REMEMBERING COREY RIC honors Corey Agin, a political science student who passed recently
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The Anchor Newspaper
Week of febuary 2, 2015 | Vol: 87 | Issue: #17
BRAVING the
STORM
College improves how it handles blizzards eliSha kay aldrich news editor @anchornews
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t’s not uncommon for students to deal with blizzard conditions on campus this time of year. What is uncommon, however, is the change in opinion about how the college handled those conditions from last year, to this year.
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Last year was a shitshow,” said Junior Youth Development major Harrie Salk. But what about this year? According to Salk, it was a definite improvement.
“I think the plowing could have been a lot better, the resident lot was still gross. But the Don did a very good job,” she said. Another Youth Development major, C’Sondra Brabham, was even more cheerful about the way RIC handled winter storm Juno. “I didn’t have any problems at all. I just drove my car right out of my spot,” said Brabham. “I think they did a really good job at the beginning. Just keeping up with it and putting salt down would be helpful.” According to Assistant Vice President Donald Tencher, the college began preparing for the storm the Saturday before.
He stated that it was decided early on Monday to bring in outside equipment for plowing the campus, due to the sheer amount of snow. Tencher also stated that work was done to ensure that the campus could remain functioning during the worst of the storm. “We made sure all of the generators everywhere, but especially in the residence halls, were working perfectly,” said Tencher. “We made sure that we had plenty of fuel. We required a maintenance person and an electrician stay on campus overnight “JUNO” to insure if there were any issues in the resident halls they would be readily see page 3 available to correct them”