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e 2 )82 local Battalion/Page 3 March 29, 1982 Night shift patrols for pranksters Police officers keep campus safe after dark Editor's note: This is the first in 3 Tire-purl series on people who iten't vampires but work, mainly it night. by Jennifer Carr Battalion Staff As the police car cruised along North Bizzell, the officer check- frf the flags in front of the Sys tems Building to make sure they we still there. 7'he flags are a every I bout tli ressiott manu ideni liereev ;rn. On men. i mocrati ;or Angela ork la :n inait nice lie for tbi is.” ten tnl in tbei marsii reside# aved I” ugli thf es and on "id becotw t mucb d like*' created in the with i <e"K ispetf pick a ightt' nd ur- it BiT at-fd jTjM . ^ ;V anH .Id be jidk 1 ' all^e ■e dr i es c ■stior -thb' m favorite target for student pranksters, he says. A truck swings around the corner and hesitates at the stop sign. “I’m going to stop this truck,” Lniversity Police Sgt. Rick Flores said. ‘‘He couldn’t stop at Shroud scientist by Kellie Kurtin . Battalion Reporter Scientific evidence may prove that the Shroud of Turin is au thentic, an associate professor of fjectrical engineering at the university of Colorado said Saturday night. He directed ex perimental investigations on the doth in 197 8. “There are rational reasons to believe that the shroud is the hurial cloth of Jesus,” said Dr. John Jackson, speaking at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Student Center. Jackson showed slides of the shroud, which showed an image estimated to have been that of a 5-foot-10-inch man. Hie markings on the shroud correspond directly with Roman crucifixion reports concerning Jesus Christ, Jackson said. The front view of the figure, lull-bodied with crossed arms in "Out, shows a heavy blood flow U n the head which depicts a crown of thorns, and bloody pounds on the wrists and feet. * he back view shows numerous scourge marks and blood on the feet. . On a scale of zero to 100, "uh zero meaning the shroud is n °t genuine, and 100 meaning it •s definitely genuine, right now ’ d give it an 85,” Jackson said. ”estill don’t have enough evi- d e nce to be 100 percent sure.” ■^team of 30 scientists worked wluntarily with Jackson during |hc expedition on experiments, ‘he team studied fiber samples ^d used tape to obtain particles rom the surface of the cloth. Scientists have not been able carbon-date the shroud yet because this requires cutting a P'ece of the cloth. The discovery of the shroud's reversed image — like a photo- S^phic negative — inspired in- 'estigation of the shroud. Tests also show that the image ‘otdv on the surface of the pth, and the blood penetrated cuni one side of the cloth to the other. that stop sign; I’m going to have to slow him down just a little bit.” Flores, who is in charge of the night shift, said this incident is typical of a Wednesday night. ‘Tonight should pick up a little bit,” he said. “There’ll be a few people out at the bars, and when they come home, they’ll probably be a little rowdy. Thursdays are really bad — seems like Thursday everybody comes out and has a good time before they go home.” The midnight shift of the University Police is from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., but the prime time for student mischief is about l a.m. to 3 a.m., Flores said. During that time, the three or four offic ers who patrol Texas A&M Uni versity at night keep on the streets and in the parking lots. A dispatcher is constantly on duty at the station and investiga tors always are on call. Capt. Jack W. Bruce stays at the station until midnight, when he turns over command to Flores. After about 3 a.m., when most students have finished their par- tying, the campus quiets down, Flores said. Then officers check buildings and set up surveillance in parking lots for car burglars, the most common problem on campus at night. Flores said the two problem areas are behind the Commons and along Wellborn Road from Cain Hall to University Drive. Several campus buildings must checked three times a night, others are checked at random. Except for one officer who checks only buildings, there are no beats and no officer patrols two nights in a row in the same area, Flores said. If an officer gets into a pattern, he said, it becomes almost impossible to catch law-breakers because they always know the location of the officer. Flores said he has never had a problem falling asleep on the job, but admits it can be rough to adjust when shifts change every two months. It can be especially hard, he said, at the beginning of the week when things are really slow. Officers are randomly ro tated every two months, but have an opportunity to change shifts if they want to. Flores said he likes working at night be cause it gives him an opportun ity to try to catch thieves and pranksters, such as those who stole two flags from the Systems buildings Tuesday night. The flags were not recovered, and the pranksters have not been caught. Tuesday: Slight time at the Texas A&M University Physical Plant. may be genuine, says on visit l he dried, old and deterio- as human and the type cannot be rated blood cannot be identified determined, Jackson said. AGGIES! Douglas Jewelry 10% AGGIE DISCOUNT ON ALL MERCHANDISE WITH STUDENT ID (Cash Only Please) We reserve the right to limit use of this privilege. Downtown Bryan (212 N. Main) and Culpepper Plaza It's Coming... ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK! 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