Accusations that UW requested the relocation of sex offenders from North of 45th Street for a “land grab” are false, said the university’s president, Mark Emmert in Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting.
(UW president Mark Emmert)
The university did offer to buy the five houses owned by Carol Clarke, who was boarding the offenders.
Emmert said this wasn’t because the Univesity has been vying for the land, but because the administration approved of the philanthropic work Clarke was doing with the offenders and wanted to give her the opportunity to do it elsewhere.
The controversy that led to the 13 offenders being kicked out of the area started 2 years ago, when the North of 45th Street Committee realized how many were concentrated in the area, said Norm Arkans, the executive director of media relations and communications.
“We had great issue thinking through this,” Emmert said.
Emmert asked Gov. Christine Gregoire to have the Department of Corrections relocated the offenders. There were 25 offenders living in Clarke’s houses, and Gregoire is now in the process of getting the remaining 12 moved.
“There are no guarantees,” said UW Police Department’s public information officer, Ray Wittmier.
He said offenders aren’t restricted by where they live, and the move might not have done anything to improve student safety.
A newsy little post. I’m glad that you were able to make your regents coverage do double duty. Links. You need links. But excellent to post a visual.
I’m focusing on comma comments this week. Here are a couple of things I noticed:
–This problem in paragraph 3: Coordinating conjunctions like “and,” “but” and “so”: If the coordinating conjunction joins two independent clauses with explicitly expressed subjects, put a comma before the conjunction. “I flopped down on the couch, and I turned on the TV.” If the second clause does not have an explicitly stated subject, you do not need the comma before the coordinating conjunction. “I flopped down on the couch but could not find the remote control for the TV.”
–This problem in paragraphs 1 and 7. Names and titles: Sometimes a name can be a non-essential clause, depending on how the sentence is structured. If the title appears before the name without an article (a, the), it’s likely that the name is essential to understanding the sentence. No comma between the title and the name: “Vice President Dick Cheney said ….” If an article is used with the title, the name becomes a non-essential clause and needs to be enclosed in commas: “The vice president, Dick Cheney, said ….”
–Paragraph 6 has typo. +++