Show January 12 1995 Editor Page 3 reinforced lie also said "another It is Wednesday night in just a few minutes the "Resident Assistant" will he coming around to do the weekly inspections The “Resident Assistants" arc just other students who have been hired by the housing department to help the hall director They are there if anyone needs anything or if anything happens It is just a job to them because they are getting paid These weekly inspections that arc done check for the following: to sec if the floors have been vacuumed if beds have been made and if your room is clean and straightened The one thing they do not check for is repairs or ask if anything is broken The way these inspections arc being done arc not the “RA's" fault because they arc just doing their job However the papers used to grade us by arc proof that the room inspections arc being done for cleanliness Along with the list above we arc also graded by whether or not we have dusted etc I spoke with Joe Glorioso the director of housing at CEU and I asked him what the main purpose for weekly inspections arc His response was “the purpose in doing them is to prevent maintenance problems and to find out what repairs arc needed" lie also said "Room inspections arc also to ensure the students arc living comfortably And in a healthy and sanitary way” For one thing most of us are responsible adults I know I don't feel comfortable when somebody is checking on me weekly to see if I have cleaned or dusted the room that week If we had wanted our mothers to come with us we would have asked them Many other students feel that we arc responsible enough to report damages We arc paying enough to live here that we should not have to he checked in on once a week I don't feel like I can even call this my home for now because I am not being trusted enough to clean my place when I want whether I want to or not My mother did not even inspect my room at home So why when I move away from home do I I thought that have to be baby-smoving out on our own was a way to prove that we arc responsible and can make it on our own We cannot prove anything if we arc still being watched over and checked in on every week I interviewed several students living in Burtenshaw dorms and asked their at rea- son was to make sure the students needs arc taken care of" Well when we do report repairs needed such as burnt out light bulbs needing to be replaced they do not replace them when they say they will! This is the incident in a couple of the suites where the maintenance has known for at least a week about these problems and nothing has been done Our needs arc not hei ng taken care of i n this case I about spoke with my sister-in-lathe issue She went to school at a junior college where they did not even have w Her opinion was “they would he enough to make you mil want to live in campus dorms” I room inspections asked her if her landlord comes weekly to check for cleanliness or repairs I ler comment was “if they did I would not live here” I figure that us having to pay rent for Ihe dorms is no different from paying rent to a landlord for a house or apartment in the community This also was one of the questions in the interviews Every one I asked replied that they would nut live in an apartment or house where the landlord checked weekly for cleanliness or repairs My did tell me that her landlord docs come but only once every three months to check for repairs or damage not cleanliness Therefore I think the campus houssister-in-la- w ing is in competition with the apartments Truly people like their privacy and they cannot have it when off-camp- people are inspection their rooms weekly For this reason alone people might move out of campus housing Thcrefme I see no point in having these inspections weekly Likewise if you still want to have inspections I have a suggestion for you You should have the “R A” knock on our door once every two weeks to ask us if we have repairs needed or replacements not check our cleanliness The repairs etc should he done immediately and not a week later Once a quarter we could have a thorough room inspection dime by the director of housing or hall director At this lime any damages done can be calculated and the person(s) responsible can pay them But in these checks if we do not make our bed we should not gel graded down for it Room inspections should be done for damages repairs and replacements only Vegetarian by choice by Brittni Coe viewpoint writer If you've noticed over the years food has become extremely creative Mostly in other countries but Americans have adopted fancy cuisines to become more sophisticated in society Sad but true we are eating the most unusual things For instance caviar better known as fish eggs is something high class parties entertain also escargot better known as snails have also become expensive und fashionable appetizers Oh and don't forget pate I don't know exactly what it is made out of but I'm sure it’s something that was once small and slimy For any number of these fashionable foods you would have to go to an exquisite gourmet store and you would definently pay the