John Carroll University Carroll Collected The aC rroll News Student 11-1-2012 The aC rroll News- Vol. 89, No. 8 John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "The aC rroll News- Vol. 89, No. 8" (2012). The Carroll News. 998. http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews/998 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aC rroll News by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2012 election: The CN voter’s guide p. 10 – 11 THE Thursday,C NovemberARROLL 1, 2012 The Student Voice of John Carroll University N Since 1925 EWSVol. 89, No. 8 JCU feels effects of Sandy Grasselli grows up Ryllie Danylko whole inside wall, there are water spots, and Updates planned for the library Campus Editor [water is] dripping from the ceiling,” she said. Abigail Rings She and her roommate also found puddles of Staff Reporter Over the past few days, Superstorm Sandy water on top of their armoires. Grasselli Library and Breen Learning Center may be seeing has been wreaking havoc along the East Coast, Other Campion residents, sophomores Marie some updates to policies to make the library more accessible causing damage to vital infrastructures, school Bshara and Rachel Distler, had water leaking and useful to students. The updates will include everything from cancellations, widespread power outages and through their window during the storm. “Rachel whiteboards in the study rooms to a 24-hour room for student use. even deaths. While the only reports of fatalities Michelle Millet, the new director for the library, has been asking kept switching towels near the window because on John Carroll University’s campus are those students what they want their library to look like and has started everything was getting soaked. The blinds were of umbrellas, many students, faculty and staff to create a vision for a library that is “vibrant, active and filled turning a different color because of the water,” members have experienced issues with power with ideas.” Bshara said. The main concern for the library at the moment is how to use outages and leaky roofs caused by the storm. Junior Jasmine Brown, a resident of Bernet space effectively. This would mean changing any available spaces Bernie Beyer, director of the physical plant Hall, started seeing rainwater leaking into the into group study areas and then adding “soft seating” to the re- at JCU, said there were 37 reports as of Tues- ceiling of her dorm room as early as Sunday maining areas. For the group study areas, the chalkboards will be day afternoon that the facilities department was replaced with whiteboards, and there may be additional portable evening. She and her roommates notified their rushing to respond to. Roof leaks were reported whiteboards for students to check out for use in the library. “[The resident assistant about the damage, but the in almost every building on campus, including whiteboards] are cleaner and get more use,” Millet said. maintenance department did not repair the dam- the Dolan Center for Science and Technology, In addition to more group study areas, more quiet study areas age until Tuesday. have been opened. As some students may have noticed, the G.K. Millor Hall, the O’Malley Center and Rodman “When we woke up Tuesday morning, the Chesterton Room on the third floor of Grasselli Library has been Hall. ceiling had begun to sink down from the first opened during specific times for quiet study. This will not only Along with much of the country, including leaking spot; an hour later, the second leaking let students have more quiet space, but will allow students to see over 800 people in University Heights, residents “some of the truly rare and wonderful gems” that the library has spot had begun to sink,” she said. The damage of Hamlin and Campion halls were without in its special collections, Millet emphasized. was so severe by then that the crew had to com- power for about three hours on Monday night. One of the exciting changes to library tools will be the addition pletely tear down the part of the ceiling that had Beyer said, “Hamlin was totally dark for a of an online reservation tool, which will allow students to reserve filled with water. group study rooms. In addition, a new system called “Discovery little less than an hour because the generator The storm didn’t just cause destruction in Layers” will be implemented. This will essentially “Google-ize” failed to start, so [the facilities department] had residence halls. Senior Joe Fisher stopped by the library’s resources, making it possible to search many of the to come in and start it.” The power was also out St. Francis Chapel on Monday night around different databases at once. at the Green Road Annex on Monday night, ac- The library also wants to make sure that the books and resources 1:30 a.m. and noticed leaking in multiple places cording to Beyer. being purchased or that are already on the shelves are what the John behind the tabernacle. He said, “I called CSS, Junior Ally Flesner, who lives on the fourth Carroll University community actually uses. To do this, the library and they quickly came over and put some trash floor of Campion, said her room experienced will start to allow “patron-driven acquisitions.” This means that staff, students and faculty will be able to request different e-books water damage on Monday evening. “[On] the Please see STORM, p. 2 for the library to add to its collection, thus expanding the e-books assortment and giving the community what it wants in terms of information. The library recently launched “Carroll Collected” and will JCU welcomes new women & gender studies program launch “Selected Works,” two new online sources. “Carroll Col- Abbey Christopher the experiences of men and women historically and lected” is a collection of images from the University archives and Staff Reporter geographically, understand connections between gender digitized selections from special collections. “Selected Works” will and power in a global context, examine gender roles be a site that highlights faculty work and research. This will make John Carroll University recently announced that a from multiple perspectives and disciplines and evaluate any of the faculty’s open-access work available in Google searches. new program, women’s and gender studies, will become feminist critical scholarship and methodologies.” “This will give our University more visibility,” said Millet. available beginning this semester. This program will Gatto believes that the study of women and gender is The library is also working with other departments to make replace the concentration in perspectives on sex and important in the process of becoming men and women tutoring more readily available in the library. In addition, there will gender, which is currently being phased out of the cur- for others. She said, “Clearly, it is a field of study that be a student running her “self-sustaining clothes closet” out of a riculum, according to Katherine Gatto, director of the should contribute to a greater understanding of who we room on the first floor of the library. This is a closet full of donated women’s and gender studies program and professor in are as women and men; and armed with this knowledge, Please see LIBRARY, p. 3 the Spanish department. we are better equipped to become a woman or man for Brenda Wirkus and Dianna Taylor, professors in the others.” department of philosophy, submitted the proposal for the She also acknowledged that this program can eas- new program of study to the Committee on Academic ily be combined with any other program and that the Policies, and the faculty approved. women’s and gender studies program is “personally Gatto said, “There has always been interest in this enriching and vocationally useful.” field, and the enrollment in courses that now apply to “In the last two years, we have had several JCU this new program have always been high. There are graduates who have gone on to pursue a Master of Arts many such programs across the country in colleges and degree in this field. We hope to increase that number universities (including Jesuit universities) that have been with the new program,” Gatto said. in existence for quite a while.” All of the courses that are part of the women’s and According to the women’s and gender studies gender studies program will “examine diversity and the website, a few of the main skills the program aims to consequences of unequal power and opportunity, study Photo from jcu.edu develop in students are “[the ability] to recognize how Improvements to the library will include more study space social and cultural constructions of gender have shaped Please see WOMEN, p. 2 and whiteboards for the study rooms. Index Finance 13 Inside this issue: Find us online Campus 2 Diversions 14 JCU football defeats Arts & Life 4 Editorial 17 Wilmington for 5th Sports 6 Op/Ed 18 win in a row, p. 6 issuu.com/ World News 10 Classifieds 20 Like us on Facebook @TheCarrollNews thecarrollnews 2 Campus Nov. 1, 2012 www.jcunews.com The Carroll News Campus Continuing coverage: Briefs Inspection records address students’ claims of food contamination Matt Hribar and distributor of the food. Abbey Vogel The second violation cited in the Sept. 26 report concerned The Carroll News improper food coverings over cuisine on display, allowing possible John Carroll Relay contamination of food products by consumers to occur.