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Sports
Football recovers
from loss to Ala.
State and looks for
another win.
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A&E
Review of new
movie starring
Robin Williams.
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Opinions
Are we getting an
education or a
babysitter?
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Volume 76 Number 8
Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
Wednesday, October 23, 1991
Delay in CJ renovation
cramps divinity school
By Jana David
Staff Reporter
The delay In the renovation of
Crawford Johnson Hall is cramping
the Beeson School of Divinity.
Divinity School Dean Timothy
George said the school is in dire need
of more space, since its enrollment
has tripled during the past three
^ Physical Plant Director Rick
Stephens said the reason for the delay
was a change from the original archi¬
tectural plans.
The plans have had to go through
many channels to earn approval for
construction. George, President Tho¬
mas E. Corts and tne Board of Trust¬
ees have all been a part of the deci¬
sion-making process.
“The problem is not deciding where
classrooms and offices go. Anyone
could do that,” Stephens said. “We’re
concerned about what the building
looks like from the outside."
"The divinity school will be a new
feature on the quad," said Randy
Hilton, director of construction engi¬
neering. “We want the style to match
the Georgian Colonial style of the
other buildings on campus."
Stephens said many of Samford’s
architectural designs have won ar¬
chitectural awards given by American
School and University, a publication
subscribed to by most educational
institutions.
Last year, Samford was the only
school in Alabama ‘to win three of
See "Divinity" on page 2.
Thirty ladies to compete
for Miss Samford crown
By Scott Jackson
News Editor
Pageant judges will
tell one lucky contestant Thursday
Miss Samford
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night that It had to be her.
The song “It Had to Be You" is the
theme for the contest, which will be
held at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow
' it in the Wright Center Concert
Hall.
Talent competition will be tonight.
Tomorrow night five judges from the
Birmingham area, whose names have
not been revealed, will select Miss
Samford 1992.
the contest is larger than ever
before with 30 students signed up to
compete, said pageant director Ruth
Hudson. Several new features have
been added.
Having male escorts will make the
pageant more fun for the partici-
gants and the audience, she said.
ontestants not among the ten fi¬
nalists will console themselves in a
ballroom dance with their escorts
during the Thursday night show.
Wendy Neuendorf, Miss Alabama
1991, will sing both nights.
“We want everybody to come out
and see the ladies because this is
See "Pageant" on page 2.
Photo by Lynn Hadden
Ulugbek Khasanov (left) and Timur Rasulov say they've never seen more food in
one place than they do everyday at the caf.
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Soviet exchange students
relish U.S. computers, food
By Debbie Sheffield
Staff Reporter
“I thought America would be filled
with dark streets, advertisements for
soft drinks and drug problems," said
Ulugbek Khasanov, one of two ex¬
change students from Uzbekistan, a
former Soviet republic.
The other student, Timur Rasulov,
thought the United States would be
like New York City — noisy and hav¬
ing many homeless people.
After spending about a month at
Samford, their views of the U.S. have
changed.
“Everything is so beautiful here,"
Rasulov said. Khasanov added, “The
people are much friendlier than I
thought they would be to us." And
although Rasulov loves American
food, he and Khasanov agree their
favorite thing about this country is
computers.
“Students in Russia do not have
computers to use. University stu¬
dents attend classes six hours a day
minimum, sixdays a week,” Khasanov
said.
“Teachers are very strict and they
See "Soviet" on page 2.
Library system to go high-tech
By Neal Hutchens
Staff Reporter
The familiar card catalogue
will be filed away and com¬
puter terminals will greet
students instead as Davis and
Cordell Hull Law libraries will
soon become Completely au¬
tomated.
The university has con¬
tracted Virginia Technical
Library Services, Inc., to au¬
tomate the libraries with its
"proven VTLS system," said
new automation librarian Ed
Cherry.
The On-Line Public Access
Catalogue, replacing the card
catalogue, will be the first
part of the new system acti¬
vated, he said. It is scheduled
to start operation around the
first of November.
Cherry said 21 computer
terminals will be installed in
Davis library and seven in
the law library specifically for
use with OPAC. “With the
new system, library patrons
will have a much easier time
using the resources of the
library," he said.
“In the past there were only
about three access points to
locate a book — such as the
author’s name, the title of the
book or the few places the
book was listed under a
subject heading. Now there
willbe over 100 access points
to help find a book."
He said “key word search¬
ing” — the ability of the VTLS
system to locate a book if only
one key word of the title is
known — is an example of the
flexibility the new system will
offer.
Cherry said Davis library
has been compiling a data¬
base of its book inventory for
the past sixyears for use with
OPAC.
In addition to the terminals
installed in Davis library and
the law library, Cherry said
anyone will be able to access
OPAC through the mainframe
computer. “It (OPAC) will be
an option like E-mail. And
eventually it will be possible
to use a phone modem or
terminals located in the dor¬
mitories to use OPAC," he
said.
In February the circulation
Eart of. the VTLS system will
e operational, Cherry said.
“New library cards will be is¬
sued and a bar code scanner
will be used to check out
books,” he said. “This will
enable students to see which
books are checked out while
they are using OPAC and it
will also enable them to see
when the book is due back; or ,
even if a book is on order.”
Cherry said to promote the
new system, the library will
have a contest to give the
network a name, “we would
like to have a trademark for
the system. The winners of
the contest will get something :
like a limo ride and two tickets
to a show," he said.
Cherry said a library auto¬
mation committee had been
studying how to implement
an automated system for two
years before selecting the
VTLS system. “We did several
See "Ubrary" on page 2.
Let it slide...
Ville Crew member Jacob Bright, a freshman from Arab,
Ala., shares time Saturday morning at Lpveman Viliiage.
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