Gardner'Webb University
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No. 2 October 3, 1995
The Official Cainpus Newspaper
Boiling Springs, NC
Federal law hits close to home
by Matt Elliott
Staff writer
On July 26,1990, the Americans with Disabili
ties Act (ADA) was signed into law, and the effects
are still being felt by GWU. The act was designed to
end discrimination against people with disabilities in
public accommodations, employment, transporta
tion, and telecommunications.
Sharon Jennings, director of the Noel program
for the disabled, says, "What makes this law di fferent
from other laws like it is that it makes both public and
private agencies and schools comply with making
accessibility easier for the disabled."
Gardner-Webb has an ADA committee which
Jennings chairs, and consists of several GWU faculty
members, as well as several disabled students.
"We went to every building on campus and
surveyed them to see what changes needed to be
made to make them more accessible to the disabled.
But our campus is fortunate because we already have
wheelchair ramps and other technology in place to
accommodate the disabled," says Jennings.
"One of the best things about this law is that
more faculty members are getting involved in ac
commodating the disabled," commented Jennings at
a recent faculty training session dealing with the
ADA.
Jennings also says, "I think most of the faculty
here at Gardner-Webb already tried to accommodate
disabled students to the best of their ability before
this law was made."
In the past, the Noel program as well as the
faculty made sure disabled students were accommo
dated, but now students must take the initiative to
negotiate with their professors to see their needs are
met.
"Now. hopefully by having disabled students
communicate more with their professors, old stereo
types will be broken down and students will be better
accommodated," says Jennings.
GWU raises alcohol awareness
by Sunny Benton
Staff writer
Gardner-Webb will hold its annual Alcohol
Awareness Week October 23-27 to raise the stu
dents’ awareness of the effects of alcohol through a
series of speakers, forums, and games. Highlighting
the week of activities is speaker Doug Bennett, father
of former Gardner-Webb student Patty Bennett, who
was killed last September near campus in an alcohol-
related automobile accident.
Bennett, who is a minister and educator in West
Chester, Pennsylvania, is scheduled to address the
Gardner-Webb student body in the weekly DIMEN
SIONS program to take place Tuesday, October 24.
His speech will be entitled “Beyond Belief.”
University counselor Abbigail Kalaf, who is
coordinating the week’s events, explained that alco
hol and drug abuse is widespread and even a counse
lor often has difficulty detecting when a student
needs help. “As a counselor, I know how denial can
keep people from seeing the truth about their own
problems or someone else’s, "she said.
Other happenings planned for the week in
clude a recovering alcoholic scheduled to speak on
Thursday, as well as a faculty forum intended to give
the students the opportunity to have frank discus
sions with faculty members on the dangers of alcohol
abuse.
Movies, games, contests, and a fair are among
the other events on the week’s agenda. All students
are encouraged to attend and will be rewarded with
various prizes to be given away in a drawing at the
end of the week. For specific dates and times of
events please see the schedule in this issue of the
PILOT.
See "Schedule" on page 2 for more details
about the week's events
Make sure you note the
events occurring during this
year’s "Bulldog Bonanza”
Students gather on the quad for "See You at the Foie"
Students meet
for "See You at
the Pole”
by Julianne Kuykendall
Staff writer
“I’ll see you at the pole.” “Where?” “At
the flag pole to pray.”
What is “See You at the Pole?" It is an
annual commitment of students nationwide to unify
themselves at their school flagpole to pray.
On Wednesday, Sept.20, students gathered
around the flag pole to pray for God’s wisdom and
leadership to be instilled in the leaders of America
and Gardner-Webb University.
Freshman Kelly Greene says about the event,
“I’ve done ‘See You at the Pole’ in junior high and
high school and Gardner-Webb’s version was unique
to those experiences. It was more unified, matureand
from the heart. It was exciting to see students-ccady
to unify the body.”
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