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              Loyola University New Orleans The Maroon FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2001 MAROON.LOYNO.EDU VOL. 79, NO. 01 Future of The uncertain Complaints about latest issue prompt focus groups, surveys By Ellen Pivach News Editor The Wolf Yearbook soon may gel a makeover. According to Mary Flynn, SGA president and finance senior, several members of the Loyola community were not satisfied with the most recent issue of the yearbook, which The Wolf staff distributed in May. Flynn said she received a letter from the Rev. Bernard Knoth, S.J., university president, in early June concerning the future of The Wolf as a magazine or as a yearbook. She said Knoth wrote that he received complaints from students, alumni, faculty and staff members about the 2001 edition, and those prompted him to contact Flynn to determine what students would prefer: a yearbook, a magazine or both. "The letter was to invite me and SGA to conduct a widespread consultation about the yearbook among students on campus," Flynn said. Knoth did not return calls by time of publication. In 1998, after a 74 year run as a traditional yearbook, The Wolf changed to a magazine, with quarterly issues and a final hardbound yearbook edition at the end of the academic year. Flynn said Knoth asked her, along with SGA, to give him a recommendation outlining what students expect of The Wolf and what holds more interest for them: a magazine or yearbook format. As part of her research, Flynn said, she prepared a survey for students to determine the importance of a yearbook to them and their feelings about The Wolf Magazine. The survey should be ready when school starts, Flynn said. "I'm going to give copies to members of congress and try to talk to some faculty and see if they will hand them out in class," Flynn said. "I'm also going to try to have the survey online if it works out." In addition to distributing a survey, Flynn, with the help of current Wolf editor Elizabeth Buchta, graphic arts sophomore, said she plans to conduct three to five focus groups on the subject, set up a booth to find out student opinion and contact young alumni through a listserv. "I'm trying to hit this from all angles and get as much feedback as STAFF GRAPHIC BY ELLEN PIVACH I possibly can," Flynn said. Flynn said she is not limiting her research to students, however. She said she also plans to send out a j faculty and staff e-mail to find out ; their feelings, as well. "My main focus is the students, i but I think that the faculty and staff have valuable input too," she said. Flynn said she plans to have the recommendation completed by mid- 'Pick-up line' to finance scholarship By Ellen Pivach News Editor When moving into the residence halls, most Loyola students are concerned with where to put their furniture and posters, not where to put their empty boxes. The Loyola University Center for Environmental Communications offered a solution to this problem with its new program "The Pick-up Line." The purpose of the program was to get students to bring their empty boxes to designated drop-off areas where they will be collected and reused.At the end of the school year, LUCEC will sell the collected boxes back to students, and the money raised will help finance a scholarship in Environmental Communications for an incoming freshman. Lisa Boe, assistant to the director of the Environmental Communication program, said she thought of the idea for the Pick-up Line when a coworker was moving out of her office and had no boxes available. "1 started thinking about when I was a freshman and I was moving in, and I had these really good boxes that my parents bought me," Boe said. "Then, when I moved out, I had these really cruddy banana boxes, because there was no place to store them. So then I realized that we could make money out of doing this." According to Boe, Loyola has never conducted this type of program before, though other schools have. In the past. Residential Life has told students simply to break down the boxes and throw them away. From Aug. 22 to 25, Boe and other volunteers from student organizations collected boxes from drop-off sites in Biever, Buddig and the New Residence Hall. LUCEC originally expected to collect an estimate of seven tons of boxes, a number they did not quite reach, Boe said. "We didn't get as many as we thought we would. The estimate was seven tons because Tulane gets about 14, and we have half as many students," she said. "That means about four boxes per student, which doesn't seem like a lot, but few came with that many." Altogether, students donated a couple thousand boxes, which fell short of the goal of 6.000 boxes. However, according to Boe, LUCEC plans to talk with the staff of the Monroe Library and the Loyola bookstore in hopes of collecting more boxes throughout the school year. The boxes remain in storage on the West Bank until the end of the year when LUCEC will sell them for substantially lower prices than normal. "Sometime around Dead Day, we're going to have a box sale where we'll sell the boxes anywhere from a quarter to $2," Boe said. The money generated from the sale will finance a $1000 scholarship for an incoming freshman who is pursuing a degree in Environmental Communications. LUCEC sponsors a High School Environmental Communication Journalism Workshop in the fall, and any seniors attending the workshop may submit articles they've written about environmental topics. One student will receive the Nash Roberts donates hurricane papers By Latoya Simons Assistant News Editor Nash Roberts, retired WWL Channel 4 meteorologist, will donate his personal papers containing 50 years of hurricane patterns to the Booth-Bricker Special Collections and Archives of the J. Edgar and Louise Monroe Library. "Mr. Roberts has had a long-time connection with Loyola and with the library in particular. He was starting to close up his weather forecasting business, and it was just a good time to do it," said Art Carpenter. Monroe Library archivist. Roberts will formally present the papers to the university Friday, Sept. 7 at 6:30 p.m., at a ceremony on the third floor of the Monroe Library. The papers will include monitored reconnaissance aircraft reports to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, advisories and discussions of the National Hurricane Center and the advisories of the Nash C. Roberts, Jr. Consultants Inc. Roberts has had a long-time affiliation with Loyola. The university awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1984. He also was a member of the Library Visiting Committee for many years, in which he developed the idea for the library's Adopt-A- Book program, now known as Library Legacies. "I think one of his concerns in terms of giving |the papers| to us was that he thinks that this will be a considerable research interest to people in his profession and maybe to historians. He wanted to make sure this stuff was saved, preserved, taken care of and would be accessible to people, and we all know Nash is right on just about everything," Carpenter said. According to Jimmie Phillips, WWL Channel 4 General Manager, Roberts wanted to be certain that the papers were kept in New Orleans, and he trusted Loyola because of his long relationship with the school. Roberts is well-known for his accuracy in predicting paths of hurricanes. During his career in the Navy, Roberts navigated an aircraft through the eye of a typhoon to guide a carrier fleet in a sneak attack See ROBERTS, Page 5 See WOLF, Page 4 See BOXES, Page 4 LIFE & TIMES _ KNOW WHERE TO GO IKb and what to do in MPMSi NEW ORLEANS P9. 10 NEXT WEEK: The record-large freshman class, plus the changing face of Waldo's SPORTS if.mr LOYOLA ATHLETE natlonai HONORS pg.7