Women's Health Practitioner and Alcohol Counselor Positions Combined
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Health Center p lanned to he 24 hours next f all;women 's Colby student charged health practitioner and alcohol counselor positions combined with burglary, awaits Adams, with the support of the judiciary verdict from By KATE RUSSO administration, decided that a better NEWS EDITOR allocation of staff positions in the The high student demand for a 24/7 Health Center would be to eliminate These decisions town and College health center over the past semester the position of a specific practition- are hard and I am has forced the administration to er for women's health and the posi- By LIZ BOMZE rethink the organization and alloca- tion of alcohol counselor by sorry for that. MANAGING EDITOR tion of positions within Colby's essentially combining them to make This is about health servers. An email sent to the the position of a Health Educator, After being charged with burglary student body on Jan. 23 stated that which will begin in fall of 2004. how the organi- and theft, Aaron B. Stepka '05 was "beginning in the fall of 2004, Colby Vice President of Student Affairs zation should be arrested from his Dana residence on will attempt to restore 24-hour-a-day, and Dean of Students Janice Monday morning by Waterville seven-day-a-week operation of the Kassman explained that Bolduc- shaped. Police. Apparently the 22 year-old Health Center." The email, sent by Marden was hired at a time when economics major broke into Dana's William D.Adams President William D. Adams, howev- Colby 's primary physician was dining hall office, stole a money safe President er, did not cover other major Health male, so the need for a women's s ' ECHO RLE PHOTO and drove downtown, where his car The Health Center will return back to 24/7 hours starting in fall 2004. Center changes, including the termi- health nurse practitioner was then became entrenched in a snowbank nation of the positions of Women's much greater. night nurse and is saddened by the offering alcohol and drug services is near the Mt. Merici Roman Catholic Health Nurse Practitioner, currently "Women's health is still a priority some women's health issues, nutri- loss of her position. turned to someone new." School. There, he abandoned both his held by Lydia Bolduc-Marden and of the College," Kassman said. tion, coordinating first year supper "I love my job; I want to keep my Adams explained the decision to car and the safe. Alcohol Counselor, currently held by Gynecological exams will need to seminars and smaller tasks, such as job," she said. eliminate these positions was "of Detective Alan D. Perkins of Alden Kent. be scheduled with Medical Director writing the Echo health column." "I have enjoyed working with the course connected to, and driven by, Waterville PD reported that police , an employee of f Adams stated that the administra- Melanie Thompson or Physician's Bolduc-Marden students over the years and believe but not solely dependent on the received information about the aban- tion has been thinking about health Assistant Jimmie Woodlee starting Colby for 18 years, was not laid off that they have come to trust what I consideration of 24/7 health care." doned 2001 Saturn at around 5 a.m.; services for months, noting "the ques- next fall. from Colby. Rather, she was offered have been able to offer them both He went on to explain that there is shortly thereafter, police took a call tion of specific forms of service with- According to Kassman, the posi- a position as a night nurse for next medically and as an alcohol coun- an absolute cap on the number of from the College, reporting the theft of in the context of the 24/7 question." tion of Health Educator will include fall and invited to apply for the posi- selor," Kent said. "I only hope that Looking at the scope of the orga- "being the advisor to [Student Health tion of health educator. However, they are respected and served well in nization within the Health Center, on Campus], alcohol counseling, she did not accept the position as a the future as the dif ficult task of Continued on Page 2 Continued on Page 2 TWG approves Dialogue Hackett attempts to strangle cellmate; evidence examina- Housing pilot for 2005-2006 tion period on case extended due to abundance of material means. Informal activities would him." It goes on to state, "On Dec. ty of the jail to keep Hackett away get more time," he said. "If she says By KAITLIN McCAFFERTY By KAITLIN McCAFFERTY EDITOR IN CHIEF include impromptu discussions of EDITOR IN CHIEF 19, 2003 the Corrections from other people. He is quoted in she needs it, we won't object." the particular theme from either a Emergency Response Team had to