The historic vote for separation in Scotland did not turn out how the separatists wanted. Scotland agreed to stay as a part of the United Kingdom in a close referendum vote: 55 percent against secession and 45 percent for it, according to Reuters. No one was certain of how this referendum would turn out, since every poll had different results.
A few days after the referendum, British Prime Minister David Cameron passed a series of laws to transfer key decision-making powers from London to Scotland, the Associated Press said. Reuters reports that these new powers include taxation, spending and welfare.
Even with these changes, some Scottish nationalist leaders have been saying that British political leaders âtrickedâ Scots out of independence. These accusations come from Alex Salmond, the Scottish nationalist chief, who Reuters reported is stepping down as leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party. Salmond is accusing âpoliticians in London of reneging on their promises to hand more power to ScotsâŚthat he said played a crucial role in swinging the votes in favor of union in Thursdayâs vote.â
Even though this vote for independence failed, other areas interested in secession are using Scotland as an example on how to go about the process. For example, the AP reports that lawmakers in Spainâs Catalonia region voted on Friday to âgive their leader the power to call a secession referendum that the central government in Madrid has denounced as illegal.â Other places interested in secession are the Basques in northern Spain, the Corsicans in France, Italians in several northern regions, the Flemish in Belgium and the Quebec province in Canada.
The Issue: Afghanistan
After a tumultuous election, an American-brokered deal finally decided who would become president in Afghanistan. The nationâs election commission pronounced Ashraf Ghani the winner of the presidential election, the New York Times reported. However, the commission did not disclose the total amount of votes won, âdespite an exhaustive and costly audit process overseen by the United Nations and financed by the American government.â
Under the terms of the agreement, Reuters reported, ââŚGhani will share power with a chief executive proposed by Abdullah (Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister and Ghaniâs rival). The two will share control over who leads key institutions such as the Afghan army and other executive decisions.â
This deal was brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, âWe support this agreement and stand ready to work with the next administration to ensure its success.â
Richard Morman is the newest investigator for Ohio Wesleyan’s Department of Public Safety, but law enforcement is anything but new for him.
For the 2014 fall semester, Public Safety hired Morman to fill an investigator opening left by Art Reitz. Morman joins David Blake, another P.S. investigator.
With 34 years of experience in law enforcement, Morman began his career in Amanda, Ohio, before working for several years as a special deputy sheriff before being hired by the Ohio State University. There, he held several positions including patrol officer, investigator, patrol lieutenant and investigators lieutenant.
His experience is one of the reasons why Public Safety director Bob Wood wanted Morman on staff.
âHeâs got a wealth of knowledge and heâs done this for years in nearly every capacity you can do,â Wood said.
Mormon said he hopes to bring new insight to the department.
âI think I bring fresh perspective and a fresh set of eyes. Itâs always nice to have somebody come in from the outside and question âWhy are we doing this?â and âIs this really the best thing to do?â Morman said.
As an investigator, Mormanâs main responsibility is examining reports that Public Safety has received.
âWhen I come in everyday one of the first things I do is look at the reports that weâve taken,” Morman said. “Iâm looking for patterns in crime. If youâre an officer working a certain shift, you might not notice.â
Morman also shared his willingness to interact and educate students.
âI really enjoy talking to students, and working in this environment,” he said. “I think Public Safety is necessity.â
Morman also helps with various special projects and has expertise with large-scale events. Currently, Morman works part time at OWU and in the midst of transitioning out of OSU.
Morman can be contacted during normal hours at the Public Safety office in Smith lobby. He can also be reached by email at rdmorman@owu.edu.
Does OWU’s new social media infatuation bring students together or rip them apart?
By Ellin Youse and Miranda Anthony Editor-in-Chief and Transcript Reporter
If itâs happening at Ohio Wesleyan, chances are itâs being talked about on Yik Yak.
The app is the newest craze in social media as well as the latest trend in anonymous OWU forums, following the likes of OWU Confessions Facebook Page and the OWU Crushes and OWU Creeper Twitter pages.
âShare your thoughts, keep your privacy,â Yik Yak boasts on its homepage. The app allows users to âyakâ a post up to 200 characters long anonymously. Users can âupvoteâ or âdownvoteâ other yaks, and because of the constant posting and downvoting of other yaks, the posts usually donât stay up for long. If a yak gets -5 downvotes, Yik Yak automatically removes it.
