A Hard Day's Night with AVI and Security
Alexandra Zott
Issue date: 11/5/09 Section: Features
After professors, administrators, maintenance and other staff leave campus, security becomes a focal point for students' phone calls involving everything from gaining access to locked labs to reporting suspicious activity.
The most memorable phone call vonFreymann remembers receiving was a noise complaint from Mather Residence Hall. Getting into his SUV, equipped with a first aid kit and pictures of those who have been barred from campus or are a potential threat to the student body, vonFreymann headed to Mather. Once there he noticed people poking their heads out the windows to watch him walk inside where, again, multiple pairs of eyes accompanied him down the hall to the room where the disturbing noise had been heard. The door was locked and his subsequent knocking instigated no new noise. The hall was completely silent.
Heading back to his car, vonFreymann wondered about the source of the noise until he caught a glimpse of his SUV. Once grey with the visible letters "S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y" on the side, the car was completely covered in what looked very much like thick, wet snow. A closer look confirmed it: a group of students had completely covered his car in shaving cream. Meticulously and heavily covered - body, windows and tires - vonFreymann realized that driving would be an impossibility. He could do nothing but laugh and breathe a slight sigh of relief.
A serious safety concern centers around the student body's laid-back attitude towards locking doors, especially at night. Because doors to the dormitories are open all day and locked late at night, there is plenty of opportunity to walk in and out before K-cards become necessary. VonFreymann, whose daughter attended Kenyon, strongly encourages students to make sure they lock their doors if they are alone and before going to sleep.
Working the night shift makes it difficult for him to see his family as much as he would like, but he enjoys the social aspect of working at night. VonFreymann places importance on building a good relationship with students, and working busy nights makes interacting easy. After his shift, the commute home to Apple Valley is only about ten minutes.
The most memorable phone call vonFreymann remembers receiving was a noise complaint from Mather Residence Hall. Getting into his SUV, equipped with a first aid kit and pictures of those who have been barred from campus or are a potential threat to the student body, vonFreymann headed to Mather. Once there he noticed people poking their heads out the windows to watch him walk inside where, again, multiple pairs of eyes accompanied him down the hall to the room where the disturbing noise had been heard. The door was locked and his subsequent knocking instigated no new noise. The hall was completely silent.
Heading back to his car, vonFreymann wondered about the source of the noise until he caught a glimpse of his SUV. Once grey with the visible letters "S-E-C-U-R-I-T-Y" on the side, the car was completely covered in what looked very much like thick, wet snow. A closer look confirmed it: a group of students had completely covered his car in shaving cream. Meticulously and heavily covered - body, windows and tires - vonFreymann realized that driving would be an impossibility. He could do nothing but laugh and breathe a slight sigh of relief.
A serious safety concern centers around the student body's laid-back attitude towards locking doors, especially at night. Because doors to the dormitories are open all day and locked late at night, there is plenty of opportunity to walk in and out before K-cards become necessary. VonFreymann, whose daughter attended Kenyon, strongly encourages students to make sure they lock their doors if they are alone and before going to sleep.
Working the night shift makes it difficult for him to see his family as much as he would like, but he enjoys the social aspect of working at night. VonFreymann places importance on building a good relationship with students, and working busy nights makes interacting easy. After his shift, the commute home to Apple Valley is only about ten minutes.
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Student '12
posted 11/10/09 @ 4:38 PM EST
This piece nicely describes how incredible some of the people here are. It's not only the students making it happen but the people "behind the scenes" too. (Continued…)
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