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Increase in Drug Violations by LANDON REEVES Staff Writer
Arrests for drug violations at UA have increased since 2007, according to UAPD crime statistics. There were 26 arrests in 2007 and 109 in 2010. Statistics for 2011 aren’t yet published, but 2012 has had at least seven arrests, according to the UAPD website. “By far, marijuana is the drug we find most often,” said Lt. Gary Crain, UAPD spokesperson. “The fact is the vast majority of people and students are not involved in that activity, [but] there are some people who are and they are being caught and arrested.” Students who break drug or alcohol policy can be sanctioned or go through the judicial process on campus. A student’s punishment depends on the degree of the sanction. Some are required to attend motivational therapy from the Student Assistance Program at the Pat Walker Health Center. Despite the increasing number of drug violations, alcohol violations remain a larger problem for SAP employees. There were only 32 arrests for liquor law violations at the UA in 2010, but
463 were referred for disciplinary action, according to the 2010 CLERY report. “The most commonly used substance we see on campus is alcohol. Up to this point, we haven’t done anything about drug education, but we do have an event planned for April 20,” said Debbie Morgan, coordinator of substance abuse prevention at the Pat Walker Health Center. “In my time, I have only seen one student referred to the Student Assistance Program for marijuana. The rest have been alcohol related,” Morgan said. SAP’s motivational therapy consists of two meetings in which students are asked to analyze their actions, change their behavior and set goals, Morgan said. Other sanctions include community service, paying fines and loss of parking privileges, according to the Division for Student Affairs website. “For any situation, whether it is drug-related or else, the most significant sanction a student can face is expulsion from the UA, and that is for any type of violation that may occur,” said Monica Holland, director see VIOLATIONS on page 6
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A ‘Night’ to Remember
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Elie Wiesel, author of the novel “Night” and Holocaust survivor, will be speaking at the Walton Arts Center on Wednesday March 7 at 7 p.m. The speaker will be free and open to the public. Tickets will not distributed. Instead seating will be by first come first serve, said Kayln Williams, director of the Distinguished Lecture Committee.
Arkansas CRU Raises $11,000 for Ethiopia by EMILY HARVEY Contributing Writer
Student leaders involved in Arkansas CRU raised $11,000 last semester for meals to send to Ethiopia. These efforts included a major t-shirt sale, selling more than 600 shirts on campus. Chase Farnell, junior industrial engineering major, spearheaded the fundraising efforts. “Before I even went into it, we didn’t do much of anything. We just said, ‘God, we’re here. Use us however
you want to,’” he said. “We basically made ourselves available and He took it and ran with it.” CRU offers a large worship gathering every Tuesday night and more than 50 small group Bible studies, or community groups. “One of the biggest things we did was go to the CRU community group leaders and told them that we were having a competition to see who could raise the most money with a prize for whichever group could raise the most money,” he said.
“This is where the jewelry sale, the Halloween dance party, and the t-shirt sale came into play.” Emilee Talley, junior childhood education major, wanted to help the organization when she learned of the group’s goal. “We partnered with the organization Feeding Children Everywhere, which raises money for the starving children in Ethiopia,” Talley said. “My Bible study girls and I were able to put together a t-shirt design. We figured
out that if you bought just a t-shirt that it would feed 11 Ethiopian children,” she said. “It was so encouraging to see how many people wanted shirts.” The group sold 663 t-shirts and raised nearly $4,000. “At Winter Conference” —an annual gathering of regional CRU teams —“the total number of money raised was about $19,000, but then students gave over $50,000 on top of that in just one night,” Talley said.
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