Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1979)
THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1979 Page 3 Jniversity police ailed professional By DEBBIE NELSON Battalion Reporter Sometimes it’s hard for students o remember that the University ice are trying to do their job -t. 14, even jforcing the law. 1 Union & t'The KKs? Don’t they just vend s books- arking tickets and make sure no “d bycens; Isguided Aggie sneaks a bottle into 'ukita Klinr yle Field during a football game?” playbe students are so quick with inionautsLgput-down because they don’t know ulatory pkj, io\v the University policemen and chev. Bbmen are trained and hired, sev- to Leonid eral officers said. Many statements Bide about them are not even close ie premier to the truth. and Briil False: “They pull any guy off the Party seen street, put a gun in his hand, and er. A third ly he’s a policeman.” Tie presida 1 BCapt. Elmer Snyder said that ap- |cants must file an application and ve they are certified police offi- If not certified, they are given appointment to be reviewed and bated by Snyder and two other cers. Snyder said some of the teria he judges are attitude, oral expression, and experience — such as being a dispatcher or a security guard. ■Chief Russ McDonald said the department only hires one-third of the people who apply for jobs. ■If hired, the applicant is required by state law to complete a 240-hour Basic Certification Course for police omcers within six months of em ployment. The officers are not armed with guns until they have jmpleted the training and passed a jearms test, McDonald said. Presently, six new officers are ing trained in the course, which is red by the Texas A&M Engi- leering Extension Service. Every applicant takes physical and psychological tests, and has fingerprints submitted to check for a criminal record, Snyder said. If False: “The campus police are only security guards. They can’t do anything to me.” ■ All University police are state him andtt 5 Soviet Ui “Brezhnev id has been want. Tb] list can’t k 4vil liberties group fights lublishing criminal records United Press International tAUSTIN — The director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday that proposed rules for dis emination of arrest and conviction icords would allow giant corporate ||imputers access to the records and ould deprive hundreds of innocent Eexans of jobs. John Duncan, TCLU executive director, made the comments in a letter of protest to James B. Adams, executive director of the Criminal Justice Division of the governor’s of fice. Adams had proposed the rules concerning the release of conviction and arrest information to other crim inal justice agencies and to the pub lic. CS council OKs ordinance lo update garage sale rules e-saving Tntage: s! sign o By CINDY COLVIN Battalion Reporter [The College Station City Council ursday approved a new ordinance jiegulating garage sales and repeal- g another ordinance which had gulated garage sales since 1970. The new ordinance was created primarily to regulate traffic near Bulti-family sales, said Sherry Al- Trecht, administrative assistant to jnch hotf 1 City Manager North Bardell. ||The new ordinance defines garage ^ales as “a sale or offer to sell of mis- MmofiU^cellaneous items to the general pub- jdothiii- lit, upon residential property not expend®* herwise being used for commer sloppy isoline ' ri cial purposes.” The ordinance requires anyone holding a garage sale to obtain a permit from the city secretary and pay a fee of $1.50. Albrecht said a majority of people who advertise a garage sale do obtain a permit. However, she said she had attended some garage sales that did not have the city permit. Anyone violating the ordinance may be subject to a fine from $5 to $25. The new ordinance also gives the city the power to limit the number of families participating in a garage sale to three, Albrecht said. e t is imp 0 ' THE^i jorwini" rje team ! g° es ’ Barcelona APARTMENTS NEWLY REMODELED ! ALL UTILITIES PAID and... Individual Heating and Air, Cable T.V., 3 Laundry Rooms, Swimming Pool, Security Guard, Party Room, and Close to Campus. 693-0261 700 Dominik, College Station T.-x.:-, \Vt* ■ i \.\N (-ol f Com HAHtT LPY\ ■•'•'Wl..t 1 .Hm;I i*«•» — Three attend A&M CLU’s first meeting police officers. Snyder said they are commissioned peace officers of the state of Texas with jurisdiction over the University. The training doesn’t stop there. “In the 12-month period (Jan.