Launched in January 2014, the app has gained national recognition as one of the fastest growing social me- dia companies in the United States and is now being used by over 25,000 people on over 250 U.S. college campuses.
The anonymity of Yik Yak makes the app stand out in a world where any post on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram can haunt the author even after a post is taken off its respected site. Users of social media are conditioned to believe that anything they post can follow them forever with a single screenshot, but Yik Yak solves that problem. By allowing authors complete privacy, people can say what- ever they want about what- ever or whomever they want, without repercussion.
The appâs anonymity feature comes with some controversy. The app blocks users from posting if they are near middle and high schools in an effort to avoid cyber bullying. One of Yik Yakâs co-founders, who refuses to reveal his or her identity to the public, said in a press release this March that the app is designed with college campuses in mind.
âWe created Yik Yak to give college students a private platform for communicating with their entire campus,â said the unnamed Yik Yak cofounder. âYakkers have used the app to find a place to crash, report lost and found items and alert other students about deals at nearby bars.â
Campus controversy
While it may be a great resource for lost freshmen and bored seniors, the app has caused serious issues for many schools, college campuses included.
At Emory & Henry college in Virginia, for example, school administrators responded seriously to a death threat against freshmen posted on Yik Yak. In Mobile, Ala. a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were arrested for threatening posts on the site, and according to the Los Angeles Times, at least four Chicago-area high schools warned parents about Yik Yak, urging them to delete the app from their childrenâs phones.
OWU Yaks
OWU has been climbing the ranks of the Yik Yak universe in the past weeks, making it to the siteâs âpeekâ page, which allows users from all over the nation to read the yaks happening on OWUâs campus.
âMy opinion of Yik Yak, initially, was that it was funny and that I kind of learned about the campus, but then I started seeing all of these negative comments: mean things about fraternities and about things freshmen do,â freshman Mac Willard said. âPeople were saying some pretty rude stuff, so I deleted it.â
OWU Greek life has been implicated as well, with posts frequently mentioning the Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities and the Delta Gamma and Delta Delta Delta sororities.
Students have spoken out about the app via yaks, posting about the positives the app brings to the student community. In one yak, a student contemplating suicide was encouraged by classmates to seek counseling. Many posts are also about where students can go to find parties, and even more are jokes.
âMost of Yik Yak is really stupid, like 75 percent,â said sophomore Aletta Doran. âMost of what you read just doesnât make a lot of sense, but there are some good things about it. There have been several instances where people have said âI want to commit suicide, I need help,â and everybody dropped all the bullshit and supported each other.â
For senior Ibrahim Saeed, the app provides campus with a âcollective consciousness.â While Saeed said he thinks there have been dark moments for OWUâs Yik Yak, he said the app will improve with time.
âI feel that the more people adopt Yik Yak, the better it will represent Ohio Wesleyan,â he said. â…(T)he OWU based Yik Yak users have been pretty good about down-voting things that shouldnât be there, which removes it forever. I think the goal of the app is to let people feel a part of the greater community and it does accomplish that to an extent.â
But itâs not all warm and fuzzy. Jokes at the expense of minority racial communities on campus have been frequenting the app, with yaks saying things like, “Black people are poor,â âHBC (the House of Black Culture) looking like a crack house,â and âAll Asians flock together.â
Senior Khristina Gardner, moderator of the House of Black Culture, said she would âmuch rather sit back and keep an eye on the things that are being said from afarâ than address the problem directly on the app.
âWhen I read the comments on Yik Yak that were geared towards the House of Black Culture as well as to black people in general, it really had me thinking – especially when I woke up the next morning,â she said. âI became uneasy all of a sudden because of the fact that Yik Yak is anonymous and that it could have been anyone at OWU. I could walk past them everyday on campus and not even know that it was them that posted such hateful things.â
Gardner added that the comments on Yik Yak about her home and comments on race in general say âa lot more about them (the posts’ authors) than they do about me.â
âThere is way too much ignorance being practiced on OWUâs campus and it is not my job to necessarily correct it, especially when there are more than enough opportunities on and off campus to get educated about the things that make us different from one another,â she said.
