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Volume III, Number VII Montreat, NC.28757 February 14, 2003
Another Season Takes to the Diamond
By Coach Chaplain
The Montreat College Cavaliers
opened their season today and
showed the inexperience that charac
terizes the 2003 baseball team. Mon
treat dropped both ends of the dou
bleheader losing 13-3 in game one
and 6-1 in game two to home stand
ing Aubum-Montgomery. Montreat
struggled to stop the Senators as they
pounded the Cavaliers in game one
and got some key hits in game two.
Brandon Vaughn started in the first
game and took the loss. Montreat
made some costly mistakes that
AUM capitalized on and Montreat
could not answer back.
Montreat grabbed a early 2-0 lead
in the first game and AUM answered
with a run of their own in the bottom
half Montreat added a run in the top
of the third and led 3-1 before AUM
scored 4 to take a 5-3 lead. The
score stayed at 5-3 until the 5th when
seven runs were scored by the Sena
tors. AUM added a run in the 6th and
won via the 10 run rule.
In game two, Ben Truitt pitched
very well until the 5th inning. Mon
treat trailed 2-1 going into the bottom
of the 5th when three big runs were
scored by AUM. The Senators added
an insurance run in the 6th and that
was it for the Cavaliers who could
only muster three hits in the game.
Montreat had many chances but could
not find a big hit when they needed it.
Montreat left 14 men on base in game
two.
Chip Pennell did his job in the
doubleheader going 4x6, with a stolen
base and 2 runs scored. Freshman
Matt McCraw was 2x5 on the day.
The Cavaliers struggled offensively
by only scoring 4 runs on the day and
only collecting 7 hits. Senator Brett
Holmes led the Senator attack going
4x8 on the day and making some
Weather Patterns Causing Too
Much of a Winter Wonderland
By April Heyward
Students and Faculty have noticed
the increase of snowstonns this
season. The stonns tend to leave
behind large amounts of ice and
hinder safe driving conditions.
El Nino, the warming of the
Pacific Ocean waters, causes the
dent Services assistant Sandra Owen
thinks the weather has gone from,
“one extreme to another.” She said
that last year around this time there
was a drought and this year has been
the opposite.
Some people are enjoying the
blast of cold weather. Florida native,
Tiffany Stoddart says at
storms to occur.
Matt Miller, the CIS and
GPS instructor from the science
department, explains that
“The world is attempting to balance
out its energy. Global ocean currents
arc shifting which causes global
weather patterns to shift.”
In comparison to last year, Stu-
home the “winters
are pretty mild” with an average of
60°. Although she comes from the
land of temperate conditions, she says
that she “likes the snow rather than
the mild weather.”
Erin Jones, from Manchester, New
Hampshire, sees no difference in the
weather here than from her home
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great plays in the
outfield.
The Cavaliers
drop to 0-2 on the
season and will
battle again tomor
row at 1:00. Junior
Matt Hochevar will
make his first start
for Montreat.
Montreat College
dropped to 0-3 on
the season losing
a tough fought 5-3
game today against
Auburn Mont
gomery. Montreat
improved again
from the previous
game and had a great
chance to win the
ball game but let it
slip away. Montreat
again opened with
two runs in the top
of the 1st inning. Matt McCraw led
off with a single and stole second.
Mitch Williams sacrifice bunt moved
McCraw to third where he scored
on a single by Chip Pennell. Peter
Thompson and Jon Stanley both
walked and Jeremiah Siemens picked
up an RBI with a hit by pitch. Willie
Jones struck out to end the inning
leaving three Cavaliers on base.
AUM answered right back in the
bottom half with two runs of their
own and it looked like it would be
a shootout. However, that definitely
was not the case. Montreat scored
again in the top of the third after a
Jon Stanley double and Jeremiah
Siemens again came through with
an RBI this time with a single. The
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Web Surfers and McMurtry
Share Bandwidth Woes
By Kortney Blythe
Speaking for many students on
campus. Junior Rob McDonald rants
about, “the arrogant invasive misuse
of technology and the ensuing para
noia on the part of Tom McMurtry.
His fear of bandwidth ‘misuse’ and
his clamping down on simple activi
ties represents a witch hunt unrivaled
in recent history at Montreat.”
However, Montreat’s Network
usage policy states that, “College
officials reserve the right to access,
examine, intercept, monitor and
copy the files and/or actual temiinal
sessions of any user or to suspend a
user’s access to the system.”
“We use our rights only when
completely necessary. We could read
anyone’s E-mails or look at what spe
cific websites they are visiting, but
wc don’t use our rights arbitrarily.
Wc don’t cut students off the Internet
for fun. We have enough to do with
out having to deal with tliat,” says Tom
McMurtiy, head of campus technology.
In fact, only a minority of students
makes life miserable for the rest.
McMurtry says, “the problem lies
with 2 or 3 different people each
time. Wc cut off those few who are
using the majority of the bandwidth
and the percentage of bandwidth in
use plummets from 90-95% to 10-
15% on average.”
McMurtry hopes to make these
real-time statistics available online
for proof-seeking students.
“Students think [Internet band
width] is unlimited...” McMurtry
notes as a primary concern. Down
loading demand skyrocketed with
the introduction of Napster, followed
by a torrent of other downloading
programs. Only limited blame can be
dumped on the increase of students
bringing computers to college.
Freshman Emily Washburn muses.
“1 wonder if other colleges have the
same problem, I thought we were
one of the more technologically
advanced.”
Aceording to McMurtry, they do:
“In fact CNN just did a special on the
rise of this problem. Bigger colleges
and universities have bigger problems
because the bigger the bandwidth the
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Verse of the "Weehi
"Love is palieni, love is kind It does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is
not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not
delight in evil hut rejoices with the truth, it always protects,
always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. "
- I Corinthians 13: 4-7