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This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the CCU Newsletters at CCU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in On Campus Newsletter by an authorized administrator of CCU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Newsletter for Faculty and Staff of Coastal Carolina University • Volume 4, Number 15 • September 11, 1995

University hurricane emergency procedures Budgetary surplus President Ingle has established an Emergency Do not call the switchboard for information bolsters Coastal projects Operations Committee and charged the group with the because a large volume of incoming calls will tie up development and refinement of a procedure for university telephone lines and hamper efforts to get accurate Coastal Carolina University will receive 'B50,ooo crises. The group is representative of all areas of information to parents and the media from the State of South Carolina Supplemental Appropria­ campus administration. • Prior to a hurricane emergency, tion Bill for 1994-1995; the funds will be used to complete The coniinittee is examining President Ingle, or his designee, will architectural and engineering work on the new humanities existing procedures for hurricane convene the Management Council for and fine arts building, and for construction of a community preparedness and response. The preparedness briefings and fitness center. following information is an assignments. Supplemental appropriations totaling U4B,B15 excerpt from a document which • When classes are canceled, million were part of the state's 1994-1995 budgetary surplus will be completed and widely the Office of the Provost will of B92,685 million. The funding for Coastal was an­ circulated to the campus in the notify all academic deans. nounced by the Comptroller General in Columbia on near future. Each dean is responsible for Aug. lB. It is the policy of notifying the faculty of his or Of the total funds the university received from the Coastal Carolina University to her school or area of class Supplemental Appropriations Bill, approximately '600,000 view each hurricane threat as an cancellations. If classes are will be directed to complete the architectural and engineer­ extremely hazardous condition, canceled, faculty and staff are ing work for an IIB,OOO-square-foot humanities and fine and to minimize the risk to expected to report to work. If arts building to house the academic departments of art, students, faculty and staff employees are unable to report to work English, history, music; philosophy and religion, politics consistent with protecting when classes are canceled, they should and geography, and theater. The Stubbins Associates, Inc., university property. Please listen to contact their supervisors to make arrange­ of Cambridge, Mass., is preparing the design work for the emergency warnings on local television ments for taking annual leave or compensatory time. building. The project is anticipated to cost approximately and radio stations, and take such warnings seriously. Employees are not expected to risk dangerous traveling U4.5 million. If the university cancels classes due to severe conditions to report to work. The balance of the funds from the Supplemental weather or other emergency situations, local radio and • If a Hurricane Waming is issued by the National Weather Appropriations Bill will be used to design and cop.struct the television stations and the daily newspaper are notified Service, students who reside in the Residence Halls will be community fitness center. Designed to meet NCAA immediately. All official announcements will be made from advised to travel home or inland prior to the onset of specifications, the facility will include an eight-lane, the Office of the President. The university's decision to adverse weather conditions. Students who live in the 4oo-meter composition track and related fitness areas for cancel classes or special events is made independently of a Residence Halls should communicate, as appropriate, with use by the university and community organizations. It is decision made by the Horry County Schools. Unless an their RA's as to where they will be going and a telephone estimated that the facility will be complete in spring 1996. announcement specifically says Coastal Carolina University number, if available, where they may be reached. "The support Coastal Carolina has received at the has canceled classes, students should assume classes will be For students whose options for travel are limited, the state level recognizes this institution as an emerging force held as scheduled. In the event of an emergency clOSing, the university shall assist in the transportation of these students in South Carolina higher education," said President Ingle. following media are notified by the Office of Public to emergency shelters, as designated by the American Red "These funds could not have been allocated to Coastal Information: Cross. without the diligent support of the Horry-Georgetown Radio • Even when classes are canceled, the