The Yellin'rebel

National Alcohol Awafeness Week Oct 21-26 Verbal obscenities ?rofessor recants Homecoming action spark confrontation Incrimination tales captured by photos page 2 page 4 page 7 The Yellin' Rebel Volume IV Issue 8 October 21, 1986 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Little good is accomplished without jjnd no civil evilis ever defeated without publicity Funds Vs. Security Students' safety on campus loses in battle with budget; savings spell danger by mary whalen Although some improvements Assault on track field leads to have been made, UNLV's campus still suffers from badly need- questions ed security measures, promised about lighting; again to the school since last year. I by mary whalen Gene Hrdlicka, Physical Education Center Callboxes located throughout Facilities head, said be hadreceiifbd no arrest campus, which were originally A 37 year old woman was attacked near the report, but the track is supposed; to close at supposed to be a 24-hour hook- P.E. complexB:3opm, Thursday, Oct. 16, sunset. He added itwill occasionally remain open up between students and the while walking home from the track, in what was as long as there are still people on the track. campus police, have not yet been apparently an attempted kidnapping, campus po- Revis recommends students stay away from the linked witha dispatching system, lice department Lt. Eddie Revis said. area, until lighting is installed which would facilitate the use of According toRevis, the woman had justfinish- He said the entire areashould be closed off un- such boxes. ed using the track and was waiting between the til that time. Funding for such a system was Enviromental Protection Agency trailer area and first promised to UNLV with the the handball courts, when an unidentified man Tbm Harkenrider, chief engineer for UNLV's help of the Clark County School jumped out of the dark at her. Department of Operations its and Maintenance, laid District who now operates Revis said the woman suffered various injuries the area where the attack low own dispatching fi>r allpf its 45 school properties. CCSD how- Mr, is alsoovafburdened from handling nightime calls for the UNLV campus and vowed a year ago to supply the needed person- nell to man campus callboxes, he cautioned it depends on what said. eral years, trfflc iromthe Tho- but then backed out of the agree- the school district does. "The shuttle has worked out mas and Ma.i Ctnter, an in- ment. "Several months ago, money well beyond our expectations," crease in thelur.|er of night- "Until we receive an allocation was allocated during a School he said. "We've had some very school studeiAmd in various of money to hire the dispatchers, District budget meeting, for the good students working it, and casino empltliJis driving it would dono good to put up the giring of two new police officers they've really kept on top of it." through camp -) night, have all callboxes," Lt. Eddie Rivas said. and two 24-hour dispatchers, contributed toinq sing police "We thought we would have the making it possible for us to have The student shuttle operates concerns. funds by June, but at that time our own dispatchers, hopefully, between 6pm and Upm when the Another prolei s the soon the CCSD simply agreed to con- as soon as January when the mo- library closes. The cart is sta- to be develop*! w "Creek tinue monitoring our radio for ney is released," he said. tioned outside the library at night Row" project*! l will add us. A recent attack on a woman in order to take students back to hundreds of sndt i to round- — near near the PE complex (see box) their dorm rooms or their cars. the-clock camps livity, Rivas A QUESTIONOFLIGHTING as a woman walks alone the McDermott Physical Educa- tion Complex, she seems to be stalked by a shadowy figure. Poor lighting was blamed "All our calls go directly into is the first of its kind in nearly Each driver carries a radio with said. for an assault on a women last Thursday. Although many women, and in some cases men, their box after spm," Rivas said. two years, Rivas said. them to maintain contact with the "It will be a.i within a ci- "We've had a couple of petty police station at all times. ty," Rivas sail will only have been assaulted on campus, some believe campus officials are still slow to react. "It would be dangerous and il- t photo illustration by j. miller/r. zavas legal to even put up the callboxes larcenies involving some audio necessitate ourie for increas- until there is someone to mon- visual equipment, but its been a "Our campus security con- ed security tha ' ich more." ing around campus an night. "We replacing the old fix- last year, and other