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Vol. 50 Issue 1532 The Current April 24, 2017 UMSL’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWS UMSL’s Fiscal Future: Panel UMSL Chief of Police Discusses Possible $17 Million Forrest Van Ness to Deficit for Fiscal Year 2018 Retire in May Lori Dresner News Editor handful of students gathered A in the SGA Chambers on April 19 to hear panelists discuss the in- ternalities and externalities of the budget deficit and projections for the upcoming fiscal year at the Uni- versity of Missouri–St. Louis. The panelists included Chief Fi- nancial Officer Rick Baniak, Dean of the College of Business Charles Hoffman, Chancellor Tom George, and Associated Students of the Uni- versity of Missouri (ASUM) rep- resentative Jordan Lucas, senior, economics. Baniak said that administrators LORI DRESNER / THE CURRENT LORI LORI DRESNER / THE CURRENT LORI and faculty have been working col- Students listen to panelists discuss the challenges of fiscal year 2017. Captain Marisa Smith, Chief of UMSL Police and Director of Institutional Safety Forrest lectively over the past year to ana- Van Ness, and Captain Dan Freet in the UMSL Police Station. lyze expenditures and determine looks like we can balance our budget 17 was set up to be a difficult year whether the right amount of money for [fiscal year] 17. So I think to the for UMSL from the beginning. The Lori Dresner The Current (TC): What is being invested in the right plac- credit of everybody on the campus, university was facing a $15 million News Editor changes have you seen while you’ve es, while also looking to improve we’ve actually overcome ... a big deficit when discussions about FY17 been chief of police here? recruitment and ensure that the hurdle,” said Baniak. first began. hief of the University Missou- Van Ness: We did not have 24- student experience is as strong as Baniak said that the university, In light of the $15 million defi- Cri–St. Louis Police Department hour supervision when I came. We it can be. however, will likely be looking at an cit, Chancellor George and his lead- and director of institutional safety had three sergeants, and we had “The sum of all those things to- even higher $17 million hurdle that ership team set in place a plan to Forrest Van Ness has announced some officers that filled in when the gether has put us into a spot where it must overcome in FY18. reduce that deficit to $3.6 million, that he will retire from both of his sergeants were absent, but we real- we’re actually ahead of plan, and it He explained that fiscal year continued on page 3 positions at the university next ly didn’t have someone with the su- month. pervisory experience to make sure Van Ness, an UMSL alumnus that the officers are given the sup- UMSL Offers Interdisciplinary who attended the university from port that they need to do the job that 1980 to 1991, started as chief of they’re tasked with. It started with UMSL PD in 2010 and succeeded first-line supervisors. We were able Global Studies Certificates former chief of police Bob Roesler. to create six positions. When peo- A veteran and graduate of the ple left, we replaced them with a Leah Jones as how to become more culturally Global Cities Initiative. She cited a FBI National Academy, Van Ness sergeant, so the cost was minimal Features Editor competent as St. Louis becomes a study conducted by Jack Strauss, served nearly 30 years as the captain to do that. more interconnected place. who conducts demographic re- of the St. Louis County Police De- We [also] developed a recruit- othing exists in isolation; Launched last fall, the Certif- search and St. Louis University’s Si- partment prior to becoming police ment plan with a minority com- Nyet traditional tracks of stud- icate in Ethnicity, Migration, and mon Center for Regional Economic chief at the university. His last day ponent. With that, we have two ies at universities artificially divide Human Diversity, and the Global Forecasting. In the study, Strauss with UMSL PD is set to be May 12. different bureaus within the depart- knowledge into discrete and sepa- Health and Social Medicine minor found that in 2015, St. Louis was As chief, Van Ness has been re- ment. We have a police operations rate courses of study and branches not only give students unique and the 20th largest metro area in the sponsible for overseeing the daily [bureau], and then special opera- of knowledge. Even the best scien- marketable skills in a global world; United States. However, it was 43rd operations of the police department, tions are the engagement compo- tists and doctors must learn to write they also enable students to show- in the number of people who were parking and transportation, the nent. So we have two different well to communicate their findings, case these skills on their transcripts born in a foreign country, with less campus locksmiths, and the de- missions within those bureaus, and and the best creative writers must for future employers. Students who than 5 percent of the population partment of environmental health then we’ve got the command [offi- have some concept of the people study topics as diverse as foreign being foreign-born in 2012. Com- and safety. Van Ness has committed cers] to run those. and cultures about which they are languages and cultures, anthropol- pared to the top 20 metropolitan himself and the police department TC: What is it like working at writing. Two new certificates and a ogy, social work, criminal justice, areas in the country, Strauss found to maintaining international accred- UMSL PD on a daily basis? proposed major at the University of public health, cross-cultural edu- that other cities’ economies were itation through the Commission on Van Ness: I start early. I start Missouri–St. Louis reflect this inter- cation, medical research, biological growing 40 percent faster than the Accreditation for Law Enforcement at six in the morning so that I can disciplinary approach to knowledge. sciences, international business, ur- economy in St. Louis, indicating that Agencies (CALEA) and positive re- catch the midnight officers before On April 5, UMSL held two ban planning, and political Science slower immigration rates negative- lations between UMSL PD and the they get off. And then the phone panel discussions to celebrate the can all benefit from these interdis- ly affected our city and driving the campus body. starts to ring. launch of two global studies cer- ciplinary minors. argument that St. Louis should do He spoke with The Current Communication is paramount. tificates. The programs aim to help Betsy Cohen, the Executive more to become a welcoming place about his time as chief, his commit- We can’t work in a vacuum. The faculty, staff, and students become Director of the St. Louis Mosaic for immigrants. ment to UMSL and higher educa- things that we do revolve around more aware of the global role that Project, opened the first panel on Even though St. Louis’s foreign tion, and the future he foresees for that professionalism [that comes St. Louis plays in the world, as well demographics, integration, and the continued on page 6 UMSL PD. continued on page 3 What’s Inside: Jamba Juice Closes, pg. 3 Olympic eSports, pg. 4 Italian Film Fest, pg. 5 Church v. State, pg. 7 2 April 24, 2017 CURRENT STAFF EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief Kat Riddler Managing Editor Lori Dresner News Editor Lori Dresner Features Editor Leah Jones Sports Editor Lance Jordan A&E Editor Daniel Stawhun Opinions Editor Nathan Watson Copy Editors Zachary Lee Janeece Woodson Staff Writers Chris Zuver Danyel Poindexter Melvin Taylor DESIGN Production Editor Giuseppe Vitellaro Photo Editor Now hiring! 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