university will Legislative Delegation and members of our Board of WBPR (97.9 FM) remain open unless the Governor closes the institution. Trustees." WGTN (1400 MI)/WAl:t.. (106.3 FM) Faculty and staff are expected to report to work or make "Coastal Carolina has earned the attention and WJXY (1050 MI) arrangements for annual leave or compensatory time until support of this state," said S.C. Rep. Mark Kelley. "The W]YR (92.1 FM) the Governor issues a closing declaration. If the threat of a delegation is working to further the fine reputation of WKZQ (101.7 FM/1520 MI) hurricane exiSts, faculty and staff should unplug all learning and the possibilities that Coastal Carolina proVides WNMB (105.5 FM)/WGSN (900 MI) equipment - especially computers - in their areas prior to for the region and the state. I am proud to be a part of the WRNN (94.5 FM) leaving campus. efforts that bolster the academic mission of this WSCA (93.7 FM) • The university has NOT been designated as an emer­ university." • WSYN (H)6.5 FM) gency shelter by the American Red Cross. If an evacuation is WYAK (103.1 FM)/ (1270 MI) ordered, the Red Cross will issue a list of available shelters. Wetland course offered WYAV (104.1 FM) All students, faculty and staff must leave campus when The Center for Marine and Wetland Studies will Television such an evacuation is ordered, excepting Emergency sponsor a four-day course designed to provide a basic WB1WTV 13 Operations personnel. The university is unable to provide understanding of current regulatory and technical criteria used WECf TV 6 basic necessities for students, faculty and staff during or in by the u.s. Army Corps of Engineers in detennining jurisdic­ WPDE TV 15 the aftermath of a hurricane. tional wetland boundaries. "Basic Wetland Delineation" will be Cox Cable • Following a hurricane, movement to and from the held in two sessions: Thursday and Friday, Sept. 28 and 29; and Horry Telephone Cablevision campus may be restricted. Persons who must be available Thursday and Friday, Oct. 5 and 6. Jones Intercable following a hurricane, to protect university property, must Participants must attend both sessions; all classes Newspaper be on campus prior to the arrival of the storm .• begin at B a.m. Course fee is '500. THE SUN NEWS (if deadlines have not passed) Registration deadline is Wednesday, Sept. 20. Space is limited; early registration is recommended. Lectures will be presented on campus in the moming and field exercises will be conducted in the aftemoon. Additional off-campus housing contracted for fall 1996 Equipment and transportation to the field will be proVided; The university has contracted with the North washer and dryer. however, participants are responsible for meals and lodging. Environmental and wetland consultant Paul Booth American Institute of Aviation to provide off-campus "We're very pleased with the assistance we have Jr. is course instructor. To register or for more infonnation, call housing to 45 students for the fall 1995 semester. The received from NAlA," Squatriglia said. "Their cooperative John Steen or the Center for Marine and Wetland Studies at agreement is in response to the demand for student housing spirit and willingness to support our endeavors as a fellow extension 2224 .• at the university. educational institution are appreciated." According to Bob Squatriglia, "National statistics Housing at the NAlA will be managed by the show that students who live on campus are likely to enjoy a university's Office of Residence Life. 1\vo resident assistants more complete intercollegiate experience than those who will live at the site; campus security also will be assigned to live off campus." This trend, accompanied by the scarcity in the site. COASTAL CAROUNA UNIVERSITY rental properties along the Grand Strand due to the area's Ashuttle van service is available to students for -- rapid growth, equals a greater demand in campus housing, transportation to campus. Did you know? Approximately 3,500 students ranging from he said. University officials anticipate that Coastal's middle school to university level and adults participat­ The apartments are owned by NAlA and are used housing demand will be alleviated with the addition of a ing in continuing education programs were housed in for those enrolled in that institution's pilot training school. 4OO-bed residence halVdining facility which is scheduled for the Coastal Carolina University Residence Halls from The fully furnished apartments are located approximately completion in August 1996. Approximately 600 of the May through August. From junior scholar programs eight miles from campus. Each unit features two bedrooms, university's more than 4,500 students live in eight residence and athletic camps to Orientation and art seminars, two full bathrooms, a full kitchen and a living room and halls. The residence hall under construction will almost groups from Georgia to New Jersey booked housing in dining room area with cable television hook-up and local double the number of students living on campus to 1,000- university accommodations. telephone service; each apartment is equipped with its own close to one-fourth of the student population .