VOL. 10, NO. 6
‘^The truth is out there.,,”
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRTOAY, NOVEMBER 18,1994
Lady Bishops reach Final Four
HEADED FOR THE FINAL FOUR — The South Regional Division III champion Lady Bishops
prepare to depart Wesleyan for the NCAA Final four in San Diego. The Bishops lost to UC San
Diego 2-0 in the semi-final round.
Campus construction smooth
By GREG PURCELL
Campus construction was the
main focus of the Nov. 7 meeting
of the North Carolina Wesleyan
College Student Government As
sociation.
Belinda Faulkner, Vice Presi
dent for Administration, ad
dressed the SGA regarding the
current and future construction
plans on the campus of North
Carolina Wesleyan College.
Faulkner informed the SGA
that the maintenance building was
completed and the maintenance
department of the college is al
ready operating out of the new
structure. Faulkner also said that
construction on the Dunn Center
for the Performing Arts is going
well and is ahead of schedule.
Tyler Drive, the road that cur
rently encircles the campus, will
be expanded during the Spring
1995 semester to provide access
to the Dunn Center and new park
ing lots in the area. According to
Faulkner, the road construction
will involve the removal of one
of the campus tennis courts. Plans
are currently being discussed con
cerning moving all tennis courts
to a new location behind South
Dormitory.
Faulkner also discussed the re
wiring of the campus electrical
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By PATRICK BRANNAN
The North Carolina Wesleyan
Women’s soccer team lost in the
semifinals of the NCAA Division
ni toumament Saturday, Nov. 12.
The Bishops were handed a 2-0
loss as they struggled to find any
kind of attack in the game against
number one ranked UC San Di
ego.
“The first half was an absolute
disaster,” first year coach Rob
Donnenwirth said. “They were
pretty much all over us. They
were sending long balls to their
forwards and winning them and
we couldn’t put enough pressure
on their backs. We couldn’t catch
them, basically.”
UC San Diego scored twice in
the first half and then shut down
the Bishops to advance to the
championship game. Ele Johnson
headed in a shot from Dawn Lee
off a comer kick at the 19:55 point
of the first half. Less than two
minutes later the Tritons scored
the final goal as Johnson assisted
on a Carin Pugh goal.
“We just weren’t clicking and
I don’t know why,” Donnenwirth
said, “hi the second half, I made
a lot of changes. I moved Trish
(Parker) upfield and Heather
(Zobrist) to the sweeper. It cre
ated a little pressure, but nothing
that mounted an attack.”
The Tritions shut the Bishops
down as Wesleyan was credited
with only one shot on goal in the
match. Tritons keeper Cari
Schwartz recorded her 11 th shut
out of the season.
UC San Diego’s speed was a
factor, according to Donnenwirth.
“Most of the teams we played
against, we looked to bottle up
the middle and give them the out
side. Against this team, we
couldn’t do that,” he said.
Wesleyan finished the season
with a 15-3-3 record.
“I’m very happy with the sea
son,” Donnenwirth said. “Obvi
ously it’s hard to forget (Satur
day). It will take a little time to
look back at the season as a
whole.”
The season saw the Bishops
defeat Methodist twice, once in
the regular season and once to
win the South Regional champi
onship.
North Carolina Wesleyan
Women’s soccer team advanced
to the NCAA Division III final
four with a 1-0 victory over Meth
odist in overtime Sunday, Nov.
6. The Bishops played host to the
South Regional finals over the
Nov. 5-6 weekend and walked
away with a place in the champi
onships to be held in San Diego,
CaUf., Nov. 12-13.
The game against Methodist
found both teams playing a de
fensive game in between the two
goal boxes for most of the day.
The final stats for both teams con
sisted of a total of 19 shots com
bined. Defense was the name of
the game and Wesleyan’s defense
proved to be stronger.
“Until the last five minutes
Methodist didn’t have clear cut
chance,” Donnenwirth said. The
Bishop’s iron wall defense was
led by seniors Trish ParKer and
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Center to tie Wesleyan into Internet
The National Science Founda
tion (NSF) has awarded Micro
electronics Center of North Caro
lina (MCNC) a two-year,
$284,000 grant to connect NC
Wesleyan College and an addi
tional nine North Carolina col
leges to Internet, the global com
munications network.
These connections will p. ovide
the campuses with a weahh of
information and resources far be
yond the capability of any single
campus by providing access to
databases, libraries, and other re
searchers located virtually around
the w^brld.
“Wesleyan has had limited ac
cess to Internet through our li
brary resources for the past few
years. This grant will start Wes
leyan on a path leading to unlim
ited access to Intemet by all mem
bers of the Wesleyan commu
nity,” explained Elizabeth
Edmiston, assistant professor of
computer information systems at
N.C. Wesleyan College.
“Of course, this can’t happen
overnight. The first step is to es
tablish our Internet node. Once
that is completed; we will begin
to provide Internet access via ex
isting computer networks such as
the one in the student lab,” she
said. “In tlie future, students will
be able to access all of the Intemet
resources from their dorm rooms;
faculty and staff will have direct
access from their offices; com
muter students will have access
via modem from their homes.”
The NSF grant will fund
■"'ipment and support for hnks
over leased phone lines from
MCNC’s Information Technolo
gies Division.
Alan Blatecky, MCNC vice
president for information tech
nologies, said, “Intemet connec
tions play an increasingly impor
tant role on campuses today. They
provide faculty and students ac-
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