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'll red of throwing C_ your weight around? American Heart * Association^ ■ *-* i rtgnang nwi i mtdStmkt * Exercise. f ' ^ ^ ! Nil U "1 £■ or U ; \l L K u o rio ! rnc\i uC o bn no vou Blue Moon Ghetto Wednesday, Oct. 2nd Live in "The 6arden" CRIME from page 1 •fences. Police officers have- no problem explaimng why their calls go up st cer tain times and down at others. Explain ing why certain times of the your are higher than others is more tricky, they say. Officers often can tell what is go ing on in the academic year by how busy they are. Contrary to a common perception, football game days, and football sea son are not report-heavy days and months. For the 1995 season, the average number of reports each day was six. The median number of calls, the num ber that half the scores are above and half are below, was five. Statisticians, when dealing with a large set of scores, say median num bers provide a more accurate picture, because they are not affected by ex treme scores. 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Compamet • Home Officer Bloomington, mmnpj hap-JfwwwjtMtehtm.com number of calls stayed at six, but the median increased to six. However, the number of calls during the summer is lower than the fell and spring, thereby affecting the total score and not die football season score. In the top crime days of 1995, only two hone games appeared on the list. Hie Arizona State game on Sept 16, 1995, was the busiest day of 1995 for campus police, with 22 incidents re ported. The next game day, the Okla homa game on Nov. 24, 1995, was fourth on the list with 17 reports filed. Manning, who has more than 20 years experience at UNL, said football game days often are quiet. “People get so built up for that game... the people are just exhausted," he said. “It’s an emotional drain. Win or loss, it’s an emotional <11810.” Petersen said many incidents that occur at games go unreported. Often, he said, officers will just throw some one out for an infraction. But removing a fan happens only once or twice a game, Petersen said. Other events during the school year affect campus crime more than foot ball, officers said. Campus crime peaks: — Four weeks into the semester. UNL Police Chief Ken Cauble said b> then everyone has settled in, and thieves start to notice patterns of be havior. —The weekend before Thanksgiv ing. Manning said students party a lot before going home for the holiday. —The weekend before dead week. Mantling; and Cauble said students get in their partying before finals. Both said there is often a high number of suicide attempts during dead week. — The weekend before spring break starts. Manning said students get rowdy before they leave. — State tournament weekends. Manning said the influx of high school students for basketball and wrestling state tournaments give campus police more to do. Researchers and some police offic ers have theories of what affects crime — full moons, temperature, tides. Petersen said he doesn’t buy into those theories. Cauble gave a tentative en dorsement of some theories. “I think there is some validity to a lot of them,” he said. But, he added, “a lot of people laugh at diem.” Cauble said he wasn't taking any theory as truth. Til use (statistics) all day long if I think I'll do a better job, but I am not going to swear by anything.” Colleges deal with violence on campus SHOOTING from page 1 definitely a significant part of moving on for a number of people. Tfa person needs (counseling), get it for them. Penn State will be surprised by how many people were affected by this incident," Allen-Hogensen said. The representatives said the inci dents that had occurred on their cam puses were unavoidable by university security procedures. ‘There was nothing that could have been done" said Joe Cardona, assis tant director of college relations at Rowan College in Glassboro, N J. “Additional police or metal detec tors or anything wouldn’t have made a difference,” Cardona said. One major difference between these incidents and the one that oc curred on the Penn State lawn is that all of the shooters at these schools were somehow involved with their victims. At California University of Penn sylvania in 1994, a football player shot two teammates after he saw one talk ing to his ex-girlfriend. The University of Albany also sur vived an incident where it is believed the gunman did not know his victims. On the last day of classes for the 1995 foil semester, a gunman held a class hostage for two hours. No one was killed before the situation was re solved. Students subdued the gunman. Joel Blumenthal, associate vice president for university relations at the University of Albany, said they made counseling available immediately and adced professors to be lenient “We offered those students an op portunity to postpone their finals, most of them wanted to take them and get them over with ao that they could get home to their families,** Blumentnal said. “Unfortunately, (Penn State’s) incident occurred in the middle of the semester.** A case similar to Alabny’s hap pened at the University of Nebraska Lincoln on Oct. 12, 1992, when stu dent Robert McEbpy «med his .30 caliber semi-automatic weapon at a class of 20 students. The gun jammed, and McElroy was tackled by another student. v The students and faculty at these campuses said they all felt the incidents were definitely eye openers. “The campus feels the incident is an unpleasant reminder that we are part of the real world... the university is still part of a world that we may not want to be a part of, but are,” Moore said. The campus representatives said students will eventually stop looking over their shoulders and begin feeling safe on campus. “If you’re strong and have a good support system you’ll be able to con tinue,” Blumenthal said. Allen-Hogensen added, “It’s been a few years for us so it’s rarely talked about anymore. I think we are return ing to that feeling of a safe environ ment It will take a while for people tc feel that way again there too.” Staff writer Keightley Wittkh contributed to this report ~£2»SSS* 0*“e"TFriW-''4wl Open 3 a.m. Saturday morning Got down for a bloody mary or screwdriver 1215 Moro — Right next to Last Chance - ^-1. Manhattan, ^nsas^.' f