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Page 2 Tuesday, November 25, 2003 ■TTlcPlfet i News Students’ project goes up in smoke IVTqiti -A- ^ : _r- _ tt i ,i Katie Main Pilot Staff Paula Qualls’s "Studies in the Pentateuch" class brought three fire trucks to the bottom of the Dover Campus Center on Nov. 11 after a simulated taber nacle - set up in the Ritch Banquet Hall - caught fire. "Our assignment was to create the experience of being in the tabernacle," Junior Cody Sanders said. "We’d been working on it for several weeks, and we were very excit ed about our plans. We’d been setting up since 9:15 that morn ing and our presentation was at 1:15." The group included stu dents Sanders, Reid Austin, Hans Koschmann, Laura Manning, Amanda Miller, ^^egan Miller, Natalie Murphy, ^■egan Temple and Nathaniel ^white. The students had con structed a life-size (16 ft. by 6.5 ft.) version of the Hebrew tabernacle they had studied in class, following meticulous plans to ensure accuracy. "When you entered the Ritch Banquet Hall, you were in the outer court of the taber nacle, complete with the altar of sacrifice and bronze basin," Sanders said. "In the back, the actual tabernacle was con structed from drop-cloths hang ing from the ceiling tops." At 1:15, Qualls and the rest of the class waited outside the door as the group made last- minute preparations. "Our plans were to give the class a tour of the entire taber nacle and let them see the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place and look at the furniture inside," Sanders said, "One of those pieces of furniture being the lamp stand." In keeping with the theme, the group members wore tradi- I tional Hebrew robes they had sewn themselves. The group lit the candles inside the curtained area and turned out all the elec tric lights in the banquet hall "for dramatic effect." "We were literally one minute away from letting the class in when a back wall of the tabernacle fell down," Sanders said. As several students reat tached the sheet to the ceiling, "all of the movement in and out of the tabernacle caused the side sheet to sway back and forth, and it grazed the top of the lamp stand." The sheet caught fire and rapidly spread to the surround ing sheets. Sanders heard class mate Amanda Miller yell, "Oh no!" and turned to look back at the tabernacle. "I looked back and I could see the bright orange flame flickering through the Holy of ^lies," he said. Sanders began leaping to me ceiling in an effort to tear down the sheets. "As fast as I could get the sheets down, the fire was spreading to the ceil ing, and the sheets were falling apart,'"he said. Junior Hans Koschmann was across the room when the fire started. "Ironically, I was in charge of the burnt sacrifices," he said, "so I was over by the table get ting my presentation together." After seeing the fire, he was making his way toward the door when a visiting parent handed him a fire extinguisher. "He said, ‘Go use it,’" Koschmann said. The RA training he received this summer aided him in effectively wielding the extinguisher. "I kept saying in my mind, ‘Don’t shoot at the flames; shoot at the base of the fire!’" Two cafeteria workers then ran out of the kitchen beside the banquet hall to help. Qualls, whose 5-year-old daughter Emily was with her. stayed calm throughout the ordeal. "I just kept thinking, ‘How much damage? How much damage?’" Qualls said. The fire alarm sounded about five minutes after the fire was put out, and Campus Police Chief Barry Johnson arrived soon after. About 20 minutes later, three fire trucks pulled up, and the firefighters helped clear the smoke from the building. Eight burned ceiling tiles were replaced, the tabletop holding the lamp stand was scorched and bum marks were left on the floor. Though the fire alarm went off, the group was able to put the fire out before the sprin kler system went into effect. "It was a fun experience -1 can say that ‘cause nobody got hurt," Koschmann said. "Kinda • appointing, though, cause ||put a lot of work into the project and we didn’t get to present it at all." •richenor grantefl award Sean Hubbard Pilot staff Charles Tichenor, business professor at Gardner-Webb University, has recently added to his collection of accomplish ments. The recently retired Chairman of the Board of the Champale Sparkling Beverage Company was awarded the Service Excellence Award from the business department. The professors in the department grant this award to a business faculty member in recognition of exemplary service to the school of business. Over the past year, Tichenor has been involved in many things that made him eli gible for the award. He taught at least four courses with dif ferent preparations each semes ter and donated time and money to the business depart ment. In June 2003, Tichenor directed a tour to Switzerland for the Graduates in Executive Management (GEM) program to lecture and provide 17 GWU students a nine-day internation al trip. Tichenor has many accom plishments both inside and out side the realm of business. At age 19, he became a U.S. Naval Air Corps officer and was ordered to a combat area in China. He is also the holder of two gold and one sil ver United States champi onship medals in tennis and racquet competition. Tichenor didn’t become a teacher until Duke University reviewed his doctoral disserta tion and Berne University con ferred his degree at age 70. Tichenor gladly accepts his newest award of excellence from the GWU business department. “I am very pleased,” said Tichenor. “The faculty here work as a team and I’m happy to be a part of the team.” The former CEO has also brought many speakers into his classroom this semester to expand student academic breadth and quality. "He brings to the class room not only textbook exper tise, but also real life experi ences," said Jim Maxwell, one of Tichenor’s students. "He has really done a lot for the busi ness program." One of the reasons behind his being awarded the honor is the GEM program, which Tichenor created at GWU just two years ago. This program gives students a chance to be instructed by former CEOs and Superior Court judges who have been long-time members of the business world. GEM has expanded, after only two years to include both GOAL and MBA students. The program requires more out of students than being just business majors. Students must carry a 3.0 grade-point-aver age, write three extra case papers per semester and pay a one-time fee of $2,750 to take a 10-day trip to a Swiss University. Prior to graduation, the GEM students receive the opportunity to meet current CEO’s at a two-day retreat at a resort in North Carolina. You’ve Got News 5? Get The Pilot in your Inbox. 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