Post Author: Anna Bergin The Campus Cadets were a campus security organization formed in September of 1975. Cadets were students whose job was to patrol the campus at night. Their purpose was to prevent crime on campus, and to alert Continue reading Campus Cadets
Post Author: Anna Bergin Madison College faced very little major crime in the 1970s. Most of the issues that Campus Police had to deal with were petty thefts and vandalism, and even those tended to decline a bit throughout the Continue reading Crime at Madison
Post Author: Anna Bergin Madison College’s Police Department was very small during the 1970s, but even at that point it had grown quite a bit from the two policemen and a night watchman who had been employed in the late Continue reading A Small, but Growing Department
Post Author: Anna Bergin Some things never change, and just as it is today, parking was a major problem for campus police and for students in the 70s. When asked to name the worst facilities on campus, two different commentors Continue reading The Parking Situation
Post Author: Anna Bergin Considering the atmosphere of the 1970s, one might expect relations between campus police and students to be particularly strained. According to the officers themselves, however, this was not the case (Starling). For the most part students Continue reading Officer Friendly or Dirty Harry?
