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PAGE 2—THE NORTH TEXAS DAILY
EDITOR'S NOTE: During the past
year, many changes have been made at
North Texas. One of the major changes
has been made in the area of security on
campus. The change from strictly a secur-
ity force to a full-fledged police department
has left many people confused about the
powers and structure of the agency.
The following is the first in a two-part
series examining the structure, administra-
tive personnel and training of the univer-
sity police.
By GARY MORTON
Interpretive Reporter
More has happened to the University
Police Department this past year than
merely changing its name. It has also
changed in its structures and duties.
Known until last year as the Campus
Patrol, the force has now become a full-
scale police department. It has expanded
its role from that of an internal security
force to cover all aspects regularly associ-
ated with a police department.
THE CHANCE in character began last
year in September when Police Chief Tom
Martin was hired by the university. At the
time, the entire department was housed in
three rooms of Terrill Hall. Its duties were
little more than those of nightwatchmen.
The organizational structure of the po-
lice was the first to change. Martin hired
Police Make Personnel,
Departmental Changes
Jack Goble to investigate all crimes re-
ported to the force. Previously, Martin
said, reports made to the Campus Patrol
were not investigated as they should have
been.
A Field Operations Division was also
set up under Capt. Doyle Fletcher. It is
the duty of this division to supervise uni-
formed policemen patroling the campus
from training to dispatching the officers.
IT IS THIS department which is evi-
dent to students, since the uniformed po-
licemen are seen most often on campus.
They carry out the department's directives
and are the first to answer all calls made
to the police.
Behind the policeman on the street is the
training supervisor, L. R. (Robbie) Robin-
son. Robinson supervises all recruits during
their six month probationary period on the
force.
A third division Martin initiated was
the Services Division, supervised by Capt.
Wyman Seay. Seay is in charge of the de-
partment's enforcement of parking poli-
cies.
In addition, Capt. Seay is charged with
keeping records of all reports made by the
department, except for the investigative
files kept by Gobcl.
THE UNIVERSITY Police Depart-
ment was budgeted 5200,000 this year for
its operations. Included in this budget was
authorization for the hiring of one more
man, Robinson, to head and coordinate the
department's training program.
Martin said the university has been co-
operative in giving the department the
money needed to raise the professional
level of the force.
"We've had good support in everything
from the university," he said.
Along with the expansion and change in
organizational structure, Martin said the
department is also attempting to improve
its image on campus. There are two main
ways in which this is being attempted.
One is by trying to become more sensi-
tive to students' needs. Martin said the
police force is attempting to do this by
trying to improve the relationship between
police and students through the use of stu-
dent policemen.
"APPROXIMATELY 60 per cent of
our policemen are students," Martin said.
"We hope in the future to require all our
officers to have at least two years of col-
lege behind them."
In doing this, Martin said, the policeman
would be able to better relate to students.
Martin said officers with two years of col-
lege know the feelings on campus and how
students think.
While the police chief admitted this
would indicate a large personnel turnover,
Martin indicated he felt this would be bet-
ter so students could feel more at ease with
their policemen. As for the high personnel
turnover, he said, "We can't expect people
to stay with Us after they obtain their de-
gree."
ANOTHER WAY in which the police
are attempting to improve their image is
through the various services they offer
the campus community, Martin said.
"We only spend about 10 per cent of our
time enforcing the law," Martin said. "The
other 90 per cent is used to provide ser-
vices to students."
These services vary widely and according
to the situation, Martin noted. For ex-
ample, the police aid blind students around
the campus and often drive them to their
housing from campus, especially at night,
he said.
The patrolmen also do this for dorm stu-
dents who become ill or are injured. Mar-
tin said the police department assist these
people by transporting them to and from
the campus infirmary or where ever needed
for treatment.
MARTIN SAID it is not unusual for a
Thursday, September 23,1971
stranded student to call the police depart-
ment at night and ask to be picked up at
the bus station. The department always
answers these calls, he said.
Yet, despite the services the police de-
partment offers to student, Martin said
the major problem the department faces is
to improve its image to those it serves.
"Image is a problem police have all over
the nation," Martin said. "We want to be
worthy of a professional image."
He placed the blame for this attitude on
society as a whole.
"It is more or less a reflection of the
state of mind of our society," Martin said.
"When do people stop and think of what we
do except when enforcement is needed?
People do not associate the police with
those activities which are service-oriented,"
he added.
MARTIN SAID the police department
has come a long way from the days of the
campus patrol, but said there is still room
for improvement.
"I hope we are always progressing in-
stead of regressing," he said.
He said he is satisfied with the depart-
ment as it is now, though.
"I think the standards we have estab-
lished now should be maintained and im-
proved upon," Martin concluded "As we
go on, we will improve."
