Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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c LAB LABOR The criminalistics lab is one of the best in the state and sophomores Steve Roberts and Chris Baber work together in to complete assignments. (Photo by Eric Buller) Students got to listen to in- vestigators and other police officers discuss how their job and institutions work and operate. In doing this, students were put through all regulations by being stamped for security reasons and had to walk through metal detectors. Af- ter getting inside the institutions they discovered that the inmates were allowed to roam free inside the gates. It was scary. If anybody is going to visit the institutions they should be prepared, said Chris Baber, police science major. Inmates are given rights to sports like basketball and volleyball, lifting weights, working in the institution, and getting an education while ser- ving time. When we got to candy land we were amazed on how the set up looks so much like a college campus. It is a nice looking and well taken care of place, said Baber. The inmates are treated right. Everything dealt with the outside world, it ' s a real good in- stitution. Candy land is a co-ed institution for juveniles. This institution, also provides for the inmates to have athletic teams and play sports. The institutions are overcrowded and inmate costs run about $15,000 per year. Students on the trip couldn ' t help but wonder what caused people to commit themselves to the life they did. The inmates had the devices and opportunities provided for them to make something of themselves, but one can ' t force them to better their lives, Denah Spongier said. For the students who attended the trip, the police science class in- structions gained a new meaning in the crude light of reality. CAMPUS CONTROL-Sophomore Todd Heptig explains to incoming freshman how to go on campus control. (Photo by Eric Buller) DEMONSTRATION-Todd Heptig, sophomore, shows David Shaffer, freshman, how to put a wheel lock on a car as part of the training for the campus security squad. (Photo by Eric Buller)

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c Police Science • Rick Nichols and Denah Spongier Total Learning Experience The 30 students of the police scien- ce department combine hours of in- class instruction with hands-on ex- perience for total education. They work in the College ' s Criminalistics Lab, which instructor Elvin Hatfield says is one of the best in the state and they help the Arkan- sas City Police with Arkalalah and other major events. Admittedly, the program is a lot of work but students say that Hatfield helps make it enjoyable. He also helps prepare the students for either immediate work or transferring to another college. The agency and level of govern- ment determines how many years of college is needed. It averages from one to four years, ' ' said Hatfield. Students see Hatfield ' s personal experience as a plus in the classroom. Hatfield gives students an inside look and a good start. Being a criminal investigator in the past for the Ark City Police Department, Hat- field gives more insight into the law emforcement field than the average police science instructor, said Brian Baber, police science major. Through his experiences Hatfield ' s students can learn more than the text could ever teach them. An important aspect to the police science programs for sophomores is the on-the-job-training. These students work with area police agencies like the Arkansas City and Winfield police departments, Cowley County Sheriff ' s department, the Fish and Game, and even the Winfield Pre-Release Center, said Hatfield. Sophomores in this program in- clude Steve Roberts, Todd Heptig, Mike Knapp, Jerry Donals, Cathy Kirkland, Janet AAcDown, Chris Baber, and Brian Baber. Six sophomores work in the dorm security program for practial ex- perience. Dorm security includes Roberts, Heptig, Knapp, Donals, Kirkland, and McDown, said Hatfield. They star- ted work Aug. 28 because of dorm check-in. Campus security began Sept. 11 because I didn ' t want to be like last year and start two to three weeks after school had already star- ted. Hatfield said that overall, the in- coming freshmen police science majors are probably of higher quality than last year ' s freshmen. That could account for the small number of retur- ning sophomores. The Criminal Investigations class has a mock trial as part of the final. This is a way to see if students have comprehended and understand the material that has been covered in class. You can ' t really have a suc- cessful investigation until you get a conviction and you have to go through the court system to get that, Hatfield said. I think this is a good evaluation because the students have to properly present evidence in court and it ' s the first situation when an of- ficer is put on the defensive. At the beginning, the officer is the helper and then the investigator but in court he ' s the defender. The officer is for- ced to prove thaleverythingin the in- vestigation has been handled legally and properly. In April, Hatfield takes his students on a field trip to get some first hand experience. The trip this year will be in mid- April. This year we may go to a few new places, said Hatfield. Last year two bus loads of students attended the trip. Students visited the Kansas Bureau of Investigations (KBI), Kansas State Men ' s Penitentary, Shawnee County Yout h Center, and the Kansas Correctional and Vocational Center, also known as candy land.

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U. Steven Spielberg • Rick Behrens T Hooked On Movies Voices die down with the lights but the excitement and anticipation build. Suddenly, the screen comes to life with a burst of color and style. The Steven Spielberg Presents im- primatur automatically portents the thrill of the next two hours. For a decade and a half, Spielberg has captured audiences with films such as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. He has gathered a growing number of fans, began his own production company and in- spired millions of people. Ironically enough, the movie mogule recalls his childhood in Phoenix as uncinematic. I wasn ' t allowed exposure to motion pictures of television when I was growing up, confessed Spielberg in a 1978 interview for STARLOG magazine. My parents felt that it was anti-educational. Despite his parents feelings, young Spielberg once scooted away to the local theatre to see I Was A Teenage Werewolf. For nights afterward he was punished with horrible night- mares. When his parents went out he ' d wait for the babysitter to fall asleep then watch his favorite Television show Science Fiction Theatre. With his growing imagination, Spielberg began to channel ideas into a medium he instantly fell in love with ...film. He began to spice up boring family movies with zany footage of his own design which led to his first film with a story line. The last gun, a three-minute epic starring his frien- ds. His talent developed further as he began practicing make-up on his three sisters. If I failed on older sister, I ' d start on the middle sister, he said. After several short 8mm films, Spielberg, now 15, felt ready for a more sophisticated movie. I remember being seized by what I have not felt since. ..divine in- spiration. Within 24 hours Spielberg wrote a 140-page screenplay titled Firelight, a science fiction story about an alien invasion. He raised money to make the movie by white-washing trees. His father threw in $300 to total $500. Spielberg recruited the help of college students and made Firelight in a week. Following completion he showed the movie in a rented theatre and made $550 in one night. By now, he had fully won the approval of his peers and was on his way. Tiring of college, Spielberg tried to break into film making with a 35mm silent film called Amblin, a short work depicting two hitch hikers and their experiences traveling along the west coast. This won his first chance to direct. At 21, Spielberg received his first professional assignment. He would direct a segment of Rod Serling ' s Night Gallery. Spielberg was inspired by Serling. He was the most positive guy in the production company. He was a great, energetic, slaphappy guy. oerling even predicted that the film industry would change because of imaginative minds like Spielberg ' s. Spielberg ' s debut as a feature film director came with the critically ac- claimed Sugarland Express. On completion of the film, Spielberg happened to be in producer Richard Zanuck ' s office when he noticed a stack of unpublished screenplays. One in particular, Jaws, caught his eye. I didn ' t know what Jaws meant. I didn ' t know whether it was some sort of epic novel about dentistry or some kind of sleezy porno, he recalls in STARLOG. I remember just yery simply turning Richard ' s secretary and saying ' I ' m going to borrow one of these, Okay? In 1975, Jaws was released and quickly became one of Hollywood ' s top money grossing films. JCPenney 442-0730 219 South Summit VfSA (gg) Econo Lodge 3232 N. Summit Arkansas City, Kansas 67005 (316) 442-7700 For Reservations Call Toll Free 1-800-446-6900