Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Vol. 47, Issue 6
Winston-Salem State University
New process guarantees cainpus housing
Photo courtesy of the Office of Marketing and Communications
Winter weather postpones fall ‘09 cerennony
December graduates waiting for WSSU's solution
The campus was closed at 1
WSSU's new initiatives for the 2010-2011 lottery
process involves reducing spaces for special
groups, but promises continuing students
guaranteed housing on campus or at a local hotel.
Marcus Cunningham
Copy desk chief
The events surrounding the
day of the 2009 fall commence
ment are probably a time many
Winston-Salem State graduat
ing students and their parents
will remember.
But not for a good reason.
Dec. 18 a winter weather
advisory was issued by the
National Weather Service to
the Winston-Salem area.
p.m.
And the commencement cer
emony in the Lawrence Joel
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
scheduled for 4 p.m. was post
poned.
WSSU sent a notification via
e-mail early afternoon to the
student body about the cancel
lation and notified graduates
that commencement would be
rescheduled.
Nancy Young, the interim
director for Media and Public
Relations said that she
received a lot of e-mails and
phone calls from parents and
family members upset because
they took time off from their
jobs and in some cases made
reservations at local hotels.
Winter weather
continued on page 3
Tiffany Gibson
Editor in chief
Unlike 2009, continuing
Winston- Salem State students
will not have to worry about
having a place to stay when
they return to campus.
For the 2010-2011 academic
year, all students will be guar
anteed housing.
The online lottery process,
introduced by the Enrollment
Management Committee in
spring 2009, will continue to be
used.
That process determined
which students were eligible to
select rooms, roommates, and
meal plans.
However, not every continu
ing student was afforded those
amenities in the fall semester.
Linda Inrnan, Housing and
Residence Life director, said
that WSSU cares about its stu
dents and wants everyone to
have a place to stay.
"We want to do all we can to
assist students to get housing,"
Inman said.
"We are concerned about our
students and our goal is to pro
vide everyone housing who
applies."
To participate in the housing
lottery, continuing students
must be registered for 12
hours, complete the housing
application and pay a $135
non-refundable housing
deposit during the week of
Feb. 15-19.
Students who submit their
completed application by the
deadline will be guaranteed a
room on campus or alternative
housing in a hotel.
This year the housing
process began earlier than in
previous years.
"We decided to move the
process up to cut down on stu
dents having anxiety about
where they will stay next
year," Inman said.
"We are hoping that every
student that applies for hous
ing will know where they are
staying in the [following] fall
before they go home for sum
mer break."
In addition to guaranteed
housing this year. Housing and
Residence Life will reveal new
initiatives.
One initiative involves
expanding the existing quiet
hours policy to 24 hours a day.
Residents who choose this
"quiet option" will be housed
in Rams Commons with the
honor students. This option
will be available to only 55 stu
dents.
This is in addition to the 69
slots available to honor stu
dents.
New process
continued on page 3
Study Abroad in Mexico
WSSU will offer a five-week
summer study abroad program in
Queretaro, Mexico. Students will
study in El Centro Intercultural de
Queretaro and live with Mexican
families. The courses taught will
be SPA 3309, SPA 3311, SPA
4310 and HON 3306, and they
will all be taught in Spanish.
Prerequisites include a language
assessment and completion of
SPA 2312.
Sophomores ‘swipe’ for Haiti
The sophomore class council
hosted Haiti Relief “Swipes for Help”
Jan. 21. During the event, WSSU
students swiped their Ram cards at
the C-Store to purchase items for
Haiti. The sophomore council
collected non-perishable food items,
bottled water, first-aid supplies, and
toiletries such as soap, deodorant,
lotion and shampoo.
Notre Dame editor resigns
The editor of “The Observer,” the
newspaper of Notre Dame and
Saint Mary’s has resigned over a
controversial anti-gay cartoon. “I
failed as both an editor and mem
ber of the Notre Dame community
by allowing this strip to print,” Kara
King said. “The Observer” also
published an apology saying, “We
consistently try to write comics that
rely on shock value and now [that]
we have gone too far”
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