University of Arkansas Student Handbook

CAMPUS SAFETY




Campus Safety

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT

http://uapd.uark.edu/

Mission Statement
The women and men of the University of Arkansas Police Department, in partnership with the community we serve, are committed to protecting the future of Arkansas by promoting a safe and secure environment through excellence, initiative, and integrity.
University of Arkansas Police Department (UAPD) is a nationally accredited police department and has been an active law enforcement agency since 1972. The authority to operate as a law enforcement agency comes from Arkansas State Statute 25-17-304. UAPD Officers have the same authority as any municipal police department officer or county sheriff's deputy in Arkansas. UAPD Officers complete the same basic training as other police officers in the state. UAPD Patrol Officers and Communications Center staff are on duty twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Officers patrol the campus in cars, on bicycle, and on foot. UAPD offers a wide range of services such as twenty-four hour campus patrol, criminal investigations, crime prevention programs, women's self-defense (R.A.D.), safety bulletins, fingerprinting for employment purposes, motorist assists, the Razorback Patrol Escort Service, and daily crime logs.
You can contact UAPD on campus telephones by dialing 2222, or from off campus phones, pay phones, and cell phones by dialing 575-2222. Dial 911 for any emergency, on or off campus. UAPD is located at 155 South Razorback Road in the Administrative Services Building, across from Bud Walton Arena. You can also contact UAPD by using one of the Emergency/Information Telephones located across the campus and in selected parking lots. The phones are also located in all elevators on campus and throughout parking decks. UAPD has a web site on the World Wide Web at http://uapd.uark.edu. You can subscribe to a list serve and receive daily summaries when crimes occur by sending an email from the web site including your name and email address. Confidential messages can be sent without your name or email address. You can also see a list of programs that UAPD presents to the community. You can schedule a program, see the latest campus crime statistics, and get good crime prevention information and more.

Razorback Patrol Escort Service
Sunday - Thursday, 6:00 PM to 12:30 AM Escorts at other times by police officers
Safety programs, including

UAPD encourages students, faculty, and staff to work in partnership with the police and to be responsible for their own security and the security of others. UAPD officers cannot be everywhere all the time. They need your help to provide a safe environment.


Health Risks of Alcohol and Other Drug Use

The inappropriate or excessive use of alcohol and other drugs are associated with a variety of personal health risks, and risks to others. Of particular concern are the unpredictable effects when drugs are mixed with one another and the potential for overdose enhanced.

Alcohol - Alcohol consumption causes a number of changes in behavior and physiology. Even low does significantly impair judgment, coordination, and abstract mental functioning. Statistics show that alcohol use is involved in a majority of violent behaviors on college campuses, including acquaintance rape, vandalism, fights, and incidents of drinking and driving. Continued abuse may lead to dependency, which often causes permanent damage to vital organs and deterioration of a healthy lifestyle.

Cannabis (Marijuana, Hashish) - The use of marijuana may impair or reduce short-term memory and comprehension, alter sense of time, and reduce coordination and energy level. Users often have a lowered immune system and an increased risk of lung cancer. The active ingredient in marijuana, FHC, is stored in the fatty tissues of the brain and reproductive system for a minimum of 28 to 30 days.

Cocaine/Crack - Cocaine users often have a stuffy, runny nose and may have a perforated nasal septum. The immediate effects of cocaine use include dilated pupils and elevated blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and body temperature, followed by depression. Crack, or freebase rock cocaine, is extremely addictive and can cause delirium, hallucinations, blurred vision, severe chest pain, muscle spasms, convulsions and even death.

Hallucinogens - Lysergic acid (LSD), mescaline, and psilocybin cause illusions and hallucinations. The user may experience panic, confusion, suspicion, anxiety, and loss of control. Delayed effects, or flashbacks, can occur even when use has ceased. Phencyclidine (PCP) affects the section of the brain that controls the intellect and keeps instincts in check. Because the drug blocks pain receptors, violent PCP episodes may result in self-inflicted injuries.

