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PAGE CAUSES CONTROVERSY NEWS 2A April 11, 2013
Volume 81, Issue 27
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Student newspaper of the University of North Alabama
SAFETY
FACULTY, STAFF TAKE STAND
STUDENT MEDIA
Yearbook looks back on 100 years JOSH SKAGGS
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Throwback. That’s what Diorama editors want to do when they release this year’s yearbook on campus next week on April 16 in Towers Dining Hall at 5 p.m. This year’s yearbook theme is Throwback, a look back at 100 years of yearbooks at UNA, said Diorama Executive Editor Siobhan Gehrs. “It’s exciting, but stressful at the same time, because you want to represent all of those editors well,” Gehrs said.
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IT WAS COOL SEEING WHAT ALL THEY WERE DOING BACK THEN, AND ITʼS INTERESTING TO LOOK BACK AT PROFESSORS THAT WERE ON CAMPUS THEN. photo by KAYLA SLOAN I Chief Photographer
SIOBHAN GEHRS
UNA English instructor Pam Kingsbury and Writing Center Assistant Director Kat Richards escort a student through campus.
Community initiates NOW! program to support student safety JOSH SKAGGS
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Armed with glow sticks and a message of safety, members of UNA’s faculty and staff patrolled campus and escorted students to their cars April 2. Faculty and staff members started an organization called NOW, or Not on Our
Watch. The organization, comprised of members of the faculty and staff, said they are taking a stand against violence on campus. Sitting patiently in the lobby of Collier Library, Lesley Peterson, associate professor of English, asked students leaving the library if she could walk them to their cars or dorm rooms.
“I want my students to know that I care,” Peterson said. “I want them to know that there are people that take their safety seriously.” Peterson was one of approximately 20 faculty and staff members who patrolled campus and shadowed campus police
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CONSTRUCTION
Trustees OK $39M new science building bid JOSH SKAGGS
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photo courtesy of UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
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The UNA Board of Trustees approved a low bid to build a new science building on campus, officials said. The $39.7 million bid came in from the Birminghambased company B.L. Harbert International. Officials reviewed bids April 3 during a special called meeting to review bid sub-
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missions by eight companies, according to a university release. The building will house the chemistry and industrial hygiene, biology and physics and earth science departments. The building will replace Floyd Science Building. Floyd is currently approximately 50 years old.
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Gehrs said the book looks back at old yearbooks and old events that took place on campus. “It was cool seeing what all they were doing back then, and it’s interesting to look back at professors that were on campus then,” Gehrs said. Students will see a different look to this year’s book after editors decided to change the actual size of the book, while adding overall pages to the publication, officials said. Although Diorama has not had 100 years of continuous publication, UNA has had a campus magazine or yearbook for 100 years, Gehrs said. Editors worked closely with librarians in Collier Library to obtain old documents and information, she said. “Ms. Louise Huddleston has been extremely helpful letting us go through (the old documents and magazines),” Gehrs said. Gehrs said while the tech-
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