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Record
September 6, 2001
How to party respectfully
School sponsored meeting addresses what off-campus students should know about throwing parties and responsible, respectful behavior
Bridget Kelly
Editorial Staff
In an effort to improve student-town relations and to make off-campus students aware of various city ordinances and laws, a meeting for off-campus students was held Wednesday night at St. Ben's.
Deans Jim Hardwick and Jody Terhaar presided over the meeting, and director of community relations Sr. Miriam Ardolf, as well as acting police chief Jeff Young spoke and answered question from students.
Students primarily
expressed concerns over alcohol and noise violations. In response, all four speakers continuously reiterated that students simply need to use
common sense.
"If you are having a party," said Young, "watch the people that are coming and going. Don't let them leave your house with a cup of beer and don't let them urinate outside."
Added Hardwick, "Too many people in the house and no one sober watching the door are easy ways to get busted."
Young addressed the noise issue, emphasizing that there needs to be a complaint before the police can go investigate noise, and that contrary to some people's beliefs, the police cannot call in noise complaints themselves.
Young also addressed underage drinking. He warned off-campus students of the repre-cussions of providing alcohol to
minors. According to state law, selling or giving alcohol to anyone under 21 is a gross misdemeanor with possible sanction of up to 3,000 dollars in fines and/or up to one year in jail.
If that seems far-fetched, Hardwick pointed out that the St. Joe police can and regularly do send underage people into parties to try to buy alcohol.
Young confirmed this, noting that "most jobs require a background check, and you don't want to have to explain selling [alcohol] to minors."
Aside from selling to minors, a new state law passed this summer puts responsibility for all guests on the house tenants. If someone is at a party and is in an accident, hurts himself or herself, or even gets raped, the house members can be sued.
Last year, according to Hardwick, a house of St. John's juniors found themselves in this situation when a guest was sexually assaulted by another guest. They notified the police, and ended up being sued by the young woman who was assaulted.
"A couple of them had to drop out of school because the litigation took up so much of their time," said Hardwick.
In closing words of advice, Young suggested just using common sense and talking to neighbors, working out with them how to deal with excessive noise and parties instead of getting the police involved.
Answering to the idea that the police are "out to get" students, Young pointed out that "on any given weekend hun-
dreds of kids go to parties without getting cited."
Ardolf wrapped up the evening, concluding that "[Off-campus students] have more exposure with people in town than anyone else...You are the colleges' best representatives."
For more information regarding specific ordianances, laws, etc., or information regarding an off-campus house's violation history, contact the St. Joseph city clerk's office.
For information on St. Ben's and St. John's policies regarding off-campus behavior and discipline, contact Terhaar or Hardwick, or call the Residential Life offices at the respective campuses.
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Deluxe new computer center debuts in Clemens Library
There is a bigger variety of computers, so students can do what they choose"
Kieu Le
Lab assistant
Adam Leonard
Staff Writer
The Clemens Computing Center, located in the ^___ Clemens Library at the College of Saint Benedict, is online and now serving as the main computing center on the CSB campus. Prior to this year, the computer center for the women's
campus was located in the Henrietta Academic Building, but due to lack of adequate space and resources, the center was moved and updated in order to better accommodate students.
"[The computing center] was moved here to Clemens because there is a lot more room," said sophomore Lab Assistant Heidi Ramler.
Among the updates to the center are additions of many new computers, flat screen monitors, Macintosh systems, as well as the Sun Solaris computers that are used by computer science majors.
"The Sun Solaris workstations are the replacement workstations for the SGI computers used in previous years by the Computer Science department," said Jim Koenig, director of Information Technology Services.
"Most of the SGIs had reached the end of their useful life and the Computer Science faculty decided to take this
opportunity the make the change to this more predominant UNIX [a type of operating system] plat-___ form. The
Clemens' Sun
Solaris facility
will provide
another point
of access for
students to
complete their
UNIX application work."
The school has also added two unique additions,
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Multimedia/Mobile Access area and the Training Center.
The Multimedia/Mobile Access section
includes such hardware as Hewlett Packard scanners, Macintosh computers and lap top desk space, which allows students to hook up their personal lap
tops and logon to the^QQ^ up. A student employee hard at work in the bigger and better computer in clemens Library at St. Ben's, network in the library. peatures jnc|ucje a classroom with flat screen monitors and projection equipment, many student terminals, updated According to computer science workstations and LAN network docking ports for students with laptops wishing to directly access
Ramler, this is an the library's special electronic and online resources.
Ryan Kutter, The Record
added
this convenience-
because it is possible to utilize the library's resources while on your personal computer.
Also, the school has complemented the facility with a Training Center. This room can be used by teachers who wish to hold informative sessions on how to use certain computing programs.
Additionally, teachers can utilize this feature to conduct class wide internet sessions,
thus insuring all students are on the right track to collecting and researching information.
Koenig explained, "The Clemens Training Center will provide a place for employees and students to receive training on a wide-variety of technical topics. The facility is 50 percent larger than the current Quad training center and has superior A/V capabilities. I T Services will offer the same
training subjects at both facilities through the year. ."
The center has retained the same hours as in the past, but has added a new help desk. In the past, the help desk was located at Saint John's University, but now there is a help desk located in both the CSB and SJU computing labs. The student assistance desk is staffed continually during the lab's hours of operation.
"The location change is mostly positive," said junior Lab Assistant Kieu Le. "Although it may be a farther walk for off-campus students, there is usually no wait and there is a bigger variety of computers so students can do what they choose, like check their email or scan photos."
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