Halloween happenings:

Normally Friday nights are busy enough for University Public Safety. However, when Halloween falls on a Friday, all bets are off. This past Halloween was a night of fights, intoxicated people and some unexpected happenings.

For the night, I rode along with Officer Duane Corey, Officer Brian Elliot and Officer Rebbeca Zwally. Before 10:15′ p.m. nothing of note occurred except for a non-student driving the wrong way in the Canisius parking lot, and the BCC building manager was unable to find University vans of which he had been given the keys.

However, at 10:15 when the evening was well under way, a call came in that a fight had occurred in the Quad.

Public Safety responded to find two students with ripped clothes. They were separated and Public Safety attempted to discern what happened from the intoxicated students. The story told by both parties was that the other one had started the fight.

Public Safety then told the students to have friends who were there for the fight to come and to corroborate the story.

A pack of students had congregated 30 yards away from the crowd of officers, RAs, and the AC. Daisy Duck and two other costumed students emerged from the crowd to gives statements to Public Safety. Students were told that the dean’s office would decide what had actually occurred. The more intoxicated student in the fight was then sent to the Health Center. Two hours later, that same student fled the Health Center. He was found roughly 30 minutes after fleeing and received a warning to remain in his room for the rest of the night; the student was not seen for the rest of the night.

At around 10:30, Public Safety learned of a Gypsy Cab Company Driver working on campus. The suspect was pulled over and all but one part of his registration was found to be in order; he was told not to come back onto campus until he had received the last part of the registration. Later that night, students were dropped off by the same driver outside the town house gate. Public Safety checked their Stag Cards and allowed them to continue on there way. At 11:21, extension 2241 was called in Public Safety responded and brought the student to the Health Center.

At 12:24 a.m., a student was found with a rock in his hand hitting the window of the north door of Claver as well as attempting to break the lock. By the time the Public Safety car had arrived to the front of Claver, the student was conversing with Public Safety saying that ‘his father paid their salary and that they worked for him.’

Public Safety continued to attempt to calm the student who was raising his voice and aggressively stepping towards every officer he talked to. Public safety told the student that they did not want to see the student for the rest of the night. He walked into the stairwell and exclaimed expletives, officers letting that go waited until he opened the second floor window and yelled more expletives out the window.

Public Safety then went to the second floor only to issue another warning to the student and asked him to remain in his room which he refused to comply. Then, they informed him they would call the Fairfield Police Department. FPD arrived to issue a warning to the student to remain in his room or he would be arrested for breach of peace. FPD was called back again for the same student 20 minutes later after he left his room; he was arrested for breach of peace. Public Safety, however, offered the student many opportunities to avoid this outcome. Warnings were offered and the student continued to ignore them.

While this incident occurred spanning over an hour and a half, other calls came into public safety including another fight in the Quad and an intoxicated student at checkpoint. The student had been dropped off and left by the driver at the entrance of Loyola drive. The Public Safety officer at the gate had the student wait student to be brought to the health center. He had scratches across his body. When asked about them, he informed Public Safety that he had slept in a prickly bush.

The night continued with students attempting to get into a Dominos car after the driver refused to drive them and girls getting rides across campus from the Dominos delivery guys and another student from Jogues sent to the Health Center. The night ended at 3:30 a.m. when a string maze was found in Town house block nine. The two officers had to cut the string down because it posed a threat to any one walking through the nine block.
As a sign of the debauchery of the night, these were only the events encountered by three public safety officers and one student.