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SGA Thoughts
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Volume 1 No. 4
The Official Campus Newspaper
March 5, 1998
New buildings proposed
Trustees agree to let University
seeli state bond funding for
classroom and three apartments
Jenny Rogers
editor
The Gardner-Webb Board
of Trustees met Thursday,
Feb. 26 and took significant
action to potentially change
the face of the GWU campus
in the future.
According to a university
spokesman, the trustees voted
to, “give the University per
mission to seek funding from
the state bond comission to
build three more apartment
buildings and a classroom
building.
“When/if funding is
granted, the University will
come back to its trustees and
deceide a plan of action.”
President Christopher
White, speaking to a faculty
meeting on Friday, Feb. 27
said the proposed classroom
building would house the
Education Department.
The total expansion plan
is expected to cost from $10-
12 million. White told the fac
ulty if funding is approved,
construction of the classroom
could begin as early as this
summer. Groundbreaking for
the apartments would then
begin sometime in early fall
with completion on both pro
jects to be scheduled for fall
of 1999
The classroom building is
expected to be a hefty three
stories, complete with plenty
of classroom space and educa
tional facilities.
Three new apartment
buildings are planned to com
plement the apartments which
opened this past Fall.
Dr. White also addressed
the possiblity of the Universi
ty looking at married-student
housing, and other campus
buildings.
White announced the
move of several facilities on
campus to open up much-
needed instructional space.
See Buildings page 2
Students catch a view of solar eclipse
Partial eclipse draws students and com
munity to Williams Observatory
photo by Nathania Hackart
Julie Hensley views the partial eclipse on Thursday, Feb. 26 at Williams
Observatory with special solar shades.
Kime Lawson
contributing writer
Thursday, Feb. 26
seemed like any other day
around lunchtime at Gardner-
Webb.
However, as many people
took time to eat lunch, the
moon seemingly bit into the
sun for a lunchtime delight of
its own.
Students,
members of
the commu
nity
swarmed to
Williams
Observatory
to catch a
glimpse of
the partial
solar eclipse of the sun using
specially modified telescopes
and shades.
A solar eclipse occurs
when the moon passes
between the earth and the sun,
casting a narrow shadow
upon the surface of the earth.
From the perspective of
earthlings, it appears as
though the sun is t^ing cov-
faculty and
From the perspective
of earthlings, it
appears as though
the sun is being
covered by the
moon.
ered by the moon.
Depending on your per
spective on earth, the portion
of the sun that appears to be
covered will vary. In Boiling
Springs, for example, only 20
percent of the sun was
obscured, but in the
Caribbean Islands, the sun
was totally hidden by the
moon during the eclipse.
Williams Observatory
staff and members of Cleve
land County
Astronomical
Society pro
vided a
diverse selec
tion of equip
ment with
which to
safely view
the eclipse.
Gardner-Webb’s
astronomer Tom English
advised students to always
use proper viewing equip
ment like solar shades, filters
or a welding mask when
observing an eclipse. Staring
at the sun for a prolonged
period of time will result in
permanent eye damage.
Foreign
language
department
head retires
after 42 years
Laura Dean
copy editor
After 42 years of teach
ing, Dr. Bob Morgan, head of
the Foreign Language
Department at GWU, is retir
ing effective August 1, 1998.
His years of teaching are
composed of 31 years at
GWU, eight at Wingate and
three at Wadesboro High
School; all at which he taught
Math and French.
Morgan’s educational
background consists of a
B.A. from Lenoir-Rhyne in
Math and French and a
Teaching Certification; a
Masters from the University
of North Carolina (UNC) in
Math; and a Ph.D. from UNC
in French.
His plans for retirement
include travelling, teaching
French culture classes to the
GOAL program’s students
and leading groups for a tour
company.
“I hope I will be remem
bered most as a professor
who was concerned about
what happened to his stu
dents, and one who was inter
ested in building the Univer
sity to be a first-rate Univer
sity,” said Morgan.
Morgan’s retirement
home will not be far from
gWu, so he can easily visit.
“Just because I will have
retired would not mean that I
would want to leave perma
nently,” he said.
“I very much enjoyed my
experience here and I wanted
to retire at a time that things
were going very well,” said
Morgan. “I am very, very
proud of the Foreign Lan
guage Department of the
University... I am pleased
with the coof)erative spirit in
the University’s faculty in
general.”