Meredith Herald
Vofume XVt, Issue 5
Educating Women to Excel.
September 22,1999
O Disabilities
On the
inside:
Week informs.
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□ Orrin
Pilkey to visit
Meredith next
week.
Page 3
□ Freshmen
mn-off results.
□ Cabaret, by
Meredith Per
forms, begins.
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Hurricane Floyd spares Meredith
□ Eastern North
Carolina is flooded.
Lesue Maxwell
Editor in chief
After Hurricane Fran hit
Raleigh in September 1996,
Meredith College wasted no
time preparing for Hurricane
Floyd three years later.
After Floyd’s threatening
North Carolina’s coast during
the beginning of last week,
Meredith College officials
watched the storm very care
fully. Tuesday afternoon, the
Incident Management Team
met to discuss procedures.
Wednesday morning, Sep
tember 15, students were noti
fied through signs in their
dorms and through their mom-
ing-class professors that col
lege officials canceled Wednes
day afternoon classes. All col
lege activities and classes
ended at noon. At that same
time, college officials notified
students that Thursday’s class
es would also be canceled, but
they gave no word on Friday’s
classes at that time.
Dr. Allen Page, dean of aca
demics, determines wheiher
classes will be held.
Thursday morning, officials
decided that Friday’s classes
would also be canceled, along
with the weekend’s Open
House and Sunday’s Family
Day. Dr. Jean Jackson, vice
president for student develop
ment, said that canceling Fam
ily Day and Open House were
“hard calls.”
Students who were staying
campus for the hurricane
were required to attend a dorm-
wide meeting at 2 p.m. At this
meeting. Residence Directors
explained the procedures that
would be taken if the hurricane
were to become dangerous. If
the storm was bad enough, stu
dents would have to steep in
the hall of the first floor in each
A downed limb from a crepe myrtle was a result of Floyd.
Photo bt LesuE Maxwell
residence hall. RDs also
advised unplugging computers
and covering them with plastic.
Dean of Students Ann Glea
son and Residence Life Direc
tor Charlene Gaines stayed in
the residence halls with stu
dents. according to Jackson. In
addition. Thad O'Briant, direc
tor of Campus Dining, and
Paula O’Briant. Continuing
Education office, stayed in
Carroll Hall to ensure that stu
dents would have meal ser
vices.
Many students, however,
went home for the storm.
Junior Kaley Redmond went to
her hometown of Statesville,
NC. Redmond said that the
drive that usually takes two
hours took over four hours. She
went home, she said, because
her sister, a freshman, and her
father were nervous, feut she
said that the other students’
leaving is what “scared me the
most.” Redmond said. “I'm
glad I went home,” adding that
See FLOYD page 4
New classroom equipment aids all
□ Projectors and
screens added to aid
teachers, students.
Amanda Retciier
Stan Writer
In an effort to meet the needs
of the Meredith student body.
Media Services has begun
implementing new types of
technology- Classrooms and
other meeting areas have been
equipped with different devices
that will aid professors in
leaching, according to John
Kincheloe in Media Services.
One of these devices is the
data projector, a machine that
will let professors project a
computer or video screen onto
a larger screen. A box mounted
on the ceiling projects the
image off of the smaller screen
(the computer or the television)
onto a larger one. According to
Kincheloe, this is beneficial
because it allows an entire
class to see a presentation. Stu
dents can see the six-foot
screen more easily than the
thirteen-inch one.
There are, however, some
Current classroom projection equipment will
soon be replaced with new devices.
Photo by Leslie MAXU'ai.
problems with the data projec
tors- One problem is that the
classroom must be kept very
dark in
order for
the image
image to
show up. In
an effort to
combat this
problem,
many class
rooms have
been
equipped
with black
out shades-
Other class
rooms have
lights that
can be
turned off
at the front
and be kept
on in the
back,
allowing
the students
enough
light to lake notes and to see
the screen.
An alternative to data pro
jectors is an information sta
tion. Media Services built 20 of
these over the summer, Kinch
eloe said- Information stations
consist of 27-inch computers or
television monitors, S-VHS
VCRs and a scan converter,
which are all mounted on a
cart.
Kincheloe describes a scan
converter a.s a “device that lets
you take a computer signal and
change it into a television reso
lution.” This is done because “a
television monitor is less
expensive than a big computer
monitor," said Kincheloe. Scan
converters give a smaller but
brighter picture than a data pro
jector. The converters are also
portable, allowing for a more
mobile, versatile use.
Kincheloe said that informa-
See EQUIPMENT
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