AndrewHeywoodMay62010

=Things Heat Up at Husson=

By: Andrew Heywood heywooda@students.nescom.edu

As the weather starts to heat up, so has the action at [|Husson University]. Finals are fast approaching for students and professors alike. It seems that everyone is busy, even [|campus security] has gotten in on the action. On Thursday April 29th there was a lockdown on campus, and on Wednesday May 5th, there was a domestic abuse incident involving a student of Husson. ==
 * Bangor, ME**-

[|Husson's Director of Campus Safety and Security, Robert Kilpeck], said the incident on the 29th was nothing more than a precautionary lockdown. According to Kilpeck there was a homeless man that complained to a local convenience store clerk.

“The man mentioned he was tired of being homeless and that he had a gun and wanted to kill somebody,” says Kilpeck who went on to say, “There was no mention of Husson and he was never on our campus.” Kilpeck got word of the disgruntled homeless man from [|Bangor Police Department]. The security for most nights consists of three security persons on duty, this night however security was “beefed up”.

On May 5, campus security received help from another source. This time it was Husson students that aided security. That morning there was an altercation in parking lot 8 by the O’Donnell Commons. According to Kilpeck a female student was followed into the lot by her estranged husband, who Kilpeck says “had intent to do bodily harm.”

The man was later identified as 45 year old [|Horst Wolk of Bangor]. Wolk’s wife had put a restraining order against him, but it was the help of fellow students that was able to keep Wolk from causing fatal injuries.

“The man was intervened by other female students who were able to get him to the ground until Campus Officer Levitt got there and cuffed him,” said Kilpeck. Upon cuffing the suspect Levitt held the man until Bangor Police arrived and arrested him.

Though Kilpeck is proud of the courage shown by the female students who apprehended Wolk, he says he would never encourage students to get in harm’s way. In instances like the one that happened in the parking lot, Kilpeck did say he encourages students to “stay vigilant” and to “know what is going on” around them.

Kilpeck wants students and members of the Husson community to remember “that we are a community, one that is larger than many towns here in Maine, things happen, but you have just be alert.”