McMurry War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 11, Ed. 1, Wednesday, April 21, 1999 Page: 6 of 8
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Wednesday April 21 1999
War Whoop - Page 6
Students
Dorm conditions
seen as terrible
By Sylvester Key
As a student living on
campus I have come to
the realization that there
are very poor dorm con-
ditions in two of the
dorms. I have come to this
conclusion after living in
one of these dorms.
Living in the Martin
Many honored at First
Awards ceremony
Todd Treat was master
of ceremonies at the Inau-
gural Student Recognition
Ceremony held Tuesday
evening in the Mabee
Room of the United Meth-
odist Campus Center.
Leo Patrick Thrasher
graduating senior was
keynote speaker at the
event which is under gen-
eral supervision of the
Student Affairs Office di-
rected by Dr. Thomas
Jackson.
"The Dating Game" and
"How to Survive Your
Freshman Year" won the
Residence Life Awards as
top programs.
Responsible for "Dating
Game" were Josie
Bassham Hope Pamplin
Jessica Thompson and
Harvey Oaxaca. "How to
Survive" was by Clarice
Rawls Hannah Bone
Jenny Terrell and Kirsten
Anderson.
Jenny Terrell and Jes-
sica Thompson were given
Resident Assistant of the
Year awards.
KIVA and TIP social
clubs were honored as In-
tramural Champions.
Intramural All Stars
were Rory Peacock Billy
Rogge Aaron Liersmann
Bret Miller Todd Treat
Jason Burgess Brian
Becton Ashley Justus Sa-
rah Worofka Jori Coll
JoAnne Pallenez and
Rebecca Trinidad.
Outstanding Vision-
Quest Leaders were Emily
Harris Patrick Thrasher
Harvey Oaxaca Janet
voice opinions in
Dorm the worst of the
two I notice some things.
For example both Martin
and Hunt Dorms have
guests that were not in-
vited in roaches.
Roaches have taken over
our kitchens and are pres-
ently working on taking
over the rooms and lobby.
They have made the
moldy walls and doorless
rusted stalls in our front
Ramage Sarah Worofka
and Jared Roan.
Student Staff of the Year
were Gerry Maness in
wellness Stephanie Meeks
in Campus Center Billy
Rogge in intramurals
Andre Smith and Jared
Roan in intramurals.
Dehna Mikuls was MSA
Programmer of the Year.
In Religious Life Tim
Kennedy and Jennifer Wil-
liams won the Donald
Aaron Ward Award.
In the MSG January
Sandeford and Harvey
Oaxaca won Outstanding
Senator of the Year
Awards.
Clay Stevenson won the
Peer Tutor of the Year
Award.
Jessica Thompson won
the Outstanding Servant
Leadership Award.
Students in Free Enter-
prise won the Outstanding
Service Award by and Or-
ganization. Julie Walton won the
Women's Interclub Unity
Award.
Dr. Donald Frazier won
the Advisor of the Year
Award.
Kappa Delta Sigma was
named Most Improved
Organization of the Year.
Officers of the Year
were: Rebecca Trinidad
treasurer; Neal Jetton sec-
retary; Harvey Oaxaca
vice president; Kaisin Fos-
ter president.
Outstanding Organiza-
tions Awards went to
Gamma Sigma and Pi
Delta Phi.
restrooms their home.
They are currently con-
structing new subdivi-
sions in our bathrooms
where the conditions are
just right for them you
know: moldy paintless
walls along with shower
mold and all.
We are well below living
conditions in other dorms.
President Hall was remod-
eled last year with new
carpet and new fixtures
the works. Gold Star has
always been women's
dorm meaning it was kept
up well.
The question is why do
we pay an estimated
$4017 (Facts and Figures
Brochure 1999) for room
and board when the con-
ditions are like this. These
dorms need to be im-
proved to draw students.
Studies also show that
these are not healthy
learning and living condi-
tions. We need to have
our tuition money spent
on the dorms.
If our dorms are remod-
eled we will see an in-
crease in male students
wanting to stay in our
dorms. It will also in-
crease the overall beauty
of our campus.
We as students need to
take care of our buildings
showing the administra-
tion that we'are capable
for being responsible for
our surroundings. Most of
all we can't complain if
they increase our room
and board a little to give
us better living conditions.
Open-door rule
is outdated
By Marty Martinez
Part of being a univer-
sity student is hanging out
with your friends. Doing
that means going and hav-
ing a good time by watch-
ing TV together listening
to the radio or just sitting
around and doing noth-
ing. That's great and every-
thing but at McMurry
University there is a small
problem. That is the open
dorm policy.
The open dorm policy is
persuasive essays
when a male or female is
allowed in a room of a
member of the opposite
sex. You have to follow
certain rules as stated in
the McMurry Council Fire.
Some o those rules are
signing your guest in and
out visitation only during
certain times and the big-
gest problem most stu-
dents have with this is that
we must leave the door at
least one-fourth of the
way open.
Most students feel that
is an invasion of privacy.
In an interview a Mar-
tin Hall Resident Assistant
said the purpose of the
policy is to promote a safe
and healthy environment
when members of the op-
posite sex are around.
He also said that is great
and everything but that
students learn more as
they get older so these
rules should not apply to
upperclassmen.
As a student paying
around $12000 to
$13000 a year in tuition
and fees I feel that we
should be allowed to have
anyone over to our rooms
whenever we want.
In interviewing 50 stu-
dents sixty percent said
there should be no regu-
lations on having mem-
bers of the opposite sex in
their rooms. Twenty-five
percent said there should
be some policy while oth-
ers simply didn't care.
Out of the twenty-five per-
cent most said there
should be at leas some
regulation like a sign-in
or longer regulated hours.
As a student I urge you
to petition McMurry Stu-
dent Government to allow
us to have a better policy.
Organ Donation
saves lives
by Asha Kurian
We've all heard the say-
ing that one person can
make a difference in the
lives of many people.
However many of us do
not understand the im-
portance of this saying.
When in reality by being
an organ donor you can
make a significant differ-
ence in the lives of many
people. By donating your
organs and tissues as
many as 50 people may
benefit. According to the
Daily Apple there are
nearly 60000 patients on
a waiting list to get a trans-
plant in America at
present. However less
than 6000 organs are re-
trieved after donors'
deaths last year. Due to
the shortage of organs
available for transplanta-
tion thousands of people
die who could have been
saved by a transplant.
Years of experience and
major advances in science
medicine and technology
have made it possible to
perform many successful
transplants. But all the so-
phisticated medical tech-
nology is useless if there
are not enough people like
you being willing to be-
come organ and tissue do-
nors. The requirements to be-
ing an organ donor is so
easy that all of us could
easily become organ do-
nors. We all have organs
and so when we die we will
not need them. If more
people like us were willing
to be organ donors then
more people would live
because there would not a
shortage of organs. If you
choose not to become an
organ donor the conse-
quences would be that
more people would die
because the shortage of
organs would continue to
increase. If someone in
your family or one of your
friends needed an organ
wouldn't you want there to
be an abundance of organs
instead of a shortage of
organs?
In conclusion the prob-
lem is that because of the
shortage of organs avail-
able for transplantation
thousands of people would
die who could have been
saved by a transplant.
Each one of us does not
have to become an organ
donor but if at least of few
of us did then the number
of people who lived would
increase.
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