January 19, 2017 Volume 96 Number 18 THE DUQUESNE DUKE www.duqsm.com PROUDLY SERVING OUR CAMPUS SINCE 1925 Stevenson Donut fear, breakfast is here Campus Street food faces produced closures locally Brandon Addeo Raymond Arke news editor asst. news editor If you use Stevenson Street on Food is something that often the east side of campus in your preoccupies the minds of college daily commute, you’ll have to take students. But how the food got a detour in the coming months. there can be a different story. New Jersey-based NRG Energy Alex Ruiz, a junior political sci- is completing a construction proj- ence and history major, had never ect with UPMC Mercy Hospital considered where his food was which will require construction on coming from. Stevenson Street beginning in ear- “It’s something I’ve never really ly March and lasting through No- thought about. I certainly would vember. Stevenson Street will face prefer it locally though because partial or full closures during the in my experience it’s fresher and construction process, according to tastes better,” he said. NRG spokesman David Gaier. Duquesne’s food is supplied NRG is building a District Ener- through Parkhurst Dining, a gy Center at the former Civic Are- Pittsburgh-based dining service. na site, which will provide energy They tout their efforts of supply- to Mercy, and will be installing ing Duquesne with fresh and lo- chilled water piping, steam piping cally-sourced food. and and wiring for an emergency Carlos Soza, the general manager Leah Devorak/Photo Editor of resident dining, said some of the see CLOSURE — page 11 Duquesne President Ken Gormley hands out donuts to commuter students Wednesday on the second floor of the Union. see FOOD — page 2 DU online bachelor’s, graduate programs ranked by U.S. News Liza Zulick an Associate’s Degree in nursing, staff writer and allows them to continue school- ing to receive a bachelor’s degree in Several of Duquesne’s online pro- nursing. Since the program was cre- grams have received upgrades in ated in 2014, Duquesne has made the rankings. list twice, No. 85 for Best Graduate The 2017 U.S. News and World School in 2017 and No. 18 for Best Report, released on Jan. 10, named Online Graduate Nursing Programs. Duquesne No. 81 out of 231 schools Online classes include lectures, in the Best Online Bachelor’s Pro- assignments, midterms and finals, gram category, bumping Duquesne which is very similar to that of tra- up 62 spots since last year. ditional classes. Online students Duquesne’s nursing school also watch taped lectures to complete received recognition — its online assignments and projects, and are graduate nursing program ranked also required to watch live lectures, 26 out of 107 nationally. according to Alison Colbert, associ- Olivia Higgins/Staff Photographer The U.S. News and World Report, ate dean for academic affairs of the U.S. News and World Report ranked two programs, Online Bachelor’s and Online Graduate Nursing, in its top 100 lists. released their annual rankings on School of Nursing, said. Jan. 10, included program rankings “The major goal of all of our ica Taylor, who participates in a we are to innovation — and that “I chose Duquesne because of of business, education, engineering online programs is to help nurses Master’s Family Nurse Practitioner we are willing to take risks on the flexibility of the online sched- and nursing programs. The report continue their education and reach Program, believes that the online things we think will serve our stu- ule as well as the reasonable pac- focuses on student engagement, fac- their professional aspirations, in a programs allow students to become dents better,” Colbert said. ing of the course of study,” Taylor ulty credentials, and student services way that works with the demands more flexible with their schedule, Taylor first heard of Duquesne’s said. “I also knew several suc- and technology to decide their rank- of a full-time job, family obliga- and makes it easier to fit schooling online program through col- cessful BSN prepared nurses who ings, according to the report. tions, and other commitments,” into daily life. leagues at Pittsburgh’s Children’s I worked with at the Children’s The bachelor’s RN-BSN Program Colbert said. “Being one of the first in online Hospital, and later decided it was Hospital who went to Duquesne is designed for registered nurses with Duquesne graduate student Mon- education shows how committed the right path for her. and had great things to say.” opinions features sports a & e Follow us on... 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Institute of Forensic Science sylvania can learn if their well takes up a large portion of frack- She said she thinks it is “im- and Law will be continuing water has been contaminated by ing operations in the Common- portant” to be able to give resi- their Forensic Friday seminars fracking operations for free — all wealth. According to data from dents free well water tests. this semester. thanks to a Duquesne professor the Pennsylvania Department of “There are some people [we The first seminar is titled and his students. Environmental Protection, of the see] who have never had their “Balancing Safety, Justice and John Stolz, director of 10,144 unconventional oil and water tested and they’ve lived Privacy: Body-Worn Cameras, Duquesne’s Center for Environ- gas wells in Pennsylvania, south- there decades,” Manley said. “It’s Forensic Evidence and the mental Research and Education, western Pennsylvania counties nice to go out and give people Right to Know.” received a $48,000 award from contain 4,205 wells. Washington this free test for their water and A variety of speakers will at- the Heinz Endowments earlier Jordan Miller/Staff Photographer County tops the state with the tell them if their water is safe to tend, including the Pittsburgh this month for his project, which Stolz is a professor of environmental mi- highest number of wells: 1,512. be drinking. A lot of people with Police Commander Clarence he and Duquesne students have crobiology in Duquesne’s Bayer school. Students of Stolz have also ex- little kids are concerned.” Trapp; Erik Arneson, execu- been working on since 2011. amined groundwater quality in Stolz said water quality can tive director of the Pennsyl- Stolz said he and some of his quality in surface water sources, two county parks: Deer Lakes sometimes be overlooked. vania Office of Open Records; students travel to homes in Al- like streams and rivers, in Wash- in Allegheny County and Cross “We take it for granted. We ex- and John Rago, a Duquesne legheny, Butler, Greene and ington and Greene counties, soon Creek in Washington County — pect water to come out of the tap, Law professor and one of the Washington Counties to find any expanded in its objectives. both of which contain drilling and good water to come out of the authors of a Pennsylvania bill, potential contaminants in resi- “I was doing some public pre- sites. The students found meth- tap,” he said. PA SB 976, that would require dents’ well water. So far, about sentations and people started ane, a flammable substance, in Some drilling companies are body cameras. 1,000 water samples have been talking and meeting with me and the surface water of both parks, taking steps to limit environmen- Since Rago helped draft the taken and the wells of about 250 telling me that their well water according to Stolz. tal damage. bill, a portion of the discussion homes have been tested. was getting contaminated,” Stolz Linnea Manley, a second-year Cabot Oil & Gas Corpora- will center around PA SB 976 “The ultimate question is does said. “So I thought, well, wouldn’t environmental science man- tion, who operates 608 Marcel- and how body cameras and pri- … hydraulic fracturing pose a it be a good idea to start not only agement graduate student, has lus shale wells in southwestern vacy concerns interact. threat to drinking water sourc- looking at surface water, but how worked with Stolz to test well wa- Pennsylvania, formed an En- The seminar will be held on es?” he said. about groundwater?” ter for about a year and a half. vironment, Health and Safety Jan. 27 at 1 p.m. in the Power The project began as a collabo- He said in recent years there Manley, who is completing a team to “prevent pollution, re- Center Ballroom and can also be ration between scientists from has been an increasing number thesis on the project, said it can duce wastes and emissions, and accessed online. Attending the the University of Pittsburgh, of toxic contaminants found in sometimes be hard to detect con- conserve energy and other natu- seminar can be used to get three Carnegie Mellon University and drinking water facilities in the taminants caused from fracking ral resources by minimizing the hours of substantive credit for the Carnegie Museum of Natu- area, which he said can be “at- because water in southwestern environmental risks associated the Pennsylvania Continuing ral History.