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The Mont WHE Volume IV, Number X MontreatVN^^^ April 23, 2004' \ t/ Students Compile First Field Guide to Mt. Mitchell, Future College Textbook by Jennifer Kaiser In the past year, envirounicutal studies majors, Andrew Call, Clay Hanna. Brant Bullock, Tiffany Stoddart, Leah Kelley, and Monica Hclderman, researched material for the first Mount Mitchell field guide. Once published, the book will serve as an informational tool for Mt. Mitchell visitors and as a textbook for students learning about the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. Writing Center Attendance Dips and Stabilizes by Batchimeg Sambalaibat Early this semester, the number of visitors to The Writ ing Center (TWC) dropped compared to previous spring semesters. But finals and end of year assignments propelled involvement and compensated for the initial lull. The consultants typically, service more students, espe cially freshmen, in the fall semester than in the spring. Kortney Blythe, two-year TWC veteran consultant, attri butes this to the fact that, “as the year progresses, freshmen gain confidence in their work and many students procrasti nate more and more, leaving no time for visiting The Writ ing Center.” Writing Center Director and English Adjunct Betty Sue James attributes this decrease to faculty members who have gotten away from requiring or strongly advising students Continued on Page 4 "/ have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 NIV Last fall, six Environmental Studies majors set out to write the first comprehensive field guide to Mt. Mitchell. Now, seven months later, they are nearing the end of the second phase of this project. Under the leadership of Envi ronmental Studies Professors Dr. Brad Daniel and Dr. Mike Sonnenberg, Leah Kelley, Clay Hanna, Tiffany Stoddart, Brant Bullock, Andrew Call, and Monica Helderman hope to pub lish a book that will be helpful to future Montreat students and visitors to Mt. Mitchell. In Fall 2002, Brad Daniel suggested that students consider creating a field guide for Mt. Mitchell which, despite being the highest peak east of the Mis sissippi River, has never had a field guide published about it. “The real significance of this book,” says Daniel, “is that no book of this type exists on Mt. Mitchell.” This field guide will be a comprehensive collection of information relative to the Mt. Mitchell State Park. There will be sections devoted to the his tory, geology, and hydrology of the park, as well as informa tion on the plants, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles found in the area. The team estimates the book at about 250 pages long, complete with extensive photographs of native wildlife. Sonnenberg says, “these stu dents are not just trying to enrich their lives, but the lives of the people who will read this book.” Environmental Studies majors are required to complete two semesters of a project-oriented class, called Naturalist Practi- cum. For this course, they can select and tackle an environmen tal project of interest to them. This year, six out of seven of the students decided to work on the Mt. Mitchell field guide. For the fall semester, these students Continued on Page 5 Seniors Sarah Tangalakis and Rob Breinich danced the night away at the Spring Formal held on April 3,2004 at the Biltmore Estate. For more Spring Formal pictures, go to www.montreat.edu/whetstone.
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