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Volume 5 No. 6
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Read by GWU students all over Boiling Springs
Senior campaign aims for scholarship
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LaDonna Beeker
Pilot staff
Have you ever wondered how you can
get your name on one of those bricks in
front of the DCC? You no longer have
to wonder.
You can get your name on one of
the bricks and help a future Gardner-
Webb student at the same
time.
Each year a group of
seniors from the Senior
Campaign get together to
raise money for a scholar
ship fund for needy incom
ing freshmen, chosen by the
financial planning office, to
attend Gardner-Webb. The
amount needed to fulfill the
scholarship is $25,000.
To reach this goal, the
seniors work together at dif
ferent fundraisers, such as a
phone-a-thon. They call
graduating seniors and
alumni, trying to get them to pledge
money for a personalized brick to be
placed in front of the Dover Campus
Center.
The current seniors and GOAL
seniors must pledge $150, while alumni
donors pay $500 to have their personal
ized brick placed in front of the DCC.
The gift of $150 by graduating
seniors can be paid over a three-year
period, with payments of $4 per month.
“I know that $150, or $4 a month
for three years, can seem like a lot of
money for the seniors to give right now
with graduation dues, but it is allowing
them to give someone else the chance to
come and experience what they did at
Gardner-Webb,” said Francine Schau,
head of the Senior Campaign.
The brick can
say anything the stu
dent or alumnus
wants. For example,
it can have carved on
it the student’s name
and graduation year,
the name of a
deceased loved one
in their remember-
ance or the name of
someone the donor
wants to honor.
The Senior
, , „ Campaign was estab-
Josh Benedict iished about five
years ago. The orga-
The scholarship
fund creates a
feeling of unity
among the
students and
allows them to
give to the
school”
nization encourages all seniors to join.
They meet twice a month to discuss
new ideas about raising money for the
scholarship and how they can get other
seniors involved. They have dinner pre
pared for the members as well as any
seniors who plan on pledging.
The campaign has not yet been able
to raise the full $25,000. The money that
is raised, however, goes directly to
Photo by Joy Maiinelll
Student Alumni Council members Erin Boyd, Christina Tyler and Lauren Holdway call graduating
seniors requesting donations for the Senior Campaign Scholarship Fund Francine Shau, director of
Student Alumni Council and head of the Senior Campaign helps out.
another scholarship. When a senior
class reaches the goal amount, the
scholarship will be named after the
class.
“This is an important contribution
because the scholarship fund creates a
feeling of unity among the students and
allows them to give to the school,” said
senior Josh Benedict, president of the
Senior Campaign.
“This organization is a part of the
Gardner-Webb legacy,” Schau said.
“I appreciate everything Gardner-
Webb has done for me, and I want the
opportunity to give someone else the
chance too,” said Benedict. “It is not
only a brick for ourselves, but a future
for a prospective student.”
French week to offer taste of cuisine, culture
French Week
11-7
Face painting in*the
Caf during lunch
11-8
French cuisine in the
Caf for lunch
11-9
Movie “French Kiss”
Blanton Auditorium
9 p.m.
11-12
“Tour de Quad”
3-legged race
Quad, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
11-13
Game Petanuk
Behind DCC, 1 p.m.
Shane Kohns
Pilot co-editor
We are surrounded by dif
ferent cultures and ideas. In
class, in the residence halls and
around campus, students of dif
ferent races and nationalities
create a unique learning envi
ronment. But two groups on
campus, the French honor soci
ety, Pi Delta Phi, and the
French Club, are combining to
do more than just learn from
other students. They are bring
ing some French culture to
Gardner-Webb.
The two groups are jointly
sponsoring French Week,
which will run from
Wednesday, Nov. 7 through
Tuesday, Nov. 13. Activities for
the week include French food
in the Caf, French games, a
three-legged “Tour de Quad”
race and daily prizes for nam
ing a famous French person.
Senior Karen Burnette,
president of Pi Delta Phi, said
that the activities of French
Week should provide students
with a much-needed break
from studying. “I think it’s fun
to experiment with French cul
ture and attitudes,” she said.
“It’s a release from the bore
dom, and makes learning fun.”
With influences in the lan
guage, cuisine, politics and
architecture, French, as a lan
guage and a culture, has left an
indelible impression on
America. According to senior
Mike McCauley, secretary of Pi
Delta Phi, it is this fact that
makes studying French a study
of ourselves. Unfortunately, he
says, few people recognize the
contributions of French to
modem culture.
“I think French is underes
timated in society,” he said. “It
is an integral part of our culture
and has an important role in
society.”
Raising awareness of other
cultures, not just French, and
having fun are two of the pur
poses of French Week, said
junior Bryan Morgan, president
of the French Club.
“It helps you be aware of
other cultures and appreciate
your own culture more. The
goal is to promote French cul
ture,” he said, “but basically it’s
just for fun.”
Jaimee Bothwell, a junior
French minor, who grew up as
a missionary kid in Indonesia,
enjoys studying French culture
for similar reasons. “It gives
you an idea of other cultures,”
she said. “It’s good to respect
other cultures and realize that
everything’s not American.”
Bothwell encouraged other stu
dents to take advantage of the
activities during French Week.
“Who knows,” she said, “you
might learn something.”
“Besides,” said McCauley,
“it’s November. What else are
going to do; study?”