Previously violations were sent directly to the hearing board. The aim of this change is to build a relationship between the residents and the area coordinators. The hope is that this will make more of a learning experience out of disciplinary action and consequently decrease the likelihood of violations occurring again.

When a rule is violated, the point of discipline is to enforce the idea that breaking the rules has consequences. Sanctions are in place to dissuade violators from repeating the wrong action. However, this message is sometimes not powerful enough. By talking with residents instead of just punishing them, a more personal and direct impact will be placed on students, which will accomplish the goal of this change.

When making this change, Student Union was not originally involved in the process. This goes against what Residence Life and the Dean of Students hope to accomplish by showing a disconnect between the students and administration and the governing bodies of the student body.

By decreasing the influence of the hearing board in decisions, the perspective of students is being removed from the decision making process. Hearing board officers already must abide by the minimum sanctions laid out by Residence Life, essentially making the hearing board useless.

To improve the disciplinary processes of this University, the role of a student’s peers should be increased. The perspective of students should also carry more weight when decisions are being made. Not considering this is not taking appropriate measures to ensure justice is reached.

Ensuring students learn from their mistakes is very important. But, inserting more outside powers in a situation only distances the students from their government.

This is a great idea and improvement on the past.

In the past, the Spring Concert has not drawn as much attendance and SUPB even made the concert free last year in an attempt to increase the number of attendees.

Tickets to regularly scheduled tour concerts will be purchased and sold (most likely at a discounted rate) to JCU students. This will give students the opportunity to see highly popular bands that would otherwise be too expensive to bring to JCU.

Since the concerts will be off campus and include the general public along with JCU students, the atmosphere of the concerts are likely to be much more enthusiastic and less restricted. The locations are larger and will ensure higher quality seating and sound quality than the on-campus varsity gym.

The University will also be providing transportation to the concerts which makes getting to the concerts much more safe and accessible.

Since there are so many options, students might have to be selective with the acts they see, as a student’s budget tends to be limited.

There will also be on-campus performances by local and student bands. Having this variety of concerts will cater to the different musical tastes of students and boost interest and attendance. It will also give students many opportunities to see a concert if personal scheduling conflicts should come up.

This new approach to the Spring Concert greatly improves upon the past options. Enthusiasm and anticipation is already noticeable among the student and participation is bound to blow past numbers out of the water.

In Schott Dining Hall, a new bakery and dessert station has been added and an additional baker hired. This will increase the variety of desserts available throughout the day. The bakery will also make fresh pizza dough each day which improves the quality of the product.

The Inn Between has expanded its menu to include made-to-order salads and wraps. This not only gives students a larger variety of ordering options but hopefully will divert orders to different stations at the ‘Tween and hopefully decrease waiting times. A call-ahead ordering option has been added to additionally decrease waiting times for students.

Despite these efforts, students are still frustrated with the time it takes for an order to be completed. Additionally, prices have gone up at the Inn Between. These factors play a huge role in the number of students who will to take their business there, especially once their plus points run out.

The call ahead option should be more widely advertised as many students do not know of this possibility yet. To avoid price increases, efforts should be made to obtain new sources for ingredients.

Though great improvements have been made, the fundamental aspects of the dining service, like efficiency and cost need to be improved before JCU Dining adds anything else to its plate.

To this point, the culprits have not been identified. However, to prevent this from happening again, the University and students need to take action now.

Dormitories are supposed to be comfortable places for students to live and work on campus. With this vandalism taking place, the dorms are not the safe space that they are meant to be.

Every time something is broken or vandalized, it needs to be repaired and that is a costly consequence. When students destroy campus property, the money that could be used for improving the University, must instead be used to repair what has been damaged. The poor behavior of some students in the dorms is a waste of money for the JCU community.

Being the Jesuit University in Cleveland, students are held to a high standards, and have a responsibility to live up to those expectations. When campus property is damaged, this creates a poor reputation for the University and the student body as a whole.

