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FREE Monday, December 10 2012 • Vol. 131, No. 12 mainecampus.com The Maine Campus Best gifts for your beer-drinking buddies Editorial: Safe Campus didn’t need to go Men’s basketball routs, then becomes routed A guide for holiday presents for all those diffcult Page A10 University’s handling of sex-assault cases mer- Page A6 Black Bears blow out Fisher before Page B1 friends and family to shop for its watching after transition to Student Affairs receiving their own pounding by Florida State Nursing student Amy Buxton Reports leak out dead from ‘sudden illness’ from Belcher’s Buxton, 26, was preparing to graduate in December, memorial set for Wednesday By Derrick Rossignol murder-suicide Barnes also knew of Buxton’s Family members have in- 04116. News Editor love for animals. vited anyone whose life has been Any students who may have “She was a foster parent for touched by Buxton to attend her been affected by this event and are By Jesse Scardina “She is still breathing, but Senior nursing student Amy dogs,” Barnes said. “She loved memorial Wednesday, Dec. 12 at in need of counseling can contact Editor in Chief barely. Please hurry. I don’t Libby Buxton, 26, died Thursday helping out, and she was someone 11 a.m. at South Parish Congrega- the UMaine Counseling Center at know how many times he shot at Maine Medical Center in Port- who you could have a long con- tional Church, United Church of 581-1392. Faculty and staff coun- Reports continue to leak her. They had been arguing,” land due to “a sudden illness,” versation with, even if you had Christ in Augusta. selors can be reached through the out about former Kansas City Shepherd said. according to a message posted on just met her.” The family also asks that in Employee Assistance Program at Chiefs linebacker and UMaine The majority of the record- Dec. 6 via FirstClass by Dean of Barnes said that she and Buxton lieu of fowers, please send all 581-4014. alumnus Jovan Belcher’s last ing is indecipherable due to Students Dr. Robert Dana. had a class together on Wednes- donations in Buxton’s memory hours before he fatally shot the baby’s crying. Buxton, a native of Augusta, days and that Buxton wasn’t to Almost Home Rescue, P.O. Jesse Scardina contributed to his girlfriend Kasandra Per- Late Friday night, the Kan- volunteered at Almost Home there last week. Barnes recalled Box 9421 #377, So. Portland, ME this report. kins then drove to Arrowhead sas City Police Department Rescue, a Maine-based “all-breed seeing Buxton Stadium and shot himself in released dash cam video from canine rescue group dedicated to in class follow- front of coaches and team of- when two officers responded saving lives and fnding homes for ing Thanksgiving ficials. to reports of a man sleeping stray, abandoned & surrendered and said that she On Tuesday, three days af- inside his vehicle for a couple dogs in high kill shelters,” accord- didn’t notice any- ter the incident that took both of hours with his lights on and ing to its Twitter profle. thing wrong with Belcher’s and Perkin’s lives, the vehicle running. Buxton, a 2005 graduate of her. According to the 911 call for help from Officers approached Cony High School, was prepar- Barnes, she was Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Belcher’s Bentley, with the ing to graduate this month with a helping a friend Shepherd, was released to the linebacker passed out inside nursing degree. Her mother, Ann fnd her dog that public. of it, which was parked in Buxton, will accept her nursing had run away. Heard in the background the driveway of Brittni Glass’ pin, according to Buxton’s obitu- “She was of the frantic phone call is the house. Belcher described ary in the Kennebec Journal. helping my close baby of Belcher and Perkins, Glass as his girlfriend to the According to Emily Barnes, a friend who lost Zoey, as Shepherd pleads with officers. senior nursing student who had a her dog,” Barnes the dispatcher for an ambu- Some of the transcript be- number of the same classes with said. “Buxton lance to arrive. tween the officers and Belcher Buxton dating back to their soph- was very adamant Some of the transcript reads reads as follows: omore year, Buxton was a “very about helping her as follows: Officer: “Sir, where are you nice girl.” fnd her dog. She “Oh my God. Oh my God. headed tonight?” “She was the type of person was giving her Kasi, the baby is crying. … Belcher: [Indecipherable] that would do anything for any- names to vari- Please get an ambulance Officer: “Upstairs in this one,” Barnes said. “She was self- ous dog-tracking Facebook here!” Shepherd screamed to building? OK, so you’re less, compassionate, friendly.” places.” Senior nursing student Amy Libby Buxton, 26, died Thursday from a ‘sudden illness.’ the 911 dispatcher. not going to be driving any- “OK, we’re on the way. where? We’ve been on the way the Officer: “Look dude. You whole time. How old is the live right here. You just need patient?” the dispatcher asked to go upstairs dude.” Student Affairs to take over Shepherd. Officer: “You live right “Twenty-two,” Shepherd here? You just need to go up- said. stairs. OK? That’s going to be “Is she still breathing?” the duties held by Safe Campus See Belcher on A2 dispatcher asked. By Justin Lynch ment to serving all members of ue in the new program, located in be as forthcoming to those who For The Maine Campus this community by making this a the Offce of Student Affairs. have been a victim of sexual as- safer and more productive cam- “The new program will con- sault. Studies show that victims of Campus Choral Dean of Students Dr. Robert pus community.” tain all of the elements and more,” sexual assault and violence report Dana announced Wednesday that The Safe Campus Project was Dana said. “It will have more less often to administrative orga- the University’s Safe Campus located in the Women’s Resource coverage because sexual violence nizations like the offce of Student Project has been reconfgured Center in Fernald Hall, founded prevention is now being discussed Affairs, and report more often to performs as a new Sexual Violence Re- on a six-year grant from the U.S. in Residential Life Programs, free-standing bodies like the for- sponse, Education and Prevention Department of Justice in 2001 to Greek Programs and many more. mer Safe Campus Project, where Program to be located within the focus on sexual and domestic vio- We didn’t want to take the name they feel more comfortable. A Division of Student Affairs. In lence awareness on campus for of the Safe Campus project be- 2003 study by the U.S. Depart- October, Dana stated that the Safe the entire community. It special- cause it was proprietary. The new ment of Justice showed that less Campus Project would continue ized in confdential, on-campus Sexual Violence Response, Edu- than 5 percent of those who have to fnd a replacement coordina- counseling specifcally designated cation, and Prevention Program been a victim of sexual assault tor after the previous coordinator, for sexual and domestic issues. will allow us to connect the dots in on a college campus report to the Carey Nason, resigned in June. After 2006, the University decid- ways that the Safe Campus Proj- proper authorities. In an email to the University ed to continue the program, due ect could not.” Alex, an undergraduate student community, Dana wrote, “We to its success. In the email, Dana Concerns have been raised that who wished not to reveal her last have been well served by the Safe stressed the programs under the the new program, located in the name for personal reasons, ex- Campus Project and its commit- Safe Campus project will contin- offce of Student Affairs will not pressed that she felt more comfort- able in freestanding organizations, like the former Safe Campus proj- ect, rather than the new Sexual Vi- olence Response, Education and Prevention Program located in the offce of Student Affairs. “I would feel uncomfortable going into the offce of Student Affairs to report something,” she said. “Going to the counseling center on campus, I feel more comfortable because I know that everyone in the center is going through the same thing that I am. It is intimidating go- ing into an offce where there are many things going on, and some- one could see me.” Dana said this was a concern when the Presidential Working Group made the decision to move the responsibility to the offce of Student Affairs, but they had to make sure that the University Derrick Rossignol • News Editor Haley Johnston • Photo Editor University of Maine chorus group Campus Choral performs in the A picture of Fernald Hall, where Safe Campus was located. The organization has been eliminated and See Safe Campus on A5 Memorial Union on thursday afternoon.