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Cowperson
Continued from page 6
ger. Unfortunately, it was still in the
box.
I was spitting chunks of styrofoam��as I pushed open the door of the fast-
food joint. I swaggered up to the
counter and ordered myself a jumbo
double hefty cowperson burger with a
Marlboro filter on the side.
As I sat down at one of the little for¬
mica tables, a lady across the room
caught my eye. I figured her for an
urban cowperson right away.  Why
else would she be wearing a pair of
old stirrups for earrings and be eating
her french fries out of a strap-on feed
bag that covered most of her face. I
did get a good long look Into her eyes
though, and it was enough to start us
both whinnying.
At this point I dedded that if this
was Cilley's I'd have to ride the
mechanical bull to impress her. Since
Burger King didn't have a mechani¬
cal bull, I decided that I 'd mount the
jukebox and see if that impressed her.
Shoot) She was payln' more attention
to her (rench hies than she was to me.
I quickly mounted two pintail
machines, a newspaper rack and a
Trans-Am in the parking lot, but still
no luck. Urban cowpersons aren't a
bit shy, and they don't give up easily,
so I hopped right up on the little table
where she was sitting and began to
dance.
I was concentrating on my fancy
footwork as I stepped off a little of the
Cotton-Eyed Joe, and I didn't see the
men in the white coals sneaking up
behind me with the restraining jacket.
As they dragged me through the
door, I could tell that my new-found
love had lost her heart to this urban
cowperson   by  the  way   she   kept
kiss in' I rench fries and throwin'
them In direction.
Crime
any g iven day or week. *
just what goes on would not nec¬
essarily be considered crimes of epic
proportions, but it is enough to keep
the 17 member police squad "over¬
worked, * as Anderson put It.
"The state college system has a
formula which computes the number
of police officers that are to be as¬
signed to each campus," he said.
"After you subtract the police chief,
investigators   and   lieutenants   that
That leaves only about
two officers per shift to
patrol the entire campus
work desk jobs, investigating crimes
and submitting the necessary reports,
that leaves only about two officers
per shift to patrol the entire campus.
"That would be all right if CSUF
were a small school, but that leaves
only two officers to patrol about 1,500
acres And it's especially bad at
night," Anderson said.
Anderson compared the CSUC
system of assigning police officers
to the UC schools' system. He said
that if CSUF were a UC school,
there would be at least 30 officers
assigned   to    patrol    the   campus.
"It's not that the officers don't
care or that they are lazy, it's just
physically impossible to be able to
handle everything that goes on
across campus," he said.
Another problem the police run
into is that they are called to handle
situations that they might not be
called in on in a community situation.
'We've had instructors call us,
complaining   that   they   both    had
Phones
Continued from page 5
Wednesday. The police responded in
time to catch the pranksters. Unfortu¬
nately, the only thing we can do on a
first offense is take their name and
identification number. If It happens a
second time, they can be cited and be
charged with a legal violation,*
Anderson said.       . y
classes assigned to the same room,
and neither one wanted to give in.
So they asked us if we could do some¬
thing about it,* Anderson said.
Anderson found the situation amus¬
ing.
'It's not that the situation was un¬
important, because obviously the in¬
structors thought it was, but when
you take an officer away from his
patrol to handle something like
that, it may take him away from
something of much more importance
and immediate need, Anderson
said. '
'It's unfortunate, but we often have
to be selective in answering calls,
especially if we get several at one
time. It becomes a moral dilemma,
because you have to single out one
problem as needing immediate���assistance and having top priority.*
Anderson then listed many of the
jobs and situations that the campus
police must handle in any given day.
-The campus is in the middle of
the largest, wave of car burglaries
to hit in the past five years. Re¬
cently there were nine reported
car burglaries on campus in one
night. Anderson said that students
can cut down on the number of
The campus is in the
middle of the largest wave
of car burglaries to hit
in five years.
burglaries if they did not leave
valuable possessions in their cars.
('The worst is during Christmas
time, when students will pack all
their belongings into the car the
night before they leave to go home
(for the holidays It's just like,
letting the burglars go window
shopping for toys," Anderson said.
-Because there is a large bicycle-
riding population on campus,
numerous bicycle thefts are repor¬
ted each semester. Anderson said
that it is common for gangs of
teenagers from local high schools
to come on campus, use wire cut¬
ters to break through locks and
chains, and then'ride off with the
bicycles.
-The largest-number of thefts on
campus are of stolen state property.
Typewriters, microwave ovens,
movie projectors are some of the
more common items. A major
problem in this area is that the
stolen items may not be noticed
missing for several weeks, or
months, which hinders the effort
to track down  the  stolen goods.
