Volume 83, Number 23
Wating for a Dry Day Since 1920
April 15, 2004
New Recreation Center to be Built Starting Late This Year Julie Pfeiffer IÂť'/;,, Âť/ I'M, Kehilum
Longwood University will once again become even more beautiful when it adds a new three Story, 75,000-square foot recreation facility to its campus. According to Brent Douglass, Director of Facilities Management, "The new recreation facility will bring Longwood up to a comparable or better position than other universities .mil colleges it competes against for students." Whether it's playing basketball with your triends, running track, doing aerobics, or climbing a mountain, this new recreation
center has it all. It will house two basketball courts, one Multi Activity Court (MAC) gymnasium, two racquetball courts, three multipurpose rooms for aerobics, etc., an indoor running track, climbing wall, and main workout room
with positions for approximately 180 pieces of equipment. Not only does it allow a great variety of workouts, it also offers a juice bar for when you feel the need to replenish those tired muscles. (MTices for S t u d. e n t Recreation and Student Health and Wellness will be located in the building, and locker rooms for faculty, staff and students will be included. There will also be equipment rental and storage facilities available, for those who need them. The design of the building will complement the architecture of l.ongwood's campus.
A unique integrated design feature of the building is that each floor is transparent. Whether you're on the top floor looking down, or the bottom floor looking up, you can see
activity on each floor. The indoor track is suspended above the second floor and will have gates on the outside for safety-
The lobby of the building will be located on a transparent bridge, centrally located on the second floor, where viewers can see all interaction taking place in the gymnasium and basketball courts. The campus recreation program will be adding new programs once the new recreation center is complete. There will be lessons/instructional programs on how to use the climbing wall and racquetball courts. Two new intramural sports, walleyball and pickIcball, will be added. Walleyball is volleyball played on a racquetball court but the ball
can now be bounced off the wall. Pickleball is volleyball, but this time, instead of your arms you use a paddle. The cost of the building is part of the overall tuition, and student tees will covei student use of the facility. The new center will not be used for intercollegiate sports competition and is strictly for student recreational use. According to the Director of Campus Recreation Jeremy Runion, the new facility will allow for more accessible times. "The hours have not been sit as of now but they arc looking to be open everyday from 6am to 10 or 11pm" he said. Still in the planning stages.construction will start near the end of 2004. The building will be centrally See REC p. 4
Anthropology and Arckaeologu Students Participate 3-Day Nomini Hall Excavation Katherinc Bowen Guest Writer On Thursday March 25th as the sun rose, thirty-five longwood University students set forth on a three-day excursion. Led by Dr. James Jordan and Dr. Brian Bates of the Anthropology program, the students of the Honors Prehistoric Human Ufe class as well as the Introduction to Archaeology class caravanned their way from Farmville to Westmoreland County. They were on their way to the farm of Mary Farley Ames Lee, which was donated to I.ongwood University in 1999. After many weeks of hearing about the Ames Lee Longwood Farm, and of the Nomini Hall plantation and Church, as well as Yeocomico Church they were all anxious to see them with their own eyes. When they arrived at the farm, Dr. Jordan led them on a tour of the grounds. They began with the building they would call home for
the next three days. The great lecture hall was already warming from the wood-burning furnace, and the students filed through, staking their claim on mattresses and sofas. They were then led through the two other bunk houses, and bathroom facilities, and were then taken up to see the "big house". At the "big house", were Mary Farley Ames Lee, Longwood, class of 1936, lived. Dr. Jordan discussed the familyhistory of the farm, and it's con-
nection with D>ngwood. The students also learned about its activities while it was a tobacco farm, and the importance of its location near the Patomac River. Since 1993 Longwood has conducted archcological excavations on the farm, as well as on nearby locations such as Nomini Hall, Nomini Church, and Yeocomico Church. The results of the excavations have revealed information
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Students from Dr. Jordan's and Dr. Bates's classes excavate possible Colonial-era dwelling site in Westmorland County.
Primitive Technologies Club members practice flint knapping in hopes of making the perfect projectile point.
12tn Semi-Annual PrimTech Katherinc Bowen Guest Writer The usually peaceful and quiet Longwood University Archaeology Field House in Clover, Virginia erupted with activity the weekend of March 19th through 21st. The Primitive Technologies Club held their semiannual weekend field school, where twenty-five oT the club's members came to learn and teach techniques in experimental archaeology. The weekend consisted of six introductory sessions on skills such as fire making, hunting and tracking, flint knapping,
cordage, ceramics, and weaving. These spanned from Friday evening, until Saturday afternoon. The students were then given an opportunity to work on individual projects. Atlatls, spears, bows, clay vessels, projectile points, didgeridoos and various other primitive implements were constructed throughout the weekend. This session there were deer hides available for the students to work with. Some of the less squeamish experimented with primitive tanning techniques.
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