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NEWS March 11, 2011

THE CAMPUS THEFTS from page 1 “We stress people to not tration put security cameras at his fraternity house and left Schneider agreed that privacy
leave their valuables unat- in areas like campus center his laptop in a room. Upon re- must be respected; however,
www.alleghenycampus.com tended,” Schneider said. entrances and parking lots, turning, he found his laptop he believes security cameras
Staff and Contact Information “However, some thefts can according to ASG’s meeting missing and noted a student, in certain areas, like parking
be prevented, and some can’t.  record. He feels the campus who did not belong to the fra- lots, will do no harm.
Editor-in-Chief: Alexandra Jaffe But if we have cameras, we’ll may be a little behind with its ternity lingering. Last semester a student’s
have a chance of getting the policy on security cameras, “I’m surprised how many backpack with a laptop inside
News Editors: Advertising stuff back.” because, according to Schnei- thefts are committed on this was stolen. Schneider said a
Katrina Tulloch Manager: A flat-screen television is der, most schools in the area campus, but what surprises Meadville resident, not a stu-
Elaina Mercatoris Alexandra Jaffe still missing from the campus already have security camer- me more is the school hasn’t dent, committed the crime
center. Schneider said any- as. The senate approved, 52-4, invested in security cameras and that the thief was appre-
Briana English Business Manager: one could’ve committed this but some students are against yet,” he said. “Some thefts hended, but security was un-
Features Editors: Daniel Bauer theft, including students.  He installing security cameras.  seem to be done for fun, just able to recover the student’s
noted some missing chairs “My big thing is that if to mess with people, be- property.
Brittany Baker Photography and a couch as well. our overarching theme is the cause my laptop was just an “[The culprits are]
Molly Duerig Editors: “There are no capable statement of community and old Dell. It’s probably worth obviously not all students,”
Opinion Editors: Cody Miller guardians during late-night we trust one another to do only $250 now, so why would Schneider said. “There was
study sessions at the campus the right thing, then I feel anyone want that?” also a case where a student
Daniel Bauer Dana D’Amico center, so it’s easy to take like the cameras undermine Campus Security has re- from the Pittsburgh campus
Cory Rectenwald Web Manager: things out,” Schneider said. that” said Kyle Pineda,’13. covered four recent “tech- came to visit and took a
On Tuesday Schneider Campus Security has been thefts” and one turned out to television from one of our
Sports Editors: Patrick Canella presented a proposal to install investigating the theft of a be a contract employee, ac- students’ houses. Then it
Charlie Magovern Faculty Advisor: security cameras on campus student’s laptop that was re- cording to Schneider. becomes a matter of knowing
Colleen Pegher Caley Cook to ASG.   Schneider decided ported in February. The stu- He said it could be anyone who you’re letting in.”
to suggest that the adminis- dent said he was with friends so there is no clear pattern.

The Campus is printed every

Friday during the academic year,
except during breaks and exam periods.
Landlords lose in residency changes
By LAUREN SCHRICKER
The Campus is printed by The Corry schricl@allegheny.edu
Journal.
While current Allegheny
students are breathing a sigh
To place an advertisement, call (814) 332-5386. of relief that they’ll still have
Rate sheets are available upon request. the freedom to live off-cam-
Box 12, Allegheny College, pus as seniors, local landlords
Meadville, PA 16335 expect the worst as a result of
changes in Allegheny’s resi-
Advertising Manager: (440) 488-8335 dency requirement.
Business Manager: (724) 799-4908 “I’ve known it was in the
E-mail: accampusnewspaper@gmail.com works for years.” said Tony
Esposito, who currently leas-
es two houses to Allegheny
students. “I rent to 99 percent
college students. If I can’t get
kids to rent the houses, then
CRIME BLOTTER I’ve got to sell them.”
Last year, Esposito sold
one of his houses to the col-
lege after noticing the school
Dime bag? Dime was moving toward the cre-
“Errrybody calm
ation of a more residential
campus.
Larry Lee, vice president
of finance and planning, be-
lieves that when the four-
year residency requirement
is implemented, it will not af-
fect the landlord community
as much as many might think.
“We’re only talking about
it impacting a limited number
of students, a few dozen,” he
said. “There are only a certain
number of beds on campus.
The four-year residency re-
quirement just ensures that
all beds will be full,” said Lee.
The problem for local
landlords, however, is that
rentals have already declined
significantly due to the three-
year residency requirement.
“My places were rented by
Thanksgiving each year until
a couple of years ago,” Esposi-
to said.
“This year I’ve had not one
phone call about the houses
yet.”
Local landlords have seen
this trend develop.
“We did not get the house
rented last year, and it’s not
rented for this year either.
And there have been no calls
for next year yet,” said Susan
Gould, who rents one house
to Allegheny students.
Gould said she had been
informed of the new resi-
dency requirements from
The Meadville Tribune, but
had not heard about the exact
details. Fellow local landlord
Sam Enterline was unaware
of the terms of the residency
requirement as well.
“It definitely made a dif-
ference when they opened
the North Villages,” said En-
terline, who only has ten of
his twelve apartments and
houses leased to college stu-
dents. “I used to rent a lot
earlier in the year and I’m
only just now getting calls for
next year.”
“You can’t charge a single
family for rent what you can
charge six or seven college
students. It’s definitely a det-
riment to business,” he said.
For some landlords wor-
ried about losing student
residents, selling is the best
option.
I’m very fortunate that my
houses are typical single fam-
ily houses and easy to sell.”

