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Slippery Rock University Student Newspaper
Friday, September 23, 2011
Est. 1934
Volume 94, Number 4
New dining options until 'Fluh opens in spring By Kaitlyn Yeager Rocket Contributor
LIANNA KOVELESKI/ROCKET
Slippery Rock University students order food at the Campus Drive Grill outside of North Hall. The Campus Drive Grill and the University Club are open to students while Weisenfluh dining hall is under renovations.
T he newly renovated Weisenfluh Dining Hall is scheduled to open for students at the beginning of the spring 2012 semester, according to Rick Bruckner, the chef manager of the University Club dining center. “We are looking to open in January, and construction is going very well,” said Bruckner. In the meantime, students have access to dining services located at North Hall and the Campus Drive Grill. The University Club, on the first floor of North Hall, is open for lunch from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and for dinner from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Bag lunch services are also being provided at the Club all day from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Campus Drive Grill is temporarily serving breakfast items from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. and lunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. One student, Mike Camera, an art major from Mohawk, Pa., is not impressed with what the Campus Drive Grill has to offer. “It’ll do in the meantime, but I don’t want to see it next semester,” he said. Camera said he dislikes how crowded the small area becomes around lunchtime, as well as the amount of bees swarming around him while he’s eating his breakfast or lunch. He also said that the food at Weisenfluh was much healthier
than the choices provided at Campus Drive Grill. Other complaints include the pricing at the temporary food service. “At Weisenfluh, $5.50 could get you as much food as you wanted. Here it’s a sandwich,” said Camera. You are not permitted to use debit or credit cards at either Campus Drive Grill or the University Club. However, students around campus remain using the dining services until Weisenfluh re-opens in the spring. “Students love it,” said Bruckner. “We had 365 students purchase items from Campus Drive Grill on Wednesday.” Three workers also agree that the Campus Drive Grill is providing students with what they want, since they are receiving compliments of the dining service. Sharon Fleeger, Rami Coulter and Diane Beachem are employees from Weisenfluh that have been in charge of working the Grill for the fall semester. “Students are happy because we have been overwhelmed with positive feedback,” Fleeger, a tenyear employee of Slippery Rock University, said. “We must be doing something right.” Fleeger said that the most popular item is the breakfast bowl, which is served with scrambled eggs and the students’ choice of meat. Regardless of the opinion of the temporary dining services, students will be impressed with SEE NEW, PAGE A-3
Student helps with PA flooding New law to protect underage students, promote safety By Will Deshong Rocket Staff Reporter
Tropical Storm Lee took a devastating toll throughout parts of central and northeastern Pennsylvania during the first couple weeks of this month, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and the displacement of about 100,000 people. The storm formed Sept. 1st in the Gulf of Mexico, but it wasn’t until a week later that heavy winds and rain resulting from the storm led to record-setting flooding in Pennsylvania and the mandatory evacuation of the city of Wilkes-Barre. Several other towns across the region were also victims of flooding and evacuation, including Harrisburg, Pittston, Tunkhannock, Edwardsville and Nanticoke. Zack Matulevich, 21, a junior safety management major at Slipper y Rock University and member of the National Guard, was deployed to Tunkhannock for relief efforts. “My company was helping
with relief in Wyoming C o u n t y, specifically Tunkhannock,” Matulevich said. “We got called Thursday night, the 8th. I went Friday morning.” Over 1,200 members of the National Guard were called into relief efforts in areas experiencing flooding. Among their responsibilities included res cue ef for ts, distribution of food and water, and to maintain order. “My c omp any m ai n ly did security for different communities,” Matulevich said. “We had to keep away looters and rubberneckers.” The ne ed of s e c ur ity i s i mp or t a nt i n a re a s experiencing a disaster like flooding because the rushed and hectic nature of events, p ar t ic u l arly t hat of an evacuation, leads to crimes such as theft and looting. Par t of t h e s e c u r it y measures Matulevich was also responsible for was aiding the volunteer firefighters in their rescue efforts. “A bi g t h i ng i n t he beginning was that we had to keep people out of their areas of operation,” Matulevich said of the rescue teams.
Along with security measures, Matulevich was responsible for relief efforts, as well. “We w ou l d g i v e out supplies from the Red Cross,” Matulevich said. “It was mostly water and bleach to clean houses.” Matulevich was deployed for nine days. Over that time, he worked in several areas, but spent a large portion of his time in a small community called Myo Beach in Meshoppen, Pa. “Myo Beach is a town of 30 or 40 houses along a river,” Matulevich said. “It was really messed up by the floods. The main thing I did there was checking to make sure people coming in lived there. After a couple days there though, you really started to recognize everyone.” Like all the areas in the state affected by the flooding, which in many areas topped the marks set by Hurricane Agnes in 1972, the damage Matulevich witnessed was dramatic. “When I first arrived, there
By Steph Holsinger Assistant News Editor
The Slippery Rock Alcohol Coalition discussed and elaborated on Pennsylvania’s Medical Amnesty Law at their meeting on Tuesday, held at the North Country Brewery. The Medical Amnesty Law in Pennsylvania states that an individual under 21 years of age cannot be charged with underage drinking if they seek medical attention for another person, according to Windy Stafford, assistant chief of Slippery Rock University’s campus police. In order for the law to take effect, the individual seeking the medical attention must meet certain criteria, according to Stafford. The law applies if the person has called 911, University Police or EMS, and has been the first person to make the call. “The person making the call to officials must give their name and stay with the intoxicated individual until the police or medical personnel show up,” Stafford said. “This law specifically applies to the caller, not the intoxicated individual who needs medical attention.” According to the law, the individual making the call for medical attention can still be cited with other alcohol-related charges, such as disorderly conduct and public drunkenness, with the only exception being underage consumption of alcohol. “The individual who is in need of medical attention can still be cited for underage drinking,” Stafford said. If a student reports the medical emergency to a community assistant, who then reports it SEE HOMES, PAGE A-2 to the police, the law does not apply.
The person must stay with a community assistant and the intoxicated individual until police or medical personnel arrive. “Too often, students don’t notify police or bring people to the health center because they are afraid of getting cited,” Stafford said. “This law is to fix this and prevent intoxicated individuals from being in serious danger before it’s too late.” The best way to spread the word about this law is simply by talking about it, according to Jordan Bailley, Slippery Rock University’s SGA president, who was in attendance at the meeting. “Students need to tell other students about this law so people get the help they need,” Bailley said. The organization also discussed an update to the tailgating policy on campus. Paul Novak, director of environmental health and safety at SRU, collaborated with University Police and Student Health Services to make revisions to the policy. The university recognizes tailgating as a special athletic event, according to Novak. “People are expected to tailgate on the premises no more than three hours before and two hours after the game,” Novak said. “Those individuals that tailgate are expected to attend the game in between.” According to Novak, bags are now provided upon payment at an athletic event to help eliminate trash and litter left behind. A leaflet is also provided to inform spectators about the university’s tailgating policy. According to the policy, only beer and wine are allowed on t h e SEE TAILGATING, PAGE A-2