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The Wesley House will
celebrate the opening of the
school year with its annual
Bread and Cheese Fest, at
the Wesley House, 520 North
Woodland Boulevard, across
from Hulley Tower, this
Sunday, Sept. 7, at 6 p.m.
Everyone is welcome. Come
over and enjoy the cheese,
bread and fruit buffet, and
the fellowship.
SUB frige pickup
Anyone who reserved a
refrigerator during registration can pick one up today
between 2 and 4 p.m. at the
basement of Sage Hall, south
side of the building. Today is
the last day to pick them up.
Class adds
There's not much time to
make up your mind. The last
day to add a class for credit
will be next Friday, Sept. 12.
The last day to drop a class
without penalty will be
Oct.3.
Fraternity rush signups
will be next Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday in
front of the commons during
all meals.
Red ford, Fonda
Redford and Fonda-what a
duo! They'll be teaming up
tonight and tomorrow at 7
p.m. in The Electric Horseman. See it at the Stetson
Room.
Orientation party
What better way to end
orientation than by throwing
a party? The Orientation
Committee will be doing just
that tomorrow between 11
a.m. and 3 p.m. at the
Pirates Cove in Daytona.
On the Inside
Editorials P.2
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Movin in P.8
Nexus P.12
Sports P.14
Bulletin Board P.16
'Florida's Oldest Collegiate Newspaper
Stetson University DeLand, Florida
Friday, September 5, 1980
for Wednesday's convocation.
Duncan looks
with optimism
toward 80s
By RIK SCARCE
Editor in Chief
Expressing hope that the coming decade will see
an end to the underlying bitterness which has been
growing in some sectors of the Stetson community,
President Pope A. Duncan opened the 98th academic
year of the university Wednesday morning.
Sunny skies and a light breeze greeted those in
attendence as Duncan spoke optimistically at a time
in the university's history when students are forced
to pay increasingly higher bills for their education
and many faculty members are disgruntled about
low wages and increased demands by the university
upon their time.
Duncan looked to the day when all in the university
community would trust one another, "be conscious of
the needs and feelings of each other; and we shall
treat each other with mutual respect." He said such'
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Unexpected returnees force overflow
By RIK SCARCE
Editor in Chief
As a result of an unusually
large number of returning
students coming back to
university housing, approximately 66 female students
will be housed in the University Inn (UI) some for the
entire school year, and a
$100,000 renovation program
for the old Honors House has
begun, according to Dean of
Student Affairs E. Garth
Jenkins.
President's
Welcome
Dear Students:
Let me welcome each of
you whether you are returning to the campus or
whether you are a new
student.
It is always exciting and
satisfying to those of us who
stay here when you are gone
to see the campus again full
of students.
I congratulate those of you
who are beginning your
collegiate career upon your
decision to pursue a baccalaureate degree. We
believe, too, that you have
here a wonderful group of
people — fellow students,
faculty, and staff. You will
also find yourself challenged
Jenkins said actual numbers of students attending
Stetson this year will be less
than in 1979-80. Before registration approximately 12
fewer freshmen and 45 fewer
transfer students were
expected to attend the university.
"The situation has come
about through a combination
of decisions made by admissions, housing and President Duncan," Jenkins said.
"In part we allowed return
ing students to sign up for
housing and we know as well
that we need more space for
new students."
Asked why precautions
were not taken this year to
assure adequate dorm space
for new students after last
year's hints, which included
the necessity for triple occupancy, rooms in formerly
double rooms in some
women's dorms, Jenkins
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The old Honors House, soon to fie w est u Diversity Hail.
Academic computer on line
and stimulated by the academic program.
I encourage you to determine from the very
beginning to do your best.
The reward which then will
come in terms of growth,
maturity, and self-
satisfaction will be
enormous.
Sincerely yours,
Pope A. Duncan
President.
Faculty members in the
Department of Mathematics
and Computer Sciences
ft-(MCS), while excited about
the arrival of a new $150,000
academic computer, are reluctant to praise the untried
machine.
Department Chairman
Gene Medlin said delays in
getting facilities prepared
for the Data General Eclipse
C-350, apparently caused by
a backlog of work which
required maintenance
personnel from the university to service dorms and
other academic buildings
before getting to the computer area, will affect student access to the computer.
"For all intents and
purposes," Medlin said, "it
may not be available for
students in courses requiring
computer work until after
the Winter Term because the
directories may not be set
up and the software, including programs, may not have
arrived."
The computer was delivered in mid-August, though
facilities were not complete
at the time. Only within the
last two weeks has it been
"up" for testing and the
installment of terminals and
other features.
Dr. Cloyd Ezefttl, MCS
faculty member, said, "If
it's not up and usable the
first day of classes, it will be
within the first week. The
installment is done and the
computer is up. It's a matter
now of getting the peripherals up."
Noting the main memory
can handle over a million
bytes with a 50 megabyte
mass storage, Ezell said,
"So far we're optimistic. We
think it will serve the
university well. It's got a lot
of main memory which
means we will get a fast
turnaround time. The
hardware is very good."
Turnaround time, the time
it takes the computer to
respond to a command, is an
important feature of the
computer, Ezell said. With
large numbers of students
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