priec Or would you? Well depending on your personal preference lor consumption of insect you may have to look no further than you cupboard Indeed it may be as simple as opening your every day can of vegetable soup That is all I had to do to find myself an added delieacy Yes as I was watching television last week I found myself beginning to get a bit famished so I cooked myself a bowl of hearty vegetable soup Not knowing Ihe surprise that lay ahead of me I began to eat hardily commenting to my roommate Rachel what wonderful soup I was eating As I lifted my simp up from the bowl I glanced at the spoon I noticed heuriy carrots hearty delicious beans and something I had never seen in Vegetable soup before a nice full size hearty worm Boy was that a surprise! After barfing for about three hours I became enraged Thinking to myself that if I wanted snail fish eggs or insects for dinner I would've specifically purchased them So I went on my mission to sue the Campbell's Soup Company Suing a Company for an unsatisfactory product in the United States is becoming a trend much like eating creatures both of which I had never intended on participating in Campbell's soup left me no choice in cither instance According to the Better Business Bureau in 1993 alone over 365000 companies were sued due to unsatisfactory product In fact the BBB takes in over one million complaints a month all over the United States from unhappy consumers They have a saying “that for every one customer that complains there are ten whodon't"thatisalotof unhappy product purchasers in the United States Suing a company because you found a worm in your soup or some other little surprise is a bit harder than just registering a complaint with the Better Business Bureau It takes a lot of lime and sometimes money to sue a large company because you are unhappy with their product Fortunately I don't think my case will he as hard to prove as some seeing how I kept my little friend Ihe can and everything else This is what the BBB advises you to do with a product if you do not like it Keep Ihe can the contents and everything extra you might find inside Many companies when you call them and complain will make their manufactures aware of the problem and will try to accommodate you and make you happy once again For instance I called the Campbell's Soup Company with my complaint I demanded restitution for my inconvenience and my new horror towards soup They so generously offered me five dollars in free coupons for Campbell's Soup I was appalled like I will ever cat Campbell Soup again in my lifetime I could not believe the nerve of that woman She told me that was standard procedure and I informed her that I would be suing her company for everything I could get she was thrilled What really shocked me about Ihe whole conversation is that finding a worm in my soup did not even phase her Probably because food companies are allowed to have so many hug parts cct in their product before it is considered harmful to a consumer how nice to know So fortunately my quest for millions of dollars resumes I know we can't all he as lucky as myself to find something a little extra in our soup oi maybe just our food hut there arc other alternatives Like I mentioned before these fine cuisine's (creatures) are able to be purchased at fine stores Don't wail for them to appear in your Vegetable Soup go out and get them Anonymous Editor Regarding the article about diversity in hiring First congratulations on the continuing aggressiveness and commitment to journalistic principles of inquiry and openness I'd like to address some misapprehensions though which seem to be implied by the article on diveristy in hiring at CEU There is certainly no doubt that the institution is behind in this regard and needs to make strict efforts to catch up But the article might be construed to imply that this is the sole responsibility of a college president In fact faculty hiring decisions arc made by faculty committees The president orrers a position based on a committee recomindation Recent faculty hiring committees have been dominated by some of the most progressive members on campus in terms of commitment to diversity In addition to this Mike Peterson is among the faculty and leaders on campus most determined to sec issues hear cm campus hiring Specific recent examples of this arc protected by the confidentiality diversity of hiring procedure but an informal check among a broad sample of faculty should bear this mil Congratulations again on the excitement generated by your good work Sincerely yours Curlix Irani Duni'x IX'fcnse: The IVe 10 ankle CEU ranks ninth out of nine schools was wnllen to show ihe diversity at the College of Eastern Utah's Price campus The information contained in the USIIE report contained percentages of both the San Juan und Muled in the ancle The price campus' When the campus' arc scpcralcd the Price campus ranks ninth This was clearly that campus whercas for was on information no incltnled because specifically given not was diversity San Juan campus specific figures were supplied for Ihe Price campus MOWN torn RAM |