-Dec. 1978) nearly every officer on the force attended some kind of ad vanced school,” Snyder said. The advanced classes are held at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. In 1978, University police officers received more advanced training than the Bryan, College Station, and sheriff*s police departments combined, McDonald said. False: “University police officers don’t know anything about college students.” Several officers are college stu dents themselves, Snyder said. Two officers are working part time on sociology degrees, one on an engi neering degree. Of the 44 officers on the force, 16 have attended or are attending college. False: “University police are young and inexperienced.” Three officers have been at Texas A&M for 35 years each. “All police departments have a retention prob lem, but ours has stabilized in re cent years,’’ McDonald said. McDonald, who spent 26 years in the military, has been with the de partment for four years, and said he is satisfied with his job. False: “There are only a handful of police officers on campus.” There are 44 police officers in the department, counting the six offi cers who are now being trained. McDonald said the force is to have a 46 members, and the hiring of three officers this year is the first increase in four years. False: “No one controls the policemen’s behavior.” MacDonald said in the IV2 years he has been police chief, he has fired one officer for misconduct, and several others who would have been fired resigned first. By PAMELA RIMOLDI Battalion Reporter What if an organization had a meeting, but nobody came? The A&M Civil Liberties Union found out Tuesday night as only three people came to its first meeting of the year. Those who showed up spent some time trying to decide where everyone else was. They concluded that many prospective members probably attended the Bella Abzug lecture sponsored by Political Forum and that others stayed home to watch the World Series. And they said one major rea son so few came was that many people consider the Civil Liber ties Union to be a radical organi zation. “People have the impression that the Civil Liberties Union is radical, but actually it is conserv ative in the sense that it defends the Bill of Rights set up by our Founding Fathers,” Dr. Mark Busby said. Busby, adviser for the A&M CLU, said the group’s purpose is to “set up a forum for airing grievances about landlords, pro fessors, or the University as a whole.” “We want the organization to be visible so students can sense someone is protecting their free dom,” Busby said. “I would like to think we don’t have infringe ments of civil rights here, but I’m afraid we do.” This year the A&M CLU wants to look into issues such as searches of dorm rooms and cen sorship on campus, said Kathy Paxton, president of the organi zation. Last year the A&M CLU got involved in such controversies as the problem with the admission of Iranian students during the crisis in Iran and the sex dis crimination case of Melanie Zentgraf against the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets. ;• x „. OCTOBER IS CJ)n»iONeen month! WITH PRICES ON STEREO COMPONENTS SKYROCKETING, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE ONCE IN A LIFETIME SAVINGS on Rioixieerr gapioixioer: system of the week. .. \ fl&pioixieeiT sx-450 1 AM/FM 15 watt per channel - receiver PL-514 w>F»ioi\ieejT TURNTABLE Belt-drive system with automatic return and shut-off function! OfimoiMeeiT PROJECT 80 8" 2-way 1 bass reflex speaker system ALL FOR ONLY RECEIVER OF THE WEEK "The World Famous" IOiDpioimcot SX-780 I it-- •45 watts per channel DC power amplifier Two power meters Two tape monitors We 7 re Killing Inflation on this Model Reg. *375. - SUPER SALE PRICED *259 CdPIOIVeQT SX-680 AM/FM STEREO RECEIVER •30 watts per channel •Two power meters •Two tape monitors •Capabilities for two sets of speakers Reg. *300 SALE $ 189 TURNTABLE OF THE WEEK The Hottest Selling Turntable This Year" fiDmorvieenr pl-sis Direct drive turntable with automatic return and shut-off function. Reg. *199 Inflation Killer Price 139 G!>r»ioi\ieeiT CT-F900 3-MOTOR 3-HEAD STEREO CASSETTE DECK • Dolby Noise Reduction • Hard Sendust Heads • Fluroscan Peak Level Indication w/Peak Hold Function • Electronic Tape Counter • Feather Touch Switching Reg. *575.00 SALE $ 359 \Your Number One Audio Dealer CUSTOM SOUNDS 3806-A OLD COLLEGE RD. (NEXT TO TRIANGLE ROWUNG All FY) WOOFER’S ON faeation this week LAYAWAYS AND FINANCING AVAILABLE THIS SALE LIMITED TO QUANTITIES IN STOCK. SO HURRY' ON DOWN! 846-5803 open mon.-sat. 10-6