The Stetson Reporter

WHAT'S JNSlOE News 2 A Opinions 4A Life IB Movies 3=3 Classifieds 2A Sports 5B Etcetera 6a issue 1 volume 115 SPORTS: Men's, women's soccer preseasons begin page 6b I OPINIONS: Peer-sharing music bolsters the industry page 6b Summer sees alterations in campus staff By Julie Farricker associate news editor As the new school year begins, many changes for university administration start taking place. Not only in a single department, but various desks across campus will be empty or newly filled. Holli Berry, the Assistant Director of Student Life, left the university shortly after the end of last year to start a small business with her husband. Mark Whittaker, the Vice President for Development, has also left for personal reasons. Residential Life has not yet hired a replacement for Alli Westberry's position of Assistant Director of Residential Life. Since her departure at the end of last January, Patrick Durbin (originally the assistant director for the West side of campus including dorms such as Emily, Stetson, Conrad, and Chaudoin), now assumes the responsibilities of the remaining dorms of the East side including Carson/Hollis/Best Apartments, Gordis, Smith, and Nemec Halls. In the Registrar's Office, Terri Richards is now Associate Registrar and handles most of the daily operations, while Dr. John Tichenor, Director of Institutional Research, is now also the university's Registrar. The newest addition to the university has been in Career Services since Dennis Ferraro departed during the past summer. The new director is Jane Cordray-Brandon, and many students who arrived early to the university for activities such as R.A. training have already met her. Cordray's career began working for an airline, where she was promoted into management and was given the opportunity to hire and train employees. Cordray left to pursue a job with Georgia Pacific Corporation, a Fortune 20 corporation headquartered in Atlanta. She was a corporate recruiter and headed up their corporate college recruiting and relations program. In that role, she traveled all over the country interviewing and hiring college students and did career development for inside employees. On past experiences, Cordray said, "I worked with so many wonderful career services directors and great students while college recruiting that I decided my next career move would be to be a director of career services on a college campus." In order to accomplish her goal and expand her career horizons, Cordray got a master's degree in human resource development from Georgia State, which is a combination of human resources and career development. After receiving the degree, she was immediately hired by Rollins College and relocated to Orlando to become their director. Cordray said about Rollins, "This was a dream come true since I grew up in. Orlando and had been trying for some time to return to my hometown." After four and a half years, she was promoted to become the director of the graduate business school. She also received an additional promotion that required that she only supervise see STAFF, page 2a ^Reporter Contact Us __ftafi_-_-_»-i_---W«u_-« **rfiS*S* 421 N. Woodland Blvd. #8409 DeLand, FL 32723-3751 . 386.822.7224 FAX 386.822.7233 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] LBC REMODELED. Business Center ready for new year By Amy Rigdon NEWS EDITOR When the university received 14 million dollars of donations, construction began on the Lynn Business Center (LBC). Eighteen months later, the LBC, almost completely finished and operational for this fall semester, embraces current technology and environmental design creating an extraordinary educational facility. The five floors of the LBC encompass classrooms, an auditorium, computer labs, lecture halls, study carrels, conference rooms, offices, and board rooms for seminars and presentations, all of which are fully connected to computers and electronics, including laptop connectivity for students. On the basement floor of the LBC, there is a "cyber cafe," which comprises a sixteen-station, beverage- friendly computer lab. There is no food service, only Coca-Cola vending machines. Most of the facilities are open to university student use, not solely students within the school of business. "The building is about what we are about as a school and what we are about as a university: That is essentially learnings The building is built around classrooms...There are a bunch of study carrels throughout the building, even on the top floor of offices because faculty and students at the university are close and should be kept that way," said Paul, Dascher, dean of the school of business. "We don't want the building to be a shrine. We want -it to be . ■ ■ r~-~-.—■ .