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CATALYST
AGENTS OF CHANGE ECONOMIC BUBBLES
OCTOBER 11, 2017 VOLUME XXXV ISSUE V
New College of Florida's student-run newspaper
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A brief history of the NCPD: past, present and future BY COLE ZELZNAK “Let me think of all the things that have changed so much,” Sergeant Mike Mahaney pondered, sitting in the driver’s seat of an unmarked squad car, a battleship grey Chevrolet Impala. Sgt. Mahaney, hired in 2003, is the New College Police Department’s (NCPD) most senior law enforcement officer (LEO). Campus security has changed drastically since the early 2000s, but its evolution since New College of Florida’s (NCF) 1964 charter class presents an deeper story about the changing role of policing on college campuses. In 1970, the Florida legislature passed a law mandating public universities recruit security officers with the same training and authority as city, county and state police. Before NCF’s 1975 merger with the University of South Florida (USF), the then-
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An unidentified University Police officer and another unidentified individual in front of Hamilton Center in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
private college was patrolled by unarmed security guards. Records from the few years after the merger suggest that armed LEOs were a generally unwelcome development. In a 1977 faculty meeting, the
late Professor Emerita of Political Science, Margaret L. Bates, suggested that students felt that the college’s security had become more “obnoxious,” and that students felt they were living under a police state.
“Some claim that the presence of armed police and the bureaucratic USF administration administrative structure are severely damaging the anarchic, innovative spirit that prevailed when New College was a private institution. This is the hottest issue on campus,” a 1978 issue of the Yale Daily News notes. These sentiments are not new, and they persist even as students graduate and officers retire. In 1994, former New College Student Alliance (NCSA) President Ed Moore worked with administration and the NCPD to organize a meeting to defuse tensions between police and students. The meeting was not well-attended. “Campus culture has changed since I’ve been here, largely due to the radically different, almost antagonistic, approach the campus police have taken,” thesis student Michael continued on p. 11
‘What they don’t teach you is how to deal with the aftermath’ Alum and KNPR producer Casey Morell on the Las Vegas shooting BY GIULIA HEYWARD
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Alum Casey Morell (‘08) graduated from the New College of Florida in 2012 with an Area of Concentration (AOC) in Political Science/International and Area Studies. He served as the General Editor of the Catalyst during his thesis year before later attending the University of Missouri, where he obtained his M.A. in Journalism. Today, he is the coordinating producer of KNPR, a npr member radio station located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Morell spoke with current General Editor and thesis student, Giulia Heyward, in a phone interview about his experiences covering the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting at the Route 91 country music festival. GH: Can you talk about what you do with NPR? CM: My job is essentially making sure that the daily talk show that
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Casey Morell worked a 22-hour shift reporting on the Las Vegas Shooting, mere miles from his home, on Oct. 1.
the Nevada Public Radio puts on, which is called State of Nevada, stays on the air. I help organize the show that we run, figuring out how long segments on the broadcast need to be, I work with different producers
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in our newsroom on booking guests, editing scripts, things like that. I handle all of the technical work for our show, so that’s directing, broadcast when it goes out and making post production work that needs to
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be done like editing for time or making it sound better. The easiest way to describe it is just making sure all the trains are running on time and are on the air everyday. GH: Can you tell me where you were when the Las Vegas shooting occurred? CM: I need to back up a little. My typical work week is Monday through Friday and I work from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., so usually I am in bed between 10:30 and 9:00 p.m. every night. Sunday night I was in bed around 9:30, I think I fell asleep around 10:00 and I got a phone call around 11:00. As you probably know as a journalist, when you get phone calls in the middle of the night, it’s probably for a good reason. I looked at the phone and noticed [...] that the phone number was from Ireland, so I continued on p. 10
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