Stokes noted the "hundreds of local or world perspective. Formal Edward J. Hackett, the alleged be called in to extract Edward J. pieces of evidence." He said, "This The Trustee Working Group met programs would involve debates, killer of Colby senior Dawn Hackett from his cell due to his is not something neatly wrapped up in January and approved a Dialogue lectures, performances and pro- Rossignol, has been moved to the threatening to stab with a pencil any with a bow we can just send over to Housing pilot -for the 2005-2006 jects," the proposal states. Department of Corrections in one who entered." fyforepyer, it read her. It's hot like you see on TV; this academic year. Funding for each unit would be Warren, Me. after Sheriff of that Hackett said that he "should is a long process that can't begin at After considering the matter of Kennebec County Everett Flannery have killed the inmate," who he nine and end at 10." multicultura l housing, part of "The petitioned the court to have him attempted to strangle. Finally, it Ames said that she believes this Spectrum Proposal" that was sub- It cannot be removed from the county facility on stated that Hackett "informed staff will be enough time for her to go mitted to President William D. Dec. 22. Justice Donald H. Marden that he has often contemplated through the information. She said, Adams in December 2002, the TWG about enforcing was presiding. Also relating to the using the handles of cleaning instru- "after the next batch of information, "found this proposal too narrow in one political case, the discovery period for evi- ments to 'take out an officer.'" they can't have much more informa- scope, too potentially fragmenting dence has been expanded 30 days Although Sheriff Flannery was out tion. I should be able to finish it all up and based too exclusively on non- view or 'group- and the length of time that Pamela J. of the office this week, an article in with plenty of time to file motions." academic rationale. Therefore, the think ,' which Ames, Hackett's attorney, will have the Waterville Morning Sentinel quot- The original 60 days began on concept of multicultural housing to read the documents related to the ed him saying, "Lately he's continued Nov. 14 when Hackett was arraigned was not adopted," according to the would be anti- state's case has been expanded 60 to be aggressive toward staff and on murder and kidnapping charges. POOL PHOTO/MORNING SENTINEL, JIM EVANS "Dialogue Housing Proposal." From thetical to the days, until March 26. other inmates." Edward J. Hackett Stokes said he believes that the the idea of multicultura l housing, Hackett was being held in the The affidavit addressed the inabili- prehearing conference will be in however, a proposal for dialogue academic mis- county jail in Augusta until he ties of the Kennebec County Jail to the Waterville Morning Sentinel as late March or early April and said housing was created. sion of the allegedly assaulted his cellmate, properly house Hackett. "Due to our saying, "Even in our maximum that that would be when the trial Vice President of Student Affairs supposedly attempting to strangle current inmate population, our only security area, they do have contact date was decided upon. and Dean of Students Janice College. him, in an altercation over televi- option is to house Edward J. Hackett with other inmates. He was not able Hackett began his psychological Kassman said, "This is not multicul- sion programs, according to Deputy in our 72 hour holding area." This to get along with these people even evaluation by the State Forensic Trustee Working Group tural housing," Attorney General William Stokes. was not deemed an acceptable hous- for a short time." Service, according to Ames. Both Dialogue housing is considered "He had been acting up in jail, and ing situation because it prevents the Because of the large amount of the state and Hackett filed motions an alternative option that will "pro- the sheriff had had enough." area from being used for its intended material that Ames needs to sift in the fall asking for evaluations. vide an opportunity for students Although accused criminals are purpose. There was also no means for through, the deadline for her to go Ames said that the process "usually sharing broad intellectual interests $1,000, although the proposal does usually held in county jail until after Hackett to take a shower except mov- through the information and file isn't that long," however there have to live together and, with the assis- not say from where in the budget the sentencing, there is a system in ing him to the shower area near the motions has been extended for 60 been several mishaps that have tance of a faculty resident or associ- money would be allocated.