Around Campus

RECREATIONAL SPORTS
The fall term has been a busy one in club sports. Men's and women's soccer and men's baseball have been added to the already popular and expansive club sport program. The addition of these three sports brings the total number of club sports to 15, with over 250 student-athletes.

The women's soccer team compiled a 2-1-1 record during the fall with a 2-0 win over East Carolina and a 4-3 victory over Davidson. The Lady Paladins tied Clemson 2-2, while losing 5-1 to Georgia. The men have played one game to date, a 0-0 tie against Clemson. Both teams will be competing in the Greenville County adult league in the spring, while playing college teams in the Southeast.

Freshmen Erin Boehmke and Melissa Vogel have been the catalysts for the women's program, while Brian Mentel oversees the men's program. The club baseball team is a direct result of the enthusiasm and desire of junior Aaron Hensley. He has worked hard to recruit players and has secured a field in Greer to be the home field for the team. Ron Smith, Paladin head baseball coach, helped the team by donating some old varsity jerseys, and history professor Tim Fehler agreed to help coach. The Paladins will be playing an 18-game schedule as part of the National Collegiate Baseball Association League.

The men's and women's rugby teams enjoyed a successful fall campaign. Playing mostly against Division I competition, the men completed the season with a 4-4 record. The highlight came during the final game as Furman defeated the University of South Carolina 33-19. The avenged a 13-5 loss to USC October 7 and came on the heels of a heartbreaking 13-8 overtime loss to Davidson, a divisional rival. The men also posted wins against The Citadel and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro while losing to Clemson and Appalachian State. The women's team finished with a 1-3 mark. The highlight was a 57-5 victory over Guilford on Homecoming Weekend. The women lost competitive games to South Carolina, Augusta and Auburn.

The men's and women's team handball teams are looking forward to their season, which will begin in January. Both squads are the defending Eastern Division champions in the Southeast Team Handball Conference (SETHC), and both should challenge for the conference and national championships. Olympic handball player Darrick Heath is helping coach the team.

-- Owen McFadden

 

MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Much of our department has returned from Baltimore where we attended two separate professional conferences November 5-7. Cindy Bagwell, Melvin Cureton and Carol Ann Langley took part in "Duplicating & Printing at Colleges." The two-day workshop focused on emerging technologies and new techniques in college printing and copying.

Greg Carroll, John Roberts and Jake Breeden joined Dana Evans (Admissions) at the American Marketing Association's annual symposium for the marketing of higher education. The three-day conference featured dozens of speakers. Some of the topics covered included marketing on the Web, integrated marketing, marketing research and enrollment development. In addition, Gayle Warth, our special events coordinator, attended an October 28-30 conference in New Orleans for special event planners.

As the new president of CNAC (College News Association of the Carolinas), Vince Moore has been busy lining up speakers for the group's next conference, which will be held in Charleston in late March. The conference will focus on integrated marketing in higher education. CNAC is made up of university relations, public relations, marketing and special events coordinators from higher education institutions in North and South Carolina.

-- John Roberts

 

FINANCIAL SERVICES
December is an especially busy time for payroll, accounts payable and student accounts. A team from Financial Services is working with an outside consultant to review all aspects of the university's cash management, including banking and short-term investment relationships. We expect to discover ways to decrease the fees that we pay and increase earnings on our short-term investments.

Several Financial Services employees have attended seminars to receive additional training in their particular fields. Sandra Phillips, Debbie McNeely and Jean Cobb have attended APA seminars regarding payroll issues. Kim Rhodes and Debbie McNeely have received additional training in sales and use tax issues. Gloria Moore and Sandra Silvers went to a student loan collection conference. Ken Bridwell attended a SACUBO seminar about regulations regarding non-resident aliens on campus. Ken Bridwell and Amy Blackwell were organizers and presenters at the fall Southeast Datatel Users Group. Sandra Phillips and several others from the university attended this conference. Controller Gail Craig-Jager has announced that she will be leaving Furman at the end of March to move to Arizona. We will miss the wealth of knowledge that she has brought to all aspects of Financial Services.

-- Janie Burton

 

LIBRARY

Planning for the expansion of the James B. Duke Library continues. Janis Bandelin, library director, and the architects for the project presented the schematic plans for the project at an open forum for the university community on Monday, November 27. Construction is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2002.

Detailed information on the plans can be found at www.library.furman.edu/building. Several new databases have recently been added to the library Web page under the "What's New?" category. o Access Science is an on-line encyclopedia of science and technology, including over 7,000 articles, 100,000 definitions and 2,000 in-depth biographies.

o Biography Resource Center is a full-text source of information on 280,000 notables, including links to articles and other information sources.

o Essay and General Literature Index allows you to search tens of thousands of individual essays in thousands of books, almost all of which can be found in the James B. Duke Library.

o The Oxford English Dictionary is the definitive historical dictionary of the English language, and the most comprehensive dictionary of any language in the world. It includes comprehensive etymologies.

o Women Writers Online contains all of the texts from the Women Writers Project currently available on-line, covering a period from 1400 to 1850. The collection is culled from original texts at 26 major research collections.

Members of the Furman community now have access to electronic books via NetLibrary. NetLibrary allows students, faculty and staff full-text access to over 500 recent academic books and hundreds more literary classics. Once a user sets up an account at the NetLibrary site from a computer on campus, he or she can "check out" electronic books and view them anywhere in the world.

For more information, go to the library Web page and look under either "Books" or "What's New?"

-- John Payne

 

HEALTH SERVICES
Fall 2000 has been a season of change for Health Services at Furman. Jane Cartee, college health nurse practitioner, retired after 33 years of service. Mary Haselden was hired to fill the position of director of nursing and the nurse practitioner role.

There has also been a transition in the physician staff. Previously, physicians from the Children's Clinic in Greenville staffed the infirmary each morning from 10:30 until noon. On October 1, physicians from the pediatric program from the Greenville Hospital System began staffing clinic hours. Many of these physicians have a special expertise or interest in adolescent and college health. New physician hours are 8:30 a.m. to noon on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 10:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday and Thursday. The nurse practitioner is available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. As always, we offer 24-hour nursing coverage with a physician on call for telephone consultation.

To further increase services, additional physician hours will be added in the spring. Dr. James Beard has been medical director for many years but because of an affiliation with a new pediatric behavioral medicine practice with the Greenville Hospital System, Dr. Paul Catalana will become medical director sometime next spring. Many students are not aware that we offer a women's clinic on Tuesday evenings. Long-range plans include services specifically targeted toward men's health. Sandra Adams has been working with health education programs around campus.

In January and February, health services will have a health education intern, Amy Clark, who will be working with Adams to provide additional health education programs for Furman students. Adams will also work with the peer educators. Judy Thompson works with the student advisory group, a group of students who work with health services staff to improve services.

Mary Ann McCain, Regina Fowler and Frankie Dobson are additional full-time staff members. Faye Johnson, Alice Ramos, Anne Williams, Vanessa Tucker and Karen Keane staff the infirmary on weekends on a rotating basis. The Health Services staff continually strives to provide excellence in health care to Furman students.

-- Mary Haselden