TRICK-OR-TREAT SERVING^** UP;WINS;A12 NRHH sponsors on-campus tradition, B3 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2010 Valparaiso University's 2007-2010 Indiana Student Newspaper HE TORCH College Weekly of the Year High winds BREAKING GROUND cause for concern Powerful storm disrupts campus Chris Likeness Torch Staff Writer Last Tuesday morning, the Val­ paraiso University campus awoke to a blaring siren from the top of the VUCA. However, this time it wasn't just another Tuesday morning test. One of the largest overland storms ever recorded in VU's history passed through campus early Tuesday morning. If 'the tornado warning siren didn't beckon enough of its arrival, then the heavy rainfall and powerful gusts of wind probably brought awareness to its presence. According to professor of Ge­ ography and Meteorology Kevin Goebbert, the storm was record- breaking. Photo Provided "The storm system extended This week construction began on a new 52,000 square foot academic building that will be completed in the spring of 2012. The building will house faculty offices, from the Kentucky-Tennessee classrooms and an enhanced Language Resource Center. The $18.75 million dollar investment aims to consolidate the College of Arts and Sciences and encour­ border to central Canada and age student-faculty interactions by moving classrooms and faculty offices into a single building. followed the US-Canada border, traveling east," Goebbert said. "The storm had a pressure of 956 construction has commenced. of the department of Foreign Lan­ ing the space for classes and for the hPa, which is unusually low for an Building to house "The Board approved the ini­ guages and Literatures, also served interaction between faculty and overland storm." tiation of construction," said Jon on this committee. She said there departments," she said. The storm also produced winds classrooms, faculty Kilpinen, dean of the College of was much discussion about how One of the big factors that in excess of 60 mph and waves Liberal Arts and Sciences, who the building could maintain and played into the discussions was reaching 27 feet in Lake Michigan offices on site of heads a committee of faculty who enhance student and faculty expe­ the strategic plan and its goals for and Lake Superior. provided guidance and input on riences. the university, including enroll­ Goebbert also confirmed that former VU Union the plans for the building. "All the committee members ment increases, interdisciplinary the recent storm was comparable "The architects are still fiddling were involved in thinking about interactions and increased inter­ to others of record-breaking pro­ Paul Rubio with the floor plans." faculty and student experiences we nationalization and how the new portions, such as the 1975 storm Torch Staff Writer The whole process the commit­ like now . and the changes that academic building could address that tragically sank the SS Ed­ tee went through started back in would be facilitated in the new these goals. mund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, The reality of a new academic the summer. "We started meeting building." "A few weeks after we started inspiring Gordon Lightfoot's song building on campus came just a lit­ in June to work in the direction of There was also discussion in working, we started sharing (these "The Wreck of the Fitzgerald." tle bit closer: The Valparaiso Uni­ finding the design of the building," the committee about how to use discussions) with the architects," A storm of this magnitude is versity Board of Directors recently Kilpinen said. "We started talking the space and what classrooms Kilpinen said. "The architects could not always a cause for distress, approved initial plans for the new within the group about what the and faculty office space would look then think about how to work with however. For the students enrolled academic building to be construct­ building would need." like. in VU's Meteorology program, the ed on the site of the old union and Randa Duvick, the chairperson "We looked at ways of organiz­ See Construction, page A4 storm caused excitement. Senior meteorology major Dustin Bonk said, "The meteo­ rology majors get excited; while everyone is inside, we're outside VU development teams recognized looking at the sky." Most students did not react with distress when the storm can, as well as alumni Robert Ste- began when Duncan, professor of with about 200 around the coun­ passed through, but they certainly Braille printing inglass ('08), Daniel Blood ('io), mechanical engineering, was ap­ try. Nearly 500 volunteers are did not react with the zeal of the Cameron Banga ('io) and Michael proached in 2008 by Steinglass. printing books of the bibles using meteorology majors either. press, innovative Phelps ('io), were Steinglass had embossed zinc plates, aluminum When the sirens on campus recognized at the worked with