March 10, 2016

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FELINES VS. CANINES SMACKDOWN: ARE CATS OR DOGS BETTER PETS?

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The Clown Princes of basketball visit Norfolk The Harlem Globetrotters once counted VWC coach, alumnus as part of supporting cast. WEEKENDER page 9

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Apple of the FB EYE BY BECCA LAZZERI ralazzeri@vwc.edu

A California court has ruled that Apple must comply with the FBI’s demand to create a “back door” into the iPhone for the sake of gaining criminal evidence about the San Bernardino shootings. Apple’s leadership has said it will appeal the decision. Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, on Dec. 2, 2015. Rather than Farook himself, who died in a shootout with police, his iPhone is at the center of the legal debate between personal security and rights of the government. Apple posted a letter titled “A Message to Our Customers” on its website. “The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers,” the letter said. “We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand.” Following the San Bernardino mass shooting, the FBI said that the data on Farook’s iPhone could give investigators clues about whom the shooters contacted before the shooting, and where they fled directly afterward. Officials believe this data would provide information about whether the attack could be traced back to the Islamic State terrorist group. Apple has remained transparent since the FBI asked for a solution to its encrypted security system. The company said in its letter to customers that, generally, it will make considerable efforts to help the FBI solve cases like the one that occurred in San Bernardino. However, customer privacy is of the utmost importance, and it would be impossible to create a security breach without putting all iPhone users at risk of potential invasion of privacy, it said. In regard to the San Bernardino case, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “Up to this point, we have done everything that is both within our power and within the law to help them. But now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a back door to the iPhone.” FBI director James Comey wrote on the website Lawfare, a national security blog, “We simply want the chance, with a search warrant, to try to guess the terrorist’s pass code without the phone essentially self-destructing and without it taking a

YMCA| Courtesy Children and counselors enjoy hula-hooping in the outdoors as part of a YMCA camp held on campus every summer.

Camp Red Feather

VWC’s long partnership with the YMCA is now resulting in an initiative to build a facility that will cater to both organizations’ needs BY JASMINE DRIGGS jtdriggs@vwc.edu

The YMCA of Hampton Roads was recently granted the funds to build a 6,000-square-foot building in the wooded area in front of the arboretum in Village IV on Virginia Wesleyan College’s campus. There will also be an amphitheater behind the building. The building is mainly for the children and counselors who attend Camp Red Feather, a summer camp that is always hosted on this campus. The donors to the YMCA feel strongly about Virginia Wesleyan College and the values they share with it, according to VWC President Scott Miller. Therefore, the building will be for use not only by the YMCA during the summer but also for VWC students during the academic year. Miller said that the building will be

consistent with the plans for the Greer Environmental Center in regard to keeping the building as environmentally friendly as possible. The design that is in the works is hoped to help minimize the number of trees that will have to be cut down. The actual floor plan will be available to Miller in about two weeks. This building will provide a gateway for the path that leads to Lake Taylor. “The building will consist of three large classrooms with divided walls that will open into one big recreation room,” Miller said. Miller did not have any specifications on who at Virginia Wesleyan will specifically use the building. However, he did know that during the academic year Virginia Wesleyan College will definitely have access to the facility.

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“We hope to use some of the classroom and recreation space,” Miller said. “There will be office space for both the YMCA and Virginia Wesleyan and there will be a food preparation area for both the YMCA and Virginia Wesleyan. Virginia Wesleyan will also have full access to the amphitheater that will be located behind the building.” The building may be useful for VWC resident assistants’ training, as well. “We do not do a lot of training outside in the summer, but we do have an issue with finding a big enough space that we all fit comfortably into,” resident assistant Rachel Lambert said. “This new building sounds like a good space where we could break off into smaller groups and come back into a bigger one.” Lambert was confident in saying that

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Arts building gets long-awaited attention

Hayley Heath| Marlin Chronicle The Fine Arts Building is located behind Village I and contains classrooms as well as the campus theater. BY ASHLEY KLINE aakline@vwc.edu

Village II, the Social Sciences Center, Blocker Hall, the Greer Environmental Center and Birdsong Field—essentially the entire campus has been evolving with the exception of the dilapidated fine arts building, until now. The building is outdated and not large enough to suit the growing needs of the college’s fine arts programs. Additionally, the facility is insufficient for allowing students to practice their crafts to their full potential.

According to music professor Bryson Mortensen, more space is required for students to practice. Mortensen said that 30 students are currently taking private music lessons. These students require five hours of practice time per week, making 150 hours’ worth of practice space necessary to suit their needs. As things now stand, however, there is approximately 50 hours’ worth of practice space available.

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Professor of instrumental music Jason Squinobal said that he is forced to make daily use of the chapel for his classes due to the lack of sufficient space for his students to perform and practice in the Fine Arts Building. In his March 2 Nota Bene email, President Scott Miller discussed a campaign to raise $60 million by December 2020. According to Miller, the school has just completed a feasibility study to ensure that this campaign is plausible. Included in this $60 million fundraising objective is $14 million that will be allocated toward renovating as well as expanding the Fine Arts Building. President Miller said that, unlike what has been done previously, the school is making plans in a highly realistic manner. There are individuals that have already agreed to financially support this cause. Architectural and engineering plans for the Fine Arts Building are currently underway. However, the full amount necessary to begin renovations will likely not be raised for another year. Therefore, it is hoped that construction will begin in two years. “We are a residential liberal arts college, and any liberal arts college has strength in that area, and we have an outstanding academic program in that area. What we need is a facility to match up with the outstanding academic program. We’re very good with theater, we’re very good at music and we’re very good in the arts. What we need is a facility that will match up and serve as a home for each of those components and can give us modern, state-of-the-art facilities for our faculty and our students,” Miller said. Students involved in the arts have been eagerly awaiting the renovation of the Fine Arts Building and are excited to hear that dreams are transforming into realistic plans. They say they believe the modernization of the facility as well as

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Corrections: 2/25/16, Sports, page 7, “Marlins

Baseball Gets Geared Up for Action”: ODAC Pitcher of the Year Sean Grieser’s name was misspelled. 2/25/16, News, page 1, “Campus Growing Pains”: C.J. Lindsay was mistakenly identified as C.J. Nichols.

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