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“ ITiePlfet ” Friday. April 18. ^003' News Page 3 ice ence ly in The Day: a bi- The iptist with rolyn Imis- on it over 3ccer r life with ; stu- each day ions, • and .boat Ibrad jnors them :e in enior 5 the- Help IS to /ely.” ssion Death ninar >or of )rised aurie :hney jrd Berry group St. 1 stu- loetry s was been : that )f the pub- tures. n the lovel. jWU, Lidies. kidge New program ROTC comes to GWU Meg Elliot Pilot staff The war may seem to be drawing to a close, but the spirit of service is still very much alive at Gardner-Webb. For a number of years, Gil Blackburn, coordinator of special programs, has wanted to bring ROTC, or Reserve Officers Training Corps, to GWU, and it looks like his dream will come true soon. GWU is currently talk ing with the ROTC chapter at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Blackburn is very excited about the prospect of ROTC at GWU, especially con sidering recent events in Iraq. “People need reminding,” said Blackburn. “This is not just a program — it is a way of serving your country.” ROTC began in 1960 to train and com mission troops for the army. Cadets are com missioned as second lieutenants upon gradu ation and guaranteed a job — some placed on active duty. The benefits of the ROTC are tremen dous. There are no obligations for the first two years, and freshmen in the program are paid a $250 stipend for 10 months. This increases $50 per year of service, along with a $600 book allotment per semester. Uniforms are provided, and scholarships are offered. Scholarship recipients get their tuition paid for by the army, and Gardner- Webb will pay room and board. GWU’s ROTC will be part of the UNCC chapter until it is large enough to have its own. For GWU to have its own chapter, five or more students will have to be enrolled in the program. Army instructors will come to GWU to teach ROTC course electives. When GWU has its own chapter, the teachers will reside permanently to teach. College of Arts and Sciences Proposal made Erin Aldridge Pilot staff A College of Arts and Sciences has been proposed at Gardner-Webb University, leaving many members of the student body and faculty question ing why such a large change may take place. Frank Bonner, provost and senior vice-president at GWU, stated that most universities today are comprised of different schools. GWU already has the School of Nursing, School of Divinity, School of Education and School of Business. The rest of the programs offered at GWU fit into a category of arts and sciences, making up the liberal arts disciplines. “The most efficient way to orga nize all of the separate arts and sci ences departments is to have them to come together into one large college, or school, of arts and sciences,” said Bonner. “It is a good-universal struc ture for the whole academic program.” Bonner also stated that a college of arts and sciences would be more logical and efficient for GWU as far as oiganizational structure goes. There will be a dean of the college that all of the department chairs will report to instead of many different departments and chairs being on their own. The proposed college of arts and sciences will consist of the following departments: English, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, Mathematical Sciences, Natural Sciences, Physical Education, Wellness and Sports Studies, Communications, Psychology, Religious Studies and Philosophy and Social Sciences. Bonner and Frank Campbell, interim president of GWU, who both proposed the College of Arts and Sciences, believe that the change would bring an advantage and an asset to GWU. However, there are some that are not so sure that this large change is the right thing for GWU at this time. “There is a lot of hesitation because we don’t know what the col lege will really mean,” said Barry Hambright, professor of political sci ence and history. “I see this as coming a step down from where we are now, because the department chairs will no longer report to someone on senior staff.” David Yelton, professor of history, is also worried about the chain of com mand. “Being the chair for the depart ment of social sciences, I can usually take any problems I have straight to administration,” Yelton said. “But with this proposed change, I will have to report to the dean of the college, who then has to report to the provost, and then the president.” Some professors, although some what hesitant, are willing to consider the change. “I am willing to give it a try,” said June Hobbs, professor of English. “But I am concerned that we won’t have a voice speaking for acad emics in the president’s cabinet.” Students are also concerned about what changes will occur at GWU if the college is approved. “I don’t know if the college is in the best interest of all of the individual departments,” said sophomore Jorgia Rogers. “It seems that they could func tion better if more individual attention was given to them instead of grouping them altogether as a whole.” The final decision of whether or not to create this new college will be the president’s. If the proposed idea passes, it may begin sometime in the coming academic year. War 101 — Part II Students remember the Gulf War Emily Killian Pilot copy editor Twelve years ago, Amanda Pippin sat in her fourth grade homeroom class eating cookies and watching scenes from the Persian Gulf War on television. Like many children at the time. Pippin did not understand the reasons for war. “To a fourth grader, it seemed to be about oil,” said Pippin, now a senior. She said that her views of the war were because of her young age. Most students can say they experi enced the first Gulf War in a similar way. The majority of Gardner-Webb stu dents were in elementary school during the war and do not have a clear idea of what the Gulf War was about. Senior Jessica Philbeck said she did not have any understanding of the war. “1 didn’t understand the causes or even why we were at war,” said Philbeck. Gas prices, T-shirt slogans, controver sies over weapons, tanks and the like all seemed to run together for junior Jerry Wease, who also felt that he did not understand what the war was really about. Though memories of the Gulf War are a blur for these GW students, they are able to more clearly process the events of the current war. Pippin isn’t sitting in homeroom eat ing cookies anymore. Now she under stands the world around her. And although Philbeck didn’t follow the Gulf War too closely, she is keeping up with Operation Iraqi Freedom. *part 3 of War 101 will be in the next issue of the Pilot WORLD IN BRIEF Iraq to be divided WASHINGTON, April 16, 2003 — Iraq is likely to be divided into two or three mili tary regions, with U.S. Marines responsible for security in one, most likely the north, and the U.S. Army in the south and in and around Baghdad, a U.S. military official said Wednesday. Gen. Tommy Franks will likely soon set up a headquar ters in Iraq, although not neces sarily in Baghdad. He has been running the war from nearby Qatar. On Tuesday, the U.S. Army accepted the surrender of the Iraqi 12th Armor Brigade, a regular unit, in Al-Ramadi. It had been defending the main road that connected Jordan to Baghdad, said Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, a Central Command spokesman in Qatar Wednesday. — United Press International New virus caused SARS WASHINGTON, April 16, 2003 — World Health Organization officials said Wednesday they now are cer tain a new virus never before seen in humans is the cause of the global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. To date, SARS has infected 3,293 people worldwide and killed 159. Health officials have sus pected this new virus was the cause of SARS for weeks because it had been detected in several ill patients, but it had not conclusively been shown to cause the symptoms of the ill ness. To confirm whether the new virus, which is being called SARS virus, was indeed the cause of the illness, scien tists in the Netherlands infected monkeys with the pathogen. They found the virus caused similar symptoms — cough, fever, breathing difficulty — in the monkeys that has been seen in humans with SARS, provid ing strong scientific evidence the pathogen is the causative agent. — United Press national
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