Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 3-30-2011 The Guardian, March 30, 2011 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 (2011). The Guardian, March 30, 2011. : 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]. Wednesday March 30, 2011 Issue No. 21 Vol. 47 An SMA All-American Newspaper chool hears complaints about geese on campus ical Plant is gee e on campus - Page 4 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy. 014 Student Union, Dayton, OH 45435 theguardianonline.com -:1:=GUA IA Raiders Are Lifesavers! Editor- in- Chief Tiffany Johnson News/Page 3 Business Manager @ Blood Drive Emily Earl Last year for May News Editor Logan Hess Daze When: Thursday, March 31 News Writers 11 a.m. - 3 Brad Fischer p.m. Richie Phillips Boonshoft School of Medicine Sports Editor Andy Armstrong Features/Page 6 Sports Writers Syed Muhammad Check out local parks Make an appointment at: Michael Mancz www.DonorTime.com Wright Life Editor aroundWSU Andy Badii Sponsor Code 13438 Wright Life Writers Emily Kaiser or call 1-800-388-GIVE Nate Bendickson Chief Photographer Sports/Page 10 Chelsea Hall Photographer Learn more about Christian Cone-Lombarte Graphics Manager the WSU Cricket Erin Ash Ad Manager Kim Kaufman Club Ad Graphics Manager Free "Ticket to Saving a Life" T Jolene Crowell Ad Reps and BW3 wings coupon when you Caelynn Enneking register to donate blood! Andrew Roller Web Editor Luke James Communitv Clrculaffon Manager Blood Center Antony Stathopoulos K<tli !J<.rt114•s. Rl'dl lifr p, 1'" Faculty Adviser Jeff Bruce, M.A. The Guardian is printed weekly during the regular school year. It is published by Crime Notes 2011 students of Wright State University in Dayton. Ohio. Editorials without bylines reftect the March 13 - A man was taken to March 21 - Police were sent to March 28 - A maintenance Miami Valley Hospital after police parking lot 17 to check on a vehicle employee told police that his parking m01onty opinion of the editofiQI board. that had multiple screws placed under pass was stolen from his vehicle, found him on University Blvd. with a Views expressed in columns, cartOON and deep cut on the back of his neck and the tires. parked in lot 11. a puncture wound in his upper chesti The case was turned over to Fairborn. March 27 -A student hit a pole near Police. Springwood Ln. while pulling out of a parking space. March 13 - A man was taken into custody after following another man March 27 -An R.A told police that and woman on the footbridge near bleach had been poured over contents College Park, asking them where to of his room. buy marijuana. March 13 - Police found 3 grams of marijuana in a vehicle after issuing a traffic stop for having only one operating head light. March 13 - A student got stuck on an elevator in the honors dorms. When maintenance could not get the door open, the Fairborn Fire Dept. was called. Maintenance later took the elevator out of service. March 15 - A hit and run accident in lot 11 that happened on March 4 was reported to police. March 18 - A female student' was involved in underage drinking and ran away from police but was later taken to Greene Co. Jail. N E W I Wednesday, March. 30, 2011 I iCl:ilGUARDIAN 3 2011 will be the final year for May Daze Logan Hess News Editor graduate. "It was our claim to fame." [email protected] From the class of 1994, Jeremy Dyer's main concern is that the new Mayday, mayday. May Daze will event might lack some of the essence with it. see its final day in the sun at Wright that May Daze carried for student State University on May 6, 2011. "It was the opportunity themselves In preparation for the transition to organizations to promote semesters in the fall of 2012, WSU via games, giveaways, etc, in a festive, said Dyer. "My will be using next school year as a trial musical atmosphere," is that students run for new events and procedures. hope for the new event An event very similar to May Daze and faculty continue to have the oppor­ will still be held on campus, but it tunity to both publicize the organiza­ will have to carry with it a new name tions to which they belong, and learn in that same because when the university makes the more about other groups switch from quarters to semesters, it relaxed and fun environment." chance to will not take place in the same month. tudents will have their "Technically this is the last year for weigh in on some of the details regard­ May Daze," said Davy Fogler, mem­ ing the new event at the U.A.B. tent this year, ber of the University Activities Board. during the final May Daze ''There will still be the same kind of which will leave behind a long and event, just not in May." epic legacy. May Daze used to be the campus Former student Dennis Geehan may May Daze event of the year for students and al­ have put it best, describing in the sun, let though it has recently lost some of it's as a great time to get out luster, to some alumni, WSU will not loose the winter blues, check out the sunshine on be the same without it. ladies and just enjoy the "May Daze was 'the' weekend the Quad." for us," said Christy Roberto, a 2007 Piece of World Trade Center metal transported across campus WORLD TRADE CENTER STEEL ARTIFACT ENROUTE TO FAIRBORN. OHIO TO CREATE A 9/11 MEMORIAL A 12-foot long piece of steel from The procession entered Kauffman the World Trade Center fo New York Road at Wright State Road. It went City arrived on Friday, March 25. past the Mini University along The steel was escorted to a University Blvd. memorial at Calamityville, a project The procession exited at Colonel of the National Center for Medical Glenn Hwy. before continuring the Readiness. Fire Station No. 2 in Fairborn. A procession of area police, fire Calamityville is a collaborative, personnel, the Patriot Guard riders and training facility for disaster­ Ohio State Patrol escorted the steel preparedness personnel. on a flatbed truck through Fairborn, according to WSU's website. w w w. the guardian on Ii n e. com 4 ll:J:iGUARDIAN I Wednesday, March. 30. 2011 I N EW Geese will soon return to WSU SB5 and Brad Fischer Geese seem to outnumber WSU anytime, all throughout the area. News Writer students in the wanner months and "Geese are pretty much all over, [email protected] have made their presence felt all over but mostly from what I have seen they wsu campus. have been around Lot 4 and by the Richie Phillips What's good for the goose is good From the pond at the Nutter Center bridge," said senior.Anthony Hood. News Writer for the gander. And the gander seems to the parking lots and everywhere · Members of the Wright State [email protected] to have settled here on campus. in between, geese can be spotted Physical Plant have heard a lot of complaints about the geese. Some have The Ohio Senate Bi11 5 passed on been from the students but primarily March 2 by the state senate in a narrow more from the faculty and staff, said 17-16 vote. grounds supervisor Tim Booth. Senate Bill 5 will restrict the col­ "The main complaint we hear is lective bargaining rights of teachers, about the geese droppings on the police officers, firefighters and other sidewalks," said Grounds Manager public employees. It will ban strikes Mike Coyle. "But so far there has been by public workers and have penalties no attacks on people." for workers who engage in walkouts. As far as controlling the geese Unionized workers can negotiate population here on campus, there wage and hours but not their pension have been several different tactics to benefit , sick time or their healthcare. keep the geese at bay. The Physical There will also no longer be automatic Plant has tried swan decoys around pay raises. Future wage increases will waterareas, but that has been rather be based on merit. ineffective so far. '"It's likely to effect Wright State "I just hate geese," said Hood. because a lot of what governs how "They poop everywhere and they hiss business is done here at the university at you and they're a problem when in terms of curriculum development driving too." and the teaching loads, it's all been As far as considering more serious done through collective bargaining," alternatives, the Physical Plant hasn't said Barry Milligan, president of the put anything in action yet but if the American Association of University geese become more of an issue, that Professors. might change. 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