Mesa State Moves Into the Suite Life New Residence Hall Finished I Under Projected Budget Holly Cook and Jeremiah Cadman News Editor and Reporter
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AUGUST 23, Volume 76 2006 Issue 1 Mesa State College • The voice of students since 1931 Mesa State moves into the suite life New residence hall finished I under projected budget Holly Cook and Jeremiah Cadman News Editor and Reporter Mesa State College's campus has a new look this year. The "new resi dence hall," which has yet to be named, is now open to students for the fall 'JQQ6 semester. The building houses 288 residents, seven resident assistants, and one ull-timc resident director. According to Housing Director Chip Thomas, all f the rooms were filled as of last march. The rooms are suite style and house eight students per suite. Each suite 's separated by sex but both men and women can live on the same floor. Instead of individual rooms for Resident Assistants one suite a floor will a,·e the R'\'s room contained within it. The RAs will have a door to the out ide hallway separate from their suite. Residents gain access to the building with their MAVcard, which unlocks he front door as well as their suite. Each individual room in the suite has 'ts own key. Taylor Stonehouse/Criterion A unique feature to the new residence hall is that the first floor of the 8 wing has no suite. Instead, it houses a lobby, conference room, multipurpose room, computer lab, and the Resident Director's apartment. This floor is meant to be used as meeting place for both faculty, staff and students. All of the equipment that would be needed to create a full classroom has already been installed and could he used as such in the future. The building houses 288 residents, seven resident The hall also includes trash chutes. Residents will be able to dispose of their trash without hav assistants, and one full-time resident director. ing to leave the huilding. According -Housing Director Chip Thomas to Housing Spokesman Andy Rodriguez, the new building was offi cially turned over to the college on August I Ith both under budget and on time. The bud- get for this project was SI I. 7 million. Rodriguez said that although there are some minor finishing details to be done in the building, howe\.er, the interior is complete. The exterior of the building however will still have some landscape work done such as the sprinkler system. Rodriguez also said that the light poles in the quad should be installed by the middle of the first week of school. To the south of the hall is a new parking lot. This lot has 178 spaces reserved for cam pus residents. All residents began moving in on Aug. 18th. Some residents moved in the week before due to the F'l:1 program and athletics. Even with it being so early in the semester, Rodriguez said that the hall was liked by the students. "DVD players and Xboxes are already on the TVs," said Rodriguez. "(The hall) is being pretty well received." As for the change in the look of campus that the new hall brought, Rodriguez said that he has heard a lot of positive comments. The Mesa State College Board of Trustees held a ribbon cut "The comment we keep hearing from everyone," Rodriguez said "is that the (campus) is re ting ceremony on Aug. 11 to unveil the new residence hall. ally taking on the look of a (university) campus." The hall which has yet to be named was completed under budget and on schedule . ~e.edl• 2 Criterion • A UGUST 23, 2006 Holly Cook, editor News [email protected] Criterion Calendar Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Wednesda~ August 23, 2006 Outdoor Program hosts Wednesday Night Wandering in the Bookcliff Cafe. Thursday August 24, 2006 High 93 ° High 92 ° High 89 ° High 91 ° High 93 ° Mesa State College vs. Dixie State College at Low 66° Low62° Low 61 ° Low62° Low 63 ° 7 p.m. at Stocker Stadium Friday August 25, 2006 End of tne First Week of Classes Mesa State by Nate Nichols Celebration SfQIOU51.Y. WHY ooes Noon in the Academic Quad SCHOOL. HAVf TO 5TAQT WHfN THf'1f'5 5Tll.l. AN Dance fNTll?e MONTH 01' SUM~ 8-11 p.m. Liff Auditorium Saturday August 26, 2006 Jazz/Blues Night 7 p.m. Elm Street Grill Sunday August 27, 2006 Comedian Andy Hendrickson 7 p.m. in Robinson Theatre • AUGUST 23, 2006 • Criterion 3 ~~,~~ ~°"" ~ .rp,u, ~,· ~(@t/u,:t~ '9u;M '6-t -d:e ~: 7UJMI -7UJMI '9u;MI '9edtut~, MESA /'Id ~ ~ daU., ue: ST A · T E C O L L E G E tJeut ~ ~ tUt, 0 11~! WEDNESDAY NIGHT li-OOTBALL GAME END OF THE FIRST WEEK WANDERINGS Thursday, Aug.2"11:"1 OF CLASSES Wednesday, Aug. 23 7pm CELEBRATION! 