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Interview with UPD Officer

Had an interview with University Police Department Officer Jason Welch.  Officer Welch talks about crimes commited on campus during the summer time and ways students can help UPD.  He also talks about how UPD is here to help the students, and that students should'nt be afraid to come up to them if they have problems they need to talk about.

Geocaching

A new trend going on around the Ole Miss Campus is a scavenger hunt website called geocaching.com.  Geocaching is considered a real-world treasure hunting game.  The object of the game is to locate hidden objects, called geocaches, using a GPS device and then share your experiences online with others.

The difficulty ranges from one, being the easiest to find, through six, being the hardest to find.  What you find in the geocaching case depends on the person who created that cache. The items inside the cases of the cache’s range from gift cards, if you are the first to find it, to absolutely nothing.

“Yea I trekked through poison ivy and dirt, but was able to find the cache and although I traveled through all that I still had fun!”  This is what Ole Miss student Alyssa Willis had to say about her experience with using geocaching.  She also informed that while looking for one it is best to have a smart phone with the Google maps app on, for that it is easier to locate the cache.

“I had a fun time using this.  I mean it’s not something I would do every night, but it gives you something else to do if you don’t feel like going out to the bars.”  This is what Ole Miss student Dylan DeWitt had to say about his experience.  Dylan also went on to say that a lot of the caches are located within a relative distance, which makes it something quick and fun to do.

Also, this is a nationwide thing, so if you are bored or want something new to try, go check out geocaching.com.

U.S. Marshals Internship Program

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Me: This is Mike Lowry with Rebel Radio. I’m here with Jason Peters. Jason is going to tell us a little bit about the internship program that they have at the U.S. Marshals, offered by the school and his experience with it. Here’s Jason right now

Jason Peters: The Internship the U.S. Marshals offers is probably the best internship anyone could have going into law enforcement. It offers a broad experience in the Federal Law enforcement field.  I got plenty of experience.  I did mine with the task force.  We did daily warrant servings, where we went out to South Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama.  And went after people everyday.  So you get a lot of field experience.  You have excellent guys that teach you and tell you what your doing and what you want to do.  When you have the chance to get the job yourself.  Also learned how to run the computer systems they use everyday such as jada and NCIC which they use to look up fugitives and put people into the system.  All and all it was an awesome experience.  Had a blast doing it and got to learn everything hands on, that was probably the best thing.  Nothing was learned from a book, or someone telling me hey this is what we do but you can’t do it.  They let you do everything but carry a gun.  It was quite an experience and I would recommend it to anybody going into law enforcement field.

Me: Again that’s Jason Peters telling about the Internship program offered by the U.S. Marshals.  Thanks again Jason, and Mike Lowry with Rebel Radio.