Heroin - Heroin is an opiate drug that causes the body to have diminished pain reactions. The use of heroin can result in coma or death due to a reduction in heart rate.

Prescription Drugs - Students often mistakenly believe prescribed medications are harmless, because they are so commonly used and shared. Many prescription medications such as Adderall, Ritalin , and Xanax can be extremely dangerous or even lethal when used improperly, in combination with other drugs (alcohol, marijuana, over-the-counter or herbal remedies), or when used by an individual with an unsuspected undetected medical condition.

Stimulants and Methamphetamine - Amphetamines can cause a rapid or irregular heartbeat, tremors, loss of coordination, collapse and death. Heavy users are prone to irrational acts. Consequences of amphetamine and methamphetamine use include addiction, psychotic behavior, and brain damage. http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/meth_factsheet.html - 6#6 Withdrawal symptoms include depression, anxiety, fatigue, paranoia, aggression, and intense cravings. Chronic use can cause violent behavior, anxiety, confusion, insomnia, auditory hallucinations, mood disturbances, delusions, and paranoia. http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/meth_factsheet.html - 8#8 Damage to the brain caused by meth usage is similar to Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and epilepsy.


TRANSIT AND PARKING

http://www.uark.edu/depts/parking/
Transit - 575-RIDE
Razorback Transit provides fare-free, fixed route bus and paratransit van service to University of Arkansas students, faculty, staff, and the general public. All Razorback Transit buses and vans have wheelchair lifts. Razorback Transit's 10 bus routes provide convenient stops and frequent service near all locations on campus, the Downtown Square, shopping malls, medical, and service areas. Nine of the 10 routes can be accessed at Union Station, south of the Arkansas Union. Information and maps of the routes can be found on the Transit and Parking website at transit.uark.edu. Maps are also located at the Arkansas Union and Hunt Hall Information Desks and on all Razorback Transit buses.

Parking - 575-PARK
UA parking permits are required for any vehicle to park on campus Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, except at parking meters and in hourly parking spaces in the Stadium Drive and Harmon Avenue Parking Garages. Night reserved lots are reserved until 8:00 PM, Monday through Thursday and Resident Reserved areas are reserved at all times. Permits are available for faculty, staff, students, and visitors. Visitor permits may be purchased for a day or a week. Current fees are available on the Transit and Parking website at http://parking.uark.edu. Meter payment is also required on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Debit cards are available from Transit and Parking for use at any multiple space meters on campus. These are located in lot 67 and the Stadium Drive Garage. The Harmon Avenue Garage is a 24-hour gated garage. Entries and exits are made by obtaining a ticket and paying at the pay-on-foot stations. Debit cards are also available for the Harmon Avenue Garage. Short-term meters (gold-colored) require payment every 20 minutes at all times. These are only to be used for loading and unloading. Vehicles can receive a ticket every 20 minutes the meter is expired at short-term meters. Parking rules and regulations are enforced when the university is open, even when classes are not in session. Replacement parking permits cost $5. Parking permit purchase, citation payments, and citation appeals may be made by mail, internet (http://myparkingaccount.uark.edu), at the Transit and Parking Department located in the Administrative Services Building on Razorback Road or at the Harmon Avenue Garage.. Citation payment may also be made by phone by calling 479 575-2459. Permit types, lot locations and parking citation appeal information can be found on the parking map or on the website at http://parking.uark.edu.

Safe Ride - 575-SAFE
Safe Ride operates Wednesday through Saturday from 10:30 PM until 3:00 AM during the fall and spring semesters. This service is provided to currently enrolled UA students. Students will be taken from any place in the Fayetteville city limits to their residence, within the Fayetteville city limits. The Night Owl route operates from 10:30 PM until 1:00 AM Monday and Tuesday nights during the fall and spring semesters. This fixed route service operates only on campus. Additional Safe Ride information and a map of the routes are available in the Safe Ride section of the Razorback Transit website at http://transit.uark.edu.

Receive Important Transit and Parking Information by subscribing to the Transit and Parking list server. Send an email to: listserv@listserv.uark.edu with the command subscribe parkinginfo in the body of the email.