Stetson Commons 1998-7-1

Commons Fall 1998 * A Newsletter for Families of Stetson University Students * Volume Vll * No. I Students on Reiter's study tour of England pose by the historic ship of Admiral Nelson, The Victory. Back row: Mancini, Craft, Snyder, Grieh, Raymond, Magarian, Innes, Bicknell, and Hansen. Front row. Speck, Brown, Mavrelis, and Fedor. Not pictured: Michael and Kimberly Reiter. Photo courtesy Kimberly Reiter. Entire campus networked! Students arriving on campus in August will have direct access to the internet and Stetson's network. All residence halls, fraternity and sorority houses will be hooked up for students to use when the semester starts. Your computer needs to meet these specifications in order to use the connections: PC Macintosh Pentium-based PC RAM 100 MB free drive space Windows 95 or higher Power Macintosh 32 MB 32 MB RAM 100 MB free drive space System 7.5.3 or higher A network card and patch cable are also required to connect a computer to the network. For additional information visit the ResNet web site at http://www.stetson.edu/departments/cit/ resnet or e-mail questions to the Center for Information Technology at [email protected]. Outstanding Education Graduate Stacey Mize, West Palm Beach, received the first annual Edward B. Henderson Award for the Most Outstanding Graduating Senior in Teacher Education during the Academic Honors Convocation on J April 24. The annual award established ! by the Gualala Foundation honors the late Edward B. Henderson who earned both a bachelor's and master's degree from Stetson. December trip to Greece and Turkey Religion Professors Mitchell Reddish and Clyde Fant are offering a 16-day study trip to Greece and Turkey over the winter holiday. The course, REL 269C-95 "The World of the Bible II: The Mediterranean World," will fulfill three hours of university credit. The focus of the trip will be on historical and archaeological sites related to biblical studies. The group will leave from Orlando on December 26, 1998 and return January 10, 1999. For more information, contact Reddish at (904) 822-8932 or Fant at (904) 822-7520. Students explore England's castles to understand life in Roman times From May 17 to May 28, 1998, eleven students and four faculty/staff members spent their days and nights exploring ancient castles in Wales, climbing Hadrian's Wall and pondering how the mysterious Stonehenge was constructed. Eleven students and two faculty members participated in Michael and assistant professor of history Kimberly Reiter's summer study tour of England and Wales entitled "Ancient and Medieval England." The travelers were: Megan Bicknell, Heidi Craft, West Palm Beach; Tarah Brown, Bonita Springs; Melissa Fedor, Wellington; Gretchen Hansen, Bryan Raymond, DeLand; Katie Innes, Tequesta; Sal Mancini, Waccabuc, NY; Landon Mavrelis, Indialantic; Autumn Snyder, Sarasota; and Jennifer Speck, Pinellas Park, traveled with Terry Grieb, director of audio visual services, and Elizabeth Magarian, associate professor of mathematics. "We got off the beaten track," said Kimberly Reiter "We visited places that a typical American tourist doesn't." The group toured Durham and its cathedral, visited the birthplace of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Shrewsbury and Portsmouth, with stops at various Roman ruins. The purpose of the study trip was to visit, explore and learn about the times of the Roman occupation and settlement of England. For the students, it wasn't all sight-seeing, though. One assignment was to write an "Ode to Sheep" and the winner got a day's pass on the "tube," London's subway system. Reiter is planning two more study tours which will each take place within the next two years. Her next tour will be to the Canadian Rockies in August of 1999. There, she will lead a group of students to understand the natural history and the prehistory of the Rockies. Students will explore a dinosaur museum, go mountain hiking and climb glaciers. Reiter also hopes to make side trips to the cities of Bamph and Jasper in Canada. Reiter is also planning on repeating her study trip to England in May of 2000 with some itinerary changes and a different focus. The second trip may stray out of England and wander to Edinburgh, Scotland. "The group visited Wales this time," said Reiter "in May of 2000, we hope to spend more time there." For more information on these study abroad programs, contact Kimberly Reiter at (904) 822-7541. Neiv student organization broadcasts over the internet With generous funding from the Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee, the Center for Information Technology and Shahram Amiri, vice president for information technology, music, digital arts and computer science majors are producing GreenHat Media (GHM), a new student organization which broadcasts music over the internet. For now, students can listen to the broadcast by logging on to greenhat.stetson.edu from any networked location on campus after downloading "Real Audio" onto their system. It won't always be that way, though. The organization plans to broadcast concerts from Elizabeth Hall over the internet this fall. "I thought it would be of interest to those families living out of state and not able to hear their children perform on campus," said Nathan Wolek, GHM's president. GHM hopes to expand its horizons and eventually broadcast athletic events, too. GHM is looking for DJs, technicians and publicists. Posters will be hung up in early fall for people interested in pursuing their broadcasting talents or developing their communication and business skills. For information before the semester starts, e-mail the president at [email protected] or vice president at [email protected]. The officers are Nathan Wolek, Longwood, president; Bryan Batchelder, Pinellas Park, vice president; Shawn Moore, Winter Haven, secretary; Martin Johnson, Madeira Beach, treasurer; and Pat Aland, Seminole, technical advisor.