Meredith Herald
August 25,1999
Campus News
Residence halls locked 24 hours
Kristen Bostedo
Slafl Reporter
“I forgot my CamCard” is a
statement that has resounded
through campus as students
slowly get used to the twenty-
four hour lock down.
Mike Hoke, chief of Campus
Police, began looking at hav- '
ing the dorms locked twenty-
four hours last year. This
reforming of security was
spumed by complaints from
students about salesmen and
random people roaming the
halls. When the complaints
became a weekly occurrence,
the need for change became
evident.
Hoke turned the decision
over to the Residence Hall
Board. After passing a survey
around to all residence halls,
the board voted in favor of the
twenty-four hour door locking
system because they felt it
would be much safer than the 7
a.m. to 7 p.m. system that had
previously been in place.
Hoke is excited about the
new system because he says it
“brings us into line with the
other regional colleges and uni-
When the complaints
became a weekly occur
rence, the need for
change became evident.
versities," like UNC-Chapel
Hill and Wake Forest, schools
that have a security system in
which their dorms are locked
twenty-four hours a day.
The new system, however, is
not without bugs. Some of the
CamCard readers are not work
ing properly. Hoke discussed
this and said that they were
being replaced or repaired by
Technology Services.
Taylor Glankler, a sopho
more, likes the idea of locked
doors for 24 hours because of
the added safety. Her only
complaint was "when it is not
- working it is inconvenient to
find someone to unlock a
door or walk to an open
door."
Rebecca Atkinson, a fresh
man, didn’t know what to
think about the new system.
“It hasn’t been really work
ing since I got here,” she com
mented. “but it will be interest
ing to see how many times I get
locked out once it does start to
work.’’
Hoke believes that the sys
tem will be a success once the
few bugs are ironed out.
Officer training is here
Dena Price
Assistant Director ot the Office of Student Activities and Leadership Development
The.Office of Student Activities and Leadership Development
will provide the following workshops for student organizations
and their officers, including presidents, vice presidents, secre
taries, treasurers and chairs and co-chairs.
The workshops will be held Wednesday. Sept. 1 from 5:30-7:30
p.m.; Wednesday, Sept. 8 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.; and Thursday,
Sept. 9 from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
The workshops will be in the Wainwright Suites below Belk
Dining Hall. Light refreshments will be served.
Each workshop will begin with a 50-minute general session for
all officers. Afterwards, the session will separate into 45-minute
officer groups for the following: Presidents, vice presidents,
chairs/co-chairs of committees, secretaries and treasurers.
Workshops are required for all officers. If a student holds two
offices (i.e., president and secretary), she needs to attend only one
general session. She should try to attend the officer group session
for each office.
Please notify the Office of Student Activities and Leadership
Development if this is not possible, and please contact them with
any questions. Their office is on the second floor of the Cate Cen
ter, and their phone number is 760-8338.
Hartford excited about coming year
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a brunch at their home. Freshmen and some upperclass students traveled by tram to the brunch held from 11 a,m. to 1:15 p.m. The Hartfords greeted students as they arrived
at the house. From there, they could tour the house, seeing one of the Hartfords’ cats, and they had brunch in the front lawn. Hartford noted that she enjoyed the day,
although she was tired.
This semester, Hartford will be traveling around the state with the Alumni Association, going to cities like Charlotte. Winston-Salem. Asheville and Wilmington. Hart
ford said that the Association expects around 800 alumnae for the Wake County meeting.
Also this semester, Hanford will live on campus in Poteat residence hall for a few days. “I want to get a chance to interact with students in their own space," she said.
She noted that she could hear student comments about residence life on campus. “I think it will be great fun,” she said, but she added that it would be interesting for her
husband.
About ten years ago, Hartford did the same sort of thing by living on campus at the University of Michi
gan. There, she said, she had a roommate whom she still keeps in touch with. At Meredith, she will have suite
mates but no roommate.
Besides residence life, Hartford is also interested in the issues that face Meredith this year. Hartford noted
that she wanted to examine ways to strengthen the undergraduate experience.
One issue that Hartford cited was the goal of a new science facility on campus. Hartford said that the cam
pus must decide whether to put the “hard sciences” in the building or to include math as well. A group from
Meredith attended a workshop called Project Kaleidoscope at Davidson College this summer in order to learn
how to build science facilities for the new century.
Hartford said that one of her roles in this building would be to raise the needed funds. The building, she
said, would be “Meredith’s most expensive building ever" at around $10 million for a 50,000 square foot facil
ity.
Hartford also noted that she would like to see an emphasis on research in all majors. Students with the
research experience, she feels, become more self-reliant in problem solving.
An issue that she called “thorny” is Meredith’s graduate program, especially who is admitted. The gradu
ate program, while single-sex now, may become co-ed according to regulations. Hartford noted that if the
graduate school becomes co-ed, she wants to make sure that the undergraduate traditions remain the same by
making the two programs more separate.
Some alumnae, she said, would rather end the graduate program than have male students at Meredith. How
ever, Hartford does not want to close the program and said, "The very things that make Meredith appealing
for undergraduates are appealing to graduate students.”
“The students being here" is what Hartford says she is most looking forward to about the coming year. The
summer “has been a wonderful time for thought, but beginning to connect and hear the issues" is what she is
enjoying about the start of school.
A few weeks ago, William Friday, former president of the University of North Carolina System, interviewed
Dr. Maureen Hartford will speak at the opening Hartford. The interview -»n on North Carolina’s PBS station a few weeks ago.
convocation. Hartford, a native of Charic' "ived both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Photo bv Steve Wilson ^he received an Ed. D. frc '' rkansas.