2008 Woodie Awards
Protecting the halls of Walz, Prosser, and Brown
Eirinn Disbrow
Issue date: 2/14/08 Section: News
Last Fri., Feb. 8 the Office of Residential Life requested that Campus Safety start making daily walkthroughs in Walz Hall, Prosser Hall, and Brown Hall to discourage the trashing and vandalism that has been constantly occurring this semester.
The trashing and vandalism has been especially bad in Walz Hall, but in all three dorms there have been many incidents of cups of urine and tobacco spit left around for other students to knock over, trash left in the bathrooms, hallways, and water fountains, obscenities written on the mirrors in the bathrooms, and incidents of defecation in the sinks.
There have also been many incidents of students running through the hallways at 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. screaming and knocking on doors. These problems do not just occur on weekends, but have become a common, everyday occurrence.
"I think it is important for the students who are causing these problems to understand that there are other students who this activity is really bothering. They are disturbing a quality of life in the residence halls. We hope to put an end to this type of activity," explains Ken Lupole, Director of Campus Safety and Security.
At first, the Office of Residential Life wanted to bring in an outside security company to walk through and check up on the dorms, but decided to request the service of Campus Safety, instead.
Since then, an officer has been walking through and patrolling each dorm around three times every eight hours. So far there has only been one incident that Campus Safety has had to address since last Thursday.
Students' responses to this new system have been fairly negative so far. Many freshmen have already joined a Facebook group petitioning against Campus Safety's new presence in their dorms. Ken Lupole explains, however, that Campus Safety did these walkthroughs in all of the dorms about three years ago at the College and statistically the amount of students referred to the Judicial Process did not go up.
The trashing and vandalism has been especially bad in Walz Hall, but in all three dorms there have been many incidents of cups of urine and tobacco spit left around for other students to knock over, trash left in the bathrooms, hallways, and water fountains, obscenities written on the mirrors in the bathrooms, and incidents of defecation in the sinks.
There have also been many incidents of students running through the hallways at 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. screaming and knocking on doors. These problems do not just occur on weekends, but have become a common, everyday occurrence.
"I think it is important for the students who are causing these problems to understand that there are other students who this activity is really bothering. They are disturbing a quality of life in the residence halls. We hope to put an end to this type of activity," explains Ken Lupole, Director of Campus Safety and Security.
At first, the Office of Residential Life wanted to bring in an outside security company to walk through and check up on the dorms, but decided to request the service of Campus Safety, instead.
Since then, an officer has been walking through and patrolling each dorm around three times every eight hours. So far there has only been one incident that Campus Safety has had to address since last Thursday.
Students' responses to this new system have been fairly negative so far. Many freshmen have already joined a Facebook group petitioning against Campus Safety's new presence in their dorms. Ken Lupole explains, however, that Campus Safety did these walkthroughs in all of the dorms about three years ago at the College and statistically the amount of students referred to the Judicial Process did not go up.