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Gifford said offi- cers asked if the girls Christian Spitzenberger, thin) been camp- have been with incidents jeveral stuthat campus security unfair. were feel nts main- - until State College us security. Lately there affe nr have many feelings when it to the ethics of Students ,000 St Don Reid stuck 100 percent behind his officers and said they had every right to do what they did, Howell said. Campus police were contacted regarding these concerns but have not that Taco they got Bell was closed, some food at Alvanos. On their way Dixie, back to realized they Mil were being followed illy offr they a police car whose the the mil dorms were OK and made sure their apartment was within safe walking distance. After chatting for a few minutes, the officers left and went back to patrolling campus. They were very polite and friendly, she said. Another time I locked my keys in my car on campus, and campus police even came and unlocked my car for me, free of charge." Gifford said she believes students on campus just need to give security a break and by : ofpap-- ' were off. Then were several police vehicles on the road. studio, lights there neda Spitzenberger said he saw the police if the when atwilfi car ardof he was follow .aid. very careful to of the all the rules Weary of making any mistakes, he put his blinker on at the right time and even looked over his shoulder several times when changing road. Dewey :hools,i sonDe stick o 5C. Even though his would have made drivers education lanes. For: dnving e waste o trarsif any teacher pfoud, entsui pulled over reached from yfiiEr. v iwey said' wen be campus. police officer put on his lights as soon as we were pulling into the parking lot at Nisson Towers," he said. 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The policemen had thought they were the perpetra- tors, Spitzenberger said, but after everything was cleared up the students were free to go home. He said he holds no ill feelings toward the St. George or campus police officers who were there that evening. Theyre honestly just doing what theyre supposed to, he said. Im friends with almost all the campus police offi- - David Howell, a sophomore business major from Hilo, Hawaii, has been concerned with some of the behaviors of campus police around the dorm rooms lately. Howell was in his suite-mate- s room talking around 2 a.m. a few weeks ago when a campus police officer knocked on the door and told them they were being too loud. He told Howell he was not allowed to be in his suitemates room and that he needed to go back to his own room. Howell said when he went to shut the rooms door, the officer pushed the door open and told him not to shut the door in his face. I told him that I wasnt shutting the door in his face and that I thought the conversation was pver, Howell said. He told me not to start having an attitude with him. A few days prior to this incident, Howell reportedly saw campus police officers looking into the windows of some of the dorm rooms. Howell said he saw one officer stand outside several windows for about 10 minutes, listening to the conversations of the occupants. Its an invasion of mine and other students' privacy to have someone look into my windows and listen to my conversations, Howell said. Howell also said that his downstairs neighbors had the same experiences with campus police the books substitute textbook use WKC CHRISTOFFERSEP Dixie Sun Staff Writer ed Spitzenberger was finally told the reason for the commotion. Earlier that evening there had been a shooting are a good information find to place for research papers. He has said both hard copies and electronic copies of his textbooks because he didnt find out about the electronic copies until after he had purchased his hard copies. Rogers uses his on his laptop. Some require specific readers that need to be downloaded, and some are just PDF files. Rogers said he likes to use them on his laptop because it's convenient. When accessing the it librarys main catalog, will pull up what the library physically has but also what it has purchased electronically. Library Dean Daphne Seibert said DSCs library has more than 40,000 books when the electronic books are added. In order to access the books you must set up an and account with the at done this can be library. Having an account allows you to save books to your bookshelf, so you can find it easily when you come back to it, Seibert said. Seibert said the nice thing is that multiabout view them can students ple at the same time, whereas if your classmate gets to the library first, he or she has the hardcopy and youre out of luck. Only in a few have a instances do certain number of seats, and in that case youll just have to check back for available copies later. Because technology is ever changing and always improving, a piece of literature about computer science can go out of date very quickly. Having a hard copy of this literature would prove to be very costly. Instead of purchasliting and replacing this erature, the library just gets an entire database, same evening he and his suitemate did. I have no problem with them doing their job, but when theyre eavesdropping and peeking in windows, thats when I have a problem, Howell said. Howell said he feels that the behaviors of campus police in these . instances are intrusive to the students who live on campus. The dorms are my home for nine months of the year, so I feel like theyre invading my home, he said. Howell said he called Don Reid, director of campus security, and told him about the behaviors of his officers that he felt were not acceptable. . remember that campus police are only doing their job. Theyre dealing with thousands of students a day; being cooperative and kind will get you much further than having an attitude, she said. f Safari Tech Books Online, that can be easily updated and switched out for newer editions, and it proves to be a lot easier this way. Oxford Digital Reference Shelf is a good online encyclopedia. Seibert said you can go to what you specifically want, and if its not right you dont have to find the index volume to start over; its all just right there. Its just amazing the sorts of things we have, Seibert said. You can carry them around without carrying them around, if you have a A ! A m W laptop. 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