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Public Safety Department inspects, tightens campus security By Trent Dugas
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building, contact the building captain, and go through the building and check for security needs that they have or any security problems they are experiencing, and try to come up with some viable solution." Jones said this project was six months in the making and is not a reaction to the investigation of items recently stolen from Old North. "A lot of what is being stolen is of minimal value. For example, we may have halfdollars and a couple of quarters and some change taken out of a desk drawer, but that is theft," Jones said. "We are trying to make sure we get an accurate accounting of what is going on and try to help people from losing their property. It is irritating as anything. You know darn good and well that you put money in that drawer and you come in and
he UCO Department of Public Safety (DPS) is investigating a recent string of thefts from Old North while at the same time beginning a new crime prevention program. DPS is distributing a list of crime prevention tips to all faculty and staff members, informing them of precautions they can take to protect their property and safety. Ted Jones, interim police chief, said the department is checking building alarms, access codes, and anything else that could result in a crime or unsafe act. "We have a problem with a lot of larcenies that have occurred," Jones said. "To some people, they are insignificant, but over a period of time they are a problem. Our intention here is to take each • See SECURITY, Page 2
—Staff Photo By Shauna Hardway Nathan Fountain, UCO public safety officer, is part of the increased effort to educate students, staff and faculty about crime prevention on campus. The Public safety Department is in the process of examining each building to make recommendations on ways to increase security.
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Staff triter "Crooks and swindlers and cheaters, oh my," Dorthy might have said, if the magical land of Oz was as polluted with criminals as the real world is. Fortunately, a seminar on fraud prevention will be held at UCO from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., March 9 in the University Center Ballroom, providing participants with the knowledge they need to prevent criminals from stealing their money. Sponsored by the UCO Center for Learning and Professional Development and the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Department, the seminar will
focus on ways that criminals commonly gain access to personal information, such as social security and banking account numbers. For instance, a criminal desiring a person's banking account and social security numbers doesn't need to go any further than a garbage can, said Nancy Galloway, representative of the sheriff's department "Most people throw away their bank statements, but that is one of the first places that criminals look for that kind of information," Galloway said. Most bank statements contain an account number and
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CO students with visual or mobility impairments, which can prevent them from typing, will soon have access to a computer on campus via a voice activated computer program. The voice activated program, which will be installed in one of the library computers, will allow visually impaired students to give voice commands to the computer, which will type what is being said onto the screen. "This will allow students with mobility or visual impairments to type hands free. Students with dyslexia will also benefit," said Roy Howe, Americans with
1990 to ensure that UCO Gage, vice president of remains in compliance with Student Services, to assess the federal guidelines regarding need for a disabled student the rights of the disabled, services employee. The employee would recently convinced UCO officials to purchase such a safeguard the rights of disabled students, and ensure that their program. "Now they can be on an interests were not overlooked even par, as far as computer by the administration. "Most colleges have these usage goes, with the rest of the positions," Howe said. student body." If the committee and Gage Until the new technology is installed, students with visual agree that the need for the or mobility impairments will position exists, the hiring continue to have limited access process will begin — slowly. UCO administrators must to technology at UCO. Although some university first determine if sufficient computers currently have funds exist to pay for the earphone attachments which position. "The actual hiring is up to allow students to hear what has been typed, there are no computers with voice V See TECHNOLOGY, Page 2