Eastern Progress, Thursday

Sing along The Eastern^ with Michael Johnathon's Woodsongs in this month's on the EDGE. Pro ogress.com No 1 !VP Cockrille ^ •« <*i£ r fr- *™ resigns from student affairs f^Baâêâ^"- 5*3" work in the mental health field, although she did not say with which Vice president company. She will not work at a university. Cockrille said she has not officially held position accepted the job yet, but that she more than likely would. £ Cockrille e-mailed and sent a letter ■P0 for 17 months to Glasser earlier this week. Glasser said yesterday that she was BYDBMTACKETT surprised by Cockrille's decision, but Editor that she also understands it "I certainly support people's person- Vice President of Student Affairs al and professional reasons for leaving," Dee Cockrille resigned Monday after Glasser said. 17 months at Eastern. Cockrille said Since receiving Cockrille's e-mail she will move to North Carolina to work in the mental health field. Monday, Glasser said she has consult- Cockrille said she had ed with students, faculty and planned to resign since staff about who should fill the August but made the decision post An acting vice president I two weeks ago. will be named Monday or Ktvin MarbrVProgrets "With the coming in of the Tuesday, Glasser said. new president, I thought I If s an important decision, Shirley Lowe, mail clerk in the Coatee BuNdng, sorts through mail and puts postage on It before it leaves campus. would go ahead and let her and I want to make sure we select her own team," Cockrille have a strong leader in that told The Progress Tuesday. area," Glasser said. President Joanne Glasser Cockrille said Tuesday she was appointed in August and would remain in office for took office Oct. 29. DeeCockriHe about two weeks. Baggies, gloves Cockrille said she wanted a was vies Before coming to Eastern, "9 to 5 job," which she hasn't president for Cockrille was dean of student had in the past 30 years. student affairs. affairs at Marshall University "I don't want to work 24 from 1994 to 2000. She took help workers hours a day now," Cockrille over as vice president of student •aid. "I'm really ready for the affairs at Eastern July 5,2000. kind of life where I can really work in While at Eastern, Cockrille helped my community and make a difference start several new programs and a lot of sort envelopes in my community." her time also has been spent develop- Cockrille will live back and forth ing Greek Row and the Brockton reno- BY JENMFER ROGERS between her houses in Richmond, West vation. Nmwaedhor Virginia and Charlotte, N.C., until mid- Cockrille said she enjoyed her time Despite anthrax scares across the nation, including one at January. At that time, she will perma- at Eastern. Berea College Tuesday that left the mailroom closed for over nently join her husband in Charlotte, "It's been a very good 17 months," a day. Eastern's mail employees don't seem to think the uni- she said. Cockrille said. "I have absolutely loved versity is in danger. In Charlotte. Cockrille said she will being here." Mailroom supervisor Leslie Long said the mailroom has only had three or four suspicious pieces, one of which was found Tuesday. She says mail the workers think may be Kevin MarbrVProgrest unsafe is sent away for testing, but that the mailroom hasn't If a n the nwN. Claude Jackson, mailroom employee, puts mail gotten any positive tests back. away so It can be delivered to students and offices on campus. Long says safety precautions are available if the workers choose to take advantage of them. "Of course there's all kinds of literature out right now," Long said Tuesday. And the workers have the option of wear- Public Safety handles ing rubber gloves, although some of them dont "A couple of them tried it for a day and decided it was too hard to sort the mail," Long said. powder nonchalantly Long says that all the workers are more cautious and more Bv JAME Vmow aware of unusual mail that comes through the mailroom now, and that procedures for handling suspicious mail outline Managing editor exactly what to do when they spot such a piece. Eastern's Division of Public Safety responded to a call of a "Double bag it, call public safety and wash your hands," powdery substance found in two locations in the Fountain Food Long said. Court last Thursday afternoon. She said that in her time at Eastern — five years — the David Freeland, senior director of dining services, said two mailroom only has dealt with about two pieces of suspicious locations — one near Sombrero's restaurant and the other a few mail In the past two or three weeks, however, the numbers feet away near a garbage can — were