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Drug and liquor related infractions and arrests on campus were greater last year than in previous years, according to the annual fire and safety report released last week.

There were 43 accounts of liquor law violations in 2010, 11 more than the previous year’s 32 accounts, and there were 10 drug law arrests, twice the amount of drug arrests in 2009.

Burglary and sex crimes were down from previous years.

But Chris Hoover, chief of ESU police, said that these numbers do no indicate an actual rise in drug and alcohol problems on campus.

“Statistics sometimes don’t really tell the whole story…it’s kind of an ebb and flow with drugs and alcohol,” Hoover said.

Hoover said the comparison of the 2010 figures with the 2009 figures could be skewed due to the fact that there were officers injured last year, resulting in fewer traffic stops and “self-initiated activities,” which would lead to fewer arrests being made during that year.

Hoover also discussed the procedure that the Emporia State police follow when dealing with a drug related call in the residence halls.

“(The call) sometimes will come from a roommate who’s concerned,” Hoover said. “It may also come from a residence life staff individual. However it comes, we will go over and attempt to contact the person who reported it, gather the information (and) based on our training and experience, we’ll determine, do they have a valid point,” Hoover said.

Nathaniel Terrell, chair of sociology, anthropology and crime and delinquency studies, agreed with Hoover in that the statistics in the report do not necessarily indicate a problem at ESU.

“(The report) shows that we actually improved,” Terrell said. “We’re a safer campus than we were in 2009.”

After examining the statistic which showed that drug related arrests had risen, Terrell said that while the numbers had increased, it was still a very small number when compared to the total population of the university.

“We got ten out of 4,500 students on campus – that’s not really a large number,” Terrell said.

Some students also do not seem to feel that drug and alcohol are major problems on campus.

“I don’t believe there is a problem,” said Todd Hauser, junior business administration major. “I feel like people have it under control.”

The statistics in the report indicate that while arrests for drug related offenses were higher in 2010, total arrests for alcohol related offenses actually dropped from the previous year.

“On campus, I feel like we have (drugs and alcohol) pretty regularly controlled, most incidents happen off campus,” said Jaffar Agha, senior sociology major and dispatcher for ESU police. “We rarely get people under the influence on campus.”

To view the whole the report online, go to Emporia.edu/right2know, or contact the Student Life office, 205 Plumb Hall, 341-5267, to receive a hard copy.

Luke Bohannon

Sept. 3

Subject reported civil issue in Memorial Student Union Bookstore. Handled by officers.

Officer stopped OK 796EXS at 14^th and Wooster Dr. Verbal warning for improper display of registration at 15^th and Wooster Dr.

Officer attempted to provide lock out assistance for MO 123BCY in Sector 6.

Officer provided escort for Dr. Miracle from Plumb Hall to 1100 Market.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept with a loud party call at 1309 Sylvan-Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity.

Officer stopped MO 762LWS in 1100 Exchange. Citation for speeding in 100 E 12^th.

Benjamin Graham was taken into custody for suspicion of DUI and transported to Lyon Co. jail.

Officer checked the Memorial Student Union for flooding. No problem was found.

Officer escorted Benjamin Graham from 425 Mechanic-Lyon Co. jail to 1531 Center.

Sept. 4

Memorial Union Computer Lab Intrusion Alarm. No problem found, alarm reset.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Department in search of a reckless driver at 9^th and East.

Officer stopped KS 156AFJ at 1100 Exchange. Douglas Cunningham was arrested for DUI. Subject was transported to Lyon County Sheriff’s Office.

Colton Rinzler was charged with MIC at 1519 Merchant. Subject transported to Lyon County Sheriff’s Office. Subject was processed and released.

Sept. 5

Officer admitted Ethan Franics and Ross Humphrey into Beach Hall.

Shalimar Burris reported power line problems at King Lake, Pole CS2845 15T. Westar Energy employee advised after arriving they would return on Tuesday 9-8 to fully repair the problem.

Officer stopped KS 340BDO at 105 W 12^th. Enrique Pagan was cited for transporting an open container. Emanuel Gonzalez was transported to Lyon County jail for transporting an open container and no driver’s license.

Officer stopped KS 518ALZ at 12^th and Sylvan for speeding in the 100 block of East 12^th avenue. Mitchell Allan Onnen was arrested and transported to the Lyon County Jail for DUI and transporting an open container of alcohol. Dustin Johnson was cited for transporting an open container of alcohol.

Sept. 6

Officers responded to South Twin Towers for a verbal fight. Officers contacted two individuals and found no problem.

Officer checked the Blue light phones on campus. The blue light phone in the 1700 block of Highland needs repaired and the one on the south side of Science Hall needs repaired.

Sept. 7

Officer admitted Cody Dunyon into King Hall room 111 and Anneliese Narcisi into King Hall room 8.

Officer stopped NB OUD858 at 200 W. 18^th. Verbal warning issued for no headlights at 18^th Morse.

Officer stopped KS Veteran 57AAV at 10 West 15^th. Verbal warning for driving without headlights 15^th and Wooster and citation for expired tag.

Sept. 8

Officer checked Trusler Sports Complex. Secured baseball locker room, baseball coaches office, and south yellow gates.

Officer assisted with KS WCO387 at I-35 mile post 131.5 . Vehicle Hydroplaned and was stuck in center median.

Officer admitted Chris Restoff and Sarah Nye into King Hall rooms 008 and 207.

Officer stopped KS 005AFI at 15^th and Lincoln. Verbal warning given for defective brake lights at 15^th and Rural.

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American Banker July 19, 2004 | Bills, Steve To improve customer retention and increase cross-selling to new accounts, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburg will outsource its core processing and automated teller machine operations to Fidelity National Financial Inc.

The Brooklyn, N.Y., savings bank expects the conversion to happen by November, said Kenneth J. Mahon, an executive vice president and the chief financial officer at Dime.

The agreement, which Fidelity National announced Friday, will end Dime’s decade-long core processing relationship with Bisys Group Inc., a New York outsourcer.

“We were looking for more capability” on the customer relationship management side, Mr. Mahon said.

He would not say how much the $3.3 billion-asset unit of Dime Community Bancshares Inc. would pay Fidelity National, but he said the conversion would give his company “more processing power for no increase in cost,” apart from the expenses of the conversion itself and staff training.

Under the terms of the six-year agreement, Fidelity National, of Jacksonville, Fla., will also provide Dime with network services, data warehousing, and analytical and executive reporting.

The most important aspect to Dime is that the core processing system will tie in to a database of 2 million prospective customers that the thrift has developed since 2001, Mr. Mahon said.

Dime relies heavily on direct mail and other niche marketing techniques, Mr. Mahon said. In the crowded New York market, “we couldn’t spend enough money to win customer awareness in this market.” Like many institutions, Dime uses short-term interest rate incentives to attract customers and relies on secondary product sales to retain them. “About 50% of those customers stay with us as core customers,” he said. “You bring a lot of them in, you lose a portion of them, but a portion of them stay.” The teaser rate typically gives the thrift six to eight months to sell a secondary product to newcomers, but the current approach hampers bankers’ ability to combine customer information from different databases. “Too much time passes,” Mr. Mahon said. “We expect this system to help us get information faster so we can manage that customer better.” Dime will use Fidelity National’s Miser core processing system, which the vendor acquired in March when it bought the Plano, Tex., bank data processing outsourcer Aurum Technology Inc. go to web site dime savings bank

Bills, Steve