Security has their fans
To the Editor:
In response to Mr. McKeown, who feels our Safety and Security department could have done more to prevent his truck from being stolen from our campus, I say this: You might be right. However, there are some concerns with your letter that I would be remiss if I didn’t point them out.
I have it on good authority that the Major in fact did call you back and address your questions. Perhaps it wasn’t on your time frame, but the conversation did occur.
Secondly, beginning a letter of any kind with “I am pissed off now” doesn’t send the message that you are a college student. Beginning in an attacking tone will do little to solve your problem.
No one deserves to have their vehicle broken into, but it was also reported by the Pioneer on page 6 of the same issue that you had a broken window. This would seem to me to increase the likelihood of theft.
It is virtually impossible to drive by the “teacher’s parking spaces” without also driving by the student’s parking spaces. They are not in separate lots, but really located quite close to one another.
Video surveillance will be put into OCCC’s parking lots, and this will happen upon the beginning of the new fiscal year, which happens in the middle of summer. The reason it is only being implemented now is simply a financial one; the plan has been in place for more than a year.
I respond to your letter for one main reason, really … We are a college institution filled with young and older adults, but we’re all adults nonetheless.
In such an environment there is no place for name calling or personal attacks. That should’ve been left in high school, at the very least.
If you’re truly concerned about whether our security officers could catch a “would-be robber,” please turn the issue of the Pioneer in which your letter was printed to page 16.
And please keep your thoughts and prayers with the officer who stopped the “robber” and is still recovering. We’ll pray for your vehicle’s speedy recovery as well.
—Name withheld
by request
