Gardner-Webb University
THE PILOT
August 29, 1997
Issue #1
The Official Campus Newspaper
Boiling Springs, NC
Students overflow dorms, apartments and houses
by Jenny Rogers
staff writer
It wouldn't be fall at Gardner-Webb
without familiar faces, new classes... and
overflowing dorms.
Like previous years, enrollment is high
and dorms and apartments are now filled
to capacity.
According to Doug Searcy, director of
Residence Life, the problem is a good
one to have.
"I think anywhere you go, to any
institution, you'll find overcrowding,"
Searcy said. "It means that people want
to be at Gardner-Webb. It means that
Gardner-Webb is maintaining a positive
reputation and people want to be on
campus. It speaks highly of the school
and academic programs and student
services we're able to provide."
Searcy credited the admissions office
with recruiting a large number of
students.
Overcrowding, though inconvenient, is
normal. "This year is very similar to last
year in needs for on-campus housing,"
Searcy said.
Campus House on Memorial Drive is
being used as temporary overflow space
for six men, said Searcy. "Our preference
would be to get them back into the more
traditional campus community, but our
availability remains to be seen."
Permanent residence at Campus House
is fine with freshman Emmanuel Padilla.
Except for the long walk to campus,
Padilla prefers the house to a dorm. "It's
more homey - I'd rather stay there."
Searcy expects the overcrowding to
gradually diminish as an expected
number of students withdraw. He
encourages students seeking room
changes to come to the Residence Life
office Sept. 8-9 from 1-8 p.m.
"We hope that these growing pains
continue," said Searcy. "It will do
nothing but benefit the quality of student
life for both new and returning students."
Freshmen Carrie Baumgardner, Megan Holladay, Sarah Dearth and Tonya Kampes discuss the
details of dorm life in Baumgardner's room in Decker Hall. Students must learn to adjust to
living on a hall with large groups of people.
World Wide Web creeps across campus
by Karen Brower
editor
"By mid-semester this will be a
different place as far as technology
goes," according to Danny Davis,
assistant vice president for business.
A new fiberoptics system will allow
students, faculty and staff to access the
university's system from rooms, offices
and labs all over campus.
Installafion began this spring and is
nearing completion.
Computer labs in Withrow and Craig
opened Monday, and Webb, Carpenter,
the Macintosh lab and the lab in Dover
Library should open today, Davis said.
Fiber has already been laid to the
Rachel Padier surfs the Internet in the recently upgraded Craig Lab. Both students and
professors have taken advantage of the increased Internet access across campus.
(Photo by Karen Brower)
dorms and apartments, with Royster and
Decker in the final stages. Davis hopes
to get the dorms connected to the system
by mid-to-late September
Davis and other Information Systems
personnel will work with Resident
Advisors to set up instructional dorm
meetings for on-campus students. "We'll
show you how to set (your computer) up
and walk you through it step by step,"
Davis said.
In order to log on to the university
system, users must purchase an ethernet
card for their computers. An ethernet
card acts as a modem by "talking" to the
network.
The main advantage of using an
ethernet card in place of a modem is its
speed. A modem works at one-half
megabit per second. Ethernet cards work
at speeds of 100 megabits per second,
according to Davis - almost 200 times as
fast.
Ethernet cards will be available in the
bookstore at or below a modem's average
cost, Davis said.
Workers put in "tremendous" hours
over the summer to install the fiberoptic
system, according to Davis. "We are
taking quantum leaps daily....It's on the
immediate horizon, but we still need to
be a little patient," he said.
New faculty
join university
by Karen Brower
editor
After studying all the new faces on
campus, you may have noticed that not
all of them belong to students.
Nineteen new faculty and staff mem
bers joined Gardner-Webb this fall.
New staff members include Dr
Carolyn Jackson and Doug and Beth
Searcy.
New faculty members include Dr
Carol Blassingame, Mr Larry Brey, Dr.
Patrick Canupp, Mr Bob Carey, Ms.
Jennifer Carlile, Dr Thomas Coates, Ms.
Amy Cox and Dr Robert Fulbright.
Also new are Dr Charles Moore, Dr
David Parker, Dr. Jackson Rainer, Mr
Michael Schumacher, Ms. Virginia
Sullivan, Dr Mark Templeman, Dr
Charles Tichenor and Dr Timothy
Zehnder
These faculty members represent
nearly all of the university's departments:
Physical Education, Athletic Training,
Communication Studies, English, Math
ematics, Biology, Nursing, Marketing,
Business, Religion, Spanish, Psychology
and Sociology.
In this issue...
Crossroads
Review
page 2
Broad River
Greenway
pages
Football
Preview
page 4