THE MANEATER
OCTOBER 11, 2017 • THEMANEATER.COM
LISON CHO
orter
Dr. Alexander Cartwright is serving his first year as MU chancellor. Before working at MU, Cartwright served as provost and executive vice chancellor of the State University of New York. PHOTO BY KATE SEAMAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Chancellor hopes to bring out MU’s potential by understanding campus community Story by Allison Cho | Reporter
Chancellor Alexander Cartwright: “I remember calling my wife and saying, ‘I’m going to be disappointed if I don’t get this position’ because I saw this place and I had known a lot about it too, but it was nothing like walking on the campus.”
With a cup of coffee in his hand and a silver MU pin on his lapel, Chancellor Alexander Cartwright is faced with matters every day ranging from enrollment management to adjusting to the university. Cartwright officially began his duties on Aug. 1 after his appointment was announced in late May. “I love being here,” he said. “It’s a great institution. We have outstanding students throughout the entire organization and great faculty, committed staff and people who really are trying to do the best for Mizzou.” For Cartwright, choosing MU was an easy
decision. In addition to being a land grant institution, the university is one of the 60 American universities in the Association of American Universities, an organization that recognizes leading research universities and places MU in an “elite class,” according to the chancellor. And like many MU students, when Cartwright visited the campus, it was love at first sight. “I remember calling my wife and saying, ‘I’m going to be disappointed if I don’t get this
CAMPUS SAFETY
MUPD releases annual crime statistics report On-campus, non-campus and public property locations have seen major shifts among liquor and drug law arrests, as well as hate crimes. STEPHI SMITH
Staff Writer
The MU Police Department released the 2017 Annual Fire Safety and Security Report in a mass email on Sept. 27. The report is in compliance with the Clery Act, which requires all federally funded public universities to collect and publish information about crime on and near their campuses. The report is required to include 110 security police statements and crime statistics from the past three years by Oct. 1, Lt. Kevin Rodgers of
MUPD Support Services said. The statistics break the crime reports into three different locations: on-campus, non-campus and public property. On-campus locations include the main MU campus, while non-campus includes property owned or controlled by MU that is not part of the main campus area. Public property includes areas within the main MU campus that are public property, such as streets and sidewalks owned by the city of Columbia. For example, Ninth Street is within the main campus but is public property. Being arrested on public property holds the same consequences as at on- or non-campus locations. Alcohol and drug violations Between 2015 and 2016, the major shift in the number of offenses has involved drugs and alcohol. In 2015,
there were 47 reports of on-campus liquor law violation arrests; in 2016 there were 158. In contrast, there were 142 cases of public liquor law violation arrests in 2015 and only 32 in 2016. In total, there were 196 arrests for liquor law violations in 2016. A majority of these 196 total arrests were minor in possession, which means that someone under the age of 21 was caught either with alcohol in their possession or was visibly under the influence. This is classified as a misdemeanor. Rodgers said a main reason for this difference was because in 2015 there were too many incoming freshmen to fully house them in residence dorms. To combat this, the university partnered up with a local apartment complex and had some freshmen technically living off-campus.
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