SGA Constitution
Hearing Provides
Student Forum
Students annually complain that student government is Micky Mouse
and they have no voice in student government.
Students can have a voice today if they want.
There will be an open meeting at 2 p.m. today on the third floor of the
Union Building to discuss the proposed changes in the Student Government
Association Constitution.
Several campus leaders have expressed disfavor with the new SGA con-
stitution but some constitution is better than no constitution.
As always student government is not going to be cured by a new consti-
tution—no matter how much power is allotted to the governing body. The
difference is going to be made by the students involved in operating the
government and the manner in which they use the available power.
Demonstrations of student governmental power such as booby bills and
other ridiculous bills only serve to justify the administration's reluctance
to give the student government any real power. However, a consistent ef-
fort by student politicians to pass bills that can improve campus life will
prove to the administration that students are interested in intelligently run-
ning the campus for the benefit of everyone.
Students make the difference in student government. Student government
is only as Micky Mouse as the students involved in it and supporting it. If
students on this campus do not care enough to vote for representatives when
election time rolls around or to vote on a new constitution, they have little
right to complain about their representation or constitution.
Students' reaction to the new constitution in the next few days, and at
election time, will determine how much respect the administration will have
for student government. If some interest is not shown in the body that will
be governing Ihetn, students cannot expect the administration to pay atten-
tion to the student government.
Only a strong show of support for or against the new constitution will
show administrators that students really carc what kind of government
they have.
Students have a chance to express their opinions on the new constitution
before it comes before the entire student body for reratification. They also
have the power to vote the new constitution down if they don t approve of
it.
A copy of the constitution ran in Wednesday's Daily. Students should
study the document and let their feelings be known at the meeting today.
If enough students show an interest in the new SGA constitution, the
administration may realize that students are serious in their demand for
more control of their own lives and money.
This will give the administration a chance to live up to its stated policy
of allowing student government more power as the students show more re-
sponsibility.
MICHEL HI ATT
The North Texas Daily
DAILY FEEDBACK
55th Year
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ALLEN MILLS AND BRIAN HEARD,
BOX 7448
Ooh geeee! Aw shucks! Come on now
fellas—Lulu Hundley is the perfect hippie
chick! Very heavy, I'll wager.
Joe Dodd Complains
'Ignorance Insufferable'
Joe Dodd. 358 University House, Denton
In general, ignorance is irritating. In
our "authority figures", it is insufferable.
If I read correctly, Mr. Geer not only
dragged out the well-worn assumption that
marijuana leads to drug addiction, but
broke new ground by inferring that burning
incense leads to marijuana smoking.
I also got the impression that visiting
with women at late hours leads to rape and
other bad effects.
1 would like to inform Mr. Geer that the
various quarters about Denton, existing
without such ridiculous university mother-
ing, are not full of dopers and ravaged
young ladies.
Bert Hubby Questions
New SGA Constitution
Bert Hubby, 3426 Morningstar. Dallas
According to the administration of this
university, who are the legal representa-
tives of the Board of Regents, no new con-
stitution has ever been totally approved by
the Board of Regents. Accordingly and
legally, only the Board of Regents has
the power as a non-profit corporation under
the state laws of Texas to inact any new
state constitution. Therefore, one safely
concludes that the student government of
this university is still provided by the old
USNT constitution which has been totally
approved by the Board of Regents.
Under the USNT constitution, require-
ments to run and hold the office of presi-
dent are: 1) Ninety semester hours or more;
2) a petition of twenty-five signatures;
3) Running on a duel-ticket; and 4) winning
a majority of the votes cast.
Newly elected president Wes Spiegel,
however, has met none of these require-
ments. Therefore, in accordance with this
university's corporate charter and the laws
of Texas, one concludes that Wes Spiegel
is illegally holding the office of president
of the student body.
Last spring's elections were held under
the new SGA constitution. Therefore, they,
too, are illegal, null and void.
Weather Picture Cools
Writer About Space Use
Gregg Kennedy, 728B, Kerr Hall,
1 didn't write in to chop everything about
North Texas, but here is my main criticism.
I'm sick of people who write about ridicu-
lous subjects in this paper. In Tuesday's
paper, for instance, is the story of "Debbie
Stoetzer's Big Temperature Change." My
goodness, Debbie was surprised! It was
so important, you put a 5x6 inch breath-
catching picture of Debbie holding a ther-
mometer on the front page. The point is
the space could have been used for impor-
tant information. The only valuable words
in that subject were "a Monday low of 42
degrees. "
It's true the campus has a few problems,
but one of them is NOT the fact we have
brightly-colored litter cans. It's interesting
that students attending an institution cased
on higher learning and education should
have their minds on trash (cans).
