September
19, 2003
Front-Page
News
Center of
Attention Word is spreading about the expanded and renovated
Blanchard Campus Center. In a September 1 article in the Daily
Hampshire Gazette, Cheryl Wilson contrasts Blanchard with
the new campus center at Smith College, noting how both offer
“vast expanses of glass, bold colors, dramatic staircases,
and cozy nooks.” Blanchard’s renovation “revitalizes
a dark and cavernous 1899 brick building with sensitivity to campus
history,” she wrote, comparing it to Smith’s “starkly
white wooden building.” Wilson takes readers on a tour of
Blanchard, describing the three-story atrium, the 9,000-square-foot
Great Room, the expanded offices for student groups, and the Blanchard
Café. In the September 9 issue of the Republican newspaper,
Sandra Constantine also describes the building and notes its popularity
since its reopening. Quoting John Laprade, manager of the building
and director of student programs, Constantine reported that “a
five-college party Sept. 3, when the building officially reopened,
attracted more than 400 people. The next night more than 350 people
attended a movie there, and the night after that more than 300
people gathered to listen to a salsa band.”
To Your Health Karen Engell, director of health
services at MHC, offers new students advice on maintaining good
health in an article in the September 1 edition of the Daily
Hampshire Gazette. Sheya Meierdierks-Lehman interviewed Engell
and her counterparts at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts
for her article, “Self-Discipline Key to Good Health.”
“College is a balancing act, but your primary job is to
go to school,” Engell said, advising that enough sleep,
proper nutrition, relaxation, and exercise are essential. “It
doesn’t get any easier after college,” Engell added.
“You may need these skills to survive (school), but they
are the exactly the same issues you’ll have when you have
a job.”
Service of Remembrance The College’s Service of
Remembrance in Music on September 11 was reported on by WFCR and
in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The report by WFCR, the
local National Public Radio member station, focused on a chorus
formed for
the event by members of the College’s facilities management
department. Bob Paquette, news director for WFCR, spoke with Andrea
Ayvazian, dean of religious and spiritual life, and Larry Schipull,
associate professor of music and College organist, the organizers
of the service. Also interviewed were facilities management workers
Brian Clark, Vicha Hajdamowicz, Bob Lamothe, and Laurie Walhovd,
four members of the chorus. The report, which aired the morning
of September 11, can be heard online at www.wfcr.org/wfcrnews.html.
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