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PTIMIST
Vol. 94 No. 1
1 section 16 pages
MONDAY
August 22 2005
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Setting up for success
Michelle Bernhardt was selected preseason
South Division Player of the Year page 16
Summer showers
Heavy August rains helped the city's water
supply but brought more mosquitoes page 1 1
Campaign countdown
Almost two-thirds of the $150 million
Centennial Campaign is raised page 6
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By JONATHAN SMITH
Editor in Guff
After davs of uncertainty the Theatre
Department on Wednesday announced
Seussical would replace Aida as this ear's
Homecoming Musical.
The late change occurred after Adam Hes-
ter chair of the Theatre Department pulled
Aida on Aug. 8 because of concerns In the
community that a white actress was cast to
play a lead role as a Nubian princess.
With the first rehearsal Saturday the
cast and crew will now have about mo
months as opposed to six months for
Aida to prepare for Seussical before its
Oct. 14-16 showings.
"Every production has its challenges"
Hester said in an e-mail. Time will be ours.
"There will probably be several rehears-
als taking place at the same time. There
may be one group working on choreogra-
phy while another is in blocking rehears-
als and a third will be working on learning
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University
operating
with surplus
AdmbHtatendodkato$4.5miH(onfora
three-year plan toward ktcreaebtf faculty mImIm.
By JONATHAN SMITH
EniTOR IN OlltF
The university's operating budget saw
about a SG million positive swing last
v ear to end the ear w ith more than a S 1
million surplus said Phil
Schubert vice president
of finance.
Total net worth which
also takes into account
investment earnings and
gifts to the university
also climbed S18 million
during last vear to S234
million one of the stron-
ger vears on record in the past 15 ears
Schubert said.
Two vears ago projections showed
that the budget deficit would continue to
grow reaching about S4.5 to S5 million.
Acting quickly in response to the projec-
See FINANCES page 14
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Cecilia Clowdus freshman undeclared major from Hurst worships alongside incoming freshmen and transfer students In Beauchamp Amphitheater
on Tuesday dunng the Candlelight Devo which included singing and a message from Mike Cope preacher for Highland Church of Christ
2 More than 1000 mw students came together last week for Welcome Week
to became acquainted with the university college life and each other.
By TIFFANY TAYLOR
FrATLRFs Editor
About one thousand fresh-
men and transfer students
attended events and mentor
group meetings during this
v ear's Welcome Week a five-and-a-half
day event before
classes began organized to
help students make the tran-
sition to college life.
"We work to prov idc a bal-
ance between large group ac-
tivities to get the entire enter-
ing class together for ev ents
small group times with the
mentor groups and down
time where new students can
rest and prepare for the be-
ginning of classes" said Eric
Gumm assistant director of
the First-Year Program and
director of orientation in an
e-mail.
Students once again at-
tended veteran events such
as a giant Tw Ister game and a
mov ie at the Paramount The-
atre in large numbers. The
photo scavenger hunt was
also a success in its second
year in the Welcome Week
lineup Gumm said.
The only new addition to
the schedule this vear was a
trip to frontier Texas.
On the Web
For a video report on Thursday morning s
sunnse devo at Welcome Week visit
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"They can have a chance
to learn the historv and back-
ground of the community
thev 're going to be living In
these next few vears" said
Kristina Anderson Welcome
Week co chair and senior
communication major from
Canton.
Frontier Texas was the big-
gest change to the week but
coordinators also made some
small changes to the Friday
service project.
Instead of walking door to
door asking local residents
for canned food as In past
ears students responded to
the needs of neighborhoods
surrounding the university
bv volunteering to do odd
jobs Because every mentor
group participated Gumm
said an estimated 1000 stu-
dents spent part ol the day
helping residents.
Through dailv mentor
group meetings and events
Anderson said she hopes
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Freshmen Krissy Heavm business and broadcasting major from Lex-
ington Ky and Brian Mitchell pre-architecture major from Garland
play Twister in Moody Coliseum during Welcome Week on Tuesday
Barret Hall opens to sophomore women just in time
Heavy ralne slowed the
completion of Hie residence hall
and abneet forced residents to
fled aRomata Hiring arrangementi
for Ike tot week of classes.
By JACI SCHNEIDER
CuiyEiutok
Sophomore women be-
gan moving into Barret
Hall Friday after much sus-
pense about whether their
new home would be ready
for occupation.
Although the inside
of the building had been
finished for more than
two weeks heavy rainfall
caused concern because It
stalled workers from pour-
ing concrete a task that
had to be finished before
the citv would approve the
building for occupancy
said Howard Deerman su-
perintendent of the Barret
"It's all absolutely beautijiil It's even
better than I thought it would be "
Or Mlml Barnard director ot Reiidance lilt Education and Housing
Hall project.
"We should have been
through last Friday" Deer-
man said. "But the rain
killed us on that."
Rain also kept work-
ers from laving brick on
schedule last spring Deer-
man said
In the end the rain only
delav ed the project by one
week because ot rain davs
built into the schedule.
Women who had planned
to move into the hall be-
fore Welcome Week staved
In Sikes Hall or with their
friends for the week said
Dr. Miml Barnard director
ol Residence Life Educa-
tion and Housing.
Although the hall was
completed before the be-
ginning of classes Bar-
nard was prepared for the
chance that it wouldn't.
She sent e-mails to the 1G2
residents letting them
know that the chance exist-
ed they would not be able
to move until after classes
began. She asked them to
stay at home if they lived
in Abilene find friends to
stay with or let her know
if they would need some-
where else to stay. Barnard
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