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Opinion: Students Skeptical of 'Tobacco-Free' Campus Max Erickson / Sun Star UAF’S Tobacco-Free Policy Came Covered in Tobacco Products The Sun Star Vol 35 No 20 ( March 1st, 2016) Publisher The Sun Star Download date 08/10/2021 06:17:31 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7194 Volume XXXV, Issue #20 Tuesday, March 1, 2016 THEThe VOICE OF THE N ANOOKSun, YOUR SOURCE Star FOR STUDENT NEWS This month in history: Alien hunter drops by UAF for lecture pg. 2 Legislature Faculty senate threatens UAF proposes Police cuts new core Erin McGroarty requirements Sun Star Zach Sherman In the struggle to address Sun Star the University of Alaska’s fiscal crisis, the Alaska House finance Faculty Senate released the sub-committee has recently proposed list of courses for the new proposed cutting the UAF Police undergraduate General Education Department’s budget by one-third. Requirements (GER) beginning According to UAF Police at UAF in the fall of 2016. The Chief Keith Mallard, that means lists are part of what the Senate a cut of approximately $527,000. has deemed the “Bucket System.” At the moment, 67 percent of the The new program allows for police department’s budget is spent students to choose from a total of on commissioned police officers, 24 69 classes among three required percent is spent on dispatchers, and subsections to complete the same 15 8 percent is spent on community credit hours. By contrast the current service officers. A cut of this size is GER program, Perspectives on the disconcerting to Chief Mallard, as this Human Condition, consists of 15 means significant cuts to personnel credit hours of coursework, with and staffing spending, which could only a handful of choices among its result in lost positions at the station. 12 required classes. Both programs This is not the first time the police require students to select one ethics department has faced budget cuts. class from a list of six choices. “We’ve been cutting for years “That’s pretty awesome,” Angela now. We essentially trimmed out Norville, a 25-year-old sophomore everything we could,” Mallard said. studying American Sign Language, “Right now the vast majority of our Nanooks’ Autumn Childers drives to the hoop on Feb. 25 against Clan’s Elisa Homer. Childers said about the new list of GER classes. budget is personnel costs or staffing. scored 9 points for the Nanooks against Simon Fraser. The Nanooks lost 68-83. - Max Under the new requirements, People. With cuts at that rate it McKernan / Sun Star students will need to complete creates some huge challenges for us. at least three credits from the 12 “We’ve been through three Nanooks end disappointing season approved arts classes, at least three years of reductions already,” Vice credits from the nine approved that dropped 12 threes during their Chancellor of Administrative Services, Aaron Walling humanities courses or 22 languages Kari Burrell said. “And we’re getting match. Elisa Homer had 25 points classes, and six or more credits from to the point where the things we have Sun Star and Alisha Roberts brought 24 points. the 22 approved social sciences left are the things we really want.” They exposed the Nanooks from both Coming into the 2015-2016 courses from at least two different Chief Mallard’s biggest concern mid-range and the three-point line season, the women’s basketball disciplines. These requirements is safety on campus. Burrell also as they kept pouring in baskets. The team had been excited for a possible fall directly in line with the UA feels that the police department is third quarter was a beatdown, with berth in the GNAC tournament for Board of Regents’ policy regarding a great addition to campus safety. Simon Fraser outscoring the Nanooks post-season play. Then adversity hit general education requirements. “It’s my belief that when we are 24-15 to pull away and win 68-83. when senior Stephanie Toumson “The Board of Regents’ intent is good at what we do, which I believe “You know, it was unfortunate went down with a season-ending to homogenize the GERs,” Professor we are, we end up preventing a lot because I felt like we forced them to injury to her knee. Then the NCAA Rainer Newberry said, regarding the of the escalation of behavior so you take a lot of tough shots in the first and upheld their ruling, excluding the board’s move to align the GERs among don’t see as many of the bigger crimes second quarters,” Head Coach Cody Nanooks from the tournament. the three UA campuses in May 2015. on campus,” Mallard said. “With Bench said. “We knew they were good, The last two games of the season A comparison of the current UAA reductions in