Tell Sgt. Dustin Young he’s not a real cop. He has broken up drunken brawls, pulled a four-foot snake out of a building, and investigated countless cases of sexual assault. A few years ago, he saw a young man walking toward tracks and an oncoming train. Sergeant Young raced up, grabbed the hood of his sweatshirt, and yanked him back just before the train roared by. It came so close that it cut the man’s ear and tore off his shoe. For 14 years, Sergeant Young has been a policeman here on Miami University’s main campus of 20,000. He has saved lives and seen some lost. Once, outside a raging house fire off campus, the 6-foot-2, 250-pound officer held back students desperate to rush into the flames to rescue three friends, who never made it out.

October 18, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education