SLUR from page 1 FIRED from page 1

NO down, we can make
3/5 –Ravine more mottz sticks!”
A student is under 3/6 –McKinley’s Court
investigation for posses- An altercation was inves-
sion of a small amount didn’t feel as if Allegheny all, it’s that we’re taking @AlleghenyCampus asked: “Do you tweak your
tigated between four Al- social networking sites to look better to potential employers?
of marijuana. were a comfortable home more seriously a current of
legheny College students
anymore,” said Bickel. “We homophobia that’s always Becki Schneider, ’10 Patrick Canella, ’11 [@pcanella]
and two non-students. felt the need to take back the been there.”
You’re under [@rebeccajoy] “ABSOLUTELY. Never curse,
campus.” Bailey stated that there “Yeah I did. But then I found out post political agendas or any-
investigation, Bike? Check. Wood? According to Krol, the have been indications of my weird sense of humor in my thing like that on my FB/Twitter.
Brandy-Kate and Check. Time to plan march came out of a general this undercurrent in the interview landed me the job...you Bad idea from the start.”
Whiskey Olsen can never know.”
the annual naked meeting QnA held earlier past, such as in last year’s Brett Bacon, ’11 [@bakeonb]
3/5 –Ravine bike ride. this week where attendees Campus Climate Survey, Samantha Stanko, ’11 [@Binzbit] “Personally, I’ve never thought of
Two female students 3/7 –Quigley Hall expressed their thoughts on which indicated that LGBTQ “I tweak my name to avoid it. It could bite me in the ass later,
were under investiga- A student reported the the incident. students were among the changing all the hilarious shit in but I feel that it shouldn’t matter.”
“People are getting more least comfortable with the my profile.”
tion for underage drink- theft of a project that in-
ing. afraid, more resentful, they college’s climate.
cluded a bike and a wood
don’t feel safe necessarily, “I think that these
stand from the building. and there’s this undercurrent incidents have made the be able to get yourself a job.” up on personal behavior.
of hatred directed towards larger community sit up and According to McCullough, “What we know is that Face-
a marginalized community take notice of something that people can use their Facebook book will sell your informa-
that already maybe does not a lot of us have been aware of professionally. For example, tion to employers - it’s very
feel safe being open with for a while,” Bailey said. someone passionate about expensive so a lot of little
CLASSIFIEDS themselves,” Krol said.
Professor of
She called for that
larger community to
community service might
post updates and photographs
companies won’t necessar-
ily spend money on that,
Communication Arts make themselves heard in describing a service experi- but some major corporations
Courtney Bailey called the responding to the incident. ence, elaborating visually on need to know their new hires
occasion to address a possible “I would like to see the what’s already on a resume. are really making a good ef-
“For rent: apartments and “College rental. Close to upside to the incidents. campus as a whole stand up “The thing that gets tricky fort online to not be posting
houses for 2011-2012. Call campus. Up to four students. “There is a kind of and say, ‘This is what we is that people mix that up their weekend shenanigans,”
Sam 814-853-3533.” Call (412) 759-0266.” unfortunate undercurrent of stand for as a community, with their social life,” Mc- McCullough said.
homophobia on our campus, these are the things we won’t Cullough said. “The hard part McCullough advises stu-
To advertise with The Campus, contact us at and sometimes it kind of tolerate as a community,’” is identifying what is going to dents to create a LinkedIn
accampusnewspaper@gmail.com. bubbles up and makes itself Bailey said. “That it’s seen not be important to an employer profile instead and contact
Classified Ads are $.50 per word really known,” said Bailey. as just an LGBT issue but as a that I want them to see versus people in their related fields,
(12 word minimun). “If there’s any upside at campus community issue.” what I don’t want people to She explained that boxes and
know about.” profile pages available don’t
The problem is once some- allow users to post things that
thing potentially risky or em- aren’t to their benefit. Addi-
barrassing makes it on the tionally, people can promote
Web, it remains visible long or recommend each other on
after. According to the Face- LinkedIn.
book privacy policy, even “Anything we say or do
after removing information can come back and bite us,
from your profile or deleting so if you approach it with a
your account, that informa- professional tone, it won’t,”
tion may remain viewable McCullough said. “As adults,
elsewhere to the extent it has we get that fact that you are
been shared with others, cop- ever-evolving human beings,
ied or stored by other users. so if at one point you have
“When you sign up for a one opinion and in the future
Facebook, you’re basically al- you change your mind, we
lowing it to be public infor- have some level of grace as
mation,” McCullough said. humans for that.”
“Anything you put online McCullough says the boom
reserves cookies in the cy- of technology is a reaction of
ber world that can always be our society growing dramati-
found again. You might take cally but it takes a long time
down all your crazy pictures for our laws to catch up, ac-
but it’s still in the system.” cording to McCullough.
For Babeji, his excited sta- “We’re putting policies in
tus update was all the compa- place to protect people but
ny needed as reason for termi- technology is racing ahead,”
nation. For jobs that requires McCullough said. “So compa-
staunch confidentially agree- nies are saying, ‘Hey, this is
ments, social networking sites one more way we can screen
might be the most honest candidates. Let’s use it.’”
way for employers to check