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THE CAPTAIN’S LOG
T H E O F F I C I A L S T U D E N T N E W S PA P E R O F C H R I S T O P H E R N E W P O R T U N I V E R S I T Y | S E P T E M B E R 5 , 2 0 0 7 | V O LU M E 3 9 I S S U E 1
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NEWS
Class of 2011
breaks records in
size, academics
BY DAVID PORTER
DAV I D.PORT ER.0 5 @ CN U.EDU
T he i ncomi ng freshman class of 2011 broke
records in both size and
h i g h s cho ol ac adem ic
achievement. A University press release calls
the new freshman “the
best qualified” in CNU
history. The class touts
an average high school
GPA of 3.5 and SAT score
of 1170.
The prospective freshmen were admitted
during a rigorous selection process. 1,279 freshmen were accepted out of
over 7,400 applications,
breaking records in both
the number of applicants
and size of the admitted
class.
An elite group of 20 0
st udents have been
selected for t he P resident’s Leadership Pro g ra m wit h a n average
GPA of 3.7 and SAT score
of 1249. An additional 90
students were admitted
to the prestigious Honors
Program with an average
GPA of 3.8 and SAT score
of 1284.
Freshmen making up
this highly qualified class
of 2011 were attracted to
CNU for a variety of reasons, including its size,
physical layout, and the
opportunities available.
“I was attracted to CNU
by the size, in comparison to other schools,” said
freshman Chris Diming,
who plans to major in
p ol it i c a l s c i e n c e a n d
minor in history.
“I think it has a good
l ayout , a nd i s easy to
navigate,” said freshman
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Captain Christopher Newport statue
installed amid a sea of controversy
The statue has incited
criticism from the
local press who are
concerned with its
historical accuracy
BY RYAN KELLY
RYA N.K EL LY.0 5 @ CN U.EDU
On June 20, a statue depicti ng Capt ai n Ch ri stopher
Newpor t was instal led at
the intersection of Warwick
Bou levard and Avenue of
the Arts. Sculptor Jon Hair
of Cornelius, North Carolina, created the 24-foot tall
bronze statue, weighing in at
7,500 pounds. The striking
memorial has found itself
at the center of controversy, producing mixed
reactions.
The statue has
incited criticism from
t he loc
lo c a l pre s s who
are concerned with its
historic a l accu racy.
A rou nd 15 9 0, Newp or t lo s t p a r t o f
his right arm in
battle. It was not
until 1607 that he
landed in Jamestown, the event for
which he is most
ay,
celebrated tod
today,
with only one full
arm. The statue portrays Newport with
both arms, one hand
upon his sword, the other
resting on his hip. Hair
fi rst developed preliminary
sketches followed by a miniature version of the statue,
which were approved by
President Paul Trible, Jr.
a nd t hen-Rector Bobby
Freeman in May of 2002.
Sculpting of the full-sized
monument took about six
months and soon after,
the sculpture was cast in
bronze and essentially completed. Installation of the
statue was delayed until this
summer due to construction
on Warwick Boulevard.
Students familiar with the
controversy have expressed
d i sm ay at t he choic e to
cast Newport without any
disabi lity. “He shou ld be
portrayed how he actually
was. He shouldn’t conform
to what we want him to look
like,” said freshman Megan
Farnin. Dr. Sheri Shuck-Hall,
associate professor of history specializing in Colonial
North America, says that the
memorial is not necessarily
inaccurate. “I don’t know
from what period he’s being
represented.
He wou ld
h a v e
h a d
t hat
f u l l
beard
b
y
30,” she said, at which point
Newport had not yet been
injured.
“Personally, I think having
a one-armed statue would
look kind of ugly,” said freshman Greg White. “You want
it to be aesthetically pleasing.”
Hair feels he has been misrepresented by earlier stories
run by the local press. Hair,
who is the official sculptor
of the U.S. Olympic Team,
was commissioned by Mr.
Irwin Belk in 2000 to create
a gift for CNU.
