We have some good practices in place on campus, too. There's good police work on-campus and in the community.

The small town atmosphere helps contribute to people not being here who don't belong. The community is also concerned about each and every individual. It's the standard the community sets.

Correctional officers are just like police officers on the streets of any community. But for correctional officers, everyone they work with is a convicted felon and nearly half have committed a violent offense. They never get to rescue a kitten from a tree.

All four groups came back and said they understood the need to eliminate smoking, but there had to be some compromise. There are a lot of people on campus who might have felt differently.

The big thing is that the pet population is something that people can do something about. Humans have a choice to do the decent and humane thing. We can walk away from it and ignore it, but I have decided to not walk away from it.

You don't want to turn them back loose on the street, but you don't want them to spend months and months or years and years in a shelter. You are going to have situations when you are going to have to put an animal down.