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Pages Friday, April 29, 2005 KePifer CAMPUS NEWS Reaction: students speak Q&A: questions answered from page 1 wants to know the candidate’s quali fications, and if the candidate thinks he or she can have an impact as a whole. Christmas said she wants the new president to pick up where Dr. Campbell has left off and to become one with the university and students. Catherine Shorrock, a junior from ASL major from Texas, said she would like to know the candidate’s morals and standards and how he or she would handle controversial issues. Short'ock wants the candidate to be a good leader who leads by example, she said. Shorrock also said she wants the new president to attend campus events. Megan Raley, a junior elementary edu cation major from Shelby, says she isn’t interested in the presidential search. “I’m not really into stuff like that,” Raley said. Dan Waltz, a junior finance major from Atlanta, Ga., would like to know the candidate’s past experiences, his or her qualifications and his or her goals to im prove the university. Waltz said he believes the voice of the student body has been important in the process. “I feel that as a whole student body we do [have a voice], but not individually,” Waltz said. “I think [our questions] have a huge impact.” Chad Raymond, assistant professor of political science, said he is unsure of the impact of student and faculty opinion. “If there’s only one candidate who’s been invited to campus, it’s obvious that person is the top choice of the search com mittee,” Raymond said. “Therefore, it’s unlikely that an)^thing students or faculty could say would affect that decision.” from page 1 Atlantic Sun to Big South Also, any talk of moving to the Big South conference is years away. Campbell said the school will not pay a $500,000 fee to get out of the Atlantic-Sun Confer ence. He did acknowledge that the Big South would be a better conference for the school because it would save 72 nights of traveling for athletes. But former president Christopher White signed an agreement that the uni versity would not leave the conference while under contract unless it paid the $500,000 penalty. “There is no way the school is going to pay the fee,” Campbell said. Campbell did acknowledge that pos sible negations in the future about leav ing the conference may take place. It will be in at least two or three years before that happens and if the fee is abolished. Science Building The administration recognizes the need for a new science building. “There is no doubt that a new science building is the most needed building on campus,” Campbell said. However, nothing is set in stone. Ac cording to Campbell, the condition of the buildings does not negatively affect ac creditation. Faculty-trustee relationsiiips Campbell believes that the relation ship between faculty, staff and trustees has greatly improved since his arrival three years ago. The chair of the faculty now sits on the senior staff and board of trustee meetings. “There are all kinds of efforts to im prove communication,” Campbell said. Man on the street — Our Pilot reporter hit the streets and asked: How do you feel about the SGA constitution? Christie Barlow Pilot staff The new Student Government Association constitu tion has been the subject of recent controversy. The updated constitution allows elected class presi dents to hand pick their own vice president, and gets rid of the class treasurer and secretary, which now falls into the hands of the vice president The proposal was approved by the student government, but vetoed by SGA President Kelly Robinson. However, the SGA over rode the veto and then went before the board of trustees. The bill was passed, and now Gardner-Webb University has a new constitution. Student reaction to the new constitu- tion varies. BURROUGHS “I trust the president to make the right decision,” said Sara Burroughs, a fi-eshman fi"om Asheville. “If we choose them to run the school then I think that we can trust them to make the right decision.” “It’s probably both a good and bad decision,” said Morgan Tubbs, a senior public relations major fi"om Shelby. “The student body ab'eady elected the president and the senators. But it does take some power away fi"om students.” Many students feel that the change is not good for the constitution. “It’s a bad idea,” said Ricky Hernan dez, a sophomore sports management TUBBS major firom California. “It’s not fair. We choose who we want to be presideiit, we should get to choose who we want to be vice president. If 90 percent of the school doesn’t want the person to be vice-president then they shouldn’t be.” “I want to be able to elect my vice- president the same as I do my president,” said Aaron Wilkinson, a junior religion major fi'om Haines City, Fla. “I do trust them to pick a worthy candidate, but that’s just one less decision I get to help make.” Some students believe the only way to tell if this is a good or bad change to the constitution is to wait and see how things work out in the long run. “You have to give it some time and see how it reacts,” said James McKown, a senior business administration major from Durham. “It might turnout to be a good thing over time. Let it run and see how it plays out.” Student spotlight Not blue on the inside c %■ i ^ pnoto Dy isayiin