Union officials on guard against event violence By cami Walker Staff Reporter^_ Nebraska Union management and UNL police are putting up their guard against the threat of violence at cam pus events. The awareness is more a result of increasing vio lence on other campuses, not the University of Ne braska-Lincoln, said Daryl Swanson, director of the Nebraska Unions. “We’ve become more concerned about the possibility of security prob lems,” Swanson said. “There has been more evidence of an increase in vio lence at events at other universities. We’ve seen little evidence here. We’re more in a defensive mode right now.” However, Swanson said last year’s report of a discharged firearm at a Culture Center event and last semes ter’s assaul ton Boon-Chung “Marco” Ong heightened the union manage ment’s awareness of potential prob lems. While union event security policy hasn’t been changed, Swanson said union management and campus po lice had started to enforce the event registration procedure more strictly. “We’re using the same policy,” Swanson said. “We’re just paying more attention to the possibility of violence during the planning stages of events.” When planning an event, sponsor ing organizations fill out event regis tration forms with the help of union staff members. If an event is expected to draw more than 100 people, the sponsor usually is referred to the cam pus police to determine what kind of security measures are necessary. UNL Police Sgt. Bill Manning said the nature of the event, expected turn out and type of audience were taken into consideration. Last F riday’s quickpolice response to a fight during an Onyx and Boss concert was a result of this planning. The concert sponsors, union manage ment and university police were aware of a possibility for violence at the event, Swanson said. Because problems were anticipat ed, four officers were assigned to the concert. A fight involving four people broke out, and more than 20 UNL and Lin coln police officers responded when a Lancaster County sheriffs deputy prematurely pushed his “panic but ton,” signaling an officer in distress. “Police coverage and response were good that night — excellent even,” Swanson said. He said union officials would con tinue to pay more attention to the event registration policy, but he agreed with Manning that requiring police presence at all union events was unre alistic. “An officer’s time and department resources, at many times, can be bet ter spent,” Manning said. He said having on-duty officers patrol events was often more feasible than assigning an officer specifically to an event. “Saying there’s not going to be a fight at this event, because there’s an officer on duty, is like saying this bank isn’t going to be robbed because there’s a security guard and camera there,” Manning said. Swanson and Manning both said they would continue to stress preven tative planning for campus events. “I think there is always the possi bility of improvement,” Swanson said, “We’ll continue to review our own staff coverage.” Haze Continued from Page 1 could be reluctant to pursue hazing charges. In other floor action Tuesday morn ing, a bill redefining the role of the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education gained first round approval with a 26-0 vote. LB683, proposed by Sen. Jerome WamerofWaverly, would clarify some of the original legislation that created the commission. The bill would establish authority for the commission when dealing with a building project using more than $300,000 of tax money. Warner said there were no provisions for projects dealing with non-tax money. Sen. Ron W ithem of Papillion, who supported the measure, said the bill merely eliminated some language. “By and large, what (Warner) is proposing is positive for the commis sion,” Withem said. 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