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March 4,1998 Meredith Herald Campus Extras /I Woman's World Performed by Meredith Aqua Angels March 19 4i 20 at 8:00 p.m. March 21 at 2:00 p.m. Wwth&spoon Pool Jree Admission Meredith wins NC-GA invitational tourny Committee works with campus crises Toby Hoke Features Editor Through llie Heilman fire, die boiler room fire, severe wealher and other cam pus crises, the Incident Management Committee has united the forces of Meredidi's admiitisiration to serve its stu dents in times of need. At least twice a semester, the Crisis Management Group meets to refine its strategies for dealing widi crises and getting infonnation to tlie student body about them. Its primary goal is 10 keep the campus running smoothly over any obstacle. October 1996, after die Heilman fire, and upon die advice of Vice President for Institutional Advancement Murphy Osborne, Campus Police Chief Mike Hoke developed die nodficadon system, which grew by Sept. 1997 into a standing ccHnmittee to evaluate and improve issues of safely, healdi, and incident manage ment. “Dr. Murphy Osborne related to me dial there was a violent crime on campus at High Point College some years back,” said Chief Hoke, “and many resident students left die campus for a while because—at least in part—of die rumors and wrong information and uiipreparedness of die college staff to deal widi aisis." Said Director of Marketing and Commuiiicadons Jeaiinie Morelock: “In die event of an incident or crisis, diis matrix enables us to notify die appropriate administrators, staff, faculty, and students on a need-to-know priwity basis. Tliis has been a very positive move for Merediili. Prior to tlic current system, die notifica tion sequence iiad no real structure.’' “Ironically, die first group meeting [Chief Hoke] organized was to meet on die day die Heihnan fire occurred," added Dean of Students Sharon Cannon. “We did come togetlier later diat mondi to evaluate die crisis intervention for die fire and to begin talking about how we would respond to odier crisis situations.” According to Chief Hoke, die commit tee has discussed handling and, when appropriate, notification of fire and odier disasters, stalking and abusive relation ships. illegal drugs, hazardous materials, evacuation planning, and harassing phone calls in its IS mondis. Tlie Heilman fne taught the committee that die notification system in place at the time could be improved by letting die chief of campus police notify more mem bers of die Mereditli community as a sup port system to tlie residence life staff, which often finds itself focusing its ener gies on tlie student body. Tlie student body itself can help die Incident Management Committee enor mously. All studenu should “read sections in tlie Residence Life Handbook and Student Handbook about what to do dur ing a crisis,” said Director of Residence Life Paula O’Briant. According to O’Briant and Cannon, being familiar widi die fire and safety guidelines of diese two handbooks is die single greatest contribu tion a student c^tn make to campus safety. Students are also the valuable eyes and ears of die campus. “Sometimes a student might be die first to recognize Uiat a serious situation is developing," said Cannon, “lliat student sliould notify Security and die residence director on duty. Our student leaders, like resident assistants, class officers and SGA officers, have been great to help us dirough all our incidents." For the Department of Marketing and Communication, whose purpose is to pro vide die campus and conmiunity widi fast and ti'ue information about campus events, students “could help tremendously in a cri sis situation by helping us to relay accurate infonnation and assisting in 'rumor con trol,”’ said Morelock. Morelock’s depart ment uses a number of tools to keep stu dents well-informed, including e-mail, die Intranet, hotline phone numbers, press conferences, newletters and media aletts, in times of crisis as well as crisis recovery. See INCIDENT page 7 2.5 DAYS UNTIL SPRING BREAK Jill Green SiaH Reporter Meredith College finished its season with a tournament win. The team won both of its games at die Nordi Carolina-Georgia Women’s College Invitational last weekend. Widi victories over Spellman College and Benneu College, the team finislicd its amazing season widi a i«cord of 21 - 2. In action Friday night, die Angels defeated die prestigious Spellman College of Atlanta widi a convincing 86-54 win. (?oach Carl Hatchell was proud of die fact diat five players scored in double figures. Tlie team was lead by Jamie Claypool with 17 points, fol lowed by Bedi Goodale (16), Wendy Cooper (13), Aedrin Murray (12), ajid Mamie McKinney (10). Also, as a team, die Angels shot 53% from die floor in its rout of Spellman. To finish its season, Meredidi beat Bennett College in die tour nament final by die score of 84- 29. In what has become die norm for diis team, die game was not even close, and diere were many high scorers. Bedi Goodale scored 20 points and was joined by Wendy Cooper widi 17. Aedrin Murray widi 16, and Mamie McKinney widi 11. llie team shot 59% from die floor, and took die touma- tiient title. (Congratulations to Meredidi’s Aedrin Murray for making die all-toumamcni team, and to Bedi Goodale for being named die touniament’s Most Valuable Player Tlie Angels finislied dieir sea son as diey have played all sea son - simply die best! Tliank you to tlie team for dieir solid effort and for representing Meredidi College so well diis season... until next year. iu 21 - June24 htersessioi^fnnETj^JuIrlF
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