THE SEAHAWK/APRIL 26, 2DD1
April 26, 2DD1
Wagoner Meals: steals or deals ?
Chrissy Perez
Sorority tournament this
weekend
Alpha Phi soraity will hold its fifth annual
benefit golf tournament at 8:30 a.m. April 28 at
Beau Rivage Resat and Golf Club. Fbur-pCTSon
teams will compete in a captain’s choice fomiaL
The cost is $25 per person. For more informa
tion, contact Megan O’Connell at 392-3005.
Azalea Exhibit reopens
“Acioss the Dye Ditch; Remembering the
Delgado-Spoffond Mill Hill” was displayed dur
ing the Azalea Festival at 5051 New Centre Drive.
The exhibit will reopen in Randall Ubrary May
19. Graduate students firom UNCW’s public his
tory program served as curators for the exhibit,
which includes artifacts, photografAis and docu
ments from private collections.
Biology professor
receives teaching award
Donald F. Kapraun, professor of biological
sciences, received the UNC Board of Governors
Award for Teaching Excellence during a luncheon
April 12. The award is presented to a faculty
member firom each UNC system campus. Recipi
ents receive a commemorative bronze medallion
and a $7,500 cash prize. Kapraun, a member of
UNCW’s Biological Sciences Department since
1971, said he finds himself still iawn to teach
introductory and interdisciplinary courses after
more than three decades in the classroom. Stu
dents have described him as a concerned and ac
cessible teacher who “cared and taught, not just
spat out infomiation.”
Surfing group accepting
scholarship applications
The Wrightsville Beach Longboard Associa
tion is accepting applications for its coUege schol
arship program. Scholarships will be awarded to
one male or Mie female surfer. Applicants must
be high school seniors or college freshmen who
scored 1000 on the SAT or the equivalent on the
ACT and have a minimum grade point average
of 3.0. For more information, contact David Wil
son, WBLApi«sident,al 2564761 orBillCuny,
schctorship committee chair, at 256-8604. June 1
is the deadline to submit applications.
Many students want to know the fate of their
leftover Wagoner meals. Some find it hard to con
sume the given amount of meals a week, which
raises the question of whwe the unused meals go.
The coordinatos of the Wagoner meal plans
consider each type of student when designing the
plans. The perfect meal plan is nonexistent, for
there is the student who always has leftover meals
and there is the student who utilizes every meal.
“I find it nearly impossible to use all my Wag
oner meals,” fieshman Constance Cumbee said.
“Last semester I had over 70 meals left.”
On the opposite end of the scale, ftieshman
Alison Diviney finds it easy to use all of her meals.
‘The best way to use all your meals is to go on the
weekends,” she said.
It is difficult to please eveiy student’s meal
needs. DickFauson,directorof Auxiliary Servkxs,
explained the solution to the Wagoner meal di
lemma
“In each one of our plans we have what is
known as a ‘participation rate,' and the participa
tion rate is the rate that students use their meals in
comparison to the number of meals that are avail
able,” he said.
The participation rate can be compared to a
where there are two extremes and the
price falls in the middle. According to
Fauson, in a meal plan consisting of 100
meals, tlie student would pay for about 70
meals.
“We base our price for the new year
when we lode at the participation rates in
the plans, and we try and price our meals
so it is competitive with where the partici
pation is,” Fauson said. “So you are not
tiuly paying for lOOpercentofyourmeals.”
Director of Dining Services Tom
Williamson said about 28 percent of meals
go unused.
Prices are set based on the assumptioi
that some students will use all their meals
and other students will (xilyuse part of their
meals. According to Fauson, if the meals
were full price, students would end up pay
ing a lot more for meal plans. Students who
use all their meals are receiving the great
est value for their money, while those who
use less are losing value.
“Those two extremes all averaged to
gether are what pves us our participation BambTck par-
„ no, k»,. taking of Wagoner Hall's the salad bar.
They arc balanced out between Wagoner
regulars and strangers. Wdliamson said even food is put to good use. The Good Shepherd House
though Wagoner cannot donate unused meals to comes every day to pick up the leftover food to
another source, at the end of each day leftover feed people at their soup kitchen.
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RE.A.C.E. tries to increase campus activism
KATIE Blanchard
ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
people Educating with an Active Commitment
to EquaUty (P.E. A.C.E) began as an aganization
dedicated to helping people prranote change m
the global environment by actively voicmg their
cminions.
“P.E.A.C.E. provides a forum that allows
people to express individual interests and recog
nize commonaUties ttiat we have that can be used
to move fotward,” P£.A.C£. coordinator MoUy
Ramey said.
Ramey and Adriai hapei serve as coordma-
toRforP.EA.CE. There is no president. Ttie
group is set up as an open fomm with no srt
agenda. At the start of the meetings, manbers
raise issues to fonii an agenda. Each topic is then
discussed in detail.
‘This oiiganization tries to keep every
one in a leadership position,” Ramey said.
The oiganization hosts many events on cam
pus, such as drum circles
sues. The group
April 17 and
around N.C to ad-
rium on the death
penalty. They
also aiding in the
passage of a
that would repeal
the death penalty
for the mentally
The ofganiza-
also holds
pfahf stMnsoredtheJuliaButterflyHilllectjreeariierthissem^ “SpeakEasys,”t.
Wake-Up Week. SEE P.E.A.C.E., PAGE 6
Membersofthegroupalsoattendconferences