To prevent future vandalism, Residence Life can implement deterrents. Security cameras can be placed in residence halls. Entire building fines can also be issued, but these are expensive and unfair to the respectful students who do not cause trouble on campus.

To prevent these drastic actions from being taken, the culprit(s) who have caused these problems should own up to their actions. Residents should not tolerate these actions from fellow students. If some have any information about this destruction, they should speak up in order to be fair to fellow students. Preventing vandalism will make residence halls better places to live.

Incidents of vandalism, trespassing and other inappropriate actions have been reported.

The damage done is not excusable in any circumstances. The students who did these acts have put the entire JCU student body and administration in a bad light.

The University and University Heights haven’t had a very cooperative past. When JCU asks the City for permission to change something, it is well known that UH and its residents have been resistant. These actions by students only set back the improved relationship between JCU and the residents of University Heights.

Students should live social lives and enjoy the breaks they have from their stressful workweeks. However, this can and should be done with complete consciousness of how their actions affect the UH community and the reprocussions for these actions. JCU students should be living examples of the University values.

Any students caught performing these acts should be punished accordingly. We ask that the resident’s of University Heights understand that those who committed these acts represent a very small percentage of the student body.

It is our hope that this will only be a minor speedbump in the continued efforts by JCU and University Heights to improve the relationship between the City and its namesake.

This law, though it has been in effect for approximately two decades should not be as significant of a concern as it has been.

Residents of Carroll Boulevard live alongside a university, so through traffic from the JCU community should be expected.

It reflects poorly on the University when someone that is coming here for the purpose of putting on a program or bringing prospective students to take a tour of the campus is hit with a $200 ticket for trying to maneuver the best way to enter campus.

University Heights police should be less concerned with through traffic on the JCU side street, and more concerned with a larger safety issue: since this law has been imposed, instead of turning right down Carroll Boulevard, members of the JCU community drive down South Belvoir, make a legal U-turn and come back toward the University, which seems like more of a traffic and safety concern for University Heights to worry about.

However, the large sign stating this law is strictly enforced from “7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday” is posted on a utility pole for drivers to see before making a right-hand turn down Carroll Boulevard, so those driving around JCU have no reason not to be aware of the law.

With this law comes justified complaints because residents should expect traffic from the University community. Hitting students, faculty, prospective students and others who are involved with JCU in one way or another, with a $200 citation makes it difficult to enter campus, and there are larger safety issues at hand calling for more concern from police personnel than enforcing this particular law.

This semester, students have voiced concerns that resident assistants have been writing people up more frequently than in the past. According to the Office of Residence Life, the number of write-ups has actually decreased this year.

There have been instances where students thought RAs were being unnecessarily strict with their write-ups and punishments. Some suspect that RAs have been instructed to crack down more severely on students. Residence Life has ensured that there have been no major policy changes or new instructions implemented this year.

It is the job of resident assistants to maintain a safe and comfortable environment for students in residence halls. If students are written up, they need to understand that there was an evident violation of conduct. If a rule is broken, there is just cause for discipline. Students need to be aware of the campus regulations and face the consequences if they are broken.

Though the statistics show write-ups have gone down, perception is often reality. That cliche is no less true for John Carroll students. Residence Life should take further effort to educate students about the code of conduct. If there is an issue over a write-up, the complaints should be discussed between the students and Residence Life so an understanding can be reached.

Throughout the semester, there have been several cases of unapproved postings and chalk drawings with strong messages about discrimination and social activism on campus.

The messages of the chalk drawings and posters called for action against racial and ethnic intolerance and encouraged getting informed about social issues like these.

Public advertisement is an affective method of raising awareness and increasing action. It reaches out to members of the campus community that would not attend forums on diversity.

Since these are such fundamental values of the University, those who wish to voice their opinions and raise campus activity should not hesitate to come forward to the Office of Student Activities and get approval to express their thoughts. This makes sure that posts or chalkings do not mislead or offend anyone and that a message of tolerance is clearly given.

Acceptance of diversity and positive social action are at the foundation of JCU’s mission. A collective effort is required from all in the campus community to make sure John Carroll is a welcoming place of opportunity for all.