• Participate in a STAMM71SCH on Thursdays Birthdays in • Students, faculty and staII are invited to on Sept 7, 14,21 and 28; Oct. 5, 12, 19 and 26; 0 participate in a S1J4MMTISCH/German Conversation Nov. 2, 9 and 16; and Dec. 7. 0 Table on Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Prior registration is not reqUired. September For more information, contact Mike Gilbert at Campus Cafeteria. 14 Clara Rogers The group will meet during the fall semester extension 2430 . • • 15 Joseph Parker • Ken Wrighter Self-defense course offered for women 16 Alan Connie Richard Moore A 12-hour non-credit self-defense course, Rape more viable considerations for women who are attacked. • Denzil Simmons Aggression Defense Systems for Women, will be held on RAD is not a martial arts class; it is a class that shows basic Robert Haselden Wednesdays from Sept. 13 through Oct. 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. moves women can use to protect themselves. 17 AnnM. Ipock in the Physical Education Center, room 114. Women age 16 The course training will end Wednesday, Oct. 4 Diane Watson and above are eligible to enroll; registration is $39. Space is with a "dynamic simulation" in which participants will use Iliana Rodriguez-Mesa limited; early registration is recommended. the techniques they leamed to escape the RAD attacker, a 18 Ken Townsend The course instructor is Les Haga, training officer police officer dressed in protective gear. Mona Dukes in Coastal's Office of Law Enforcement and Safety. For more information, contact Haga at extension 19 Tom O'Loughlin The objective of RAD is to develop and enhance 2174; to register for the course, contact the Office of Margaret Fain the options of self-defense so these techniques may become Continuing Education at extension 2665 .• 20 Thomas G. Palmer [I • New student activities director appointed 22 Lakesha Leshann Collier 0 23 Brian Nance Ellen Parsons has been appointed director of Madison University Center; coordinator for Student Pat Taylor Student Activities at Coastal. Organization Services at Louisiana State University; and as a 24 John Durrell In addition to serving as a liaison between the graduate assistant in the Department of Student Life at the Richard Koesterer students and the university, Parsons is responsible for University of South Carolina. Jonathan E. Mishoe student government, student media, Greek and other She is a native of Georgetown County. Parsons Ballou Skinner student organizations, and the Campus Program Board. earned a master's of education degree in student personnel 25 Dennis Wiseman Parsons has five years of higher education services from the University of South Carolina in 1992 and a experience in the area of student activities. Before joining bachelor's degree in political science from Clemson Coastal, she worked as assistant director of the James University in 1988 .• Volunteers needed for dolphin count The Center for Marine and Wetland Studies is estimates which are needed for the management of the o.,.~ seeking volunteers to help monitor the dolphin population. species. The information will be used to define long-term On Campus is published biweekly on Monday by the Counts will begin Monday, Sept. 18 and continue on population trends with regard to seasonal variations and Office of Public Infonnation for faculty and staff of weekdays for five to six weeks. respOnse to major events such as hurricanes and the Coastal Carolina University. Items to be included Volunteers who can contribute several mornings 1987-1988 die-off of dolphins along the East Coast. should be submitted by noon the Tuesday before to dolphin surveys will be paired with other observers and The research will build upon data from the publication. Coastal Carolina University is an stationed every two miles along the beach from Cherry annual 1994 and 1995 South Carolina Dolphin Counts and aifmnative action, equal opportunity institution. Grove to Myrtle Beach. Volunteers will count dolphins that from several preliminary counts made by Coastal students pass their observation sites from 9 a.m. to noon. along the Grand Strand last year. On Campus will be published during the fall In return, volunteers may go out on Coastal's InJuly 1995, volunteers counted approximately semester as follows: 120 dolphins along the Grand Strand from Waties Island to research vessel for one of the offshore dolphin surveys. No Publication date: Submission deadline: Bull's Island. experience is reqUired; volunteers must attend a one-hour Monday, Sept. 25 1\Jesday, Sept. 19 For more information, call Young at extension training session at Coastal. Monday, Oct. 9 1\Jesday, Oct. 3 2277. • Robert Young, dolphin count program coordina­ Monday, Oct. 23 1\Jesday, Oct. 17 tor, hopes the data collected will proVide reliable population Monday, Nov. 6 1\Jesday, Oct 31 Monday, Nov. 20 1\Jesday, Nov. 14 Coastal to sponsor team for annual beach sweep Monday, Dec. 4 1\Jesday, Nov. 27 Monday, Dec. 18 1\Jesday, Dec. 12 The Center for Marine and Wetland Studies is according to program organizers. sponsoring a Coastal team for South Carolina's annual Beach Faculty are requested to announce the Beach Sweep/ Information should be submitted to the Office of Sweep/River Sweep '95 to be held Saturday, Sept. 16 from River Sweep '95 information to their classes. Public Information in EMS 204. 