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The Stetson Reporter fiorida's Oddest Cottegiate %(ezisspa.per mxmmt^p: M$!'OteSi :'• •- J_raCe).|_|l .-.W''-!,V1:te--l'i Sr. ljili|fl^ l^^^'f'BitiiMV- PpMi =:: y :,:y f$$m@i il^SfeiiiMr^ For Your Information Stetson Chess Team ties to win national championship The Stetson University Chess Team won the title as national small-college champions at the PanAmerican Intercollegiate Chess Tournament held in New York City over the winter break. Stetson, the defending small- college champion, was tied by Davidson College for the title this year. The team also finished ahead of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Florida. The team members were Constantine Ananiadis, Derek Fraro, Adam Kuyrkendall, Joe McGivern, and Jeff Pointe. See story on page 4. Director of Continuing Education selected William (Bill) O'Connor has been selected as the Director of Continuing Education by a committee of faculty members. O'Connor has a Bachelors Degree in Accounting from the University of Central Florida, and his M.B.A. from Stetson. Since Oct. 1992, he has served as Coordinator of Continuing Education and Elder Institute at Daytona Beach Community College. Calendar of Events Tuesday, Jan. 23 BSU Lunch, Allen HaU Noon Last day to add a course for credit/drop course without financial penalty Wednesday, Jan. 24 Counseling Center lunch Men's ping pong rosters are due Noon Thursday, Jan. 25 Flame Outreach Meeting (Night Lites) 6:00 p.m. BSU Vespers (Allen Hall) 6:30 p.m. Men's Basketball vs Horida Int'l (EC) 6:00 p.m. Women's Basketball vs. FAU (EC) 8:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26 Homecoming '96 Video Buttons (Commons) Noon-4p.m. Comedian Jon Stewart (EC) 9:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 * Homecoming '96 Sunday, Jan. 28 Homecoming >'96 . Wesley House Celebrates Life 7:00 p.m. CCM Mass (Night Lites) 8:45 p.m. If you or your organization, has information for this column, send it to the Reporter at Campus Box 8409, attention News Department. Or contact the Reporter via e-mail. On the VAX, our address is REPORTER. Via the . Internet: [email protected] The deadline fof|pubmissiohs is the Thursday before the release is to appear. Stetson tat (1 spotlight on the issues *- Average GPA by dorm, Fall 1995 9 French House — 3.034 Emily Hall — 3.032 Foreign Lang. — 3.007 House — Stetson Hall — 2.960 • Chaudoin Hall — 2.087 Conrad Hall — 2.870 Nemec Hall — 2.850 Hollis Hall — 2.770 Carson Hall — 2.737 Gordis Hall — 2.494 • Smith Hall — 2.447 Three males held up at gunpoint Davina Yetter The Stetson Reporter- Three individuals were held up at gunpoint on campus by two black males early Thursday morning, police reported. The robbers held up students Omari Murphy and Keefe Karvaski, both 19, and Karvaski's 17-year-old brother in front of Elizabeth Hall at 2:20 a.m., according to DeLand Police Commander Stephen Edwards. The men, who wore dark ski masks, drove up beside the students in a 1995 dark blue Oldsmobile when the passenger pointed a small revolver at the group and demanded their money. The driver approached the young men and hit Murphy under his left eye twice when he said he didn't have any money. The Karvaskis emptied the contents of their pockets and an undisclosed amount of money onto the ground, which the suspects took and sped away. The offenders attempted to rob Robert Gunn, 64, at the pay phone in front of Handy Way, 905 S. Spring Garden Ave. Gunn warded off the suspect with a chemical spray. Police pursued the men to the Candlelight Oaks area, where they chased the men on foot with the assistance of K-9 units. The suspects were.not apprehended. Police recovered the vehicle, rented by a DeLand resident from Alamo Rent A Car in Fort Lauderdale. The car was due to be returned Dec. 27, but had not been reported stolen. Police have two local suspects under investigation. Murphy, who reported the incident to police, sustained minor injuries. The other victims were unharmed. Anyone with further information should contact DeLand Police or Public Safety. SAFETY INFORMATION • Don't walk done at night. Call Public Safely if you need an escort. ■ Keep your residence room doors and windows closed and locked when you are not there. ■ Never prop doo>s open in the residence halls. ■ Lock vehicle doors and store valuables * out of sight. • Report suspicious persons and/or vehicles immediately. Important Phone Numbers Public Safely: 822-7300 DeLand Police (Non-emergency): 734-1711 Emergency: 911 iraMpffilll^®? Photo by Davina Yetter Children participating in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march walk through campus on Woodland Blvd. Climate control issues exposed Source: Kate Zaner, Dept. of Residential Life By Andrew Dehnart Andrew Dehnart The Stetson Reporter Eve • heard that the air conditioning and heating for Stetson buildings is controlled in Atlanta? For years, some have suggested that that is the reason behind seemingly temperamental cooling systems. As temperatures in Central Florida fluctuate from cold to warm on a regular basis, and as the need for heat in campus buildings arises Facilities Management personnel are at work—not in Georgia, but here on campus—maintaining the air systems. Tim Glasgow is the building systems supervisor at Stetson, and is in charge of all air conditioning and heating operations. According to Facilities Management Director David Noyes, problems with the air systems are the result of different factors. First and foremost, most buildings on campus, including the residence halls, were built before air conditioning was commonplace in such structures. Large windows and sometimes porous bricks make keeping the buildings cool or warm a difficult task. Also, when people open windows to adjust for their own comfort, it causes imbalance in the building's system. In order to maintain comfortable temperatures inside all buildings, facilities management personnel need to anticipate changes in the weather. An outdoor air temperature of around 58-60 degrees is the point at which the heat or air con ditioning is engaged, according to Glasgow. Anticipation is important, because it can take up to an hour to switch the system over, which has to be done manually. Carson-Hollis and Stetson Halls have automatic thermostats. In the event that problems arise, or the a.c. needs to be controlled, technicians are on-call seven days a week, at all times. In addition, personnel are on campus all week, except during certain off-hours periods on the weekend, when they remain on call. Response to a problem usually takes around 45 minutes. Noyes said that the "technicians are extremely dedicated to the student body...