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.”
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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. He said Warner
had replaced the word “policies” in
several places with “guidelines.”
Withem said when he and Warner
wrote the original bill, Withem knew
what “policy*1 meant, but he said it
was misinterpreted by the commis
sion. He said the change would elim
inate any problems with the commis
sion interfering in university gover
nance.
Though the coordinating commis
sion has been under fire lately, W ithem
said, he did not want the legislation to
send a message of nonsupport.
Sen. Ardyce Bohlke of Hastings,
chairwoman of the Legislature’s Edu
cation Committee, also supported the
bill. She said the bill cleared doubts
about how the commission should be
run.
“I do believe this clearly defines the
role of the coordinating commission, ”
she said.
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