/4 student is a nationally recognized whip maker. Please sec Page 21.
The Sliver Anniversary Popcorn Forum held from March 27 to April 2 treated attendees to a diverse array of topics and guests. Please see Page 15.
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Friday, March 31 , 1995 Volume 71 , Number 10
Sentinel
North Idaho College's Student Newspaper • Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Welding program returns to campus; Hedlund Building Schematic released by Sherry L. Adkin~ Se111mel Reporter The welding program will be back on campus and nil non-rechnical classes "ill be removed from the Hedlund Building, according 10 a Ilediund 13uilding Decision Schematic handout circulated at the Mlllth 29 NIC Board ofTrusrccs meeting. The handout. which covers an either-or siluntion nnd seems 10 skin health issues, will take effect next semester nnd is comprised of two parts. Oasically. the plan is split into rwo unspecific layouts. After removing all non-technical classes and rehousing the welding program, results nre nnticipnred 10 go one or two wnys. First, if no health problems are experienced by the technical programs, the administration will wait 10 reoccupy rhe classrooms and offices closed due 10 prior health concerns until a "deliniti\'c cause/cure for henlrh problems is found,'' according 10 rhc handout. On the other hand. if staff or students of applied rcchnologr cla.,.~c~ bcgm 10 experience heullh problems, rhen the Srntc Oepnnmunr of Vocarional Educn11on/S1n1c Board of E.du,.i1ion will be a~kw 10 provide emergency funding 10 move all remnining programs. sroff and student, out ,,f the building ton new loc:uion, according to rhc hilnd,11 t. Options include lensing space off campus, moving pMgrum\ into the old Armory Building or con~trut ti1111 1 new Applied Technology Building. Anothc · ()~lion would be 10 reoccupy the building nfrer all "s H tll.'CI" progmms have b.!en removed and "~arefully nm,111or activirics."' according to the administratl\ e handout. Finolly, I no h(ahh problems are rcpone<I. the Hedlund Ot·ilding could be r.:modcled, perhaps even as a non-applied redmology space nod urilited as u classroom building n., cull~'<! for in rhc NIC Strategic Plan, another adminis1m1ive answer for scarct' classroom space. On rhe other hand, if heahh problems are reponed after non-tcchnicol program, 11re removed lhen lhe administration· s schematic plan calls 10 abandon the Hedlund Building completely until a ''definitive cause/cure is found or rear down rhe building and free the site for possible future construction." Trustee Norm Gissel was r.:ccprive 10 the plan bur voiced the same opinion at Wednesday's meeting thnt he held Inst month. '"I still wish I hod my bulldozer," he said. "We could scule this once and for all."
photo by Erin Siemers The language of flowers-NIC Employee Davfd Parker grows orchids during his free time. See Page 5.