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Volume 9 No. 2
Change
on the
menu
Cafeteria sports
new look, more
food variety
Christie Barlow
Pilot copy editor
The cafeteria at Gardner-Webb
University is differerit this semes
ter.
Over the summer, GWU made
changes to the dining hall by add
ing new flyers, coolers and car
pet. The cafeteria also offers a re
vamped menu with more options
this year.
“We were previously work
ing on a three to four week menu
cycle,” said Suzaime Glasscock,
general manager of the GWU caf
eteria. “This year we’re switching
to a 1.6 week menu.”
This means that with each week
of school new items will be added
to the menu, giving students more
options at each meal and repeating
fewer items.
“We’ve historically gone out
and within the first two weeks
served every kind of pizza we
had,” said Bryan Harriss, district
manager of Sodexho. “We’re in
troducing different varieties over
time by introducing things later.”
According to Glasscock caf
eteria staff are attempting to fol
low national trends with what
they are serving. They are basing
their menu on a survey of college
students in the Southeast and on
meetings with SGA members.
“We would always prefer to
get student feedback whenever
they have a concern about the ser
vice and whether or not they have
something good to say,” said Har
riss
Yet another addition to the
cafeteria is the presence of health
awareness information. GWU is
involved in a balance mind, body
and soul program. This program
provides information to students
on how healthy they’re eating.
“You can find the information
at each serving area or on the table
outside the door,” said Glasscock.
“We’re also going to be placing
the information on the tables for
students.”
Student reaction to the changes
has been positive so far.
“I just had a great lunch for the
first time in awhile,” said Jamie
Mecimore, a senior nursing major
from Taylorsville. “It was a new
dish, and it was very tasty.”
Mecimore isn’t the only one
that has picked up on the changes.
Senior biology major Jason Hoyle
from Hickory is impressed with
the variety of the meals.
“Freshmen year was chicken,
beef, pork chops and chicken,
beef and pork chops,” said Hoyle.
“This year there are a lot more
choices.”
The cafeteria is on the right
track, according to Harriss. Things
are heading in the right direction
but there is still a long way to go,
he said.
“It’s the unknown that kills
us,” said Harriss. “Often the prob
lem is easy to fix.”
Serving students at Gardner-Webb University for more than 6o years.
HURRICANE KATRINA | RELIEF AND RECOVERY
Katrina touches GWU
photo by Katie Bryant
Anna Jessup, daughter of University Minister Tracy Jessup, and the Bulidog mascot donate
a can of food to the hurricane reiief effort at the footbail game Sept. 3. Students in Free Enter
prise held another food drive for hurricane victims in the cafeteria Sept. 5 to 8.
GVrHJ waives tuition for hurricane victims;
aid efforts under way on campus, in Miss
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Amanda Wood
Pilot editor-in-chief
On Sept. 3, Gardner-Webb
University became the first
university in North Carolina to
waive tuition for students who
attended college in the areas
affected by Hurricane Katrina.
“It’s the right thing to do,”
said Jack Buchanan, vice presi
dent for admissions and emoll-
ment. “These students have al
ready paid to go to school this
semester, so we’re not going to
charge them again.”
According to Buchanan
four students have already en
rolled at GWU and are taking
classes. Their names are not
being released for privacy rea
sons.
Allowing the students to
come to GWU helps the stu
dents themselves and sister
institutions in the Gulf Coast
region, Buchanan said.
“Really every one of you is
a part of this,” Buchanan said.
“The students paying tuition
make it possible for us to do it
for other students. This is who
we are. I’ve never been more
proud of Gardner-Webb, fac
ulty, staff, students.”
GWU’s division of univer
sity relations and development
is receiving donations to help
the students with expenses.
Students can make a donation
through campus ministries.
“I’m just very proud that
we’re reaching out in this man
ner,” said Teresa Davis, cam-
I
photo by Josephy Fluty
Fans who brought donations for victims of Hurricane Katrina
received free admission to the Gardner-Webb University foot-
bail game Sept. 3.
pus ministries secretary.
The Professional Firefight
ers of Shelby are also taking
food and cash donations to as
sist hurricane victims in Lau
rel, Miss.
“I’ve got a tmck load right
now,” said Donnie Henderson;
who is heading up the firefight
ers’ drop-off point in Boiling
Springs at McSwain’s Store
on College Avenue. “Tve got
another tmck load sitting here,
and I’ve already taken two
tmck loads [back to Shelby].”
- Henderson said he’s happy
to see that people are willing to
help out hurricane victims.
“I was amazed at how fast
we filled up tow tmcks with
supplies,” he said. “And, of
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we could have never done that.
It’s kind of ballooned now.”
Henderson said the ■ fire
fighters will be collecting non-
perishable items and monetary
donations again Sept. 10 at
Wal-mart in Shelby.
McSwain’s Store will con
tinue to be a drop-off point in
Boiling Springs.
Students can also donate
non-perishable food items on
campus at the football game
Sept. 10.
Plans are also under way at
Campus Ministries for a fall
break mission trip to the af
fected areas.
Students involved would
help with recovery and clean
up efforts in the region.
Student:
My family
was lucky
Cherish Wilson
Pilot staff
Dane Geraci, a life-long resi
dent of Kenner, La., a fifteen-min
ute drive from New Orleans, was
the only Gardner-Webb student
from the area directly affected by
Hurricane Katrina.
“You’d hear mmors in the ear
ly stages of the hurricane that the
levee had broke,” Geraci said. “It
was miserable not to now what to
expect or what to believe.”
Geraci said he feels his family
was lucky. His family evacuated
once before, but never for what
Geraci called “something this ex
treme.”
“My brother went back [to
the house] for a day to check out
everything,” Geraci said. “He’s
been the only person back. All
our fences were down, and there
might have been some more dam
age, but he wasn’t sure. We were
pretty fortunate.”
“My dad kept emphasizing
the main thing was everyone was
okay,” Geraci said. “The house
was just a material object. It was
important we all were safe.”
Geraci is impressed with the
kindness and concern from his
Gardner-Webb family.
“Tracy [Jessup] contacted me
pretty quick, asking if there was
anything they could do to help.
Everyone has been more than
willing to help.”
Other citizens of coastal Loui
siana, Alabama, and Mississippi
were left reeling in the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina. As of Sep
tember 7, ABC News estimated
the hurricane, which peaked at
Category 5, or 175mph winds, has
caused 20 to 75 million dollars
of damage and left 365 to 1,365
people dead, with numbers likely
to rise.
According to Meteorologist
Kermit Keeter, Science and Op
erations Officer for the National
Weather Service in Raleigh, scien
tists who study tropical cyclones
are doing all they can to prevent
loss of life and property by pre
dicting where hurricanes will
make landfall.
Katrina, he says, made land
fall 30 miles from the predicted
location of landfall. On average
the margin of error is closer to 90
miles.
“The United States has more
severe weather than anywhere
around the globe,” Keeter said. “
Just the fact we don’t have a mas
sive loss of life and property on a
continual basis is indicative of the
investments made to provide ac
curate forecasts and warnings.”
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