NEW: September 28, 1999 The Forum Team Losing Stmaak IMourt college level. By Amy Young Photo Editor The womens volleyball team was unable to break their losing streak over the weekend. On Friday, Sept. 5 17 the team lost to Montana State Northern and On Saturday, Sept. 18 the Griffins lost to and Carroll College The two games couldnt have been more different from one another. We played like night and day, said Coach Marinda Ashman. Saturday was the team we see in practice everyday. Friday was the team we end up seeing on the court and we dont understand why. Hopefully we worked that out Friday and well continue to see this team every time. Sophomore Michele Knudsvig said, Friday we didnt play as good as we have. Saturday I thought we really picked it up and we started playing how we play in practice. Ashman says team practices everyday and they have been improving their skills. The new freshmen, seven total, have been adjusting well to playing on a 5, 4-1- 5. 5, 15 12-1- 5. -3 They are getting used to playing out there, and we are getting used to each other and how everyone reacts, said Knudsvig. In practice the team has been working on refining skills. Weve been working a lot on ball control, this week we worked on a lot of net play. We were ready for any over passes. And I think we did an excellent job at executing that Saturday, said Ashman. The Griffins still need to improve for upcoming games. We need to work on getting to our spots in defense. Our jousting we could work on a little bit also, said Knudsvig. After two weeks of playing in tournaments on the road, the team was glad to be back on their home court. Were used to it, and the fans are here to support us and give us energy out there, said Knudsvig. The Griffins are back on the road next weekend where they will compete in the Albertson College Tournament in Caldwell, ID. The team will be back at home on Oct. 8 when they State College. play Lewis-Clar- k ' a- V ) v 4 r. t i " r, i ( i 'v ; i n i ' r ' I'1 - ' V. t . f . fi V ts v Photo byAmy Youngz Anny Hoggan dives to keep the bail alive. Fighting lb rowing Fains f W tmm By Gia Throndsen Staff Writer Westminster's campus looks somewhat like Interstate 15 lately with the orange signs, construction vehicles and barricades. 1700 south, 1200 east, and Westminster Avenue look like parking lots as a result. One might look at this situation and wonder why Westminster doesn't just paint parking spaces on these main roads or close the school until 2002. "If you don't see construction, it's time to start worrying," said Westminster's Executive Vice President and Treasurer Steve Morgan, who believes that constant additions to a campus symbolize a vibrant quality of campus life. A miserable quality or life is what students who drive cars are experiencing, however. "Parking sucks," says student Susanne Zitting. This is a statement that may as well be printed on the admissions brochure because it is so frequently uttered on campus. Students have seen a tew efforts to increase parking such as the soccer field slowly being paved completely over and a parking structure that holds 182 cars. However, the old parking lots have been taken over by construction vehicles and new dorms. Lack of parking has done something for education. A lesson in spatial perception is the first thing many students get each day as they squeeze their cars into the last space on the entire campus. During this time of unrest. Residence Halls 3 and 4 have sprung up creating more living space for students and swallowing up parking space for their cars. Last year, parking was cut significantly when the Hogle lot was closed for construction purposes and the upper Nunemaker lot became the foundation of Res. Hall 4. Dorm students on the south side of left with the lower Nunemaker lot were campus and a choice: either walk from the library lot or never go anywhere, to keep a parking space. Now, residence Flail 5 threatens to take even this choice from students who park in the Nunemaker lot when construction begins before fall of 2001. This means that the Nunemaker lot has about a year left to live and students have about that long left to park there. Although students will be getting what a "break" from construction because calls Morgan of Res. Hall 5's delay. Res. Hall 4 stands half-ful- l. The question on most students' minds is "why?" Why build Res. Hall 5 when there aren't even enough students to fill Res. Hall 4? Morgan says the college wants to have about 500 of Westminster's 2500 students living on campus, and 9 19 three new residence halls will best accomplish this. Freshman from Hogle or Carlson will be attracted to the apartments and continue to live on campus. New students will be recruited, and Morgan hopes that someday, there will be a waiting list for Res. Hall 5. Some say that Res. Hall 4 should be filled before any new Residence halls are built. Morgan says that delaying construction of Res. Hall 5 will give Westminster enough time to fill up Res. Hall 4 and to start filling a waiting list for Res. Hall 5. Morgan says Westminster wants to be a ?lace where ''students want to live." New Residence halls could accomplish this primarily because students will live on campus so they don't rave to park each day. Morgan acknowledges this problem and says that parking will be facilitated auringj all of the construction. J What's left of the soccer field will be paved over once the Nunemaker lot is destroyed so students living in the new residence halls will walk a few more steps. As soon as Res. Hall 5 is finished, the lower Nunemaker lot will rise as another parking structure. The current parking structure will sprout another level and the soccer field will be and elevated over the library parking 182-spa- t J v ' ' UK i i. r 4 & 'Y AMv, J 1 r M 1)1 , SiV r r V" t If ft- -- i v" K J ce ,v v. V lot. plans usually cause short-terproblems. However Morgan says that Westminster will be a better, more active campus once there are more residence halls. Morgan knows that parking is a problem; however he thinks that the solution is building the new dorms along with new parking lots. Long-ter- m m TOSCA Puccini's by Puccini most passionate and powerful scorel Sung in Italian with English Supertitles October 16, 18, 20, 22 - 7:30 p.m. October 24 - 2:00 p.m. u lililMl: I