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The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, April 17,1996
A&E
Public Safety officers discourage guns on campus
Paul Ulmen
Staff Writer
Mention guns on campus and
someone will shockingly ask,
“Are there guns on campus?”
Since most people feel uncomfort
able around guns, is it a problem
here?
According to Chief of Public
Safety Jim Wiseman, it is an oc
casional problem that happens
here every couple of weeks. “It’s
an ongoing problem that hasn’t
gotten to the point where it is
serious yet.”
Wiseman mentioned seven
guns and five knives were taken
from people last
year. The guns
taken were either
revolvers
or
smaller conceal
able pistols. The
count doesn’t in
clude 12 to 15
rifles or shotguns
students bring on
campus that are
hanging in rifle
racks in pickup
-Tom
cabs.
Even though
there are signs at
both entrances to the campus
strictly prohibiting firearms of
any kind on campus, including
bb. or pellet guns, some students
are either ignoring the signs or
don’t see them.
People’s attitudes toward
guns have changed over the last
several years.
“It’s our society and culture
and where we are now—an ex
plosion of young people into
handguns. We have more guns
loose with criminals than before,”
says Wiseman. He feels that it
isn’t just a problem in colleges
and high schools, but is creeping
into junior highs as well.
“One of the great strengths
in this country is this is a free and
open society, which can also
sometimes be a weakness,”
Wiseman added.
So why would anyone bring
a firearm on campus? There are
several reasons. One is conve
nience. “When we find people
with rifles and shotguns in rifle
racks in vehicles, it’s usually
someone going hunting after
class,” Wiseman pointed out.
Once Public Safety becomes
aware of it, they deal with it right
away. A Public Safety officer
checks to make sure first of all, it
isn’t loaded, and if it’s a rifle, that
the action is left open. The officer
then requests that as a courtesy to
other students who may feel un
easy about it, that the weapon be
left at home and not returned to
campus.
Even though all Public Safety
officers are commissioned as
The walker apparently was a
gun broker and had a license to
carry a concealed weapon. He not
only had one concealed pistol but
three: a . 38, a 9mm and a .45
automatic.
He said he didn’t feel com
fortable without them. Officer
Steigleder told him he didn’t feel
comfortable having him armed
and on campus, then asked him
to leave and not bring the weap
ons back.
Even though signs at both en
trances to the college say no skate
boarding, drugs, alcohol or fire
arms, Steigleder feels “no fire
arms” should be
at the top of the
sign
and in
larger letters.
Even students
may feel a need
to be protected
from other stu
dents
whom
they fear, and
might carry a
small conceal
able
pistol.
Steigleder, Public Safety Officer
Some automatic
pistols are small
enough to con
Deputy Sheriffs and have the ceal in a bookbag or stuffed into
power and authority to make an a waistband with a sweater or
arrest, most students, once con coat pulled over it.
Or it could be carried in a
fronted, cooperate.
“Our main purpose is to gain fanny pack with a specially-de
voluntary compliance to any prob signed holster in it. “These (fanny
lem that could be a challenge to packs) are mainly designed for
public peace and harmony,” com law enforcement, but are also for
general sale,” Wiseman said.
mented Wiseman.
“I have yet to find anyone Women can conceal them in their
who won’t cooperate With us,” purse if they feel vulnerable with
said Public Safety Officer Tom the increase in crime. Instructors
could possibly carry one because
Steigleder.
“They forget it only takes a of fear of rowdy students.
“They can whip it open (the
second to smash a window and
take it,” said Wiseman. Plus, any fanny pack) having a dispute with
stolen weapon stands a good someone to scare them cause they
chance of ending up in the hands are bigger than you are. So you
crack off a round and hit some
of criminals.
Another reason someone one who is just standing around,”
may want to carry a firearm is said Wiseman.
It may be brought to the at
they feel a need to be protected.
Steigleder, who has been with tention of Public Safety as another
Public Safety for two and a half student or staff member may see
years, tells how he stopped a male it (the pistol) as their coat or
walker on the campus foot paths sweater rises up, exposing it, or
the bulge may be obvious. One
around 9 a.m. on a weekend.
“They forget it only takes a
second to smash a window
and take it [the gun]. Plus, any
stolen weapon stands a good
chance of ending up in the
hands of criminals.”
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other student or someone may see
it in a locker room as the student
changes clothes. Once Public
Safety is made aware of the con
cealed weapon, it is immediately
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Wiseman also pointed out
that the confiscated weapon may
have been used in a crime. In
this case, the person is arrested
and the weapon turned over to
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fice as evidence.
A third reason is age. It’s not
just young people who decide to
carry them.
“(We have) had people in
their 50’s and 60’s with it [a gun]
in their possession. Older people
can be afraid of younger people
and the way they dress, their cul
ture and the way they talk. When
you don’t understand something,
you’re afraid of it,” mentioned
Wiseman.
A fourth reason is that some
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pus.
Steigleder tells how a reserve
deputy from the Oregon City Po
lice Department had his home
broken into and his uniform,
deputy belt and a .357 stolen.
Later, the Oregon City Police ran
into the robbers at the Berryhill
Shopping Center, but let them go
before they knew they had been
involved in the burglary.
Public Safety then got a tip
the robbers may have been living
in the woods on campus.
Steigleder and Bob Black
searched ELC and found a door
to the Art Center open. They
searched the building room-by-
room and the surrounding area.
“That’s one spooky place to
be at night, in the garden area...it
took about two hours. Bad thing
was they could see you before you
saw them,” said Steigleder. No
one was found.________________
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