Dorm Students OD on Alcohol Rick Randolph Night As Best She Can Remember
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, , • I - page ~$. A.rCll\. yes i--- ,till i . - e'l:: 075 II' LD7'),9,f:. _.j The Got your heart on? :;~ I Or: l,:n.. _ ") Our Dimensions staff 110, ... 'i.\Il'l,. :' vol. 40 examines the holiday dedicated " '~r'\~ . 4 19C)8 FQt, I - -' ..... n " 10.'. 10v.. 1<w'. '1 1-a.L'"r - • ( .,'- Q tiller 1.:lIn L 1 ) ... '. J - ,. .... ..... ... La)tson Auditorium. -..,~'l' , "~ ~ , D 40, Issue 2 Volume California State UniversIty, Chico Wednesday, February 4, :1.998 "~ ',iI I .,oi,"nn :' One ij ;I Matt Notley ';1 Managing Editor Dorm students OD on alcohol RIck Randolph night as best she can remember. When she finally made it home had this thing sticking out of my "We usually don't have to Ofor3 Senior Writer She knows she went to a pre to her Shust,l HaH residence, one of arln." pump their stomachs," As if the torrential rains party where she drank vodka and the resident advisors there found That thing was a "banana Marquardt said. "Usually they weren't enough to put a damper "I didn't think 1 drank that Hawaiian punch and then to a her and ~al1cd an ambulance. bag." have done that by themselves, on your Monday, students, staff much. I don't know how I got fraternity house, where she said That was the second time in John Marquardt, the nurses which is infinilely more efficient and faculty had to deal with the home. I think someone carried she didn't have anything more to less than a week a Chico State manager at the Enloe Hospital than anything we can do." loss of elevator service in BUlle me." drink. ' , resident advisor had to call an emergency room, said a "banana He said most of the cases he Hall. A Chico State University stu "I remember 1 was really ambulance for an overly-intoxi bag" is a bright yellow solution has seen are not life threatening All three elevators were out dent, who asked that her name drunk," she said. "I've never cated student. that is intravenously given to of service at the same time not be used, recounts Friday been like that before." "The next thing I remember, I patients to re-hydrate their bodies. see OvenloseP.5l Monday in Butte Hall. The call button on the first floor was stuck in the "on" posi tion so all the elevators Another floody winter? '~: remained on the first floor Campus ;:' "thinking" people were waiting to get on, said Bill McGinnis, director of Facilities Management and Services. arrests, Campus workers were able to get two elevators working before the end of the day, but the one on the far left was still evicts out of order that night. McGinnis said U.S. Elevators has been called in to do perma n(;nt repair. resident McGinnis said he gets one or two service calls a week for Kimberly Bolander citmpus elevators, the elevators News Editor in Butte and in Meriai1l Library receive the most cal1s - those The eviction of a University elevators are simply used the Village resident today will final most. ly bring peace to tenants, who But what about all the eleva have been too afraid to file a tors with expired permits, Bill? c'omplaint against the man McGinnis said every year police call "strange" and "very Facilities Management submits intimidating." the permits for re-evaluation, James Strausser, 31, is sched but it sometimes takes up to a uled to make a plea to the Buttc year for the state elevator County Court in Chico today at ir,spectors to come to campus. 12:30, in response to his arrest at McGinnis said within the last the 'apartment complex Thursday .j 10 years the state inspector staff by University Police. 1.1.;,..ji has been severely cut back. Ken Raimy (rigbt) helps load a truck with gravel and sand. Chico received more than four inches of rain on Monday and Tuesday. Strausser was taken into cus tody when he pushed a r Official escort University Village resident with Just ask our sports editor, his chest in front of Officer ... Steve Estrada, and he'll tell you Laura Lindstadt-Denney. He has ~" last Wednesday's home men's Chico reacts, revels in rain been held at Butte County Jail in basketball game against U.c. OrovilIe since his arrest. Davis was the most exciting Rick Randolph "We knew people were going "[Apartment] Number 39 did flipped across a blue turp and He is charged with two misde Chico State game he's ever Staff Writer to be getting stupid in that a rain dance and now we're par into the mud. meanors: disturbing the peace on seen. And I wish I was there, puddle out there so we got the tying," yelled one woman and "Hey, maybe they'll cancel a school campus, and battery. II bt!cause Steve isn't the only one While Chico residents best seats." another· partier mentioned school tomorrow," yelled Strausser has had a public ":1 who felt that way. responded with the pounding Fifteen people piled out on a something about skinny-dip another woman ~s Chico State defender appointed to him, a :,.1 "It was all we talked about on rain, Chico State University balcony in Creekside ping later ip. the night. students Marrissa Callahan and court official said. Thursday around here," said Students pounded beer. Apartments watching their As trucks barreled through Lindsay Shama floated past her At the University Policc sta ~. Teresa Clements, sports infor "We thought we needed friends inner tube behind a the water, mini-waves lapped in an inner tube. tion, Investigator Larry Burnham i mation director for the Chico some food, so we bought a truck through knee deep water up on a makeshift beach where said Strausser has regularly been 1 State athletic department. keg," said senior Trent Ford. in the parking lot. several revelers dove and see Rain p. 4 I thc_causc_oLc.omplaintJLbotlLon, But exciting isn't always see Evicted p. 8 I good; U.C. Davis went home the victor on a controversial call and left Chico State fans and players with a hard loss to swallow. Internet sellers rival (See Sports page 9) The refs had to be escorted from the gym by university university bookstores police right after the game "just for precaution," Clements said. R. Elrlk Ott campus with fliers was sim'ply "Everyone was so stunned. Staff Writer ineffective. " We didn't know what to do," After brainstorming with Clements said. "We just wanted Students tired of paying high some friends, o'ne of whom was a to make sure nothing happened prices for new and used text computer science student from to (the 'refs)." books and getting a fraction of Chico, he created his website. Fortunately nothing did hap their cost upon sell-back now "The basic idea is to connect pen to the refs. University police have more options, . students. on their own said it's not uncommon for thanks to the campus," Milgram The Darwin Project is the joint escorts to be requested after Internet. said. "If you have effort of Dr. Charles Urbanowicz sporting events. By using any a book to sell, (left), Martha Acuna, Clark I of the numerous you just adver 8randstatt and Donna Crowe. Reach Matt Notley at 898-5625,fax virtual bulletin tise it. If you Photos courtesy or C. Urbanowicz Above: Darwin's ship, the Beagle. 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