-There are always reports of stolen
property from dorm rooms. Ander¬
son said that much of this could be
prevented  if  the  student  would
Anderson explained that
the men's bathroom on
the second floor of the
Home   Economics Building
has been used as a
meeting place by
male homosexuals
lock their rooms every time they
leave, even if it is to just go down
the hall to get their laundry or
make a phone call. Anderson also
suggested that students not keep
all their money in one area of
their rooms because burglars don't
have the time to look for money
in several places.
-Handling problems with mentally
and emotionally stressed people
also takes up much of the campus
police's time. Anderson dted a few
specifics, one being the person who
has written 'strange* letters to
the police force everyday for the
past six months, each letter con¬
taining a handwritten entry of. a
section of the dictionary. So far
the writer has got as far as the c's.
Also, Anderson said the campus
police assist the Fresno Police De¬
partment with aggressive or intox¬
icated people in and around cam¬
pus. These people can not be
brushed off lightly, Anderson
stressed, because it can be serious.
One instance of that was when the
Secret Service contacted Anderson
for his assistance on apprehending
a CSUF student that had been
sending threatening letters to
President Jimmy Carter. The stu¬
dent had a handgun in her resi¬
dence.
-An increasing number of homo¬
sexual activity has been reported
in the restrooms the past few
months. Anderson explained that
the men's bathroom on the second
floor of the Home Economics'
Building has been used as a meet¬
ing place by male homosexuals.
"Some of the officers have gone
in there and seen them either
See Crime page 15
Review
Continued from page 5
They are stuck with a couple of un-
memorable songs that were put In
apparently to make the play a mu¬
sical, and they amazingly have
enough energy at the end of the play
to dance despite kicks, blows to the
head and falling so hard on the
stage several times that people In
the audience gasped in sympathetic
pain.
Other good performances were
Keith Williams as the blustering
cowardly commissioner, Kathy
J est ice as the stately Lampfto,
Karen Sarkisian as the impulsive
Kleonike, Debbie Terrell as a feisty
hot-tempered wife, and Vickie
Campbell, who in her role as First
Woman, turns eating a banana
into an action loaded with sexual-
overtones.
Other actors in the play included
Richard Johnson as Kinesias, Paul
Griffin as the Spartan Herald and
Matt Gates as the Spartan Ambas¬
sador.
The play will be performed at 8:15
tonight and tomorrow night at the
Arena Theatre. Tickets an $1,50
for students and $2.50 for the general
public. Reservations can be made
by calling 487-2216.
Media
Continued from Page 8
after the local polls closed and found
that there was a trend for voters
not showing up at the polls.
"I tend to agree that the early
projection did slow things up lo¬
cally,* said Ed Wilson, news director,
"but I don't see how it would affect
the presidential election too much.
I know that people were not too happy
with President Carter conceding
that early."
Wilson suggested staggering the
poll closing times rather than re¬
stricting coverage, "which you
cannot do. The job of the media
is to find out what's happening. It
would just lead to more chaos."
Channel 24 reporter Bob Long,
who teaches journalism classes at
CSUF, said that the projection of a
political landslide 'did hurt. But you
can't have prior restraint (of the
media) although it might be in the
public benefit. Thaf s clearly uncon¬
stitutional.*
Long suggested the formation of
an intra-media council to coordinate
election coverage. "But broadcaters
are as bad as print journalists - they
don't want anybody telling them what
todo*
Pre-election polls had projected a
large voter turnout. The turnout for
the valley area was about 78 percent,
compared to 53 percent nationwide.
'Precincts that I talked to said their
biggest rush is usually between 5
and 8 p.m.,* Long said, 'but it flat out
died that night.'
'There's a lot of conjecture - it's
something that's going to be debated
for a long time.* '
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Crime
Continued from page 14
writing their phone numbers on
the walls or writing down numbers
on paper so that they can call
later. We can't arrest them unless
we can catch them In any illegal
sexual acts.
•So what we do, if they are just
hanging around the bathrooms, we
scare them off. We scared one off
and I'll be damned if he didn't come
back again.
'Another problem we have Is that
some of the professors have gone into
the bathrooms and seen two males
engaging in an illegal act. When we
check it out, we find out it's not
always students, but businessmen In
their thirties, with families, who
solicit teenage boys off campus.
Then they use our bathrooms to do
whatever they do."
Anderson wondered aloud that he
couldn't understand, "why they
choose us-why our campus?'
He was also worried that the homo¬
sexual problem could lead to violence.
The campus police prevented one
man from being beaten up by a gang
of male students living in the dorms.
