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Inside ♦ S t . M a r y ’s C omposts A cadre of committed carpenters completed the campus’ composting container construction. Page Three ♦ C h o o se or L ose Where do the different candidates stand on the issues? Pages Eight and Nine N EW S ............................. .................... ..................2-3 FEATURES .......................................................... 4-5 HUMOR ....................................................................6 A & E ............................................................... 7,10-11 FOCUS....................................................................8-9 O PINION.......................................................... 12-15 SPORTS.............. ....................................................16 St* Mary’s College of Maryland St. Mary’s campus weekly • 51st year, No. 16 March 7, 2000 • St. Mary’s City, MD 20686 QA furniture to be replaced after a decade of use Grand Campus Center reopening after spring break New campus center to feature faculty achievements, college hoops, and student life in its inaugural week feature guided tours of the building. They are available through the Office of Student Development. The Info Center will also be back in the new building, and it will be giving away prizes on Tuesday. Wednesday will be faculty and staff day in the new student center and the book store will feature complimentary coffee. Our professors’ works will be prominently displayed in the new school store’s display cases. TV63 will go big-screen on Thursday when all of their daily line-up of movies are broadcast in the new movie theater. On Friday, the campus center will host Monte Carlo night and the Christmas in April Auction. After the Friday night movie ends in the theater, the silent auction portion of the evening will begin. The silent auction will then give way to the regular auction to be followed by casino games. The night will be jointly sponsored by the BSU, Christmas in April, the ORL, the OSD, SOAP, and Rotoract. As usual, the proceeds will go to benefit the needy of St. Mary’s county. Also on Friday, the Campus Center will anounce the winner of the campus-wide puzzle raffle. Every student (including commuters) will receive a puzzle piece when they get back to campus. There will be a puzzle in the Campus Center that is one piece shy of completion. The student ALISA BRALOVE senior editor When junior Davida Ofori- Sarpong lived in QA, the board beneath her bed fell off while she was sitting on it. But next fall, when residents return to QA, they will be moving into a building free of the large, cumbersome furniture, which often bordered on dangerous. For the first time since the mid-1980s, QA will have new furniture. “Queen Anne is going to be taken off-line at some point [this summer] to remove the old furniture, and install the new furniture,” said Joanne Goldwater, assistant dean for Residential Life. At that point, all the student rooms will get the new furniture, including the rooms that had their furniture replaced with sample furniture last year. The new furniture, similar in style and color to that already in other residence halls, “has more flex ib ility ,” said Goldwater. “You can loft it, you can bunk it, [and] you don’t need tools to loft it.” It will also be much lighter, and therefore easier to move than the furniture in QA now. The problems with the furniture in QA began early on. “My understanding is the furniture was made with green or wet wood, which caused it to crack very e a sily because o f the changes in the humidity and the heat,” said Goldwater. “When it was purchased it looked fine, but it very quickly developed problems.” Most agree that the new furniture is a long time coming. Bridgette Gallgher, the current RHC of QA, said she is pleased that QA will finally be “up to par with the other buildings,” adding that “it will add a whole new feeling to Queen Anne.” “I know all the residents are excited,” she said. Junior Megan Haji, who will be the RHC of QA next year, said she was told her first year here that there would be new furniture, and she is glad that it will finally be a reality. “I am very excited because it’s been put off for so long,” she said. “I ’ve been trying.to get new furniture over there for a numb e r o f yea rs n ow ,” said Goldwater, but “most of it [the delay] has to do with budget [concerns] because it’s not inexpensive to purchase new furniture for a building of 160 beds. There has to be proper planning and [a] budget allocated to it.” “My guess is that other issues took a higher priority because they were [more g re a tly needed],” she said. A nother change th a t will emerge next year is the housing pattern of certain halls. Second Left in Caroline, currently a male wing, will be converted into a female wing in the fall, in order to meet the increasing demand of new female students seeking housing. Other halls in Caroline may be reassigned as needed. Despite the increasing demand for female housing, Dorchester will not become co-ed next year. “This would be a great year to make it co-ed but without the financial resources needed to do what we would need to do, we can’t do that,” said Goldwater. “I wouldn’t do it to the guys [and] I wouldn’t do it to the women.” fantasies as she takes a hammer to her current QA furniture. The building’s furniture will be replaced this summer when QA can be taken “off-line.” photo by Kelly McGarvey KEVIN FRANK news editor As we all know, Charles Hall is reopening on March 19, as hordes of students return from spring break. A committee of administrators and students has created a series of opening events to celebrate the new campus center. The building will open at 3:19 p.m. on the Sunday after spring break, and President Maggie O’Brien and SGA President Andrew Mosley will officially open the building to the College. The first day will feature special gifts for the first 319 people to enter. Those same 319 people will also be entered in a drawing to win a $319 gift certificate to the school store. There will be official tours of the building at 4:19, 5:19, and 6:19 on the first day. The cafe will feature free coffee and cookies, and the NCAA Division I basketball games will be broadcast in the theater that evening. Monday will ring in the second day of the Grand Opening week, but will only whose piece fits the puzzle will win a prize. The week will end with the SGA sponsored movie Double Jeopardy, showing Friday at 5 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Of course eating, the most popular student activity, will continue in the Campus Center long after the inaugural week of events is over. few weeks, we’ll be eating on that balcony. photo by Kelly McGarvey
