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Elon Dining finds its place in ‘local’ movement Bryan Anderson News Editor ^bryanrarrderson Chris Fulkerson, Elon University’s assistant vice president for administrative services and assistant professor of communica tions, has witnessed massive chang es in university dining options since first joining staff in 1982. As he reflects today on the old days of mystery meat nights with little-to-no options for students, he can’t help but think positive ly on how far the university has come in the last several decades. Elon has since added Biscuitville, Chick-fil-A, Green World and several other facilities to meet the increasing demands of an ever-growing student popula tion. But while dining options have improved over the course of time, there is still substantial progress See LOCAL pg.5 FOOD SOURCING STEPHANIE HAYS I Design Chief New housing system causes troubles Registration for Mill Point postponed "'W Bryan Anderson ' News Editor ■;,%bryanranderson Elon University students are Istruggling to get housing arrange- Iments in The Station at Mill Point [approved for the next academ- [ ic year because of technical dif- [ ficulties with the Residence Life I MyHousing registration system [: — a housing management system being used for the first, time at f Elon. According to an email from ^ MarQuita Barker, associate direc tor of Residence Life for Operations and Information Management, the faulty housing selection process from this evening will be deleted and the signup period scheduled for tomorrow, Feb. 24, is also can celed. “The servers from the software vendor hosting the system were not operating properly,” Barker said in the email addressed to students affected by the registration diffi- FILE PHOTO BY CLAIRE ESPARROS Students looking to move to Mill Point for fall 2016 were unable to do so through the MyHousing registration system. Residence Life said there were server issues. culties. “Staff from the University have been in communication with the vendor throughout the evening and they are working to identify and address the problem.” When registration opened earlier today at 4 p.m. through MyHousing, several students could not gain access and received the error message, “The service is unavailable.” “It s the worst nightmare of my entire life,” said junior Rachael Morton. While there have been some students who have been able to gain registration access, several like Morton have been unable to reg ister. Morton, who is looking to live at The Station at Mill Point with three roommates next year, said one of her prospective roommates See HOUSING pg.4 Winter weather delays construction Emmanuel Morgan Assistant News Editor iS)EMorgan704 Because of the soggy fall and slushy winter weather, construc tion of Elon University’s new School of Communications building is behind schedule. Crews working on Dwight C. Schar Hall will now work into weekends to have the project completed by its slated timetable of the beginning of next school year in August. “Rain during the fall months and now winter weather have put construction of Dwight C. Schar Hall behind schedule,” said Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications. “Construction companies build into every proj ect some lost days because of weather, but the Schar project is behind schedule at this point.” The biggest problem facing crews was the roof not being in place when inclement weath er arrived. Because' of the open roof, they were unable to work as scheduled, which caused the delays in progress. Brad Moore, director of plan ning, design and construction management at Elon, said the roof should be completed by mid-March, which will hasten the progress for time lost. “Once they get the building dry, then they’ll be in better shape,” Moore said. “But right now they had to work outside without a cover over the build ing, which is hazardous.. If it snowed or rained, they were unable to work, which greatly impacted us and slowed things down.” Once completed, Schar Hall will be a two-story, 45,00- square- foot facility equipped with a 250-seat theater, 29 fac ulty offices and a large media innovatiomforum for all student media organizations. In summer 2016, McEwen Communications building will also be renovat ed, featuring an outdoor glass plaza connecting Studio B to Sch^r Hall with a large screen to project student productions and world news daily. 'Hijabi Monologues'shows lifeofMuslim-American women M Baseball swept by Wright State on opening m ^ weekend i O
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