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Missing master key places hundreds of residents at risk
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VOLUME LXXXXVII • ISSUE 10
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A master key that opens doors to every apartment and dorm room in University Park North (UPN) and the Towers at Centennial Square is missing after a Monday. The University Park North contains at least 697 unfurnished apartments and additional furnished apartments. The Towers at Centennial Square house 588 students, according to the Jeanne Clery Report, a federally mandated crime log. cantly increased University Police patrols and hired outside private security, clothed in yellow jackets, to protect residents and campus property. Apartments in affected buildings will also be rekeyed, said Joseph Greenwell, dean of students. Residents of UPN and the Towers at Centennial Square Monday night describing the loss of the master key due to a 8:30 p.m. community meeting to inform residents; a mass email was also sent. “I feel there should be more security here because it’s a college campus,” Michaela Booker said. The 22-year-old UPN resident said she lost $3,000 when her apartment was broken into last Saturday night in an unrelated event. SF State University Housing manages UPN, the apartment buildings located along Buckingham Way, between the 19th Avenue and Winston Drive. The apartment complex
houses faculty, staff, alumni and students alongside residents tower and garden units. The with housing units and a shared entrance lobby, while the garden units have open street access. Another UPN resident, 20-year-old nursing major Harleen Dhillon said she feels safer than in her old home in the Daly City Westlake apartments. “What are the chances that someone will come to my apartment,” said Dhillon. “There are so many apartments.” Also affected are the Towers at Centennial Square, an on-campus housing complex for 19 and younger. The 15-story building connects to the Science and Technology Theme Community, also known as the Tower Jr. Suites or STTC, which houses another 104 students. Towers at Cenntennial Square resident and freshman anthropology major Jose Ramon Leon said residents signed a sheet recording their name, student ID number and address during the mandatory community meeting. “It is making me look behind my back at all times,” Leon said. “I have all my valuables locked up in my apartment.” Questions concerning how the master key was stolen, whose responsibility it was to keep it ated with the key’s loss weren’t answered by the University in time for publication.
President’s campus safety talk collapses into Taser dispute
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F STATE President Leslie E. Wong led a campus safety discussion in Jack Adams Hall Thursday, where he was hit with a barrage of student concerns about the University Police Department’s proposed use of Tasers. The campus safety talk was intended to cover a wide range of safety topics, but the proposed use of Tasers by the University Police Department dominated the discussion.
session Sept. 12, the prospect of the weapons possible use has concerned students. “I want to make it clear that no decision has been made and one will not be made until I see the order and the training regiment,” Wong said. California State University campuses have authority over their own property so SF State UPD can carry Tasers, even though the San Francisco Police commission doesn’t allow the
their eight-hour Taser training
campus crime issues like burglary.
cers, said Wong. The discussion swayed from
There were 42 burglaries in 2012, 41 in 2011 and 43 in 2010, according to the Jeanne Clery Report, a federally mandated crime log published early this month. Parson and Wong noted the apparent increase in weapons offenses on campus and in the residence community, which they for the UPD to carry Tasers. “I’m not going to wait around for a murder to tell the UPD to keep their guns close,” Wong said. Clery report crime statistics show there were two weapons offenses in 2009, four in 2010,
Xpress weighs in on propositions: Proposition A 71% yes 29% no
Proposition B 43% yes 57% no
Proposition C 36% yes 64% no
Proposition D 86% yes 14% no
The Xpress staff voted on the ballot propositions that will be seen in November’s municipal election. Here are the results. Let us know what you think #SFSUVotes
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