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FullText | Inside ♦ S t . M a r y ’s C omposts A cadre of committed carpenters completed the campus’ composting container construction. Page Three ♦ C h o o se or L ose Where do the different candidates stand on the issues? Pages Eight and Nine N EW S ............................. .................... ..................2-3 FEATURES .......................................................... 4-5 HUMOR ....................................................................6 A & E ............................................................... 7,10-11 FOCUS....................................................................8-9 O PINION.......................................................... 12-15 SPORTS.............. ....................................................16 St* Mary’s College of Maryland St. Mary’s campus weekly • 51st year, No. 16 March 7, 2000 • St. Mary’s City, MD 20686 QA furniture to be replaced after a decade of use Grand Campus Center reopening after spring break New campus center to feature faculty achievements, college hoops, and student life in its inaugural week feature guided tours of the building. They are available through the Office of Student Development. The Info Center will also be back in the new building, and it will be giving away prizes on Tuesday. Wednesday will be faculty and staff day in the new student center and the book store will feature complimentary coffee. Our professors’ works will be prominently displayed in the new school store’s display cases. TV63 will go big-screen on Thursday when all of their daily line-up of movies are broadcast in the new movie theater. On Friday, the campus center will host Monte Carlo night and the Christmas in April Auction. After the Friday night movie ends in the theater, the silent auction portion of the evening will begin. The silent auction will then give way to the regular auction to be followed by casino games. The night will be jointly sponsored by the BSU, Christmas in April, the ORL, the OSD, SOAP, and Rotoract. As usual, the proceeds will go to benefit the needy of St. Mary’s county. Also on Friday, the Campus Center will anounce the winner of the campus-wide puzzle raffle. Every student (including commuters) will receive a puzzle piece when they get back to campus. There will be a puzzle in the Campus Center that is one piece shy of completion. The student ALISA BRALOVE senior editor When junior Davida Ofori- Sarpong lived in QA, the board beneath her bed fell off while she was sitting on it. But next fall, when residents return to QA, they will be moving into a building free of the large, cumbersome furniture, which often bordered on dangerous. For the first time since the mid-1980s, QA will have new furniture. “Queen Anne is going to be taken off-line at some point [this summer] to remove the old furniture, and install the new furniture,” said Joanne Goldwater, assistant dean for Residential Life. At that point, all the student rooms will get the new furniture, including the rooms that had their furniture replaced with sample furniture last year. The new furniture, similar in style and color to that already in other residence halls, “has more flex ib ility ,” said Goldwater. “You can loft it, you can bunk it, [and] you don’t need tools to loft it.” It will also be much lighter, and therefore easier to move than the furniture in QA now. The problems with the furniture in QA began early on. “My understanding is the furniture was made with green or wet wood, which caused it to crack very e a sily because o f the changes in the humidity and the heat,” said Goldwater. “When it was purchased it looked fine, but it very quickly developed problems.” Most agree that the new furniture is a long time coming. Bridgette Gallgher, the current RHC of QA, said she is pleased that QA will finally be “up to par with the other buildings,” adding that “it will add a whole new feeling to Queen Anne.” “I know all the residents are excited,” she said. Junior Megan Haji, who will be the RHC of QA next year, said she was told her first year here that there would be new furniture, and she is glad that it will finally be a reality. “I am very excited because it’s been put off for so long,” she said. “I ’ve been trying.to get new furniture over there for a numb e r o f yea rs n ow ,” said Goldwater, but “most of it [the delay] has to do with budget [concerns] because it’s not inexpensive to purchase new furniture for a building of 160 beds. There has to be proper planning and [a] budget allocated to it.” “My guess is that other issues took a higher priority because they were [more g re a tly needed],” she said. A nother change th a t will emerge next year is the housing pattern of certain halls. Second Left in Caroline, currently a male wing, will be converted into a female wing in the fall, in order to meet the increasing demand of new female students seeking housing. Other halls in Caroline may be reassigned as needed. Despite the increasing demand for female housing, Dorchester will not become co-ed next year. “This would be a great year to make it co-ed but without the financial resources needed to do what we would need to do, we can’t do that,” said Goldwater. “I wouldn’t do it to the guys [and] I wouldn’t do it to the women.” fantasies as she takes a hammer to her current QA furniture. The building’s furniture will be replaced this summer when QA can be taken “off-line.” photo by Kelly McGarvey KEVIN FRANK news editor As we all know, Charles Hall is reopening on March 19, as hordes of students return from spring break. A committee of administrators and students has created a series of opening events to celebrate the new campus center. The building will open at 3:19 p.m. on the Sunday after spring break, and President Maggie O’Brien and SGA President Andrew Mosley will officially open the building to the College. The first day will feature special gifts for the first 319 people to enter. Those same 319 people will also be entered in a drawing to win a $319 gift certificate to the school store. There will be official tours of the building at 4:19, 5:19, and 6:19 on the first day. The cafe will feature free coffee and cookies, and the NCAA Division I basketball games will be broadcast in the theater that evening. Monday will ring in the second day of the Grand Opening week, but will only whose piece fits the puzzle will win a prize. The week will end with the SGA sponsored movie Double Jeopardy, showing Friday at 5 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m. Of course eating, the most popular student activity, will continue in the Campus Center long after the inaugural week of events is over. few weeks, we’ll be eating on that balcony. photo by Kelly McGarvey |