Over 65 Years of Reporting
! Issue 4
BREVARD COLLEGE’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
February 25, 2000
Campus Voice on Racism... page 3
Info Series on FOI continued.. page 4
Groove Element... page 12
Softball Opener... page 15
Bulldozers bust out village twin
Photo by Chris Beauvais
Bulldozers broke ground this winter for Village Phase II.
BY WENDY BYERLY
Anyone who ven
tures towards the side of
campus near the gym,
Porter Center and the Vil
lage will notice the miss
ing tennis courts and the
long stretch of dirt that
has been leveled out
across from the porch side
of the Village. The
changes reveal the begin
nings of construction on
Phase II of the Village.
Although Phase II of
the Village will look iden
tical to the pre-existing
phase on the outside,. “In^
temally, Village II will be
significantly different
from Village I,” explained
Steve Martin, Vice Presi
dent and Dean of Campus
Life.
The second phase is
to be two feet higher than
the first phase, which ex
plains the import of the
dirt at the construction
site. “Phase I happened to fall on a
thin stretch of land that is not located
on the flood plain in this area. Unfor
tunately that is not the case with Phase
II,” said Martin. A run-off drain will
be constructed to keep water from
running towards Phase I and flood
ing it.
Phase I has 92 beds that are
available to students, but Phase II has
been designed to hold 120 beds. In
stead of three suite bathrooms, every
room will have its own toilet room
and shower room, as well as vanity
sinks in the bedroom. There will be
seven double rooms and one single
room in every individual apartment
holding a total of fifteen students
each. Twa. of,-the. single rooms will
contain tubs to be used as medical
rooms.
“The Village has to pay for it
self, so the choices were to make the
price higher to live there or to control
the cost by housing more students,”
Martin explained.
Instead of a kitchen, each apart
ment will contain a double basin sink
in the main living area. This will al
low for more room for the extra
Olympics forced
BY KATY ZANDY
The Daily Princetonian
(U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J.
— In the first test of last year’s
Nude Olympics ban, the Princeton
University campus was conspicu
ously silent at midnight Friday
morning, with no indication of any
large-scale attempt to resurrect the
now-defunct event.
Equipped with cameras and
blankets. Public Safety fanned out
across campus Thursday night and
prepared to apprehend and iden
tify nude runners.
Nevertheless, Public Safety
shift supervisor Lloyd Best said
Thursday night he believed the
University’s threat to suspend par
ticipants for one year would deter
students from running.
“I hope the kids don’t jeopar
dize their education just to run na
ked,” Best said.
As four inches of snow blan
keted Princeton Thursday afternoon,
most sophomores agreed that the ap
peal of running naked was overshad
owed by the University’s policy.
“I’m not going to run,” David
Volk said. “I think the consequences
are just too severe. I guess the admin
istration has won, but I think they’re
being incredibly harsh and unreason
able about it. We proposed all kinds
of alternatives to the event.”
Matt Frazier agreed.
“It’s kind of a shame that it died
as hard as it did,” he said.
“People are too afraid, in all hon
esty. There’s no sense of trying to
break the law tonight because it just
isn’t worth it.”
After last year’s Nude Olym
pics, several students were trans
ported to Princeton Medical Cen
ter and treated for severe intoxi
cation, provoking the University
to ban the event.
The Nude Olympics’ demise,
which has attracted widespread
media attention, is continuing to
generate national interest. Antici
pating the possibility of students
defying the ban, reporters from
the Associated Press arrived on
campus Thursday night only to
find an empty Holder Courtyard.
‘EMPHATIC’
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double and single rooms that will be
in the front of the apartments. Each
student will pay an extra $70 for an
efficiency microwave/refrigerator
unit. The units have a refrigerator sec
tion, a Zero Degree freezer section
and a microwave on top. To control
power surges, when the microwave
is being utilized the refrigerator will
turn off.
Included in the $70 fee, students
will receive a card that they will use
to do their laundry. “It is a new sys
tem that will be implemented in all
dorms except Phase I of the Village.
In about four years the machines in
Phase I will need to be replaced and
at that time they will get the new card
system,” said Martin. “Students will
receive an automatic 40 washes/dries
per semester, about four swipes, or
two washes and two dries per week,
after all swipes are used students can
go to a machine located in a central
place on campus to add money to
their card.” Also, the laundry facili-
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Phonathon
BY LAURA FERRELL
Have you received a scholarship
from Brevard College this academic
year? If so then the phonathon af
fects you! Each year the college sets
up a phonathon in which student vol
unteers call alumni of Brevard Col
lege. They have four main reasons
for doing this every year. The num
ber one reason, and the one that af
fects many of the students at Brevard
College, is that the money raised each
year by the phonathon pays for the
general scholarships that are awarded
for that year. The phonathon keeps
up to date with the alumni’s life, and
gets information from the alumni for
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