Bowers Junior Alicia Hinson plays one of the various games offered during the Saturday Centennial events. Hin son Is an art major who hopes to one day draw comic books. Artist got start in elementary school Stephanie Falle Pilot staff On most days Alicia Hinson is nearly vibrating with an energy that keeps her hands moving and her eyes roving, but today she sits serenely in the Fireside Lounge answering ques tions. Her thin frame is envel oped bf the sofa on which she sits on, and her voice, although soft, carries with passion and an unusual in telligence as she speaks about her favorite pastime. “I find meaning in art,” said Hinson, a junior art major fi'om Oakboro. “I ex press myself in art. I can’t imagine doing anything else, really.” According to Hinson, her love for art started at an early age and evolved easily fi'om there. “I started in elemen tary school. The other kids used to bring me pictures of Snoopy and Garfield and ask me to draw them. They’d give me nickels and dimes, and I’d get an extra cookie at lunch.” When asked about what inspires her art, she takes only a moment to reply. “I see things that strike me as beautiful, things that most people wouldn’t see as big, and try to convey those things to the world,” she said. “I want to give that to other people.” Hinson likes to draw, and has interests in print making and graphic design. She laughs at the question about her favorite artists. “I have lots of favorite artists! I love Toulouse-lautrec, Li chtenstein, Hokusai.” She hopes to be a profes sional artist herself one day - perhaps illustrating comic books like those she enjoys reading in bookstores. “In a perfect world, I dream to be an independent comic book illustrator. But I’ll do anything in art, even if it’s as a professor at an university.” What do you do in your spare time? When I’m not drawing? I like video games. DDR! What CD is in your stereo right now? The Grand Theft Auto soimdtrack. Why is your hair blue? I get tired of doing things the same way for too long. It’s not that I want to be different from everyone else, it’s just that I want to do something different firom anything else I’ve ever done before. I Started in elementary school. The other kids used to bring me pictures of Snoopy and Garfield and ask me to draw them. — Alicia Hinson Professor retires after 39 years Stephanie Faile Pilot staff After 39 years teaching at Gardner-Webb University, Joyce Brown has decided it is time to put down the chalk and pick up her favorite books and banjo. “This contact with stu dents is the major loss that I’m going to feel,” said the English professor. “It keeps you feeling young.” Brown attended college not far fi'om her home of Troutman, at Appalachian State University, where she eamed both her bachelor’s in English and French and her master’s in English. After earning her master’s and teaching in Maryland, Brown and her husband, Les, a professor of biology at GWU, felt it was time to return to North Carolina in 1966. Both were hired at GWC, and it wasn’t long until the college tumed into a four-year uni versity and began encourag ing the faculty to obtain their doctorates. Brown went on sabbati cal with her husband to study at the University of Southem Mississippi, and eamed her doctorate in English with her focus on the American litera ture of the 1920s-1930s. She wrote her dissertation on John Steinbeck. As for her interests now, they are much the same as they were when she started her career here at GW. “I still love that period between 1920 and 1930, with Steinbeck and weird poets,” said Brown. Brovyn hopes to return to previous passions now that she will have more free time, although she doesn’t expect to stop teaching entirely. “My banjo has been sit ting and gathering dust,” she said. “I hope to listen to some old music and leam some new ones. And I want to try to write.” Of her many fond memo ries—ranging fi'om the com pletion of the Dover Memo rial Library to the former Earl Scruggs festival—Brown said the moments she’s expe rienced in the classroom are her favorites. “The best things are just the moments in class,” Brown said. “Someone said some thing brilliant about a piece of literature in a way that I’ve never thought of before.” She hopes that students can take a lot away from their time with her “I want them to have the ability to be writers; that abil ity to realize your own self- worth through self-expres- sion, to surprise yourself with your own wisdom.” News in Brief Great-grandson of namesakes dies The great-grandson of the namesakes of the univer sity was killed in a car wreck Sunday. O. Max Gardner IV, 37, was buried during Tuesday afternoon at Sunset Cemetery. According to an article in The Shelby Star, investi gators believe that alcohol and high speed were factors in the single-car wreck, which occurred around 3 a.m. off the Oak Grove Road exit. Chuck Rogers, owner of Roger Pontiac, was driv ing the car. A fiirther investigation is underway and charges are pending. Gardner IV was the son of O. Max Gardner III. Gardner IV worked with his father as a chief legal as sistant and was director of the O. Max Gardner Foun dation. Gardner IV was the great-grandson of O Max Gardner Sr. and Faye Webb Gardner, whom the univer sity is named after. — Jennifer Menster
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