Reply #63: UCLA is run by the Regents of UC.

[Igel]

They dictate who can and can't be on campus, esp. 11:30 pm in CLICC lab (computer lab). The library's closed by then, but study lounges are left open. California state funding provides a small portion of UC's funding, under 20% in the '90s and probably less now.

ASUCLA (think "student union") in the 1990s used to leave its lounges open 24 hours/day, and they wound up with homeless and mentally ill sacking out for the night, sometimes threatening students. Students frequently take naps in study lounges; they have been groped, attacked, and raped by people from off campus (and from on campus). The lounges were closed for a while over litigation concerns; security was finally hired to secure the students' safety.

It's apparently routine to have CSOs patrol the library (and ASUCLA)--they set up shop at the dorms, as well, and wander around campus and any building that's open. They provide escort services for anybody that doesn't want to go to a dorm or parking structure alone. CSOs are sort of community police, students hired to be foot patrol and good samaritans; they can't arrest, they can only call for campus security as backup. Sometimes they get a bit oafish, but they have the authority to order trespassers to leave--but the CSO folk are also the target of routine taunting and provocations by students that hate "the pigs", until, of course, one of the pig-hating students is raped or his/her bookpack vanishes while its owner is napping. One of the CSOs' standing duties is to check IDs to keep the homeless and those otherwise not authorized to be on campus out of facilities that might be fairly desolate or contain valuable fixtures. Such as computers. The regulations are posted, even if the CSOs on duty are thuggish.

The guy shouldn't have been tasered; he should have been picked up and dumped on the ground outside. On the other hand, he ignored the CSOs, and stuck around long enough for the campus police to show up. Then he ignored them.