Show JTheUtahjitatesman Friday Jiiwuiy 15 It3 Prr3 : officials satisfied with campus police perform on USU Department handles more than 300 incidents during first three months of operation byjcffSabatine With the onset of winter quarter the the existence flwwgsy surrounding USU Campus of the has begun to subjyice Department of Larry mit Under the direction Anie the department has been kept with a wide variety of calls and busy commdor response to them has been newly-form- offenses 26 disturbances and assaults 10 missing persons four sex offenses and several miscellaneous cases rang- ing from recovering property to a major credit card fraud that led officers to Salt Lake City Despite an added cost of $58000 the department has several advantages that Arave a veteran from the Los Angeles Police Department says were lacking in the previous system A campus-ru- n system is overseen directly by the administration of USU According to Arave this promotes a genuine interest in the university among the officers wich results in a higher level of 20-yc- ar police response and greater the cases at hand Aa well as campus patrols the department is equipped with two radio cars in constant communication with Logan Cky units with whom they dure a oaotual assistance agreement “The individual officers full-o- n He force is manned by eight officers and employs the aid of basis to Kftd students on a pan-tim- e in traffic Under matters and building Utah law all appointees for training Ec-d- pur-po- ts a slight burden on the no real problems are an- - POST t— classes to receiving emergency medical technician training starting in Fchniary This combined with certification on the breathalyzer will help to ease the caae load of the Logan City iii addition of-fic- will be department In its first three months !— of opera- - Although the bulk of these has Arave Despite their initial still takes a critical view of hh operation “We have'yet to get on onr Let and develop maturity as a tfcpartcru I’m very pleased with our work so Lr ' been r g outstanding” the campus department has handed more than 300 incidents Don mutt such as money escorts and aiding stranded motorists it has also been involved in more serious occurrences mduding 19 drug and alcohol es anti-crim- will place face but pninlriil Aside from routine patrols Arave and his men devote a lot of their tiare to crime prevention They have hdi seminars with various groups illustrating ways to keep from hrmmiaj a victim A lecture is planned far Monday for the employees of the Conference Center to fam&ariae e them with measures that may be taken 1 The overall reaction to an police force present on is uniformly positive Arave says tbe department has received 100 backing from the student body mad the administration feels it b well walk the additional coat “Their work has been exceptional” said Evan Stevenson vice president for r USU “The response they is to department must attend the POST (Police Officer Standards md Training) academy in Salt Lake City within 18 months after being hind Five of the officers have yet to don but all have received a crash basic first aid course in criminology md firearms use The temporary the removal of officers f to the force are a benefit in themselves’ said Arave “The maturity level of these men is a yard and a half above those I’ve seen hired by LA They are sincerely interested in serving and don’t key on aggres-sion- ” endable- Mi lo 24-ho- or USU campus policeman Steve Mecham is one of the eight busy serving the USU community full-ti- but I fed there officers kept b stfi room for blames current recession on Reagan's postponed tax cut Laffer US economy is both bafQing but Arthur Laffer robust and becoming The ad depressing ihinb it can be the government will Laffer was one whir has become just cut taxes of the originators ol known as Reagan’s Wb ode economics but recently h administration have not seen ye to eye on the solutions to the ad the na-“Jj- ’1 spending and devaluing the currency were all ways of manipulating the economy for short term results but that eventually all added to higher in- r flation economic problems Y vn8 problems and rect because the administration P"Pod the tax cut" Laffer said Hmriday i Laffer believes too many economists want to stabilize the economy by manipulating it He said that printing more money increasing government T University of Southern Califoi at USU’s Con-g- Thursday and also at a seminar His visit w 2 “i George S Ecdes Series be economist criticized budget Stockman saying “M ““demands what David can’t People don’t work ti but for what they get after professor spoke rf" £ toe best way to help an across the board J°hn F Kennedy said k of welfare J? is a good e way to reduce welfare i: it nematives and a tax cut will TOV"e "to toese alternatives” “Teddy Kennedy once made a correct statement and that was that inflation and unemployment are the biggest spenders of all” Laffer said “The Office of Management and Budget has estimated that every one percent increase in unemployment adds 25 billion dollars per annum to the federal deficit i “Jack Kennedy made the point that you don’t balance the budget by rais— ing taxes and he cut taxes including — and by 1965 the taxes corporate US had a surplus” he said Laffer said there is always a battle between “redistributionists” and “growthists” Redistributionists want to cut up the pie and give some a bigger piece while taking away someone else’s piece Growthists want to make the pie bigger r- e- r Urn re St ‘ Arthur Laffer professor of bsiism sconsreics at the UwlvreiT: 1 California believes the best way lo help the poor is w£2iaacrrcr:' tax cut |