“I was
commis-
sio n e d by t h e s c ho ol t o
create a statue of Newport
with two arms. That’s what
I did. This sculpture was a
gift from Senator Belk to the
school, not the town, and I
feel they have been terribly
ungrateful for a third-of-amillion dollar gift,” he said.
Trible defended the statue
in a statement issued to the
Board of Visitors, saying,
“In truth, no one knows if he
lost all of his right arm, part
of his arm or whether he
had a hook and he has been
portrayed in many different
ways.
If historical accuracy is
the rule, there can be no
statue of Newport or John
Harvard whose bronze statue
sits in the Harvard University Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.”
While arguments continue
about the accuracy of the
new monument, Shuck-Hall
believes the greater focus
should be on the legacy
Captain Newport left
a n d
what this newest monument
represents.
“Despite injury, he kept
on going… he represents the
contact of cultures, often
remembered for bringing
English settlers here for a
better life,” says Shuck-Hall.
She pointed out that Newport was also responsible for
making peaceable contact
with the native peoples, in
contrast with other European explorers.
“He represents hope
for the future,” said ShuckHall. “I hope our students
can appreciate that connection. This place opens up a
new door for them.”
H a r va rd whos e bron z e
statue sits in the Harvard
Universit y Ya rd i n Ca mbridge, Massachusetts.”
While arguments continue
about the accuracy of the
new monument, Shuck-Hall
believes the greater focus
should be on the legacy Captain Newport left and what
this newest monument represents.
“Despite injury, he kept
on goi ng… he represents
t he c ont ac t o f c u lt u r e s ,
o f t en r ememb e r e d for
bringing English settlers here for a better
life,” says Shuck-Hall.
She pointed out that
New por t was a lso
responsible for making
peaceable contact with
the native peoples, in
c ont r a s t w it h ot he r
European explorers.
“He represents hope
for the future,” said
Shuck-Hall. “I hope our
students can appreciate
that connection. This
place opens up a new
door for them.”
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The statue installed in June was a project that was five years in the making
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Three’s Company - Or just a Crowd?
TRIPLING | Although Paul Trible called for an
end to tripling of freshman in dorms, tripling
continues with the new, larger freshman class
BY HOPE SCHACHTER
[email protected]
An increase in the
nu mb e r o f s t u d e nt s wh o
accepted CNU’s offer of admission last spring means that
approximately 60 rooms in the
Santoro and Potomac North
residence ha l ls were converted from double rooms to
triple rooms at the beginning
of the fall semester.
Compounding the difficulties of overcrowding, some
tripled freshmen found their
rooms without enough furniture, including desks.
Housing had promised extra
furniture to tripled freshman,
despite the space squeeze the
desks would create but that
furniture was not available on
move-in day. Janine Kennel,
assistant director of Housing,
explained that many desks
included in an initial furniture tally had to be scrapped
due to damage.
“The number of freshmen
who accepted t he of fer of
admission to the Christopher
N e w p o r t Un iv e r s it y w a s
larger than we expected,” said
Wendy Cook, assistant housing coordinator.
Freshmen are guaranteed
housing on campus if they
apply in time and this year’s
large number of applicants,
who accepted admission to
Christopher Newport contributed to tripling, said
the President’s Office. Many
options were looked at and the
best was chosen. We explained
that some rooms would be triples when mailing out room
assignments, and freshmen
and parents were receptive
a nd u nderst a ndi ng,” said
Kennel.
mate.
Recognizing that tripling
might require a little more
adjustment, CNU has given
each of the tripled freshmen
$200 in Flex points. This is a
decrease from the $300 in Flex
points offered to tripled freshmen in previous years.
Resid e n t
assis t a n t s
have also
helped
freshmen by
helpi ng
d raw up
r o o m m a t e
agreem e nt s
and alleviating
tensions
b et we en
cramped
r e s i dents.
