University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 3, 1986
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KU police praise crime rate
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
KU police said yesterday that they were pleased with a recent Associated Press article that showed the University of Kansas ranking sixth in the Big Eight in the number of reported crimes on campus.
"It always tempting to say that it's because or order law enforcement," said Jim Denew, director of the kU police. "But we try not to do that, because if you take the credit, you also have to take the blame."
The article showed that KU had 786 reported Class 1 crimes — murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, theft and auto theft — during 1985.
For these crimes, KU ranked sixth in the Big Eight behind Colorado, with 1,009, Iowa State, 951, Nebraska, 925, Missouri, 828 and Oklahoma, 821.
Only Kansas State, with 566, and Oklahoma State, 483, reported fewer Class 1 crimes than KU.
Denny said the ranking was impressive, consider it that he had the second-largest enrollment, behind Iowa State.
And although KU has about 1,600 more students than Colorado, the Big Eight crime leader, KU police have 34 full-time uniformed officers and 54 employees compared to Colorado's 35 full-time officers and 67 employees.
Denney and Sgt. John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said that the low ranking could be attributed to students' attitudes toward criminal behavior.
"You have to give the community a lot of credit for a low crime rate," he said. "They're more aware of
Denney said the low ranking also could be attributed to a police effort that concentrated on serious crime problems.
crime in the community and, as a result, more people are locking their doors."
"The campus is not quite the easy prey it used to be for outsiders," he said.
An example of the department's increased effectiveness, he said, was the extermination of several bicycle-theft rings that were prevalent on campus in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
As a result of these trends, Denney said, campus crime has fallen steadily since 1981.
"These rings used to operate for several months before they were caught," he said. "And sometimes they were never caught. One year, we lost 19 bikes in a single day."
The report, which is based on both federal and Kansas bureaus of investigation reports, differs slightly from the AP report, which was based on reports from the universities.
Although KU ranks sixth in the Big Eight in Class 1 crimes, a report prepared by Brothers shows KU with the most violent crimes in the Big Eight.
The KU police report shows that 33 violent crimes, which include rage and assault, were reported in 1985. Other Big Eight schools' violent crimes range from Oklahoma, with 28, to Nebraska, with two.
Brothers said that (31 of the cases were assaults, and more than half of the assaults were domestic assaults).
Denney said the disparity of the numbers could be attributed to universities' different reporting policies.
Official Senate results announced
By a Kansan reporter
Official results after recounts in all Student Senate races were announced yesterday by the Senate Elections Review Board.
The new Senate will meet for the first time at 1 p.m. today in the Kansas City
Members of this year's Senate will also attend the meeting. Three of the members of this year's Senate will be elected as holder senators to the new Senate at the meeting.
Education: Kim Coulter, Chris Dalton.
Business: Richard Hall, Mike O'Keefe.
Members of the new Senate, who will serve until April 1987 are:
Architecture: Philip Duff, Laura Rohan.
Engineering: Amy Randles, Renee McGhee, Lori Nobert, Scott
Flanagin.
Fine Arts: Teresa Jackson, Stacie Burkart.
Graduate: Gholan Mainuddin, Clarissa Birch, David Hardy, Ypo Kranenburg, Mary Austin, Tom Lewis, Michael Foubert, Jodie Hobbs, Sam Appalsamy, Bonnie Dow.
Journalism: Sandy Cohen, Vic Osmolak.
Law: Sue Glatter, Michael Anderson.
Liberal Arts and Sciences,
representing juniors and seniors in
the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences; Liz Parker, Woody
Browne, Cliff Stubbs, Amy Campbell,
Amy Lucas, Jennifer Pollock,
Cal Reese, Ladale George.
Non-traditional : Dennis Lloyd.
Nunemaker, representing freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences;
Loretta Bass, Mike Maloney, Mark Flannagan, Mike Womack, Brian Kramer, Noelle Applegate, Jason Krakow, Jane Hutchinson, Stacie Marshall, Hott Hanneman, Michelle Stuart, Rachel Anderson, Maren Malecek, Mara Boerger, Koreka Kaul, Christian Ablao, Bart Eilts
Off-campus: Susan Myers, Laurie Kahrs, Brad Sanders, Eddie Watson, Mark McMahon.
Pharmacy: David Korber, Michael Rizk.
Residence halls at-large: Robyn Merrill.
Social welfare: Alice Nichols,
Stacey Walsh.
Special: no students ran.
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Schools to get new phone system
Anderson said present financing levels from the state would cover the costs of the new system.
By a Kansan reporter
municate with one another without the need for telephone modems. Anderson said.
The contract calls for the state to lease the equipment to handle calls on 18,000 telephone lines for eight years while AT&T provides maintenance. Anderson said the contract was signed last month.
She said increases in the cost of the equipment should be offset by savings resulting from the increased efficiency of the new system.
State University and Wichita State University, Anderson said.
The state of Kansas has awarded American Telephone & Telegraph a $9 million contract to provide and maintain new switchboard equipment at five state universities, an AT&T spokesman said Monday.
"The new system will allow for a greater efficiency in maintenance, since there will be no need to rewire phones when employees move from one office to another," she said. "It also will allow users to work more productively."
The new telephone system, which officials plan to install this spring and summer, will significantly upgrade telecommunications service at the schools without additional state funding, said Fran Anderson, AT&T media relations manager in Kansas City, Mo.
Under the contract, AT&T will install the new system, System 85, at the university of Kansas, the KU Medical School. At UT-Kansas Kansas State University, Fort Hays
Anderson said the new switchboard system will replace the universities' Centre telecommunications equipment. The new system allows easier conference calling and call forwarding, she said.
Another element of the new system will allow some computers to com-
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
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