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Page A2 Wednesday, September 26, 2007 The Pilot News They’re not called Mntramurals’ anymore By Jacob Conley Pilot sports editor “Intramurals” at Gardner-Webb Univer sity is now called “campus recreation,” and along with the new name comes new op portunities for students. “We just wanted to streamline our pro gram with other universities,” said Brian Arnold, assistant director of student activi ties. “This will also help if students ever go to other campuses to compete.” The changes can be divided into two categories; Those made to enhance safety and those designed to maximize the experi ence of playing sports. The biggest changes made to ensure stu dents’ security is the policy concerning new ID cards. “Students must have a new card or they will be asked to leave,” said Arnold. “Stu dents can still bring a guest, if they sign in, but this year we will enforce the 16-and- over rule, which means that a guest must be at least 16 to use the workout equipment.” Another change deals with modesty. According to the campus recreation hand book, T-shirts or tank tops must be worn at all times. “This means no more shirts-and-skins games,” said Arnold. Along with changes made to protect the safety of students, there are also a few changes made to enhance play. The major change is the sportsmanship rating. This is determined by game officials based on the sportsmanship of the individ ual teams. “A team must have an average of a C rating for the season to compete in the play offs,” said Arnold. “It doesn’t matter if a team goes undefeated during the season. If it does not have a high enough rating, it will not qualify for the postseason.” Another change deals with forfeits. For major sports like football, basketball or soc cer a team must pay a maximum of $20 in a forfeit deposit. At the end of the season the team will receive its money if no games have been forfeited. The amount will de crease by $5 for each game not played. “I understand that people might not like this change,” said Arnold. “But when a team forfeits it also hurts the other team, because those students are here and they don’t have a game to play.” If a team knows that a forfeit is possible 24 hours in advance of its game it may ask for a default and for the game to be resched uled. “I can’t promise that the game will be rescheduled but I will try my best,” said Ar nold. If students have any questions about these or the other new policies in campus recreation, they can visit the student activi ties Web site where a complete list of the changes are available via an online hand book. Student Government Association News: Nearly time to move ’em out: More bike racks on way By Matt Walters SGA president I hope everyone has had an amazing summer and is off to a successfiil start this semester. This summer I was on campus do ing the SGA internship, a unique opportuni ty that Gardner-Webb offers the SGA presi dent. I greatly appreciated the opportunity to plan and prepare for the year, although by summer’s end I was anxious for you guys to get back and for classes to start. That’s a feeling I am sure most of you did not share with me. Before I tell you what SGA has been up to, I want to express my concern and sympathy for the pain that members of our university family seem to be experiencing. I know several faculty members, staff and students who have been bombarded by trag edy and hardship. I hope and pray that we, as a student body, would be sensitive to the needs of our friends around us. I pray that God would comfort those who are struggling, and sus tain them with peace and strength. The main issues and concerns that the SGA is addressing pertain to bike rack availability, late-night study space and the new grill downstairs in the Dover Campus Center. Residence Education has aimounced that it will begin enforcing the standing policies that prevent students from keeping bikes inside their rooms, in their halls and on porches at the apartments. They have as sured us, though, that these rules will not be enforced until we provide students with appropriate covered bike racks outside the residence halls and apartments. It is my understanding that, from now on, the Fireside Lounge is to be used as a study area after 11 p.m. Students can study in groups, but please be respectftil to those around you who are also trying to study. Finally, I hope that students are excited about the new downstairs area in the DCC. From what I can tell, students seem to be relatively pleased with the space, but not so pleased with the new policies. I assure you that I am in conversation with the adminis tration about this issue, and it being viewed as a work in progress. Please continue to be open and honest with me about your concerns. If I can do one thing this year, it will be to develop more effective lines of communication be tween the university and its students. I especially hope that students