THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1981
Si Local
Duties have changed in 33 years, policeman says
By MARY E. EGAN
Battalion Reporter
Reflecting upon 33 years as a
campus policeman, Morris Mad
dox recalls makeshift, primitive
communications systems, officers
without sidearms, and much diffe
rent student body.
The assistant police chief said
when he first came to Texas A&M
University in 1947, his job was
easier. Thefts were few and those
that did occur usually were con
fined to hubcaps. But, then there
weren’t many cars either, he said.
In fact, the University Police
patrolled the old Air Base Annex
on Highway 21 west of campus on
horseback, Maddox said. At that
time freshmen were housed
there.
A car was purchased later, he
said, but that was only so that the
night guard could drive back to
campus to punch the time clock.
Campus police were primarily
guards rather than trained officers
as they are now, Maddox said.
They wore no sidearms, nor did
they carry nightsticks.
He recalls his first day on the
job.
“The police station was in a
two-room office located in Good
win Hall without a telephone at
night,” he said. “Callers had to
phone the housing office across
the hall and the housing staff
would then turn a red light on that
was on top of the building.
“Patrolmen would then see the
light and know they had a mes
sage,” he said.
From 1946-1951, many of the
students attending Texas A&M
were veterans who returned to
school, Maddox said.
The students were rowdier
then, but Maddox said he feels
“they were a different type of kid. ”
“In the 1950s, there wasn’t any
marijuana smoking and very little
stealing,” he said.
Maddox said he felt more com
fortable when the University’s en
rollment was around 10,000, but
he said he welcomes the change
and women students.
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