Prospector Volume 107 Edition 6 May 1 2014 Is Sodexo Taking Over Campus?
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Carroll College Student Newspaper The Helena, Montana Prospector Volume 107 Edition 6 May 1 2014 Is Sodexo taking over campus? Raven Dryden that includes technical training of employees using software and a system Lead Writer of management that focuses on an institutions desired level of clean. In the course of the 16-month Custodial staff no longer have to discussion Sodexo made two preliminary question their employment with Carroll proposals to Carroll and sent members College due to a decision announced this of their on-site service staff to observe week by Carroll administration. campus. The committee was awaiting a For the past 16 months administration third formal proposal when the decision has discussed hiring Sodexo to manage was made to forgo further discussion. the facilities department. The change in “We [President Evans and I] both felt it management would have required the was in the best interest of Carroll to move college to lay off current custodial staff, forward with our custodial staff, to have who would have had to reapply for their them responsible to the college at this jobs under Sodexo. point in time,” said McCarvel. “We had too many unanswered “Everything we do at Carroll is for the questions without satisfactory responses to bene¿t of our students,” McCarvel had continue the discussion at this time,” said said while the option for facilities to be Jim Hardwick, vice president of student managed by an outside company was still life. Hardwick with President Thomas on the table. Evans, Vice President of Community All facets of the college are being Relations and Facilities, Tom McCarvel, examined with a critical eye as Evans and Vice President of Finance and completes his second year as president. Administration, Lori Petersen, made up According to McCarvel, it is the job of a the four-person committee that considered new president to ask how the college can Sodexo’s proposal. do things better and attract more students. The college was approached by Sodexo The consideration of Sodexo’s in January of 2013 with an offer to take proposals follows a national trend of over the facilities department at Carroll. colleges outsourcing more and more “Sodexo believes they can provide auxiliary campus services. training and processes that would allow In regard to college campuses, us to provide better services,” McCarvel “outsourcing” refers to a vendor with Photo courtesy of Kacey Gollehon said in an interview before the decision exclusive control of a particular campus was made. service that was previously handled by The issue joins a national discussion “I believe that the employees that we This was the third time since 2001 staff of the institution. Food services, about whether colleges should focus have here right now serve the college well Sodexo pursued managing facilities at bookstores, printing, vending and security their resources and energy on academics, and will go the extra mile to provide the Carroll. The multinational corporation are each typical operations outsourced by teaching and research rather than auxiliary services that we need,” said McCarvel provides facilities management institutions. services. More Sodexo on page 5 The Class of 2014 282 to graduate at the 104th Commencement Jay Bouchard to campus in the fall of 2010 is leaving grew tired of the dining hall food, and The Castle on weekends and shaking Tom Lead Writer nearly four years later as a slightly less nearly everyone grew up, at least a little. Trebon’s hand on weekdays experienced sweaty, cohesive family, perhaps just To recount every way in which this abrupt changes. as nervous for their journeys ahead, but class grew over the past four years would While they quickly realized that the "We haven't even graduated yet, and wearing graduation robes instead of be too tall a task for an amateur journalist. days of pillaging Carroll’s most historic I am already looking forward to our 10- lanyards. However, even an amateur journalist can party house were over, the class of 2014 year reunion," said John Iguidbashian, a The class of 2014 changed and grew see the many ways in which the class of returned to campus in the fall of 2012 as graduating biology major from Portland during their four years at Carroll. Some 2014 and Carroll College grew side by con¿dent upperclassmen ready to be led and vice-president of the graduating class. of them changed majors. Some changed side with and because of each other. by a new president. It’s hard to tell just where these 280 girlfriends. Some maybe even changed Both this graduating class and the Dr. Thomas Evans arrived. The new graduates will be and what they will be majors because of their girlfriends. And campus that they arrived at several years president, a blessing from Austin, Texas, doing 10 years from now, but it is safe all of them, even those who remained ago have undergone transformation. brought with him enthusiasm and a to say that after they gather together on faithful to their academic and romantic Since 2010, Carroll College has pulse to campus. Evans took the reins of campus for the very last time on May 10, pursuits, likely changed the way they see changed signi¿cantly. Carroll’s leadership—marking a new era the Class of 2014 will be headed towards the world. The S.T.A.C. (an acronym which for the class of 2014. great things. In fact, if what they have Some of the members of the graduating amateur journalists use to appease Linda Under President Evans’ leadership shown the Carroll community during their class transferred in, some transferred Bahr , got a new name, carpeted Àoors, Carroll began soaring to greater heights. four short years is any indication, these back. Some threw touchdowns, some and new furniture. More importantly, though, this class graduates will be embarking on the kind threw parties, some threw caution to the The Castle was sacked, or at least fell followed Evans’ example and became of life journeys that will mean that at his wind, and some just threw up. off the party radar. The Library got two impassioned leaders. 10-year reunion Mr. Iguidbashian will be Most worked as interns. Many traveled fancy classrooms and fewer books. The In fact, their passionate leadership is surrounded by strong leaders who are abroad or on mission trips. A few met school added physics, health science, perhaps the de¿nitive aspect of this class. making meaningful change in the world. their future spouses while at Carroll, and accounting, and anthrozoology majors. These graduates have proven to be some The Class of 2014’s various journeys a few of them probably don’t even know But most notably, in December of 2011 of the strongest leaders Carroll has seen will begin on May 10, when Carroll it yet. Tom Trebon, Carroll’s president of 10 in years. celebrates its 104th commencement. Some of these graduates grew facial years, resigned. More Class of 2014 The herd of nervous, sweaty palmed, hair, some grew bacteria in the lab and These graduates, who spent much of lanyard wearing freshmen thathatt Àocked and Commencement others in their dorm rooms. Everyone their ¿rst two years at Carroll storming CalendarCalendar onon pagepage 4 St. Baldrick's Softball Weekendekend Brave the Shave Historyy Page 7 Page 14 SeniorsSe leave their mmark at Carroll Page 8 2 OPINIONS Thursday, May 1, 2014 Raven's goodbye Letter from the Editor Raven Dryden This question drove me through the intersection of abandon and fear. Where Lead Writer you can choose to embrace abandon – and the vulnerability that comes with it – or to This is my last ¿rst of college. You park yourself at the stop sign that reads, therefore have divine permission to break “Not-possible.” from studying and read on. It’s true, the question can be a good I joined the staff of The Prospector consideration, that angel on your shoulder fall of my sophomore year, having never when you are about to do something written a lick for a newspaper. I sat in the stupid or illegal. However, I propose the ¿rst meeting frightened at the list of story question is the beginning of you doing ideas that was taller than the editor was something right. that year. When you feel completely unprepared, “What the heck am I doing?” I said ill-equipped and raw – that is when to myself, the question echoing in my brilliance happens. When you can’t rely syllabi-crammed head. on what you know, you tap into a resource The question sat in my weary ¿ngers deep within that breeds openness and as I completed article after article into the creativity. Not only do you learn that untouchable hours of 1 a.m. The question you CAN do it, you learn what you are s you may have the noticed, living on a small campus. Carroll does was on my mind when I overcame my MEANT for. the end of the school year not really have that “college feeling” I got deepest fear and talked to a football player In writing for The Prospector the is upon us, meaning the when I toured state schools. to cover the Fighting Saints upsetting past three years I found a place for induction of new staff for Carroll does have, however, a “family A 2012 season. It was the question I asked my profound curiosity and desire to The Prospector. The Prospector will have feeling.” Leaving our friends, family, and myself as I sat nervously in O’Connell experience everything. I learned my a whole new look next year, and I look security blankets at home would not have waiting to interview the new president.