"We're there and present with the students. We care," McCombe said. "This department has to realize that the guards have done community policing for many, many years."

McCombe said he feels the University still needs to pay more attention to union members' concerns.

"Aren't people worth more?" McCombe said, "We're not asking [the administration] to give great amounts, but the university should care about the people who work here. It upsets me because I am a human being first and I am a part of this community. You build relationships and that's caring."

McCombe said University officials care too much about money and too little about the guards themselves.

Rudenstine "is more concerned with the almighty buck than with what is going on at this educational institute," he said.

"Now we're numbers," he added. "Not people.