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Western Carolinian Volume 69 Number 11

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  • SGA- First meeting of the new semester | by Carla Batchelore WCnewsmagazine Thursday, Jan. 27, the Student Government Association met again in the Catamount Room at 7 p.m. to discuss upcoming events. This was SGA's first meeting since the campus closed for Christmas break. There were many items on the agenda, a great way to get the semester off on running start. Relay for Life was the first order of business. The Student Government Association will be hosting a fundraiser for this annual cancer awareness and research walk. The activity will take place on Feb. 9, 2005 on the UC Lawn. The main event will be a pie- in-the-face booth, where students can pay a small fee to throw a pie at faculty members. This will be a fun-filled event with many laughs that will lead up to the main Relay for Life walk on April 8, 2005. After the discussion on Relay for Life, the executive officers outlined their individual plans for the upcoming semester. The Chief of Staff discussed the Chief McAbee Replacement committee As many of you know Chief McAbee will be retiring from Western Carolina University. The committee hopes to find a replacement by May 1, 2005 and have power turned over to the new Chief of Police by June 1, 2005. Chief McAbee will be dearly missed here at Western. Speaking of involvement, SGA needs student members for the Student Senate. Senators will make help decisions for the campus; SGA would not be possible without Senate members. As a senator for SGA you could help out this campus with your voices, as people actually listen to what the Senators decide. Also, this semester SGA will be taking a trip to Washington D.C. on Feb. 16-18. The cost of this trip will be free to all SGA members; this trip is an excused absence for all who attend. It will be a busy three days of meetings and fun in our nations capital Heather List, the Student Government Association President gave her weekly update. The Graham building renovations are currently underway, and on April 1 the Reid Gym expansion will begin. Details were not given on if any of the actual building will be closed, except for the obvious fact the parking lot will be closed permanently. The new resident hall is currently on time, even though it may not look like it. Building construction has been delayed for a few days in order for the ground to dry out a bit more. Real Rhapsody is a service on-campus students can use to listen and download music, this service is scheduled to end on Feb. 12. The SGA is currently in negotiations with the Office of the President in Raleigh in order to continue this service until the end of the semester or even permanently. The plan to keep Rhapsody here at Western is still in the details stage, so stay tuned for updates. The month of Feb. is Black History Month; to One-Stop opens in Killian Annex Feb. 14 by Hannah Bruhn * WCnewsmagazine WCnewsmagazine kick things off at WCU, on Feb. 1 there will be a musical performance of the Twelve Moods of Jazz: The Langston Hughes project. The performance starts at 7 p.m. in the Grand Room of the UC and is free to all students. Come out and celebrate Black History while listening to excellent music preformed by renowned musicians. As we all know fundraisers are a big portion of the SGA agenda every year, and this year is no different. Feb. 21, there will be a President's Day President's Auction where campus organizations and clubs will be auctioning off their presidents for the night. The Second Annual Miss WCU pageant will be held sometime in March or April; a date has not been set yet. All the monies raised will be going to a scholarship endowment fund for a WCU student who is involved in campus activities; the Office of Advancement will provide more details at a later date. The Student Government Association here | at WCU has a lot of fun events coming up in the future, and student volunteers are always needed. | SGA is an excellent first-hand experience to have a | say here at Western. The students keep the school running, and without involvement from the students, the school can not continue to improve, making this campus a better place for every student and faculty | member. You glance at your list of things to do today: add money to your Cat Card, take care of financial aid issues, and get information about transferring. Ah, the busy life of a college student. No time for a break today! You head to the HFR Administration Building and trek up the stairs to one office and down the stairs to another. With handfuls of others, you wait in lines where everyone quietly eyes each other, hoping to be helped first. When you finally complete all your tasks, you stop and take a deep breath. What a hassle! you think. Well, be prepared to say goodbye to that old, hectic way of life. The lives of every student at Western Carolina University will soon be much more simplified. The administration and management of Western noticed the frenzy of students rushing around and waiting in lines in several different offices to simply accomplish basic administrative tasks, and they decided something needed to change. After studying a system utilized by the University of Minnesota, they decided to implement a similar system here on campus. Beginning February 14", the One-Stop Express Counter will be open to students. In just one place you will be able to put money on your Cat Card, check your account, switch meal plans, drop/add classes, get information about transferring, and take care of basic financial aid. Located at the center of campus, Killian Annex is the perfect place to house this wonderful new system. The bottom floor was thus redesigned with One-Stop in mind. Once the atrium is completed, students will be able to enter directly into the One-Stop area. Mike Razdrh, Associate Director of One-Stop, is working hard to prepare staff that will help the express counter run smoothly, though he admits that it is a learning process and will be around a year before all the bugs are worked out of the system. He coordinates everything within One-Stop, including the training of staff, personnel coverage, etc. He believes One-Stop will prevent students from having to run to different places on campus to get business done. He hopes the atrium will be completed in time for One-Stops opening, but feels sure they will open February 14" regardless. The same committee that implemented the One-Stop Express Counter here at Western is also working on possibly having an online Virtual One-Stop system where students can take care of all their administrative details without even leaving their rooms. The One-Stop Express Counter will be open from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Mondays through Thursdays and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays. This wide range of hours, along with its convenient location, will help accommodate all students regardless of work or class schedules. The next time you have a whole list of administrative details to sort out, you won't have to worry about running around campus. Simply stop by the One-Stop Express Counter and take care of everything there. There is less hassle, and less standing in line. Who wouldn't love it? Now you'll have more time to do your homework.... right. Catamount Bookstore Hours Regular Store Hours Monday - Thursday 8:30am - 5:30pm Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm Closed Saturday & Sunday Catamount Clothing and Gifts Monday-Friday = Saturday Sunday 10am- 8prn 10am - Spm lpm - 55m
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