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Help within REACH
Students need only REACH
out for more ways to get involved
on campus and in the community,
and to have a resume meaty with
leadership experience.
REACH is a new organization
on campus whose name stands for
“Ready to Equip, Assist, Connect
and to give Hope.”
“It’s a group of leaders that are
trying to connect the community
with the Gardner-Webb family,”
says advisor Sandy Hammett.
They’re looking out to help
those who are less fortunate, as
well as to make it easier to let stu
dents know what volunteer oppor
tunities are out in the community.
REACH hosts two events a
year; each is designed to help
a separate organization. This
spring’s main event is the Jimmy
Wayne concert, which will sup
port the Kidney Foundation.
See HELP, page 2
Opinion
SGA actions cloud
election results
As a journalist interested in
providing the student government
every opportunity to be account
able and open with the students
they represent, I asked SGA Presi
dent Anya Huneycutt and Karissa
Weir, director of student activities
and leadership development, for
their permission to observe the
elections, from start to finish.
I inspected each ballot box to
ensure that it was empty before the
election, 1 interviewed candidates,
and I observed SGA members as
they waited with the student body
for voting to begin.
I and other Pilot representa
tives observed voting and ballot
counting procedures, and, as a
journalist, I am satisfied that the
elections on March 7, which re
sulted in a run-off between Chris
toph Brown and Brandon Beach,
were fair.
At the end of the day, SGA
members told the Pilot that a
run-off election would take place
March 21, so plans were made for
Pilot representatives to cover it
too.
See SGA, page 2
Weekend
Weather
photo by Kevin Banks
SGA members count ballots during the runoff election between Brandon Beach and Christoph Brown.
Brown wins runoff election
Could leave top post in December,
depending on student teaching plans
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Amanda Wood
Pilot Editor-in-chief
Christoph Brown, who was elected Gard
ner-Webb University’s student body president
Tuesday, may complete his studies in Decem
ber, leaving SGA’s top leadership position
open for the spring semester of 2007.
“I still haven’t made the decision to student
teach in the spring,” Brown said. “To be hon
est, it’s not likely. Most likely I will be doing
my student teaching in the fall, but that’s not
100 percent yet. I felt confident enough about
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my abilities to run the SGA without detracting
from student teaching or vice versa.”
According to Brown, the SGA constitution
mandates that Vice President-elect Matt Wal
ters would be named president if Brown de
cides to leave in December.
However, according to Karissa Weir, direc
tor of student activities and leadership devel
opment, the decision about who would take
over as president is not set in stone.
“That would be something for the Student
Government Association to figure out,” said
Weir. “I don’t have a say in that. That needs to
be brought before them so they can deal with
that among the students and elected officials.”
Brown is hopeful that he will be able to
make a difference while he is in office, wheth
er that time is one or two semesters.
“I just look forward to working next year,”
he said. “I think we can make a lot of positive
changes. Students’ lives are stressful enough
between classes and extracurricular activities
and jobs. You name it and students have to deal
with it. What I see SGA’s main job as being is
to try to make their lives easier.”
Brown plans to continue working on the
one-card system, as well as addressing student
complaints about the ginkgo trees on campus.
One-card system not set in stone, awaits approvai
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Christie Barlow
Pilot managing Editor
Gardner-Webb University
doesn’t share one mind about the
proposed one-card system. Con
troversy has erupted on campus
about the possible scope of the
one-card system.
The new system would pro
vide GWU students the ability to
use their identification card for
multiple purposes on campus and
perhaps around Boiling Springs.
Optimally, students could use
their ID as a credit card by adding
money to the card for use in the
campus store, to do laundry, in the
library and at local businesses.
“We’re at the point where
we’ve made the proposal and
we’re waiting on the senior staff
for approval,” said Christof
Brown, SGA president-elect from
Greenville, S.C. “Once they give
us the go ahead we will work hand
in hand with them to get the whole
system put in at once, rather than
piece by piece.”
According to Brandon Beach,
the one-card system has flaws in
its design. Beach proposed the
original idea for the one-eard sys
tem, though on a much smaller
scale.
“The original idea was just ad
ditions to meal plans using your
ID card at Hardee’s and Taco
Bell,” said Beach. “If it’s $4.75 to
eat in the cafeteria for breakfast,
then you should be able to use that
amount at KFC or Subway,”
Beach claims that the introduc
tion of this system will cost rough
ly half a million dollars to imple
ment and that the system would
not go into effect until around
2007 or 2008, if it’s approved.
Brown has obtained estimates
on how much the system would
cost to implement and has stated
that the system will indeed be
“pretty pricey.”
However, he believes that the
system would, in the long run, pay
for itself
“It (the card) has the flex dol
lar account so students would be
able to put money on it. So, all that
extra money would most likely be
spent on campus,” said Brown.
“Initially we will have to pay for
the system but it will eventually
give back the money put into it.”
Beach has been in contact with
managers of Hardee’s and KFC
and claims that they haven’t heard
anything about the new system,
and that they would not support
it.
“It would cost the restaurants
at least $10,000 to put in the scan
ning system for the one card,” said
Beach. “It’s going to cost a whole
lot of money to implement this
system, tuition would go up and
we are going to lose money.”
According to Brown, the hesita
tion to contact the local businesses
comes at the request of the senior
staff. When the plan is approved,
the proposal to the area businesses
will come from the company that
GWU will be working with.
See One-Card page 3
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SGA 101: Officers must always stay on active duty
ferent benefits that are associated with each Accordins to Gardner-Webb Universit
Rebecca Clarck
Pilot Staff
Although most students are aware of the
Student Government Association,, the specif
ic duties of each officer might not be as well
known.
The SGA has four executive officers, with
each position carrying its own responsibilities.
President Anya Huneycutt outlined what is
expected of the executive officers and the dif-
position.
As president, Hunneycutt said that she was
responsible for being a liaison between the stu
dent body and the administration. The presi
dent is expected to attend various committee
meetings and present that information to the
Senate to discuss.
“The president explores new things that
can be done,” Huneycutt said.
According to Gardner-Webb University’s
SGA Constitution, the president is also ex
pected to preside over meetings, report activi
ties and decisions carried out by the executive
council to the Student Senate, represent SGA
at functions and appoint an elections commit
tee, among other things.
See Requirements page 3