The Carolinian [December 4, 2003]

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IN THIS ISSUE
Flannel Shorts
UNCG Theater students
write, perform short plays
in eighth annual event
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JUIDED k £
Album Review
Guided by Voices' new
best-of collection
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Out of My Head
Joe Killian shares a twisted
holiday tale
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Men's Soccer
Men's soccer season was a
learning experience
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Women's Basketball
Women's team head coach
close to her 500th win
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DIRECTORY
Arts & Entertainment 4
Classifieds 10
Comics 5
Opinions 6
Sports 8
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New tunnel to connect Elliot Center, Jackson Library
With $1.5 million in student fees earmarked for the tun-nel,
some students question university's priorities
Carlos Rountree
Staff Writer
Beginning in November 2005
UNCG students will have a new way
to enter the university's Jackson
Library.
UNCG's board of trustees has
given approval for the building of a
tunnel to connect Jackson Library to
the Elliot University Center.
Called the Jackson Library-Elliot
University Center connector, the
project is set to begin in October of
2004 and to be completed in
November of 2005. It's estimated
that the project will cost around 1.5
million dollars and. according to the
action item put out by the board, it
will be "funded by the use of existing
Student Fee balances."
With the campus fountain dry and
broken for more than a year, students
are divided over spending money to
connect the two buildings.
Mary Adamovich . a senior, said
the connector is a good idea.
"I would prefer them spending
money on that rather than ripping up
another parking lot. It'd be nice to
have an entrance [to the library] on
this side of campus. I think it's dan-gerous
walking around campus at
night," she said.
Many other students, however,
were a bit more skeptical about the
necessity of the tunnel.
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The university has earmarked funds to build a walkway connecting the
library, at left, to the new EUC, which was completed in Dec. 2002.
STAFF PHOTO I ROSEMARY YELTON
LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT
RLE PHOTO / UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE
A UNCG tradition since 1969, the holiday luminary display will feature more than 5,000 candles this year. The
candles will be lit at dusk on Tuesday, December 9, the night before the bginning of end-of-semester exams.
Campus luminaries tradition continues
More than 5,000 candles to line every avenue on campus in
holiday celibration sponsored by campus fraternities, sororities
University News Service
The event will run from dusk to
10 p.m. Approximately 5,000 candle
luminaires will be set out in the mid-dle
of campus in the Residence Hall
Quadrangle, at the Student Plaza out-side
the Dining Hall, and on Spring
Garden and Aycock streets. Student
groups are expected to be caroling on
campus and hot chocolate will be
available. Visitors are invited to view
the luminaires and join UNCG's
campus community in welcoming the
holidays.
Since the display's beginning at
UNCG in 1969. the number of lumi-naires
has ranged from 3.500 to a
high of 7,000. The display has its ori-gins
in Spanish and French Christmas
customs. Over the years, more than
130,000 candles and white bags,
along with 8-10 tons of sand, are esti-mated
to have gone into the display.
The event is sponsored by UNCG fra-ternities
and sororities, whose mem-bers
will assemble the bags Sunday
and Monday. Dec. 7-8.
The luminaire display is held on
Reading Day. The campus tradition
has provided a nice event to close the
semester. When the candles burn out,
however, students will tum to their
books and burn the midnight oil for
further illumination - because final
exams start the next morning at 8
a.m.
Concert to
raise money
for UNCG
scholarship
Family andfriends of Lester
Earl Gross, killed in a drunk
driving accident in 2000, hope
to raise $50,000 with annual
event at The Bling Tiger
Hilary Hellens
Staff Writer
On December. 6. 2003 from 11
a.m to 4 p.m at The Blind Tiger, fam-ily
and friends will get together to
remember Lester's Earl Gross, a
UNCG soccer player killed in a
drunk driving accident in Septemeber
of 2000.
It will be a nice of live music and
fun with the goal of raising $50,000
for theLester Earl Gross III Soccer
Scholarship Fund, started by Gross's
family and friends.
"We all sat around and thought
about the best way we could honor
Lester, "said Bob Nadler. a long time
friend of Gross's. "Lester loved
UNCG, and he loved life. This
seemed to be the best way to honor
him."
The Lester Gross Memorial Party
is also known as the Chet Fest. Chet
is a nickname that Gross received as
a soccer player at UNCG. The Chet
Fest will feature live music: mostly
folk and bluegrass as well as some
songs from Gross's former band The
Beggar's Holliday.
The Chet Fest began last year at
the same location, with a healthy turn
out of 150 people, despite bad weath-er.
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Students react to lawsuit, scandal surrounding
UNCG golf coach Terrance Stewart
Zach Bridges
Staff Writer
While the lawsuit filed by former
UNCG golfer Shawn Costello against
the university remains to be decided
in court, many students at UNCG
have already taken sides.
Costello's suit accuses golf coarch
Terrance Stewart of unlawfully dis-missing
him from the golf team last
year after learning he'd been diag-nosed
with Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder (OCD). Costello lost his
$3,000 scholarship, and had to trans-fer
to Western Carolina to continue
his collegiate golf career.
After the lawsuit became public a
number of former golfers, many cut
from the team by Stewart over the
last two years, came forward with
accusations of verbal abuse, discrim-ination
and even cheating.
Upon hearing the story many stu-dents
said they were outraged at the
actions taken by the golf coach.
"If the kid has done something
wrong yeah kick him off the team.
but if he was kicked off for having
OCD that is not justification enough,
unless it affected his playing style,"
said Greg Rodevick, junior. "I think
it could be overlooked if it did not
affect his game or other people
around him."
OCD affects the brain and causes
a person to worry about something so
much that it becomes an obsession
they must act on. compulsion.
People that have this disorder may
have to wash their hands excessively
throughout the day. or repeatedly
check the stove or the iron for far of
burning their homes down. The disor-der
can have an affect on the person's
everyday life, however that depends
on the degree with which a person
suffers.
"That is no reason to be dis-missed,"
said Brett Obringer, sopho-more.
"It should not have made a dif-ference.
The question of how much this
disorder effected Costello's perform-ance
on the course remains to be
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