A Forum for Free Student Expression at Florida International University One copy per person. Additional copies are 25 cents. Vol. 26 Issue 43 fiusm.com Friday, November 21, 2014 Police address CHILLIN’ faculty concerns about safety on campus ADRIAN SUAREZ AVILA BBC. However, he admitted that Staff Writer guards are present at EC during
[email protected] afternoon and evening shifts, patrolling the parking lots and For the University Faculty responding to calls when they are Senate, campus safety is a major made. concern. The issue is funding for To address the Faculty’s payroll. concerns, University Police Casas said that if he had more Chief Alexander Casas delivered money for officers, he would have a campus safety update to the three of them in the EC every members during the Tuesday, day. However, in the present DIEGO SALDAÑA- ROJAS/THE BEACON Nov. 18, meeting. situation, the Police Department Georgia Talania, a senior studying English and Japanese, and Sylvanna Loo, a junior in East Osama Mohammed, a deploys officers depending on the Asian studies, walk from SIPA after class wearing warmer clothes to combat the cold weather. professor of electrical and demands of its available services. Wednesday’s cold front and rain caused a notable change in fashion around campus. computer engineering, said he Whitney Bauman, associate rarely sees police officers in the professor in the Department of Engineering Center, a concern Religious Studies, asked if there decreases in filed complaints safety on campus — so much that happily,” said Casas. “That’s how reiterated by Elisabeth Beristain- was any possibility to make and use of force by officers, he he’d move in himself.