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Page A2 Friday, November 17, 2006 The Pilot News Varley brings fresh ideas for GWU development Ciara Lilly cl illy@gardner-webb. edu Steve Varley was re cently named vice president of development at Gardner- Webb University, replacing David Boan who passed away in a car accident this summer. Varley and Boan were friends and, like many people here at GWU, Varley was saddened by the loss of Boan. “I think about David quite a lot these days,” said Varley. “1 get to see his name on things and his influence in the process of dealing with outside people in the university, so I am impressed to attempt to carry on some of the good things he started and go in new directions as \vell. I re ally want to honor his spirit and the good things he did. He was a friend offline and Proposed YMCA shows local growth By Rebecca Clark zafiral97@hotmail.com Boiling Springs is grow ing rapidly, and a proposed YMCA is proof of that growth. The sprawling 41,000- square-foot building will be constructed on 31 acres of land on the comer of Patrick Avenue and N.C. Highway 150. The , . facility WejUSt will in- started Horary! fundraising water audit’s pool, going great. ’ climb ing wall Cameron Corder, gym and CEO of other Cleveland County a m e n i - YMCA ties. The project is currently in the fiindraising stage. Ac cording to Cameron Corder, CEO of Cleveland County YMCA, groundbreaking will depend on the success of fimdraising. “We just started fund raising and it’s going great,” Corder said. “We hope to break ground in January of 2008, the first quarter of the year.” Most of the funds will come from individuals pledging certain amounts, while the remainder will come from foundations, grants and corporations. There are no definite figures at this point, but by the first of the year officials hope to have an announce ment. Construction and project development time lines are also a focal point right now, Corder said. Boiling Springs was seen as an ideal place to build the new facility because of the growing population and need for a wellness center. It will also offer job oppor tunities to Gardner-Webb University students. GWU is in a partnership with the YMCA and offers a YMCA Professional Stud ies Program. In its third year on cam pus, the program is one of four offered in the country. According to the Cleveland County YMCA Web site, this program offers students the opportunity to take YMCA management modules for college credit and work to wards a senior directorship within the YMCA while at tending college. “It’s a great opportunity for young people,” Corder said, adding that four or five entry-level positions will be available at the new facil ity. I miss him.” Varley is no stranger at Gardner-Webb. His new re sponsibilities include major gifts. planned giving. the An- n u a 1 fund. Bulldog C 1 u capital Steve Varley paigns, but he has worked at GWU since 1998. Some of his prior positions were direc tor of Corporate and Foun dations relations, assistant vice president of Alumni and Parent Relations, direc tor of Printing and Publica tion, university webmaster, and a faculty member in the School of Business. Varley welcomes the challenge to bring fresh ideas into his new position. “The university has a lot of needs, and those needs are really outlined by Dr. Bonner and approved and shaped by his interaction with the board of trustees and the university’s strate gic planning committee,” said Varley. “There are some projects that are very clear. For in stance, the university needs to continue to grow their endowments, which is the money we hold in the bank that we earn interest on that provides scholarships for students.” Other needs include cap ital items such as a student center, a new science build ing and a fine arts building, said Varley. “We are always inter ested in responding to what people like to give money to,” he said. “If it’s a good suit for Gardner-Webb, then we respond.” He gives an example of this by sharing how a recent donor made a significant financial contribution to provide a new home for the Noel program. “We are really pleased that we have a significant gift towards that project and we are working hard to complete it,” said Var ley, adding that GWU has a strong core group who are willing to support the university financially. How ever, the university needs a larger core group, he said. “We really need to turn it up a few notches and really focus our efforts on broad ening our prospect base to get more people involved,” says Varley. He wants the development office to make sure the president and his message about this univer sity are being heard and un derstood by the public. Swim team a success in the water and in the classroom Continued from page 1 According to Simpson, those things will take care of themselves. For the GWU swim ming coaches, recruiting is a 12-month process. Simp son said it never stops. “Recruiting wise, I’m looking for people with good character,” said Simp son. “I’ve unrecruited good swimmers that weren’t good people or good students. “Character goes above and beyond everything else. The girls here take school seriously and they don’t want to do it by just going through the motions,” he said. For the 2007-08 school year, GWU will add a men’s swimming team to the ath letic department. It will be the university’s 19th varsity sport, and Simpson says it’s a reflection of the success of the women’s team, in the pool, in the classroom and in the community. To this point, the re sponse to the new program has been good. Rutgers University and James Madi son University are dropping their men’s programs at the end of this season, and there are men’s swimming pro grams that end every year. There isn’t a lot of mon ey for male swimmers or a lot of places to go, so that should help GVW recruit quality swimmers. “The girls are excited about it,” said Simpson. “Workouts will be interest ing next year. Forty-plus kids are not going to fit in our pool. “We’re gonna have to be creative.” News from Dover Library By Valerie Parry Library director That’s really the title? Deciding what books and other materials to purchase for the library’s collection is one of our fun challenges. Orders result from depart ment faculty requests, li brary faculty selections, and suggestions by students. Librarians love to see the new material come in, and are especially pleased when students discover new titles and check them out. We don’t purchase books just because we like the titles, but some of us find an intriguing or quirky title especially inviting. Below are a few books we have added in the last 10 years. Can you figure out what the book is about from the title? In some cases I’ve made it more difficult by leaving out the subtitle. 