KAREN HYMES THE CAPTAINS LOG
Freshmen Caitlin Boaz,
Brittany
Jacobs
Housing promisd extra furniture on move-in day despite the space squeeze, bt the
furniture was not available
Kennel, who coordinated and
is responsible for the tripling.
“Housing worked with the
dean of students, provost and
Housing has been working
with the tripled residents to
help alleviate the burdens of
living with an extra room-
and Mar y Burke, who are
tripled in Santoro Hall, have
three laptops shared on two
desks.
“It is real ly not too bad
right now, but things are slow
with school, and once things
pick up I can see it becoming
a problem,” said Boaz. Even if
there were more desks available, the girls would have no
way of getting into their bathrooms with the amount of furniture they have already, no
matter how they re-arrange
the room.
Even with the Flex Points
added to her account, Boaz
agrees with her roommates
that they would give it back
to have a double. Boaz said
she has not received any word
yet for de -tripling options
from the Housing Department
either, even though she was
told they would do so within
the first week.
W hi le t he a mou nt of
triple - occupancy rooms at
CN U is elevated this year,
this number is still small in
comparison to the number
of triple-occupancy rooms at
larger schools, such as University of California Los Angeles.
In 1999, UCLA housed 90 percent of its freshman class in
triple-occupancy rooms.
The CNU Housing Departm e nt i s wo rk i n g t ow a r d
having al l of the students
de-tripled by the end of first
semester, if not first quarter.
They have already begun this
process and a few of the original tripled rooms were reassigned to doubles within the
first week. ■
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Fifth annual tie dye brings a splash of color
BY DORIAN WRIGHT
[email protected]
Last Sunday students converged on the Great Lawn for
an afternoon of food, fun, and
free T-shirts.
The Residence Hall Association held its Fifth Annual
Campus Tie Dye from 1 to
3 p.m., providing popcorn,
sodas, a disc jockey, T-shirts,
and gloves.
Brandi McKee, James
River Hall Director and faculty advisor for RHA, estimated that over 500 students
at tended t he event , based
on the amount of materials
given away.
“We went through 30 0 to
40 0 shirts and 60 0 gloves,”
said McKee.
St udent s a l so tie - dye d
obje c t s of t hei r ow n. T he
Great Lawn was strewn with
multi-colored towels, sheets,
socks, and even underwear.
Freshman interest in the
KAREN HYMES THE CAPTAINS LOG
event exceeded expectations.
“Two girls down my hall
took me dow n here,” said
freshman Mackenzie Millan.
“Surprisingly, I had a lot of
fun. At least half a dozen of
my freshman friends came
out here too.”
“ T his is a g reat way for
RHA to kick off the year and
prove we are here to serve
a nd h ave some f u n,” s aid
McKee.
The Campus Tie Dye has
become a favorite event for
m a ny st udent s who c ome
back each year.
“I’ve done this before and
it’s lots of fun,” said junior
Zen Hale, a resident assistant
in Santoro Hall. “A lot of my
residents came out too.”
“We acquired the funding
in June,” said Dan Zimmerman, president of RHA.
The Student Government
Association allocated $ 3,000
for the event through a small
g ra nt applic ation a nd t he
shir ts were acquired from
Printsables, a local business.
P l a n n i n g fo r t h e eve nt
kicked into full swing during
July, when members of RHA
began acquiring the neces-
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KAREN HYMES THE CAPTAINS LOG
s a r y m at er i a l s i nclud i n g
tables, a tie-dyed banner that
will be used annually, and
other supplies.
RHA has a number of other
events planned for students
this year as well. “This was
just t he sta r t. We’l l have a
Halloween decoration event
and a costume ball, hopefully
in the [David Student Union]
Ballroom,” said McKee.
CNU unveils new hurricane
preparedness plan
BEING PREPARED | Former Director of Communications
and Public Relations, Carolyn Cuthrell announces CNU’s
new policies for hurrican preparedness
BY AARON STEIN
A A RON.ST EI N.0 6 @ CN U.EDU
KAREN HYMES THE CAPTAINS LOG
The freshman class of 2011 brings excitement and great potential to CNU
to navigate,” said freshman Jessi Beach, a Spanish major and theater
minor.