One of the students had called a
number written in one of the bath¬
rooms, set up an arranged place and
time to meet the man, and then wait¬
ed with several other students to beat
him up. Anderson said that the cam¬
pus police received an anonymous
tip and prevented the potential
violence.
Then there are all the little things
that are really big things, that have to
be done every day. The campus po¬
lice must supervise and be respon¬
sible every time money is transferred
on campus, from cash registers to
safes, for example.
There are also activities that don't
fall Into any particular category,
but are proof to Anderson's theory
that the campus police must take
priority situations first, those being
the treatment and aid of injured or
distressed students. This could range
from adding an additional patrol to
the dorms, to protecting Iranian stu¬
dents that are being harassed by
other students
Anderson also sees headaches
arising from the new CSUF stadium.
The campus police will be responsible
for petroling traffic conditions after
sporting events. 'We've set an hour
and a half deadline after every game
to get everyone, all traffic, cleared out
of the area,* Anderson said.
"If we don't, I know who's going to
catch hell for it.'
Part of the campus crime problem
is not the campus' problem at all.
It's what Anderson calls city overflow.
campus probably leave their apart¬
ments the same time on certain days
because their classes are'always at
the same time. This goes for instruc¬
tors, too. Students' cars and apart¬
ments can be ransacked without the
criminal being too worried, because
TONIGHT
"The Rose"
"All That Jazz"
7.00
9:30
MIDNIGHT
■Flesh C<rdon" "Dark Star'
SAT—SUN.
'Performance 7:15
'A C3odcwork Orange" 9:25
Students 2.50
Campus crime rates
Results from 7979 FBI report
Rases per I.*** students
California State C.
Bakersfield	
Dominguez Hills	
San Bernardino	
Stanislaus	
Cal. State Polytechnic U.
Pomona	
San Luis Obisbo      0.6
California State U.
Chico  0.7
Fresno  •.«
0.9
1.9
0.0
0.0
0.3
18.8
27.1
17.5
35.3
19.0
22.5
31.8
.21.3
Fullerton  0.4
Hayward  0.6
Long  Beach  04
Sacramento  0.3
San   Diego  0.4
San Francisco  0.9
San   Jose  1.5
Humboldt State U  0.3
Sonoma State C  0.9
U of California
Berkeley  1.5
Davis  0.1
Irvine  0.6
Riverside  • 3.6
San   Diego  1.3
Santa Barbara  2.1
Santa   Cruz  0.0
18.1
28.3
12.3
33.6
32.5
28.0
24.8
21.4
37.0
51.8
58.6
37.5
81.7
79.1
50.2
63.8
high school and elementary school
students that run rampant on campus,
after main dass hours and on week¬
ends.
"Sometimes I feel like an overpaid
babysitter,* Anderson sighed.   'I've
had to pull kids out of  elevators,
because they would ride up and down
In them, like it was a game. I've even
pulled young kids off of the tops
of buildings.  The parents  think our
campus is a big playground where
their  kids  can   come   and   play."
But it Is the city overflow that also
produces    the    hardcore    crimes:
assaults, rapes, assault with a deadly
weapon or  large  scale burglaries.
Although Fresno has a reputation
as having a high crime rate (per
capita), Anderson said that the actual
number of violent crimes on campus
has decreased steadily the past few
years, and is way down In comparison
with the rest of the dtv.
Anderson said that the hardcore
criminals prey on campus students,
staff and faculty because their lives
are "patternized."
*A clever criminal can watch some¬
one for only a few days and get a
general Idea of when someone leaves
their house, when their classes are,
and so on.   Students that live near
he knows when people are coming
and going."
The best way to combat something
like that, something that you .can't
predict, Anderson said, is by educat¬
ing the public to look for certain
suspicious activities of people.
Many criminals would be appre¬
hended, Anderson thinks. If people
would avoid having "tunnel vision*; .
that is, If they would look out for their
neighbors property and home.
If all this sounds depressing,
Anderson says that the CSUF campus
Is in good shape, has very little crime
as compared to other college cam¬
puses he has dealt with, and that
the college community (s supportive
in efforts to assist the campus police.
•'Working here has been a real
pleasure," Anderson said. *l just feel
bad at times that we don't have more
officers, because it's the students
that suffer because of it.
'It's the student that counts.
Our main objective is not to make an
arrest that only takes up one percent
of our time. Our main job Is to protect
the students."
But Anderson makes no apologies
for the services that his force does
do. The campus police may be short
of manpower, he said, but not short
on effort.
"I get Incensed as hell when I
hear people say that we're lazy and In¬
competent .I invite any of our severest
entices to come down some night and
take a ride with the officers in the
patrol car. I'm positive that the ex¬
perience would be a real eye opener.*
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