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2 CAMPUS NEWS Dining services offers more options for meal plans Students now have more dining options when eating on campus. KRISTA KEARNEY Features Editor A new meal plan option is available for sopho mores, jxiniors and seniors starting this semester. Until September 1, resident upperclassmen were given the choice of retaining the traditional meal plan of 21 meals per week in Belk Dining Hall or a new option of 15 meals per week in Belk and $100 per semester in dining dollars to be used in the Beehive News DANNY GREEN Associate Vice President for Enrollment Over the weekend, each enrolled student received a personalized message ask ing that student record information be verified. Students should carefully review their information listed in the e-mail for accuracy and completeness and let the Office of The Vice President for Enrollment know by Thurs., Sept. 11 by responding to VerifyMC@meredith.edu so that changes can be made to the student's offi cial record and reflect the most current information. Students who did not receive a message should contact the Registrar's office in order to ensure that the most current e-mail and other information is on file. Those who do not have a Meredith e-mail account, should notify Technology Services in order to get one. Official e-mail com- Cafi. Commuters have the choice of a Silver meal plan, which includes 50 meals per semester in Belk Dining Hall and $50 per semester to be used in the Beehive, or a Gold meal plan, which includes 15 meals per semester in Belk and $300 per semester to be used in the Beehive. While the traditional plan allowed resident stu dents to use meal exchange-eating in the Beehive in place of a meal in Belk- the new plan replaces meal exchange with dining dollars. Grab- n-go meals in Belk are still included in the new plan. Dining dollars carry over Brief munications are sent to stu dents' Meredith e-mail addresses. The annual student directory is being prepared, and students may exclude their listing if they wish. Students who wish to be excluded firom the directory should indicate this clearly in their e-mail replies or go to the Registrar's office and complete the appropriate form. The directory includes only the following information: name, nick name, local and home addresses, birthday without year, phone numbers, class level, adviser name, and e- mail address. The other information in the verifica tion e-mail (e.g., parent information, emergency contact) is solely for the smdent record and will remain confidential. Nearly 45% of students have already responded to the verification e-mail. For further information, please e-mail Danny Green, greend@meredith.edu or call him at 760-8026. fixim fall semester to the spring semester, so even if students do not use all their funds, the money is added to the $100 given at the start of the second semester of the year. This year's funds e^qjire on May 9, 2004. Senior Laura Bates is excited about this new option. "It's great that we have choices for our meal plans now- before we had only one option," she stat ed. Belk Dining Hall is open for breakfast Monday through Friday fi'om 7:30 a.m. until 10:15 a.m. and Saturday through Sxmday fi-om 8:30 a.m. until 10 a.m. Lunch is served from AUDREY TAMER Staff Writer Russia Around the Chechen Republic, two bombs deto nated under a commuter train killing five and injur ing more than two dozen. Terrorism is suspected. The bombings took place on the edge of Kislovodsk and were the result of two homemade bombs that were placed under the rails. Numerous victims were students on their way to attend classes at the univer sity in Pyatigorsk. This most recent bombing is only the latest in a string of bombings in the area that have killed 150 people and made the Russian govern ment uneasy. Zimbabwe Current President Robert Mugabe lost seats in a recent national election. His group gained only 100 seats as compared to the 134 seats the opposing force, Movement for Democratic Change won. 11:00 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. on Monday through Friday and 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Dinner is available from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Monday through Thursday and from 4:30 p.m. until 6 p.m. on Friday through Sunday. The dining hall offers several buffet style options, including a salad bar, a dessert bar and usual ly two or three entree selec tions. The Beehive Caf6 is open from 7:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Monday through Thursday and from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Fridays. It is closed Saturdays and Sundays. Meal exchange hours are The same opposition won six out of seven mayoral elections. Parliamentary elections will be held in 2005. South Africa The country's Human Rights Commission has said it suspects human rights abuses on black farm workers. At the same time, the group failed to recog nize the recent attacks on white farmers as race relat ed. Nearly 1,500 white farmers have died since the abolition of apartheid ten years ago. A government panel found that the deaths were the result of bad working conditions and some farmers agree. However, poor working conditions are accepted as the primary cause, Morocco Twin sisters were held by police on suspicion that they were plotting to bomb a supermarket in Rabat, the capital of Morocco. Poland from 1:30 p.m. until 3 p.m. for lunch and from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. for dinner. The Beehive offers a pizza bar, sandwiches, wraps, baked potatoes, chicken strips, and even sushi for hungry students. A smoothie bar was added recently, offer ing delicious smoothies during selected hoxirs. With the addition of the new meal plan option, stu dents now have many choices when it comes to dining on campus. In Warsaw, the Auschwitz death camp museum publically denounced the scheduled air passing of Israeli F-15 fighter jets during a cere mony to remember the vic tims of the Holocaust. The jets were to be piloted by descendents of Holocaust survivors. Along with the Israeli jets, two Polish MIG-29 jets were to fly over. Israel stood behind the flyover. West Bank In Ramallah, West Bank, Yasser Arafat has chosen the current Palestinian par liament speaker to begin as prime minister. This posi tion will give Ahmed Qureia power to lead Palestine in the wake of Mahoud Abbas’ resigna tion. Whether he will accept is questionable. World News Briefs
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