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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2012
Casey stresses Academic Growth in State of the University Address
$5 million donation for new fitness center Gift to cover portion of Lilly Physical Fitness Center renovations By JOSEPH FANELLI and MICHAEL APPELGATE
By NOELLE WITWER
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In a world where everything seems to revolve around this week’s mass of exams and papers or last week’s football game, it’s a notable occasion when college students congregate to fill Meharry Hall to discuss the events of the next 150 years. But, as President Brian Casey noted Monday night in his State of the University address, “You can’t just hope you’ll be great — you have t o plan for it.” Casey identified four major aspects of a successful university: a great faculty, a strong student body, a transformative experience for
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University President Brian Casey speaks to the student body about the future of DePauw in MeHarry hall on Monday night. DAVID MORGAN / THE DEPAUW
VOL. 161, ISSUE 15
DePauw’s board of trustees approved the university’s athletic and recreation master plan that includes significant renovations to the existing Lilly Physical Fitness Center and athletic precinct on Friday morning.
Days later, DePauw received its first major donation toward Lilly to the tune of $5 million from Scott ‘82 and Kimberlee Welch for an upgraded community fitness center. The gift will fund the M. Scott and Kimberlee A. Welch Fitness Center, a 16,000 square foot addition to the East side – along College Street – of the current Lilly Center.
The expansion is a part of the first phase of an athletic master plan outlined to the board last week by Athletic Director Stevie Baker-Watson. In total,
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Blue Door cuts hours due to business decrease By NICOLE DECRISCIO news@thedepauw.com
For the Blue Door Café, the introduction of Starbucks to Greencastle has not been an ideal business situation. Prior to October 4, the Blue Door was open from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. seven days a week. However, now the local business closes at 4 p.m., with the exception of Wednesdays, which their closing time is 9 p.m. “We didn’t have enough business to support staying open beyond four o’clock,” Dennis Furr, one of the owners of the Blue Door said. “It seems like right now our small business is getting affected by the importation of a big business in our community.” For the Blue Door, it is a game changer. “We always try to adapt as best we can,” Furr said. However, sophomore Kathleen Raymond-Judy questions the selection of the hours that they are cutting to adapt to competing with the new Starbucks. “It doesn’t make sense that they would close during the hours that students would be able to go there,” Raymond-Judy said. Blue Door hopes to eventually return to their previous hours, presumably after the hype about the StarThe Blue Door Cafe (above) is located on bucks dies down. “This isn’t the first time that we’ve adjusted our the corner of Washington street and Spring street. Since the opening of Starbucks on hours due to outside forces,” Furr pointed out. The
Sept. 24, Blue Door has closed five hours earlier than usual each evening. The note (left) explains their new hours of operation. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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