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Read more about the events taking place on campus celebrating Black History Month, as well as a recent town hall discussion local racial tensions.
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Britney Whitehead, senior distance runner, surpasses school records in her events.
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VOL. 97 | ISSUE 97
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Campus | SEXual assault
League presents demands to Perry By Seth Schroeder Associate News Editor Editor’s Note: This is the seventh installment in a series of articles addressing the state of sexual assault on campus.
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Members of the Charleston Fire Department watch as they practice ice rescue procedures in the scant amount of ice available Wednesday at Campus Pond.
CFD resumes ice surface training By Amanda Wilkinson City Editor Despite temperatures being in the lower 40s, the Charleston Fire Department drove to the Campus Pond to do their annual ice surface training Wednesday. Fire Chief Pat Goodwin said the ice was thicker that morning but by 1:30 p.m. the ice had melted. Eric Woodley, a firefighter, took the first to step into the thinly-iced pond. With the water up to his waist, Woodley pushed on the ice to see if it would support his weight. “The ice is brittle,” he yelled back to the group on the edge of the pond. Only a few other firefighters were able to get into the water for training. Captain Mark Beabout said during training one member of the fire department would play victim while another member goes out to rescue them. Goodwin said typically the victim will crawl out to the hole in the ice and slide in feet first. Beabout said the suits the members wear allow them to float. When someone enters the water with a neoprene suit or a “gumby suit” on, the person will hear the air being forced out of the suit, he said. Although on Wednesday, members did not receive the typical ice-surface training. Instead of sliding on the ice, they had to wade through the murky pond water.
Goodwin said when the ice is thicker, the rescuer will sometimes use “ice claws” or spikes to get to the victim. But he said if the rescuer is able to lay flat on their stomachs and disperse their weight, they may be able to crawl towards the victim as well. After walking around the pond, Goodwin and Beabout find a spot of thicker ice on the south side of the pond. Three members of the department were able to receive training but Goodwin said a shift of five men still has to be trained. He said the department has to do the surface ice training every year. “We call it the tools in their tool box so when they need it, they have it,” Goodwin said. He said last year, the fire department received more than 4,000 calls either for paramedic or firefighter services. All the firefighters at the department are paramedics as well, Goodwin said. “We’re 100 percent paramedic,” he said. Goodwin said the department is really busy with calls, training and everything else. “Over 4,000 calls for a 32-person department is a lot plus with the training, plus with the public service, plus with the education we do with the public,” Goodwin said. “The guys are busy.” He said an ice surface rescue should not take too much time as long as everything goes right. “If everything goes right, you should have somebody out in five minutes,” Goodwin said.
“But every case is different, every incident is different. For every rescue there’s a lot of variables in there. But a perfect textbook rescue, in five minutes we should be done.” He said even though Wednesday’s training was not typical, the conditions were close to what a real rescue would be. “(These were the) perfect conditions of training because that’s what rescue’s going to be when the ice gives,” Goodwin said. He said the department would not likely be called to an ice surface rescue if the ice were thick. “If the ice is thick, the chances of having someone fall through the ice are thin, or less I mean,” Goodwin said. Beabout said usually during training, the air is colder than the water but on Wednesday, the water was colder than the air. Beabout said about six years ago the department held ice surface training at the Carman Pond. “One of the times, we had to go cut the ice with a chainsaw,” Goodwin said. “It was that thick.” Beabout said the department had to cut a square into the one-foot thick ice to make a hole. Goodwin said the fire department will keep checking the ice so they can continue training. “We have no idea what mother nature will give us,” he said. Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.
Members of the Women’s Empowerment League walked into President Bill Perry’s office Wednesday with 650 signed petitions and a list of six demands regarding sexual assault policy at Eastern. After meeting with the league, President Perry said all of the group’s objectives regarding sexual assault at Eastern can be achieved, given time. The league’s demands include: • Anonymous reporting for sexual assault needs to be a more precise experience and at the very least an option. • The reporting process needs to be streamlined. • A public forum concerning the issue of sexual assault needs to be held for all Eastern students, staff, faculty and community members. • President Perry needs to make a public statement supporting sexual assault survivors. • Training should be required for everyone involved in the reporting process of sexual assault. • Eastern should hire a full-time paid advocate on campus for sexual assault survivors. Jennifer Hindes, a former president of the league, said members of the group knew the solutions they proposed were not simple, but they were excited that all of their demands seemed plausible. “We were asking a lot,” Hindes said. “Every demand had a reason for it to be difficult.” She said the benefits of each demand and policy change far outweigh the difficulties of implementing them. Perry said he was pleased with the outcome of the petition process and that Eastern’s administration will be able to enable actions to make the university better. “I know that on any campus, sexual assault is an issue. It crosses all genders. We have to promote understanding and we have to enable individuals who are victims of sexual assault to let the university know what’s happened,” he said.
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Charleston | Bar re-opening
Penalty Box and Grill under new management By Robyn Dexter News Editor The Penalty Box Bar and Grill is under new management, a new license and a new start. The bar and grill, located at 1419 4th St., is now under the management of PSM Alliance Inc. and a new staff, though it is still operating under the name of The Penalty Box. Sarina Henderson, the president and one of the owners of the corporation, said The Penalty Box just began serving alcohol this week.
“We’ve had our license for a couple of weeks, but we wanted to make sure we had all the proper policies and procedures in place before we opened up with liquor, so we wanted to take our time,” she said. The Penalty Box will serve alcohol until 1 a.m. like the other bars in town and will continue serving food until 3 a.m. Mayor John Inyart said the original charges were brought against the previous owner of The Penalty Box around this time last year. “The final appeal wasn’t upheld until April,
so that’s when (the previous owner) lost his license,” he said. “There is no connection between the old owners and the new owners.” The bar sat vacant all summer until Henderson approached the landlord about reopening it with a class D license, which enables the establishment to serve both food and alcohol as long as the ratio of food to alcohol is 51 percent to 49 percent. “(Management) has worked for the last three months to satisfy my concerns with respect to qualifying for that classification of license,” he
said. “The former owners had problems with their alcohol-to-food ratio, and that was ultimately why we revoked the license.” Inyart said he was extremely careful in making sure the new owners fully understood the implications of the license they have, and why it is imperative that food be their main focus. “I had my first meeting with Sarina in August, and we issued the license on Jan. 14 this year,” he said.
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