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VoL99,No.7
Florida's Oldest Collegiate Newspaper'^
Stetson University DeLand, Florida
Friday, January 16,1187
Stetson to sign contract for new sorority complex
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EeprterEiter
Stetson fa expected to sign a
$1,785,000 contract shortly which wffl
provide the University with the new
sorority complexes next Fal, according to Charles Johnson,
Director of Physical Plant.
"We have taken bids but have not
signed a contract as of yet," Johnson
aid Tuesday. Dare Construction
Company in Clearwater is expected
to sign the contract, which will cost
the University well over $2,100,000
with landscaping, farnfehmgs for the
sorority houses, and costs of
relocating the International House.
The contract wiE call for the
removal of seven buildings, including the Catholic Center on
Hayden, Charlie Granger's house,
the Mini-sub, Kappa Alpha Theta
house, the Terry house, Tony
Schroder's house, and a married
housing structure currently occupied by Tom Harden and family.
AE buildings to be removed are
covered under fee proposed contract, with the exception of the
relocation of the International
students* complex.
Johnson said the buildings are
expected to be razed within the next
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put these people in."
Johnson said families will be
relocated t© other university-owned
housing, while the "official fun©-,
tions" of the Mini-sub will be
relocated in an office in the Carlton
Union Building. Occupants of the
Theta house have already been
assigned new rooms in housing.
Johnson said" the International
House was chosen for relocation
because of its "academic function"
in the University. "The design lent
itself weB to moving it," he added, .
"we also spent a great deal of money
renovating it and we wanted to
conserve our investment. It was the
easiest of all buildings to relocate
and the only academically oriented
space."
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Search initiated for Dean of Arts and Sciences
By JOIN HUNT
A, Search Committee has been
appointed by Dr. Douglas Lee,
President Elect, to recommend a
new Dean of the CoUege of Arts and
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The committee was appointed
Jan. 2,1987 by Lee to search for a
Dean to replace Dr. Gary Maris,
temporarily acting as interim Dean,
Morris said Tuesday.
Members of the committee include Dr. George Hood; Dr. John
3choor; Dr. Gareth Williams; Mr.
lohn Moore, SGA President; The
Sonorable T. Hyatt Brown, Trustee
and Chairman of the CoBege of Arts
aid Sciences Board of Visitors; Dr.
Louis Brakeman, Ex Officio; and
Dr. Aim Morris as Chairman.
The Search Committee has
already begun meeting, and is
•anticipating the arrival of Dr.
'Brakeman, recently appointed
'Provost, on January 16,1987. Morris
said the Committee will then draw
•guidelines and a tentative agenda
tor the search.
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Morris also said lie
search was announced
ClireMcIe of lifter Wwsatfotj on
Jan. 7, 1987 and applications are
being received in the Office of the
Provost. The deadline is Feb IS,
1987.
In screening cffidiosites, Mwrts
said the committee wffl be tooling
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Ziegler discusses alumni
By CSERYL BBJNKLEY
Stall Writer
Mark Thomas Zeigler has been
named the assistant director of
alumni programs at Stetson.
Zeigler, an 86' graduate, will be
responsible for coordinating alumni
meetings nationwide and organizing
the schools Homecoming
celebration.
What does he hope to accomplish
for Stetson? 'We have 2W0 districts
in Florida ami the rest ©f the nation,'
Zeigler said. '1 would like to see an
active alumni chapter in each
district'
'In addition to my hopes for expanding alubnni chapters, I'm
looking foreward to February's
Homecoming event, thef-celebration
of Dr. Griftths 80th birthday, and
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Brakeman named new provost
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"Staff Writer
Dr. LoHis F. Brakeman, director
of the Study of Professional
Development for the Great Lakes
CoEege Association, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, and former provost of
Qenison University, is the new
provost of Stetson University.
After nearly a year of interviews
•aid recommendations from the
Provost Search Committee
'Jrakeman was recommended for
he position by Dr. H. Douglas Lee,
Jteteon president elect, and approved by the Executive Committee
>f the Board of Trustees, i Dr.
Jrakemau will assume the
responsibilities as provost in July of
1987.
Dr. Brakeman's past experience
clearly indicates Oat he fits the bill
of this hard-to-fiE office. His
education credits boast of an undergraduate Political Science major
with honors and an M.A. and Pfa.D.
from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Brakeman has had uracil experience teaching Political Science
and has previously served as
Provost at Denison University in
Ohio for twelve years.
Finding the man for this job was
no simple task, reveals Dr. Bryan
Gillespie, who was asked to take
over the position last spring while
fee search for the office of Provost
ran into overtime.
Last spring, the "search and
screen committee," which is
composed of student and faculty
members and a trustee, recruited
five possible candidates for the ,
from throughout the country,
none were selected.
Dr. Gillespie, though hesitant to
leave teaching even temporarily,
agreed to help out by accepting the
President's proposal to fill as
Provost.
Dr. Gillespie reveals a fondness
and a respect for the new Provost,
saying that he was so impressed
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