7:30 pm Stocker Stadium Friday, Aug. 25th Bookcliff Cafe Academic Quad Mesa S't'ct~ College Sponsored by the 'MS. Mosaic (A Capella Group) OUTDOOR PROGRAM Dhde S\:a.'le Cdllege . DANCE JAZZ BLUES NIGHT ANDY HENDRICKSON f ·~lday, A111g.25th Craig Kingfish Griffin COMEDIAN Saturday, Aug. 26th Sunday, Aug.• 27trtil n lpm 8pm- 7pm 7pm Liff Auditorium ELM STREET GRILL 4 Criterion Opinions • AUGUST 23, 2006 • • Nate Nichols, editor 0 1n1ons [email protected] Side-effects of summer break Editorial: a new light for the Crite I leapt (halfway blindly) into this se truth, but I expect our readers to keep Getting back into the "swing" of things mester as the new editor of the Mesa us accurate and accountable. I encour As short as summer break seemed, can manage to schedule one day off State College Criterion and landed in a age readers to offer constructive criti three months away from school is during the summer. While you're av pile of mixed emotions. cism by \\-Titing letters to the editor in an awfully long time. Don't get me eraging 60 hours a week at the of With the whirlwind of new class- order to maintain that professionalism wrong; I enjoy time off just as much fice, you'll get the added responsi es, new staff members and new ideas, I on all levels. as the next guy, but a quarter-year bility of fielding calls and emails for have plenty to keep me busy for a while. As an Ambassador to the school, I hiatus strikes me as counterproduc your boss, who's in week eight of his Luckily, I find myself standing in the have been fortunate enough to come in tive to the institu- six-week vacation, sailing the mix of some amazing contact with more insight tion of learning. It Caribhean archipelago \vith his . people. ful people than I could seems that once fourth wife. With such a great have ever imagined. While I get comfortable The kicker is at the end of staff, I am anxious to my plate often overfills in the classroom, the year when, instead of a bo start the year; the en "ith activities, my contact I'm rewarded with nus, you receive' a holiday gift ergy and dedication they with those individuals is 13 weeks to allow basket containing an oversized put into this first issue priceless to me. whatever informa polo shirt emblazoned with the verifies, to me, what the While I hope to stay in tion I've retained company logo and a coupon to rest of the year \\-ill be. good terms with all those to gradually dis the Olive Garden. Their support has kept I work with and know solve into that part Between the ensuing hot me standing (and sane) around the school, I am of my brain where flashes, your mind wanders throughout this first confident they will re I file such things back to your college days when week. spect my decisions at the as my mom's birth life seemed so rough, and you I hope to bring a Criterion. day and where I Nate Nichols can't help but envy how simple new energy into the of The newsroom will have left the keys to my Right On! things were back then com fice; several of the staff a new atmosphere this car. pared to how they arc now. members are my good Taylor Stonehouse year. I'm maintaining a Like muscles in Why, it seems like only yes friends, and I look for Editor In Chief very wide open-door policy, the body, the human mind requires terday you were up in the wee hours ward to strengthening and I hope to see several conditioning to perform at an opti of the morning, typing away at that our relationships. visitors stop by. I will be in mal level. How do you think a foot semester's first column for the stu Coming my office lis ball team would play if they trained dent newspaper. Despite the misery into this po tening to my hard all throughout the spring, and in which you \\ere wallo\\-ing at the sition, I be country mu then were essentially given the sum time, you wish that you could some came aware I will not go out of my way sic or playing mer off? Just ask Coach Ramunno - how go back to that precise moment of several to get salt 1n those sores to "ith my new who thought he was giving his 2003 and insert some hit of wisdom into wounds left give everyone a bad taste of magnet let RMAC champions a well-deserved your prose, hoping that the you, then, open around ters. break - about the 2004 season when could learn something from the you, outside the the student media.