ARGO Newspaper College Center Stockton State College Office G-206 Pomona, New Jersey 08240 (609) 652-4560 ARGO is not an official publication of Stockton State College but is published by an independent corporation licensed in New Jersey Volume 42 Sumhvr 9ARG O November 14, 199! StudenMotiont Senat to Removee Senator Attempt Due to Attendances to Fails,Remov Mixed Reactionse Senato r by Giati Burdhimo Hall explained that according to the eral senate. with the Student Senate. If, in the judge- The Student Senate attempted to re- Senate Statutes the president has the role of According to Article II of the Statutes ment of the president, the reasons lack of move their fellow senator, Rick Casagrande, reviewing the senator in questions status of the Student Senate, in part, "Any mem- attendance are unsatisfactory, the president and replace him with the next must bring the issue of the available alternate, due to at- individual's continued par- tendance problems. ticipation to the next Stu- Casagrande was not in atten- dent Senate meeting." dance of this meeting. Steve Kucharski asked if This motion was initiated this type of situation had by Student Senate President, ever taken place before. Jim Hall, who asked for the Hall replied that it had only removal and then opened the been attempted once before 25 minutes of debate by yield- approximately three years ing to Robert Bennett,By Laws ago, "Yes, three years chairperson. Bennett recounted ago...but understand, a ne- the attendance history for glected policy sets bad pre- Casagrande, which was evi- cedents." dently in extreme violation of Vogel added,"I was not the senate statutes concerning here three years ago when attendance. the last removal took place, Casagrande had missed 5 out but I do know about it, and of the last 6 senate meetings, I don ' t think it's right of the including 3 full senate meet- Jim Hall, Student Senate President, counts the 9 -9 - 5 vote, shy of the majority required for removal senate to remove a fellow ings. senator for missing meet- The Debate Begins with the Student Senate, and if the reasons ber missing two meetings in a row or two in ings. Debate then began among the senators given by the particular member for not at- one month shall be contacted by the presi- The flow of discussion then revolved beginning with questions being asked by tending a senate meeting are not satisfactory dent and asked to review his or her status Continued on page A 8 Brian Flood, "Was he [Casagrande] ap- then it is the job of the president to bring the proached previously?" Jim Hall responded, issue to the next senate meeting. "Yes, Rick has been approached by his Frank Vogel then asked for the article chairperson as well as myself." concerning attendance be read to the gen- Hearing Board Active SSC Mailbox Theft Highlighted by Marianne Cox The two minutes they save by presetting Another Juvenile Arrested The month of October resulted in nine- their locks is not worth the repercussions of Student Involvement Again Leads to Arrest teen accusations of violations by students of being burglarized." Stockton State College. Of all of the nine- The practice of presetting mailbox The Stockton State College Police to the complaint. The juvenile gave the teen students, six were accused of theft from combination locks has become more frequent department arrested another juvenile Friday, name and identification number of a friend the student mailboxes at Stockton. and widespread. November 8, 1991, in what officials are who does attend Stockton, ami claimed just The several mailboxes that were broken into A business major at Stockton com- calling "an isolated case." According to to be lost. had been preset by the owners. The thieves ments, "I know several people who preset Sergeant Joseph Mangiello this was another Officer Carlucci pressed the student, turned the combination locks until the mail- their locks. Now that the thefts occurred, I case in which a fellow Stockton student and surmised that the facts given did not boxes had opened and took what was inside. hope people realize that it's not worth the directly led to the arrest of an individual seem correct. The suspect was then taken The students accused had taken let- time they saved." allegedly preparing to steal property from into custody by the officer, and further ters, cards containing money, and blank According to Stockton's Dean of the vehicles in the parking lots. questioning revealed that the suspect had checks out of several mailboxes. Students, Joseph Marchetti,"All six students 'The arrest was all attributable to a lied and was actually not a student and only Those accused had acquired a falsified cooperated and pleaded guilty. By pleading Stockton student who saw something sus- 17 years old. I.D. to match the name on the