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Fine Arts Upgrades Language Lab
Music CapabilitiesAdded
% Wes Caldwell
Over Christmas Break, the Fine Arts
apartment transformed the old lan
guage lab into an updated facility with
®'cht new computers hooked to eight
Kawai Pianos.
Professor Patsy Hilliard, Spanish in
structor, expressed that the computer lab
offers the students "interactive and in-
joresting programs, and practice of dif-
orent things that the\- are studying, and
8'ves practice with writing and hearing
Panish.’ The computer programs can
olp students in Music, Spanish, and
French classes.
^ The head ofthe Fine Arts and Lan
guages Department. Dr. Mark Johnson
uoted. The classes that will be used in
music division of the lab include
usic Theory, Sight-seeing and Ear-
raining, Computer Applications in Mu-
World
renown musician, Pierce Pettis
Gaither Fellowship Hall
p 8pm, Thursday February 13.
Vh niade appearances on
'L CBS News, and the Nashville
Network
sic. Class Piano, and eventually Orches
tration, and Form and Analysis.'
Hilliard also commented that the Fine
Arts Division of the college sets up the
lab hours and times for Spring semester
have not yet been set up. Hilliard ex
plained that there are assistants in the
lab who are responsible for helping stu
dents with any problems that they ma>
have with the computers, or the pro
crams. A teacher is also in the lab from
time to time to help out with any prob
lems that may occur."
Chris Howard, the French lab as
sistant. commented, "I ve been asked b>
several people if they could do e-mai l,
typing, or surf the Net in the Fine Art s
lab if Belk’s was full, but we canT. One,
there’s no Internet connections or word
processing programs. Two, the lab at-
on the class lists given to us."
Spanish student Mark Frazier ex
pressed, “The lab is up to date and the
computers are fast. They have ever\’-
thing that is needed, and the lab is veiy
helpful.”
Johnson stated that the reason the
Fine Arts Lab was added was because
"the music major was growing, and
rather than add on to the computer lab
that we already have in Belk. the Fine
Arts lab w'as made for the music and
foreign language students. This was
done because the programs were too
complex to run on the computers in the
regular computer lab, in addition to what
was already there.
Steve Saveli, Business Major, ex
plained, “The lab is a needed improve
ment and a good start to upgrading the
processing programs. i wu,
lendants can only admit people who are learning environment.
Graham Leads Phon-a-thon
By Jamie Pate
Beginning Monday. Februaiy 10 and
ending on Thursday, the 27. the Alumni
Association, in cooperation with other
Montreat offices, will be sponsoring a
phone-a-thon to raise money for the
Kevstone Fund. The phone-a-thon will
be held at the old CP&L building in Black
Mountain.
The Keystone Fund was e.stab!ished
in order to help pay for some of the op
eration costs for Montreat College.
Most small private colleges mu.st do
similar fund raisers in order to compen
sate for the money that the government
gives to the state-supported public
schools. This money goes straight to the
students who receive direct flnanciaj aid
from the college. Approximately 90% of
Montreat students receive aid.
During the phone-a-thon. student
volunteers will be asked to call alumni,
parents of alumni, and parents of cur
rent students asking them to help sup
port the cause. At the end of each night
Bob Graham. Director of Alumni Af
fairs. will be giving prizes to the volun
teers.
"This should be a fun filled event for
all who are participating." an excited
Graham remarked.
Junior business major Jason Shenll
commented. "The fund raising is needed
but I don't know how well the student
calls will be received." Mae Jones ex
pressed. “If going to Montreal College
has helped anyone, they should be will
ing to give a little back to help others."
According to a running total kept by
Andrea Curr>' there is a total of fifty stu
dents who will be taking time to partici
pate in the event.
Anyone interested should gel in
touch with Curry via e-mail at
acurry@montreat.edu or by phone at
extension 3907.