jackets and special paper. Engi­ go off, students are supposed to application designs induction of the We have very talented, volunteers and neering students at the univer­ follow the protocol for a tornado newest members creative students who had made re­ sity worked to improve the safety, warning, which usually involves garner attention maintenance and ergonomics of moving to the nearest basement. of the society on have the ability and pairs on an out­ Oct. 21. dated Braille the original design. Many did follow that procedure, Mike Jakubisin The Braille desire to affect society press at Prince Ballun, Koch, Blood and pro­ including the students caught in Torch Staff Writer printing press in a positive way. of Peace Lu­ fessor of electrical and computer the union that morning. was designed theran Church engineering Mark Budnik formed Even students in the Uptown Alumni and current students and built by Val­ Dr. Scott Duncan in Valparaiso. the team alongside Duncan and East Apartments followed their at Valparaiso University have paraiso Univer­ Although it Steinglass. Most of the parts were building's guidelines, like senior been recognized by the Northwest sity Engineering Asst. professor of Engineering was functional, designed and manufactured in VU student and Uptown East Indiana Society of Innovators for students in col­ the original Gellersen Hall at VU. Duncan resident Christina Lucente. "We the redesign of a Braille printing laboration with Lutheran Braille model that students based their said that there was a lot of trial had to wait on the first floor (of Press and the success of a mobile Workers, Inc. These presses spe­ design off of was a 6o-year-old and error, making sure parts Uptown East) for half an hour," application development com­ cifically print bibles for the blind design. fit and testing the correct the Lucente said. pany. Seniors Marjorie Ballun and and visually impaired. The original models are being Brian Koch, professor Scott Dun­ The development of the press used at all other LBW locations, See Innovators, page A5 See Tornado, page A4 Index A&E B7 Features B3 Opinions A7 The Torch "We will strive increasingly to Announcements A2 Flicker A7 Sports A9 On Guard for 95 Years quicken the public's sense of civic duty." - The Athenian Oath Calendar B2 National News A6 Weather B6 Volume 104 :: Issue 9 The Torch | Friday, October 29, 2010 Campus News Campus Announcements We've got Homer Drew Court Dedication VU covered Homer Drew Court will be dedicated at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at Valparaiso University's Athletics-Recreation Center men's basketball exhibition opener against Olivet Nazarene. Former players that were once under Drew's command, as well as university President Mark Heckler, will make an appearance during the dedication ceremony. page Hindu Seminar Wendy Doniger, a historian of religions at the Univer­ sity of Chicago and author of more than a dozen influential books on Hinduism and Indian mythology, will be on cam­ pus to take part in Christ College's Symposium series. Doni- ger's most recent major book is "The Hindus: An Alternative History," which has received wide acclaim for her research in Hindu religion. Presenting "One God or Many?: A Question for Hindu India", Doniger will discuss her scholarly thoughts on how Hinduism has integrated monotheism and polythe­ ism throughout history at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources. This lecture is free and open to the public. Canadian Brass Band The Canadian Brass Band, a world renowned brass en­ semble, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Chapel of the Resurrection. Playing classics such as American composer George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," Bach and Monteverdi, as well as a tribute to the Beatles, the Canadian Brass Band is rec­ ognized for their engaging performances and various record­ ings as well as a passion for Baroque music. Tickets are $40 for reserved seating, $25 for adults and $15 for senior citizens, non-VU students and faculty, staff and students. To purchase tickets, call the VU box office at ext. 5162 or purchase them online at www.valpo.edu/vuca/ticket.php. Biblical Scholar Comes to Campus Rev. Christopher Seitz, author of "The Character of Chris­ tian Scripture: Two Testaments and the Rule of Faith," will be on campus to present two lectures that will be free and open to the public. Seitz is research professor of Biblical interpre­ tation at the University of Toronto's Wycliffe College who is a leader in a movement to reassert the importance of the community of faith in reading the Scriptures and has taught at the University of St. Andrews, Yale University and Luther­ an Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and is the author of several books and many articles on the interpretation of the Old and New Testaments and theological hermeneutics.