THINK CRITIC A L LY • ACT RESPON S I BLY • LEAD EFFECT I V E LY • LIVE HUMA N E LY Ba c he lor S e p t e m b er 17, 2010 t he student voice of wa b a sh since 1908 volume 103 • issue 3 S e n ate Lets Students Decide AFC Allocates $45,000 to Innova t ive Pro j e c t PETER ROBBINS ‘12 MANAGING EDITOR A “war-room session.” That’s how Student Body President Cody Stipes ’11 describes the Tuesday night meeting of the Student Senate’s Audit and Finance Com- mittee in which the AFC determined the budget for near- ly every club on campus. The AFC reallocated roughly $220,000. The session was different, however, from ones in years past, most notably because $45,000 was allocated to a new project entitled “Campus Improvement/Monon Bell,” and because the session did not live up to its conflict- alluding name. “I was really proud of the guys on AFC tonight,” Stipes said. “We did a good job of going through each club’s budget fairly and uniformly. We made minimal changes to clubs that weren’t also made to other clubs. Fairness is something we need to uphold; I’ve stressed that from the beginning.” Some of the allocations are things that get money every year: a $500 Wally Costume Deposit, the Student Activi- ty Coordinator’s Salary ($8,420), and the National Act, which received a $52,000 allocation. However, the most alluring allocation is the $45,000 one mentioned before, on which Stipes elaborated. “That money is surplus from last year’s clubs that didn’t use all of their money last year,” Stipes said. “We found ourselves with some rollover this year, and we wanted to ALEX MOSEMAN | WABASH ‘11 use it wisely. Monon Bell is something the whole campus is involved in.” Student Body President Cody Stipes ‘11 and Treasurer Andrew Forrester ‘11 meet to discuss the AFC’s budget. The budget The $45,000 was allocated to the Senior Council, and saw heavy mark-ups during Tuesday night’s Senate meeting and was unanimously approved. See AFC, Page 3 Crackdown: Students With Unpaid Bills Feel the Heat KENNY FARRIS ‘12 more and more Wabash students visited the Business Office before and during the STAFF WRITER first weeks of classes to solve their pay- ment problems. Lines in the Business Less and less Wabash students and their Office to fix payment issues often spilled families are paying their tuition on time, out of the Business Office and into the first forcing the College to take new steps to floor hallways of Center Hall. curtail the problem. “I got an e-mail saying I would not be “There were a significant number of indi- enrolled if I didn’t pay my bill,” one student viduals who had, in one way or another, a said. “I ended up visiting the Business problem with the payment of tuition at the O ffice four times over a week period trying start of the school year,” Wabash College to fix the problem.” Chief Financial Officer Larry Griffith said. Student visits varied in frequency and Students were required to pay their bal- length. “Once my paperwork was turned in, ances by July 15. everything fell into place,” one student said. G r i ffith noted that this pattern of pay- At first, the Business Office sent e-mails ment behavior has increased over the past and made phone calls to students and their four or five years. “The original conse- families about their unpaid balances. As the quence from the College was barring enroll- issue continued past the original deadline of ment for the spring semester,” Griffith said. July 15 and the fall semester approached, In light of more and more missed dead- the Business Office began e-mailing frater- lines, the College began barring enrollment nity presidents to have Greek students with for the fall semester. a balance visit the office and pay their bills. Some of the common problems faced by “The College did this because it’s not ALEX MOSEMAN | WABASH ‘11 fair to guys who take care what they were students included missing Financial A i d Many students arrived back to campus with unfinished business to attend to. Students supposed to do,” Griffith said. “We are forms, not applying for loans, missing pay- holding students accountable.”As a result, could not move in to residence halls or fraternities until their Business Office accounts were See UNPAID, Page 3 reconciled. B o s t ’s Passion for Biology Led her To Wab a s h JOHN DYKSTRA ‘13 uate studies. There, she developed a Attending graduate school was, integrity of those we met and the passion for Biology. “My profes- in fact, beneficial to Bost: she met commitment to building relation- STAFF WRITER sors embodied an intellectual her husband, Preston Bost, the Col- ships among students, faculty, and curiosity which I found captivat- lege’s Associate Professor of Psy- s t a ff. We recognized quickly that Some Wabash students dream of ing; by sophomore year, I was chology and Psychology Depart- this was a team we wanted to join,” receiving their diploma with either hooked,” she said. Following her ment Chair. Bost said. a Chemistry or Biology major. T h i s term at Rhodes College, Bost After Wabash recruited her hus- This year is not Bost’s first year degree leads some to med school, attended graduate school at Va n- band, Bost and her family made a on-campus. As a matter of fact, she pharmacy school—wherever they derbilt University. “A r e s e a r c h trip to the College to check out the served the College as an education- desire. Visiting Assistant Professor internship in New York my senior campus. The weather during their al researcher with the Center of of Biology Anne Bost’s degree has year [of undergrad] sealed the deal, trip was warm during the day, but Inquiry for the past eight years led her through an educational and the next year I found myself snow fell during the night. “Despite before accepting her role in the quite happily pursuing a Ph.D. in the sudden change in climate, we Biology Department. During those COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS odyssey that ultimately landed her at Wabash. virology at Vanderbilt University. southerners were smitten with the eight years, she helped research the Ann Bost is a Visiting Bost attended Rhodes College in The choice to attend Vandy ended beauty of Wabash—not only the correlation between the learning Assistant Professor of Memphis, Tenn. for her underg r a d- up being a great one on multiple physical campus with its pristine Biology. fronts.” snow-covered mall, but also the See BOST, Page 3 In This Issue: PA G E 2 The Ba c h elor Sep t e m ber 17, 2010 BA C H E LOR 301 w. wa b a s h Av e . c r a w f o r d s v i lle, IN 4 7 9 3 3 Defending the Turf EDITOR IN CHIEF Riley Floyd [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Peter Robbins [email protected] NEWS EDITOR Peter Robbins [email protected] OPINION EDITOR Alex Avtgis [email protected] SPORTS EDITOR Brandan Alford [email protected] CAVELIFE EDITOR Joel Bustamante [email protected] PHOTO EDITOR Alex Moseman [email protected] BACHELOR ADVISOR Howard Hewitt [email protected] The purpose of The Bachelor is to serve the school audience, includ- ing but not limited to administra- tors, faculty and staff, parents, alumni, community members and most importantly, the students. 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