安全处长 & 布鲁斯·海涅 has a wicked sense of humor, but he is serious about keeping students and the campus safe.
安全处长 & 布鲁斯·海涅 Credit: Amanda Lundgren Urish’92Q: How is Campus Security different from when you came in 1991? 什么都没变?
Our office only had one computer for the director when I came onboard as an officer.
For the first three years, I had to handwrite all my reports and I have terrible penmanship. We communicated with radios then, and we still do with a 24-hour dispatch, except when we have something confidential to say. 然后我们用电话.
To this day, we are unarmed so that we are 更多的 approachable and less threatening to students.
Q: What’s the most important part of your job?
Our job is to keep students safe, 让他们感觉舒服, help them get through four years here, and move on to bigger and better things in the world.
这就是为什么我们巡逻, and why we’re active and visible, because we want students to have a good, positive experience and enjoy themselves while they study and excel. That’s the reason I’ve been here so many years. I’ve found it’s a worthwhile job, that I am accomplishing something.
Q: Describe a challenging moment.
We’ve had medical emergencies with students in life-threatening situations. Our responses and first aid can make a huge difference until the paramedics arrive. All of our officers have first aid, CPR, and AED training.
Q: You’re known for your sense of humor when the situation allows. 你能分享一个笑话吗?
I don’t really tell jokes well. I play on what other people say or a situation.
Back in the day, security officers would troubleshoot phone problems on campus. I’d often be walking across campus carrying a landline telephone. So if I saw a student or staff member I knew, I’d walk up to them with the receiver in my hand and say, ‘I’ve been looking all over for you. John Winklemann (longtime Residential Life director) wants to talk to you.’ Then I’d hand them the phone. Almost everyone would say very seriously: “Hello?”
Then they’d realize: We’re out on a city sidewalk and there’s no way this phone is connected. 这是一个很棒的恶作剧.
Q: Have students created situations that are humorous in hindsight?
Everyone wants to know what we do about bell runs (students, 几乎赤身裸体的, 跑向M-I Bell, 通常在深夜). 答案是:我们远离. We can’t stop them or ask for an ID. They’re running in their tennis shoes and that’s about all. We pretty much let bell runs be bell runs.
One time, the old bookstore in Pearsons stored a large roll of bubble wrap in an unsecured stairwell. I was walking toward the residential side of campus one night and heard this odd popping sound that was loud and constant. Somebody had found, relocated, and unrolled the bubble wrap, which was half a city block long. They laid it out on the 800 block of College Street in front of the fraternities and sororities and students were running up and down, 戳破所有的泡泡.
Q: You plan to retire at the end of 2023. What’s on your retirement bucket list?
除了口腔卫生? (笑). I do as much hunting and fishing as I can now, and I’ll probably do 更多的. My wife and I enjoy swimming and boating and we like to travel. We plan to go to a new place at least once a year. I’m from a family of nine kids, with relatives all over the place. We all have children and our children have children.
Q: What will you miss about 贝洛伊特?
的人. The institution is a great place with beautiful grounds and spectacular buildings, but it’s really the congregation of people who have made 贝洛伊特 what it is today, and what it was back in 1991.
Faculty and staff are all doing something beneficial for society, if you think about it. We’re helping students become thoughtful, inventive, outgoing members of our society. 这就是我们在这里所做的.
