6 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2006
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circuit televisions. The office conducted background checks on the employees, a practice Oliver said was atypical of most student-employers on campus.
He said that he was 'quite pleased" with the work they were doing, and that as the students work on a lot of projects, "they make it their own."
Oliver did admit to one downside of the cameras, however, the cost. He said that the University uses a number of "pan-
zoom-tilt" cameras -cameras with the ability to move and zoom in on subjects- as opposed to fixed camera. "Pano zoom-tilt" cameras are more expensive and take a longer time to install.
He said one benefit of the "pan-
"Security is not a one-approach fix," he said.
"SECURITY IS NOT A ONE-APPROACH FIX."
Oliver said that the publicity that the cameras recently received has reduced the number of auto burglaries that have occurred on campus, but it will take a few more years to see the overall direct approach of their use.
The office received "extremely positive feedback" from female students in particular, Oliver said.
RALPH V. OLIVER chief/director of the KU Public Safety Office,
zoom-tilt" camera is that students can call the office from the blue security phones on campus and ask the monitors to follow them to where they need to go, by a series of cameras. The monitors can then immediately notify dispatchers if they see that student entering harm's way.
Oliver said he could not tell if the cameras were a preventative reason for stopping crime, but he thought that they were a critical component of what goes into keeping students safe.
"Most of the response we have gotten is, 'why haven't we done it sooner,'" he said.
Maddie Fry, Topeka sophomore, said she doesn't typically walk around campus at night, but in general she thinks cameras are useful.
"I think it's a good idea to prevent crime," she said.
Oliver said that both Memorial Stadium and Allen Fieldhouse use surveillance cameras inside and outside the complexes.
The Department of Homeland Security provided funding for the cameras in the two stadiums because it dubbed them potential targets for terrorism in the state.
— Edited by Adrienne Bommarito
The heat is on
Jamie Veatch, Lawrence resident, Jesse Plous, Leawood graduate student and Lawrence Hencerson, Lansing senior, cool off in the Chi Omega fountain Thursday afternoon. It wasn't a first for Plous and Henderson, who had been coming down for dips in the water for the last four days. Temperatures on Thursday reached into the upper 90s, but the heat index made it feel as hot as 106 degrees.
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