Check out the 9/ Extra Point inside COLLEGIATE111th YEAR, ISSUE 120 collegiatetimes.com TIMESFriday, September 11, 2015 An independent, student-run newspaper serving the Virginia Tech community since 1903 Upgrades Potential enhance scam resident targets buildings students Renovations across Virginia Tech police campus improve are investigating housing facilities and suspicious sign-up the overall student sheets for “High living experience. Quality Tutoring.” LEWIS MILLHOLLAND RICHARD CHUMNEY news editor news editor For the first time in The Virginia Tech Police Virginia Tech history, every Department is currently residential building on investigating suspicious campus has access to free tutoring sign-up sheets wireless internet. The $4 CATIE CARRERAS / COLLEGIATE TIMES believed to be a potential million project, along with Dining services advertises open positions outside of Au Bon Pain, Sept. 10, 2015. A severe shortage scam. Police sources say a barrage of other summer of staff has prompted Dining Services to raise starting wages for new employees. that the forms could be used renovations, combine to to extract personal infor- bring an updated campus to mation from students. The sign-up sheets Renovations were found within a single Dining Services defi cit classroom inside Davidson VT-Wireless in all Hall on Aug. 27 and subse- residence halls Virginia Tech dining services is faced with a retention rate 20 percent lower than quently brought to the normal, resulting in long lines and a shift in the quality of their food services. VTPD’s attention by a Pritchard gym professor. becomes Deputy Chief of Police Innovate LLC lab MEGAN VAZQUEZ The deficit in the number of was so great was because you could Major Mac Babb described news staff writer employees has students taking make your own salad, and now it’s the forms as nondescript Emergency 911 notice of inconveniences like more generic than the Owens salad and said that the form phones built into Faced with a 35 percent employee limited menu options, some closed bar.” included two columns for dorm hallways retention rate, 20 percent lower shops and extremely long lines. Both Stuck and Hutsko said the names and phone numbers. than normal, Virginia Tech Dining “Since the lines are long, I almost food quality is still top notch, but the Across the top of the Roof work on East Services is struggling to recruit feel like the food preparation service itself leaves something to be document was a header & Main Campbell a full staff to maintain expected process is rushed,” said Anna Stuck, desired. reading “High Quality service. sophomore meteorology major. “For Faulkner said Dining Services Tutoring.” No contact or More laundry “Since Aug. 12, we’ve hired example, I’ve gotten two smoothie has had some struggles in a few business information was machines in 461 members that have been fully bowls from Jamba Juice where they shops on campus, which would included nor were there Johnson trained and put on board in the were not blended all the way.” explain the influx of complaints. instructions regarding dining centers,” said Ted Faulkner, Stuck said she now dreads “Turner Place, in particular, has where to submit the form. Remodeling placs director of dining services. “We’ve going to get food from the dining struggled a little bit with the staffing At the moment VTPD for Pritchard 4th received 738 applicants.” halls because it takes longer than it levels in a couple of the concepts is attempting to determine floor crossover Even after hosting three job should. over there, so that’s probably more the legitimacy of the sheets, fairs to bring in new hires, Dining Other students have noticed visible to some of the students but with no one claiming Hokies this fall. Services is tracking below normal a shift in the quality of service than some of the other locations on responsibility, the investi- Every hall is now for the number of applicants. provided at some shops within the campus,” Faulkner said. gation is at a stalemate. equipped with at least “It’s tracking about 10 to 15 dining halls. Faulkner said an easy alternative “At this point we don’t one emergency phone per percent in the student ranks less for “The salad place in Turner is just to waiting in the constant lines at have any additional infor- floor. The blue police box us, and it’s the same way in the locals sad,” said Alexis Hutsko, senior Turner Place is to walk to the resi- mation as for the veracity provides a live connection for non-student wage,” Faulkner communication studies and religion dential side of campus where dining of High Quality Tutoring, with the Virginia Tech said. and culture major. “The reason it there is no business police, bypassing the dial see DEFICIT / page 5 tone. Out on Oak Lane, see SCAM / page 5 renovations were completed on the Sigma Chi house to improve the student living experience, and the Gate House is under renovation Colbert Nation sticks late-night landing to become a community gathering space. With a star-studded premiere and a shiny new set, Stephen Colbert rung in a new era on “The Late Show” Tuesday. All upgrades to resi- dential buildings comes PAYTON KNOBELOCH settled, David Letterman directly from student room lifestyles editor chugged along on “The rent. Late Show,” keeping with “Everything we do — The late-night tele- the classic formula. every new building we vision landscape has seen Now that Letterman construct, ever roll of some drastic changes in has retired, the months toilet paper we buy, every the past few years. Jay of waiting are over, and bit of electricity we use Leno finally stepped Comedy Central’s pundit — all has to come from down to make way for powerhouse Stephen that (housing rent),” said Jimmy Fallon, whose Colbert has moved into Kenneth Belcher, senior opening on “Late Night” New York City’s Ed associate director for invited in SNL alum Seth Sullivan Theater. housing services. “There’s Meyers. James Corden This raised several no extra money, the state’s stepped in for Craig questions, namely if not coming to rescue us.” Ferguson on “The Late and how Colbert would Keeping that in mind, Late Show.” modernize the show, every upgrade is made with as well as how his careful deliberation. Comedy Central sensi- Although no less bilities would fit with a important, a number of the Stephen Colbert major network like CBS. projects completed this “... has the perfect Most of all, audiences summer are less flashy than wondered how Colbert’s the introduction of campus- balance of classic show would approach the wide Wi-Fi. Johnson Hall comedy and bizarre host himself: keep up the COURTESY OF CBS TELEVISION STUDIOS received additional washers humor, even without Fox News caricature or and dryers. Ventilation was transition toward a more Turns out, Stephen filmed all over New York massive for a building improved in the Donaldson the crutch of a Bill genuine persona? Colbert The Late-Night City with that shiny CBS crammed somewhere Brown Graduate Life O’Reilly parody.” If Tuesday’s premiere Host has the perfect budget in a way that says, between 53rd and 54th Center. Main and East is any evidence, “The Late balance of classic comedy “We did this because we Street on Broadway. Campbell received roof and Show” is in incredibly and bizarre humor, even can.” It’s a gigantic, two- flashing work. All these saw a new capable hands. Longtime without the crutch of a With an enthusi- level studio full of the red, “So much of the work that direction for late-night fans of Colbert (myself Bill O’Reilly parody. astic “Play ball!” from white and blue we saw on our facilities staff does will TV, aiming for younger included) should have From the first seconds Colbert’s old boss, Jon Colbert’s last set but with never be seen by students audiences with focus on nothing to worry about, of the premiere, we have Stewart, we move into a much bigger focus on the because it’s behin viral, shareable content. and newcomers may be a baffling rendition of the newly refurbished Ed audience that Letterman see UPGRADES / page 6 For a while after the dust won over pretty easily. the national anthem, Sullivan Theater. It looks see COLBERT / page 7 LAB ANALYZES VOLLEYBALL TAKES ON POLLUTED WATER INDIANA INVTL. /CollegiateTimes ctlifestyles Analysts fi nd lead in The Hokies head to the Flint drinking water. midwest for weekend play. 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