‘DEBAT’ TAKES OVER THIS WEEKEND
6&7 FEBRUARY 8, 2013
Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
VOL. 161, ISSUE 27
NEWS
Mama Nunz wins fight against employee embezzler page 4
Historically dangerous party night stays tame THE DEPAUW REPORTS news@thedepauw.com
Friendly grill wants to bring 231 new life Employee Brittany Steele, 22, delievers a hamburger to a customer at Charlie’s Chill & Grill on Thursday afternoon at a pre-opening taste test. | SUNNY STRADER/ THE DEPAUW By ALEX PAUL news@thedepauw.com
Charlie’s Chill & Grill hopes to revitalize the 231 area code and help employ handicapped citizens. The Chill & Grill will employ mentally and physically disabled individuals. Chuck Schroeder, the CEO of the national chain, said of the approximately 50 Greencastle employees, between 25 and 40 percent are disabled. “We want to train and employ individuals with disabilities,” Schroeder said. “That’s first and foremost.” Joyce Ramsey works for Child-Adult
Resources Services. Ramsey is an employment consultant and job coach. She creates resumes, gathers references for challenged individuals, and puts them in contact with employers. Three individuals from the CARS program are employed by Charlie’s. “I help the employer and the individual out,” Ramsey said. Ramsey said she tries to place the disabled with businesses that interest them, and cites recently pairing a man with culinary training in a restaurant where he could use his skills. Length of employment depends on the severity of the disability. Ramsey said individuals with a lower level of disability work for the employer and get checked in on once a week.
Higher level disabled individuals are employed for three months at a time. The Putnam County Comprehensive Services is a program similar to CARS. Charlie’s employees 14 workers from PCCS. Charlie’s smells like barbeque and french fries. All of the fifteen tables full of customers, with more streaming in the glass doors held open by Schroeder. People crowd around the two registers to order a grilled chicken wrap, or a pork tenderloin sandwich. “It’s pretty hard to compete with McDonald’s,” said Scott Nauman, who just finished
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After 27 years as Emergency Management Coordinator Doug Cox experienced the mildest ‘Black Monday’ he can recall. “I wouldn’t say black Monday was very black,” Cox said. Only two incidents were called into Public Safety Monday, the notorious celebration night of new Greek members, according to Cox. “It was very surprising,” Cox said. “Monday was a pleasant surprise.” Campus Living and Community Development and the greek life coordinators focused on making sure bid night would not be out of control this year. Cox said the greek leadership at each chapter on campus were more engaged about preventing an out of control night. There was also a conversation had between Director of Public Safety Angela Nally and greek life coordinators on ideas to help with Black Monday. PJ Mitchell, greek life Coordinator and Coordinator of Alcohol Initiatives, came up with one idea: students going out found a pretzel truck at the corner of Anderson Street and Locust Street. As for the rest of the week, on Thursday morning many sororities and fraternities woke up to their front lawns covered by toilet paper. Sophomore Olivia Traynor looked out her window at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority’s lawn to see trees full of toilet paper. “I don’t think it was mean to be malicious, but it is a pain to clean up,” Traynor said. Public Safety was unable to comment at the time concerning the vandalism. — Alex Butler contributed to this article.