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Changes • Improve 8Y MICHAEL PUSKAR Sports Ediror Street & Smith s prediction that campus the 1998 Green Terror football team wiU win the NCAA Division III (D-lII) national championship, is two games closer to fruition. The Green Terror football team Renovations to Alben Norman has launched into the season with Ward HalL.more parking on a 2-0 record. campus ... betterGlar food ... yes, it's Last year's undefeated season of 10-0 (the third in Terror history) all true. And it all took place dur- ing the summer. was only the sixth one in the Cen- "We accomplished a lot this tennial Conference (CC) since summer. Our main job is to satisfy 1983 and only the second for a CC school in a regular season since the students' needs, and by listen- ing to their concerns we can im- 1974. prove life on campus," said Dr. Last year's game attendance was equally record-breaking. Scott Philip Sayre, dean of student af- fairs. S. Bair Stadium's average' atten- Almost 50 years old, ANW re- dance per game was 2,578, second- ceived a much needed facelift this place Ursinus stadium did not even summer. According to Dean Sayre, approach that number with 1,895. the renovations were part of a six Many individual players re- ceived honors in 1997. Topping the year program which was initiated in 1994 to renovate all of the resi- list are quarterback Ron Sermarini and linebacker Tommy Selecky. Every window in the building Sermarini and Hopkins' Harri- to take CC Players WMC professor's movie to thermal son Bernstein became the first pair was replaced which with will improve pane in- windows, of sophomores sulation in the building. There are of the Year in '97, for Sermarini also three new bathrooms, one on ranked highest in passing third in be shown in Baltimore each of the first three floors, and with 159.38 points and placed new sinks and counters were in- total offense. 8Y FRANCESCA SAYLOR poning a double hernia operation premiere at the Charles Theatre in stalled in the existing bathrooms. Selecky was named to Hewlett- SwjJWril<;r to film scenes. Baltimore on July 25 and will be Dr. Ethan Seidel, vice president Packard's Second-Team AIl- The actual filming took only 28 showing there again September 19. of administration and finance, said American. He has also received With all the publicity in the Bal- days. but was spread across a 2 1/2 In addition, it will be showing in "The overall quality of the bath- preseason honors. He was named timore Sun, the City Paper, The year span since the schedules of the Annville, Pa., close to Hershey, on rooms is better. We sacrificed First-TeamAll-American by Street Carroll County Times, and The Hill cast had to be accommodated. At October 4 at4 pm at theAllenThe- housing capacity to improve the Continued on page 16 magazine, WMC film professor one point, one of the main charac- atre. The owner oftheAllen called student to bathroom ratio." He be- Jonathan Slade should be speech- ters moved to San Francisco and Slade after seeing the review in the lieves that the new bathrooms will less by now over the creation of his Slade had to finance her trip back City Paper which called the film have a major effect on the living Inside first full-length independent film, says he is incredibly grateful to all "a sincere, insightful exploration and of environment in ANW. was He in order to complete the film. but he's still more than eager to talk love, friendship The interior of the building about it. the cast members and wishes he infidelity ... engaging and ambi- completely painted and carpeted, t5·I"i"i§,'£la' This former WMC grad and could pay everyone back, but he ~ tiously realized." and most of the furniture was re- has made native Westminster Pro and Con: Two ttrst-yeer stu- dream come true in the production his feels he must settle for the viewing Slade says he knows he will placed, including new loft beds and dents debate the success of new of his film at as many locations as probably never make his money dressers in every room. All of the orForestfortheTrees. The 16mm he can find. - back, but by trying to get his film student orientation. ceiling tiles were replaced, as were Ittni'ii4 in film about a group of old college Forest for the Trees made its Continued on page 3 the light fixtures in all of the rooms. friends reuniting for a bicycle trip The laundry rooms that existed Unsung hero: Staff member along the C&O canal took 2 1/2 on the floors were converted into Heshmat Badlee talks about his years of hard work, credit card bal- single rooms, and two new laun- Ufe as a member of the Baha'i ances totaling $26,000, and a very dry rooms were built in the base- faith and the religious intoler- devoted volunteer cast. ment. ance he has experienced These devoted friends were the However, the biggest renova- Sports 13 ones who encouraged Slade when tion in ANW is the redesign of the Soccer: Both the men's and he thought the film would never get building to a suite-style facility. women's teams are off to a fair start finished. "No matter how much "The suite configuration allows this season you believe in a project, there's many more housing options. Now always a point when you'll lose people who want to live together PAPA JOHN'S hope," says Slade. to Dr. Rob- have the option of living in a suite, He is most thankful results which in a happier atmo- PIZZA HAS en Sapora, WMC English and com- sphere," design consists of four said Seidel. professor, who was "a munications The ARRIVED non-stop energizer bunny," accord- suites with nine students each, one did all the See ad on ing to Slade. Sapora and was will- with 12 students, and two with 27 film's photography students each (used for the Greek page 15 ing to work at all times, even post- Professor Jonathan Slade's movie, Forest far the Trees, premiered in July. Continued on page 2