The Vista July 3, 1986

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July 3, 1986 Vol. 84, No. 58

VISTA

Thursday Edition

Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma

Campus Security changes name to Police CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT -

By Jane Meese The law enforcement agency on campus has undergone a name change. The CSU Security Department is now known as the CSU Police Department. Police Chief Bob Roberts said the name was changed to get the point across that they are police officers, not security. No changes have been made in the department's duties. They have been functioning as a police department for quite some time now, he said. Roberts added, "We are not on an ego trip. We would like to get the word out to the university as a whole that if they are in need of a police agency, they have one right here on campus." The officers perform exactly the same duties as policemen all across the state of Oklahoma and

face the same amount of training. Before an officer has been working on campus a year, he must complete 300 hours of training at the state police academy. Police officers in Edmond and Oklahoma City must have the same training. In addition to the academy training, the officers are required to complete 40 hours of in-service training each year. They must be certified in firearms three times a year. Four of the nine full-time officers are instructors at the state police academy. Roberts said it is unusual for a department this small to have that many officers teaching at the academy. Sgt. Doris Dunn is an instructor in firearms and conducts the firearm certification of the cam-

pus police. Sgt. Griffin and Officers Forbes and Huntington teach CPR and first aid. "Working at CSU has a lot of advantages," said Dunn. "For one thing, we have an educated clientele. We also have the opportunity to continue our education and all of our officers are working on degrees." Campus police provide many services for students. Officers can help people who have locked their keys in their cars and an escort service is available on campus 24 hours a day. Another program sponsored by the department is Operation ID. Police will engrave an ID number on a student's valuables free of charge. Roberts said the dorms that participated had a major decrease in thefts.

Vista photos by Jane Meese

A color change and sign are a few of the obvious indications that show the recent transformation of CSU Security to CSU police. Officer Jon J. Huntington helps a student unlock his car after the student locked his keys in

Stewart discusses disapproval with Chancellor By Kim Voynar Dr. James Stewart, owner of the English Language Center disapproved by the Board of Regents of Higher Education, met Thursday with Chancellor of Higher Education Joe Leone and Vice-Chancellor Melvin Todd. The meeting was held to discuss the concerns cited by the evaluation team in February, when it recommended the center be disapproved. Stewart said he prepared a 29 page report in response to the team's report. "I think we've met all the concerns in the report," said Stewart. The evaluation team's report listed as one of its concerns the center does not use learning materials which are specifically for English as a second language (ESL). According to Stewart, the center uses only two non-ESL texts. One is the SRA Reading Lab, which has been replaced. The other is Wordcraft. "Since the evaluation I have called the president of the company that distributes Wordcraft. He said of 22,000 accounts, 12 percent (2,640) are used for ESL. Wordcraft will be retained as a part of the program," said Stewart.

Another concern voiced by the team was the alleged lack of a formal agreement with CSU regarding benefits enjoyed on compus by students at the center. There are letters indicating the extent of the students' privileges on file in the offices of Dr. Larry Williams, vice-president, Dr. John Lolley, director of library services, and Robert Fields, director of auxiliary enterprises, Stewart said. "The letters were on file at the time of the visit but they never even asked to see them," he said. Stewart said he has spoken to Dr. Bill Lillard, president, and Dr. Dudley Ryan, vice-president of student services, about the possibility of English Language Center (ELC) students living on campus. According to Stewart, the bonds state only a student enrolled at CSU can live in the dormitories, so his students can't live on campus. "I've been trying to renegotiate the term `student' so ELC students, who can't enroll yet but are preparing to become students, can live in the dorms," Stewart said. He said it is a real problem for the students to find an apartment, set up utilities and buy or rent furniture for a short period of time.

The report also stated there has been a dispute between the center and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) since 1983. The center, Twashakarris Inc., filed a lawsuit for $40,386,060 against the INS and five of its officers for illegally closing the school in 1982. Stewart said INS kept the center listed as closed even after losing a set of hearings before an immigration judge. Stewart alleges that on July 10, 1982, a federal officer came to the center looking for him. The officer, he said, had been misled to believe there were illegal proceedings regarding the transfer of two Korean students. While Stewart and the officer were talking, a fire marshal came to the center and found ELC in violation of Edmond fire codes. The center was closed, so Stewart leased a building from Edmond Public Schools and reopened the school. Stewart said he was notified by certified letter ELC was closed irrevocably because he had failed to file a statement from the fire marshal stating the new location complied with fire codes. Stewart said he sent the letter and had copies and three witnesses to prove it, but because he had not sent the statement by

certified mail, the copies and witnesses were useless. He said on November 2, 1982, two armed Edmond police and an armed federal marshal arrived at the center and ordered the students to leave the school. The officers had been told the center had been moved and was no longer in violation of codes, Stewart claims. Accordng to Stewart, INS informed the embassies, through which ELC gets 99 percent of its students, the center was closed. Stewart said he finally sent a copy of the Telex from the federal hearing, which stated the school was still authorized, to Secretary of State George Schultz. Schultz ordered an investigation, and it was discovered the embassies had not been notified by INS the center was authorized. The State Department corrected the errror, but Stewart had been operating the center for a year when it was legally closed. Stewart said the biggest problem now is one of the officers named in the suit was murdered. "When you have a lawsuit pending against someone and something tragic happens to them, you have a fear of being thought of as a suspect," Stewart said.


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