Kathleen Ocampo
Three male students were detained and asked to leave the campus after contact with the sheriffs for being involved in a verbal argument in front of the library on Dec. 3. No one was hurt or arrested.The argument was loud enough to draw in students who started to voice their opinions by screaming, according to Deputy Al Guerrero.But philosophy major Dan Mirakhor, 19, said that it was not really loud.”Nothing happened,” said 20-year-old Fastin Elmor, undeclared major. “They were 20 feet away from each other.”The argument started with two people. A third person identified by bystanders was detained for being his struggle towards the sheriff deputies.”The third one just ended up involving himself,” Guerrero said. “He had some resistance…and was belligerent towards the deputy.” His behavior wasn’t the only one disfavored. A couple of students complained that the sheriffs drove too fast on the mall.”They were speeding down,” said criminal justice major, John Smith, 23.Guerrero simply answers, “If they were in trouble, how fast would they want us to come?”He adds that they were responding to the first call when several additional calls came in. “It was an emergent call. Many students were involved.”
Two deputies and an officer reprimand the second student involved in the altercation. ()
Deputy Al Guerrero (left), reprimands a student (right) who had an altercation with another student about a girl outside of the Library on Wed. Dec. 3. The sheriff officers declined to identify the two students. ()