Volume I, Number 4
A Campus Information Service of The Journalism Workshops
March 2, 1995
Grants to Update Computer Lab 'Dinosaurs'
by Scott Barnard
The computer labs are in the process of
being upgraded, with the help of an anonymous
grant and many hours put in by the staff and
students. With the addition of the new hardvyare,
access to the Internet, and longer hours. Direc
tor of Campus-wide Technology Tom McMurtry
hopes to make the labs accessible to all students.
Until recently, funding for computer lab main
tenance has taken a back seat to other campus
needs.
Students who frequent the computer labs
are well aware of the problems McMurtry and
National Science Foundation Donates $25,000
staff will face.
Freshman Jed Popek complained, “The
computers in the Belk Campus Center Lab are
ancient, dinosaurs. The screens freeze and many
of the keyboards lockup, causing the letters to
repeat when the keys are pecked.”
Baseball player Sven Berg commented,
“There aren’t enough printers, but the ones they
have are nice.”
McMurtry hopes the budget will allow for
the edition of 25 new machines for the fall se
mester. If not, the twelve existing machines in
Spring Fashion Bumped Back
by M. Janie King
The Second Annual Spring Fashion Show
had been scheduled to take place this Friday in
the Howerton Dining Flail. Instead, it will take
plaee on Friday March 27 in the Fellowship Hall,
According to Heath Peek, the fashion
show coordinator, the show “just wasn’t ready
to be put on this Friday” and that he “would not
be rushed” into something that was less than
the best. Peek was also not very excited about
Show Postponed Til March 27
holding the show in the Dining Hall. He stated
that the Fellowship Hall “worked great last year”
and he wanted to use it again this year.
Peek has been busy over the last few
weeks talking to business owners all over
Asheville and sometimes even farther to obtain
dresses and tuxedos for the models to wear and
door prizes. So far he has met with success. Fie
has gotten thirty prom and evening dresses
see Show p. 2
5-Minute Band To Play 45
Minute Concert In Gaither
by Zola M Griffin
The 5-Minute Band will perform March '
7 at 7:30 pm in Gaither Chapel, Attending stu
dents will receive chapel credit. The event be
aceented by a 45 minute performance from the
Christian drama group “Christ Mime” and a
possible appearance by musician Jamie Kane.
The band consists of Emmanuel college's
Scott Hobbs, lead singer and Lisa Pate, backup
singer. Montreat students Rob Lewis and Scott
Ward accompany on keyboards and bass guitar.
Ward commented that the drummer for the
evening has not yet been chosen, but will be by
the day of the concert.
The band performed in Belk last March,
but has since made changes. The lead singer is
, po longer with the band, and the band has grown
spiritually with new vision. Ward expressed,
“Our whole purpose is to communicate the real
Jesus.” The band’s philosophy of ministry is
“learning to make the right decisions and giving
every single part of life to God.” The band seeks
to communicate the love of God, and use music
for His gloiy.
The' band’s style of music is described as
“eclectic, alternative, progressive, acoustic,
blues and folk.” The performance will incorpo
rate original music from, the 5-Minutc Band with
some praise and worship music. According to
Ward, “the worship thing is very important to
us.” All are invited to an evening of entertain
ment and worship.
Development Minimizes Tuition Costs
by John Langer
Development heads the campus’
fundraising drive in an attempt to keep students’
tuition minimal. M. Jac Whatley, Vice-Presi
dent for Advancement, explained, “Campus fund
raising this year is fantastic. We have already
raised more than half of the funds for this year’s
goal of $883,000.”
Development receives funding through
methods such as:
• Direct mail ~ Mail is targeted at cer
tain people in a plea for money.
• Personal solicitation - Representa
tives for the college attend meetings
at corporations and other such gath
erings presenting proposals to sup
port the college.
• Gifls/donations — Unsolicited dona
tions to the college are referred to as
gifts. Two major types of gifts arc
prevalent on campus. Restricted gifts
are donated to the college and are
designated to a certain area. One ex
ample of a restricted gift is the Staley
Lectures series. A trust allows the
college to bring in speakers using the
interest from the principle, but pro
hibits the college from touching the
principle
• Planned giving - Alumni, corpora
tions, foundations, churches, estates,
and businesses contribute to the
school.
Knox Bridges pointed out, “We match up
departments with possible givers and ask for the
money on behalf of the diflerent departments."
Current fundraising purchased the new
windows in the dorms and backs sports pro
grams.
Fundraising also provides scholarships
given to the students. This year the scholarships
have been budgeted $600,000 arid have been
allocated to eight scholarship areas: athletics,
matching church, achievement awards, work
study, presidential, children of ministers, and
alumni.
the BCC Lab will be upgraded to contain 8 MEG
of RAM along with increased memory capabili
ties.
By mid-summer, the school will be con
nected to the World Web, Internet due to the hard
work of Howerton Resident Tim Hatton. Hatton
is in the proce& of developing a system person
alized for students and faculty.
The National Science Foundation granted
twenty-five thousand dollars to the computer
program to develop the system and purchase the
needed hardware. After two years, the school
has agreed to pick up the cost of maintaining
the Internet possibilities. Eventually, McMurtry
hopes “to network the whole campus,” make the
Internet and on Campus information accessible
through computers from the dorm rooms.
McMurtry hopes to have the library com
puters and printers up and running by March 8.
The computers were purchased six or seven years
ago by the library and over the last year have
received little or no maintenance.
After spring break, the BCC Lab staff will
be holding training workshops for students in
the use of the Microsoft software on the ma
chines. They will be held at night and will be
open to all students. Times for the workshops
will be posted around campus. Next fall, simi
lar workshops will be held to, introduce students ,
to the Internet and the college's networking ca
pabilities.
The Computer Science Department in
vites all interested students to attend a meeting
forming a PC user's club today at 3:30 pm. Items
that will be discussed include naming the club
and electing officers. They hope to discuss gam
ing, internet, programming, and plan on setting
their own BBM on campus.
White Boards in
Caf, Belk, Market
Student Activities
by Melissa Brown
Student Activities ordered marker boards
at the beginning of the first semester to market
activities on campus. The market boards, as they
are called, will cut down on the amount of pa- ,
per being wasted to announce student activities.
Only students who get approval from the Stu
dent Activities office will be able to write on
the boards. The board this week will feature
drawings by character sketch artist Matt Horner
promoting the Spring Formal and the upcoming
intramurals.
Freshman Howerton resident Ben Foster
expressed, “I think the boards are a good idea
because they allow the students ,to be more in
formed about upcoming events, which in turn
will lead to better attended events.”
In order for the majority of the students
to see the various messages posted, the market
ing boards are positioned above the mail boxes
in the Belk Center and on the wall closest to the
main entrance in Howerton Dining Hall.
Freshman soccer player Steve Saveli com
mented, “I don’t think they’ll work , the money
used to purchase the boards should be used for
something more useful to the students, like schol- .
arships.”