LONGWOODCOLLEGE - FARMVILLE, VA
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 13
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FEBRUARY 24,1993
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Fine Arts Center, Education Center Knight in shining armor to cost $4.8 million; funded by bond
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By Debbie Wilson Rotunda Staff • Pending construction plans in- Health. Physical Education and Recclude the creation of a new Fine reation departments. It is estimated by ArtsCenter and Education Cen- the Business Affairs office thai ihe ter at an estimated cost of $4.8 construction of the new Education ('onto will cost $2.8 million. million dollars. Funding for the Because of a General Obligation Fine Arts Center has heen proBond, voted on by the citizenry of vided hy an already-approved Virginia lasl November, I.ongwwxl general obligation hill, hut Fi- has all the funds for building this cennancing for the other project will ter. Construction is set to begin one require yet another hill. year from now. The Education Center will be built If there are plans lor renovation, so thai Ihe second story goes across construction, or a new building on Pine Street and attaches 10 a new Fine campus, the Business Affairs office Arts Center. The line Arts Center coordinates and plans how it will all will include exhibition space, gallery happen. The next construction project space, and a reception area. The works is the new Education (tatter and Pine that will be shown include the Arts Center. college's, the students', and (reveling The Education Center will be con- exhibitions. There will also be an area nected to the south side of lancer, for educational programs which is currently a parking lot. and In addition, between the Fine Arts will be bordered by Franklin Street. Center and Wygal. ihe land is natuIhe whole building is to house the rally .sloped for an amphitheater. ()tlier Department ol Education, Special perks include skylights in the overEducation. Social Work, and the pass to open up the space and make it
brighter, and a colonnades area on either side of the Fine Arts Center The estimated cost for ihe Pine Arts Center is $2 million, but Longwood only has half of this money so far. Ideally, the Education Center and Pine Arts Center should be built at the same lime. If the other half of the money for the Fine Arts ('enter cannot be raised in a year, though, it will be postponed while the Education Cenier continues as scheduled Also in the works is the remodeling of Wynne. Classes in Wynne will be moved to the Education Center while this is taking place. When tin ished, Wynne will house die Physical Education offices, a wrestling room, a weight room, and locker rooms for our teams and visiting teams Ihe estimated cost for remodeling Wynne is S3 million. In order to have enough money. I.ongwood will have to sell a stale bond. This construction is scheduled for 1993-96.
Local banks balk at expense, inconvenience
VPBLA Hurley assures SGA that campus ATM construction pending By Mindy Oakes Rotunda Staff •Vice President of Business He said proposals were due back to and Legislative Affairs Richhim by February 28th ard Hurley reassured the StuThese proposals went out to First dent Government Association Virginia and Central Fidelity. Howthat an ATM would soon be ever, Hurley has not yet received any available to students, and stu- proposals. dents are eager to see it. He contacted First Virginia, and the response was lha: the machine Plans are still in progress to pro- would be UK) far away from its main vide I ongwood students with an Au- branch to be maintained. tomated feller Machine (ATM). He also dealt with ('enind lidelily. Richard Hurley, Vice President of but bank officials implied that the Business and Legislative Allans, bank did want lo deal with Ihe extra gave apresentation at an Student (lov- cost of constructing ihe r<x>m lor the emment Association (SGA) meeting machine and telephone lines to go in on February 19th and reassured Ihe Hurley is prepared lo negotiate with members about Ihe A'IM's arrival. Central lidelily about Ihe construc-
Tax may be as high as twenty cents per pack.
