September 16,1983 Southern Bell Frustrates Students Inphone Foul-Up Byelizabeth WHITE Thursday
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The Davidsonian VolumeLXXIII,Number 1 Davidson College,Davidson,North Carolina 28036 Friday, September 16,1983 Southern Bell Frustrates Students InPhone Foul-Up ByELIZABETH WHITE Thursday. The remaining students were Southern Bell representatives sur- told they would have togo intoCharlotte prised Davidson students last week with to get their phones. anew sign-up system that leftmany frus- SGA President Hunter Monroe was trated and some withoutphones when the the next person up in line when they representatives at 6:30on September 7. closed Wednesday night. He described Students not gettingphones on Tues- himself as "very mad" after waiting all day and Wednesday were informed that afternoon only to be turned away when they had togo toaCharlottephone center he made it to the front. Monroe was one pSl| Jl [ to arrange for service. Thirty-seven stu- of the 37 who went to Charlotte to get I j wfl 4»fl Isft?' -%la IIHo: dents made the trip to Charlotte as of service. MB El Jk n VvTaM W Aa 9 a September 13. Problems with the supply Director of Student Housing Bill of phones, mixed-up numbers, and a Bolding said the new representatives did delay in activating the phones also oc- not feel the need to go over plans for the Freshmen participated in the Cake Race during1983 Orientation. See /'" 6stories curred this year, mainly due to changes sign up with him as in previous years. in the Southern Bell organization. Originally, representatives took no ap- Southern Bell representative Sharon plications for perimeter housing, but Roberts said the problem stemmed from Bolding talked them into it. Faculty ApprovesNew a change in Bell's corporate structure. On Tuesday morning, students who Southern Bell moved Davidson sign-ups had never had service were being toanother department,puttingRobertsin charged a minimum $90 deposit which Semester Calendar charge of handlingDavidson for the first most could not cover. Bob Stevenson of By DAN VOORHIS midterm break lasts March 8-18. With time. the DavidsonPersonnel Departmentcon- Davidson's planned conversion to Good Friday, April 5, off, the yearends Roberts devised a new plan to avoid tacted Southern Bell immediately and the semester system progressed over the May 14. Graduation ceremonies take the longlines of previousyears. Sheesti- explained that a verbal agreement was summer when the Faculty approved a place May 19. mated the number of phones needed made several years agonot tocharge any calendar for the 1984-85 school year. Adopting this calendar may end based onpast figuresandon figures from deposits. Roberts orderedherrepresenta- However, the College must still resolve much of last year's debate over termand other colleges. She decided to assign tives to stop charging deposits and de- important issues before the changes take exam period length despite persisting numbers so students could gauge how posits already paid were returned. place. problems such as the credit-hour system, long they would have to wait. Another problem arose when differ- Under the new calendar, Davidson area and graduation requirements. A Only three Bellrepresentatives came ent students were assigned the same would have two terms of fifteen weeks subcommittee of the Educational Policy to process the applications because she phone numbers. Phone numbers were each with six days for exams. Reading Committee will study these problems wanted to use a minimal number of em- dedicated to rooms in 1981.In 1982 the days would be dropped. and make recommendations. ployees. College changedsome roomnumbers,so The plan, passed in June after much SGA Implementation Committee The first day of sign-ups was not as new phone numbers were reassigned. debate, starts classes on August 28. The The SGA Semester Implementation busyas expected,but the second day was This year, the lists were mixed up, and first termhas a four-day midterm break Committee submitted a proposal last very heavy. By Wednesday afternoon at several students were given the same October 13-16 and two days off at spring to lengthen the exam period to 6:30 the three representatives had han- numbers. This problem and the summer Thanksgiving. ThesemesterendsonDe- seven days preceeded by two reading dled 332 orders and there were still strike caused the delay in activating the cember 21 for Christmas vacation. days.This proposal allows for thepossi- people in line. Roberts felt that not phones. Studies resume January 14 after a bility of five classes per semester. enough students remained to return on (Continuedon page 7) three-week break. The spring semester's (Continuedonpage 7) Inside This Week $200,000 Spent "Freshmen: What Orientation PhysicalPlantRenovates Campus Didn't Tell You. Special four-page