Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 3-5-2008 The Guardian, March 5, 2008 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (2008). The Guardian, March 5, 2008. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. R G T STATE UN VER ITY'S AMPUS NEWSP PER 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. 014 Student Union, Dayton, OH 45435 I Issue No. 1 9 Vol. 44 A SMA All-American Newspaper AFTER THREE STRAIGHT LOSSES, WRIGHT STATE REBOUNDS WITH A TOURNAMENT WIN wsu OVER DETROIT: 60-37 . 2 ..... ~ ................... IH.~.. ~.~~RP.JA.~.. .1 .. 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John Sylva Older and younger voters patrolling University Park observed The female and her boyfriend were Cliff Morrissey disagree on the issues. suspicious behavior from two male cited for underage drinking· the other CopyE tudent and one female student; one male was cited for underage drink­ Emily Crawford male student walked away while the ing, di orderly conduct and falsifica­ ports Editor Features other two remained when the officer tion. Ryan Hehr approached. The remaining male stu­ Walk-a-thon .12 dent hid an object under his coat. The February 24 - An offic r aw a ~~:>11SW Team Reach holds Walk a-thon. tudent had a half- mpty pack of male tud nt in the driv r eat fa b er and officer m Bed alcohol on car throw s veral McD nald' bag hi ' hr ath. The tudcnt aid h wa , and tra h onto th gr und, but could port 21, but had no l.D. xc pt hi ocial not identify which tudcnt wa the ecurity Number which officer u ed driver becau he wa too far away. Jason Vi nover Senior Night ......... 16 to discover he was 20. The female Officer approached t peak to the Tara Browne males about the tra h and one admit­ Women's basketball celebrate student carried a pla tic bag of beer ~.. ~i" 1 '""'"'"' Editor cans. The female said she was 19 and ted to driving the car from an off­ their players on Senior ight Ibrahim Asadi had a couple of beers earlier. When campus party. The students smelled asked about the other male student's like alcohol and one carried a back­ ch· P ot p Cla ifi d identity, the female said he was her pack filled with beer. The officers Lindsey Fultz boyfriend, but didn't know his last watched the students pour the beer Ph tograp ers ................... 15 name, his car or what he wore. out and issued citations for underage Zack Fehrman The remaining male student had drinking. 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' If there wa a bed bug problem a apartment , so we contact tudents so n continuing ichola Thomas i another tudent wa in Bo ton in the fall, we contact they can watch for any water prob­ roblem that ha had bed bug i ue . When he all re ident o they can watcli for any lem ." £ und out there wa · a bed bug prob­ pest " Berto explained. Antwaune Jackson lem in a n arby apartment he was dis­ [email protected] app intcd. "I th ught that the problem would not keep reoccurring but it partm nt at Meadow Run ha c ha ," Nichola aid. h, d a b d bug pr blcm incc last y ar tudcnt. ·ay that they arc not and. tudcnt · · y ifs still a r -occur­ infi nncd by anyon when ther' may ring i sue. be a pr bl cm. 'What I d n 't g t i Th ap, rtm nts n Dun an 1 iv how p oplc th t keep th ir apartm nt ff Zink I oad, ha c had c ntinuin 1 I an keep g tting th b d bug, lin 1oblcms with the bed bugs although said. th r aro m nthly pest inspccti n . H al o t hinks that Meadow Run i eadow Run declined to c n mcnt not doing enough t get rid of the \ hen conta ted. r occurring problem. 'The tudent aren t told there are "I think that it i a terrible ituation bed bug unles one of the tu dent to be in and omething should be get the bed bug and tell everyone done "junior Jessica mith said. 1 e, '' enior Allen Cline aid. He al o '•If I had a big bug problem in my aid that thi i a problem becau e the apartment and nothing was being done bed bugs travel throughout the apart­ to olve it, I would have to move," ments and get into furniture and junior Eric Thomas said. lothe . Dan Bertos the Director of tudent may find out that there is a Residence Services, said that they do d bug problem in their apartment inform re idents if a situation may complex and have to remo e all their affect them. There was a bed bug jtems in there apartment, but upon problem la t year at Springwood Lane returning to their apartment the bug on the on-campus of the Boston apart­ problem till had not been fixed. Cline ment and R e i dence Services sent an believes that the problem persist inspection crew that wa able to olve becau ·e there are some tudents that that issue quickly, said Bertsos. hare furniture from apartment to The crew targeted the area where apartment and because of dumpster the students said that there was a bug any campus thefts attributed to unlocked doors Some students missing items in several apartments reducing the threat of crime," said chance" a door will be unlocked when • were brought to their attention. All Simone Polk, WSU Chief of Police. maintenance must come to repair 1v1ng on campus parties were contacted and informed "Crime prevention is everyone's busi­ something. The WSU police recom­ about the suspected theft, said ness and students can assist us in our mend students lock doors, even in dor­ ave suspected Crawford. crime prevention efforts by detecting mitories. aintenance for "I think that a lot of theft is because and immediately reporting theft," said "Lock your doors any time you of unsecured units," said Crawford. Polk. leave your room, including just going hefts "Doors are left unlocked and we can't Since the beginning of Winter quar­ down the hall to the restroom," said force (the students) to lock their ter, there was no reports classified as Polk, "Contact Residence Services if i iffany Johnson doors." theft in the residential area on campus, there is a problem with the doors, [email protected] In 2007, WSU had eight recorded but several instances of "missing prop­ locks, windows and screens of your instances of burglary down from nine erty," according to the WSU police's room." Theft in residential dormitories and in 2006. In 2004 and 2005, there were Daily Case Log. Employees go through extensive , apartments on campus is mostly due to three instances of burglary, according Security concerns Residential background checks, they must sign an students not locking their doors, said to the WSU's annual security report. Services, the WSU Police and AM agreement, we check police records, , John Crawford, Director of Facilities Theft in the residential housing is Management, who arc considering sometimes credit reports and they for AM Management. attributed by both police and mainte­ ways to improve security in residential must pass a drug test, said Crawford. Crawford denies that theft is due to nance to the amount of electronics areas more prone to theft like the AM Management also hires summer AM Management employees. AM brought in by students including lap­ Woods, a section of nine dormitories contractors who must go through the Management maintains on-campus tops, iPods, televisions, stereo equip­ mostly used by freshmen students. same tests. housing, and several theft victims ment and more. Apartments on cam­ One solution presented was gating the AM Management does not hire any have blamed AM, according to police pus hold more valuable things because cotilmunity residences. grounds or custodial staff, only main­ reports.