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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2007
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OPINION POLL With the recent murders in New Orleans, do you feel safe on campus? COMPILED BY LAUREN LABORDE
MAYO KRABBE
MEAGHAN HARRIGAN
ERIC BROWN
ELYSE DUFOUR
MATT SOUKUP
SHELLEY JENKINS
general studies sophomore
mass communication senior
psychology / pre-med junior
visual arts senior
music education senior
graphic design sophomore
“I feel safe on campus. I guess I’ve never really been threatened.”
“To my knowledge nothing has happened on this campus or Tulane’s.”
“We need more (university) police officers.”
“At night it’s really creepy. There’s no one around the area.”
“(The crime) is all drug related ... And we’re not in gangs or on crack.”
“Yeah, I feel safe ... I’m a 6’2” black guy.”
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Continued from page 1 officers, but that student safety is a goal. “Issues you are raising as a group will not only be heard by police but public officials,” he said. “Politicians react to pressure,” said City Council president Oliver Thomas. At the campus of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center downtown, Ron Gardner, vice chancellor, said his biggest complaint is the lack of lighting. Gardner said that light is the best way to stop any potential crime from happening, and he’d like to see the LSUHSC campus lit up “like Zephyr Stadium at night.” “It’s hard for folks to understand why we just don’t have some lighting,” he said. “It’s the cheapest form of law enforcement. There’s no overtime to pay or anything.” Councilwoman Shelly Midura
said the city has been working with Entergy to start surveying the streetlights. “I think we’re going to see some serious improvement on the streetlights,” she said. Ron Maggiore, dean of admissions at the University of New Orleans, said while lights on the lakefront campus are still out in some places, that’s only one of his university’s problems. “There’s not a lot around here,” he said. “I need to convince parents that when they get off the interstate and they’re driving on Elysian Fields they’ll see a live campus. Another problem that Gardner said he sees is a lull in activity in between press conferences and meetings. Victor Ukpolo, chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans, agreed. “We talk, but action needs to come right away,” he said.
scene they found the victim, an unidentified black male, lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body. Emergency medical technicians pronounced the victim dead on the scene. As of Wednesday, police had recorded eight murders in the city since Jan. 1. Jan. 3 saw three murders within four hours of each other. Police said the first incident happened at about 3:30 p.m., the second at about 3:45 p.m. with the third happening at about 7 p.m. All three incidents were fatalities that occurred from gunshots. The victims — all males — were pronounced dead on the scene. The third victim, 19-year-old Randall Thomas of New Orleans, was walking down LaSalle Street toward Second Street when an unknown gunman approached him from behind, police said. Following the Jan. 3 murders,
police responded to two murders on Jan. 4. Police responded to the first report of the day with a call of shots fired at about 12:30 a.m. Officers found the victim, a black male, in an alley way at 2119 Josephine St. suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. EMT pronounced the victim dead on the scene. Investigators found a handgun near the victim, according to the NOPD. A search by K-9 and SWAT officers did not turn up a suspect. The day’s second murder occurred shortly after 5:30 a.m. at 2444 N. Rampart St. in the Marigny, police said. The victim was a 36-year-old white woman whom police identified as Helen Hill, a local filmmaker and animator. Hill was pronounced dead on the scene. Her husband, family doctor Paul Gailiunas, and their 2-year-old were transported to Elmwood/Charity Trauma Center. Gailiunas underwent surgery for minor injuries, police said.
The toddler was not injured. One murder followed the wave of five in two days. On Jan. 5, police responded to a call of residential burglary at about 7:20 a.m. While on the way to the home at 7437 Pitt St., officers were notified of a possible female down. At the scene they found the victim, a black female, lying on a bed with a gunshot wound to the head. Paramedics pronounced her dead on the scene. After three days of a quiet murder front, police responded to the most recent report. At about 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 8, police responded to a call of shots fired at 2530 Dublin St. The victim, a 40-year-old black male, was discovered lying on the floor of the house with multiple gunshots to the head and torso, police said. EMT pronounced him dead on the scene.
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Daniel Monteverde can be reached at dcmontev@loyno.edu.
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