Students deliver pumpkins to retirement center
■ bweetser residents made
the'donation as a gesture to
give back to the community
By David Weaver
lor the Emerald
Amidst all the Halloween
preparations for this weekend,
one group of students decided to
bring some cheer to a group of resi
dents at the Farmington Square
Assisted Living Community.
On Thursday, a group of nine
students rrom tne Sweetser resi
dence hall in Hamilton Complex,
lead by Resident Assistant Haley
McCall, took five carved pump
kins to the facility in an effort to
give back to the community.
McCall said the Sweetser Resi
dence Council decided to donate
the pumpkins two weeks ago.
She said the group later decid
ed to carve the pumpkins after
some residents showed interest in
doing the activity.
“It worked out really nicely be
cause a couple people got really
inspired to carve them,” McCall
said.
She said that many of the resi
dents decided to participate in the
carving. McCall added that she
hopes that other halls will take up
other charitable causes as well.
Gayle Stott, activities director at
Farmington Square, said she was
excited about the unexpected visit
by the students.
“I think it’s fantastic,” Stott said.
“It was such a wonderful sur
prise.”
Stott said the carved pumpkins
were precisely what the commu
nity there needed. She said that
many of the residents of the facili
ty had not seen a carved pumpkin
in years.
“I think it brought back some of
their childhood,” she said.
Preston Joiner, a University
graduate who was visiting a resi
dent at the facility, said that it was
a good experience for the residents
as well as the visiting students.
“It shows a lot of,thought and
care,” Joiner said. “I think it gives
insight [to the students] about
what growing old means. ”
Austin said he hopes that by
reaching out, college students can
improve their image in the com
munity.
“It’s a great community activi
ty,” said Sweetser resident* Dan
Blunell. “We got to do something
really fun and help the communi
ty out.”
Skateboards, rollerblades can cause damage and create hazards
■ Office of Public Safety
warns skaters to consider
others’ safety or else maybe
get their boards impounded
By Jessica Blanchard
lor the Emerald
Skateboarders beware. While
skateboarding and rollerblading
are allowed on campus, perform
ing stunts is not.
The University Office of Public
Safety recently reprinted its “sur
vival guide” for skates, blades and
boards on the University campus.
The brochure stresses safety, cour
tesy and caution as guidelines for
skateboarding and rollerblading
and lists the fines for breaking the
school’s rules.
The University allows students
to use skateboards and
rollerblades as an alternative
means of transportation, as long as
the user obeys traffic safety rules.
However, one of the most com
mon uses of skateboards is for
“stunting” — doing tricks mostly
involving the skateboard leaving
the ground—which the Universi
ty has forbidden on campus.
Rand Stamm, OPS parking and
transportation manager, said
stunting has the potential to cause
property damage as well as pose a
risk to pedestrians, bicyclists and
vehicles.
“We don’t have the facilities for
[stunt skating],” Stamm said. “The
concrete work here is designed for
pedestrians, for bicycles, for looks,
but not designed to be hammered
on by somebody jumping their
skateboard.”
Stunting can also be dangerous.
So far this school year, OPS has
had to transport one skater to the
hospital after he injured himself
while attempting a jump in the
EMU Amphitheater, said Joan
Saylor, an OPS administrative
lieutenant. The student was not
wearing safety gear.
“A lot of people think the gear
doesn’t look cool,” Stamm said.
“ You can’t force them to wear the
gear, but if they ever wipe out, it’s
not a pretty sight.”
While the officers said they
have not been ticketing skaters yet
this year, they have talked with
some students about their skate
boarding use.
Pete Cho, a junior undeclared
major, is one such student. Cho
said he was stopped recently, but
only received a warning.
“They were okay about it,” he
said. “But I don’t understand why
we can’t stunt skate — do they
think we’ll get hurt and sue the
school or something?”“Part of me
thinks it’s good clean fun, but an
other side of me gets really an
noyed,” she said.
Students who disregard the
rules may run the risk of having
their skateboards impounded,
said Saylor.
“There’s this kind of a free spir
it that goes along with skateboard
ing,” she said. “We’re not here to
interfere with folks. We try to be
patient with them and get them to
comply, but there have been a few
circumstances where we’ve
seized skateboards and told them
they can get them back from the
Office of Student Conduct.”
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