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Merrimack College Merrimack ScholarWorks The Beacon College Publications & Events 9-17-2010 The Beacon - Vol 9 No. 1 - September 17, 2010 Merrimack College Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/beacon Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Merrimack College (2010). The Beacon - Vol 9 No. 1 - September 17, 2010. Available at: https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/beacon/25 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications & Events at Merrimack ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Beacon by an authorized administrator of Merrimack ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Warriors Off to Strong Start page 9 The student newspaper of Merrimack College Established 2001 Vol. IX, Number 1 Friday, September 17, 2010 www.merrimackbeacon.com New School Year Brings Changes residence halls, excluding Ashley Sarris ‘12 the townhouses. Editor-In-Chief Also available to students Getting your voice heard 24/7 is the Sakowich Cam - on campus is a high priority pus Center. Although for for most Merrimack stu - now the Warrior’s Den and dents. Students write for Sparky’s Place don’t have the school newspaper, speak extended hours, the Fitness out at Student Government Center, however is always Association meetings, and open. The Sakowich has partake in student organi - new carpeting and re - zations like Merrimack Pro - painted walls. The Mack gram Board to try to make a Shack was knocked down on difference. the second floor and a new Changes are taking place office was built for Father in departments all over Ray Dlugos and Administra - campus, responding to the tive Assistant Beverly requests of students. For ex - Lavallee, creating the Office The Welcome Back Dance brought to you by the Office of Student Involve - ample, for years students of Mission and Student Af - ment, MPB and SAAC on September 10 was held in the MPR and featured have complained about not fairs. professional light and sound systems and acted as a Pep Rally for all fall being able to get into resi - sports teams. Students age 21 and older enjoyed the luxury of a beer gar - dence halls past 11 p.m.; den featuring $2 beers and wine. now all resident students See “CHANGES” continued ~Photo courtesy of Rebecca Ryan~ have 24-hour access to all on page 3 What an Entrance: Hopey Arrives Patrick Lawlor ‘13 has a collection of stakehold - Merrimack, can definitely Associate Editor-In- Chief ers, faculty, staff, students, identify what Hopey has done alumni and the community. for Merrimack so far. President Hopey came on to We want to serve them as best “While President Hopey campus in July, and things as we can,” he said. has only been on campus with have not been the same since. Dave Foreman, senior res - us since the summer, he has One faculty member said, ident advisor in the apart - been very busy at work. In his “there hasn’t been energy like ments is very pleased with the short time, his commitment to this on campus in a long time.” President’s actions so far. “I the success and future of Mer - Arriving from Northeastern was really impressed that he rimack has been clear as he University, Hopey came storm - was walking around on move continues to look for ways to ing in and began making in day, getting his face out make our institution even changes. “There are a lot of there. No president in my time stronger. He brings lots of big changes here, this is a very ex - has done that,” said Foreman. ideas and excitement to our citing time for Merrimack” “It is just too bad that this is campus community,” said Hopey said of his changes to my last year, and I’ll only have Hicks, who in her time at Mer - campus. “Our main goal is to one year with him as my pres - rimack has been on campus for provide better service and bet - ident” he added. three presidents. ter support for all of our con - Hopey has been a crowd stituencies.” pleaser on campus, according Hopey hopes that alumni to students, but for faculty and President Hopey addressing the Merrimack will be more active in campus, staff as well. Sara Hicks, As - Community at the 2010-2011 Academic and that they take pride in sistant Director of Residence See “ENTRANCE” continued Convocation on September 7 their alma mater. “Merrimack Life, and a 2004 graduate of on page 3 ~Photo courtesy of Merrimack PR~ SubmiCssionsn......t....e.....n.....t....s.page 2 In This Issue! School News........................page 3 New Alcohol Commuter Volleyball Opinion.................................page 7 Laws Helpline Sports...................................page 9 page 3 page 8 page 11 Page 2 The Beacon September 17, 2010 Editorial Board Editor in Chief Ashley Sarris Jeanne Clery Report F Associate