MARCH 29, 1994 • BENNETT BANNER • 3
Students critical of campus security
Outkast
Music Review :
"Player’s Ball" hot single
Stephanie McCorkle
Banner Reporter
How many times have you
come back to yoxir dorm late, and had
a difficult time getting in? Have you
ever waited forever and a day for
security to unlock the door?
Many students have had that prob
lem and it is rare to find a student
that has not had her share of prob
lems with the members of campus
security.
Captain Keith Shouse is the su
pervisor of Pinkerton Security on
this campus.
Going into their fourth year
of service with the college, through a
contract renewed yearly by adminis
tration, the 15-member staff con
sists of five women and 10 men who
have been criticized by some students
as not doing their job the way they
think they should do it.
Shouse, however, thinks differ
ently.
“I think we have done as good
a job as can be expected,” Shouse
said.
“Everythinghas remainedthe
same, but better than previously,”
Accoring to him, “The major
ity of students have positive feelings
about us. Those that have negative
feelings are the ones who have prob
lems following rules, but I think it is
a tolerable relationship
Shouse said that he and his
staff are not taken seriously as real
Bennett employees.
“They (students) feel that we
are outsiders who are teUing them
whatto do, and there has been verbal
disrespect,” Shouse said.
“This disrespect is based on
what they think we should be doing
at that particular time.”
Security’s attitude is a prob
lem with some students as well.
“A particular security guard
refused to open the door for me be
cause, as she put it, he didn’t want to,
“ said Nohemi Williams, sophomore.
“There have been times when
I have stood outside of the dorm for 20
minutes in the cold and nobody came,
even when I went there (Security
House)
to report to them that I needed to get
into my dorm,” she said.
“She told me there was a stick
in the door for me, but when I got
there, I saw that it was not there. I
went back and told her, and it was
then that she got mad and refused to
open the door. When I asked her
name, neither she nor anyone else I
asked would give it to me. I guess
they figured I was going to report
her.”
Pamela Currie, sophomore,
had a similar experience when she
had a tutoring session with a stu
dent on campus that lasted imtil 1
a.m.
The student gave her name
to security so they would admit
Currie to her dorm.
“I started walking, and when
I got to my door nobody was there,”
Currie said.
“Cold and windy as it was, I
waited for 15 to 20 minutes, still no
one showed up.
“So I went back to the Secu
rity House and asked them what the
problem was and the guard said
that the signals got messed up. I
don’t even think he cadled it in the
first time I came up. They are getting
paid to do their job, and they act like
they don’t want to do it.”
Juanita Butler, fi'sshwoman
has had problems with security con
cerning parking.
“One of the guards told me I
could park my car on the inside of the
gate (Gorrell Street entrance),” But
ler said.
“He said that he would tell
the captain that I was there, and
that the car could stay there over
spring break. When I came back, I
found out that my car was about to
be towed. He never told the captEiin.
“I beHeve that there is a lot
of favoritism. What one can get away
vrith, the other student can’t. But,
overall, I think that he (Shouse) is
doing things the way they should be
done, however there are some people
on his stafi’that do what they want
to do,” Butler said.
When the car vandalisms
and break-ins took place over the
course of last and this semester,
security shouldered much of the
blame.
“Security takes the blame for
good and bad,” Shouse said.
“What people don’t under
stand is that secvirity is everybody’s
job, not just ours. If you don’t take
responsibility for your own security,
nobody else vsdll.”
By Kim Hall
Banner Editor
LaFace rap artist, Outkast,
are sending ripples reverberating
throughout the hardcore rap world
with their hit single, “Player’s Ball.”
Since its release, the track continues
to rise on the charts.
‘ ^ It is “The'Greatest Gairlier” on
Billboard’s “Hot R&B Singles” chart
and has captured a Top 5 spot on
Billboard’s “Hot Rap Singles” chart.
The video is a hotly requested video on
The BOX and is in heavy rotation on
BET.
Additionally, the single has
set off £in explosion in sales at
music chains across the nation. As
a result of their growing popular
ity, the new-comers appeared on
Soul Train March 19, to showcase
their distinct rapping style.
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