To eliminate intolerance on campus, cooperation from students, campus organizations and committees is absolutely necessary. The more people involved, the more effective the movement will be. Those who try to tackle the problem alone are being ineffective and wasting valuable energy of the administration that could be spent solving the problems affecting the betterment of the campus community.

The need for more lighting has been identified repeatedly by students. While walking to and from various campus activities and locations at night, students felt unsafe with the level of darkness they had to walk through. Some of the lights that are in place flicker and do not offer consistent lighting.

The installation of these new lights will happen before the end of the semester. However, these new lights are long overdue. More effort should be made by the facilities department to put these lights in place sooner. With every passing day more and more students are facing risks when they walk on campus at night. It should be the priority of the University to get these lights installed immediately.

Even though John Carroll is not in a dangerous neighborhood, the possibility of campus crime still exists. Crimes have happened on campus at night before and could happen again. The placement of more working lights on campus can decrease these risks.

Safety should be the number one priority of the University. The amount of time that has passed before the installment of more lights does not show JCU’s priorities in a good light. Students are tired of walking in fear!

This is a problem because phishing emails are spam mail disguised as being from reliable sources that hijack accounts of those who open the message.

Though ITS at JCU catches some of these phishing messages, the University needs to have an improved system to catch more before they reach students’ inboxes.

James Burke, associate chief information officer of ITS at Carroll acknowledges that the University has a large system and phishing emails can get through to students without being detected.

Phishing messages can be more easily detected in smaller systems. JCU is not too big of a school, so the system here does not need to be as big as it is.

If the University can work to improve the system so it is downsized, more of these dangerous messages can be identified and taken care of before reaching students’ inboxes.

In the meantime, the University needs to better warn students and faculty about phishing emails, and better prepare the campus community about how to handle them. ITS needs to better inform those with a JCU email account not to respond to phishing messages, and if for any reason a person does respond, account information such as passwords need to be changed.

Though the University needs to make improvements, it has developed a defense mechanism against spam mail. JCU has an anti-spam filtering system in place, as well as a limit of 50 emails any one user can send out per hour. This policy is helpful to limit the spread of potentially dangerous messages, but only reduces the problem as opposed to solving it.

The City of University Heights and John Carroll haven’t had the most amenable relationship history. The candidates’ participation in this forum shows commendable openness and willingness to work to accomodate the University and the City needs.

Many students are angry about the troubles the University and the City have had in the past. More students should take advantage of any opportunity to get involved with the government. The city handles many issues relevant to students’ lives while they attend JCU.

If students don’t participate in University Heights politics via forums like this and voting in elections, they forfeit their rights to debate over the ways in which the City handles problems.

The University needs to improve the situation in order to better accommodate students. An increase in customers will naturally cause lines to be longer and the workers to be busier.

The dining service has hired more workers and worked to streamline the system to accommodate the increase in guests. Despite these actions, the long waits still exist. Clearly more needs to be done to fix this.

JCU students are busy and they like the convenience of the Inn Between, but waiting for 20 minutes isn’t very convenient.

More workers should be hired for each station. Since the more streamlined way of ordering hasn’t been efficient, a more efficient way of making the food needs to be found.

If the Inn Between expects to be successful on this campus it should be prepared to take whatever measures necessary to ensure the happiness of its customers. If they don’t it won’t be long before the Inn Between is out of business.

It is important for students to hold academics to a high regard and fulfill credits for majors and minors, so it is understandable for class schedule conflicts to interfere with activities outside of class. It is also understandable for members to step down due to job opportunities outside JCU.

However, students who run for office should  be aware of the commitment it takes to be in student government before they commit.

If government members disagree with how Student Union is operating, they shouldn’t quit! That shows cowardice and that they are unworthy of holding a government position. We need leaders who will stand up and fight to make the University better. If something is wrong it should be fixed, not abandoned.

College is a busy time for all of us. If someone can’t handle the commitment or they aren’t willing to work through the obstacles of student government, they shouldn’t waste anyone’s time by running for a position. Leave the opportunity open for someone who cares about changing this University for the better.

