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Campus Safety to Improve With New Police Station, 200 Additional Security Cameras UPDATES | Cont. from 1 next year for club practices.” With the creation of a new residence hall, Bachoo acknowledged another plan in motion to create some other type of food service facility that would be constructed ‘up the hill’ closer to residents living in that area. This would also help accommodate the addition of 600 more students to the campus that the new residence hall will bring. “We think that it’s important that, particularly for the students up the hill, for them to have some sort of facility so they don’t have to truck all the way down to Memorial to eat,” said Bachoo. Bachoo said that this new construction project has been chosen over the option of putting millions more towards CCSU’s current dining facility in Memorial Hall. The Elihu Burritt Library will also reopen in September with a brand new look, with each floor having been worked on, along with reconstruction to bathrooms and other building facilities. “The library will go through many changes,” said Bachoo. “It will be brighter than it was before.” Bachoo also noted the fact that now when students enter the library on the first floor, they’ll actually be in the library, facilitating access. Campus security will also see
Richard Bachoo, chief administrative officer, addresses the Student Government Assocation with updates on campus Kenny Barto | the recorder construction projects. an approval as an already-funded police station is close to beginning construction. In February, the State Bond Commission approved funds of $5.2 million to go towards the construction of the new CCSU police department and public
safety building to be located along Paul Manafort Drive. In the bond request made by CCSU, it’s stated that the project will be 12,500 square feet. The building will house the public safety administration, patrol operations, special services and support service divisions of the
campus police. In addition, Bachoo said that by next year, campus will move from having 300 security cameras to 500 cameras in order to increase campus safety. “You’ll never know who’s looking at you,” Bachoo said.
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A new academic building, illustrated above, is set to be built near Maria Sanford and Welte Garage.
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University Handling Sexual Harassment Complaint PROFESSOR | Cont. from 1 telling her that Sedlak and a friend were under the influence of in her exam because she took it alcohol. “Omg im so nervous im gonna separately from her classmates. The woman, who acknowledged taking end up in like the student newspaper the exam separately, claims she was or something lol,” Sedlak allegedly told that her final exam grade in said. “Omg [alleged victim] u r Sedlak’s fall 2010 Math 099 course ignoting me nowwww :( ” “Cann I be hones twith you… did not meet the department requirements that would allow her Ur mad cute shhhhhhhhhhh,” the next messages allegedly said. to take Math 101. The woman did not respond The woman told The Recorder that a grade of 81 had already been until the next morning when recorded with the university. She Sedlak allegedly apologized for also told Sedlak that a passing the messages from the prior grade had been recorded and that evening, saying that he “was a little she had been allowed to register for drunkish.” “i had typed another text but I Math 101. Still, Sedlak allegedly offered guess i didn’t send it…good thing the woman a blank copy of the final, too,” Sedlak allegedly said. The woman encouraged the giving the woman an opportunity to retake the test under his accused to send the message, “oh my goodness…tell me anyway.” supervision. Sedlak allegedly responded “i cant believe im suggesting this but I could help you get the with, “It said…you should let me right answers….but idkkkkk,” go down on you while you take the test :( “ Sedlak allegedly said. After several more text messages The woman then suggested meeting at a local coffee shop the were exchanged, Sedlak allegedly asked again if she would allow him next day to retake the test. “im just nervous ill run into to perform oral sex. The woman ceased someone…sorry I know im being difficult,” Sedlak allegedly correspondence and brought her complaint to Chief Diversity Officer responded. After agreeing to meet the Rosa Rodriguez, where the woman accused at his residence the next said officials collected evidence day, the woman claims she received and took photographs of the text a text message later that evening messages on her cell phone. The woman disclosed all prior from the same phone number
e-mail correspondence with Sedlak to The Recorder, all of which was directly related to coursework dating back to September 2010 when the mathematics course began. The text message conversation on the woman’s phone was also shown to The Recorder and matched the transcript later obtained. According to CCSU policy, sexual harassment is defined, among other things, as a “request for sexual favors…when submission to or rejection of such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly the basis, term, or condition of any individual’s... grade [or] evaluation.” After attempting to contact Sedlak, The Recorder discovered that the phone used to communicate with the woman is out of service, but Sedlak responded to e-mail correspondence Friday afternoon. “While the university requests that I not comment on any specifics while they are still investigating the claim, I am confident that I will be able to clear my name from any accusations of wrongdoing,” Sedlak said. An unidentified person in the adjunct faculty mathematics office said that Sedlak is no longer teaching at CCSU. “Something came up and he had to leave for the last couple weeks
[of the semester],” the person said. The math department requires students to record at least a C- in Math 099 before being allowed to enroll in Math 101. Students must achieve a grade of at least 60 percent on their final exam in order to receive the C- in the class, according to syllabi from Sedlak and other CCSU math professors found online. According to the CCSU course registration system on Pipeline, Sedlak was not scheduled to teach next semester. Officer Sebastian Magnano of the CCSU Police Department declined to present a copy of the police report Friday afternoon in absence of the records manager. Magnano said law requires that only one officer have jurisdiction over department records and that the records division would be locked until Monday. On Monday, The Recorder was denied access to the police report, saying that it was unavailable because it’s still an ongoing investigation. Sedlak’s profile on QuietSpeculation.com indicates that Sedlak lives in Connecticut with his fiancée. Sources confirm that Sedlak is also a graduate student at CCSU. Visit centralrecorder.com for the latest on this story.