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2 May 8, 2002
News
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Co-Editors in Chief
Thomas Watson
Julie Danaher
Commentary Editors
Janet Hendrickson
Katherine Cook
Arts & Entertainment
Editor
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Feature Editor
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Sports Editor
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Photo Editor
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Assistant News Editor
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Best Buddies chapter wins regional awards
by Erin Watson
Assistant News Editor
UD's chapter of Best Buddies
was recently honored with
awards at this year's Best Bud-
dies regional award's ceremony
in Houston.
Junior Mariel Garcia and her
buddy, Freddy Johnson, won the
award for the best buddy pair of
the year; senior Holly Slater won
director of the year; and the club
also won the 51st annual Asso-
ciation for Retarded Citizens Ser-
vice Award.
"I think that awards reflect
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photo by Jodi Dickens
Junior Valerie McKeon spends time with her buddy during the Best
Buddies picnic on campus April 16. UD's Best Buddies chapter won a
number of awards at the regional award ceremony in Houston this year.
well not only on the club but on
UD as a whole," Slater said.
Slater said the director of the
year award is not just an award
for her but for the whole club.
"I could not have done any of
this without the club officers and
volunteers, so I feel as though this
award is for them also," she said.
Kathryn Kloepper, activities
coordinator for Best Buddies UD,
said the regional awards cer-
emony gave her insight as to how
other Best Buddy chapters com-
pare to UD's chapter.
"I think our Best Buddies or-
ganization is much more in-
volved than at other schools," she
said. "Texas A&M, which is a
much larger school than ours, has
only 15 more buddy pairs than we
do. Everyone at UD knows a
little bit about Best Buddies."
Garcia said she has enjoyed
spending time with her buddy
and is pleased that they were
named the buddy match of the
year.
"Freddy is the only best buddy
in our chapter who is in a wheel-
chair, so it made it hard to do a
lot of activities at first," she said.
"When we went to Six Flags, it
was kind of frustrating because
the employees there were not
very helpful; but Freddy is really
easygoing about those sorts of
tilings,"
Garcia and Johnson were cho-
sen out of 1,000 buddy pairs from
Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana
because of involvement in orga-
nized activities. Each buddy pair
is required to attend one group-
organized activity and go on two
outings on their own.
"Usually, Freddy and I will go
to the movies or to the mall,"
Garcia said. "One time we ate
lunch together at the Citizen's
Development Center where he
works."
Slater said Best Buddies has
evolved since she first joined
when she was a freshman.
"We have gone from having
only three buddy matches when
I was a freshman, to having 35
buddy matches this year," she
said.
A lot of this growth is because
of support from students and fac-
ulty, Slater said.
"It s nice to see so many
people supporting Best Buddies
even if they're not in the club,"
she said. "Over 200 people came
to our picnic. Even [dean of
Constantin College] Dr. [Frank]
Doe came and played volleyball."
Slater said she hopes that Best
Buddies will grow even bigger in
the years to come.
"I am a senior, so I will no
longer be in charge of Best Bud-
dies, but I think with the people
involved in Best Buddies it will
grow in the future," she said.
Shortage of housing typical, Perretta says
by Janet Hendrickson
Commentary Co-Editor
Continuing students will not
be left without on-campus hous-
ing, though they may not get their
first choice, Betty Perretta, coor-
dinator of student services, said.
"We've always been able to
house everyone in some form or
fashion," she said.
Students will be notified of
their room assignments in late
July or early August.
Some students are frustrated
that they have not yet received a
dorm room for next year or, in
the case of several sophomores,
could not get into the student
apartments.
Sophomore Britton St. Onge,
one student in the several groups
who did not get an apartment in
the lottery, finds his situation "ri-
diculous."
"Here I am, stuck in the dorms
again, paying twice as much as I
should," he said.
Perretta added that housing
changes will continue "almost
daily" through the fall semester
and the situation will change.
"Registration is just the begin-
ning of the process," she said.
Rooms may open up as stu-
dents receive automatic housing
exemptions, as exemption peti-
tions are granted, or as students
decide not to return for the fall
semester.
"Of the petitions that we re-
ceived by the official deadline,
about 30 percent of those were
granted," Perretta said.
Perretta could not say how
many more will be granted by the
exemption petition committee.
"I'd be second-guessing the
committee," she said.
St. Onge, whose exemption
petition was denied, said the of-
fice of student life should make
seniors who are eligible for off-
campus housing leave the apart-
ments.
"Those seniors had the chance
to live in the apartments their jun-
ior year; they should let someone
else have a chance," he said.
Though sophomore Jane
Fiegenschue did not go as far as
St. Onge, she said, "I think they
either need to give priority to stu-
dents who don't have any other
options or grant more exemp-
tions."
While Perretta said she did not
have the exact statistics, she did "I don't think this year is dif-
not think an unusual number of ferentfrom other years. If there's
seniors were staying in the stu- an increase, it's very slight," she
dent apartments next fall. said.
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