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Learning about the various products served by BC Dining, B10
BC’s best dance groups threw down at the year’s biggest competition, A10
Women’s lacrosse holds off rival Duke 10-9 in a close conference matchup, B1
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Vol. XCIV, No. 18
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Last year, Eagle EMS (EEMS) obtained a specially outfitted 2012 Ford Explorer to serve as a class five, non-transporting ambulance. Since then, EEMS has provided more EMS coverage on BC’s campus than ever before. Part of the added benefit of having the vehicle has been an increase in data recorded and kept by EEMS Director of Operations Gus Godley, A&S ’13. “Part of [Gus’] role as Director of Operations is to keep track of our data as well as oversee our Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) process,” said Alex Warshauer, EEMS president and A&S ’14. “I started this tracking program last year as Director of Education. Whenever we have a patient contact, we fill out some form of documentation. Once a week, Gus, as well as our ambulance coordinator and our special events coordinator, sit down together and do a review of all the calls from the week before.” As they review the calls, they upload the nonidentifying information into a Google doc that tracks a whole host of information. Included in this is the nature of the call, when the call happens, the graduation year and sex of the subject, and the outcome of the call. Each incident is grouped into one of two broad categories, vehicle coverage or special events coverage. The vehicle coverage represents the time that the ambulance is on call—three night shifts and two day shifts every week. The night shifts occur on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. The day shifts occur on Friday and Saturday afternoons from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. The special events coverage, on the other hand, represents when EEMS works standby shifts at sporting events and other activities on campus. The second breakdown is into medical calls versus trauma calls. Medical calls represent 78 percent of the call volume for vehicle coverage since the beginning of the school year, while trauma calls only make up 16 percent. Medical calls cover instances such as cardiac problems, allergic reactions, alcohol incidents, and respiratory problems. Trauma calls include sports
See Eagle EMS, A4
Referendum on alcohol policy passes
BY ANDREW SKARAS Asst. News Editor On Thursday and Friday, students voted not only on who will lead UGBC in the coming academic year, but also on a referendum regarding how the school sanctions students found guilty of violating its alcohol and drug policy. The referendum asked students if they would prefer the administration change the matrix system that is currently used to a points system without offering a specific plan, and passed with 83 percent of the voters in favor of the switch. This referendum item has been the work of a select committee of the UGBC Senate chaired by Chris Marchese, A&S ’15. Over the past few weeks, the committee has been taking into account suggestions and criticisms that its first proposed points system had received. Since then, several changes have been made to the committee’s preliminary proposal. “The biggest [change] is the removal of sexual assault and harassment,” Marchese said. “Those issues will be dealt with by a different disciplinary procedure that needs to be revamped in and of itself, but that is another project.” Another aspect of the preliminary proposal that was revamped was how a student could have their slate cleared for applications to graduate school. Originally, the committee proposed that students with six or fewer points going into their senior year would receive a clean slate. Now, their proposal includes the creation of a board of appeals that will deal with these cases. “The boards will be made up of the deans, but we are also trying to find a way to incorporate students,” Marchese said. “If you are graduating and you feel that your record should be completely cleared for grad school, med school, or law school, you can go to the board and appeal for that and make your case.” In addition to the point clearing change, the committee made changes to the point forgiveness system. It was
See Alcohol Referendum, A4
Stayer Hall room catches fire on Sunday Dormitory building evacuates at 4:27 a.m., BFD respond to scene News Editor
Jack Dunn in an email. “BC’s facilities maintenance staff are working with vendors to clean and reopen the two rooms as soon as possible. The students have been temporarily relocated to other rooms in BC residence halls.” As the BFD and BCPD are still investigating the cause of the fire, it is not yet
At 4:27 a.m. on Sunday, a fire was reported in a fifth-floor room in Stayer Hall. All Stayer residents were immediately evacuated, and the rest of the Boston College student body was alerted via emergency text and email at 4:41 a.m. The Boston Fire Department (BFD) responded to the scene, and reported on their Twitter account that the fire was caused by “smoking material that came in contact with a sofa and clothes,” and that the building’s sprinkler activated and contained the fire. They further reported that the fire and sprinklers caused $10,000 worth of damage, and there were no injuries. Residents were moved to the lobby of Robsham Theater around 5 a.m. while the firefighters worked at the scene. The all-clear alert was sent out at 7:23 a.m., and students were then allowed back inside Stayer Hall. Disaster restoration company ProCare Incorporated sent response vans to the campus later Sunday morning to begin cleanup work. “The dorm room and the room below it experienced water damage from the sprinklers,” said University Spokesman
Pro-Care Incorporated arrived later Sunday morning to commence clean-up procedures.
BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT
GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Matt Nacier (right) and Matt Alonsozana (left) will be UGBC president and executive VP.
Nacier-Alonsozana to lead UGBC during 2013-14 year BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor Voting in the final UGBC elections for the 2013-14 school year closed at midnight on Friday, Apr. 5. Matt Nacier and Matt Alonsozana, both A&S ’14, were elected UGBC President and Executive Vice President, respectively. Of the 9,110 Boston College undergraduates, 3,116 voted in the final elections, which began on Apr. 4. Fifty-eight percent of the votes were cast for the Nacier-Alonsozana team, with the remaining 42 percent voting for the team of Tim Koch, A&S ’14, and Chris “Trugs” Truglio, CSOM ’14.
In the final days before the election, the use of social media became problematic for the presidential and vice presidential campaigns. “Each team was sanctioned in the last 24 hours of campaigning for violations involving Facebook posts,” said Carter Bielen, co-chair of the UGBC Elections Committee and A&S ’13, in an email. “Each team was required to refrain from active campaigning for a certain amount of time Friday, and each complied fully with the EC’s requests. We want to thank both candidate teams and their staffs for the work they put in throughout the pro-
See Election Results, A4
clear whether the costs of the damages will be covered by the University or by the dorm room’s residents. “The cause of the fire remains under investigation,” Dunn said. “The University, however, reserves the right to seek restitution if the students are found responsible.”
DAVID COTE / HEIGHTS EDITOR