The Blotter column reported -- under the cheap-shot caption "Read my lips, we don't need any" -- that a UPD officer advised a suspicious-looking person to leave campus.
First, the man was on 19th Avenue about 100 yards from the campus entrance.
Second, the man was deaf and has been selling sign-language cards there for years -- always late in the month and probably when funds from welfare or Social Security start to run out.
Third, I doubt that he has ever been in a Brooks Brother's haberdashery, but he is always neat, clean, and courteous. He harms no one. If that's suspicious looking and if we aren't going to allow suspicious looking characters on or near campus, there won't be more than 68 students and three professors admitted to the grounds or buildings.
It is said that students these days are uninformed about the world they live in...and I didn't believe it. To the timid soul who made the complaint and the officer that pledged to protect him or her, counseling is available.
And while I'm at it, why does the Blotter columnist feel compelled to use tasteless, tacky captions about peoples' misfortunes?