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--= . —- - -vb-. . ... VOL. 61, ISSUE 2 I WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 2014 I THEBLUEBANNER.NET Weekly Calendar Sept. 3 - 9 Sept. 3 Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Owen 101 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sept. 4 Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Owen 101 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. STEM Lecture - Bri an Dennison Reuter Center 102A 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Cherokee Stickball Demonstration Straus Track 6- 8 p.m. Astronomy Club Reuter Center 102A 7- 9p.m. Sept. 5 Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Owen 101 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sept. 8 Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Owen 101 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sept. 9 Annual Art Faculty Exhibition Owen 101 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Corrections: Last week due to an editing error, the wrong story was run with the “University appoints new chan cellor” headline. The Blue Banner apologizes for this error. Photo by Jorja Smith - Multimedia Editor Max McMahon, a sophomore, peruses the food line in the newly renovated Brown Hall on last Sunday. Brown Hall renovations spaits studom interest MATT KETCHAM mketcham@unca.edu - Contributor A multi-million dollar refurbishment with new designs, food options and seating, the recently com pleted Brown Hall sparks questions about sustain ability and student input. “Our students are very, very interested in local, organic, vegan and veg etarian options. We have a very demanding pop ulation for the size that we are,” said Emily Wil liams, senior director of Dining Services. Brown Hall renovations began as part of negotia tions to renew Chartwells as the campus’ dining ven dor, among several other dining services companies who submitted bids. As a part of this request for pro posal process. Dining Ser vices pursued improve ments to the on-campus dining experience they felt were necessary. Among their primary goals were renovations to the dining hall, which was outdated and needed many things replaced, Williams said. Splitting the cost with Chartwells became in creasingly important due to costs of the renovations. The price tag included $100-150,000 for a new energy-efficient dishwash er and more than $15,000 per double-decker oven. To secure a new contract with the campus, Chart wells agreed to contrib ute $10 million during the next 10 years towards on-campus dining renova tions. To help shape the goals and implementation of dining services renova tions, UNC Asheville col laborated with the Dining Services Committee as well as the Dining Ser vices Student Advisory Group. The former com mittee informed the RFP and vendor selection and included two students, while the latter worked with the design and func tionality of the new space throughout the process. Chartwells’ commit ment also included more modest changes to sever al on-campus retail loca tions. Of the $4.7 million allocated from the Chart wells’ fund, $3 million was used in the Brown Hall renovation, with the remaining $1.7 million used for improvements to Highsmith Student Union, Argo Tea, the Wellness Cafe and The Down Un der. A strong portion of the usage of these retail out lets is through retail meal equivalencies, an aspect of the on-campus meal plans which allow students ac cess to retail areas as part of their meal plan cost. Students noticed a cut back in meal equivalen cies, with the maximum allowed down from 10 to five. These equivalencies originally were not in cluded in new meal plans during the initial con tract agreement between UNCA and Chartwells. “Dining services went into conversations with Chartwells and (they) gra ciously agreed to bring them back in a limited number,” Williams said. Williams also said Din ing Services hopes the expansion and renovation of Brown Hall offsets the cutback in meal equiva lencies. “We want people to be more engaged in Brown Hall. With the 100 new seats, we feel it’s more able to accommodate the student body,” Williams said. This increased reliance on the dining hall may be a driving force behind stu dents’ main complaint. “It lacks a bit of flow and I’ve found it a bit confus ing,” said Daisy Torres, a resident junior. Another common of stu dents regards the improve ment of the food. “The food is pretty much the same and less available, especially meat selection,” said Char lie White,' a sophomore senator with the student government association, who worked to collect and respond to student feed back throughout the din ing renovations process. Nonviolent Sexuality talk impresses participants JOHN ARMSTRONG jarmstr1@unca.edu - Staff Writer Sex is powerful high lighted the main point em phasized by Bob Hall, the founder of Learning to Live with Conflict Inc., during his talk Nonviolent Sexuality: Making Peace with Passion. “We are perceiving, pro cessing and responding to conflict in a way that is quite literally eating us alivq, and until our percep tion of conflict changes, that will continue to be the case,” Hall said. Highly attended by stu dents, the event turned into a success. “I wasn’t sure whaf to expect from the talk before I came in, but I felt it was important that I go, and encourage my brothers to go too.” said Sam Groes- beck, a member of Alpha Sigma Phi. Hall said his introduction to dealing with conflict arose from the pursuit of his own career path along with using the skills he utilizes as a self-defense educator and a business student. “When I learned that sexual assault and violence involved people who knew each other and not strang ers, I began to see there are other dynamics at work here that I need to focus on and began to look at sex uality and conflict,” Hall said. Hall travels around campuses giving his talk, the need becoming more constant due to the reau thorized Violence Against Women Act, which in cludes the campus SaVE Act; an act requiring cam puses to report more crimes of sexual assault. “In a lot of college stu dents, sexuality is an area of conflict that everyone is grappling with,” Hall said. Rather than listing off statistics about sexual vi olence, Hall addressed the conflict and offered strate gies on how to deal with it. “Instead of teaching them about world policies and nonviolence themes, why don’t we talk about what’s happening on your couch Friday night and how you want to handle the conflict you’re dealing with,” Hall said. Hall stressed just how underestimated sex is and how it has become a major issue in our society. “The idea is that this is such a powerful part of life that we need to figure oui a way to deal with it,” Hall said. During the talk. Hall asked for volunteers tc demonstrate a point Jie was talking about. Anja Mayr, a sopho more member of Gam ma Phi Beta, thought the event would be exactly the opposite from what endec up happening. Rather thar SEE SEXUALITY PAGE 2
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