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Watch that acronym

December 1987
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Watch that acronym
December 1987

In an attempt to change its image, Campus Police has changed its name to the Department of Safety and Security. Within days students stopped referring to the green-clad officers as the "campus po." The new nickname: "the SS."

We have 5,000 crocodiles, 600 elephants and Attila the Hun." Jack Morse, deputy chief of the Harvard University Police Department, explaining to a reporter from The Dartmouth why he didn't expect any problems from Dartmouth students during the DartmouthHarvard football game. Freshmen rushed the field anyway.