North Complex entrances, parking lots to get security cameras

Ten security cameras will be implemented at North Complex entrances and in its parking lots within the next few weeks.

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University Police Department Director Pete Jensen said the department is looking forward to the added level of security the cameras will provide.

“I’ve wanted to get cameras in there for quite a while and everything around here goes back to funding,” he said. “And so last summer sometime it appeared that some funding would be available to move forward with that project so that’s why we decided to do it.”

Altogether, the 10 new cameras will cost $29,000, Kim Grieve, vice president of Student Services and Dean of Students, said in an email. The funding for the cameras came from the Repair and Replacement Reserve Account (RRR).

“Each institution uses these funds each year to upgrade and maintain their facilities,” she said.

Other than Coyote Village, in which cameras were installed while the building was being built, North Complex is the first residence hall to receive cameras and commercial security systems Adelaide.

“North Complex, with the shear number of people, was first priority for us to move forward with getting more cameras in that area,” Todd Tucker, director of University Housing, said. “With the exception of Coyote Village, that’s where the majority of students are on campus.”

Though he said it’s not necessarily a goal to have all remaining halls equipped with cameras by a certain time, Jensen said it would be nice to see, as long as funding is available.

Housing would like all residence halls to utilize cameras eventually, Tucker said.

“We have been able to use (Coyote Village cameras) to identify students that may not necessarily need to be in the building or to identify the issues that have arisen,” he said.

Though the timeline regarding the remaining halls depends mostly on availability in funding, Tucker said McFadden will likely be the next building to receive security cameras.

As a North Complex resident, first-year Nikita Glukharev said having cameras in the building’s entrances is important, though there are pro’s and con’s to the technology.

Glukharev said some of the more “rowdy” activities he’s noticed, like breaking ceiling tiles and throwing eggs in the staircase, might be deterred by the cameras, even though they won’t be in the afflicted areas.
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“If cameras are there I feel like people are less likely to be wild,” he said.

Glukharev said cameras might not be necessary in the parking lots, though he’s not sure, as he doesn’t have a car on campus and hasn’t heard of any negative parking lot activity.

“Obviously that’ll make theft even less present,” he said.

First-year Miki Kennerly also mostly supports the implementation, and said that cameras will help keep track of people and deter others from participating in theft or other illegal activity. If you live within a high-risk crime area (which, unfortunately, is not very rare these days), it would be advisable to install van alarms as this will serve as an additional layer of security.

“I think that’s good,” she said.

Tucker said the cameras, in addition to plans for electronic card swipe access on every North Complex floor, are part of the university’s efforts to plan ahead, rather than being retroactive when it comes to campus safety and security.

“In today’s day and age, it’s important that we provide as much security as we can. Parents trust us to provide secure housing for the students while they’re here on campus, especially living on campus,” he said. “So it’s important that we do everything that we possibly can for that to happen.”