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sah jpRAn Volume 71 No. 4 foghoan May 7, 1976 When other schools are laying off teachers, cutting back programs, reducing services and generally retreating from the post-war prosperity boom USF continues to BUILD, BUILD BUILD!!! Crime Down On Campus PASU Vouchers Called 'Mistake' By Byrne Conley What started out as a "scandal" has ended as a "breakdown in communicatons", which has cost ASUSF $449.49 so far. The "Scandal" started some three weeks ago. PASU, which was going through the process of rev, riling this year's budget, asked the Senate for authorization to pay the bookstore $300.00 to cover book vouchers they had issued. The Senate voted not to pay, and to look into the matter. As it turns out, the bookstore had already billed ASUSF, and the money was gone—it had been taken out of PASU honorariums, office supplies, and special programs accounts. The bills had come in two lump sums—$259 in January, and $ 159 in April. Also, there are some bills outstanding (due to be charged this month) to the tune of thirty more dollars. The Senate was surprised by the idea of vouchers being used from student activity fees. PASU had, however, given out vouchers for each of the two previous years. In those years, the money had been specifically line-itemed, and had been approved by the Vice-Presidents for Student Development (John Marshall the first year. Dr. Ann Dolan the next). This year, the money was not line-itemed. The President of PASU submitted a budget, and the vouchers were cut from it. i Castoria called the bookstore and told them not to accept any vouchers. The bookstore said that they had never received the call. Kelvin Blankenship. who was president of PASU (until his term expired this week), went to Jack Sheehan (then the ASUSF treasurer) at the beginning of this school year, and asked if the vouchers could be given out this year. Jack told them to go ahead. When asked if he didn't think it improper to use student activity funds for book vouchers, Kelvin answered that there were many students who needed financial help, and he didn't think it improper. Jack Sheehan had no comment. On further investigation, it turns up that no student received more than twenty dollars in vouchers. One person's name, however, did appear on a voucher, and is not registered as a student at USF. Further investigation is pending on that matter. Being in tune to what students want and keeping crime down, are two of Jeff Levin's main goals as USF Public Safety Director. Levin, who was a fulltime patrolman for 14 months before he became Director in December, 1975, claims that they have cut the automobile burglaries, which were down in March 509? from the same month last year. "That was a big problem when 1 took over," he said. "What we started doing was spotting cars," Levin added. "Wc arrested about five or six auto boosters in February, and we caught a couple the other night", he said, "two kids with wrenches." The USF graduate also stated that petty thefts have gone down, with the one big thing that Public Safety is watching the "hot prowel", which Levin explains is when a burglar comes into the dorm when a person is sleeping . at night. "Our students don't commit the crimes," Levin said. "This is al! off-campus stuff," he added. Since the rape committed last semester in Campion, there have been no reported rapes, he feels, because of the constant patrols off and on campus. "First of all, a lot of these rapists are opportunists," stated Levin. They take advantage if the area is not patrolled well," he said. "But if it wasn't for us at night, you couldn't walk here," he added. Part of the daily routine for the nine-person squad, is opening and locking up campus buildings, patrolling the campus area, transporting people in emergencies, as well as women going off- campus on school business within five blocks, and administering jumper cables. "We lend jumper cables, but we don't jump cars," he said. A task force which examined the present Public Safety setup, recommended that it would run more efficiently if they had an increase in funding. "Public Safety gets a little over $100,000 a year", he said. "The Administration has been very cooperative", he added. Levin wants to improve the in- service training, as well as Public Safety's relationship with the students. "If the students just tell us what the problem is", he said, referring to students who do not state the emergencies quickly enough on the red phones, "it makes it easier for us " A new addition next year will be University Service Officers where "students will do work for us." Asked if these were undercover people, he said, "We don't have anybody undercover." Qualifications for USF Public Safety Officers, whose salaries start at $687 a month, are prior police experience, at least an Associate of Arts degree, qualifying with a gun, passing a psychological testing and an oral interview. Father Burns offers letter of resignation The University of California at Los Angeles has invited me to succeed to the chair or position long distinguished by Professor Lynn White Jr., as a senior professor of Medieval History in the Graduate School and as a member of both the Medieval Renaissance Center and the Near Eastern Center. Though I have hitherto steadily refused attractive offers to leave my favorite university and city, I am accepting the U.C.L.A. invitation. 