tion cost Some students are impatient and feel something should have happened by now, because the convenience of Andrew Young, a freshman history major, specializes in medieval having an ATM machine on cmnpus would be of great use history re-enactments. See story on page 3. I'liolo hy Janet Balla When sophomore Christy Ham mer was asked it she would use a money machine on campus, she replied, "yes. I would use Ihe machine because it would be more convenient to run to (he student union instead ol running lo town." Ry Carol Ann Semones Tim Cosier and Robert I ang feel that " the ATM machine will be very Rotunda Stall accessible lor obtaining quick cash at any time during the week " • Adjunct statistics professor ni/edasthelall 1992 Catalyst Award faculty/administration winner by VA Rebecca Sturgill is given Cata('(Mil. (Virginia Campus Outreach OI.YMPIA (AP) A bill seeking to lyst Award for her efforts in Opportunity League). fix constitutional problems vv itbWasfa broadening the student experiSturgill earned the reward by ingtOfl stale's erotic music law ran ence through the I.ongwood showing outstanding efforts in "ser- Into a strong opposition from ihe muSeminar Class. vice learning:'' ihe integration of com- sic industry and the American Civil munity service into the academic cur- Liberties Union Ms. Rebecca Sturgill. an adjunct riculum, The law enacted last year would statistics professor, has been i Her role III the implementation of allow a county prosecutor to ask a the I ongwood Seminai class wasspe- judge to declare that a particular recificall) recognized in her nomina- cording appeals to minors' prurient tion interests and offends community stanSturgill was nominated foi the dards. If the judge agrees, die recordall People have been smoking for then after a certain amount of paperaward by Trey PiersaD, who acts as ing must be labeled "adults only." centuries and aren't going to Start work, which details the size ol the the community service coordinator However, Judge Mat) Bruckerde quilling, as a whole, for decades allotment, then grow ihe tobacco. of the 0.1 v I Clearinghouse, the (tared the law unconstitutional, say yet." "II the allotment is three thouorganization which supervises all ing il is vague, causes record stores lo However, growing tobacco is not sand pounds. I can only sell tlucc freshman seminar class voiunteet ci censor themselves and might be chill1 something lobe taken lightly Appal thousand pounds," said Hazlegrove forts.. ing lo the artistic instincts ot musi ently. the government allows (be 10 "If I baveany extra, lean hold onto [hrougfa the I ongwood freshman l I,Ills baCCO fanners to sell only a certain it until next ycai and tiy to sell u seminai class Rebl ill has Brocket said Ihe measure was then." allotment attempted to give the new students an because, it a judge in one county deThe tobacco goes to market and oppoitiiints to grow not only aca- i laredapieceol music appealed to the companies bid against each othei fot "An allotment is tobacco pounddemically, hut world -consciously ai prurient interests ol minors in that age.'' explained HazlegTOVC "Ihe il. well county, the music could not be sold to tobacco grower can buy or rent in I he market high for one type ol minors anywhere in the state. But the commonly known as allotment fltm another guy. M) loe tobacco, As stated m Piersall's nomination, law offers no mechanism to alert oth Schmoc Ihe grower can then do Burley (cigarette tobaccoi w as 11 vj "Rebecca Sturgill lias worked with era lo tin ban, she said per pound Dark tobacco, which is with it as he chooses " over 70 college students ami helped Brucker'a ruling is now on appeal I he process lollowed by a tobacco used loi cigars, chewing, and snuff, make a positive change in die lives ol iiui is scheduled to be argued before t.iiinei is to lust gel Ihe allotment, and was priced ai M S'> I pound countless individuals " the Supreme Court late this year
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Sturgill honored for educational efforts
'Erotic music' bill stirs up oppostion, deemed by judge unconstitutional
New cigarette taxes pending, but will have little effect on farmers Ry Heather Iustig Rotunda Staff • Taxes on cigarettes may be levnity, ied in an amount ranging from I he l ii M bill, which suggests raisone to twenty cents a pack, but ing the taxes by one cent per pack, this will have little effect on to- will use the lax money lor educabacco farmers. tion.il reasons Areas that are suiter ing from "educational disparity'' Virginia stale government is once would profit from this new tobacco more trying 10 raise tobacco taxes tax The second bill, which would raise According lo The I armville Herald, lbs lax by either twenty or thirty two bills have been proposed 10 raise cents, would divide equally the tax the t.i\ on cigarettes anywhere from revenue between the state and the one cent lo twenty cents community. Guy lla/legiovc. B I.ongwood These bills will be taxing the cigarettes purchased in Virginia; the pur- College student and tobacco farmer. pose behind these bills is to eithci commented on how this new tax fund education m certain areas or lo would affect the tobacco prices. "In ihe long run.'' he said, "not at provide more mone) to the commu-
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