[their] primary goal is to take care of the [students]." Preventative maintenance is ongoing. One person is assigned to changing filters in the air systems throughout the campus. Filters are changed on a regular basis. Often, problems are caused by malfunctions in equipment — not by errors in weather anticipation. For problems related to the air systems, students should contact their head resident, who will determine the immediacy of the problem. The comfort of individual students is not considered an emergency. As to the Atlanta rumor, there is some truth behind it.' When the Edmunds Center was built in the 1960s, the cooling systems werecon- trolled by a company in Atlanta, but that was discontinued five years after the building opened. Historic building causes dilemma Stacy Gum The Stetson Reporter- stetson officials must soon decide what to do with the third-oldest building on campus to make way for the new Hollis Center. The construction of the Hollis Center near Rinker Field is scheduled to start in September where the old gym now sits. Officials must decide whether to move the 107- year-old building or demolish it. "We won't know anything for sure until the first calendar quarter. Then we'll have some targets on approximately what options we're going to take," said David Noyes, director of facilities management. A few DeLand residents are already lining up against the idea of demolition. "If Stetson decided to demolish the building, it would be an architectural loss to the whole community," said local historian Bill Dreggors,. curator at the DeLand House. Dreggors suggested moving the building behind the DeLand House to act as a resource for neighborhood kids and Stetson history majors. "Right now we don't have any space at the DeLand House to have a place to sit down and learn," Dreggors said. "It's a marvelous opportunity. We don't have funds to move the building, but we can help refurbish it. All we need is to get it here." Jim Jordan of the Hatter Booster Club is lobbying Stetson to save the building. "It's a historical building and should not be demolished," Jordan said. Noyes said there are no plans to demolish the building, and the panic over demolition is premature because the university hasn't even finished designing the Hollis Center. "Right now we don't know how we're going to deal with it," Noyes said. . To save the/building, Stetson could apply for a Special Category Grant from the Department of State Bureau of Historic Preservation. Special Category Grants are in excess $50,000 and require a local match of $50,000 which could in clude expenses over the last five years. "Any building thaf s 50 years or older is eligible to :eceive funds and they are hosen with age, architectural integrity and hisforic significance," said Fred Gaske, grant supervisor for the state. An organization can apply for the grant on^e a year by May 31, and the bureau reviews the requests by September. "Buildings that need to be relocated are eligible for the grant," said Gaske. "Sometimes that's the only way a building can be saved." The old gym, originally behind Chaudoin Hall, was moved to its current location in 1936. In 107 years it has been used as a gym, band hall, dance hall and even an infirmary during World War I. Today the building is used as a dance rehearsal hall, storage area and office building. The building is considered to be the oldest example of board-and-batten building style in DeLand. "The building style was common inFlorida until about 1910 and expresses many of the common styles of those ages without any of the formal architectural styles such as Colonial or Mediterranean," said Sidney Johnston, a former DeLand Histori cal Preservation Board chairman. Board-and-batten involves installing larger boards with smaller battens to seal or reinforce joints. • "I don't know how that old wooden building has survived all these years," said Robert Brown, a long-time DeLand resident who graduated from Stetson in 1943. "There's something to be said for preserving at least part of it because it's part of our history. If they can find a use for it on campus, I don't think they should tear it down. It will add to the campus in years to come," Brown said. Gary Meadows, director of the Alumni Association, would like the university to preserve the front porch entrance section and enclose an information case in the walls with the history of the building on one side and a commemorative plaque on the other. "That would be better and would satisfy more folks than to tear it down and have it hauled off to the dump," said Meadows. ii. ThrOUghoUtthe next EIGHT issues, The Reporters®, be profiling candidates for the United States presidency. Each week, we will print information on one or two candidates, in light of the March primary. The information will be biographic and factual, and taken directly from the candidates' campaign material. All/na/'orRepublican and Democratic candidates will be included. The week before the election, a summary chart including all candidates will be printed. Any comments about the candidates or our profiles can be submitted as Letters to the Editor, and will beconsidered for publication by the Opinions Editor.