--— used, so on a campus, it must have life. Thus the atrium, which is like the living core of the building." Though the LBC is near completion, there are still some issues to be resolved. As of last week, the building was still in the contractor's possession and not legally the university's. Some classroom lights were not working. Workers were still painting and RELAXATION: FOCUS leaders in training gather in the atrium of the Lynn Business Center for a break, photo by doug katez "The building is about what we are about as a school and what we are about as a university: That is essentially learning." installing fixtures and furniture. Decisions are also being made as to what to do with the left over furniture that still remains in the Bank of America, the temporary home of the business school while the LBC was under construction. "Our lease with Bank of America is through December. The [LBC] is furnished with new furniture. The furniture that is left in Bank of America that is fairly; new but •-■"-^—« didn't fit in this building architecturally will go into the rest of the campus," said Dascher, "All we have done so far is been in total chaos. It will take a little bit to get it fixed, everything working right, and for us to understand it. What's unique about our case is that we either had to move in now before construction was completely done or wait until December because of the nature of the semester."'' ' . The official celebration of the opening of LBC will be on Sept. 5. At that time, the building will be officially dedicated to the building donors, who will be in attendance. LBC will be available for tours for the university community, and every Friday for the rest of September there will be openings for,different groups who would like to see the building. The LBC is expecting to be certified as a "green" building in the near future, which would name the building as a nationally recognized, environmentally friendly structure. The process is known as the LEEDS Building Gold certification reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C. "It is a self-evaluation that you turn in. It ap- see LBC, page 2a &.' ^ZAI --x tea ■' P.\- (( \r^m -x<v '-d\\ .*%& .iBjppppi xxf I* • ii"i8|iili i -'■»*«!«» ■■i!maAWmtmKi4m%m^ ENTRANCE: The LBC stands on the comer of Michigan Ave. and Woodland Blvd. photo by doug katez New viewbooks 'excite' prospective students STETSON ''NIVERSITI f t o r i d a * i • First . - - Private University » * i * w p. . n ik : > By Teresa Schwarz EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The new brochures are coming, and the new look will "excite" the eyes of the incoming students, but not this semester. The university has hired an Atlanta-based firm to create a new family of publications for the Admissions Office, and the new tagline is "Stetson University 'We Excite the Mind.'" This new slogan will appear on all the new literature and will have a greater visibility than the current tagline of "Florida's First Private University." The old slogan is factual and will continue to be used by the university, but the new motto will be on the fronts of the brochure^ without the old, according to the Enrollment Management Office based on the current proposed drafts. Last January, representatives from Stein Communications, a marketing company, visited campus and various other local hotspots in order to understand the student body and the university community. * The representatives interviewed a variety of students from different hometowns and majors, as well as a number of faculty and staff members. They also photographed students around campus and local areas in order to have a visual catalogue of the entire university experience. "They are helping us with both new printed material for admissions and an over haul of the primary pages of the university's web site," Executive Director of Marketing and Communications, Brian Miller, said in an interview in January. These photographs were built into a photo intensive marketing campaign that is still in the early draft stages. Stein Communications has presented drafts .of the new marketing literature and various pages of the university web site. Stein Communications tried to convey the feel of the university that their representatives encountered during a January visit. Stein Communications conducted interviews with students, especially focusing on their reactions to the old Viewbook, the reasons they chose to attend the university,'how the campus' location affected their decision, and what they currently thought of the school. , The current Viewbook has text-heavy sections and few pictures. The Office of Admissions hopes the new family of publications will be more enticing for students. The literature takes a new approach to appeal to a broader audience and more intensive student focus, according to Deborah Thompson, vice- president for enrollment management. The new literature has the same quality as previ-, ous university brochures, but the price is more economical than previous literature redesigns, which was an important factor in the project due to the current financial situation of the university, according to the Enrollment Management Office. The Enrollment Management Office also said that the main focus was on student activities, and the brochures contain all fresh information as well as see VIEWBOOKS, page 2a http://reporter.stetson.edu - WlWjfcTiTiimwiMi\4l'i*4i}MttT*WiiUim>i&UW»m m IBBEHBBB Sb-aiMi