The Stetson Reporter

wed .-". A -''7P\ ."V" 'J i...pzi L..~~zi HUg-01 I N 5 1 O http://reporter.stetson.edu SJLJ-^Il^^OJL^Ji J_JL_E, WHAT'S INSIDE NEWS 2A Opinions 4a Life ib Music 2B Sports 5B Etcetqw 6 a issue 1 volume 114 _glt_3_3W33L SPORTS: Soccer teams return for the preseason Page.6b Jjl OPINIONS: Barnes & Noble offers pseudo-inteUectualism, coffee Pag®4a online system j}0Tms overflow with the inconiin oners options or information By Amy Rigdon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR By Teresa Schwarz MANAGING EDITOR The university *has taken another step into the technological age with the. online activation of registration for re-' •turning students. The online registration was the first component of a larger web-based system that will allow students to access information online, according to Terri Richards, the assistant registrar. The information that will be available to students in the future through Banner Web—the system the Board of Trustees selected—will range from transcript- information, access to grades and updated schedules. ■ Students who had registered for classes at the end of last spring used the online activation. This system does not require students to turn in printed out cards. The system also allows students to check on their registration status from their homes, in case their registration is blocked for financial or unforeseen rea- , sons, according to Richards. If their registration was valid, they were able to fill out a form online and activate their registration without paperwork. The students who needed to • change their schedules or change their registration information in any way were still required to go to the Stetson Room in the Carlton Union Building on Monday and Tuesday. When asked about the new registration system, Beverly Carter, administrative specialist,in the Office ofthe Registrar, said, y1'Yes, it has [been a rough change], but the online, registration is great." In the future, students will be able to register online through the new system. . "Once we go live," Richards said, "the students will be able to access the [Banner] Web' with a pin number that is be the student's birthday. The student ID will be the same as their social security numbers and the students will be able to change their pin number as well." The Banner system will make online registration a reality in the future. The Registrar's Office tested the system this .year during SOAR. ■According to Richards, the staff made a concerted effort to "lock up" the system* through various methods while registering the incoming freshmen into classes, "There were no problems, and the system did not lock up like the old one did," Richards said, "Hopefully by spring any glitches will have been worked out and the students can register for classes online." The new system will use a system of time-stamping to give the students w-th more credits an opportunity to register for classes first. The new system does not make .idvising obsolete. To ensure that.students attend advising, the students will be given a pin number by their advisors The students will not be able to register online if they do not have this number, Teresa 'Schwarz is a junior communication studies major with minors in journalism and religious studies. ^Reporter Contact Us 421 N.'Woodland Blvd. #8409 DeLand, FL 32720-3751 386.822,7224 FAX 386.822.7233 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] sports® stetson.edu [email protected] [email protected] Thirty-five students are living in temporary housing because the conventional dorms are full. The displaced students this .year are mostly incoming freshmen and transfer students. There are a handful of displaced returning students who did not apply for housing. Instead of living in first-year dorms, displaced students are placed in upperclassmen halls and Greek houses. . Michaelle Finch, associate director of Residential Life, said, "We try to only put transfers or displaced returning students in the upperclassmen halls, such as Emily, if there is room in those halls." According to Darald-Stubbs, direc tor of Student Life, 30 students are being housed in fraternities and five students in a sorority. The university owns all of the fraternity and sorority houses except the off-campus Sigma Nu house, .so if they are not filled, and the university needs the beds, the university will fill them with displaced students. More displaced students are placed in fraternities than sororities because only one sorority is not filled, while there are more unfilled fraternities. -. "We have enough beds for the number of enrolled students. In a Greek house, the university owns the bed, so if the house can't fill itself, Stetson will," said Finch. "We don't want to get in a habit of placing stu dents in fraternities, just in times of need." According to Dean of Students Michelle Espinosa, for at least the last five years Greek housing has been used for overflow students. In addition to Greek housing, the university has six rooms reserved at University Inn. According to Espinosa, if students are required to live there, they will pay the same rate as the cheapest housing on campus. A residential life staff member will also live at the inn. Finch said, "Most families understand the situation, but I think some who arrive on Saturday might be surprised," "It is not really an overflow situa tion because we have the beds available. Our hope is within two weeks to place the temporarily housed students in permanent halls. We have been in this situation before, and we have always placed everyone-in permanent homes," said Stubbs. Stubbs expects the situation