Editor in Chief Why Colleges Must Report Patrick Lawlor F Copy Editor Crime Statistics A Abigail Clark How a Propped Door Resulted in Student’s Rape, Murder T Sports Editor Kayla Morong Sergeant Jan Fuller students who reported the crime to Lessons to be learned? S Merrimack College Department of the police several days later. Police Services There were other aberrant be - At Merrimack, we’ve seen every - Staff haviors exhibited by this student thing from broom handles to beer Jeanne Clery was a freshman at that should have raised red flags to cans propping open doors, coins Arianna Faro Lehigh University in April of 1986 fellow students and administrators stuck in mechanisms in an effort to N Helen Gillis when she was bru - prevent them from locking Timothy Iannacone tally raped and mur - properly, and doors simply Heather Kent dered in her bed left wide open for easy ac - O Mark Lindquist where she was cess. Officers routinely pa - Alex McNeil asleep. The crime oc - trol residence areas to curred at 6am and check and close doors they C Nicole Meaney Katie O’Neil was perpetrated by a find open, only to return Alexandra Picardi fellow student she later to find them propped A Ryan Pinette didn’t know. again. Each incidence of Maureen Rooney It was easy for the propping is logged, reports Kim Trapasso murderer to enter of such activity forwarded E her dorm because to Residence Life, and fines three automatically levied for frequent offend - B locking doors, just ers. like the ones we have Before you prop a door, here at Merrimack, consider the possible conse - had been taped open quences. Not everyone on by other students so campus has honorable in - E that they could gain tentions, and offering an easy access to the open invitation to enter a G dorm rooms of other building is asking for trou - students with whom ble. It’s not only the in - they were involved in tended guest who can gain E relationships. access. Merrimack is a safe Jeanne was raped, campus. However, never L sodomized, her neck become complacent enough cut, and she was Jeanne Clery before her untimely death at age 18 to believe that “it can’t hap - Advisor strangled to death by pen here” or “it won’t hap - L Jim Chiavelli fellow student Joseph Henry, who alike, but in the interest of keeping pen to me.” had originally entered the room to such criminal activity under wraps, Adjunct Professor steal, something he’d done many little was done. Personal safety requires per - O times before on campus. After the Jeanne’s parents discovered that sonal responsibility. Customer Service murder, he finished his originally there had been 38 violent crimes on C intended crime before leaving. His the campus in the two years prior to (978) 837-5555 Business Advertising penchant for theft was a behavior Jeanne’s murder that had never (978) 837-5911 Emergency The Beacon is the best and most effi - fueled by a drug and alcohol prob - been publicized. As a result of this cient way to reach the Merrimack lem and one that was well-known to incident the “Crime Awareness and Merrimack College Annual Clery College Community. To place a his friends who did nothing to stop Campus Security Act of 1990” was Report can be found on the Police K Classified, Print Advertisement, or him. Afterwards, he returned to his enacted, requiring colleges and uni - Services webpage.The complete Online Advertisement please con - tact us at apartment and bragged to his room - versities to provide accurate crime story of Jeanne Clery can be found mate about what he’d done. Subse - statistics annually. at www.securityoncampus.org C [email protected] quently, he told other fellow Corrections A The Beacon is committed to provid - ing its readers with thorough, accu - rate, and balanced news coverage. If M you believe we have made an error in reporting or have questions con - I cerning any of our issues please con - tact us at Interested in Joining [email protected] R Contact Us The Beacon? R The Beacon c/o Student Involvement E 315 Turnpike St. You’re Invited to North Andover, MA 01845 Phone:(978)-837-3562 The Beacon Open House M [email protected] www.merrimackbeacon.com September 22, 2010 at 6:30 PM Santagati Classroom 319 Page 3 The Beacon September 17, 2010 School News New Alcohol Laws Strictly Enforced Student Commentary Alexandra Picardi, ‘13 dents who are inexperienced? Why permitted at Registered Events (per forth from their room to get the rest Staff Writer are the people who are of age taking each person who is 21 or older): six of their alcohol. This will increase the hit because younger students 12-ounce containers of beer/wine their chances of being arrested for There has been much contro - can’t control themselves? cooler or half a pint of liquor or one being intoxicated in public.