1 do not gladly relinquish U.S.F.'s classrom-oriented and institutionally Catholic apostolate; but for a Jesuit there are equally pressing priorities to consider. Deliberation and varied consultation persuade me that 1 should not refuse the challenges and opportunities of that kind of post in a research institution of such importance in my field. To make the transition easier for our History Department, I shall stay on through the coming Fall Semester, teaching in both the undergraduate and Honors Programs. My home address thereafter will be the Jesuit Community at Loyola University in Los Angeles, some fifteen minutes down the freeway from UCLA. Some have asked if current disputes here between faculty and administration affected my decision. The answer is no. The U.C.L.A. negotiations antedate all that, and in any case, one must expect recurrent brouhaha on any lively campus anywhere. 1 leave U.S.F. with fond memories. My teaching and research career began here thirty years ago. (It seems implausible now, but that first year involved crowd-scene teaching of fifteen hours weekly in three depart ments, living with and perfecting two barracks-full of athletes, supervising as moderator a number of student organizations, and publishing several articles in technical journals of history). When Heave in early 1977,1 shall 1 have put in a total of twenty years' teaching here. For all its nobility and rewarding moments, as every teacher knows, this represents a considerable investment of energy, affection, and prosaic drudgery, with results as a rule not immediately visible! It has also been a work with deep human, intellectual, and spiritual satisfactions. 1 shall remember with affection my many friends among the faculty and staff over those twenty years, my generations of students past and present, and our splendid (when fog-free) green-and-gold campus. Robert 1 . Burns, SJ.
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Transcript | sah jpRAn Volume 71 No. 4 foghoan May 7, 1976 When other schools are laying off teachers, cutting back programs, reducing services and generally retreating from the post-war prosperity boom USF continues to BUILD, BUILD BUILD!!! Crime Down On Campus PASU Vouchers Called 'Mistake' By Byrne Conley What started out as a "scandal" has ended as a "breakdown in communicatons", which has cost ASUSF $449.49 so far. The "Scandal" started some three weeks ago. PASU, which was going through the process of rev, riling this year's budget, asked the Senate for authorization to pay the bookstore $300.00 to cover book vouchers they had issued. The Senate voted not to pay, and to look into the matter. As it turns out, the bookstore had already billed ASUSF, and the money was gone—it had been taken out of PASU honorariums, office supplies, and special programs accounts. The bills had come in two lump sums—$259 in January, and $ 159 in April. Also, there are some bills outstanding (due to be charged this month) to the tune of thirty more dollars. The Senate was surprised by the idea of vouchers being used from student activity fees. PASU had, however, given out vouchers for each of the two previous years. In those years, the money had been specifically line-itemed, and had been approved by the Vice-Presidents for Student Development (John Marshall the first year. Dr. Ann Dolan the next). This year, the money was not line-itemed. The President of PASU submitted a budget, and the vouchers were cut from it. i Castoria called the bookstore and told them not to accept any vouchers. The bookstore said that they had never received the call. Kelvin Blankenship. who was president of PASU (until his term expired this week), went to Jack Sheehan (then the ASUSF treasurer) at the beginning of this school year, and asked if the vouchers could be given out this year. Jack told them to go ahead. When asked if he didn't think it improper to use student activity funds for book vouchers, Kelvin answered that there were many students who needed financial help, and he didn't think it improper. Jack Sheehan had no comment. On further investigation, it turns up that no student received more than twenty dollars in vouchers. One person's name, however, did appear on a voucher, and is not registered as a student at USF. Further investigation is pending on that matter. Being in tune to what students want and keeping crime down, are