Huffaker Asks Student
To Endure Striped Cans
Bob Huffaker, RFD 3, Box 445-A, Denton
An answer to the letter of Dan Robbins,
North Texas Daily, Sept. 3, 1971:
Could you perhaps endure the striped
litter cans for my sake? I like them.
Paint something else. O.K.?
Student Makes It Big With Metal
Hendrix Uses Welder's Skills
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Dave Hendrix and one of his works displayed outside the Art Building.
—Photo by Mike Whitehead
By DAVID MALLOT
Special Writer
With the skill and know-how of a con-
struction worker, the creativity of a fine
craftsman and the critical eye of an "ex-
terior decorator," Dave Hendrix, Fort
Worth junior, does his thing with metal
sculpture.
And when Hendrix does his thing, he
does it big.
Armed with a pop riveter, welding equip-
ment and a potpourri of other tools, from
files to metal buffers, he sets out to make
his wildest metallic dreams come true.
WHEN THE PIECE is finished it
may weigh as much as 2,500 pounds and
be 25 feet high. At least one piece under
construction behind the Art Building on
campus is that size. Another piece exhib-
ited in the park weighs around 800 pounds.
Hendrix began expressing himself in
metalwork in 1969 when he took a three
dimensional design class at Weatherford
College One piece which he particularly
likes and keeps in his home was done in
the design class.
"I didn't have a welder so I used the
one in the agriculture department and their
scrap metal," Hendrix said. "They thought
I was losing my mind when 1 did it. They
said, 'What kind of deal is this? You're
going to take our garbage and make some-
thing? What kind of artist are you?' But
really it ended up being a pretty nice piece,"
he said.
"DO VOU SEE what it is?" Hendrix ask-
ed "It's a woman! She's balancing on her
forearms with her legs in the air."
That is one beautiful part of Hendrix's
work. Looking at that rather simple con-
glomeration of scrap pipe set the mind to
work and what came into focus was defi-
nitely a woman.
To begin a work of any great size, Hen-
drix logically can't start throwing mater-
ials together and hope for the best. It be-
comes necessary to know what is struc-
turally possible and what could collapse
before half completed.
Hendrix sometimes works out a drawing
on paper, but many times 3-D designs can't
be shown accurately in only two dimen-
sions.
"THAT'S WHEN I work up a scale
model," says Hendrix. "After I do that
I just blow it up. It's just like looking at
a model car and then looking at the real
thing."
After getting the opinions of several
critics about the model, Hendrix then be-
gins to increase the dimensions for the
finished piece. The models can be done
in a variety of materials, but Hendrix usual-
ly works with clay or styrofoam. One of
his favorite mediums for a finished work is
bronze.
HENDRIX FEELS that his minor in
industrial arts is a necessity. Without tech-
nical knowledge in balance and structure,
the large sculptures that he favors could
end in disaster. Hendrix said that a mis-
calculation in balance of even one pound
could topple a large sculpture.
"For example, he said, "the piece that's
unfinished on campus has a weird balance
and it's very peculiar that it is standing.
You look at it and it doesn't look balanced,
but it is on sort of a cantilever type situa-
tion. Really it's suspended mass, and it's
tricky to do that," Hendrix added.
The large unfinished piece is made of
sheets of aluminum, pop riveted onto the
metal frame. Like the other work on dis-
play, which is made of sheet metal welded
up to a hollow mass, it is a motion study
IT POINTS sharply upward and sug-
gests an almost violent kind of action. After
he completes the technical work and buffs
the aluminum to a high gloss, Hendrix
feels that the piece will be able to withstand
quite a lot.
"I like durable pieces, stuff that lasts
and lasts," he said, ""'"hen I don't have to
worry about something falling apart. I
also like pieces that change in the weather
and look different every time you see
them," he added
Hendrix has entered the Voertman show
in Denton and several shows at Weather-
ford College, but he has only sold pieces
to friends. Hendrix never creates names
for his works.
"I NEVER NAME any of my pieces,"
Hendrix said, "because then you can get
too attached to them and don't want to sell
any. I do want to get enough of my work
together and have a good showing with a
variety of pieces. I definitely want to sell,"
he said.
After spending hundreds, perhaps even
thousands of hours on one large work, Hen-
drix feels that he should be able to com-
municate some idea, something about him-
self and his thoughts to a viewer
"I like people to feel something from
my work," Hendrix said. "If they can get
into it as much as I am, if they can look at
it and say, 'I can see what he wanted to do'
- yeah, that would give me satisfaction
"That's all I could ever hope for," Hen-
drix said. "Even if I nevei sell any pieces,
I just hope it's liked "
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