Beyond the physical
aspects of CNU, freshmen
found intriguing opportunities in athletics, both
varsity and club, religious
services, as well as other
extracurricular activities.
Beach, along with freshman Maddie Phillips, who
is currently undecided,
are both interested in the
Ballroom Dancing Society. Diming plans to join
Alpha Phi Omega Service
Fraternity, Residence Hall
Association (RHA), CAB
Street Team, and is considering intramural soccer
and attending local interdenominational churches.
“I signed up for ballroom
dancing and paintball,
even though I am a beginner at both,” said Beach.
Despite her novice status,
Beach felt comfortable
with her choice because
of CNU’s atmosphere.
“Everyone is willing
to talk and open to new
things,” she said.
Many of the new students
come from the same high
schools. One third of
the freshmen come from
Northern Virginia, with
another 15 percent from
Richmond. “There are five
other members of my high
school’s graduating class
on my (residence hall)
floor alone,” said Diming.
Beach said that there are
approximately ten other
alumni of her high school
in CNU’s freshman class.
The new freshmen seem to
enjoy what Residence Life
and Dining Services have
to offer as well.
“The rooms are really
large, and there is a good
variety of food,” said Phillips.
Diming said that the
“Lines (in the dining halls)
are pretty smooth.”
While the general impression of CNU is positive, the
freshmen have found some
places where there is room
to improve.
Phillips suggested that
cell phone service in the
buildings be improved and
Diming had a broken desk
chair in his room.
The freshman class of
2011 brings excitement and
great potential to CNU
and is already showing a
strong interest in making
its mark on the campus
community. ■
Professor wins award
BY MATTHEW MCCUBBIN
MATTHEW. [email protected]
Dr. Tina Kempin, assist a nt professor of gover nment, has been awarded the
prestigious Mercator-Preis
for her dissertation “Ethnic
Conf lict and International
Law: Group Claims and Conf lict Resolution within the
International Legal System”
by the Mercator Foundation
of Switzerland.
K empi n w i l l r e c eive a
cash prize of approximately
$ 4 40 0 and has been given
the distinction magna cum
laude from the University of
Zurich.
T he awa r d i s g iven t o
young researchers funded
by the University of Zurich
Resea rch Gra nt for t hei r
ex t raordi na r y a nd outstanding quality of work.
Kempin’s dissertation was
one of three selected from
about 150 potential projects.
T he s t udy at t e mp t s t o
answer the question on how
i nt e r n at io n a l l aw, l e g a l
institutions, and legal procedures can contribute to
ethnic conflict resolution. It
details how ethnic conf lict
research could benefit from
the international law experience with the protection
and promotion of minority
rights as well as legal procedures and institutions.
Kempin is currently work-
E vent volu nt e er s w it h
R H A h a nde d out s a mple
packets of Tide detergent
labeled with the RHA general meeting times.
The organization meets
on the first and third Thursdays of every month in the
f i r st f lo or mu lt ipu r p os e
room of James River Hall at
7 p.m.
“ We wa nt ever yone t o
come out, we do campuswide events and get feedback from residents to get
them what they want,” said
Zimmerman.
Although the event techn ic a l ly ende d at 3 p. m .,
students continued dying,
drying, and socializing for
almost an hour afterward.
J u d g i n g b y t h e c o nt i n ue d i nt er e st of st udent s
at the event, Zimmerman
ex pressed hope t hat st udents wi l l remai n active
and involved the rest of the
year. ■
ing on expanding her findings to be publishing by the
University of Pennsylvania
Press in the coming year.
K e mpi n ex p r e s s e d he r
excitement to the news that
she had won. “It’s such a
great feeling when you get
r ew a r d e d for you r h a r d
work,” she said.
W hen at t end i n g a c onference at t he University
of Zurich, she saw that an
award ceremony was on the
program. “I really had no
idea that I would be one of
the winners.”