The University’s cable TV equipment manufacturer, R.L. Drake, upgraded their equipment over the summer to be able to access new standards.

The audio and video don’t work sometimes. Then, just when you get to know the channels, they added a decimal point. So, not only can you not find your favorite programs, but you can’t hear them or view them clearly either.

These problems have inconvenienced viewers of television across campus. There was obviously a lot of planning that went into the installation of a new system. It is therefore expected that the digital cable would perform well from the start. The system should have been tested and the trouble spotted two months ago.

The advanced TV system can be appreciated by everyone on campus. But, the problems should have been foreseen, and it should not take so long to fix them. If such an effort was put into installing the new system, at least as much of an effort should be put into fixing it in a timely manner.

The Savings Club gave students opportunities to save money at local and national businesses. The University paid $1,500 per year to participate in this program.

The typical, full-time college student does not have a substantial income. They are forced to be as frugal as possible. Without the opportunity to save on essential things like food, life becomes more difficult for them. Unfortunately, many students don’t even know the program exists.

A fee of $1500 is a small sum for any university to pay once a year. Though the Senate is looking for the same savings options without the fee, the program should not be discontinued until a sufficient replacement is in order.

Students need to save as much money as they can to pay their tuition and still have the necessities of life. A discount program is essential. The word must be spread so more students can take advantage of these discounts and it wouldn’t be seen as an under-used investment.

We think the new McDonald’s will be good for JCU as well as University Heights.

The new fast food location will provide JCU students with another option for a quick meal.

It will bring in revenue and business for the city, as well as more employment opportunities.

Though the new McDonald’s will provide Wi-Fi, which will be convenient for JCU students, it will only be open until 10 p.m. There aren’t many fast food places that are open late around JCU, and students would appreciate it if the new McDonald’s would stay open until a later time.

Some University Heights residents are concerned that the space could have been used for a different purpose besides fast food.

Though there are some concerns about the construction of a new McDonald’s, it will ultimately benefit the students of JCU and University Heights residents with another quick option for food, and more business, revenue and employment opportunities.

The first floor of Millor Hall was previously made for fob access, so JCU didn’t have to spend money for fob equipment for this experiment.

This is a good idea because having floors that are fobbed makes the residence halls safer. Only residents of the floor would have access, preventing non-residents from entering, which has been a problem in the past.

It has been proven that the level of vandalism has been minimized on Greek floors that are fobbed, so the impact would be similar on floors of non-Greek floors that are fob-access only.

If this experiment proves to be successful, a disadvantage would be the substantial cost to install more fob equipment.

Overall, the experiment is beneficial because it will result in a higher level of safety on campus  and less vandalism.

The longer stadium hours would benefit JCU athletic teams and other functions that use Shula Stadium. Without strichter time restrictions, JCU has more opportunity to utilize the new stadium investments.

Considering JCU has recently contributed a considerable sum in stadium improvements, the University should be able to make the most of these improvements.

Residents and members of the community surrounding JCU have concerns about the lights and the noise that would come with the extended use of the stadium. Neighbors worry it will disturb sleep as it has in the past, and it is a concern that it would worsen with increased night usage.

Living near a university, residents should expect noise from campus life and activities to overflow into the surrounding area.

The University wants unlimited use of Shula Stadium with no time restrictions. That is an extreme proposition that would cause more grief and debate throughout the community without reaching a conclusion.

The benefits of the finished project will outweigh the temporary inconveniences it currently poses for the JCU community.

When the renovation project has been completed, there will be more parking spaces available. This will ease the congestion caused by the removal of the Temporary Lot. The finished project will make the JCU campus look better.

The natural turf surface will offer a place for sports teams to practice, as well as useful space for the many activities that take place on campus.

Though these aspects will be beneficial when the project is finished, the construction poses temporary disruptions. The heavy machinery is noisy and interrupts classes, especially those facing the demolition site.

The destruction, though necessary, is an eyesore for the University.