Spirits and solar power is the concept behind Solar Saloon, a new bar in downtown Delaware.
Solar Saloon operates completely on solar power, and the bar also sells solar panels in addition to itâs drinks.
The âSolarâ in Solar Saloon is more than just an attempt to attract a different crowd. Besides selling solar panels and other objects powered by solar energy, the bar itself is completely run by solar panels.
âWe have a big display in the back (with the solar energy items),â said Patty Donovan the manager of the Saloon.
âWe run our speakers, TVs, the lights with it. Everything, itâs so different.â
Located above Something Sweet Coffee & Bakery, the Solar Saloon is impossible to miss. The Saloon demands attention with bright green LED lights and flat screens lining the walls, especially when the sun begins to set.
âEverybody comes in and loves it. [Itâs] so different than being downstairs on the street level, just something about it,â Donovan said.
With high chairs and a bar along the window, the Solar Saloon capitalizes on its unique location.
According to Donovan, they have been so busy since their opening two and half weeks ago, they havenât had time for a grand opening.
âWe have had soft openings after soft openings,â she said. âWe get people of all ages, all walks of life, a lot of college students⌠Thatâs what makes it fun.â
Senior Maria Urbina is another one of the bartenders at the Solar Saloon. She started last Wednesday and said she âloves working there.â
âPatty [Donovan] is really great, and itâs a new bar which is always exciting for students,â Urbina said.
âI think it brings something fun and unique to the Delaware bar scene.â
When asked why people should consider including the Solar Saloon in their Delaware nightlife itinerary, Urbina emphasized the bar environment.
âItâs a really nice atmosphere⌠Itâs cleaner than other places and I think itâs a nice change of scenery.â
Owner Don Temple has owned other bars in the past and is a partial owner of the solar panel company Goal Zero, which supplies the Solar Saloon with its clean energy.
Donovan said that Temple has âtraveled around the country selling solar suppliesâ and also has âalways wanted to combine a bar with his solar business.â
It seems like Temple has finally succeeded. The Solar Saloon is open 3 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays, and 12 p.m. to 2 a.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
By Ellin Youse and Jamell Brown-Smith Editor-in-Chief and Transcript Reporter
Departments at Ohio Wesleyan University are using small, pilotless aircrafts, or drones, to cheaply produce content that would otherwise cost thousands of extra dollars.
Drone is a term that is often applied to robotic devices in general, but in OWUâs case, the drone is a small flying device and is controlled by a pilot on ground and used to record video and collect data or footage for athletics.
The OWU drones are DJI Phantoms, the most popular âquadcopterâ model available. A quadcopter is a small, multirotator helicopter with four blades and can attach a small camera to record information from a birdâs eye view. At a starting price of $479.99 for the older model of the Phantom One, the unit is a more stable and sophisticated version of a remote-controlled helicopter.
While The Phantom does not possess many of the features that make drones the platform of choice for overhead imaging, like the ability to plot a course remotely and send the craft on its way without a need for pilot input, its durability, in-flight stability and relatively cheap price tag made it a solid choice for campus drones.
Aircraft on Campus
OWUâs geography-geology and athletics departments have each adopted a drone, and for very different reasons. At a starting price of $479.99 for the older model of the Phantom One, the unit is essentially a more stable and sophisticated version of the remote-controlled helicopters most are familiar with.
While The Phantom does not possess many of the features that make drones the platform of choice for overhead imaging, like the ability to plot a course remotely and send the craft on its way without a need for pilot input, its durability, in-flight stability and relatively cheap price tag have made it the platform of choice on campus.
For artistic or scientific purposes, drones are doing work that would have been reserved for planes and helicopters before modern technology became so widely available.
Geography/ Geology professor and Geographic Information Systems expert for the university, John Krygier, has been working with senior Christian Gehrke as a part of the Student Assistantship Program (StAP) to use this technology to produce extensive, up-to-date remote sensing data on local vegetation. A modified GoPro camera is helping the pair monitor the health of vegetation in the Delaware area.
