Two Years of Taping Calls by Campus Cops Campus

Two years of taping calls by campus cops By Dick Schaaf incoming emergency and complaint compliance with federal law has a was a recorded line," Quinton related. for just phone calls, Quinton noted. The administrative calls, asking for in- Recording of telephone conversations calls are recorded by the department, periodic beep to alert the caller to the "The next day, she accused the of- four-channel recorder is also tied in to formation. by the campus police is nothing new at using just a beeper tone on the line. fact that he or she is being recorded. ficer of insulting her and completely the campus police force's radio Less common are emergency calls, SJSU, according to Chief Earnest Tapes are kept for 60 days, he said. Tapes are commonly kept for two unprofessional conduct," he continued. frequency, and to stop recording on one generally resulting from an accident Quinton. The practice was instituted SJPD has never tried to take a voice weeks, then erased and re-used. Only in In order to decide who was telling the channel would mean stopping recor- and "goof balls". two years ago. print from a tape, according to cases where the tape is needed for an truth, Quinton went to the tape and ding of everything. On a given day, guessed Quinton, the "The reason it was put in to begin Christensen. He noted that the slow investigation or pending court action is replayed the conversation in front of Both Quinton and James said they campus police office might handle up to with," he said in explaining the speed of the recorder might affect the a conversation preserved. two witnesses. though the beep was sufficient in- 100 calls of varying natures and recording system, "was bomb threats. fidelity of the recorded voice, a "It doesn't happen that often," "It certainly cleared the officer of dication that the call was being gravity. We were trying to get voice prints on situtation which might also apply to the Quinton said, "but if something goes any misconduct," he said. recorded. "We're perfectly willing to have bomb threats." campus police recorders, James ad- down, it's a real godsend to go play it Quinton said he could recall only one "We never make it a matter of people call in on the business line," he In two years of operation, no such mitted. back and be sure you're right." complaint from a caller wishing not to record," James noted. "If they hear the said, noting that calls can be switched threats have come in, but the tapes Beep alerts called Tape clears cop be recorded. In that case, the caller was beep, and ask 'what's that?', we ex- from one line to another in a few have justified their existence in other As the campus system exists now, As an example, Quinton recalled an transferred to an unrecorded line. plain. If they don't we figure they know seconds. ways, Larry James, administrative Quinton said, all calls coming in on the incident last March involving a "We try to put everything on the it's being recorded." Quinton had no explanation for the officer for the campus police said. department's first two lines (277-3511 reported rape from a 4/man in the beeper," he admitted, adding "had we Most calls, according to James, fall fact that the business line ( 277-3513t is E.E. Christensen, acting supervisor and 277-3512) are automatically dorms. found opposition, we would have had into four main categories. not listed in the campus directory, but of communications for the San Jose recorded. "She talked to an officer for about 15 extra ( unrecorded) lines put in." The two most common are reports said that it had never been his policy to Police Department, confirmed that all The tape is voice activated, and in minutes on the lineand she knew it There is no way to turn off the tape stolen wallets, burglaries, injuriesand discourage use of the business number. Thursday, October 17, 1974 Spartan Daily Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 Bunzel outlines Campus groundsmen role of SJSU priority board By Phil Trounstine say sidewalks 'unsafe' -What would we like this university to be doing five years from now?" By Robin Budrow "fractured leg and a smashed nose." Three employes, who did not want to That's the question SJSU President "Dangerous walkway" allegations, "It seems to me if Buildings and be identified for fear of jeopradizing John H. Bunzel put to the committee he stemming from an accident behind the Grounds is doing anything about safety, their jobs, claimed Bollinger's has hand-picked to determine what the Buildings and Grounds Department they could fix the walkways," she statement was not the truth. university should offer in the way of Sept. 23, have sparked a dispute over charged. Dangerous walkways, they agreed, courses, programs and degrees. the safety of