sectioned off until Public jumped to three or four pieces. Safety arrived. "We just didn't think about this kind of thing before," she Lt. Greg Lemons, a supervisor in the Division of Public said. Safety, said he responded to the call about 2 p.m. Thursday. He Claude Jackson, who has worked in the mailroom for 10 said the subetaSce found in the two locations appeared to be years, isn't concerned about anthrax scares either, especially finer than sugp, which likely was some kind of sugar substi- Kevin Martin/Progress since he's been through other threats in the mailroom. tute. "If s been worse than it is right now," Jackson said as he Lemons said because the substance was found in two sepa- sorted mail Tuesday afternoon. He usually checks for mail rate locations* It probably was not anything biohazardous. Glasser moves in; convocation today without a return address. Public Safety fdt there was not a threat because there were no Jackson says his colleagues make the work easier. notes or anything found with the substances, he said. After spending the weekend moving into the Blanton House. President Joanne "It's a pretty good bunch to work with," he said. After inspection. Lemons said three opened Sweet and Low Glasser wiH give a campus-wide convocation address today at 8 a.m. in Brock "Everybody shares the load." packets were found in the garbage can. The substance found Auditorium. Glasser will address faculty, students and staff for the first time. That load is as much as 2,000 to 3.000 pieces of mail every near Sombrero's was swept up and placed in the same trash can The event will air on campus cable channels 2 and 61 at 3 p.m. today and again at day, only counting regularly sized letters that come in to cam- where the Sweet and Low packets were found, Lemons said, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. tomorrow. In addition, Channel 46 (KET-2) on the Richmond cable pus — not those that go out or ones that are irregularly sized. noting the trash bag containing the substances was tied up and system will broadcast Glasser's convocation address at 7 p.m. today. Two copies of The first mail comes into the mailroom about 7:30 a.m., taken to Public Safety. the videotape will be available in the university's Instructional Media Office, Room 105 Long says. Usually, it's done being sorted an hour later. The Lemons said Tuesday that he believed a sample of the powdery of Crabbe Library. See MAILROOM, A5 See SUBSTANCE, AS ►Inskto Minus plus/minus? ACCENT.... SGA would like to subtract AHOUMMkABOUT ft* The Student Government Association ARTSASTUFF SI surveyed ISO people about the plus/minus grading A4 plus/minus grading system scale. -A4 ON THE EMC. .Cl-12 BY Jpewpt Roocw Michalik argued that previous research on the News editor plus/minus scale was faulty. She says it doesn't con- ty opinion survey 1 f Student opinion PERSPECTIVE .AS,7 tain any outside research and points out that the POLICE MAT.... Monday afternoon Student Government research contends at-risk students are most likely to SPORTS Association representatives presented the Faculty receive inflated grades, a problem the new scale was Overall, I support the Overall, I like the WHAT'S ON TAP? Senate with research that ultimately called for the adopted to solve. Michalik says such students are plus/minus grading scale. plus/minus grading scale. WHO'S THAT Faculty Senate to review the university's new dropping out and in fact aren't even admitted any plus/minus grading system. longer, leaving the better students as overall exam- ►Woartitor The Faculty Senate voted to send the SGA's ples of the university's student body. .ill'(I/, TOOAV iVfrrr report to its executive committee for review and rec- Michalik also presented the Faculty Senate with Hi: 58 ommendations on action to be taken. an example of how the scale could have an averse Erin Michalik, chairwoman of the SGA's effect- A friend of hers must maintain a minimum Low: 34 Academic Affairs Committee, delivered a five-page Conditions: GPA to keep her financial aid and is planning on speech to the Senate that outlined perceived prob- working harder this semester to raise her grades Sunny lems and frustrations the SGA has realized during its under the new system. ffJB Sunny semester-long research on the grading scale. "In other words, if she's successful, she plans to Michalik told the Senate that most students don't contribute to grade inflation under the grading scale SAT Sunny feel the scale is fair, and that many professors dont SUN Sunny that was adopted to defeat such scandalous activity." want to talk about it.

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