to" balance out when students rush for a fraternity. University policy penalizes juniors or seniors who move off-campus. According to Stubbs, the university plans to continuously increase enrollment. Finch said, "Stetson will not do anything to change the housing policy, even with increased enrollment, because the goal is to stay at full occupancy," Amy Rigdon is a first-year psychology and French major. ommons move aeman Students prompt changes ranging from vegan dishes to themed programs WHISK: Bill Goodwin prepares dinner in the Commons, photo by doug katez By John Mills NEWS EDITOR Tlie atmosphere of the Commons Is changing. This year changes are being made to the menu, programming and staff. First, the food selection will be different. The Commons will be ■•on a thirty-day cycle of no dish, repetitions. Paul Marcaurelle, general manager of Food Services, said, "The biggest [request] coming back from the surveys done last year with the Commons was variety, so we really made an all- out effort so there will be no duplication." "The only thing that'will be repeated is hamburgers, and they will be prepared differently," he added. So, if squash casserole is served on Aug. 2, it will not be served again until at least Sept. 1. According to Marcaurelle, there will be a vegetarian dish at every station and for every meal, along with at least one vegan dish. Marcaurelle said the Commons would also be introducing vegan pizza. Vegan and vegetarian dishes are being introduced to follow the trends found among the first- and second-year students at the university. According to Marcaurelle, every one in five students is a vegetarian. The addition of the vegetarian and vegan dishes is a response to this statistic 'and other information gathered in surveys done by the university. Marcaurelle suggested that students, along with the rest of the university community, could now more fully enjoy a healthy life-style by incorporating a healthier diet into a workout program in the Hollis Center. John Tichenor, director of institutional research, feels that based on the information he has gathered in his surveys, cost weighs most heavily in student opinion of the Commons. The first programming change is in information. The menu will be published on the Dining Services website and will also be available to be picked up in the Commons. "We made the menus date-specific, so at any point you can pick up a menu in the Commons or go on the web and see what we are actually having," said Marcaurelle. Secondly, I theme nights will- be incorporated into Commons dinners starting in September. According to Marcaurelle, the theme nights will be called "monotony breakers." Regarding the monotony breakers, Marcaurelle said, "[They] will cover everything from, an aliens in space theme to cooperative programming like what was done last year with Spring Fling." The monotony breakers are funded by Dining Services, which has a marketing budget. The changes in Commons staff come in the form of new training and promotions. Executive Chef Laura Stimax attended the Culinary Institute of America in Greystone, Calif. While at the institute, Stimax studied Mediterranean and Asian spices, as well as cooking with various sauces. SODEXHO Marriott, the corporation that caters for the university, paid for her schooling. Dan Vitti, former assistant to Marcaurelle and chef for the university, underwent training over the summer as well and was given -a promotion within SODEXHO. Vitti now holds a managerial position in California. According to Marcaurelle, some Dining service employees underwent training at the expense of Dining Services this summer. John Mills is a sophomore physics major. mi ©vat! ®_d ©©into [ra an By. Amy Rigdon associate news editor ynn Business Center's renovation project is on ' schedule. Workers are continuing the construction that began in January on the LBC. When completed, the LBC will house the School of Business administration again. Until then, the school occupies the second and third floors of the Bank of America, a block away from Lynn. "Stetson rented 30,000 square feet at the Bank of America to provide essentially.the same number of classrooms, lab% and study lounges for students and offices for faculty," said Paul Dascher, dean of the School of Business Administration. "For now, the Bank of America is as good as the Lynn Center." i According to Dascher, reconstruction is on schedule and should be finished by August 2002 in time to' for the business school to move into the renovated Lynn Center for the 2002 fall term. "I haven't heard a complaint yet about the business school temporarily being located in the Bank of America, There is good cooperation between the bank and Stetson here," said Dascher. "[Being in the Bank of America] is not perfect, but as close to perfect as possible. Our other relocation option was to set up portables on the construction site of Lynn, which would have slowed construction and been a nuisance to learning." ' The new Lynn Center will incorporate existing architectural styles, state- of-the-art technology, a five-story atrium, a 150-seat auditorium and fit in with the university's character because it is built around the concept of faculty and student interaction, according to Dascher, For instance, the Lynn Center's top floor of faculty offices will also have student carrels so that the faculty will not appear off-limits. "Being in the Bank of America has given students a chance to see downtown DeLand, and downtown DeLand a chance to see Stetson students," said Dascher. : Amy Rigdon is a first-year student psychology and French major. j_M___M_l___ iffo€ttPiIfiB3;€g^ ,*i