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Community speaks out about disturbance Sean Hoe & Ashley Joers Editorial Staff
Recently, Carroll students have been expanding their presence in the Waukesha community. With that said, this expansion has not been warranted by all parties involved. A recent stir has been brewing around the community surrounding campus. It has been brought to the attention of Carroll’s Public safety office that numerous Carroll students are frequenting the bordering residences to sneak a few puffs. On August 1, 2009, Carroll officially became a tobacco-free campus. The movement was a part of an initiative to improve the “overall health of students, staff and faculty…for smokers as well as non-smokers,” said Dr. Pamela PinahsSchults, who at the time was the acting Dean of Students. Studies all point to the detrimental effects of smoking and tobacco related products and as such Carroll has provided free clinics, patches, and other quitting aids for students. As far as internal affairs go, the school has made great strides in removing tobacco’s presence from Carroll, but in banning on campus smoking, where has Carroll’s smoking population moved to? With Carroll’s tobacco usage ban, and violations surmounting upwards of $75 potentially, Carroll smokers take to the streets. Waukesha community members have inadvertently become host to
this populous. And a growing concern over the encroaching presence of Carroll’s smoking population is becoming evident. When asked to comment on the situation of the impacted Waukesha community, Dr.Pinahs-Shultz responded “noticed it? Yes, I did.” With that Carroll has taken notice and is working back to appeasing all parties involved. A further comment by Dr.Pinahs-Scultz stated that if enough community members were concerned with this, we (Carroll) could look at some alternative to being a good neighbor. Perhaps Carroll can provide an answer to further address the problems at hand. In recent years, Carroll’s public safety changed its moniker from campus safety to public safety. The name change was in part a showing of Carroll’s interest in being an active and positive presence in the Waukesha community. Director of public safety, Mike Zens, reported that the public safety office has received numerous complaints and comments about incidents such as those reported from the Wilber St. residence. The safety office personally reaches out and addresses these complaints by going to the community members themselves and hearing out all there is to know in order to foster this cooperative relationship. That leads us to ask, “How good of a neighbor is Carroll really?” LOITERING continued on Page 2
Cigarette remains litter campus edges. Photo by Amanda Palczynski
Carroll prepares policies, buildings for concealed carry Luke Bennewitz Editorial Staff
Carroll University has been responding accordingly to the recently passed conceal and carry law passed by the Wisconsin state government. The law, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, will allow people to carry firearms in Wisconsin if they have a permit and are not in restricted areas. For Carroll, the Board of Trustees passed a proposed change to the policies about firearms on campus to adapt to the new law. “We are fully prepared to implement a campus wide policy,” said Dr. Doug Hastad, Carroll University president. In addition to the campus policies, Carroll has already implemented the necessary signage in accordance to the law. “We have begun to post signage to all the buildings on campus by the Nov. 1 deadline,” said Hastad. “This has been a nonissue for the Carroll community because we have taken the appropriate steps before Nov. 1.” Hastad commented on the additional signage across Carroll’s exterior grounds, that there
will be two exterior signs every 40 acres. There will also be signs by the Center for Graduate Studies and the Green Field Station, Hastad said. One concern from the campus community has been how the law will be enforced for the residence halls. While firearms are continued to not be allowed in the residence halls at the present time, parking garages beneath residence halls, such as Pioneer and Frontier Halls, is an area where students can have firearms as long as they are locked in a vehicle. “We are adding second cameras and we already have added cameras around our building in multiple locations and we are looking to install more in the interior of the building,” said Jake Eisch, area director for Frontier Hall. “We are increasing security in that regard to major entry and exit points.” Eisch and the rest of the Office of Residence Life are planning on taking proper steps to ensure preparedness to any changes this new law will bring to campus. “We are doing more to ed-
ucate our staffs about specifics of the policies,” said Eisch. “We want to make sure we are all on the same page of maintaining se-
mencement and Homecoming. “The grounds are not covered under the law unless there is a special event,” he said. “We
will affect the student body. “Knowing that there might be people walking around with weapons might make people
Signs like the one pictured signify places where concealed weapons are not allowed. Photo by Josh DeGrasse-Baumann
curity and safety.” Eisch also commented on the application of the law during major events, such as Com-
have to operate within what the state tells us.” Some Carroll students have already thought about how this
uneasy,” said junior Michelle Dwight. “The Carroll community has no need to carry around weapons anyways.”