A Jamestown College freshman dorm sent a fire call to the Jamestown Fire Department this morning.
Watson resident director Cathy Lutz said smoke triggered the alarm around 9 a.m. She discovered the smoke was coming from the stovetop and told the fire department it wasn’t an actual fire.
Campus fire protocol put into effect last year requires the fire department to come to campus every time a fire alarm goes off whether there’s a fire or not.
Three members of the fire department arrived in two vehicles shortly after 9 a.m.

Three Korean nursing students were injured in a car accident last night as they were leaving Jamestown for Seoul, Korea.
The Jamestown College president’s office said a grain truck collided with one of two vans carrying students at the Cavendish Farms intersection north of Interstate-94’s Bloom exit.
The campus van’s driver, Caleb Grossman, was not injured, but Lee Eun Young, Lee You Jin, and Ko Eun Jin were taken to the Jamestown hospital emergency room.
"I saw the van ahead of me slow down quite a bit,"Grossman said, "so I slowed down, but stopping wasn’t even an option."

Jamestown College’s head of security Bryan Nagel was replaced over the weekend. The college’s vice president Tom Heck said he had no comment on the reason Nagel was replaced. Nagel also had no comment.
Dick Knapp will replace Nagel. Knapp has worked the weekend shift for close to a year and is a retired game warden. Heck said Knapp has more training in security than anyone the college has ever hired for the position, including former head of security Mike Lucht.
Heck said the college has hired a backup security guard for Knapp and is looking at hiring one more.

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — A third powerful Pacific storm pounded California with heavy rain and snow Wednesday, forcing evacuations of hundreds of homes below wildfire-scarred mountains, shutting a major interstate and unleashing lightning strikes on two airliners.

Forecasters warned of powerful wind gusts and rainfall rates as high as 1½ inches an hour on soil already saturated from two days of wild weather that caused urban street flooding in coastal cities, spawned a damaging tornado and toppled trees, killing two people.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A frightening new aftershock Wednesday forced more earthquake survivors to live on the capital's streets or sent them fleeing to perhaps even worse conditions in the countryside.

A flotilla of rescue vessels, meanwhile, led by the U.S. hospital ship Comfort, converged on the capital. They are helping fill gaps in still lagging global efforts to bring water, food and medical help to hundreds of thousands of people who are surviving in makeshift tents or simply on blankets or plastic sheets under the tropical sun.

Jamestown College and the city of Jamestown have a new discount program for members of the JC community.

“It’s an opportunity between Jamestown College, the Jamestown Stutsman Developmental Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce to raise awareness and encourage students, faculty and staff to utilize businesses in town,” Dean of Students Gary Van Zinderen said.

Students are gradually implementing the components of Jamestown’s Journey to Success, a newly- introduced vision for a student’s years at Jamestown College divided into four successive phases.

One of the latest topics at Jamestown College’s student senate meetings is the reaccreditation that is to take place during the fall semester of 2010. The reaccreditation process occurs every 10 years so future employers will know their employees have lived up to an established level of education. The process involves a team of professionals specializing in high education interviewing various people from campus including students, faculty and staff.

Backpack to Briefcase was a short informative lecture offered to all Jamestown College students Oct. 13. L2 filled quickly with students who attended for varying reasons.

"I went for Journey class, and it looked interesting," Molly Artz, freshman, said. "It also said ‘free stuff’ on the poster."

The Jamestown community is awaiting the opening of the new hospital expected in the fall of 2011.

Officials say a new hospital is needed in Jamestown largely due to technical advances that have been made since the building of the hospital in 1928. During this time not much was known about CT scans, digital mammography, ultrasounds or many other diagnostic tools that are used in everyday health care today. Remodeling does not seem to be an option because the old hospital cannot be made to fit current standards and needs and would not allow for future expansion.

Students in the Health Communication class at Jamestown College will be hosting a health fair Nov. 3. The fair is the final project for the class and has required students to determine the logistics of the event as well as the promotion of the fair.
“It’s a good demonstration of health communication through advertising and communicating,” the instructor of the class, Heidi Larson, said. “It’s a very hands-on event that will be a good exercise of putting what they learn in the classroom into motion.”

On Oct. 28 Brian Nagel became Jamestown College’s new head of security. Tom Heck, vice president of business affairs and a member of the hiring committee, said Nagel was chosen for the job from 12 hopeful applicants because of his past experience in security.
“We just thought he was the best fit for the job,” Heck said. “We are looking forward to [having] him. He will be a good fit.”

April Baumgarten

A chain of events leading to a dead raccoon on the Kroeze Rock put an end to the freshman feud. Gary Van Zinderen, Dean of Students, made the announcement September 16th after the discovery.

What started off with painting the rock escalated into using animal carcasses and feces. Kroeze decided to get creative at approximately 3 a.m. on the 16th according to freshman Mitch Stevens. He along with the rest of Watson woke up to yelling and screaming

Alyssa Record

Since 1994 food borne pathogens have poisoned more than 76 million Americans. In January 2009 peanut butter was recalled after five people had died and hundreds of people had fallen ill with severe cases of salmonella due to contamination. Produce such as spinach, tomatoes and green onions have also had to be recalled in the past due to being affected with food pathogens such as E. coli or salmonella.

Jordan Shive

Renaissance Recycling, Jamestown’s recycling center, has been working to figure out a way to improve the recycling habits of the community.
Ralph Friebel, owner of Renaissance Recycling, said there are two problems: the volume of recycling and the market.