Disturbance Involves Lon Morris Students

JACKSONVILLE — Some Lon Morris students have been sent packing following a weekend fight. KETK-TV reports Jacksonville Police responded to a fight at the Inn, which houses more than 300 Lon Morris students. The makeshift residency hall is the Best Value Inn on East Rusk Street. According to Lon Morris President Dr. Miles McCall, “We’ve already sent eight students home; It’s not that we’re not trying to do what we need to do. When you have a lot of kids, you have some that don’t behave right.” Following the incident, school officials enacted a curfew for students living at the inn. It’s from midnight to dawn on Fridays and Saturdays and 11:00pm till dawn on Sundays through Thursdays. McCall is also having a closed meeting with residents in the surrounding neighborhood this week, and he added that security is being increased in the area.