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VOLUME 38, ISSUE 14 R O S E -HU L M A N IN S TI T UT E OF TE C H N O L OG Y TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA FRIDAY JANUARY 24, 2002 Anticipated child care center... tabled formed, Ted Chan and Staff Writer James About 2 years ago, approxi- Hoff- mately February 2001 a group man a was organized to investigate the senior possibility of a Child Care center ME was at Rose-Hulman. The Sloan hired to Foundation donates money to write a help family work relationships. business The money goes to pay salaries, plan. An out- help hire grad students to assist Photo taken at Purdue University's Day in continuing research for profes- side source to Care Center sors who have babies, or are on The model proposed in the business plan had the above fee schedule (http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/9905.Myers.walls.child.html) maternity leave. There is an draft the extra $5000 that goes to the business plan was considered, but in the was fairly through." aged children. There seems to be work full time, and it would department, and dispersed as the An initial investigation to see a demand and a need for this ser- make it easier if her to pick up department head deems appropri- end the student was the better choice due to understanding of if there was interest and a need vice. and drop off her daughter before ate. Some of this extra money was performed. From the busi- Professor Tina Hudson, an and after work. Some concerns was collaborated to investigate the Rose environment. James Hoffman had prior experience in ness plan "The initial probe assistant professor of electrical that may arise with creating and the idea and check the feasibility resulted in thirty-four responses and computer engineering, gave operating the childcare center of having a Child Care center at writing up a business plan in a course taught by Professor Tho- to an email survey with fifty birth to a daughter earlier this would be the how much it cost as Rose-Hulman. three children being enrolled." school year. She is currently well as liabilities. There are a There was a lot of interest and mas Mason. Prof. Mason served as an advisor to him while writ- Another survey was taken a year working ½ days and uses a day good number of the faculty and a lot of people who want a Child later and the results "estimated care that is 1 mile from her staff who have young children; Care center, but when it gets ing up the business plan. Profes- sor Lee Waite who headed up the enrollment of sixty children." home. She said the idea of hav- there have been about 8 or 9 down to the nuts and bolts, it The Child Care center that was ing a day care center on campus births within the last year. doesn't seem like it is workable investigative group said that "James Hoffman did a wonderful proposed would serve infant, would make it easier for her if at this time. toddler, pre-school, and school her daughter was sick, she could A small working group was job on the business plan, and it Continued on page 3... Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. their experience at RHIT, how it A sophomore in the CS depart- is funding the program. Chris Scribner affected them and helped them to ment said, "I think it is a good The Office of Alumni Affairs Staff Writer be successful, and on what we can idea to celebrate diversity in the and Office of the Registrar helped This coming Sunday a Martin do today to make King's dream a Rose-Hulman community make contact with alumni who Luther King Jr. Celebration is to reality. because one thing Rose lacks is a would be willing to speak at the be held in Hatfield Hall from 3:30 Danielle Claxton, president of large amount of diversity. The event. to 5 p.m. Preceded by a reception Rose-Hulman's student chapter program only strengthens our The Diversity Council is pro- from 3 to 3:30 p.m., the program of the National Society of Black feelings on the matter." viding advertisement. will feature singing and a panel of Engineers, commented that "Mar- The Martin Luther King Jr. pro- Future plans for the event in four African American RHIT tin Luther King Jr's dream today gram "allows students to see that years to come include getting alumni. is not a complete reality for all African Americans have come a more organizations involved and "Rather than remind people of African-Americans. long way from the time when expanding the activities to last an what the dream is about," says "Although things have changed, King lived," stated Claxton. entire week instead of just one Gwen Lee Thomas, Director of his dream has not yet come true. The entire Rose-Hulman and day. Assessment of the Institutional It is important for African Ameri- Terre Haute community are "Celebrating Martin Luther Research Department, "the panel cans to know that there are people invited free of charge to the event. King Jr. is not about celebrating will talk about 35 years later, living King's dream. President Hulbert is sponsoring African-Americans, it is about "It allows those of us who aren't [http://users.rcn.com/tstrong.massed/Martin.htm] the reception from 3 to 3:30 p.m. being an American, it is an oppor- where are we with that dream." Celebration of Martin Luther King, The panelists will speak on to have hope that we can achieve The National Society of Black tunity for everyone to come his dream." Jr. to occur on Sunday Engineers RHIT student chapter together," noted Thomas. Expansion Time for WMHD sum of money to increase the fre- the music that they play, Wright During the day, WMHD runs on a Rock/Punk, and from 10 p.m.- Eric Wojak quency to that of 90.7 FM. replied, "we are going to keep it computer program designed by midnight they play the RPM. Staff Writer According to Drew Wright, the real, the station will be totally stu- Nik Reiman, a junior at Rose. The After that, the music is up to the Rose-Hulman's student run Program Director for WMHD, the dent run and student operated." program takes all of the songs discretion of the DJ. There are radio station WMHD expanded station wanted the old 90.5 FM The station has been described that the station has ripped into currently twenty DJs that spin the on Tuesday to reach 200,000 new frequency to start a new station as a "forum for independent art- their computer and randomly music, but the station is always listeners. The radio station will out of Greencastle. WMHD has ists." The DJs are self-described selects songs based on their looking for more. now reach from Greencastle to been wanting to do this since the as "just a bunch of huge music genre. When asked if the station has Martinsville, IL to Sullivan. early 80s, but really started to put nerds who love music." At night the station only has any big plans for the future, The new expansion was all things into action for the past few The station has also been an three hour blocks that are desig- Wright mentioned that the station made possible by Hoosier Broad- years. AM station before they were what nated for certain types of music. has loose plans to put on a concert casting paying the station a large When asked if the new expan- they are today. The station is also From 7-8:30 p.m. the radio plays somewhere in town (the place and sion of the station would change running on CDs only, no MP3s. New Music, from 8:30-10 p.m., time was not disclosed). 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