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The Pendulum NEWS Friday, August 22, 2003 • Page 5 Changes abound on campus First phase of air conditioning project complete; news set built PJu'jenbt Ris»o^ Matt Belanger/ Photographer This new sculpture, Med “Phoenix Rising, ” donated to tiie university by Irwin Bdk and was nxiunted outside Rhodes Stadium this summer. Matt Belanger Assistant News Editor Summer construction at Elon has brought a number of changes to cam pus. Renovations, new construction and new technology have been added in various areas on campus to prepare for the start of the 2003-2004 aca demic year. Residence Hall Changes With 2,691 students living in uni versity housing this fall, Nikki Turley, assistant director of Residence Life, has been busy preparing for the start of the school year. The first phase of the residence hall air conditioning project was completed just in time for the start of the fall semester. A chilled-water air conditioning system was installed in Sloan, West and Viipnia and window units were installed in Colclough, Chandler and Maynard. The second phase of the project will be completed next sum mer, when Smith, Carolina, Hodc, Brannock and Barney will receive air conditioning. Caipet was also replaced in Moffit and added in Vnginia Bathrooms in Jordan Center buildings B and C were also renovat ed, while the entire Jordan Center received new paint and landscaping. Jordan Center A will be single-room housing this year, instead of tradition al double rooms. New security measures were also added to reinforce student safety on campus. Card-swipe units were installed on each of the exterior doors of nine residence halls. These units will allow students to unlock the doors with a swipe of their Phoenix card. However, only resident of each building will be coded for entry. Dining Hall Changes “Varsity,” a new sports-themed restaurant will be open this fall in the former downstairs McEwen dining area. This new dining location will offer students an additional on-cam- pus dining q?tion with sit-down serv ice. Varsity will accept Phoenix cash, meal dollars, cash and credit cards. The facility is equipped with a Direct TV satellite and 14 laige screen tele visions. A separate theater-style seat ing area with oversized lounge chairs and a projection television will offer students an alternative to traditional seating. Varsity will be q^en daily for lunch at 11:30 a.m. and will close at 1 am. Other renovations include the addition of a sushi bar in the take-out area located in downstairs McEwen. Packaged sushi will also be available for sale at the Acom Coffee Shop and Octagon. Glass partitions were installed in Harden dining hall to allow addition al space for student organizations to hold meetings during evening hours. Director of Food Services Jeff Gazda says he thinks students will be pleased with the new menu items chosen during the brand refresh com pleted this summer. Gazda says the Real Food On Campus program will continue this year, bringing students additional quality menu items at all campus dining locations. New Facilities Construction will begin Aug. 26 on the next pavilion in the Academic Village, which will house the politi cal science department and Elon polling center. The building, sched uled to open in the fall of 2004, will feature a number of classrooms and conference rooms as well as addition al faculty offices. The new polling center will provide political science students with cutting-edge technolo gy they can use to leam about the orchestration and execution of a pub lic opinion poll. Improvements were also made in Moseley Center, including new office space for the Student Government Association and expan sion of the Kemodle Center for Service Learning. New space was also created on the first floor of the McMichael Science Center to allow for more student-faculty interaction. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Steven House says this interaction is a crucial part of an Elon education. “I believe the key to a quality edu cation is the mentoring relationship between our faculty and students, both inside and outside of the class room,” he said. “We like to create opportunities for that type of interac tion to happen.” Additional Changes Artist John Hair’s bronze sculpture “Phoenix Rising” was mounted next to the entrance to Rhodes Stadium this summer. The completion of the sculp ture was delayed in order to allow the artist additional time to perfect the sculpture’s design. Irwin Belk, a Charlotte, N.C., business leader and longtime Elon benefactor, donated the sculpture to the university. Additionally, new online services are now being offered for both stu dents and parents. The Elon commu nity can now take advantage of online tuition payment and paricing registration. Work is also underway on the installation of a mass data storage system that will be accessible through the university’s network. Gerald Whittington, vice president of business, finance and technology, says the new storage system’s seven terabytes of space will make it easier for students to transport and woric on large projects while on campus. Each student and faculty member will be assigned their own personal account on the system, allowing their work to remain secured by password protec tion. New technology was also pur chased for a number of computer labs on campus. The School of Communications received new com puters in all of its labs and added an additional lab. The school also con structed a state-of-the-art, $16,000 news set for its television studio designed to specifically meet the needs of the growing communica tions program. Contact Matt Belanger at pendu- lum@elon.edu or 278-7247. UNIV Matt Belanger/ Photographer The new news set, located in McEwen studio A v\^ contracted by Beaver Construction at a cost of $16,000.
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