buildings itor them, butif and when we get lot less than we have had in the cerns are increasing," he said. Tbm Harkemi , chief eng- are He spent the past year testing tures with new globe fixtures, in have received surface mounted our dispatching system, they are last couple of years," he said. "Mostly due to an increase in the ineer for epartmentof ag- light fixtures that diffuse light a very inexpensive retrofit pro- features to wash the walls with ready to go." The student shuttle is one of inordinate amount of traffic Operations and M ntenance, goes rather than just throw the light ject," he said. "So far, 38 new light, removing the uncomfor- Rivas said he hopes the dispat- the reasons why crimes like the through campus." reed that increae security downwards. fixtures have been installed since table large dark areas." chers will be herein January, but assault have been so rare, Rivas Rivas explained in the last sev- hand in hand vit proper light- SAE suffers set back after fraternity housse burns down by ran zayas estimated the d "age done at porary relocated with other SAE more than S2«U <1 members, said Dißenedetto. For the members of the Sigma "The fire «as ' the kitchen," The worse part ofthe incident, Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Satur- said Dißencdt o, "but the according to Dißenedetto, was day's Homecoming brought on television in tl living room the fact that many members of the thrill of winning first place melted." SAE were on an emotional high in the float contest, having their While mosi of ie damage was after doing so well at the Home- candidate win as Homecoming concentrated 11 the kitchen, coming halftime events. Queen, and then coming home where the r )ne and the "W: won first place for our to a burned-down house. refrigerator «e both melted, float in our division," said Di- The SAE house near Russell heat and damage occur- Benedetto. "and our candidate and Maryland was destroyed red throughout he house. for homecoming queen, Gloria because of what firemen label- The fratermt members are Hale, also won. Then this hap- ed an accidental fire. While an unauieat the n* nem whetheror pened." investigation is still pending, the not the rented 'use is covered Dißenedetto was actually Las Vfegas Fire Department is by either their surance, or the alerted to the fire before the not at this time considering the insurance ot tl owner. halftime victories, when he re- chance of arson. According w ''Benedetto, the turned home shortly before es- SAE members were more than house's value not worth in- corting the winning float to the dismayed at the damage done, vesting either lore money or Silver Bowl. because ofthe social significance time into it The SAE member then saw the of the house. "The house n'l worth much, fraternity house covered in "The house was the social it's the land tl t's worth a lot. smoke and surrounded by fire focal point for the entire already egun looking We've '' I for engines. semester," said SAE member a new house The real tradgedy for Dißen- Bill Dißenedetto. Only four f ternity brothers edettohowever, was having to tell No one was injured in the fire, lived in the ho se - ,he $800 a his little brother that his moped since all of the occupants were month rent is: lit fiveways, the — which the younger fraternity at d the Homecoming game, but a four renter'- : the fraternity member stored at the house for day* by john Fire destruction at SAE hotiM Mock hMdllna rvcalla happlar photos mrvzj fire department spokcman itself — andj four were tem- safekeeping — melted. October 21. 1986 The Vrllin' Rebel News Features page 2 Whiskey, women and rooms Sex play engages actors in confrontation make travel exciting for prof. by kurt hildebrand through Metro. W V Paris ranks He said the first officer told them that she could not believe that by randy kimber But given the exotic setting of The George in in The rea ing a P lay in public led to charges of harrassment a professor would assign this kind of work at UNLV. Bangkok or the opulent splendor No. 1 on the Continent one by Ihe U police department, according to one of the Black said he demands oral and written reprimands for both of- Claude Rand, assistant pro- of the Gleneagles in Scotland, rating, but Rand said he also students v,>M. Scott Black. ficers and oral and written apologies from the police department iessor of hotel administration at every moment must be special. likes the Meurice because "it i Old Black, fr<aqucnt participant in the theatre productions at UNLV, for the Theatre Arts Department. JNLV, took the audienceof the "I love Chevas Regal.

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