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Students in N s dorms must obey rules
Bryan Shettig
Staff Writer
Every year, thousands of incoming
freshmen are packed like sardines
into dorms and expected to abide
by pages of rules.
A cursory glance of NT dorm
hallways reveals an ad campaign
called "Think" by the Department of
Housing and Residence Life, warning
students of the consequences of
breaking rules.
It shows students being arrested
for driving under the influence, as
well as statistics on alcohol abuse
and sexual assault.
"We have had situations, and we
always do, where students break the
Code of Conduct," said Maureen
Clouse, director of housing.
Depending on the severity of the
act committed, students are fined
or turned over to police officials,
Clouse said. Kerr Hall has signs up
that say students caught smoking
inside a dorm will receive a $50 fine
and can eventually be removed from
the dorm.
"So far, we have not had any inci-
dents where students have been
kicked out this year," Clouse said.
"But that doesn't necessarily mean
anything."
Clouse said that the most common
reasons for a student to leave housing
include drug and alcohol use and
assault.
"Anybody who trespasses the rules
is given to the police and issued a
Criminal Trespass Warning," she
said.
Once issued, that student is not
allowed to return to dorms or they
will be arrested. Students can also
be transferred for less severe acts.
This has not happened this year yet,
Clouse said.
A trespass list is kept at NT dorms,
Clouse said. The list details what
students have been removed from
housing and why.
Resident assistants and hall
directors at all NT dorms refused
to comment on the issue.
"When I used to live in Bruce Hall
it was a lot worse," said Cameron
Kyle, UT-Arlington student. "There
were cops there every other week
taking someone away."
Kyle was placed in Bruce Hall
when attending NT during the fall
of2003.
He said most students arrested
by the police were drinking and
becoming abusive or loud. One time,
a 17-year-old girl was intoxicated
and becoming "belligerently loud"
and vomiting in the restroom all over
the floor, he said.
"Everybody knows when this
happens, it's just almost understood
not to talk about it," he said. He
said it was a "wonder" that so many
students there do not get caught
breaking the code of conduct.
Katherine Frye/NT Daily
Clerical assistant, Marie Barrera, San Benito senior,
fills out a Notice of Trespass Form in Crumley
Hall.
Red Cross needs
computer
volunteers
The center, at NT's Mean Green Village,
at 1500 S. Bonnie Brae St., is sheltering
evacuees affected by Hurricane Rita.
Evacuees are using three telephones and
three computers to contact the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, insur-
ance companies and family members, said
Sandra Burke, computer systems manager
of the Computing and Information
Technology Center.
Volunteers are needed to help evacuees
navigate the Internet every day from the
hours of 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. If you are inter-
ested in volunteering, contact Burke at
burke@unt.edu.
Reception is today
The Women's Promotion and Tenure
Reception is today from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in
the Golden Eagle Suite in the University
Union. The reception is an annual event
honoring the professional achievements
of NT's women and is sponsored by the
Women's Studies department.
- Clarisa Ramirez
GOP eases
environment rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation that
would end the longtime ban on energy
development along most of the coun-
try's coasts and open an Alaskan wildlife
refuge to oil drilling advanced Wednesday
in the House.
Opponents said Republican leaders were
exploiting the aftermath of hurricanes
Katrina and Rita to pass pro-industry
measures that they failed to get included
in an energy bill signed into lawonly two
months ago.
It is a "leave no oil company behind"
wish list that will damage the environ-
ment and do nothing to ease high gaso-
line or winter heating costs, said Rep. Ed
Markey, D-Mass.
Attempts by Markey to strip the offshore
development and drilling provisions
failed, both by a 28-14 vote, in the House
Resources Committee.
The committee then approved the energy
legislation 27-16.
The bill will be combined with proposals
intended to spur expansion of construc-
tion of refineries, an idea being worked
on Wednesday by a different House
News Briefs
committee.
The effort to allow natural gas drilling
of the U.S. coast attracted support from
Republicans and Democrats.
But some Democrats said it would
be years before any of the fuel would
become available.
The proposal from Rep. John Peterson, R-
Pa., applies only to natural gas. The legis-
lation would allow states to approve oil
drilling off their coasts.
Proposed museum
is dropped from
site at ground zero
NEW YORK (AP) — Bowing to pres-
sure from furious Sept. 11 families, Gov.
George Pataki on Wednesday removed
a proposed freedom museum from the
space reserved for it at ground zero,
saying the project had aroused "too much
opposition, too much controversy.
"He left open the possibility that a new
spot at the former World Trade Center site
could be found forthe museum.The deci-
sion followed months of acrimony over
the International Freedom Center, with
Sept. 11 families and politicians saying
that the museum would overshadow
and take space from a separate memo-
rial devoted to the 2,749 World Trade
Center dead and would dishonor them
by fostering debate about the attacks
and other world events.
"We must move forward with our first
priority, the creation of an inspiring
memorial to pay tribute to our lost loved
ones and tell their stories to the world,"
Pataki said in a statement.
Pataki said that the Freedom Center
cannot be part of a cultural building
located near the proposed trade center
memorial. But he left open the possibility
that the center could find a home else-
where on the 16-acre site.
Pataki said he would direct the Lower
Manhattan Development Corp. - the
agency he created to rebuild the site - to
explore other locations for the center.
Bush pardons coal
mine bomber, 13
others
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush
granted pardons Wednesday to 14 people,
including a member of the mineworkers
union who was convicted for his role in
bombings at a West Virginia coal mine, a
counterfeiter and a bootlegger.
Jesse Ray Harvey of Scarbro, W.Va., was
given a 25-month sentence in 1990 after
his conviction for using explosives to
damage Milburn Colliery.
The mine had been the target of a long
strike by about 45 members of a United
Mine Workers local.
Bush has issued 60 pardons and sentence
commutations during 56 months in
office.
His father, former President George H.W.
Bush, issued 77 pardons during his single
term, from 1989 to 1993, according to
statistics collected by the University of
Pittsburgh law school.
Former President Clinton granted clem-
ency to 456 people during his eight years
in office, including 176 on his last day at
the White House.
Some pardons, like the one President
Ford gave Richard Nixon in 1974, protect
recipients from going to jail or reduce
their sentences.
But Bush has granted clemency mainly to
allow people who committed relatively
minor offenses and served their sentences
long ago to clear their names.
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