Fall break proposed
- The Leadership Council voted unanimously for a fall break on a Thursday and Friday in October and to take away one day of Thanksgiving Break.
- The faculty voted with 13 professors voting for leaving the schedule as it is and 13 voting for a change to be made.
By Lynsey Suchy, News Writing Student
Faculty Association members were divided in their view of whether OCCC should add a two-day fall break in October.
About half voted for the break with half voting against it.
The topic of fall break took a good part of the group’s meeting Jan. 22 on campus.
FA Chairman and Math Professor Paul Buckelew told the group President Paul Sechrist had asked the Faculty Association for its opinion on adding a fall break.
Views were expressed on both sides. Several faculty members said taking off a Thursday and Friday in October would create problems in some classes.
All fire alarms should be heeded official says
- Simplex Grinnell is the company that does the maintenance for the 1,000-plus alarms and detectors scattered around the campus.
- Roughly $50,000 a year goes to maintenance of all the fire detecting systems on campus.
By Stephen Sossamon, Staff Writer
Fire alarms on campus caused students to evacuate buildings 10 times last year, said Ike Sloas, Safety and Security director.
And, if the fire alarm does go off, everyone should head to the nearest exit, without getting on elevators, and proceed to the parking lot, according to the safety and security procedures poster.
“No fire alarm is a false alarm,” Sloas said. “We don’t question why an alarm goes off.
“It’s very important everyone take fire alarms seriously and treat all of them equally.”
Sloas’s records show last year there were a total of 31 incidents involving a fire alarm.
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