Professor Harry Greenlee,
Chair of the Department of
G over nment, said he was
not surprised by Kempin’s
achievement.
“She is a n outst a ndi ng
individual with great potential who is going to excel in
her work,” Greenlee said.
Kempin has only been teachi ng at CN U for one yea r,
but already she has had a
profound inf luence on the
faculty, students, and community as a whole.
“Being from Switzerland,
she brings a different perspective, an external view,
on American politics,” said
Greenlee. He explains that
she is able to offer an outlook of how other governments i n ot her cou nt ries
may view the United States.
Students f i nd her to be
extremely intelligent, engag-
ing, energetic, and pleasant.
“ You c a n t el l she’s ver y
interested in the welfare of
her students,” said senior
M i c h a e l A l s o p . K e m pi n
states that her main goal is
to get students interested
in new subjects and expand
their knowledge.
“Furthermore,” she said,
“I think it is very important
to create an atmosphere of
mutual learning in which
everyone can express his or
her own opinions.” It is that
atmosphere that makes her
and her subject material so
appealing to students.
Kempi n hop es t hat her
accomplishments wi l l
encou rage students to
pu r sue r e s e a r ch st ud ie s
in their speci f ic f ields of
interests. She believes that
re se a rch i s able b e b ot h
important and rewarding to
students’ lives.
Kempin is someone who
exempli f ies t he pri nciple
of lifelong learning, exploration, and research. She
plans to continue her work
as she is current ly worki ng on two a r ticles to be
submitted to peer-reviewed
journals as well as an edited
volume on human rights in
times of war.
“I have no doubt that she
wi l l succeed i n whatever
she pursues,” said Greenlee. “She has a very bright
future at CNU.” ■
Just in time for the new
school year and an upcoming
hurricane season, CNU has
unveiled its new hurricane
preparedness plan.
The plan, which is revised
annually and was again visited this July, outlines the
response in the event of a
severe hurricane emergency
on the campus of CNU.
In this year’s update, many
new facets have been added
such as specific preparations
for i nd iv idu a l s c en a r io s ,
a nd a l a r ger
embrace of the
CN U alerts
system.
T his year’s
plan includes
an outline for
a proposed
alarm and
public address
system, which,
according to Press Secretary
Emily Lucier, will include a
siren that can be heard from
over a one-mile radius.
The hurricane plan also
makes use of new technology to increase awareness of
threats to the campus through
the CNU alert system.
The text messaging alert
system is a service imple mented last year to offer students the ability to receive
notifications pertaining to
emergencies occu r ri ng on
campus via text messages
sent directly to their cellular
phones.
Over the past year, advertisements for these alerts on
c a mpu s have be en posted
a r ou nd c a mpu s a nd t h i s
seems to be paying off. Lucier
s a id appr ox i m at ely 2 , 6 0 0
people now subscribe to the
alerts. (Students can sign up
for these alerts at the Web site
http://cnualert.info)
For those who don’t sign up
for the text message alerts,
the plan includes many other
ways of getting out notifications.
E-mails, digital telephone
callbacks, and the local television and radio media including the campus television
network, channel 73.
because you can tell that
they’ve gone over a lot of
possible scenarios and are
really ready for all of them,”
said Wacek.
I n addition to t he ha l l
st a f f, who w i l l b e t her e
to help students directly,
there will be an emergency
response tea m, which,
according to the hurricane
pl a n’s Web site, ( ht t p ://
c nu a le r t .i n fo / hu r r pl a n .
html) will be “comprised of
several University officials,
including, but not limited to,
the Chief of Staff, Executive
Vice President, Vice President of Student Services,
Dean of Students, Provost,
Director of Communications
and Public Relations and the
Chief of Police.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION visit
http://cnualert.info/hurrplan.html
A not her i mpor t a nt pa r t
of the plan is the thoroughly
designed positioning of RAs
and campus staff in the event
of a hurricane.
