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FEBRUARY 26, 2004 - Page 2 NEWS Construction of academic building underway . facility located between ompson was eventually con- MICHAEL VYSKOCfL Hoover Library and Albert vert~d to faculty offices,fore- ing will contain offices,class- finance the p~oject. STAFF WRITER Norman Ward Hall, accord- ing instructors to find other rooms, and computer labs, Accordmg to Seidel, the It's beginningtolooka lot ing to Ethan Seidel, vice teaching ~ocations·on cam- Seidel said. new building is expected to be like construction, everywhere president for administration pus, he said. L ike Tho m p son, col}l.pletedand ready for open- you go. and finance. "Here in the graduate Winslow Hall has similar ing tn Spring 2005. Groundbreaking began Currently, Thompson education department, we woes. Built in 1958 as the Construction also began early January for McDaniel's Hall houses both the under- often feel separated from the school's student center, on the new tennis courts on the new 44,800-square-foot aca- graduate and graduate edu- goings-on of the campus," "Winslow wasn't designed to lower terraced field south of demtc building housing the cation programs. Thompson, said Julia Orza, coordinator house classroom space," BairStadium.Oncecompleted education, psychology and stu- which once held the school of the graduate counselor Seidel said. (by Fall 2004), the present ten- dent academic support services infirmary, has become unable education program. The project cost for the nis courts will become an 88- departments. to support the education The new academic building is $9 million. space parking lot, according to Growth in these pro- department's needs, Seidel building will change that. McDaniel received a capital a January 22 memorandum grams influenced the decision said. Designed with faculty and matching grant of $3 million from campus safety director to build the new multipurpose Classroom.space in Th- students in mind, the build- from the state of Maryland to Michael Webster. The McDaniel Free Press I History from page 1 chosen, after the Edgar Allen Poe short story of the same name. This name would last until 1974, when the paper took the moniker Scrimshaw after an 18th century folk-art form. In 1981, after years of substandard publications by the Scrimshaw staff, the paper was once again renamed. This time it was named after The Phoenix, a mythical bird that symbolizes rebirth. The name originated from an official school crest designed in the late 1970's that featured a phoenix. The school also toyed Another former editor reporting hard news, and per and believes a "120,000 Romanski sees nothing dollar education should be with the idea of changing the who oversaw dramatic made the paper more attrac- worth such an investment on but good things for the future mascot to the firebird. changes in the college paper tive. Slade covered theexplo- of the school paper, but she is Walt Michael took over was Jonathan Slade. Cur- ston of the Challenger. space the part of the student news- worried that as a staff "we are as editor in chief of the Gold rently a Communications shuttle in 1986. This unique paper." Slade saw a paper getting a little ahead of our- "overrun by uniformed com- Bug in 1967. Michael remem- Professor at McDaniel, Slade opportunity to cover the ef- selves in our excitement to cre- bers a paper that was not ig- was the editor of The Phoenix fects of a national event on a mentary," and good writing ate something so wonderfully that was lost in the layout. nored, read by everyone, and in 1986, when Macintosh college campus was a per- Mcduffie and Erin different from what we have served as a true student forum. computers were used to pub- sonal highlight for Slade. Romanski served as co-edi- gotten used to." "The main highlight was lish the school paper for the This feeling resonates in Today the college paper's that we were a student news- first time. the most recent co-editor of tors-in-chief from fall 2002to name. changes yet again. The paper in the 1960's, a truly as- "From Sunday to Tues- Tile Phoenix Leroy Mcduffie. fall 2003, and both feel that McDaniel Free Press connotes tounding ... time to be coming day we lived in the office... I Mcduffie covered the events changes in the college news- just what the staff wants to con- of age," said Michael. loved working for the paper of9/ll for the paper, an event room will be a positive. In her vey. The name is linked to During Michael's tenure, and it was it's own clique. that involved both the. cam- one year as co-editor in chief McDaniel because the paper the Gold Bug earned an All- When I started working for pus and the world. The Phoenix b e c a m e covers all of the college America rating, and shifted the paper it was ridiculed .. Both Michael and Slade Romanski's "pride and joy." community's accomplishments printing formats from linotype we tried to change that," said are critical of the work of The She was always proud seeing and blemishes. "Free Press" the finished product, even to offset printing. This allowed Slade. Phoenix staff in recent years. with its flaws, because it was honors the fact that the paper for more creativity in layout Slade and his staff es- Michael would like to see a a result of many hours of la- is student-run. Its staff will con- and design. tablished beats, focused on more "critically engaged" pa- borious work. stantlv celebrate that unique in- dependence. 'Provost search narrows Provost from page 1 on the search committee and tifying information about a said Long. "And everyone should get the job," said who will make the final hir- candidate besides his or her walked out smiling. Wellev- Johnson-Ross. "It means that ing decision, att~ibuted the last name until the formal in- eryone but me. I still had to those persons are fairly consid- response to the college's terview. call and make sure the candi- of the college and will replace name change. Each candidate met dates were interested. But ered in an equitable process." Dr. Samuel Case, who is retir- "Many candidates said with the search committee, they were." Johnson-Ross, who was ing to pursue academic inter- that the old name would not COley,Mary Ann Friday and Coley believes that the not directly involved' in the ests. have gotten their attention Dr.Phillip Sayre, Dean ofStu- final group- three males and search, said that any search pro- The committee, made up because they wanted to work dent Affairs and a non-voting one female- represent the cess is really a "Catch-22" be- of four elected faculty members in a private college as op- affirmative action officer, for pool of professionals work- cause the COllegeis "selling it- and three presidential admin- posed to a public one," said an hour. Candidates were ing in postsecondary educa- selfto the candidate" while try- ing to find the person best istrative appointees, worked Coley, referring to the com- asked a handful of preset tion administration. For ex- qualified for the job. with national consulting firm mon misconception that questions that addressed is- ample, according to the Each of the finalists trav- R.H. Perry and Associates to Western Maryland College sues such as curriculum de- American Council on Educa- eled to campus for two days develop a position announce- was a public college. velopment and the tion, only 21.1% of college during the month of February, ment and executive profile. The After reviewing the ap- individual's ability to learn presidents are women and meeting with various faculty position was advertised in No- plications and external data from criticism. only 12.8%are minorities. groups, students, trustees and vember in the Chronicle of collected by the consulting After two days and nine However, both Coley administrators. Candidates Higher Education, Black Issues firm throughout January, the hours. of interviews, the and Dr. Deborah Johnson- caught a glimpse of McDaniel and Hispanic Outlook, as well committee invited nine can- search committee only Ross, political science profes- life and for the first time, the as on the college website. didates to interview at the needed 15minutes to choose sor and Affirmative Action campus community had the The response? Over- Sheraton Hotel at the Balti- the four finalists.' Director for the Faculty, are whelming. The committee re- more-Washington Airport on Long said the quick de- satisfied with the diversity of opportunity to address the fi- nalists. ceived twice the number of ex- January 30th and 31st. cision was the result of a co- the four candidates. Coley said that she plans pected applications. Following affirmative hesive group. "Affirmative action to announce the new Provost President Joan Develin action rules set by the college, "Everyone understood does not mean a person from Coley, who served as ex-officio the committee knew no iden- everyone's point of view," an under-represented group "as close to the March 1st date as possible."