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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
Alcohol subcommittee to submit report next week
BY MEGAN HEACOCK mheacock@kansan.com
The debate to change alcohol policy at KU is in its home stretch.
Next Wednesday, the alcohol subcommittee, charged to investigate current alcohol policy at the University and how to prevent alcohol abuse, will submit a full report to Student Rights Standing
Committee, Emily Williams, Chair of the committee, said it was important to realize that the goal of the committee was not to ban drinking alcohol altogether. Instead, the committee was to combat alcohol
abuse, such as drinking to the point of blacking out.
"We had a lot of good discussion, but at the most, we were ten students."
Since September, the sub-committee has analyzed the current policy in-depth. Recently, the committee held a vote deciding whether to change alcohol policy at all. Instead, there was a 4-4 tie.
For the sake of fairness, the committee will present arguments for both sides on Wednesday, as well as some additional recommendations from previous discussion.
A large component of the recommendations came from responses in the student survey. So far, approximately 1,400 students have filled out the survey. The survey will be available through December.
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All of the answers from the surveys will be presented at the Student Rights Standing Committee, as well. Williams said it was important that all ideas for combating alcohol abuse should be discussed at the meeting
Representation from students has been a problem throughout the semester.
"We had a lot of good discussion, but at the most, we were ten students," she said of the past alcohol meetings.
Williams estimated fewer than
five non-senators ever attended the meetings, which made it difficult to determine the student voice. She said the survey helped to provide more feedback
Other recommendations came from discussion during the subcommittee meetings. These recommendations were discussed and given favorable or unfavorable votes by the subcommittee members. Favorable recommendations include increased advertising for alcohol resources on campus; increased funding to Counseling and Psychological Services; asking PRE 101, a college orientation class, to discuss responsible drinking and how to respond to alcohol-related emergencies; and providing university-sponsored programs that promote responsible drinking, such as wine and cheese parties or beer gardens for students 21 and older. Williams suggested this recommendation as
"Most of us will be in a situation when we're networking with a beverage in our hands."
"Most of us will be in a situation in our lives we're network-
EMILY WILLIAMS Chairwoman
a chance to teach drinking etiquette in professional settings.
ing with a beverage in our hands," she said. "I think, especially for the juniors and seniors who are fighting an uphill battle in the job force right now, maybe that's an appropriate avenue to discuss responsible drinking."
Two aspects of current alcohol policy were discussed heavily during meetings and in the survey; amnesty and parental notification. Ultimately, the committee voted to keep the current amnesty policy, citing that providing amnesty to all parties involved would encourage alcohol abuse without consequences and providing it to no one would deter underage students from calling for help.
Oneparticular recommendation regarding parental notification was strongly supported by all committee members—to let
students decide whether their parents would be notified at all for alcohol policy violations. Currently, a student's parents are contacted after the second alcohol violation.
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While most of the committee's focus has been within the University, Marlesa Roney, Vice
"They'd say, 'Students, this is your choice. If you want your parents to be notified on certain violations, you can.'" Kaufman said. "And then to the parents, they'd say, 'Your kids are making this decision. It's their decision. They're in college and they're adults.' After that, it's the parents' decision whether they want to have a family dispute at home."
"I think that the work this
"I think that the work this group has done has provided a broad set of reccomendaations that could be used ... "
Provost for Student Success, said the recommendations were still a starting point for the whole community.
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that the work this group has done has provided a broad set of recommendations that could be used by multiple groups," Roney said.
Whether to change the current student housing policy and Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities will also be addressed at
Wednesday's meeting.
For those who haven't completed the survey or would like to offer further personal recommendations to the subcommittee, send an e-mail to rightssubcomm@ku.edu.
Follow Megan Heacock at twitter.com/meheacock.
Edited by Megan Morriss
NATIONAL
Hurricane Ida soaks the southeast and gulf
BY STEVE SZKOTAK
A motorist tries to repair his car flooded along a roadway in the Ocean View area of Norfolk as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida on Thursday.