checks. Pur- guilty, the six students waived their right to picious and reported it to the police," said The juvenile was arrested at 12:00 chases totaling over two thousand dollars a trial [by the Campus Hearing Board]." Mangiello. noon, charged with attempted burglary, were made in a mall in northern New Jersey Marchetti commented on the penalties A report was made to the Stockton giving false police report, hindering appre- on an account that contained only one hun- received by the students. Police on Friday by yet, another concerned hension, and receiving» stolen property and dred dollars. "Sanctions were handed out to these Stockton student, who observed the younger ultimately released to the custody of his The owners of the checks had received students depending on the severity of their looking individual looking into cars in the parents. Found in the possession of the bank notices that the account had been over- actions," stated Marchetti. parking lots. The juvenile was approached, suspect was a pager that was embossed with drawn, and upon realization of foul play, had "Four of the six who played a major after the police made a sweep of the area, the identification: Cumberland County called the police. role in the theft were suspended from and questioned. Rescue Squad, upon further checking, the Chief Kennedy, of the Stockton Police Stockton for one semester. One student lost It was ultimately determined that the pager had been reported stolen by the Res- department commented on the gravity of the housing for a semester." The student may be suspect had given false information to officer cue Squad. situation. able to return to on-campus housing after Ken Carlucci, who was the first to respond Continued on page A 7 "Students have to protect themselves. Continued on page A 8 Page A 2 ARGO November 14,1991 SenatelNotes asked him to attend. There's only two ing, but it seemed that there was going to be Inside this Issue: meetings left [this semester]" Mora ex- more discussion at the next committee Continued from page A1 plained that during the evaluation meetings meeting." Section A: around the reasons that Casagrande had other committee members were forced to The minutes for the By Laws commit- missed so many meetings, and questions evaluate Casagrande's clubs due to his ab- tee meeting, which are sent to all of the were raised concerning those reasons, Hall sence. senators, and then approved of at the full OP/ED: A-3 once again replied: "...Yes there are excus- After another round of questions and senate meeting, states "The committee then able absences - death, sickness, homework - statements the motion to remove discussed the senate's attendance policy." Letters to the Editor A-4 but in Rick's case only one absence was Casagrande came to a vote and failed, 9 for Hall expressed his views in an inter- excused, and that was due to a paper that was - 9 against - and 5 abstentions. One of the view the following day, "Rick breached the Envi/Sci A-6 due the next day, the rest of the absences 9 for votes was a proxy. This count was attendance policy ; he only attended 1 out of Section B: were due to [intramural] football." provided by the Student Senate President 6 meetings, this is clearly a violation of the Hall answered affirmatively to the The Dust Settles attendance policy." Sports B-l question, "Did you ask Rick to resign?" and The members of the Students Senate When asked if the procedure used to explained, "Rick told me that he would not had mixed reactions during the ensuing attempt to remove Casagrande was right- Arts and Entertainment B-4 resign and that he would rather go through investigation into the matter. The opposi- fully targeted for complaints, Hall responded, the formal procedures." tion seemed to form a general consensus "I believe the facts were presented in detail Personals and Bulletins B-6 Kucharski expressed concern that the that a substantial amount of the "senators by Bennett, who had kept strict records of senate was attempting to take "power away had not been properly informed" of the absence and lateness to the meetings. We Creating Page B-7 from the people," "Rick did get into the top plans to attempt to remove Casagrande. believe we effectively presented facts to the half of the vote getters" and therefore de- The proponents of the removal gener- senate to contemplate before the vote. There served to remain on the senate so as to fulfill ally defended their actions through the use was discussion for 25 minutes, if questions r his obligation to his constituencies. This of the Student Senate Statutes which "spell existed they could have been asked and ARGO was promptly refuted, by other senators out" at least in part "the course of action that answered." whoclaimed that Casagrande could not fulfill was followed.