1 .“Are Women Human?” 2.“The Big Red Fez” 3.“A Crack in the Edge of the World” 4.“Death by Journalism” 5.“First in Thirst” 6.“Goodbye Gutenberg” 1. “Are Women Hu man?”: and other interna tional dialogues by Catharine A. MacKinnon examines the problem of women still veiled, kept in poverty, imprisoned in their homes, denied edu cation, put to death for ex- N.C. State Digital Media Lab loans MP3 players to students By Chris Sanchez Technician (N. C. State) (U-WIRE) RALEIGH, N.C. - In support of the library’s audiobook pro gram that began in Janu ary, the Digital Media Lab acquired MP3 players for student use. North Carolina State University Libraries initial ly purchased 50 Creative Zen Micro digital audio de vices, Keith Morgan, man ager of the Digital Media Lab, said in an article in Fo cus, a library publication. The Zen Micro players are similar to Apple iPods, but are capable of playing Windows format audio files. According to Morgan, the audiobooks available from the library are cur rently only in a protected Windows format that Apple players cannot read. “We’re evaluating its popularity, we’ve expand ed the numbers of available units since the original pur chase,” Morgan said. The library also pur chased 20 iPod Shuffles to be used for “pod-casts” available through the li brary, according to Morgan. “My belief is that pod casting will become more important to the campus as time goes on,” he said. “More professors are going to find ways to put lectures on pod-casts and our hope is that for students who don’t have devices — that we will have devices that they can listen to and [we can] loan out.” Students may check out the audio players from the Digital Media Lab in much the same way they can check out laptops, accord ing to Morgan. The program has become popular among students. “They’re always checked out,” Lillian Crites, a junior in civil en gineering and Digital Me dia Lab employee, said. “People call all the time.” Employees in the lab indicated that it is tough to keep the MP3 players on the shelves. “Most of our equipment is rarely here more than an hour before it gets checked out,” Chris Hill, a senior in wildlife science and Digital Media Lab employee, said. Crites said the program is popular because it is easier for students to use school equipment when they need it rather than pur chase their own. “It’s been very success- fiil because, both, like the cameras and the camcord ers, we very rarely have them in.” Morgan said. “They come in, they go out. It’s just a constant cycle. “People are asking for them, stopping by to see if we have any in, so that’s one reason we’d like to in crease, somewhat, the col lection. There’s [got to] be some reasonable limit on how many you have, but I’d like to see more.” Both Crites and Hill are participants in the pro gram. “I always have one checked out,” Crites said. Hill said he does not own an MP3 player and checks one out from the library for weekend car trips. “It’s a really good pro gram,” Hill said. “If we could do it on a larger scale it would be good.” Crites hinted that the Digital Media Lab needs more MP3 players to loan out. “The demand is much greater than the supply,” Crites said. tramarita! sex, all with the complicity of their govern ments. 2. “The Big Red Fez”: how to make any Web site better by Seth Godin is geared primarily to those owning and designing re tail Web sites, but has some good tips for all Web sites to keep users interested. 3. “A Crack in the Edge of the World”: America and the great California earth quake of 1906 by Simon Winchester is not just a his tory of the earthquake itself, but an account of the more destructive fires and water damage which followed, the plate tectonics involved in the quake, and its social and political side effects. 4. “Death by Journal ism?”: One teacher’s fate- fiil encounter with political correctness by Jerry Bled soe is a true story of jour nalistic hubris. It happened here in North Carolina less than 10 years ago when a reporter looking for contro versy misrepresented what was being taught at a com munity college about the Civil War. 5. “First in Thirst”: how Gatorade turned the science of sweat into a cultural phe nomenon by Darren Rov- ell traces the development of the Gatorade phenom enon in facts and anecdotes, showing the increasing symbiosis of sports, busi ness and American culture. 6. Goodbye Gutenberg; hello to a new generation of readers and writers by Valerie Kirschenbaum is a visual feast, a history of the intersection of education and technology with art and literature, and a compelling argument that color and de sign significantly impact learning. Are you intrigued by some of these titles? Look for additional examples in a later issue. Want more now? S end a request to your library director at vparry@gardner- webb.edu and I’ll send you a copy of the full “love that title” list. Math at other universities can be tortuous, but Gardner-Webb nnath is student-friendly: $1,000 = 1 month in Europe + 3* credit liours x 12 students Imagine yourself strolling in the heart of old Strasbourg while your friends work sum mer jobs or take a course in Boiling Springs. Current sophomores and juniors can apply : study trip to Strasbourg Trance, during summer 2007. Strasbourg is on the border with Germany, i and |L I for. and Switzerland is a short train-ride away. Opportunities abound for cultural enhancement and fun. It’s an investment in adventure and an opportunity to trade that dorm room for a stay in a chateau. oh yeah, Dr. Michael Kuchinsky will teach POLS +5O; Issues in International identity and Integration while you’re not out exploring Europe. Applications are available in the Office of International Programs (Suttle 112) and are due to Dr. Helen Tichenor by 4 p.m. on Jan. \6. For more information, contact: Dr. Tichenor at 70'f-4-0^-5^5’5 Dr. Kuchinsky at J0^-^06~'^S06 *An additional 5 credit hours are available by arrangement. $1,000 takes care of; • tuition • airfare • lodging • two meals, per da^ • planned transpor tation for the GWU Not included: • books • passport • third meal • souvenirs • personal travel Qualifications: • rising junior or se nior in May 200/ • a minimum 5-0 GPA • a clean disciplinart^ record
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