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VOLUNTEER HERE: Meet Jean Rodgers, the new VISTA coordinator for Carroll. < # CHAMBER OF SECRETS: Harry Potter and his friends are back at Hogwarts for a second year of adventure. Read the review here. LADY SAINTS: Sophomore guard Sasha Ritter keeps the ball from the opponent in the first game of the Carroll Women’s Invitational. Saints advance to title game Contributed by Sandra Kelly Independent Record Sports Reporter SIOUX FALLS - The Saints are marching on to Tennessee. For the first time in school history, the Carroll College football team will play for the NAIA National Championship Series title. The Saints advanced to the title game in Savannah, Tennessee, by beating the No. 1 ranked Sioux Falls Cougars 20-17. If that wasn’t enough, the Saints will have the chance to play their old nemesis, the Georgetown (Ky) Tigers. The Cougars took a 7-0 lead early when Leo Fenceroy intercepted Carroll quarterback Robb Latrielle and ran it in from 25 yards out for the touchdown with 4:10 left in the first quarter. With just under two minutes left in the half, Carroll punt returner Justin Wigen fumbled a punt when he was drilled by a swarm of Cougars at his own 30. Sioux Falls’ Josh Childress recovered the ball and Wigen was helped off the field. Early reports indicated that Wigen has a broken ankle and a sprained knee and will be out for the rest of the season. . The Cougars capitalized on the fumble by advancing to Carroll’s 6-yard line. They couldn’t punch it in to the end zone, but kicker T. C. Fraser put USF up 10-0 with a 24-yard field goal with one second left in the half. “At halftime we just talked about we had three turnovers and on defense we didn’t cause any turnovers,” Carroll head coach Mike Van Diest said. “The key was pass protection. We knew if we could protect Robb he could throw. And throw he did. Latrielle was 22-of-44 for 271 yards and two touchdowns and 14 of Carroll’s 17 first downs came from the air. His top target was Mark Gallik, who was named the MVP of the game. Gallik caught seven passes for 102 yards and a touchdown. Tight end Casey Fitzsimmons followed with eight grabs for 78 yards. With 8:46 left in the third quarter the Saints got on the scoreboard when running back Heath Wall snagged a Latrielle pass at the 4-yard line and bar reled in for the score. Rhett Crites, who was per fect on the day, converted the PAT to narrow the grid as Cougars’ lead to 10-7. “Heath Wall’s catch in the third quarter might have been the play of the game,” Van Diest said. For Wall, the touchdown followed a 14-yard run, his first breakout run in several games. “It’s been a little bit of a struggle this year,” Wall said. “But this is worth it, this is what it’s all about.” Carroll’s defense, which held the No. 1 back in the nation, Nick Kortan to almost a 100 yards under his average (he finished with 77), forced the Cougars to punt from their own 25. Sioux Falls punter Mike Hockett shanked the punt and it rolled backwards, putting the Saints on the Sioux Falls 20 . Carroll didn’t get it into the end zone, but Crites was able to tie things up at 10 when he nailed a 20- yard field goal with 5:16 left in the third quarter. Three plays later, the Saints were back on offense when free safety Matt Peterson picked off backup quarterback Joe Wright, who was starting in place of injured Jon Burkhardt, at the 40. Story continued on page 16 ... unreasonable Janitors protest work GRID DISPUTE: Science building janitors Gerry Brassard, Russell Hill and Don Foynes (from left) have issued numerous grievances in response to disciplinary letters issued to them for incompletion of a work grid they say is impossible. By Kate Fehringer Editor-in-chief Three night janitors who work in Simperman Hall have brought grievances against their supervisor Sean McGoldrick, head of the Carroll Facilities Department, alleging harassment in retaliation to complaints made about their job duties. According the the janitofs Russell Hill, Don Foynes and Gerry Brassard, they have been exchanging voluminous paperwork with their supervisors Rick Rutherford and McGoldrick, Vice-President Jim Hardwick, and Carroll College Human Resources, since January 2002. At the heart o f the dispute, Hill says, is the grid system that the janitors must follow in their nightly cleaning of the approximately 60 rooms in the science building. The grid details exactly how much time is to be spent on each cleaning task, allowing for travel time around the building. All three janitors insist that the grid is impossible to complete during their eight-hour shift. McGoldrick contends that the grid is valid, because it was constructed with the jani tors’ input and it was based on their actual cleaning times. Last January, the trouble began. Brassard was issued a “letter o f counseling” from his immediate supervisor, Rutherford, for not completing a task on the grid. Such a letter is o f a disciplinary nature but is similar to a warning. Hill and Foynes, who were cleaning with Brassard that night, were not given letters because they were still proba tionary employees. Brassard did not grieve the letter, mean ing he did not officially file a protest against it with Carroll’s Human Resources Department. Hill said this letter brought the issue of the grid to the fore front for the janitor team. On Sept. 12, Rutherford issued each janitor a disciplinary memo for not buffing one of the floors in the building, and thus not completing the grid. All three janitors filed grievances against these letters, alleging that no investiga tion was done to determine whether or not the grid was even feasible. Hill says he and Foynes left a note for McGoldrick one night explaining what they didn’t have time to complete on the grid, and soon thereafter they were each given another letter o f counsel. These letters were also grieved. All together, the three janitors cited five specific grievances in their formal replies to Human Resources. Hill and Foynes said they considered the most recent letters of counseling to be harassment, because they explained why they did not complete the tasks and the grid, yet they were still disciplined for incompletion. In response to these allegations, McGoldrick said “They’ve never received a singular disciplinary action based on anything like that.” Story continued on page 6 ... MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2002 VOLUME 86, NO. 3 Photo by Erin Fehringer
