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Thursday, September 16,1999
The Official Campus Newspaper
Volume 3 No. 2
GWU trashes recycling
Brittany Jarvis
Pilot editor
The recycling program at
Gardner-Webb has failed,
according to Tom English who
serves on the recycling com
mittee. Yet no one is taking
responsibility for the break
down in communication among
the committees, housekeeping
and faculty.
Mike McCreight, head of
physical plant, said Gardner-
Webb has not supplied the
housekeeping staff with the
colored bags needed to distin
guish between recyclable mate
rial and trash.
According to the plan pro
posed. last year, each office is
supplied with two wastebas
kets. One of the containers is
marked for recycling and
should hold a clear garbage bag
to identify the recycled materi
al. After garbage is collected
from the buildings, the bags of
trash and recyclable material
are loaded into the same truck.
Without the clear bags,
however, housekeeping cannot
separate the combined trash
bags into the two groups.
Bins have also been placed
around campus in which stu
dents and faculty can deposit
aluminum cans. Housekeeping
is then supposed to deliver the
cans every few days to the recy
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Containers. like these, are placed around campus in which students can put recyclable materials. However, some think the
materials are thrown out with the rest of the trash, instead of delivered to the recycling center.
cling center. But English sus
pects some bins have not been
emptied since the beginning of
summer.
English and McCreight
both mentioned Wayne
Johnson, chairman of the recy
cling committee, has not yet
organized a committee meeting
to discuss these problems.
Johnson said the committee
will meet in two weeks, after
new personnel at physical plant
arrive.
About the need for colored
bags, Johnson said housekeep
ing gathers trash from separate
offices into bigger garbage
bags, which are colored. He
also said the responsibility for
supplying different colored
bags belongs to physical plant,
not Gardner-Webb.
The question then arises
about where the garbage is
going after housekeeping col
lects it.
“I’m almost positive it’s
going to Cliffside Recycling
Center,” McCreight said.
Johnson also asserted the
material is being taken to the
recycling center located a few
minutes from campus.
But G.W. Blevins, who
works at the center said, “I
haven’t seen anything.”
English, who also inquired
See Vietnam page 5
Hard hats
required
with new
buildings
Elizabeth Allen
Pilot staff
Renovations are underway
in response to the need for
more quality facilities on cam
pus. Many new building pro
jects are taking place on
Gardner-Webb’s campus. New
parking lots, new tennis courts,
and a new Wellness center are
just a few.
The former gravel lot
behind Spangler will provide
229 more parking spaces.
Also, the road extension beside
the Dover Library will make
traveling around campus more
convenient.
The biggest project that is
currently underway is that of
the 8,000 square foot Wellness
Center. This facility will pro
vide a fitness center, aerobics,
games, a weight room, and a
lounge for students.
Project Manager Wayne
Johnson said that there was a
need for all these new facilities
simply because there was not
enough room in the current sit
uation. These projects are
expected to be completed by
January.
GWU student ministers after high school tragedy
Angela Sanders
Pilot staff
How does an entire school deal with
the tragic loss of a student? Recently,
faculty and students at Crest High
School were faced with this very dilem
ma.
Heather Dawn Waters, a senior at
Crest High, was killed as she was trav
eling by car on Highway 150 on her way
to class early Thursday, September 2.
Her car ran off the road, overcorrected
and drove into oncoming traffic, accord
ing to State Trooper T.W. Glover.
Students and faculty were devastat
ed by the news of her death. She was
considered to
be quite pop
ular at her
school and
ranked eighth
in her class.
“Heather
was top-notch. They don’t come any
better,” Crest’s assistant principal, June
Lail said.
As would be expected for a tragedy
As I walked down the
halls of Crest High.Jt
was as though the halls
were filled with tears
like this one, several counselors were
sent to the school to provide emotional
support for the grieving students and
faculty. Steven
Lambert, a
senior at
Gardner-Webb
was one of the
counselors.
Lambert is an
intern at Crest Middle School and was
set to begin another day Thursday when
the secretary of the school gave him the
news concerning the accident and
requested that he immediately go to the
high school and lend his support.
“As I walked down the halls of
Crest High, I noticed a very different
mood - very , somber. It was as though
the halls were filled with tears,”
Lambert said.
During his stay at Crest, Lambert
was able to speak with many students -
those who knew Heather and those who
didn’t.
“The first girl I spoke with was very
close to Heather. She just cried on my
See Crest page 2