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The Student Newspaper of Howard Payne University
September 21 2006 Yellow Jacket 2
Growing Paynes: hpu lets out seams;
copes with crowding from freshman boom
by Jessica Willis
YJ StaffWriter
Long lunch lines crowd-
ed chapel services and dif-
ficulties in finding a parking
spot are just a few results of
the largest group of incom-
ing freshmen students to
Howard Payne in six years.
For the fall semester HPU
has 314 freshmen an 11.3
percent increase over last
fall. This year's freshmen
class is HPU's largest since
the fall of 2000..
"We had to open up extra
Bible Speech and CIS
classes this semester due
to the increase in freshmen"
said Dr. Donnie Auvenshine
vice president for academic
affairs. That means the HPU
bookstore has to order extra
textbooks for those specific
classes.
The housing situation has
increased this semester
Freshman Enrollment
Fall 2006 314
Fall 2005 282
Fall 2004 285
Fall 2003 276
Fall 2002 285
Fall 2001 289
mostly in the Jennings Dorm.
This year the fourth floor' of
Jennings has to open up
due to the increase in fresh-
men boys. Previously the
floor was never used and
was secluded from the rest
of the dorm.
The increased population
in the residence halls is tied
directly to the increase of
freshmen. Dr. Brent Marsh
dean of student life said
HPU students must live on
campus through their sopho-
more year or their first four
long semesters until they
accumulate 60 hours of class
credits or until are 22 years
old. "The only exception is if
they live at home with their
parents" Dr. Marsh said.
Students are having to wait
in line at the cafeteria longer
than in past years and find-
ing a parking spot seems to
depend on the time of day
you're looking.
"For lunch I normally
stand in line about 10 to
15 minutes" freshman Lydia
Nowell said. "When I park
it depends on the time of
day but if it is late at night it
takes forever."
Many students have
observed how crowded cha-
pel has become the past cou-
ple of weeks. There are other
ways bedsides attending
chapel to receive credit such
as the Servant Leadership
Program. This encourages
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Students have lots of time to get to know each other
while they wait in line for lunch.
Chapel-goers give thanks to progressive Pilgrim
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Henrietta and Bo at chapel last week
by Stephen Cox
YJ Staff Writer
God can work in mysterious ways.
Bo Pilgrim owner of the Pilgrims'
Pride chicken industry gave a gos-
pel pamphlet with a $20 bill in the
back to every student and faculty
member who attended chapel on
Sept. 13.
So what happened to those hun-
dreds of 20s floating around the
Howard Payne campus? It seems
God had a plan.
A total of 106 random students
on campus in the dorms well-
ness center music building and
Fambrough's to find out what
became of their $20 bills. The
results were really fascinating.
Thirty-seven of these students
missed chapel. Most were a lit-
tle upset about it although one
student said "It was worth $20 to
sleep in."
Others were at the volleyball
game later in the day at Sul Ross
State one had a broken collarbone
some no longer needed credit for
chapel and another was at the
hospital with his girlfriend. Most of
them said they'd never miss chapel
again.
Thirty-one of the students had
personal needs met. For the many
college kids pray about their financ-
es this was a gift certificate from
God. Several students used their
$20 to buy gasoline while others
bought toiletries groceries school
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