âWe had an issue in that everyone straps a GoPro to it (drone), but we wanted to work with more than visual light reactions,â Krygier said. “Infrared (IR) is useful for many things, in particular for getting information about vegetation. Healthy vegetation will appear red on our camera. Farmers will use this to see what parts of their fields are stressed or for detecting pest infestations.â
The IR sensor Krygier and Gehrke took some ingenuity to adapt to the GoPro, but the pair are making progress.
After a year of trial and error efforts, they are able to use the drone to take overhead images of an area and stitch them together into usable, geotagged maps of those regions.
Once the process has been streamlined, Krygier said he would like open up the platform and data produced for use by students and teachers.
While Krygier and Gehrke have made a lot of progress, their current work presents only a proof of concept. The pair hopes to upgrade to a more sophisticated drone capable of maintaining constant altitude or flying a predetermined path without the guesswork of their current system.
In the athletics department, the football team has been working with video producer Bill Reynolds to gather new perspectives for their videos.
âI used it to get overhead shots of the team and the scoreboard when they came out to start the game, just a different angle to shoot from,â Reynolds said. âI use a pole to get similar footage, the drone is just one more tool to that end.â
The Phantom that Reynolds uses is equipped with a gimbal that keeps the camera steadier while in flight, enabling smooth, continuous shots even while the drone is in motion. Reynolds and the athletic department are still formulating new ways to use images captured by the drone.
In another instance of drones making an appearance on Selby Field, the Ohio Machine menâs lacrosse team also used drones to record footage of games. President and general manager of the Machine, John Algie, said the team worked with the local company, Infinite Impact, to provide in-game drone services.
âThis was a great partnership for us because it created really unique perspectives for our fans,â Algie said. âOne of our most popular uses of the drone was for our âInfinite Impact Drone Fan Camâ which panned over the crowd while simultaneously broadcasting the footage onto the Selby Stadium video board. Our fans really got excited for it. We were also able to incorporate some of the drone photography into promotional videos, which serves as a real attention-grabber.â
After his use with drones, Algie said he could understand why universities would be interested in using drones more frequently.
âDrone cams can be great for showcasing a product or service,â he said.
âI can see a university such as Ohio Wesleyan, which has such a beautiful campus, using drone photography to create really special admissions recruiting videos that showcase what it looks like to attend OWU.â
The situation in the Middle East has been worsening during this past week. On Wednesday, Sept. 10, President Barack Obama made a speech to the nation, stating his intention to go after ISIL by building an international coalition. The role of the U.S. military will escalate, and Obama will be sending 475 military advisers to Iraq, making the total about 1,700, according to CNN.
CNN also reports that Obama shifted $25 million in military aid to Iraqi forces, including âKurdish fighters in the north combating the ISIS extremists. The aid could include ammunition, small arms and vehicles, as well as military education and training.â
During the speech, Obama said, âOur objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.â
On Sunday, several Arab countries offered to carry out airstrikes against ISIL militants, the New York Times reports. According to Reuters, Australia said they would send troops, but Britain has yet to commit.
ISIL released a video of another beheading on Saturday. This time, the victim was British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines. According to the Washington Post, Haines was abducted in March 2013 near a refugee camp along the Turkish border in Syria. British Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain would support the United States, plus assist the Iraqi government and continue to aid the Kurdish regional government, the New York Times reports. However, they have not taken an active military role.
The Issue: Scotland
Many Scots will be heading to the polls on Thursday to vote on whether they want to be their own independent nation, or stick with their British identity. This vote has major implications in the United Kingdom, as the New York Times says, ââŚshaking the British government of Prime Minister David Cameron, undermining the electoral future of the British Labour Party and making it more likely that Britain will have a referendum on its own continued membership in the European Union.â
Polls as recent as Sunday are still extremely close, Reuters reports. âOut of four new polls, three showed those in favour of maintaining the union with a lead of 2 and 8 percentage points,â according to Reuters But other polls have shown that supporters of independence in the lead with 54 percent to the oppositionâs 46 percent. An expected four million people will be voting on this referendum.
On Sunday, Reuters reported, Queen Elizabeth told a crowd she hoped Scots would âthink very carefully about the future.â
With music in the air and the grill sizzling, Friday afternoon was filled with energy at Delta Tau Deltaâs Beach Bash philanthropy event.
Students sat in the house lawn, some watching, others waiting for their turn to compete for beach volleyball glory.