can come to SGA and feel like their concerns are be ing dealt with efficiently and responsibly. As always, I invite and encourage you to at tend any of our meetings. The times and lo cations will be posted on the bulletin board outside the cafeteria. mb w0703@gardner-webb. edu Family Weekend schedule of events Friday * Applause reception for seniors: 5-5:45 p.m., Courtyard Patio, LYCC * Senior Pinning Banquet and Ceremony: 5:45 - 7:45 p.m., Lindsay Court, LYCC. Cost is $13 for an adult and $7 for a child under the age of 12. Pre-registration required. * Staff/Faculty Variety Show: 8-9:30 p.m., Dover Theater. Free Saturday * Pre-game picnic: 4 - 4:45 p.m.. Lake Hollifield (rain location: cafeteria). Cost is $9 for an adult and $5 for children under 12. Pre-registration required. GWU students with meal plans will not be charged, but must have ID. The Bull dog will pose for pictures for $5 per 4x6 print. * Football game vs. Austin Peay: 6 p.m., Spangler Memorial Stadium. Cost: $10 for an adult and $5 for children K-12. Preschoolers are FREE. GWU students are FREE with ID card. Sunday * Student-led worship service: 10-11 a.m., Dover Chapel. * Lunch buffet: 11:30-1 p.m. in the cafeteria. Cost: $5.75 a person; children under 6 and GWU students with meal plans eat FREE. Family Continued from page 1 lunch buffet from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the cafeteria.. Anthony and Katie Fowler, the alum ni coordinators, want to thank all of their students who have worked so hard for this weekend to be possible. They also would like to thank the catering department, the Student Alumni Council and all others that helped make this weekend great. El Acapulco offers tasty fare for a fair price By Ashley Chatham Special to The Pilot The aroma of Mexican cuisine floats in the air on North Main Street near the John Deere shop in Boiling Springs, thanks to the re cently opened El Acapulco restaurant. This small, fiiendly res taurant is owned and man aged by Edgar Gissoso, who has created an extensive menu that is sure to please everyone. Inside the restaurant, bright yellow walls catch the eye and customers are greeted at the front counter with a shelf displaying His panic and Western decora tions. The restaurant consists of a large dining area that can accommodate large or small parties. Booths line the walls and tables sit in the center of the room. Colorful, Mexican- themed paintings grace each wall while plants and dried fruit decorate the comers. A television, visible from any table or booth in the room, provides enter tainment. Customers can change the channel when desired. Spanish music plays qui etly over the sound system and can be heard throughout the dining area. The music will be sure to whet the ap petite for the range of Mexi can dishes available. Menu categories include appetizers, quesadillas, sal ads, specialties and fajitas, as well as seafood and veg etarian choices. Customers can also order soups, sides, a la carte, combination plat ters and 22 different lunch specials. Meats include pork, chicken, steak and beef The extensive menu also in cludes a kids menu that has Mexican food and burgers, chicken fingers and fries. The prices are low for the quantity of food that is delivered to the table. Customers are imme diately brought chips and salsa after being seated, and we found the service to be prompt. To begin our meal, we ordered the cheese dip. The moderate portion was served hot and was even tastier when we added salsa. La Bandera ($7.95) was a favorite. It consists of one chicken enchilada with green sauce, one spinach en chilada with cheese sauce, and one beef enchilada with red sauce. It is served with rice and beans. The spinach enchilada was very similar to spinach dip, but in a tortilla. How ever, the chicken enchilada was the most tasteful of all three, combining peppers, onions, chicken and cheese. Another favorite spe cial was the Fajita Nachos ($7.95), which are nachos with grilled chicken or beef, bell peppers, tomato, onion, cheese dip, guacamole salad and pico de gallo. This hearty portion of nachos is large enough for two people to share. To top off our meal we ordered the lunch special #20 ($4.25), which is one chimichanga with a choice of rice or beans. The chicken chimichan ga was filled with cheese, peppers and onions. The rice was also filled with fla vor and had the appearance of fiied rice. Desserts came next. This was the hardest deci sion, with the choices be ing sopapilla, flan, fried ice cream, fried banana or an apple chimichanga. All of the deserts are under $3, but we chose the fried ice cream ($2.95) and the apple chimi changa ($2.95). The large helping of fried ice cream came in a tortilla bowl with Neapolitan ice cream topped with crunchy flakes, honey, cinnamon, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and a cherry. Athletes don’t talk trash, they pick It up The apple chimichanga was a different, yet