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Stetson University November 17,1992 Volume 105, Number 11
INSIDE
• Associate
Provost, Roscoe
T. Gort, returns to
the Op/Ed section
again this week.
The subject of his
satire? The battle
over Winter Term,
of course!
Page 2
• New Faces in
Residential life: a
look at East Area
Assistant Director
Rich Martins
PageS
• The Student
Government has
kept itself busy in
these final weeks
of the fall semester. A summary of
S.G.A/s work for
the past week can
be found on
Page 7
WINTER TERM BATTLE UPDATE:
Students say "Status Quo" in landslide
Eric J. Carr
Special to the Reporter
The Student Government Association has released the results of
the Winter Term survey, and it
appears that the students want to
keep Winter Term - in a big way.
Ofthe 2031 surveys distributed, 764 were returned. That's a
38%retwninonlythreedays. What
is even more significant is that
71.4% ofthe students chose option
#1 - to keep the status quo. to keep
Winter Term.
80% of students
demonstrated
general support for
Winter Term
Using the method employed
by the Provost in analyzing the
faculty surveys he sent in September, 80% of students demonstrated
general support for Winter Term.
The highest support for the status
quo was in the music school, where
77% chose that option.
What does this mean?
It seems that the faculty does
not share that support for Winter
Term. In the Provost's survey, the
faculty's general support for Winter Term was only 34%, and it
appears that most faculty want to
do away with the 26-year program.
The faculty Academic Affairs
Committee will vote by correspondence on which option to recommend to the Faculty Senate. From
there, the Senate will discuss and
vote on the proposal either in their
December meeting or in January.
Should they approve the proposal,
it will then be presented to the
entire faculty for a final vote.
Many students are concerned
that the faculty will attempt to resolve this issue over the Christmas
break.
S.G.A. President Gayle
Littleton met with the President of
the University last week, and Dr. H.
Douglas Lee assured her that it
would not happen this way. The
students would be here for the vote.
Most faculty want to
do away with the 26-
year program
Some students are discouraged
by the faculty's high level of opposition to Winter Term, but most are
optimistic. The S.G.A. survey results will be distributed to all faculty, and in many classes, students
have initiated a discussion with the
professor on Winter Term.
The largest opposition to the
alternate Winter Term proposals
was to option #2, to adopt a calendar similar to the one used by the
state university system. It received
less than 5% support on the survey,
and to quote several students, "If
we wanted a state university calendar, we would have saved $7000
and gone to a state university.
(Winter Term) makes Stetson
unique. It makes us special.''
S.G.A. Wilier Term
Poff.ftesiiifs
2031 surveys sent out
764 surveys returned
-71.4% of Stetson
students chose to
keep Winter Term
- 77% of music school
responses chose to
keep Winter Term - the
highest of any schools
- 34% of the Stetson
faculty support Winter
Term
- Less than 5% of
students supported
Option #2 which involved adopting a state
university calendar
Elizabeth Hall celebrates 100 years
Elizabeth Hall, Stetson
University's signature building, is
celebrating its 100th year and a
small birthday celebration is
planned in the main foyer afler 10
a.pi. Chapel Service this Wednesday, November 18.
A special cake, baked as a replica of Elizabeth Hall, willbe served
as part ofthe festivities, according
to Nancy Jones, assistant dean of
campus life and director of student
life.
Elizabeth Hall was builtin three
sections by John B. Stetson and
named for Ms third wife.
The center part, completed in
1892 at a cost of $45,000, is a
replica of Independence Hall in
Philadelphia, Mr. Stetson's home
city. The Colonial Revival design
was done by architect George T.
Pearson of Philadelphia. The
building's asymmetrical wings were
added in 1897.
The south wing ofthe building
contains the chapel, with its
Beckerath organ, the first of its
kind installed in an American university7. The chapel is dedicated to
Stetson's youngest son, Ben, who
died in childhood.
Built under the tenure of Presi
See Birthday- page 4
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