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The end is near - take cover | 04/19/08 |
After four years, I’m a senior and I’m finally leaving. When I had my portfolio review, I got the feeling that the school had prepared me to leave and was pushing me out the door. After all the papers, presentations, hastily thrown together reflections and meaningless PowerPoints, it’s really almost over. I think I will miss this place.
And here’s where I make my big confession: I really do like Seton Hill. It’s just that over the past few years, the minor things that shouldn’t normally get to a person have begun to itch at the back of my brain. Every place has a tendency to do that when you live, work, eat and exist all in the same acre. This place has been my home, but it becomes frustrating when Seton Hill seems like it’s growing uncontrollably. |
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Show incoming students the real Seton Hill | 04/03/08 |
Last week, there was a scholarship dinner for prospective freshmen. I was able to find out what it was that the future students ate and when I did, I was astonished. They had a seafood bar available to them, which was stocked with crab, oysters and shrimp. They also had other goodies such as a dessert table and steak. A friend of mine who helped wait tables for the dinner told one of the prospective students that this would be the best food they would ever get here.
My point of this little story is not about the school’s atrocious food. My point is that I think the incoming students should see exactly what they are getting into when they think about applying to Seton Hill University (SHU). When they get here, they might not see what they get during a visit to the school. |
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“A” is for alert: Omnilert mobilizes campus information | 03/13/08 |
Over winter break, while checking my email, I noticed an addition to the Seton Hill University (SHU) website in the form of a little "A" at the top of the page next to the other icons at the top which read "J" for J-web, "C" for Campus Connect, and "E" for email. When I clicked on the "A", I came to a page that had a link to sign up for an 'alert system' on campus.
I had heard whispers of this alert system last semester while I was doing interviews for another story. The Campus Alert System is a program that students, faculty and staff can sign up for, and when an emergency happens on campus, that system will send an 'alert' about it to your e-mail or cell phone. The service is provided by Omnilert, a company that provides instant alerts to your cell phone for schools, governments and corporations. |
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High definition television stolen | 02/17/08 |
On January 15, 2008, during the early hours of the morning, the high definition television was stolen from the front half of the Maura Hall “Commuter” Lounge at Seton Hill University (SHU). The television had not even been there for a year when it was taken over winter break.
A reward of $200 is currently being offered to anyone who has any information that leads to finding out who took the television. The television was chained to the table, but Chief of Campus Police Michael Dell said that the thieves, “broke the base of the TV to take it.” |
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Respect is a large factor in SHU parking crises | 02/14/08 |
Ah, parking. The tried-and-true probably on the top ten list of complaints from anyone who frequents Seton Hill University. It’s only made worse by a campus that’s growing faster than it has room for its occupants, by administration that’s denying there’s a problem and by students who fell asleep when someone was trying to teach them how to park properly
When I asked my editor if I could write about our parking problem, I informed her that I had already written an article about it at some point as a freshman. She said that we were due for another one. I obliged. |
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Famous Last Word: Struggling with the residence halls and cell block walls | 12/03/07 |
| I have had to live in the residence halls for the three and a half years I have been at Seton Hill University (SHU). It has been my home, and I’ve written about that before. I have written about how Residence Life policies have changed over the years. I’ve asked many questions, but there are still some topics of discussion that I cannot grasp. There are also several things that other students do to each other in the halls that I don’t comprehend. Many of my fellow residents here cannot understand some of these things either. |
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Home Sweet Home...Not So Much | 10/29/07 |
| Seton Hill University (SHU) is, quite literally, for me and many other students, my home. I live here. And so do many other students - including those who live hours away, or even days away, depending how long their flights or drives are. It is really beneficial that SHU feels like home when we can't actually be at home, but there are times when it feels like the complete antithesis of home - it feels like everything I know and love about this place is going to the dogs. |
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