pullout section By ANDY CLARK replaced. For cost efficiency, each room Engineer Philip Cashion because of the andGREGSMOUSE now has an individual thermostat. The steep banks that limited lawn mower The Physical Plant spent over system is designed so that air condition- maneuverability and produced what $200,000 this renovated, may tyler" what "Atomic War: Scott otto summer as it ing be addedin the future.Cosmetic Cashion refers to as "mud or" redecorated, and improved rundown work Cannon involved theinstallation some students a hole. The examines the KAL plane crash. to call "snoo partsof thecampus the summer, of blinds of banks became soft that they Page 19 over ac- Levelor in all the dorm's stream so cordingto Director of the Physical Plant windows. kept falling into the stream making a GroverMeetze. The physical plant built a walkway mess of the surroundingland. The project part of pro- -Haunts*. Ghost seen by hun- Watts bathroomsnow housefour leading from the front ofChambers tothe The stream is a tiled stalls west of further the area behind dreds. Page 4 shower instead of two and entrance Belk. Manybricks were gram to beautify three enclosed toilets. Each floor lost also replaced in other sidewalks. the Commons. About two years ago a half a room to create extraspace for the After twenty years of interrupted power line that once ran along the creek baths. planning and ind*nt* u*^ "SpOltS Previews: Soccer and refurbished the PhysicalPlant and Planning was removed relocated ThissummerCannon underwent installed pipe hind the football. Pages 14-16 Hall Committee finally a to fraternities. its first :r.ajor mechanical repairs since channel thecreek which ran through Pat- No majorproblems accompanied this the 1920s. Subflooring rotted from past tersonCourt. project. Some water seepageoccurred in "CruelHoax: Con artist made a water fights was replaced and covered The stream now flows underground Fannie and Mable's basement, but that with accident has been linked the profitable visit to Davidson this linoleum. Wiring was upgraded to through 20-foot sections of four-foot di- not to summer. Page 3 accomodate the demands of hairdryers ameterpipe. change in the drainage system. and stereos. The stream's encasement was neces- Student suggestions and requests Also,theheatingsystem wasentirely sary according to College Maintenance prompted these renovations. 2 Friday, September 16, 1983/TheDavidsonian NEWS SUMMARY Chemistry Department Awarded Grant Four-yearcollegecostsare up 11 percent, to an average $8,440. The Davidson College chemistry department has been awarded a $2,000 Community and junior college students will spend an average $3,400 in 1983 PittsburghConferenceNationalCollege Grant. 1983-84,andeight percentincrease. Davidson was one of six institutions chosen to receive one of the grants, Theincreasesfolloweven largerhikeslastyear.Inall,1982-83collegecosts selected froma fieldof 197applicantsthroughoutthecountry.Theotherfivein- were 20 percent higher on public campuses and 13 percent higher on private stitutions were DePaul University, Westmont College, Wheaton College, campuses than1981-82 costs, the CSSreported last year. Roanoke College and Salem College. Felix A. Carroll, associateprofessorof At the sametime, theConsumerPriceIndex roseby 7.7 percent.The1983 in- chemistry and JohnMacKay, assistant professorofchemistry, wroteand sub- flationrate is 3.2percent sofar, according toU.S. Department of Labor statis- mitted the winninggrantrequest. j ticsreleasedlast week. The grant will go toward the purchase of a High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) system for Davidson's chemistry department. The ApplicantNarrowingRumors Denied; HPLC system is a powerful tool used to separate and identify components Search Continues in Ben T.Craig,chairman of Committee, mixturesofchemicals.Theinstrumentisalsoused inclinical the TrusteePresidential Search re- laboratoriesandin centlydenieda rumorthat thegroupof the environmentalmonitoringofother forms ofchemicals. 250-300applicantshadbeen narrowed to 15. He maintained that no one was eliminated exceptan initial 50-80perspec- DavidsonEnforcesDraft AidLaw tives whohad noprevious association with the College. Craig addedthat theFaculty, Trustee,and Davidson's office ofFinancial Aidnow requires StudentSearch Committees were thatstudentsreceiving fed- still receiving applications. eral student aid signand return a "StatementofEducational Purpose /Registra- tionCompliance." While no deadlinehas been set, Craighopes to submit recommendations to the full Board ofTrustees soon and said it was"possible to do this year." The form requiresFederalaid students that areeligible for thedraft to dem- onstrate that theyhave registered for thedraft. Section 1 113 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act for 1983. Belk Gives $1,000,000 Toward Sports