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Student Affairs Office, and he confirms
that a Student Misconduct Allegation
report was filed with that office regarding
the Jan. 23 incident.
Federal privacy legistation restricts
Dr. Janet Widoff, director of student
affairs at PSH, from disclosing whether or
not she has received a Student Misconduct
Allegation or whether she has been or will
be in contact with Cox or Dodge concern
ing any allegations against them.
As the Judicial Affairs designate at
PSH, however, Widoff explained that mat
ters brought before the Office of Judicial
Affairs are examined, adjudicated and
resolved by a prescribed protocol and
Meade Heights residents
responsible for snow removal
Maintenance crews
just plow roads
By Jenny Poust
Capital Times Staff Wrier
Now that the winter season is upon us
and six inches of snow have already fall
en on Meade Heights at Penn State
Harrisburg, maintenance staff are plowing
the roads in the community, but the drive
ways and sidewalks remain snow-cov
ered.
According to JoAnn Coleman, PSH
manager of housing and food services,
this is according to campus policy.
Maintenance is solely responsible for
clearing roadways, while students living
in Meade Heights must shovel their own
driveways, as well as the sidewalks in
front of their residences.
This is part of the housing contracts
every student signs and agrees to while
residing in Meade Heights except for
the past two years. "It was inadvertently
removed [from the contract], but still
assumed," said Coleman. "It will go back
in the contracts and will be in the new
Hilltopper for next year."
Coleman explained that over the twen
ty years she has been working at PSH, the
policy has largely remained unchanged.
Occasionally, she said, maintenance
would plow driveways, but that ended
after the blizzards in the early '9os. "We
just didn't have the manpower or the
proper equipment to deal with that much
snow," she said.
Unless a student is on crutches or in
some other way handicapped, students are
responsible for snow removal on their dri
veways and sidewalks. Housing officers
do provide snow shovels to community
process that is applicable university-wide.
"The process," Widoff stresses, "is
grounded in respect for the student" in
each particular situation. This principle,
Widoff maintains, is "clearly stated, out
lined and committed to within the proce
dures and operation of the Judicial Affairs
Office."
Widoff points out that students have
several means of recourse and representa
tion available to them in instances involv
ing the Judicial Affairs Office.
The status of the students' residence
in the Meade Heights apartment is
unknown. Attempts to reach Housing and
Food Services Director JoAnn Coleman
for comment were unsuccessful.
members who stop by the offices during
office hours.
So how do PSH students who live in
Meade Heights feel about this? Some stu
dents feel it's no big deal. "We actually
don't believe in shoveling," says Kevin
Brown, a PSH MET student. "We just
make our own driveway right over the
snow. Mainly it would be a hassle for stu
dents as well as maintenance staff to try
to coordinate times for the students' vehi
cles to be removed from driveways so
that it could be cleared."
Chris Perhonitch, also a PSH MET
student, agrees with Brown. "It would be
a waste of time," said Perhonitch.
Perhonitch had a suggestion to make it a
little easier on those slippery driveways:
how about a bag of salt?
Ramzi Yousef, PSH EET major, feels
that the school should remove the snow
from the sidewalks in addition to plowing
the roads. "It would be even nicer if they
would remove the snow from the drive
ways," said Yousef, an opinion shared by
others.
"It is not that difficult to make a sim
ple turn into someone's driveway and
plow the snow," said Michael "Creston"
Soloby, a PSH communications major.
Soloby also feels that the school's
removal efforts on the roads could use
some improvement after the last plow left
chunks and clumps of ice and snow all
over the roads.
Some students are outright angry with
the school's policy. "We pay enough in
tuition and housing that they should do
it," said Kathleen Kane, PSH communi
cations major. Kane points out that the
school brings in people to mow the grass
and collect the leaves. She said, "Why not
do the same for snow removal?"
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