Deltâs annual fall philanthropy event featured a beach volleyball tournament and a cookout for those in attendance. Teams paid a $30 entrance fee, with all funds raised going to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Delt also sold t-shirts and bracelets to help raise awareness and funds.
âFor us the biggest goal was to raise awareness for our cause,â said junior Tad Bustin, Deltâs philanthropy chair and the organizer of this yearâs and last yearâs events. He said 14 teams competed and they raised between $400-$500. Both these numbers were around the same as last year, but Delt members did notice more students in attendance overall.
While this yearâs bash had many similarities, there were some new things Delt did differently. Due to predictions of a rainy Saturday, they decided to reschedule to Friday from 4:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
âEven though we had to reschedule, I think that ended up working out better for us.â Bustin said. âA lot of the students that came out said it was more convenient to attend after classes rather than noon Saturday. We also avoided conflict with Saturdayâs block party, so the weather ended up being a blessing in disguise for us.â
Sigma Phi Epsilon won the tournament, defending their title from last year. After the tournament concluded, Delt hosted a dance party.
According to Delt Vice President Taimur Elahi, food point donations were collected at the door during the dance party. They wonât be converted directly to cash for JDRF, but will be used on food for future philanthropy events.
âDelt always has this event really well organized,â said junior attendee Miranda Ames, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. âAs someone who knows the struggle that goes into planning a philanthropy event, we appreciated how smoothly it was run.â
Bustin said raising awareness can be more of a challenge than expected.
âHopefully next year we can promote even more and at the bash itself put more of a focus on promoting JDRF,â he said. âWhile Iâm glad everyone had a good time, it will be even better to couple that enjoyment with awareness.â
Thursday at 7 p.m., national bestselling author Donovan Hohn presented âThe Blind Oceanographer: Lessons from the Hunt for Moby Duckâ to students and faculty members in the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, launching Ohio Wesleyan Universityâs 2014 Sagan National Colloquium series.
Founded in 1984 by university President David Warren, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the series, which aims to weld liberal arts learning with community involvement by actively engaging students in issues of national and international concern. Ellen Arnold, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, has chosen this yearâs colloquium theme of H2OWU: Water in Our World, in which students will explore water from various perspectives and disciplines.
âIt promises to be an exciting and engaging semester,â Arnold said.
â(And) a clear reminder of the values and virtues of the kind of broad, interdisciplinary, and engaged educational experience that Ohio Wesleyan prides itself in.â
Hohnâs presentation focused on the recurring theme of âthe limitations of the human eyeball as an instrument of revelationâ within his non-fiction, national bestseller âMoby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them.â
In his book, Hohn said, âIt wasnât that I wanted, like Cook and Amundsen and Vancouver and Bering and all those other dead explorers, to turn terra incognita into terra cognita, the world into a map.
âQuite the opposite. I wanted to turn a map into a world.âIn a region known as the Graveyard of the Pacific, on Jan. 10, 1992, an entire shipment of 28,800 bathtub toysâincluding 7,200 rubber ducksâwas released into the ocean as a result of tempestuous weather conditions; and, overtime, the toys drifted in many directions, washing onto shorelines all over the world.
Hohn, who was an English teacher at the time, first learned about this occurrence from a studentâs paper. Contacting Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who published the story in The Beachcomber Alert!, Hohn soon found himself embarking on a journey, where he, alongside oceanographers and environmentalists, would retrace paths of the lost bath toys, tour the Chinese factory in which they were made, and search for those that had yet to be found.
âThe challenge that I set for myself and what I look for,â Hohn said, âis a way to tell a story that avoids simplistic debunking or simplistic sensationalism.â
Claiming that much of what we see is through the lens of anotherâs camera, Hohn explains the biases often found in photographs of nature, and, more generally speaking, in environmental journalism.
âIt is the norm,â Hohn said, âthat seeing is synonymous with knowing, but photographs can be deceiving. Our eyes arenât enough. We need to read the natural world as well as see it.â
Hohnâs assessment of photography particularly sparked the interest of sophomore Cindy Hastings, who, following the lecture, was one of many students and faculty members waiting in line to speak with Hohn.
