MUPD makes nuisance arrests on extended campus
Students living at Mizzou Quads must follow campus regulations.
Published Dec. 11, 2009
Numerous arrests have been made by the MU Police Department at Mizzou Quads due to nuisance gatherings.
MUPD made four arrests over the weekend at Mizzou Quads with charges including cause or permit of social gathering on the premises to become a nuisance and drug possession.
According to the city's nuisance party ordinance, nuisance parties might include unlawful sale, furnishing, possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages, fighting, outdoor urination or defecation in a place open to public view or property damage.
The Crime Free Multi-Housing guidebook for residents states social gatherings of 10 or more people on residential property that results in any of a number of crimes on or adjacent to the party location is prohibited.
Mizzou Quads is a group of 200 apartments at the Campus Lodge apartment complex. This is the second year Residential Life has rented out apartments at Campus Lodge to MU students, Residential Life Director Frankie Minor said.
Minor said the same alcohol and drug policies that apply to on-campus residence halls also apply to extended campus locations.
"Part of the issue is the students' perceptions," Minor said. "As it revolves around alcohol or drugs or safety issues, all the same policies apply at our extended campus locations as they are on the main part of campus."
In order to maintain regulations and on-campus experience, hall coordinators and community advisers are also present at extended campus living facilities and the process of handling violations is comparable, Minor said.
"If they're a Mizzou Quads student, that information is referred to the hall coordinator just like it would be for a student who the police had to respond to in a residence hall," Minor said.
Minor said when MUPD has to respond to incidents at residence halls, he receives an incident report. He has not yet received an incident report regarding the arrests made at Mizzou Quads but said the process can take some time.
"Typically we will receive incident reports for incidences that occur in our residence halls or at Mizzou Quads," Minor said. "I haven't received a report on this incident, but that's not unusual. The MUPD officer has to write the report and sometimes has to collect additional information."
MUPD Capt. Brian Weimer said the incident at Mizzou Quads isn't unique and similar incidences occur at on-campus residence halls.
"There's nothing to indicate it's any different from anywhere else on campus," Weimer said. "Things could happen anywhere."