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Show UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS !MONDAY, JANUARY 31 , 2000 SUU student housing pronounced fire-safe the importance of evacuating students every time an alarm goes off. "VVhen there 1s a fire alarm , we don't . / care whether it is a prankster. 2 a.m. or How safe are SUtJ resident halls? the most inconvenient time in the world, Many residents and resident advisers everyone clears the building,· said were wondering after a housing fire at Seton Hall University killed three students Bai:ton. and injured about 60 others. Duncan. said that resident advisers are carefully trained at the beginning of the According to Mark Barton, assistant year so that they know what to do during vice president of student services, and Neuman Duncan , director of housing, an evacuation arid that they in turn teach SUU takes resident hall safety very the residents what to do. He also said seriously that people who do not evacuate during a "Neuman Duncan and I, the day after fire alarm are written up the Seton Hall fire, met and talked about According to Barton, SUU's resident hall safety measures our precautions and what we were doing," 'There have been no are more strict than said Barton. He also those at Seton Hall. Prank alarms this "Why did the said that Duncan, the fire marshal and he year. .. and it's felony buildings burn down? It were satisfied with the if [.anyone is 7 caught was because they were 'l following nonprecautions taken at SUU student housing. tampering with our fire procedures that we are Approximately four equipment,, said very careful about," hundred students live in said Barton SUU student housing Neuman Duncan,SUU's residence each semester. This director of housing. halls, which were built ..___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ ___, in 1963, do not have includes Juniper Hall, the sprinklers that were the traditional housing, and Manzanita Court, the apartment-style made mandatory by the 1984 change in residence hall building code. All of the hou~ng. · Barton said one of the main reasons for smoke detectors in the resident rooms are battery powered , and the batteries the number of deaths and injuries from are changed once a year and inspected the fire was the number of false alarms every month by the resident advisers, that were recorded at Seton Hall this according to Duncan. • year. Seton Hall University is in South "We have emergency lighting, and Orange, N.J. when the power goes off, then those According to the Associated Press. emergency lights come on.· said Duncan. Seton Hall had 17 false alarms this year. Both Barton and Duncan stressed that, "There have been no prank alarms [at SUU) this year because we have now put although SUU does not have the sprinklers that are mandatory in newer in a $200 fine. And it's a felony if [anyone residence halls. they feel that SUU has 1s] caught tampering with our fire good safety policies in place and the equipment,· said Duncan. residence halls are safe. Both Barton and Duncan poil')ted out BY SHELLY BROWN JOURNAL STAFF WRITER a suu PAGE3 Parker talks on welfare Convo speaker addresses taking responsibilty Parker has since crusaded to educate On Thursday, the impact of social people on taking responsibility for their policies on the impoverished of the lives. Her organization, which she United States and on the residents of founded. CURE. "is a non-profit our nation's inner cities was discussed educational foundation that provides a at SUU's Convocations Series conservative voice concerning social presentation by Star Parker, a policy, with particular focus toward black conservative social activist who 1s the America. Since its inception in 1995. founder and president of the Coalition CURE has on Urban Renewal maintained a close and Education. relationship with Parker relayed the principle advocates story of her of welfare reform , transformation from school choice, an impoverished building race welfare recipient to relations, and moral successful, accountability: determined and according to its purposeful activist. website at She said that in her www.urbancure.org. past she has had According to its four abortions, was ~ mission statement. on drugs and g§ CURE also seeks to "abused the [nation's g inform and educate welfare] system.· ~ individuals on how Parker said that she ~ legislated social realized she was not ~ policies affect this taking moral g nation's moral responsibility for her u culture. seeks to life and this brought At Convocation Thursday, activist Impact America's about her Star Parker stressed the importance inner cities with an transformation. of not relying on welfare and taking After her fourth responsibif;ty for one's life. agenda promoting self-suffic1~ncy and abortion and after personal responsibility, and strives to finding sanctity in God through religion, inundate the media to promote and Parker realized the · erroneous nature· defend biblical principles. the nuclear of her livelihood moral responsibility for family and the free market system her life. later explaining that the current "CURE effectively promotes sexual welfare system inadvertently abstinence until marriage, goal-setting encourages its benefactors to remain and entrepreneurialship. jobless just to reap its benefits. "In addition, we offer tuition If welfare recipients get jobs while on scholarships for children of low-income welfare. they are no longer eligible to households to afford the opportunity to receive welfare. That's why so many attend private. faith-based schools,· people choose to live off the system. according to the website. said Parker. Deans' Courlcil drops second-day drop policy BY MARIAM ARTHUR AND AMANDA PRESLEY JOURNAL STAFF WRITERS The Deans' Council has decided not to endorse a proposed administrative withdrawal policy which would have allowed faculty members to drop missing students from their rosters after the second day of classes. According to Provost Ray Reutzel, the council did not endorse the policy because the feeling among the deans was that it may have caused more problems in some cases than it solved. Reutzel said the council was concerned that the policy, if enacted as proposed, might cause problems for student athletes, those trying to resolve financial aid , issues or suspended students who were awaiting due process regarding their cases. The policy had been recommended by the faculty senate after student senate requested that an official policy·be adopted to help students who were waiting to get into classes. In other business, the council discussed ways to resolve discrepancies that have been discovered regarding degrees currently offered at SUU. Corrections were made that wHI be published in the upcoming SUU General Catalog. Examples of the changes are: the physical science teaching composite will become physical science education and agriculture will become agriculture science and industries. Three degrees in chemistry are currently offered but will now be listed as chemistry-professional , chemistry education and chemistry-professional health care. Graphic design , dance education and geology will be added as maiors. General education requirements were also revised. After much discussion , an information literacy core will be added to the general education requirements. Colleges will see which courses are available that may meet this requirement. Currently, IM 1010 Information Literacy is the only course that meets the criteria. A military science course was considered as an option to fulfill the social sciences requirement. Carl Templin, dean of the College of Business and Technology, said he felt that it was a good idea. Charles L. Metten. dean of the College of Performing and Visual Arts, agreed that if military science was an accepted program at SUU it should be a viable possibility to include those courses for general education. However, Rodney D. Decker, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, objected to establishing a precedent without considering the ramifications. Faculty Senate President Earl Mulderink added that faculty should be represented and recommended that a general education revision committee be formed to gather adequate faculty input. The issue was iabled and a military science course will not be added to the general education requirements at this time. Jr.'. New standards for ACT scores relating to the English core was addressed raising several concerns. Among those concerns were: • How many sessions of prerequisite classes would increase? • Would adjunct teaching be necessary? • What about space for needed classes? • Could Student Support Services handle the increase of students needing remedial courses? It was.finally decided that students with an ACT score in the English. literature and language portion of the test between 17-22 are required to take ENGL 1010 and students with scores below 17 are required to take ENGL 0990. A motion was passed to have all honors courses designated on a student's transcript. In addition. students completing the honors. program would receive and wear an honors graduate medallion at graduation. The council may consider limiting the curriculum credit hours needed.for majors to assure efficiency in obtaining degrees. In other business, Maxine Stalk, SUU registrar. was given the authority to reschedule classes if absolutely necessary because of time and space restraints. The council also discussed the possibility of using the new theatre in the Sharwan Smith Center for classes on a temporary basis. Adam Marchant, SUUSA academic vice president. will address the issue with students and give a report to the council at a future meeting. \. |