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March 3, 2006
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At the end of the 2006 Spring semester Wheeler residence hall and the Colonnades will be closing for renovation. This will touch off a series of changes in the demographics of the rest of the on-campus housing. Until the tentative reopening date in Fall 2007, all-female, nonGreek housing will be situated in another residence hall. The north wing of Cunningham Hall will replace the 182 heds lost by the closing, according to Doug Howcll, Assistant Director of Residential and Commuter Life. The second and third floors will house freshmen females with the first floor reserved for upperdivision women. Traditionally, the Colonnades have housed a significant percentage of freshmen, but its closing may substantially alter the first-year living experience. "The closure of the
Colonnades requires that RCL reallocate our freshman and upperclassman floors across campus," Howell explained. "In short, there will be freshman floors and upper-division floors in every hall except Stubbs." Stubbs will continue to be an all-female, Greek residence community. HowelFs statement lends credence to the rumor that Curry and Frazer Halls will both have a mixed population of freshmen and uppcrclassmcn. In fact, he stated explicitly, "Starting fall 2006, freshman floors and upper-division floors will be created in both Curry and Frazer." Presently, Curry houses firstyear students, while Frazer is an uppcrclassmcn residence. In answer to rumors about the old science building becoming a residence hall, Howcll says that RCL is unaware of any plans to utilize the Stevens science complex for residence hall use in the
future. Since room assignments for current, returning students arc processed first during the spring semester the changes will affect them first. However, for qualified upperclassmen, the appeal of moving to the off-campus Stanley Park apartments and town homes or the Longwood Landings apartment complex, both managed by Longwood, stands to relieve some of the pressure of making the demographic shift.
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Residence Hall Freshmen
ARC
3rd Fl.
Cox
2nd-4th Fl.
M. Cunningham
n/a
N. Cunningham 2nd-3rd Fl. (allfemale) S. Cunningham Curry Frazer
Upperclass Ground, 1st, 2nd, 4th Fl. 1st Fl. lst-3rdFI. First Fl.
Ground, 1st, 2nd Fl. 4th-10thFI. 2nd-3rd Fl. 6th-10th Fl. 2nd-5th Fl. 3rd Fl.
Stubbs (Greek, allfemale)
n/a
lst-4thFI.
The Landings (Jr/Sr only)
n/a
408
Stanley Park (includes soph.)
n/a
258
Starting fall 2006, freshman floors and upper-division floors will be created in both Curry and Frazer. In fact, freshman floors and upper-division floors will be created in every residence hall except Stubbs. The above will provide a summary of these assignments for 2006-2007. ~Doug Howell Assistant Director of RCL
WMLU Hopes to Broadcast Skows Over tke Internet Ixslic Smith
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WMLU, the campus radio station, hopes to start streaming media on-line within the year. WMLU has been talking about streaming on-line for years, but over the last few months serious steps have been taken to realize this objective. Gerry Martin, the Program Director and Chief F.ngineer for the station, expressed his enthusiasm for the goal, but said, "Web streaming is expensive, and there are some legal problems." The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has less control over the internet than the air waves, and that is creating some questions as to the legality of certain procedures. One of these questions is about the use of the station's call letters, WMLU, and whether or not they will be able to used on the stream during the times that
the required National Public Radio (NPR) is played on the air. "[William Lynn (the station advisor)) brought this to our attention," Martin said. Another problem the station faces is money. "There are rwo things we need money for: a web streaming license, and the stream itself," Martin said. The license would cover most legal problems, and the royalties for using the music they play online. "Without it, all we could do is a talk show," Martin said. The station is working with the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) to receive the license. "We're being as meticulously legal about this as possible," Martin said. WMLU would have to pay a company to broadcast their stream, as it would take up a lot more bandwidth than Longwood's Information and Instructional Technology (IIT)
Department can handle. They would create two streams - a low speed stream that would be good for dial-up users, and would have AM/FM radio quality; and a high speed stream that would be for high speed connections, and would have a CD quality. The stream would be broadcasted in Media Player Format, to reach the widest range of users. At the moment, WMLU is looking at abacast.com, shoutcast.com, and icecast.com as potential companies with whom to stream. There are a few reasons to broadcast on-line - one of the most prominent is reaching students. There arc still a few spots oncampus that do not receive radio waves, including ARC's front desk. The on-line stream "...wouldn't be limited to anybody - anyone the world over could pick up on our stream," Martin said.
By reaching more of the campus, WMLU hopes to encourage student participation. This would in turn lead to a wider variety of shows. At the time, there are 33 shows, which range from R&B, Rock, Country, Christian, Sports, and Political Talk. These play around the required NPR shows that play during the day. If WMLU starts streaming online, they would not broadcast NPR over the stream. This means there would be new open time slots for student broadcasting. Streaming does not have a lot of the same restrictions that air waves have, but WMLU's standards will not change. "A lot of the time, well be broadcasting over the air and the web at the same time, so, if anything, our show quality and standards will be even higher, because well be reaching a larger audience," Martin said.