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Vol. 84, No. 42
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ATI STA
Thursday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Child care expansion
See Jane run...a program
put on indefinite hold
By Susan Garrett The proposed child care center has been put on indefinite hold according to Dr. Kaye Sears, associate professor of home economics. "I'm disappointed, but I understand," Sears said. She added that she had received a letter from Dr. Bill Lillard, president of CSU, advising that the proposed center is postponed. Sears, who proposed the child care center, said funds and space where not available. If the proposal had been approved, the center would probably be located adjacent to the campus. Sears said after the center became selfsupporting the only two costs to the
university would be a coordinator's salary, who would also be a part-time teacher and a director's salary. "Rose State College has a selfsupporting day care center," Sears said. The current child care center at CSU has room for 20 children and is a half-day preschool. "We cut our waiting list off at 100 children," Sears said. "People enroll their children when they become pregnant." The proposed center would have provided full day care service for 101 children from ages 6 weeks to school age children. There would be one fee paid by the semester for use of the day care center, Sears said.
Parents buy computer for center
Nicole obsher, 3, daughter of David and Glee Absher, Oklahoma City, and Sue Domagola, director of the CSU Child Study Center laboratory school, work with the new computer bought by the parent's support group.
Nicole Absher and Landi Orza are getting an early start with computer literacy. The two three-year-old students in the CSU child study center laboratory school are taking lessons, along with their parents, David and Glee Absher and Vince and Patti Orza, on a new Apple IIC computer. "The computer programs give the students an opportunity to become familiar with the computer and give them an active, rather than a passive method of
learning," said Dr. Kaye Sears, administrator of the center. The computer was purchased after the parents group, directed by Linda Burke of Edmond, launched a fund drive last fall. Part of the money was raised from benefit sponsored by a local restaurant chain. Other funds came from private donations and allowed the center to purchase the computer, the printer and the programs.
CSU arrest policy differs with others By Curtis Killman Editor When is a person considered arrested? The Central State Police and the Edmond police department apparently have two different systems for classifying arrests. The different policies became known when CSU police responded to an altercation involving several CSU students and took a student into custody early Sunday morning outside the University Center. The student was booked into the Oklahoma County jail on the charge of carrying a concealed weapon, a misdemeanor offense. CSU police say he was not arrested. Edmond police say if it had involved them, the subject would be considered arrested. A $6,000 bond was placed on the student according to county
jail officials. According to CSU Police Chief Bob Roberts, the student was still not considered technically arrested because charges were not filed yet in the district attorney's office. Early Monday afternoon, The Vista requested the name of the person arrested on a charge of carrying a weapon. Roberts refused to divulge the name. The Vista then called the Oklahoma County jail and asked if CSU police had booked anyone into jail on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon Sunday night. An Oklahoma County jail spokesman said Dwight Overstreet was listed on their jail blotter and the arresting officers where CSU police. Roberts later confirmed Overstreet had indeed been booked into jail on the weapons charge. But, he still claimed the
event was not considered an arrest and the incident was not listed on the police blotter under "Arrests" that The Vista publishes on Thursdays. But, Edmond police say when a person is taken into custody it is considered an arrest and a matter of public record. CSU police filed the charges Monday afternoon. Overstreet was still listed in jail at 2:45 p.m. Monday, according to county officials. Roberts insisted Overstreet was still not considered arrested until the charges were filed and accepted by the district attorney's office. The district attorney's office refused to accept the charges of carrying a concealed weapon and Overstreet was released from jail. According to Roberts, the DA refused the charge because the ar-
resting officers did not actually witness the weapon being concealed. Misdemeanor offenses must be witnessed by the arresting officer or by someone signing a complaint. Roberts said the weapon, a knife, was out in full view of the officers at the time of the arrest. Edmond police spokesman said if a similar incident had occurred with city police the incident would have gone into the record as an arrest. "Of course it would be noted in all the paperwork that the charges were declined, but it is an arrest," said police spokesman Lt. Mike Wooldridge. "There could definitely be something different between their policies and how we consider things," Wooldridge said. "Everybody that is booked into our jail goes on the jail log, which
is printed, which we copy for the media." Wooldridge said they consider an arrest public record regardless of whether or not the charges are accepted. Wooldridge said their policy follows state and federal laws. A spokesman for the state attorney general's office agreed with Edmond's policy of classifying arrests. Daman Cantrell, assistant state attorney general, said an arrest occurs when the subject is restrained in some way. "If the police say 'we're taking you in, we're arresting you,' they slap the handcuffs on the guy and they take him down to the jail and the DA says 'you don't have enough probable cause, release this guy,' I think it still would be considered an arrest," Cantrell said.