9 a.m. to noon. For more information or to join Coastal's team, More than a one-day cleanup, Beach Sweep/River contact Sharon Gilman at extension 2248 .• Sweep '95 is a first step toward finding the solution to pollution, Auditions for Coastal's production of Hair Auditions for Coastal Carolina University Theater's The American tribal-love rock mUSical, Hair, has performance of Hair, a rock musical by Gerome Ragni and been described as one of the best mediums for nostalgic travel to James Rado, will be held Monday, Sept. 11 and 1\Jesday, a mythic locale of harmony and understanding, sympathy and Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. in Wheelwright Auditorium. Auditions are trust, brotherhood and love, and peace and psychedelia. open to the public. Hair will be performed in November as part All audition materials will be proVided; theater of the 1995-1996 Wheelwright-Series. expefience is not reqUired. Directors Charles Whetzel and Sheryl Ward are For more information on auditions, call Whetzel at casting 20 singers, dancers and musicians for the production. extension 2416 or Ward at extension 2513 .• Jump for the Sun to be held at Coastal Faculty and Staff Jump for the Sun: A Research Project to Participants will meet monthly during the school Encourage Girls and Women in Science and Math will be year, including two overnight field trips in the spring. GOLF held at Coastal from October through June. 1\venty-four third­ Jump for the Sun focuses on the importance of through eighth-graders and six teachers from Horry County science and mathematics in the ways human beings live and TOURNAMENT Schools, and six undergraduate education students from treat the planet. Through hands-on activities, participants see Coastal will be selected to receive full scholarships for the how science and math apply to their lives. and program which lasts one academic year. Scholarship Teachers and parents are included in the program to application deadline is Friday, Sept. 15. build a support system to encourage the girls and women and COOKOUT Sally Hare and Mary Crowe received a $99,998 grant strengthen their self -concepts. Aspecial program will be offered from the National Science Foundation for the program. Jump for the parents of elementary and middle school partiCipants. at for the Sun is designed to increase the number of girls For more information or a scholarship application, enrolling in math and science courses at the middle and high call the Center for Education and Community at extension Quail Creek Golf Club school levels in an effort to increase the number of women who 2667 .• enter careers in these areas. September 22 TEAM COASTAL! days designated 12:45 p.m. As part of TEAM COASTAL!, President Ingle close to actual cost. For sign-up and has designated the last Friday of each month as Coastal For more information or to order a shirt, Day. Coastal employees are encouraged to wear Coastal contact Carol Collins-Bunn at extension 2361 or stop by additional information, Carolina University logo clothing on these special days. the Campus Bookstore. Special order TEAM COASTAL! imprinted polo Coastal Day's for the fall semester will be call Pat West, shirts will be available to Coastal employees only at the celebrated on Sept. 29, Oct. 27, Nov. 17 and Dec. 15 .• extension 2099. Campus Bookstore. The special order shirts will be sold

2 Recycling program established by Facilities Management The Office of Facilities Management has Plastic: Recycle all plastic bottles, such as soft drink bottles, established a campus-wide recycling program. milk and water jugs, detergent, and shampoo bottles, yogurt The campus cafeteria is open Monday through Recycling cartsfor paper only have been placed containers and margarine containers. Rinse containers and Thursday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 7 a.m. to in most campus offices. White and colored paper and remove caps. Do not recycle styrofoam products such as 6:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. envelopes should be placed in the carts. Do not recycle food containers, egg cartons, meat trays andplastic and 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. manila folders, brown envelopes or envelopes with plastic wrap. windows. Glass: Recycle all glass bottles. Clear and brown glass must Week of September 11 Other items that can be recycled on campus be separated. All other glass may be placed together. should be retained in separate containers and will be Remove lids and rinse containers. Do not recycle drinking Monday: Jerk Chicken or Hamburger Steak collected periodically. To arrange for pick-up of these items, glasses, mirrors, window