Routine and public relations part of the job
KU police lead varied lives
Photo by Ron Bishon
On 'tuagboat' duty
Traffic and Security officer Arnold Suppes issues a campus pass while on duty at the Chi Omega Fountain traffic booth.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Some of the most frequently seen and least understood persons on the KU campus are the campus police. A University Daily Kansas reporter followed two campus policemen on a typical working day recently.)
By TERRY KOCH Kansan Staff Writer
Arnold Suppes is married, has a baby girl and is taking five hours of classes on the G.I. Bill. His wife teaches English at Pomona High School. He is also a patrolman with KU's Traffic and Security Department (the campus cops.)
From 3 until 4:45 p.m., Suppes works in one of the checkbooths that guard the entrance to the campus.
"An hour and a quarter is enough for me," he said, as he stood waving cars through the checkpoint. "This place isn't even equipped with a bathroom."
Tuesday afternoon, Suppies was on duty at Check Point One, at the Chi Omega fountain. "I get nearly 105 cars through this point while I'm here, or a car every minute," he said. "This is the busiest booth on campus."
Suppes "waved-through" a car with a green sticker.
"Cars with green or purple stickers go through," he explained. "Everyone else either has to get a visitor's or a short-term campus pass."
Passes needed to pass
The short-term passes, he said, are given to cars with KU registration stickers and the visitor's passes to those without.
A steady stream of cars, and people with stories, attempting to drive on campus, came through the checkpoint.
Four elderly women in an old Buick had come "to see the trees." They were given a visitor's pass.
A graduate student in business drove up. He wanted to "run a program through the computer." He didn't get a pass.
A male faculty member in a Chrysler New Yorker drove up with a young woman at his side. "She's a guest from Denmark," the driver said, "and I'd like to show her the campus." He got a short-term pass.
A man in a Volkswagen, delivering an aquarium, was waved through.
Other rewards?
The reporter called the patrolman's attention to three miniskirted young ladies sitting around the Chi Omega fountain.
8 KANSAN Apr.24 1969
and suggested that working at a check-booth may have some advantages after all.
"You should see number three," he said. "That's the booth by the Union. My wife doesn't know about that, though."
At 4:45 p.m. Suppes took down the stop sign, locked up the booth, and returned to the Traffic and Security Office in Hoch Auditorium.
"From the office I go to an intersection to direct traffic for an hour," he said. "That's the worst part of my day. Then I go on car patrol."
Robert Kampschroeder owns a farm "west of town." He farms grain crops, "but no corn or livestock." During the daylight
hours, in spring and summer, he works on his farm. Every afternoon, from 3 to 4:45 p.m. he works in a security booth, and at five he goes on car patrol.
"It's pretty quiet on my shift," he said. "We're done patrolling an hour before the hanky-panky starts. After the bars close is when the action starts.
"I mainly look after the east end of the campus," he said, "but in the course of a night I will cover all of it about two or three times.
"There's very little trouble on campus at night," he said.
"We're here mainly to be seen, so people will think twice before doing something."
"But our primary job," he said, "is to ticket the cars in the restricted parking zones. Otherwise, the people who were
Things are quiet until midnight
Photo by Ron Bishop
Officer Robert Kampschroeder explains his duties while cruising the campus in a Traffic and Security Dept. patrol car. The tickets take most of the time, he said.
Public relations function
supposed to park there would be crowded out by all the others.
"Actually, we're more of a public relations outfit than a police force," he said.
As the sun began to set, Kampschroeder drove his patrol car up a narrow, winding road behind the Alpha Omega Pi sorority house, until he came to an old stone house high on a hill, Sudler Place.
"This is one place I'd really like to live," he said. "It's isolated from everything, quiet, and has a good view of the valley. It has a mahogany staircase, a big stone fireplace . . . it's really nice."
After a few quiet and uneventful trips across campus, this reporter left Kampschroeder. Later that evening this reporter parked his car in a restricted zone behind Summerfield Hall. Sure enough,
there was a ticket on his windshield, and there was Kampschroeder's patrol car, driving away into the night. He was indeed, doing his job.
ISP Senate candidate, Peter George, Tuckahoe, N.Y., senior, said yesterday he was pleased with the estimated 2,000 vote turnout of the first day of elections.
2,000 voted
Describing the first day of this possible record-breaking election, George said, "I consider the vote an ultimatum for next year's Senate."
George attributed the first day turnout to the independent student's realization that he can affect responsive and important student government change.
The candidate also emphasized the orientation of ISP's campaign towards issues $ ^{e} $
BG & the Bunch come on with a Soulful Sound like you want to hear Fri., April 25-B G and the Bunch Sat., April 26-The Ice with the Hendricks Sound
Serfs Featuring Serfs Mike Finnigan Friday and Saturday
8 p.m. May 2 and 3 8 p.m.
— Coming —
May 23--The Ike and Tina Turner Revue