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THE PIONEER LOG NEWS

MARCH 1, 2013

Bon set to undergo renovations during summer 2013

BY EMMA HOCHSCHNEIDER
STAFF WRITER

This summer, Fields Dining Room is undergoing a massive facelift. The goal is to refresh the project and make it more efficient, bringing it more into the way modern food service is run, said Associate Vice President for Facilities Michel George. George and Facilities Manager Larry Atchison have been key organizers of the Fields renovation. The new design of Fields Dining Room centers on efficiency and atmosphere. It will change the feel of this room so that the dining experience will be more appealing and updated, a place where people will want to gather more and hang out, said General Manager of Bon Appetit at Lewis & Clark Mac Lary. The new additions to Fields include turnstiles at the entrance so that long lines (especially those of Sunday brunch) can be avoided.

A low wall will separate the food service area from the dining area. To improve efficiency, food trays will be able to be restocked from behind. The beverage island will be accesible from either side of the wall so students will not have to reenter the food area to refill their drinks. The seating will be very similar, with a few additional options. A counter with outlets for laptops will be available on the outside of the low wall, along with cubicles to store backpacks and bags. Round tables and large community tables will be available. Several booths will be present to provide a more intimate dining experience. Aesthetically, Fields will have a new wood-paneled ceiling, new fans and a new ventilation system. Monitor screens will also display the days menu outside of Fields so students can more easily view the dining options. The wall that looks out onto the Pioneer Express Shuttle stop will be replaced with windows, enhancing the natural light of the room.

There are no plans to change the menu significantly. The funds for the renovation do not come from students fees, but rather from a depreciation fund for Fields Dining Room. Every year, the college puts aside money that goes toward the upkeep of buildings. The Bon renovation is all about efficiency, aesthetics and community, and Im really excited to see the end result, said Chairperson of the Food Service Advisory Committee Tyler Patterson (16). The plan for the renovation goes to the board this week for approval. Our goal is to start right after commencement and have it ready by August, says George. Its going to be beautiful, attractivebasically the facelift that Templeton needs, concluded Patterson. For more information on the Fields Dining Room renovation, students can contact LC Facilities.

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Counseling service receives grant to expand services

BY MICHELLE CHERNACK
STAFF WRITER

On Feb. 14, it was announced that the Lewis & Clark Counseling Service received an anonymous grant of $200,000. With this additional money, the Counseling Service is now able to provide more service appointments during the week for students. The better terminology is not grant but gift, because this was [given] by the family of a student who was sensitive to some of the challenges that we face in terms of meeting the demand for counseling services for students, said Associate Dean of Students, Director of Wellness Services and Chief Psychologist John Hancock. The Counseling Service serves all three schools: undergraduate, graduate and law. However, most of the services are focused towards undergraduates. Excluding

all those who are overseas, about 20 percent of LC students go in for appointments each year, 80 percent of whom are undergraduate students. More students want our services than we have staff to provide, said Hancock. For peoples needs who arent as acute, sometimes they wind up having to be on a waiting list or we offer referrals off-campus, but we know that getting off-campus can be kind of a hassle for some and theres costs associated with seeing people off-campus, so we like to provide services on campus whenever we can. These waiting lists can get long, and students may not be able to get a Counseling Service appointment for an extended period of time. This family [who donated the money] became aware of this issue and really wanted to try to

do something that could make a difference in terms of decreasing the waiting list and providing better access to services for student counseling. So, they provided the gift, said Hancock. He had been in conversation with the donors since last November. The way the college works is that Institutional Advancement is sort of our fundraising for the college, and they look out for these opportunities and try to match the needs of the college with what donors might have to offer. There were different ideas about how the money could come or what we would use it for, until finally we found the right match between what we needed and what the donor was ready to give us money for. This gift is going to be covered over a period of four years, amounting to $50,000 a year. Es-

sentially, it will allow the Counseling Service to expand their staff. I was ready to implement a plan with my staff as soon as we got the money, said Hancock. I knew how badly it was needed. Two staff psychologists recently took on more hours. Dr. Melinda Brooks is now a full-time employee for the next four years. She is working two extra days a week, significantly increasing the amount of appointment availability for students. Dr. Bobbi Mihara increased her hours for this semester, which also creates more appointments. We know that this size of a gift wont eliminate our waiting list, but itll help. Itll help reduce it, and then well keep doing what we can to work with it, said Hancock. So it will make a difference, absolutely. Well continue to try to work very hard to find the right service model. When you

have a finite number of counseling sessions you can offer and lots of students who want them, you have to come up with how do you decide who youre going to serve and who you dont, because you cant serve everybody. The problem is that sometimes people are in really bad shape, and if they cant get in for that assessment, they could get a lot worse. We dont want that to happen. We want to have an initial assessment at the beginning. The Counseling Service is working to serve students as effectively as possible, which is evidenced by the notably fewer students on this semesters waiting list than last semester. The donors wish with the gift was that we would invest this in more counseling hours available to students, said Hancock. And thats exactly what were doing.

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