glass, Pyrex dishes, ceramic Thesday: Chicken Parmesan or Spaghetti with Meat Sauce contact Denzil Simmons, coordinator of the campus light bulbs or any glass that is not a container. Wednesday: Fried Chicken or Quiche recycling program. Newspaper: Recycle clean, dry newspapers, magazines, Thursday: Chicken Polynesian or Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry Other items for campus recycling include: and advertising inserts that are placed inside a newspaper. Friday: Taco Salad or Seafood Casserole Aluminum, metal and steel cans: Recycle aluminum Newspapers, telephone books and magazines should be beverage cans, metal and steellood cans, aluminum foil placed in a..separate-rontainer.,.. -- -- Week of September 18 and aluminum pie pans. Rinse out cans and put lids inside For more information about Coastal's recycling cans before recycling. program, contact Simmons at extension 2930 .• Monday: Barbecue Chicken or Pepper Steak Thesday: Lasagna or Fettucine with Clam Sauce Wednesday: Fried Chicken or Kielbasa and Sauerkraut Thursday: Sweet and Sour Pork or Szeswaun Chicken Friday: Cajun Baked Fish or Taco Salad

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Sharon Thompson presented a lecture, "Perceptions of provided techniques to assist fitness professionals in Areminder ... Ideal Size: Is Your Worth Measured by the Bathroom encouraging all shapes and sizes of people to incotpOrate Scales?", at the New World Fitness Convention sponsored by increased activity into their lifestyle. More than 4,000 people The Coastal Carolina University logo is a registered the International Dance Exercise Association (IDEA) held in from 80 countries attended the convention . • and fully protected trademark. As such, the logo must only be San Diego, Calif., Aug. 27. Her 9O-minute presentation used for approved purposes and cannot be modified in any way without prior approval from the Office of Public Information. For more information and for logo approval, call the Office of Public Information at extension 2003 or 2017 .•

Volleyball Coastal at Virginia Commonwealth Tournament, TBA Benefits memo 16 Oct. 1- 31 is the time to add or make 11 Soccer changes to health benefits every year. This year Administrative Council meeting Coastal at UNC Asheville, 2 p.m. there are some unique aspects to Open Enrollment, 8:30 a.m., EMS Conference Room Volleyball including the opportunity to add or make changes Nita Hutchinson Coastal at Virginia Commonwealth Tournament, TBA in dental coverage . . Faculty Address, E. Grady Bogue speaker Men's Cross Country New benefits include a state supplemental 3:30 p.m., WA Winthrop Invitational, 9 a.m. LTD, well baby care through the State Health Plan, Nita Hutchinson Women's Cross Country and the ability to designate contingent beneficiaries Hair auditions Winthrop Invitational, 9 a.m. 7p.rn., WA with the South Carolina Retirement System. Charles WhetzeVSheryl Ward 18 More information on new benefits will be Men's Golf Annual Fund Drive available during the Benefits Fair Oct. 12 and 13. Coastal at Kiawah Island Invitational 9:30 a.m., WALL Auditorium For additional information, contact Tim continues through Sept. 12 Ernie Locklair Wert at extension 2139. 12 20 Hair auditions RAn (Rape Aggression Defense) Workshop for Women 7p.m., WA 6 p.m., ADM 003 Charles WhetzeVSheryl Ward Les Haga Volleyball Coastal at Wofford, 7 p.m. 21 . Soccer STAMMT/SCHjGerman Conversation Table UNC Wilmington at Coastal, 7 p.m. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Cafeteria Mike Gilbert 13 Bulletin Board is a free service for faCUlty and American Red Cross Blood Drive 23 staff who wish to advertise items or services for sale 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., SC Game Room Soccer or needed. Ads may run no more than two consecutive times and are subject to space James Dukes/SGA Lotto South Alabama Classic availability. RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) Coastal vs. AlabamaA&M, 2 p.m. Workshop for Women Volleyball For sale: 1987 Ford Escort Station Wagon. Only 6 p.m., ADM 003 UNC Charlotte Tournament 75,000 miles, new brakes, automatic transmission, Les Haga Coastal vs. College of Charleston, 2 p.m. air-conditioned, radio. Excellent Coastal vs. UNC Charlotte, 4 p.m. AM/FM 14 condition, $2,000. · Professional model alto STAMMT/SCHjGerman Conversation Table 24 saxophone; beautiful tone - '600. • Student 11 :30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Cafeteria Soccer model Bundy flute, newly refurbished - $175 .• Full-length Dorothy's Originals curtains. 1\vo sets in Mike Gilbert Lotto South Alabama Classic ivory and one set in cinnamon-,60 per set. • Last day for Fall I classes to drop without WF Coastal vs. University of South Alabama, 4 p.m. Volleyball Women's 12-speed bicycle, hardly used and in 15 UNC Charlotte Tournament excellent condition-'17S. • For more information, contact Alan Michie at extension 2947 or 236-1903. Last day to apply for December graduation Coastal vs. Hartford - noon

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