staffing it makes it harder and I was hoping we would have done epitomize the overall season for the GER course list and the new UAF to maintain that presence on campus.” a better job at contesting their shots.” Nanooks. Alaska couldn’t answer the list shows a distinct difference in how Continued “Police budget cuts” each campus identifies history courses. offensive firepower of Simon Fraser, Continued “Basketball” pg. 3 pg. 3 a three-point trigger-happy team Continued “Core requirements” pg. 3 Opinion: Students skeptical of 'tobacco-free' campus Max Erickson / Sun Star UAF’s tobacco-free policy came covered in tobacco products. into effect Dec. 31, 2015, but two Perhaps in the future the tobacco months later evidence of smoking ban could allow for proper receptacles can still be seen around campus. on campus, so people who do not listen Judging from the cigarette butts to the policy have a location to discard littering the ground in front of the their cigarettes other than the ground. MBS, behind Bartlett, and in the “Smoking isn’t illegal and pathways between buildings, the because it has always been a thing policy doesn’t seem to be working. on campus it is difficult to take it When the tobacco ban took away,” student Kelly Wilson said. effect and the cigarette receptacle “The ban really shouldn’t even be a bins went away, the result was not thing... I mean people aren’t going to a total halt in smoking as intended. stop simply because a ban is placed.” While some smokers leave campus, “There just isn’t a real pressure remaining smokers are left to to stop,” said student Rebecca discard their butts onto the ground. Balasek. “Of course if someone “There’s... been a decrease in tells them to stop they will, but smoking especially in like the main otherwise people don’t feel a sense public areas, but I’ve definitely seen of worry about getting caught.” cigarette butts lying around and Balasek said she has several smokers in more secluded areas,” friends who smoke on campus. student Bryant Klug said. “It’s gross, In terms of enforcement, there is all this trash everywhere the policy relies on the public and it doesn’t look that nice.” to act as enforcers and politely Fellow student Serena ask those who smoke to stop. McCormick said she would But of the students interviewed rather have the tobacco bins Continued “Tobacco-free” pg. 3 With the removal of cigarette receptacles on campus and smokers ignoring the ban, snow on campus than see the ground berms and parking lots have become the new ashtray. - Max Erickson / Sun Star Tweet us! @ uafsunstar Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Instagram! 2 The Sun Star March 1, 2016 www.uafsunstar.com NEWS ASUAF’s leadership attended legislative sessions in Juneau and did not meet this week. The public safety report is compiled from police blotter information and interviews with UAF police officers. Individuals named as arrested and / or charged with crimes in this report are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. place. They believe it is a clashing wallet contained credit cards and called police to say his car had been Heather Penn of personalities. The complaint was IDs. Officers provided the student stolen. The police informed him Sun Star forwarded to the dean of students. with a free lock. Police encourage his car was parked in the Taku Lot. students to lock up their stuff. Warrant Arrest 2/18/2016 10:13 p.m. - A Criminal Trespass complaint was made to police 2/17/2016 5:02 p.m. - A UAF 2/15/2016 3:56 p.m. - A driver involving three men yelling derogatory employee reported her purse stolen 2/20/2016 11:11 p.m. - A pulled over for speeding was found to comments at a women. The men from her office on the seventh floor of drunken man previously thrown have a $150 warrant out for his arrest. referenced the woman’s body and the Gruening Building. The employee out of the Pub was spotted by the Nicholas G. Guy, 30, of Fairbanks, made various catcalling comments. reports her office door is open all Fine Arts Building harassing people. was caught on Ballaine Road doing The female was observed outside day. She did not want to make a Officers responded and banned 57 MPH in a 40 MPH zone. Officers MBS when the harassment took statement, but did call and cancel him from campus for six months. discovered Guy had a warrant place. The men then left in a vehicle are her credit cards. The employee issued when he failed to appear in whereupon officers pulled them said the purse may have been lost. MVA court for a possession of marijuana over. Two of the men were students charge. Guy was taken into custody, who lived in the dorms.
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