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The SIS Sews Vol. 61, No. 31 Bowling "Green State University Thursday, November 10, 1977 The problems are ...tragic in their implications' Panel advocates new police program By Julie Rollo department and that its existing approach, attitude and training of officers inappropriate and inadequate, with some result of a police attitude of independence from the ad- Staff Reporter operation are inappropriate to the needs of the University officers having had "no Significant university-life experiences ministration. At the tame time, sources said, administrators Copyright 1977, The BG News community, according to sources. of their own. save as police officers " liave failed to enforce tlieir authority. The seven-month-long investigation of the University The panel also will recommend that a police review board Humanistic education such as psychology, human The panel reportedly concludes that police operations have Police department by the ad hoc police review panel is over. be formed, primarily, sources said, for reviewing police relations and minority values and lifestyle are among embarrassed the University and damaged the interests of Sources have informed the News of several recom- operations as opposed to the hiring, firing or controlling "significant areas of concern to a university police depart- students and their families, and that police procedures in- mendations the panel will submit in its final report to the officers. ment ithati have been neglected or ignored entirely," cluding search and seizure, random questioning and the Board of Trustees at 10 this morning in McKall Center. Panel members agreed it is necessary that the department sources said. taking of photos of students not charged with an offense, have Committee findings indicate, sources said, that serious adopt and enforce rules of conduct and a code of ethics, and Despite rumors, sources said the panel will not recommend been inappropriate and the legality of them questioned by the problems were found regarding operations of the police revise the police manual in accordance with the recom- the removal or demotion of any police officer, nor will it courts, according tosources. department and its relationships with the administration and mendations, according to sources. propose that police operations be transferred from Vice Findings indicate that procedures for resolution of University community. Panel findings indicate that serious personnel problems Prestdeni for Operations George Postich'a control. grievances have been perceived as ineffective and, sub- Specifically, complaints against police were found so exist in the department, involving questions of ap- ACCORIHNC. TO .sources, other findings indicate: sequently, many go unrcportcd, sources told the News. The prevalent and advanced as to demand "recognition that the propriateness of attitude and some existing assignments, as -There are attitudes of prejudice against blacks and sexist panel concludes: problems are serious, pervasive, and potentially, if not well as questions of competency and conduct, sources said. prejudices against women on the part of certain members of "Confidence in the police has deteriorated to such an ex- presently, tragic in their implications for the University the department, which "affect the department's operations tent that many of those with real grievances conclude it community and its members." ANOTHER recommendation, the News learned, is in the field." useless to initiate complaints through these procedures." establishment of a student involvement program to. in part, --"The department has failed to convince the University the panel reportedly concluded. INFORMATION further indicates the panel will recom- provide a working relationship between students and officers COmmunit) that it is here to serve them and that it can be Many University groups, including the Black Student mend the establishment of a new police program, em- through employment of students in areas of the department. trusted to serve them without bias or abuse " Union i HSU •, the administration, police and the News, have phasizing safety and service rather than law enforcement. Further, the panel will propose an in-service training -Although susceptible to varying interpretations, the awaited the outcome Of the ad hoc police review panel's Sources said that change will include a new name-the program for personnel, improved recruitment procedures to mutual aid agreement between the University and city has closed-door hearings and deliberations, department of public safety. insure selection of professional officers and the hiring of been misused by University Police. The panel, formed after HSU members complained of The committee found that excessive emphasis on law more minorities, sources said. SOURCES SAIll Committee findings state that some police police hat rassment of students, spent 50 hours interviewing enforcement is at the root of the dissatisfaction with the News sources said the committee found the present personnel activities have bordered on insubordination as a 25 witnesses during the course of its Investigation. Conflict of interest may exist involving student rep to trustees By Gall Harris IN A TAPED interview yesterday, When Weibl contacted Bell later that staffers phoned him at the SGA office News Editor Bell told Buckley that input he has evening, asking him why he had yesterday about buying beer, he gathered indicates that an inconsistent discussed the liquor policy instead of referred them to the off-campus An apparent conflict of interest in- interpretation of the rules exists and ACGFA, he received a "wishy-washy" number of John J. Kerns, junior. volving Undergraduate Student that most of his findings are consistent. answer from Bell, he said. Bell denied that he has sold any beer Representative to the Board of However, he did not say if persons' himself and refused to comment on Trustees Ron Bell is being Investigated reactions mostly were positive or BGRNO Tuesday contacted Dr. Kern's involvement with the Stroh's by the Bowling Green Radio News negative regarding the policy. Kichard R. Eakin, vice provost for Company. Organization (BGRNO). Hi .A President Richard A. Weiblsaid student affairs, concerning students BGRNO began the investigation after that when Bell appeared at the RLA conducting private business affairs on WHEN ASKED if he was a viewing a memo to resident advisors, meeting Nov. 1, supposedly to discuss campus telephones, such as that of representative with Stroh's, Kerns also sent by Bell, a representative of the the Advisory Committee on General selling beer for a distributor through refused to comment. Stroh's Beer Co., indicating they can Fee Allocations lACGFA), he instead the SGA office. SGA President Bob Wolf replied that purchase beer at wholesale prices by requested members' feedback con- "We try to contact the student that the matter "was news to me" when contacting him at the Student Gover- cerning the University's policy of this is not University policy," Eakin BGRNO contacted him yesterday by nment Association (SGA) office or his residence hall parties featuring said. "We certainly would discourage telephone. Wolf said he had heard campus residence. alcohol. that (running a business through a rumors about a conflict of interest BGRNO News Director Daniel J. Opinions toward the policy were University office), but students involving Bell, but did not know what it Buckley learned that Bell has appeared evenly split, Weibl said, adding that generally are naive on this point until concerned. at a Residence Life Association (RLA) Bell indicated he would take the in- we tell them." "I'll investigate this," he said. "It's meeting requesting feedback about the formation back to the Board of Bell apparently recently learned of the first I've heard about it, and it kind new, stricter campus party regulations. Trustees. this policy, because when BGRNO of shocks me if it's true." Process allows dept. self-study By Roger K. Lowe administrative COPE deals with academic COPE, which oversees the COPE designed the questionsque to be Staff Reporter academic support service areas such as academic departments of the answered when the departmentsdepi do the offices of student employment, University. their self-study, Means said. The ad- The University has structured a financial aid, student activities and the DEPARTMENTS look at their ministrative COPE asked the depar- process where administrative and Personal Development and Life achievements and at their short-term tments to concentrate on important academic departments can do a self- Planning Center, said Means, chair- and long-term goals, Means said. Each objectives and their implications and study and set their goals and man of the administrative COPE. committee has different