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     Security laying charges to fight student mischief 
     
    
   
   
    
     VANDALISM AND in- 
     
     cidents of students entering 
     
     underground service tunnels 
     
     has increase significantly this 
     
     semester, according to A.J. 
     
     MacLeod, director of the -se- 
     
     curity department. The de- 
     
     partment has now decided to 
     
     begin pressing charges on stu- 
     
     dents found engaged in either 
     
     ictivity. 
     
    

    
     According to Macleod, 
     
     neidents of vandalism such 
     
     ‘is students tampering with 
     
     ‘lre equipment, pulling false 
     
     «larms, or damaging signs 
     
     and buildings is ‘much higher 
     
     this year.” No specific figures 
     
    
   
   
    
     as to the amount of increase d 
     
    
   
   
    
     are available yet. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Blanchard Hall seems to 
     
     be where most of this activity 
     
     has occurred. 
     
    

    
     “Blanchard has had a 
     
     considerable amount of dam- 
     
     age”, said MacLeod. He spec- 
     
     ulated that the vandalism has 
     
     been due somewhat to initia- 
     
     tion stunts, but also to par- 
     
     ties, 
     
    
   
   
    
     MacLeod could offer no 
     
     reason as to why vandalism is 
     
     worse at Blanchard Hall than 
     
     at other residences or why de- 
     
     Struction to university prop- 
     
     erty on a whole has increased 
     
     this semester. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Perhaps we are dealing 
     
     With a different breed of stu- 
     
     dent this year’, he said. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Students at Blanchard, 
     
     Since they are separated from 
     
     the rest of the campus, may 
     
     feel that the residence is not 
     
     Patrolled as often or paid as 
     
     uch attention to as Marian 
     
     or Bernardine. This feeling 
     
     of freedom together with the 
     
     act that students drink and 
     
    

    
     arty more during the begin- 
     
     ling of the year may be con- 
     
     tibuting factors. 
     
    
   
   
    
     STUDENTS 
     
     UNNELS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Besides the problem of 
     
     ‘creased vandalism, there is 
     
     he old problein of the ser- 
     
     ice tunnels that link each 
     
     uilding on campus. The tun- 
     
     els carry heating pipes, tele- 
     
     hone and electrical connec- 
     
     “Ns between buildings and 
     
    
   
   
    
     eS 
     
    
   
   
    
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     are large enough to crawl 
     
     through. 
     
    

    
     Access to these tunnels is 
     
     freely available to anyone who 
     
     knows where one of the many 
     
     entrances is located. In the 
     
     past, student “Spelunkers” 
     
     would often explore the tun- 
     
     nels through an entrance in 
     
     Main Building. Once inside, 
     
     one can find the way inside al- 
     
     most any building on campus, 
     
     night or day. ? 
     
    

    
     MacLeod said that dur- 
     
     ing morning patrols, secu- 
     
     rity officers have found man- 
     
     hole entrances to the tunnels 
     
     opened. He said that not only 
     
     do the electrical and steam 
     
     conduits in the tunnels pose a 
     
    
   
   
    
     great danger to explorers. but, 
     
    
   
   
    
     by leaving the manholes open, 
     
     there is the added danger of 
     
     passers-by falling in. 
     
     MacLeod that 
     
     the service tunnels have pip- 
     
     ing and wiring that are ex- 
     
    
   
   
    
     stressed 
     
    
   
   
    
     tremely dangerous to a per- 
     
     son unfamiliar with them and 
     
     that if the activity keeps up, 
     
    
   
   
    
     he said, “Someone is going to. 
     
    
   
   
    
     be very seriously injured”. 
     
     Tunnel have 
     
    

    
     only been locked at Marian, 
     
    

    
     Bernardine, and AVC. When 
     
    
   
   
    
     asked why all entrances have 
     
     not been locked to remove 
     
     the temptation from students 
     
     all together, MacLeod said 
     
     that it was impractical to lock 
     
     other entrances. “We need to 
     
     have access to them in case of 
     
     emergency” , he said. 
     
    
   
   
    
     entrances 
     
    
   
   
    
     However, the Security 
     
     department last year placed 
     
     locks on gates around cam- 
     
     pus to inhibit vehicles from 
     
     driving on campus walkways. 
     
     One assumes that there is 
     
     a greater chance of emer- 
     
     gency vehicles needing imme- 
     
     diate access to the campus in- 
     
     terior than of workmen need- 
     
     ing access to the tunnels. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PRESSING 
     
     CHARGES 
     
    
   
   
    
     To combat the problems 
     
     of student vandalism, enter- 
     
     ing service tunnels, and other 
     
     activities, MacLeod said that 
     
     from. now on, “the security 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     BLANCHARD. seen--as worst offender to’ increase 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     in vandalism 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     departinent will be using the 
     
     courts.” 
     
    

    
     “It is getting way out of 
     
     hand”, said MacLeod. OE 
     
     have to start laying charges.” 
     
    

    
     Any persons found tam- 
     
     pering with fire equipment, 
     
     setting false alarms, or com- 
     
     mitting vandalism will now be 
     
     prosecuted. Person found en- 
     
     tering the service tunnels will 
     
     face a charge of public mis- 
     
     chief, which has a maximum 
     
     penalty of 2 years imprison- 
     
     ment. 
     
    

    
     “All students should take 
     
     a very serious look around be- 
     
     fore they decide to destroy 
     
     university property,” he said. 
     
     “A degree will not be much 
     
     value to them if they are sup- 
     
     porting a criminal record.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     In fact, Macleod stated 
     
     that offenses involving alcohol 
     
     will also be prosecuted. 
     
    

    
     “Those people involved 
     
     with liquor outside residences 
     
     or in hallways or lounges... 
     
     will be charged with illegal 
     
     possession of liquor and dealt 
     
     with by the courts.” 
     
    

    
     In addition to laying 
     
     charges for offenses, the Se- 
     
     curity department will be in- 
     
    
   
   
    
     creasing night foot patrols on 
     
     campus from 2 to 3 officers. 
     
     Patrols will also be made 
     
     by the city police, who have 
     
     “been asked to assist us with 
     
     the vandalism taking place on 
     
     campus.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     MacLeod said he was dis- 
     
    
   
   
    
     appointed by the behaviour of 
     
    
   
   
    
     student he has seen so far this 
     
     term. 
     
    

    
     “These are high school 
     
     deals”, he said. He stated 
     
     that he would expect students 
     
     at a post-secondary institu- 
     
     tion to act in a better fashion 
     
    
   
   
    
     and take pride in their univer- 
     
    
   
   
    
     sity.