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NORFOLK, Va. — A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools, roads and bridges and causing at least five deaths.
The torrential rains and winds gusting more than 30 mph were the work of late-season Tropical Storm Ida, which quickly weakened once it made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday but still soaked a swath of the Southeast.
Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine declared a state of emergency and officials urged people in some areas to stay home. Rain and resulting floods were predicted to continue at least through Friday, especially along the state's southeastern coast and particularly in Norfolk, a coastal city of a quarter-million people.
Officials in this city on Chesapeake Bay were watching the incoming tide closely, as
winds pushed water inland and threatened to cause more flooding late Thursday or early Friday. Heeding Kaine's advice, many residents weathered the storm at home. Many roads were inches or feet under water.
"It's miserable but no life or limb in danger," said Bob Batcher, a spokesman for Norfolk's emergency services.
Some hardy residents ventured out in the stinging rain, leaning into gusting winds as they walked. The few restaurants that were open were empty or, like Granby Street Pizza, busy with takeout.
"We do very well in the rain. We do a lot of deliveries," said owner Peter Freda as hot pies were stacked on the counter for delivery.
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miles off the coast of New Jersey. A spokeswoman says there are no plans to resume searching Friday morning, when conditions are expected to be even worse. Officials were bracing for tidal flooding along the shore.
A few blocks down abandoned Granby Street, normally a busy stretch of bars and restaurants, Glenn Goodman, 48, found a sports bar that appeared to be open, only to have a server lock up as he reached for the door.
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In North Carolina, thousands lost power for a time during the deluge, flood warnings were posted from the mountains to the coast, and some roads closed.
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weather-related crashes in central and eastern Virginia, said Corrine Geller, state police spokeswoman. In New York City, a 36-year-old man surfing at a beach died after getting caught in pounding surf churned up by the storm. In North Carolina, an elderly man standing in his yard was killed when a pine tree was snapped off by strong winds and fell on him, the fire department said.
Some motorists in Virginia were rescued from their cars after getting stuck in high water. Flooding closed several area streets, bridges and a major tunnel as winds worsened high tides that were already 6 to 7 feet above normal in the state.
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CAMPUS Environmental groups team up to recycle as one
In recognition of America Recycles Day, KU Environs and Students for Bar Recycling will volunteer with Cans for Community to collect recyclable materials before, during and after Saturday's football game against Nebraska
"With Saturday's effort, we are hoping to collect a record number of cans," said Ryan Callihan, Lenexa senior and president of KU Environs. "More volunteers leads to more aluminum cans, which leads to more money to donate to the community."
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Volunteers can work any time from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. that day. Those interested can visit the Cans for Community tent on the east of Memorial Stadium Saturday or they could e-mail environs@ku.edu with their name, contact information and an idea of when they could volunteer.
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INTERNATIONAL Earthquake hits Chile's capital, power shuts off
SANTIAGO, Chile — A strong earthquake struck northern Chile early Friday, briefly knocking out power to a city but otherwise causing no major damages, authorities said.
The 6.5-magnitude quake's epicenter was between the cities of liqueque and Arica, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) from each, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It hit just after midnight Friday local time (0305 GMT Friday; 10:05 p.m. Thursday EST).
Chile's National Emergency Office put the quake's magnitude at 5. It was unclear why the readings were different.
The office said the quake knocked out electricity in the city of iquique but power was restored in minutes.
The quake had a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers), according to the USGS.
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Powerful earthquakes are common in the South American nation, which stretches along the quake-prone Pacific "Ring of Fire."
Pakistani intelligence office targeted by bomb
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A powerful bomb targeted the offices of Pakistan's main spy agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, tearing down much of the building and causing several casualties, witnesses said.
The blast struck at the heart of the agency overseeing much of the anti-terror campaign in the border regions with Afghanistan.
It was the latest in a string of attacks on security forces, civilian and Western targets since the government launched an offensive in mid-October against the Taliban's main stronghold in the border region of South Waziristan.
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