Meredith Herald
Volume XVI, Issue 18
On the
inside:
Educating Women to Excel
February 16, 2000
Next year’s housing sign up changes
□ MRA aero
bics is a suc
cess.
Page 3
□ Leap year is
but once every
four years.
Page 4
□ Meredith’s
basketball team
continues sea
son.
Page 5
□ Theater
production is
Uncommonly
good.
Page 8
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at
Meredith College
3800 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, NC 27607
(919)760-2824
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□ Office of
Residence Life
makes rules.
Jenny Altiek
sati WfitM
This year’s housing sign-up
process is going to operate
slightly different than what
Meredith sophomores and
juniors are accustomed lo.
The Residence Life office
has decided to alter traditional
methods of completing the
housing registration process in
order to promote class unity.
Director of Residence Life
Charlene Gaines said that the
decision to change on-campus
housing was made on the basis
of student reactions and
responses to surveys and focus
groups.
By using a new housing
handbook entitled “A Guide to
Community Living,” the Resi
dence Life office hopes to pro
mote a better community envi-
ronment-
The basic idea is that by
keeping classes together, floor
by floor, building by building,
classes will form stronger
bonds and Meredith College
will ultimately be a stronger
community.
Students voiced their con
cerns about class unity to
Gaines. She said, “Particularly
during Cornhuskin’, 1 got a lot
of complaints from people,"
Gaines said that Dr. Jean
Jackson, vice president for stu
dent development: Ann Glea
son, dean of students and she
made the decision to change
housing on Monday. Jan. 24,
the day before the big snow.
Due to the changes in the
housing handbook, ic is going
to be tougher for members of
different classes lo room
together, yet it can still be
done.
Juniors and seniors or
sophomores and juniors are
allowed to live together, but the
dorms in which they can live is
going to be limited to specific
ones.
Juniors and seniors are per
mitted to live on first Barefoot
if that floor is not already filled
by seniors. Sophomores and
juniors are allowed to live
together on third Poteat.
When mixed suites or rooms
go to sign-up on Mar 7, the
suite or room must sign-up dur
ing the scheduled time for the
student with the lowest classifi
cation. In other words, if a
junior and a sophomore decide
they want to live together, they
must sign up during the sopho
more’s scheduled time.
Another change the new
housing handbook brought
about is that it is no longer pos-
sible for a big sis and a li’l sis
to room together. As of right
now. there are no exceptions to
this rule.
Gaines said that she is opti
mistic that the new housing
plan will help students in “con
necting with people" on cam
pus.
She said that now, people
ask her where juniors live, and
she cannot tell them for certain.
Even though Gaines is confi
dent of the plan’s success,
many students have some
doubts.
Juniors Katherine Jones and
Shelley Whichard were not
sure that the plan would, in
fact, reinforce class unity.
Said Jones, “I think it will
just cause more tension
between classes.”
Whichard said. “I don’t
understand why everything is
based on Cornhuskin’."
Students should be thinking
about who they want to room
and/or suite with and on which
floor and building they would
like 10 live on next year. Stu
dents are encouraged to choose
alternate rooms in case the
room of their choice is taken
before it is their time to sign
up. The sign-up process takes
place this year on Mar. 7 from
7:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. in
Kresge Auditorium.
Students must bring their
housing packet, which they
received in the mail last week,
their ID and a non-refundable
$150 housing deposit or a
voucher from Tmancial assis
tance. If further questions arise,
contact the Residence Life
ofHce at 760-8633.
Reichard to speak on Founder’s Day
Lesue Maxwell
Editor In chief
Next Monday, students, fac
ulty and staff will meet for the
first time the new vice presi
dent for academic affairs.
Dr. Rosalind Reichard. who
was chosen as the new vice
president in December 1999.
will be one of the several
speakers at the Founder’s Day
convocation at 10 a.m. in Jones
Auditorium.
The convocation, entitled "A
Brief Primer to Some of
Meredith College’s Ways and
Traditions." will also involve
students, faculty and adminis
trators.
At this convocation, seniors
and faculty dress in their acad
emic regalia and process in.
Afterward. convocation-
goers will attend a reception in
the rotunda of Johnson Hall.
Due to the processionals,
classes before the convocation
on Monday morning will be
slightly different. Dean of
Undergraduate Instruction
Allen Page announced.
8 a.m. classes will meet until
8:45 a.m. Classes that usually
meet from 9 to 9:50 a.m. will
instead meet from 8:50 to 9:35
a.m. The convocation will be at
10 a.m.. and M a.m. classes
will resume with a normal
schedule.
Founder’s Day is held every
year near ihe actual date of its
founding in 1891 on Feb. 27.
This year, the date falls on a
Sunday.
Founder’s Day recognizes
the college's founder Thomas
Meredith with a wreath-laying
ceremony on the marker out
side of Johnson Hall.
Students should plan to
attend the convocation next
s^eek to celebrate the seniors
and faculty and to remember
he founder, Meredith.
Dr. Rosalind Reichard, Meredith's newest administrator,
will speak at convocation on Monday.
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