QUChronicle.com December 3, 2014 Volume 84 Issue 14
ARTS & LIFE Hungry for more “Hunger Games”, page 9
University to patrol offcampus housing over break
OPINION
SPORTS
Forget race, let’s talk about aliens, page 6
First-line phenom, page 12
‘No justice, no peace’
SGA funds 41 organizations via $700,000 budget
By JULIA PERKINS Managing Editor
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he was shot. “People are looking at this case as if it is an isolated incident and thinking that it is just about Mike Brown and just about Darren Wilson,” said Sade Jean-Jacques, assistant director for multicultural education. “But it is really about what the case represents and that is a systematic biased that is put in place
The Student Government Association (SGA) helps fund student organizations by giving out $700,000 per year amongst its 41 groups. However, the process is not as simple as it seems, according to some students. A group must first be recognized by Campus Life and after they have been recognized for one year, SGA can charter them. In order to receive funding, a group must be chartered by SGA, according to SGA Vice President for Finance Matt Powers. Then, they cooperate with SGA to write a group constitution. Finally, the constitution has to be approved at an SGA meeting. Elizabeth Walker, the president of the Global Affairs club, successfully regained her organization’s charter in early November. The club lost its charter due to the actions of its former president. In going through the process, Walker said she liked the assistance that she got from SGA. “Everyone that I’ve had to email and try to talk to has been
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Junior Isaiah Lee leads a die-in, a form of protest where participants pretend to be dead, as part of Monday afternoon’s Ferguson ruling protest on the steps of the Arnold Bernhard library.
Students, faculty protest Ferguson ruling By STAFF REPORTS
“Hands up, don’t shoot,” students and faculty shouted from the steps of the Arnold Bernhard library on Monday. “No justice, no peace,” they yelled. The group of at least 15 students and professors made their way to the Quad around 1 p.m., the same time universities around the country also protested the grand jury de-
cision not to indict Darren Wilson, a former white police officer who shot Michael Brown, an 18-yearold African American man, in Ferguson, Mo. The students and faculty held signs that read “justice for all” and “black lives matter.” At one point the group began a die-in, where they laid on the ground, representing the four and a half hours that Brown’s body lay in the street after
Learning Commons does not anticipate finals week influx By SARAH DOIRON Associate News Editor
With finals week quickly approaching, Assistant Director of the Learning Commons Bernard Grindel does not expect a significant increase in students coming to the Learning Commons for help. There is a steady demand across the entire semester for tutors and not just during finals week, Grindel said. He also said not many students come to the Learning Center for their first time during finals week, but it does happen. “While coming to the Learning Commons for help with finals can be beneficial, I think all of our services work best when students are using them to prep from earlier on in the semester than just trying to make a last ditch effort at the end,” he said. The Learning Commons, locat-
ed in the Arnold Bernhard Library, is a resource available to students who are struggling in their academics or just need academic guidance. Grindel said there is also a peer fellow program available in the Learning Commons for students taking difficult gateway courses. Peer fellows are students who hold breakout study sessions and provide assistance for students struggling in a specific course, according to Academic Specialist and Coordinator of the Peer Fellow Program Tracy Hallstead. Hallstead said peer fellows are asked to sit in the class and take notes on what is being taught by the professor in order to better understand what students are learning in class. Grindel said all peer fellows and peer tutors are students who took a specific course and received
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Allyson Wolf (left) tutors Heyin Zhu (right) use the Learning Commons in preparation for finals week. Grindel said it is important that an A or A- as a final grade. Tutoring appointments can students know tutors take a major be made at the front desk in the reduction in hours in order to help Learning Commons two weeks in advance, according to Grindel. See LEARNING COMMONS Page 4
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By MATT GRAHN
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Public Safety will patrol university-owned off-campus student housing over winter break to ensure the houses are safe, according to administration. The officers check to make sure no one has broken into the houses, Chief of Public Safety David Barger said. If officers see lights on or cars in the driveway over break, they investigate. The officer would check to see if the car has a parking decal. This will tell the officer if the car belongs to a student and allows him or her to check if the student is registered to be in the house. The officer would knock on the door and conduct a health and safety inspection to make sure the student is not hurt inside the house and unable to leave. Last winter break, Public Safety officers caught an individual who broke into a home on Kimberly Avenue. Senior Jason Magner lives on Washington Avenue. He said he is not too worried about his house being burglarized over winter break. “I lived there last year and nothing happened,” he said. “Our landlord has an office kind of near our house, so I feel like he takes care of it and looks after it.” When classes are in session, the four mobile Public Safety officers on each shift are required to patrol the off-campus neighborhoods at least once. Normally the officers only have time to patrol the university houses once, but when students are not on campus the officers have more time and may conduct additional patrols. “There’s not as many students, so our job isn’t here [on campus] …which will give us a little more time to patrol the neighborhoods,” Barger said. Senior Samuel Dauer said he is not worried that his universityowned off-campus house will be broken into over winter break. But he said he is still glad that Public Safety patrols these houses. “There is an increase in home break-ins around the holidays so it makes sense that they take the extra precautions to protect the houses,” he said in an email. However, Public Safety cannot patrol houses not owned by the university because it does not have
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