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Wednesday September 16,1998
The Official Campus Newspaper
Volume 2 No. 1
GWU housing feels the squeeze
Carla Catoe
Pilot staff
Fifty-two students remain
witiiout traditional residence
hall housing in the fourth week
of the 1998-1999 school year.
“We have a maximum of
980 traditional residence hall
spaces of which 836 spaces are
residence halls
and 144 are
apartment
rooms. This
year we have
1,012 students
registered as
on-campus,”
Doug Searcy,
Director of
Residence
Life, said.
When Searcy noticed the
obvious shortage of male resi
dence halls, he called several
upper-class males to agree to
move to Juniper Terrace
Apartments for the same cost
as an on-campus residence hall
for the 1998-1999 school year.
Matt Elliott, Student
Entertainment chair, is one of
the 20 upper-class males who
agreed to live two miles off
campus in the Juniper Terrace
Apartments.
“There are two people in
each room and four people in
each apartment. The school
provides the same bedroom
furniture as a dorm. They also
give us a kitchen table and
chairs and a full-size refrigera
tor. We basically
furnish every-
7 kind of feel
alienated from
campus. Its like
being a com
muter but not. “
Elliott said.
Besides
having to find
his own way to
wash his
clothes, there
are other draw
backs to off-
campus apart-
ment-living.
“We just got cable last
week and we still don’t have a
long distance calling plan.
That’s because we’re not pay
ing the communications fee
and we have to get our own
phone plan. Other than that,
I’ve started to feel disconnect
ed from the campus because
Fm basically only there for
-
Photo by Carla Catoe
Freshman Jason Shrader (top) and his roomate. Baity Smith have found “dorm” life at Gardner-Webh to be interesting.
The two are currently housed at the International House on campus.
classes.
People who live here don’t
know about a lot of stuff that
goes on at campus because we
don’t have signs hanging on
our doors,” Elliott said.
Freshman Scott Henson,
Faculty additions enhance
Gardner-Webb academic life
Brittany Jarvis
Pilot staff
Gardner-Webb has always boasted a refined
and stately faculty worthy of attention and
praise. This year nine new educators were hired
to enhance the learning experience even more.
Several of the new faculty either attended
school abroad or served in a position of leader
ship there, including Dr. Kent Blevins who
taught in The Czech Republic and Switzerland,
and is now associate professor in the religion
department. Dr. John W. Campbell was a mis
sionary in East Africa and choral director at sev
eral colleges, but is now associate professor in
the School of Divinity. Dr. Larissa Bulysheva
was a scientific researcher for 15 years in Russia
before becoming an assistant professor of com
puter science here at Gardner-Webb. Dr.
Nathalie Davaut is a new assistant professor of
French after studying at the Sorbonne in France
and earning the graduate student teaching award
from the University of Missouri.
The business and education departments
each received two new professors all with
impressive backgrounds. Dr. Kimberly Hartman
studied and conducted research at Florida State
University before teaching at the universities of
Arkansas and Nevada. She is joining the educa
tion department along with Dr. Donna Simmons
who once held the position of chair of the
Department of Education at Belmont Abbey
College.
Besides being a business instructor, Mr.
Robert Jurek is also senior vice-president and
chief financial officer for the Carolina State
Bank. He received advanced training from the
University of Oklahoma and Indiana University.
Dr. Philip Swicegood is also joining the busi
ness department as well as serving as the asso
ciate b£^ examiner for the U.S. Department of
the Treasury.
The communication studies program added
Mr. Christopher Parsons who will be an instruc
tor and technical advisor for Dover Theatre. He
has 29 plays, 16 comedies, 14 musical revues,
and 7 touring productions to his credit.
These nine new faculty members join the
list of three other faculty members that joined
See GWU Faculty page 2
who stays in Earl Owensby
Studios about three miles off
campus, agrees with Elliott.
“I kind of feel alienated
from campus. It’s like being a
commuter but not. I’m trying
to have a Christ-like attitude
about it. I’m trying to be con
tent but sometimes I get frus
trated about it. I’m just disap
pointed in the school,” Henson
said.
Students who reside in4he
See Fall Housing page 2
Hamrick Hall remodeled
Technology Savvy
Nicshan Floyd
Pilot staff
With the help of about
$4.5 million, the oldest build
ing on campus, Hamrick Hall,
has been renovated and is the
most technological advanced
building at Gardner-Webb
campus, according to President
Christopher White.
Hamrick Hall, is the first
state-of-the-art, multimedia
building constructed on the
GWU campus. Hamrick Hall
boasts four multimedia class
rooms which contain; Hitachi
projection systems, VCR,
DVD, and CD Rom drives,
several 200-335 MHZ Pentium
2 computers and a hand held
camera that is used to project
images on the projection
screen, according to Wayne
Johnson, Assistant Vice
President of Campus
Technology. For efficiency,
each of the apparatuses in the
multimedia classrooms can be
controlled by a Cresron wire
less remote control. To
increase functionality, each
room comes equipped with
auxiliary jacks, which allow
individuals to bring in their
own personal laptops, so that
they can conduct presentations
without fear of losing impor
tant data.. In addition to this
technology, Hamrick Hall is
connected to GWU’s “A.T.M.
back bone,” said Johnson.
With the help of these mul
timedia classrooms, professors
can inculcate new inventive
ways to instruct their students.
Professors can show cable-
television programs during
class, surf the internet, or show
multimedia presentations via
computer on a large projection
See Remodeled page 2