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VISIT WWW.THEALLSTATE.ORG www. FOR CONTINUOUS COVERAGE OF HOMECOMING WEEK EVENTS THE MONOCLE’S www. 09-10 EDITION OF THE YEARBOOK IS NOW IN. THE YEARBOOKS ARE $65 EACH AND STILL AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE AT WWW. JOSTENSYEARBOOKS.COM AND CAN BE PICKED UP IN the MUC 111. The voice of Austin Peay State University students sinces 1930 taOct. 6, 2010 | tVol. 83, Issuee 6 First copy free, additional copies 50 cents each 46 VIOLATIONS Campus police fails to comply with federal crime reporting mandates By PATRICK ARMSTRONG e law requires the if the school noti ed Oct. 18. He referenced a Public Safety, said there was Editor in Chief campus crime log to be students and employees of its letter that was dated July 10 confusion about when the updated within two business availability. from the U.S. Department report was due and it will Origin of the Last semester e All State days of an incident occurring According to the Student Education that he claimed be made available online reported 12 violations to the on campus and must include Press Law Center, the extended the deadline to the Tuesday, Oct. 5. It will be in Clery Act Clery Act, a federal mandate the nature, date, time and report should contain the 18th. booklet format, based on one The Clery Act involving the late reporting location of each crime, and campus security policies and A er receiving and from University of Tennessee was enacted by of incidents and an alleged the complaint’s disposition, if procedures, law-enforcement examining the letter at Knoxville where Biles was attempted abduction on known. status of security personal, from Little, the letter does previously employed. Congress and campus not being added to Since ursday, Aug. 26, including working not mention a deadline Other Tennessee Board signed into law in the campus crime log. Now there have been 45 entries relationship with state and extension with the annual of Regents schools have 1990 after Jeanne TAS has found 46 more in the campus crime log and local police, description of campus security report failed to comply with violations and four violations none of them have included drug and alcohol abuse, or the report itself. “ e annual campus security Clery was murdered to Tennessee’s College the time of the incidents crime prevention and sexual 2010 Campus Safety and report deadline. East and raped at and University Security occurring on campus. Aug. assault education programs Security Survey that will Tennessee State University Lehigh University Information Act. 28 through the 30, the available, listing of policies be conducted from August and Tennessee Tech in 1986. Schools According to e U.S. campus crime log still has encouraging accurate and 18 through October 18,” University both thought Department of Education’s “report pending” under prompt reporting of crime, is the only mention of the the deadline was in the have to publish Higher Education Center arrestee for four incidents, drug and alcohol use policies date Oct. 18, in the letter. middle of October. TTU’s an annual report for Alcohol, Drug Abuse which occurred over a relating to law enforcement, e letter also provides a police department received every year by Oct. and Violence’s month ago. and campus crime statistics. link to download a copy of a similar letter from the U.S. website, www. e Clery Act e report is based on the the revised “Handbook for Department of Education 1 containing three higheredcenter. also requires an calendar year, Jan. 1 to Dec. Campus Safety and Security” and ETSU’s public safety’s years of campus org/mandates/ annual campus 31, and must contain the which states the Oct. 1 investigator over the report crime statistics clery-act, the security report to three most recent calendar deadline. was not available for Clery Act, be made, published, year’s statistics. “It’s the law. e law interview. and security policy “is a federal and distributed to is year, campus requires it be made Tennessee State University statements. mandate requiring all current students police failed to meet this available on Oct. 1,” said made the report available on Schools are all institutions and employees of the requirement of the Clery Act. Jane Glickman, media Monday, Aug. 16, and the of higher education university by Oct. 1 of each On Friday, Oct. 1, the annual representative from the U.S. University of Memphis made required to provide that participate in the year. e report can be campus security report was Department of Education. the deadline of Friday, Oct. an extensive crime federal student nancial mailed through the U.S. requested from Carl Little, According to Glickman, 1. As of press time Monday, log in order to aid program to disclose Postal Service, campus mail, lieutenant and compiler of when Congress reauthorizes Oct. 6, Middle Tennessee bene t student life. information about crime on e-mail, hand-delivered as a the campus crime log in laws, sometimes they want State University had not their campuses and in the publication or by posting it public safety, and he said the a survey in di erent areas. surrounding communities.” on the Internet, or intranet, report was due on Monday, Lantz Biles, director of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Biology student’s owl fi ndings published APSU off ers By HANNAH ARIC Guest Writer Five years ago, Christopher O’Bryan, now a senior at fl u vaccines APSU, found four barn owls roosting in feed storage bins. is was the rst record of By BRIAN BIGELOW Sta Writer winter nesting for the owl. It wasn’t until now that these ndings were published. It is likely the 2009 H1N1 virus will continue to spread “[Finding the barn owls] for years to come, like a regular seasonal in§ uenza was exciting because we virus, according to the Center for Disease Control and knew at the time, that this Prevention (CDC) website, www.cdc.gov. was kind of unexpected e 2009 H1N1 § u virus, also known as “swine § u,” for that area of southwest caused, “the rst global pandemic in more than 40 years,” Virginia.” according to the CDC website. When he discovered that is year’s § u vaccine protects against H1N1 as well as the ndings had nally been two other strains of the in§ uenza virus. published, he said he was APSU Health Services, located in the Ellington building more than excited. room 104, began administering in§ uenza vaccines “Being an undergraduate ursday, Sept. 30, Vaccines are also o ered at doctors’ Biology major and my oª ces, hospitals, and many pharmacies. e vaccines focus being in eld biology, o ered through Health Services cost $22. it’s always a great feeling to “Everyone,, who does not have a medical get your rst publication,” O’Bryan said. “It’s a prestigious feeling Flu is and will continue to be a problem as because you know that will help you get into graduate it is every year, but we are very hopeful this school, Ph.D. and resume. year will not be as last year.” It’s also kind of a feeling of Chad Brooks, associate professor of biology and a ownership over that record.” member of last year’s u task force O’Bryan was also chosen as the top applicant out of 200 people for the internship contraindication to receiving the vaccine should receive at Paci c Southwest Research the vaccine,” said Kristy Reed, a nurse practitioner with Station of the U.S. Forest APSU Health Services. “ e CDC recommends a yearly Service. § u vaccine as the most important step in protecting “It was a very good feeling against in§ uenza.” and I knew that I was on e CDC website advises “that everyone 6 months and the right track, and knew older get a 2010-2011 § u vaccine.” “It is important for college students to get vaccinated immediately that was due to DALWIN CORDOVA | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the Center of Field Biology, because being ill with § u can cause the student to miss here at APSU.” Christopher O’Bryan, senior biology major, examines frogs in the Sundquist Science Center. class, exams and school deadlines,” Reed said. “When I saw that I got “It is hard to predict how severe the § u season will be,” accepted for that position, it of biology for what it seems, park, which has helped and “I’m glad I decided to Reed said. reminded me of the center his entire life. He volunteered guided him to where he is come here where they “ e timing, severity and length of the § u [season] but also it reminded me of at the Knoxville Zoo for two today. actually have a Center of depends on what strains of in§ uenza are circulating in high school and the biologist years and was an employee “I like the aspect of eld Excellence for Field Biology”. a particular season and whether those strains match the I was involved with back for one year working with biology but I also like the He has been working viruses in that year’s vaccine.” t h e re .” bog turtles. aspect of lab work,” O’Bryan with Floyd Scott, professor “So far, the signs point to a normal § u season,” said He has been in the eld He also worked at a local said. 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