delight- fial, desert. The apples were fiied in a tortilla shell and topped with Neapolitan ice cream, honey, cirmamon, whipped cream, chocolate syrup and cherries. The restaurant serves Coca-Cola products and has wonderful sweet tea. Customers seemed very satisfied with their meals and content with the atmo sphere. The waiters and wait resses are Hispanic and speak fluent English. They were all very polite and Library Corner Photo by Jessica Jones checked on their customers frequently. As people were enjoying their food, Gissoso walked around to each table and made sure the customers were taken care of El Acapulco T-shirts are available for purchase at the front counter for $5. Gissoso offers 15% off on Monday nights to Gard- ner-Webb students. On Wednesday nights, students are allowed to buy one en- free and get the second for half price. A Gardner-Webb University ID is necessary for all discounts. By Rebecca Clark Pilot editor Gardner-Webb Univer sity’s student-athletes are doing more than playing sports this month. As part of a plan to keep North Carolina roads clean, a litter sweep is planned throughout September, and various teams contribute to the effort. Normally, the governor of North Carolina will send information to the town an nouncing a two-week pe riod in the spring and fall that is designated as a litter sweep, Zach Trogdon, town manager, said in an e-mail statement. “We make supplies avail able (bags, gloves, vests) to organizations during that time so they can participate in picking up litter.” Trogdon said the stu dents generally do the major roads in an out of town. “They do a terrific job on them,” he said. Registrar Lou Anne Scates is part of the Appear ance Committee of Boiling Springs, agrees. “On behalf of the Ap pearance Committee, we couldn’t do but three or four streets if it wasn’t for the teams,” Scates said. “I don’t think some folks realize what the teams do. “The Appearance Com mittee asks different service groups on campus and in the community to do what we call a litter sweep,” Scates said. Scates said they usually have a fremendous turnout from the different teams. In the ipast, the swim, golf, football, soccer, volleyball and basketball teams have all participated. “It makes a better work ing relationship between the town and university,” Scates said. Tee Burton, the golf team coach, said they are participating this year and have been doing so for sev eral years. “This will be at least our fourth year,” Burton said He said they contact Lou Anne Scates and are then assigned a road and given an area to complete. Since the sweep can be done at the team’s conve nience, such as a day off from practice. Burton said it is fairly easy to get people to help. Usually the entire team, about 20 students, pitches in. “It makes things easier, the more you have,” Burton said. Who’s new in the Library? In August, Natalie Edwards started work in the new position of instruction librarian. She shares library presentation responsibilities with other library faculty, with an emphasis on delivery to students at our off-campus sites. Natalie completed her Master’s in Li brary Science at UNC-Greensboro in May. She is from Marshville, and her previous experiences include serving as counselor and coordinator for the Free Enterprise Leadership Conference at the Jesse Helms Center, and volunteering at a therapeutic horseback riding facility. Her office is on the third floor of Do ver Library, and she would be happy to talk with you. \\%at happened to all the videos? We’ve integrated them into the main collectionl For a number of years most of the non print material (videotapes, DVDs, CD- Roms, computer discs, and CDs) were on bookshelves and spinner units at the end of the reference collection on the main (sec ond) floor. We were faced with the problem of an expanding reference collection and an expanding non-print collection, and little room left to shelve them. We didn’t want to add stacks on the main floor at the expense of study tables and car rels, so this summer all the media except Cds were moved into the main collection. This has the added advantage of keeping all books, videos, floppies and CD-Roms on a topic together. Because the compact discs are nearly all classical or sacred music we have kept that collection in a spinner unit on the main floor, where we can more easily assist pa trons with them. Have you used the Dover Library group study room? Did you know that the library has one? The children’s literature/curriculum lab area near the main entrance has been glassed in to serve as a group study room. This allows you to study and work on proj ects together at a moderate voice level. Need a computer for your group work? You can bring your wireless laptop, or check out one of ours (for in-library use) at the Circulation desk. FYI, children’s literature and curriculum lab materials are still available there. «
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