âItâs really interesting how photographs often separate the truth from the context surrounding them,â Hastings said, âand then separates the portrayed reality from the actual reality.â
In a later interview, Hohn credits American writer Annie Dillard for inspiring him to explore the relationship between sight and knowledge and its complexities through her essay Seeing, which begins with an anecdote: Dillard recounts hiding penniesâas a small childâfor strangers, evolving into a metaphor for the act of âseeing.â
âThere lots of things to see,â Dillard wrote, âunwrapped gifts and free surprises, if only we care to find them.â
A Delaware sanitarianâs surprise inspection of Smith Hallâs cafeteria got a surprise of its own when a second floor pipe burst, leaking water through the ceiling.
âWe really donât have control over anything like that – nobody does, to be honest,â said Chartwellsâ Dining Services Manager, Deanna Park. Due to the leak, they closed Smith for dinner on Monday, Sept. 8.
The Buildings and Grounds staff was repairing the pipe while the sanitarian was assessing Smith dining hall, according to Park. When they fixed it the sudden increase in water pressure burst the older pipe, placed above the cafeteriaâs ice cream station. Three ceiling tiles were knocked out as water leaked through, pooling on the floor.
âThe fitting was replaced this morning, the affected areas have been cleaned and the ceiling tiles have been replaced,â said Buildings and Grounds Director Peter Schantz on Sept. 9.
âThe area was functional again before noon today.â
While Chartwells made the decision to close voluntarily, Delaware sanitarian Karie Sanders was still at the site and discussed the issue with them.
âWe try to work closely with facilities when theyâre going through moments where they need a little extra assistance to help get things back on the right path,â she said.
With Smith dining closed, Chartwells opened the Faculty Staff dining room in Hamilton-Williams Campus Center as an additional place to pick up food, and opened seating in Bishop Cafe.
While sophomore Robyn Madrishin was working and not affected by the change in options, she noted that the school seemed well prepared, saying there was extra food in Hamilton-Williams.
Park noted that they were able to cook food in part of Smith cafeteria and take it to Hamilton-Williams to help with the additional amount of students eating there.
With the repairs finished Sept. 9, Sanders returned to check the repairs to the pipe and how it was affecting service, and again on Sept. 11 to check progress on several code violations she found – five critical violations and nine standard violations.
âCritical means they are linked to or could be linked to causing foodborne illness, so in that case we get those corrected on the spot, which they were corrected on the spot,â Sanders said.
Sanders has been inspecting Smith Hall for seven and a half years; inspections are unannounced to Chartwells and generally occur every six months. Violations lead to return visits.
âWe do corrective action as soon as possible…some of those were corrected before the sanitarian left,â said Park.
âAlso we work in cooperation with Buildings and Grounds, theyâre helping to get any parts needed, weâre making additional changes to that and we will be re-inspected and we fully anticipate everything to be corrected at that point.â
She emphasized, as did Sanders, that the inspection and pipe break were simultaneous but separate occurrences.
âWe had the health inspection, which is normal, we receive one every six months, and we had this added crisis, if you will, that occurred totally coincidental,â said Park.
âThey still would have been open (if the pipe hadnât burst),â said Sanders; if the pipe had continued to leak they would have recommended that Smith close but the code violations did not require it to close.
She had seen similar code issues in the past, all of which were addressed. In the past year the only student complaints received by Delaware General Health District (DGHD) in regard to Smith dining involved improper hand washing.
âWe work pretty closely with Ohio Wesleyan,â said Sanders.
âAnd when we run across those situations, thereâs several ways that we can handle them,â said Stephanie DiGenaro, program manager of the Health Districtâs Food Protection and Public Safety Unit.
âThereâs a lot of different ways that they can comply with food code,â she said.
Park said that Chartwells has responded to the violations, which include improper temperature control, surface cleanliness and equipment condition. The dining hall is also receiving assistance from Buildings and Grounds, who also helped clean up after the pipe break.
Chartwells workers are required continuously to check their cooking temperatures during their shift to ensure against undercooking food.
Chartwells also has independent, third party representatives visit their locations to check the conditions in their dining facilities separately from the local health department.
âIt was just really funny timing that the pipe burst while the health inspector was here,â said junior Leslie Alton, who staffs the front desk in Public Safety’s office.