two of Jeff Levin's main goals as USF Public Safety Director. Levin, who was a fulltime patrolman for 14 months before he became Director in December, 1975, claims that they have cut the automobile burglaries, which were down in March 509? from the same month last year. "That was a big problem when 1 took over," he said. "What we started doing was spotting cars," Levin added. "Wc arrested about five or six auto boosters in February, and we caught a couple the other night", he said, "two kids with wrenches." The USF graduate also stated that petty thefts have gone down, with the one big thing that Public Safety is watching the "hot prowel", which Levin explains is when a burglar comes into the dorm when a person is sleeping . at night. "Our students don't commit the crimes," Levin said. "This is al! off-campus stuff," he added. Since the rape committed last semester in Campion, there have been no reported rapes, he feels, because of the constant patrols off and on campus. "First of all, a lot of these rapists are opportunists," stated Levin. They take advantage if the area is not patrolled well," he said. "But if it wasn't for us at night, you couldn't walk here," he added. Part of the daily routine for the nine-person squad, is opening and locking up campus buildings, patrolling the campus area, transporting people in emergencies, as well as women going off- campus on school business within five blocks, and administering jumper cables. "We lend jumper cables, but we don't jump cars," he said. A task force which examined the present Public Safety setup, recommended that it would run more efficiently if they had an increase in funding. "Public Safety gets a little over $100,000 a year", he said. "The Administration has been very cooperative", he added. Levin wants to improve the in- service training, as well as Public Safety's relationship with the students. "If the students just tell us what the problem is", he said, referring to students who do not state the emergencies quickly enough on the red phones, "it makes it easier for us " A new addition next year will be University Service Officers where "students will do work for us." Asked if these were undercover people, he said, "We don't have anybody undercover." Qualifications for USF Public Safety Officers, whose salaries start at $687 a month, are prior police experience, at least an Associate of Arts degree, qualifying with a gun, passing a psychological testing and an oral interview. Father Burns offers letter of resignation The University of California at Los Angeles has invited me to succeed to the chair or position long distinguished by Professor Lynn White Jr., as a senior professor of Medieval History in the Graduate School and as a member of both the Medieval Renaissance Center and the Near Eastern Center. Though I have hitherto steadily refused attractive offers to leave my favorite university and city, I am accepting the U.C.L.A. invitation. 1 do not gladly relinquish U.S.F.'s classrom-oriented and institutionally Catholic apostolate; but for a Jesuit there are equally pressing priorities to consider. Deliberation and varied consultation persuade me that 1 should not refuse the challenges and opportunities of that kind of post in a research institution of such importance in my field. To make the transition easier for our History Department, I shall stay on through the coming Fall Semester, teaching in both the undergraduate and Honors Programs. My home address thereafter will be the Jesuit Community at Loyola University in Los Angeles, some fifteen minutes down the freeway from UCLA. Some have asked if current disputes here between faculty and administration affected my decision. The answer is no. The U.C.L.A. negotiations antedate all that, and in any case, one must expect recurrent brouhaha on any lively campus anywhere. 1 leave U.S.F. with fond memories. My teaching and research career began here thirty years ago. (It seems implausible now, but that first year involved crowd-scene teaching of fifteen hours weekly in three depart ments, living with and perfecting two barracks-full of athletes, supervising as moderator a number of student organizations, and publishing several articles in technical journals of history). When Heave in early 1977,1 shall 1 have put in a total of twenty years' teaching here. For all its nobility and rewarding moments, as every teacher knows, this represents a considerable investment of energy, affection, and prosaic drudgery, with results as a rule not immediately visible! It has also been a work with deep human, intellectual, and spiritual satisfactions. 1 shall remember with affection my many friends among the faculty and staff over those twenty years, my generations of students past and present, and our splendid (when fog-free) green-and-gold campus. Robert 1 . Burns, SJ. |
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