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- : - Xtopto ; crooh etnan L- Volume 37, Number .65 .Founded 1957 II . Monday, August 1-5,1994 . z . , ( . i was a hearty, Little's promotion of commented that he "Hurrah!" Cassidy an DougLittle Receives. liked to make Little . would-have not due to civil Director but could Doug Little ReceivesAssistant of Little's. prornotion: was. a hearty "Hurrah!" Cassidy commented that he Promotion To Assistant would have liked to make Little an Assistant Director but could not due to civil Director Of University Police service guidelines. Cassidyreferred to Little as an "absolutely outstanding law enforcement officer who did a superlative D. Cole By Richard job." Special to Statesman In 1985, the Community Relations Doug Little, who has been with the Team was disbanded and Little was given 'University Police' Department for a promotion to the supervisor level and seventeen years', was promoted to the, went back on patrol. Then in 1990, current position of Assistant'Director for University Police Director, Richard Young, Community Re lations last.week reinstated the Community Relations Team During the past four years., Little has and appointed Little as the supervisor. been the supervisor of the Community Director of Conferences and Special Relations Team. According to Little, "the. Events Ann Forkin reminisced to when the goal of the Community Relations Team, Community Relations Team was recipient of the International Association reinstated. "Remembering to when Rich -of CampusLaw La Enforcement Young brought back the Community Administrators Award, is to educate the Relations Team I thought that community campuscommunity' o n such. topics as relations was extremely important and they personal safety, risk awareness, crime could not have chosen a better person than prevention including (date and' Doug to lead it," she said. "Doug has an acquaintance rape prevention, drug and aattitudeservice. of He realizes that the role for Comml many other DouDULtlee Assistant Director of University Police alcohol risk awareness, and of a Public Safety officer is one of service. community safety issues." Serviceh to the Students,staff,- faculty, Little, in; his efforts to help the administrators and guests ... Whenever I've Community Relations.Team meet this goal, needed him, he has been there." has worked with the team on such projects Little stated that his promotion was . uch assetting up neighborhood watch due to Young, who in Little's words, "has groups in, various bu'ildings on campus, given me the opportunity to jdo my ob ... giving Personal Safet and Awareness talks Rich { Young} f is ' irm believer in ..to groups of faculty , staff and students, empowering his personnel.I will never pu blications for printing all the information forgte him for this as he has been my the. University Police, Department, and mentor." -instituting programs like the University Young, in a letter to the University PoliceCampus Bike Patrol.. community, announcing Little's promotion Dean' of Students Paul Chase said, said, "Good community relations along "Doug has earned this-promotion." After with problem solving policing are critical commenting on the fact'that he had known to the success of today's law enforcement Little for sixteen years Chase stated that Little,' "has'a real talent for community outreach."' Professor of Sociology Norman Goodman, a Distinguished Teaching Professor -and former President. of the University Senate, also commen'ted on Little's understanding on community relations. "It is:good for University Police and'the University as a whole to have someone who is sensitive of the' constituency in a'policy making position within th.e University Police. He unde'rstands the., nature of the University- and the role' of Public Safety in such a university,".said Goodman. Little-joined the University Police Department as an officer in' 1-977. After -being on the force for' three years, Joe Cassidy, former Interim Director of University Police, in conjunction with Little, started. a Community Relations team. It was during this time that Little worked oin such projects as creating a Student VolunteerDorm Patroland Escort, a walk. sservices. Cassidy's reaction to hearing the news 2Little Recieves AMERICA'S FIRST SEX Grad Stud ent . - . ASSAULT HOTLINE OPENS .. : X lf Promlotion America's first-ever services donated by On The W als f0r D( nor ^^: : national0 - ....... sex abuse-- hotline SceneProductions.RAINN begins taking calls today, is being provided as a TRANSPLANT from Front Page PROMOTION from Front Page July 26th. Run by the service to survivors who agencies. In recognition of my commitment to the Washington, DC-bases either cannot reach a rape that he wants. Without the oxygen, it would be difficult importance of these programs, and their expanding role non-profit organization crisis center through a local for him to function since his lungs are- working on 12 on campus, I have reclassified the position of Supervisor RAINN (the Rape, Abuse, call, or do not know that a percent of their normal capacity. "I can't do anything I of the Community Relations'Team to Assistant Director and Incest National local center exists. want without oxygen," he said. When Kihl goes out he of Public Safety for Community Relations." Network), the hotline is Currently, more than 43 carries small tanks of liquid oxygen with him. He receives Young went on to comment on Little, "Doug has been expected to help over percent of the country's the oxygen from a nasal canister. "It looks like I'm a member of this Department'for seventeen years. During 115,000 survivors of 'sexual population is a toll call carrying a knapsack." the last several years, he has worked tirelessly on my behalf assault each year. The toll- away from a crisis center. Saturday, he went-to see The Mask and went to lunch to improve the quality of life on campus, and enhanced free number is: 1-800-656- many of these long- with "three beautiful women." One of the women is the image of our Department. His work has gained the HOPE. distance callers are being afflicted with cystic fibrosis, her mother and a woman Department both local and nationalrecognition." Slated to run around abused by someone in their whose son was the first person to survive with an artificial Little's promotion has been hailed by officers within the clock every day of the' household and therefore are heart until he received-a real one. the University Police due- to the fact that he will be the year, the RAINN hotline unlikely to utilize a service He said that Pittsburgh is not the steel-mill, grimy, onlymember of a six person management team that has automatically routes callers whose number will show unattractive place that it is made out to be. "Pittsburgh is been promoted up through the ranks at Stony Brook. The to the closest of' 341 rape up on their home phone bill. absolutely- marvelous. The people are incredibly director and the four other assistant'directors were crisis counseling centers The RAINN hotline marks friendly," he said. recruited from outside the University. around the country.- A the first time that survivors Kihl is also continuing his research that he began here Detective Winston Kerr of University Police, one of trained sexual assault nationwide will have free, for cancer patients. "They-are adventure games for the police officers union (Council 82) representatives, counselor then'answers the confidential access to children to play. They are doing research here (Pittsburgh), commented on Little's promotion, "It's wonderful that call and provides free 'on- counseling all day, every with the psychologist here and the social workers and it someone has moved up from the ranks into management.- the-spot counseling and day. has been coming along quite nicely," he said. Ihope that he will open new avenues of cooperation referrals. Atla-ntic recording "I have been using what I've been developing for between labor and management. He knows both sides of Funded by The artist ToriAmos, a founding cancer patients the strategy and trying to do the same thing, the fence." Atlantic Group and Warner -member of RAINN, chairs but for people that are going to get transplants." It is important to note that assistant directors and the Music Group, with the organization's advisory Kihl expressed enthusiasm and excitement when director are not officers. They are considered advertising and promotion board. Li explaining his involvement in a new experimental study. lung management. Therefore, Little will no longer be a "I will be getting a bone marrow transplant with my lieutenant and will not be in uniform. Little claims-that transplant from this donor, so that when the person dies I- this will not change the way he or the Community will get his lung and Iwill get a portion of his bone marrow Relations Team work. "I am not going to change my spots. infused into my body through IV like a regular blood The success'of the Community Relations Team is due to' transfusion," he said. In it will include "immature T-Cells, What this hopes the fact that we have been out in the publics -eye," said immature stem cells and facilitator cells. Little and he guaranteed that this would not change. to do is create chimera in my body, which will prevent suppressant drugs for Little stated, "I came' to the Department as a young me from having to be on immune body into thinking that officer. Stony Brook has always been very good to me'. I the rest of my life. It will trick my preventing rejection, met my wife Jovanna [Duval] here. She is also a member the new lung is part of my own body, life span." of the University community."' Little said his wife, who so this -isto give me a much longer about his condition works as the'Coagulation Supervisor at the University Kihl said that he is very -positive a successful Medical Center, is working on her second masters here at and seemed confident that he will have my life," he said.

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