campus walkways. Underwood's accident was the first of exist all over campus. One employe "The essential focus," Bunzel Dr. Francis Underwood, associate two on campus grounds in as many claimed the sidewalk sweeper he drives asserted yesterday, is to ask what is professor of anthropology, and several weeks. often gets stuck in the holes and "the mission and the purpose of the Buildings and Grounds employees, Shawn Burney, a SJSU coed, was crevices of sidewalks throughout the university as an academic institution." charged last week that "walkways all injured Oct. 7 when her wheelchair fell campus. He said it is necessary for the over campus" are "dangerous." into a construction ditch in front of the His statement was supported by his university to re-examine itself because However, Byron Bollinger, Speech and Drama Building. companion, who said it takes at least the years of expansion have come to a superintendent of Buildings and Witnesses told the Spartan Daily two men to "push the sweeper out of the close. Grounds, denied the charges. there were no barriers on the sides of holes." Now, he said, "We are in a period of "Any walkway we see that looks the walkway Burney attempted to Fred Frazier, assistant supervisor of contractionof declining enrollment unsafe," Bollinger said, "we fix im- cross. Barriers were later added to the Buildings and Grounds, also disagreed and financing." mediately." site although the SJSU contract with with Bollinger's statement that "unsafe "It's a different ball game and we're Bollinger defined "dangerous walk- the company doing the work stated walkways are fixed immediately." In a different ball park," Bunzel said. Feet, fists fly at festival ways" as those having "a one inch they were to be present at all times The "dangerous" walkways, he said, "Taking a little bit from everybody difference in height between connecting until construction ended. -are being repaired as fast as we get may not be possible," he added. "Some A practitioner of the ancient art of Kung Fu demonstrates his technique to slabs of concrete." Differences in the Bollinger, after Burney's accident, time and money." programs may need to be phased out" students attending Tuesday's Asian Fall Festival. The movements of the Kung slopes of connecting slabs are not said he "had not seen" the construction The process, however, is "long". rather than taking funding from all Fu artist imitate those of the tiger, dragon, leopard, snake and crane. considered dangerous, Bollinger said. site before the accident to judge if Frazier said the department has been departments. Underwood, sporting a cast from the safeguards "were adequate " trying to get funds to fix the chuckholes In his opening address to the faculty top of her left thigh down to her ankle, Bollinger also denied knowledge of inside the Seventh Street barriers for this semester, Bunzel unveiled his said she tripped on a "cement slab any dangerous walkways in the area "three years." intention to appoint an Ad Hoc Corn- University considers sticking up between sidewalk con- where Underwood fell. Repair, Frazier noted, is not cheap. mittee on University Curricular nections" and fell while on her way to The area's walkways, he said, were The cost of reparing the sidewalk Priorities in the Steady State. class. "in perfect shape" with "no unlevel along Fourth Street to be done But yesterday marked the first The result of her spill behind the sections of concrete." sometime this year is $5,470, Frazier meeting of the committee in what could appealing pay verdict Building and Grounds office Bollinger's statement was not sup- said. be a 12-to-18 month process of -responsible for maintaing the safety ported by employes congregated in the The area where Underwood fell, establishing academic priorities for the of campus grounds," she said, was a area last week, however. however, "won't be repaired," Frazier university. SJSU attorneys have not yet decided Gaugler's case is awaiting appeal by said. The committee is composed of eight whether to appeal a Superior Court the California State University System. senior faculty members, four deans, judge's ruling to restore art professor He is the only one of the original eight one graduate student and the academic William Gaugler back wages and his professors to take legal action against Compatible siblings attend SJSU vice president. original level of pay. the school. Bunzel said he decided to appoint According to Attorney Larry Gaugler said that he learned the What's it like to have all your eat with all our friends." Mrs. Shiro Masunaga, mother of the members who had "given serious Friersen, counsel for the chancellor's investigation was prompted by two brothers and sisters go to the same Jane.

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