I n t he event t hat a hu rricane should occur forcing
an evacuation of the campus,
hall directors and resident
assistants will play a large
role in seeing to it that all
campus residents are taken
care of and accounted for.
They will also make sure
that residents all have somewhere to go.
Sophmore Stacy Wacek, a
front desk assistant in James
River, applauds the system.
“It really makes me feel safe
The team’s job will be to
assess the specific details
and potential impact of the
coming hurricane and then
decide what special precautions to take from there.
Hurricane safety is a very
important issue for CN U.
Hu r r ic a ne s e a son s h ave
progressively worsened in
recent years and campus
closed last fall for Tropical
Storm Ernesto.
In 2003, CNU was forced
to implement the hurricane
prepa red ness pl a n, as it
had to deal with Hurricane
Isabel. According to Lucier,
the plan was very efficient
in this scenario. ■
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CNU to seek new dean of students
This
fall, CNU will start
searching for a new
dean of students.
CNU SEARCHES|
BY ERIN ROLL
[email protected]
This fall, CNU will start
searching for a new dean of
students.
The position has been
vacant since this summer’s
departure of previous Dean of
Students, Donna Eddleman,
who had been with CNU for 10
years.
The school has waited
u nti l t he fa l l to st a r t t he
search for a new dean because
the summer interim period is
a difficult time to search for
new faculty members, said
Maury O’Connell, Vice President for Student Services.
Traditionally, O’Connell
said, u niversit y facu lt y
searches take place in the
spring months, when university job searches and fairs are
most common.
The summer months are
also a difficult time to search
for a new dean because most of
the faculty, staff, and students
are absent from campus, and
the process of choosing a new
dean should involve faculty
and students, O’Connell said.
At CNU, the dean of students oversees the offices in
Student Affairs, which fall
under the banner of Student
Services. These include Residence Life, Student Activities,
Mu lticu ltura l A f fai rs, the
Center for Counseling, Coaching and Consulting, and the
Center for Honor Enrichment
and Community Standards.
With the absence of a
dean, those offices report to
O’Connell for the time being.
In addition, O’Connell says,
the workload previously handled by Eddleman has been
divided among the directors
and staff of those offices.
According to Kim Roeder,
director of Student Activities,
the offices are doing all that is
possible to maintain normal
business.
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Donna Eddleman served as an important role model to many students at CNU
“We miss Donna very much,
but for the most par t, the
Office of Student Activities
is a self-supporting operation
and, for the most part, I don’t
think students will notice a
difference in how we operate,”
said Roeder.
O’Connell said that the
Of fice of Student Services
will wait until further into
the fall semester to form the
committee, as students and
staff are still adjusting to the
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new school year at this time.
Eventually, the office hopes to
assemble a committee of five
to seven members.
Edd lema n previou sly
ser ve d a s t he d i r e c tor of
Student Life and the associate dean of students before
becoming dean of students.
In addition to being dean
of students, O’Connell said,
E dd lem a n a l s o s er ve d a s
an important role model for
many students at CNU. She
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worked with groups such as
the SGA and the Honor Council, and many of the students
she mentored went on to graduate school and prestigious
university programs.
“We really miss Donna,
and she was a great help to us
last year,” said Karla Feghali,
a sophomore and the secretary of media for the SGA.
“We’re lucky to have Kim and
Maury to cover her position.”
Eddleman is now the vice
president of student services
at Southern Utah University,
Cedar City. She accepted the
position in June and occupied
the new position on Aug. 1.
In her final Update from
the Dean newsletter on June
25, Eddleman wrote, “It has
certainly been very rewarding to serve as the Director
of Student Life, the Associate D e a n of St udent s a nd
the Dean of Students during
my 10 years here. Under the
direction of President Trible,
CNU has experienced tremendous growth and I have been
afforded many, many opportunities I would not have had
anywhere else.”
Edd lema n said t h at t he
highlight of her CNU career
was, “Leading the graduates
across campus and onto the
football field for Commencement...It has been an honor
and a privilege.” ■