Some "Newspaper" recently wrote an "article" (I think they are like blog posts???) about the Public Safety bros becoming Gen-Yoo-Ine policemens. Seems to be a result of Zylak (new head of public safety and former St. Mary's County Sheriff and Bayless talking. This means PS will have all the powers of real police to detain people etc.
Not sure that this will have a huge effect. Kinda feel like offenses like underage drinking and drug possession will still have people sent to JBoard rather than jail. Biggest change would probably be arresting/harsher punishments for Townies who are obnoxious on big nights like Hallowgreens.
Photo blatantly stolen from a newspaper that literally costs thousand of dollars a year to run
SMCM Student Bill Sokolove comments that
"Usually, things like this come out in all-student emails, and I'm wondering why that didn't happen, why we had to find out from an inside story in The Point News. The vagary is sketchy, and so is the policy. We need a dialogue between students and the admin."
Which is a fair point. Feel like this is going to raise a lot of PANIC and there could have been some actual discussion with students regarding this since it is a fairly important thing and affects a lot of students.
One positive is that they still won't have guns. Some of yall may remember a certain potential Student Trustee who liked the idea of arming PS. Still not really sure why but w/e.
Just kinda feel like it would be cool if they told us
why make this change. There is obviously a reason, and not explaining that makes people feel like children or something. Zylak mentions that students should be arrested if they put their hands on a PS officer, do yall agree? What else is in that 1% of cases that should lead to arrest in Zylak and Bayless's opinion?