The absence of the sidewalk from the Boler School of Business to Dolan Science Center increases travel time for students and faculty walking across campus.

After far too much deliberation, Bohannon has finally been torn down.  The noise, dirt mountains, and wasteland that is where Bohannon and the Hamlin Quad once were, are ugly and make things more difficult. Soon there will be a brand-new parking lot and beautiful, fresh fields for teams to practice on. These temporary hassels will soon make way for tranquility and contentment across the campus. Hallelujah!

We feel that having multiple events occur on the same day is not beneficial for the student body and the rest of the JCU community.

Having many events scheduled on campus gives students many opportunities to participate in various activities. More events cater to different interests of students.

Unfortunately, too many events happening at the same time forces students to choose in what they want to participate. Though someone might want to be involved in many different activites, they are not able to  fulfill their desires if many programs are happening at the same time.

The many opportunities that students have because of all these events shows that John Carroll has a very active campus. It shows that the University community is concerned with many important issues.

However, being too active in too many things only spreads the influence too thin. The impact that events like Relay for Life could have is lessened by not having the strength in numbers that they would have if it were the only event on a given day.

We suggest that different campus groups work more closely with each other to schedule events on individual days or at different times on the days they are scheduled. Doing this will enable students to participate in all of the activities they want to. It will also allow activism or fund rasing events to have more attendees and thus, be more effective.

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Java City’s new hours will make lunch more convenient to students who have class in the Dolan Science Center. I also provides an alternative to Einstein’s, which is usually busy between classes during the lunch hours.

The extended weekend hours of the dining hall will enable students to eat without having to wait until 11 a.m. for brunch to begin. The uniform closing hours will eliminate confusion as to when the dining hall closes. These extended hours will also allow students to eat three meals on Saturday and Sunday, rather than being restricted to brunch and dinner. This will increase the value of a meal plan because students will be able to use all of the meals they pay for that would normally be wasted.

It can be argued that a more full breakfast should be served instead of only serving continental breakfast. In addition to this, the gates to the dining hall should not close before closing time, as it is often closed preemptively.

The extended hours of Java City and the Schott Dining Hall will create more convenience for the JCU community, and it will facilitate an alternative to previous meal options.

We think this is time to proceed with a new renovation. Renovating Kulas Auditorium has been put off for too long.

The student body would benefit from the renovation. Multiple student groups utilize the stage and auditorium. However, making these renovations would be costly.

Having a nice, new auditorium would reflect well on the University. It could be put to better use by students and the community, bringing in more money, so JCU would financially benefit. On the other hand, JCU isn’t well-known for its theater arts program, so even with a new auditorium, it’s not guaranteed to be put to more use and bring in more money. Renovations could bring in more students interested in theater arts, thus promoting and benefiting the program.

With a renovated auditorium, JCU would be viewed as a place that is more up-to-date and technologically advanced. The Dolan Donahue Auditorium is newly built and technologically advanced, so renovations made to Kulas Auditorium would raise it to an eqaully high standard.

Though it would be a significant expense to renovate Kulas Auditorium, it is time for an upgrade. It is a project that has been on the “back burner” for too long.

Beginning next semester, the Schott Dining Hall will be open at 9 a.m. for a continental breakfast. Also, The dining hall will be open until 7 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Java City’s new hours will make lunch more convenient to students who have class in the Dolan Science Center. It also provides an alternative to Einstein’s, which is usually busy between classes during the lunch hours.

The extended weekend hours of the dining hall will enable students to eat without having to wait until 11 a.m. for brunch to begin. The uniform closing hours will eliminate confusion as to when the dining hall closes. These extended will also allow students to eat three meals on Saturday and Sunday, rather than being restricted to brunch and dinner. This will increase the value of a meal plan because students will be able to use all of the meals they pay for that would normally be wasted.

It can be argued that a more full breakfast should be served instead of only serving continental breakfast. In addition to this, the gates to the dining hall should not close before closing time, as it is often closed preemptively.

The extended hours of Java City and the Schott Dining Hall will be convenient for the JCU community, and it will facilitate an alternative to previous meal options.

nd Sunday.

