Cameras may not ensure security
Annie Bernethy/Kancan
The University of Kansas Public Safety Office will install security cameras this summer in residence hall parking lots. The new cameras will be monitored and will allow existing cameras to be monitored as well.
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"They must be manned 24-hours a day."
And that's not the only potential problem with the public safety office monitoring people's actions, Staples said.
Most people expect to remain anonymous in public, but cameras can infringe on that expectation, Staples said. When they do, they cross the line of people's right to privacy.
"That's one of the criticisms of cameras, that they will deter people from gathering in places for fear of being monitored." Staples said. "Is that the kind of society we want to live in?"
Staples said cameras on campus raise several questions, including how they will impact privacy and whether they are necessary for law enforcement.
"Having a police officer in a parking lot is much more of a deterrent than having a new camera on a pole somewhere," Staples said.
Campus police have used surveillance for specific problems in the past, such as when several windows were broken in Smith Hall, said Provost David Shulenburger.
"We'll certainly be monitoring the parking lots only," Shulenburger said. "I don't think there needs to be a lot of policy beyond that. This is about security only."
Shulenburger said the new cameras would not be able to monitor areas outside parking lots, such as the residence halls themselves.
Staples said cameras instill a sense of security, not the real thing.
"What does it really do for security? If someone walks up and shoots you, it's not going to stop you from doing that."
Edited by Abby Mills
FRATERNITY: Chapter looking to recruit members
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The fraternity's house corporation board has chosen to rent rather than purchase the house because it will be used as a precursor to building a bigger house in the future. Lantz said.
"It's obviously not what we're going to have permanently," he said. "But it's something for us to work out of next year, to be able to have events and have people come by and actually see a physical dwelling."
Establishing the house as the fraternity's central location has been just one step in a long line of rebuilding efforts its members have undertaken in the last year and a half. Lantz said.
In Fall 2002, Tau Kappa Epsilon alumni sent members of the fraternity's chapter at Kansas State University to the Lawrence to encourage men to rebuild the University of Kansas chapter,
Lantz said. At the time there were no current members because the remaining members of the University's chapter had just attained alumni status.
Throughout the following year, Lantz and 10 other men underwent educational training through leadership conferences and retreats to learn everything from the traditions of the fraternity to how to recruit quality members in the future.
The chapter's recruitment philosophy for rebuilding a strong fraternity comes down to making sure that the current members
"It took awhile to get used to the whole idea of it because none of us had ever really thought about being greek," Lantz said. "But it's been positive for us because we can see why somebody may not want to be greek, and we don't push it on people."
really get to know the new members before initiating them, said Zak Beasley, a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon.
"You've got to be friends with them first, and I think that's something we excel at," said Beasley, Kansas City, Kan., freshman.
As the chapter completes this semester's new-member education with the initiation of seven new members on Saturday, Lantz said the chapter would soon be focused on summer recruitment in order to reach its target range of 50 to 60 total members.
Expanding the fraternity to this size would enable it to cosponsor more activities with sororities and other fraternities, such as their upcoming philanthropy with Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, he said.
- Edited by Robert Perkins
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