Volume XXXII
Issue 5
April 1995
In Ifiis Issue:
Church & State:
Should They Remain Separate?
* Getting To Know Kelly Cap
* More Horoscopes!
* Life's Little Responsibilities
* Reviews! Reviews! Reviews!
* Timeclocks at MC
* Organizational Feature:
Peru Mission Team
* Todd Talks Money With
Bonnie Adamson
*SpouseAbuse: A personal look
*SGA Update
" Expanding the Vision" Campaign Underway
by Jodie Owen
Methodist College is striving to modernize the campus and accommodate the growing number of students
by constructing three new buildings on campus as part of the "Expanding the Vision" campaign.
The main goal of the present campaign committee is to search for contributors and raise as much money
as possible in order to begin construction. At the present time, a completion date has not been set.
The first of these buildings will be the Library Annex, with a price tag of L9 million dollars. The Annex
will be located south of the existing library. A second building, the Academic Complex, priced at one million
dollars, will be located further south of the Library Annex at the site of the soccer practice field. The third
building, the Science Building Annex, at a cost of another one million dollars, will be constructed west of the
existing Science Building.
The goals for this building program are as follows: base goal, $4.6 million; challenge goal, $1.95 million;
and total goal, $6.55 million. Ongoing support (tuition and fees) and endowments (funds for scholarships) will
be used to help finance this campaign.
Dr. M. Elton Hendricks is excited about the new additions to the campus. He is "confident that through the
various constituencies: trustees, faculty and staff, alumni, parents, the United Methodist Church, foundations,
corporations, and friends, we will accept and meet this challenge."
Fayetteville, NC 28511
MC Debaters Win Championship
The Methodist E)ebate team finished a great year with a by taking the title of champions in the Novice
division of the American E>ebate Association. The team travelled to Boston College March 10-12.
Going into the tournament, the novice team of Julie Kahl and Ha Quach won the George Mason tournament
in February. They finished the preliminary rounds in Boston with a 5-3 record. Clearing to the eighth seed,
Kahl and Quach faced the number one seed, their greatest rivals, from George Mason. After a resounding 3-
0 decision, the team proceeded to defeat James Madison University in semi-finals, then beat the second seeded
team from Liberty in a 2-1 final round.
The Junior Varsity team of Todd Lyden and Thomas Wooldridge ended their season the way they began
it with an even record of 4-4 in preliminaries which did not qualify them to clear to quarterfinal contention.
Throughout the year, the entire team has consistently performed well. In the novice division, the team was
ranked fifth out of twenty-on according to the ADA point ranking system. In junior varsity, the team was ranked
nmth out of twenty-five entering the tournament. On the national level, the team has fared well in the National
Debate Tournament rankings. Methodist debates in District 5 of the NDT which includes seven states. In the
district, the team was fourth proving capable against such large schools as Rorida State University, University
of North Carolina, Wake Forest University, Emory University, and the University of Kentucky. In the overall
NDT national rankings, Methodist came out 28th in a field of 78 schools from all over the country.
Coach John Humphreys says, "This has been a great year for each team member and the school on the
national debate circuit. I have been more than pleased with the way the teams have performed. Our
competitiveness on the national level is surprising because we do not attend as many tournaments as our larger
competitors do. However, on the tournament level our competitiveness has been shown. We can beat
nationally recognized schools. Coach Humphreys urges all students interested in participating in debate to see
him in the debate office in Reeves or call him at 630-7612.
Lassiter Receives
Research Grant
Submitted by Public Relations
Drr Donald Lassiter, assis
tant professor of psychology at
Methodist, has received a fed
eral research grant to study the
effects of age and experience on
the performance of general avia
tion pilots in the Cape Fear re
gion.
The National Institute for
Aging, a division of the Na
tional Institutes of Health,
awarded Dr. Lassiter a $50,000
grant last October. He and a
team of assistants have as
sembled a research lab on cam
pus which features a computer-
based flight simulator. Forty-
two pilots have volunteered to
serve as research subjects for
the year-long study.
The pilots participating in
Ihe study will fly "courses" pre
sented by the computer software
while their performance is moni
tored by a second computer. By
varying the difficulty of the
courses and adding other tasks.
Dr. Lassiter hopes to manipu
late the mental workload de
mands placed on the subjects
such as short-term memory,
monitoring (or vigilance), and
reaction time.
Dr. Lassiter said he got the
idea for the project from a col
league at the University of Cen
tral Florida. He submitted the
grant proposal in October 1993
and was approved a year later.
He was "elated that the project
passed muster, noting it was his
first grant proposal and that
Methodist College is a relative
newcomer in the field of psy
chological research.
Members of Dr. Lassiter’s
research team include: Gary
Hinson, assistant professor of
computer science; Michael S.
Miller and David Z. Hambrick,
recent Methodist graduates in
psychology; and John Demos, a
current psychology major.
Dr. Lassiter plans to submit
additional grant proposals based
upon the results of the current
jroject. These future aviation
jsychology studies will investi
gate the relationships among age,
expertise, and mental workload
more thoroughly.