Java City’s new hours will make lunch more convenient to students who have class in the Dolan Science Center. I also provides an alternative to Einstein’s, which is usually busy between classes during the lunch hours.

The extended weekend hours of the dining hall will enable students to eat without having to wait until 11 a.m. for brunch to begin. The uniform closing hours will eliminate confusion as to when the dining hall closes. These extended hours will also allow students to eat three meals on Saturday and Sunday, rather than being restricted to brunch and dinner. This will increase the value of a meal plan because students will be able to use all of the meals they pay for that would normally be wasted.

It can be argued that a more full breakfast should be served instead of only serving continental breakfast. In addition to this, the gates to the dining hall should not close before closing time, as it is often closed preemptively.

The extended hours of Java City and the Schott Dining Hall will create more convenience for the JCU community, and it will facilitate an alternative to previous meal options.

This change is beneficial because it accomodates students more appropriately, and it is more financially practical.

Recreation and Fitness Graduate Assistant, Brendan McLaughlin, affirmed that the majority of JCU students were not even using the facility after midnight. If students are not using the RecPlex, there is no reason to continue with longer hours.

The change in hours still allows students to utilize the Recreation Center, the only difference is that now, the facility will be open all but six hours each day. The RecPlex closes at the same time as the Corbo Weight and Cardiovascular Room.

With the earlier closing times, there will be less conflicts for employees to have to handle.

In addition to accomodating the students more appropriately, this change in hours helps the Recreation department financially. The slight change will cut costs for the department, and in turn will be put into serving the people in the JCU community who utilize the facility.

This could be an inconvenience for the few students who previously enjoyed using the facility between midnight and 1 a.m. Some students may not be able to use the recreation facilities as they used to, due to scheduling conflicts.

The shift in hours at the JCU RecPlex will save money that can be used to improve the JCU community in the future, and will serve the community in a more balanced way.

The concert was able to be free because it was within SUPB’s budget to do so. All those who purchased tickets were able to exchange their tickets for refund vouchers between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. the Monday following the concert.

Making the concert available to students free of charge increased the number of attendees at the concert. Were tickets required, many students would have most likely not attended.

Though it is a safety issue to keep large amounts of money around for several days, some students may have been unable to get their money back. To accommodate for students with busy schedules, more time should be available for ticket refunds.

Unfortunately, on the same night as the concert, both Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta had events. Li’l  Sibs Weekend occurred the same weekend as well. Such events prevented more students from attending the concert.

In the future, greater effort should be made by campus organizations to make the concert night more available to students.

Some students were disappointed with the band choices. Attendance level was possibly so high due to the fact that the event was free, but in the future the performers must attract students without relying on free entry.

It is important to vary the artist choice each year for the Spring Concert. The Spring Concert Committee needs to make sure the mood and energy are high each year in order to keep students better engaged and increase attendance.

The main problem with the newspaper racks in some of the residence halls was securing the racks inside the buildings but outside of the point of the fob doors.

Moving the newspaper racks is beneficial because it prevents the University from paying for unread papers and more students are getting the newspapers.

Because of the move, the Student Union, whose budget from the Student Activity Fee funds the delivery of the papers, is no longer paying for so many unread papers.

Greg Petsche, resident assistant in Sutowski Hall and executive vice president of the Student Union, led this project. Petsche noted that only nine to 11 papers were being taken. Continuing to spend money on delivery would only lessen the budget to keep the Readership Program going.

Though there are no longer racks in Sutowski, Campion, Hamlin or Millor, there have been more racks added in the Boler School of Business, the O’Malley Center, Bernet Hall and the Inn Between. This way, newspapers are available to more students.

This move is an inconvenience to some because The New York Times, USA Today and The Plain Dealer are no longer available in some of the residence halls, and residents in these halls will have to travel to another location to get their newspapers.

However, the moving of the racks and the adjusted amount of newspapers will ensure that students’ money is being efficiently used and not wasted on the delivery of unread papers.