Meredith Herald
Volume X, Issue 14
January 19,1994
Raleigh, North Carolina
Fire damages Shearon Harris Building
photo by Steve Wilson
Workers add up the damage to Hairis Building after a fire damaged die kitdieQ and
sevCTal offices. Gasses should resume in Harris January 24,
by Christina Peoples
A blaze broke out in the kitchen of
Shearon Harris Building between 11
p.m. January 7 and 2:10 a.m. January
8, according to the Raleigh Fire De
partment. No one was in the building
at the time of the blaze.
Dr. GwennClay went by the build
ing at 9:30 a.m. January 8 and heard
the alarm. Clay called security and
they contacted the fire department,
said Chuck Taylor, vice i^sident of
business and finance.
Fire officials speculate that the fire
began due to faulty wiring in the re
frigerator. As a result, the kitchen was
destroyed and there was extensive
damage to three or four offices, the
lounge, and the reading room.
The fire was extinguished when
the joint of a copper water pipe in the
ceiling came open and wedged against
another pipe, forming a “sprinkler,”
fire officials said.
Smoke and soot mined the major
ity of electrical equipment in the build
ing. “It is possible that many or all of
the computers will have to be re
placed,” said Taylor.
Tlie soot must be cleaned out of the
ductwork and the smoke odor cleared
before classes can resume in Harris
Monday, January 24.
by Christina Peoples and Elizabeth
Rihani
The Faculty Affairs Committee
(FAC) met last Friday to discuss the
revised draft of the new sexual
harrassment policy at Meredith.
The revised policy, an update firom
the November23 draft, takes into con
sideration suggestions by faculty, staff
and administration.
FAC members present at the Janu
m really appreciative of the way
students, faculty, and all who have
been inconvenienced have responded
in such a cooperative way," said Tay-
ary 14 meeting were Dr. Brent Pitts,
faculty representative, Alyson
Colwell, Dr. Jared Kratzer, Dr. Garry
Walton and Dr, Robert Vance. ^
The main concerns expressed at
the meeting were general structural
and word-choice problems in the
policy draft.
Other points of discussion were
the right of faculty and students to
have an attorney present at college
lor. “We hope to get Qw building back
on line by the 24th with the exception
of the rooms that were burned.”
hearings dealing with sexual
harrassment charges. Another topic
was the concern of some faculty mem
bers that listing specific examples of
imacceptable behavior in the policy
would limit the ability of the adminis
tration to enforce other instances of
sexual harrassment that may not be
see POLICY page seven
Meredith
students named
to Who's Who
by Frances Pate
The 1994 edition of Who’s
Who Among Students in Ameri
can Universities and Colleges will
include the names of 32 students
from Meredith College.
Students were chosen by cam
pus nominating committees and
editors of the directory based on
their academic achievement, ser
vice to the community, leadership
in extracurricular activities and
potential for continued success.
Dean of Students, Dorothy
Sizemore, said “being selected as
a recipient of the Who’s Who
award is one of the most coveted
awards of our students,” She added
her congratulations to the students
chosen,
“Theyhave demonstrated their
personal and professional commit
ment through their academic
achievements and their service lo
Meredith College,” Sizemore said.
Students have been honored in
the directory since 1934. This year
the following students will be listed
see STUDENTS page seven
Today*s Forecast
High 23
Low 10
Tomorrow
High 30
Low 10
Faculty committee revises College's
sexual harrassment policy