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St. Joe’s administrators express concern over students’ health

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Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010

Four Loko too crazy?

LUIGI CONDINA ’12News Editor

Saint Joseph’s University administrators believe that Four Loko, a hybrid of an energy drink and alcohol, is responsible for recent hospitalizations of students with higher blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels. According to Cary Anderson, vice

president of the Office of Student Life, as Four Loko has increased its popular-ity on campus, doctors have informed the university of “an uptick in the BAC levels.” Anderson also said that hospitals do not share specific records of a student’s condition with the university. The university gathers information from

students at the time of the incident and then again during an educational follow-up program through the Wellness, Alcohol and Drug Education (WADE) office.“We ask people what they had to drink,

so the [emergency room] doctor knows what to do, and we started seeing Four Loko come up as something that people had been drinking that got them to the point where they needed hospitalization,” said Anderson. Alison Dougherty, director of the WADE

program, said that she has seen student BAC levels at levels as high as .35 to .40.“Once you get above that .30 level, it’s

kind of a scary [and] dangerous line to play with,” Dougherty said. “So when you have students anywhere from a .370

Registration delays frustrate St. Joe’s

SAM KOCH ’11Editor-in-Chief

As seniors across campus geared up to register for their final semester at Saint Jo-seph’s University, many were confronted by an unexpected bump in the road: delays in course schedules and registration times.Originally scheduled to begin on Mon-

day, Nov. 8, seniors are now slated to register for spring courses on Wednesday, Nov. 10.University Registrar Gerard Donahue

said that the delays in registration this year were caused by both internal and external issues in the Registrar’s Office. According to Donahue, a long-time

employee of the registrar’s office, Dotty Bruder, retired at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year. Currently, Bruder’s position remains unfilled, leaving the registrar’s office shorthanded during the implementation of this year’s course scheduling and registration. “[Bruder’s] main thrust was the academic

schedule. Losing someone of her long-standing history and experience here at the university was difficult,” Donahue said. The Registrar’s Office is still seeking

a candidate to fill the vacancy left by Bruder, along with an additional posi-tion made available at the approval of the university’s administration. Beyond the internal issues associated

with personnel shortages, Donahue said that finalizing the details of the universi-ty’s newly-established General Education Program (GEP) has also created signifi-cant issues for the Registrar’s Office.

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to .40, you almost should be dead at that level.”In response to the increased consumption

of Four Loko, Anderson and the Office of Student Life have been trying to inform students and faculty about the dangers of the drink.Last week, Anderson sent out an email

to university faculty encouraging staff to “help reinforce the message that combin-ing energy drinks with alcohol is more dangerous than students may know.”Anderson said that no specific incident

prompted the message, but that a sug-gestion was made at a cabinet meeting to reach out to faculty members. Anderson said that he believed it was