-from Trevor Campbell
Today I get back to my dorm in Evans Hall and see a piece of paper on my door. It was something called the “Incident Detail Report”. It is basically a “write-up” to say about my room not being in order. Being involved in Pittsburgh Job Corps Centre for just over six weeks and have lived in three dorm wings (Phoenix-Summit, Alpha-Omega, & Evans Hall) and do know that the rules are this: You clean your room to which wing you’re assigned to. ALL dorms are responsible to be clean by the students in that room daily. Failure to do so will give your room number a spot on the discrepancy List with the things wrong in the room next to it. You would be given a set duration to fix those discrepancies from when the time the dorms open up. If you don’t do so, or failure to fix descrepancies repeatedly, you would get punished. Punishments could be things such as: banned from the dorm lounge for a period of time, in which the whole floor could lose Lounge-Kitchen-Computer Room time in some occasions, or if serious enough, you can be written up, depending on how chronic of an offender you are. This is the rules for at least Phoenix-Summit & Alpha-Omega. In Evans Hall, which is our name for The Honour Dormitory, given to the approx. 100 College-Program students involved in that, there was never a set enforcement of room cleanliness, ever! Until yesterday at our dorm meeting, the Evan Hall Supervisor mentions that she will decide to have the whole discrepancy ruling become adopted to Evans Hall residents. She addresses to us, the dozen or so of the approx. 100 students not on summer break that the room cleanliness policy is a centre-wide rule (which, it never applied to us before) that she is apparently just now enforcing, which probably should’ve been enforced the entire time daily.
So, I received a write up. This is the first day that the room cleanliness was in effect even though the dorms where Shop Kids live have been following up with this all the time. So, can anyone: present student, former student, contractor, spectator, random person tell me that the shop students who may get discrepancies three or more times a week get their room number listen on a sheet of paper get just that and Evans Hall students, the students who are offered more privileges (comfort, privacy, & quietness) because they are involved in a college program and we get to live in a college dorm setting that is clearly not much better than the shop dorms & is most clearly not like college dorm life whatsoever? How is this fair? Why was Evans Hall not following the room cleanliness policy in the first place? Is writing up more than half the students even morally equal (since, after all, we’re the envied privileged kids, or so I thought!) when there are less punishments that are supposed to be acted upon and are acted upon throughout the time of the rule being enforced? And can someone tell me that this doesn’t sound like that the Pittsburgh Job Corps Centre, which is clearly the same old dirty, trashy, and unsafe environment you’d see in any Job Corps centre, didn’t pass it’s inspection and is told they are going to enforce a cetnre-wide rule they should’ve been enforcing in the first place, the Evans Hall supervisor, Residential Advisors, & Residency Management decide to take it out on the students, who were actually never told to clean their room, get a punishment that isn’t so easy to achieve living on Phoenix-Summit or Alpha-Omega? Of course they failed their inspection because we didn’t clean up. If you don’t force us to do something and take action slowly but surely, yeah we won’t clean up, thus making the place dirty, trashy, & unsafe and you guys fail inspections. If Evans Hall and it’s residency staff members ever managed to care about their beloved centre’s reputation enough, then wouldn’t they make us clean up in the first place, like the kids at the shop dorms, so that they could get a better inspection score?
Here’s another set of proof of mismanagement that in this case, Students are being mistreated in because the staff are careless & lazy.
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Job Corps Fraud Blog 
August 30, 2010 • 7:34 am 1
Howard’s Newest Comment About Angell Job Corps and its Murders
-from Howard
Interesting that on this site there is an account of a murder committed by Angell Job Corps students and another account of an attempted murder by an employee of the center ten years later. What other Job Corps center has that kind of history? Yes, Job Corps students have murdered other people, but usually not while they are students at a center. This center sounds like a magnet for psychopaths.
Also interesting, is the fact that the center never reported the student missing, even though he was a minor at the time, until weeks later. This student was AWOL and was not designated as such until the next morning when he was listed as not being present at bed-check. It was too late by that time. However, he did not have a pass to leave center and should have been noted as off-center almost immediately because most dorms have meetings in the evening hours. Sometimes two meetings: one right before or after dinner, and one before bed-time and lights out. Attendance is taken at those times for student accountability purposes. If people are missing, then a search should have been made. His life might have been saved.
Also, the staff who should have known something was amiss, were, in my opinion, highly negligent. They sound like a group of incompetents who were not aware of this population’s penchant for this kind of trouble, and in particular, were unaware of advanced indicators that were probably “out there” regarding the murderers.
They were probably not too street smart in their questioning of these and other students – if they ever did question anybody. In a Job Corps center, staff have to keep their eyes and ears open and have relationships with students who can give them information when it is needed. Staff on this center were just covering up for themselves, by not reporting him missing and giving conflicting information to his family.
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