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Methodist University Prepares for Fall Semester The Methodist community knows that the start of the new school year is right around the corner when they hear the marching band practicing on Coach Sink Field or see the players running drills on the football fi eld. Before any students move in, the housekeeping and maintenance staffs work tirelessly to get the residence halls back in shape for the opening of the school year. Between the times that summer camps end and the fall semester starts, activity in the residence halls is a whirlwind of cleaning and polishing, making sure students' new home away from home is ready. Adding to the activity this summer is the soon-to-be-completed Nursing Building and will move onto campus before then. The Methodist University football program will bring roughly 130 new students and 100 returning students on campus Aug. 8 to begin training for the upcoming football season. They will be joined by athletic training students, who help the school's professionally certifi ed athletic trainers support the MU teams. Students in the marching band also come on campus at the same time, to start practicing for their season. Summer is going by quickly at Methodist University. The last summer term started Monday, July 9, leaving just six weeks until the start of the fall term. Faculty, staff and coaches are preparing for the coming semester, while workers are also preparing the fi nishing touches on two new buildings that will open in the fall. Hundreds of freshman will arrive for orientation Aug. 17, but many student athletes by ROXANA ROSS The new nursing building at Methodist University. the three-story sophomore residence hall. Both buildings are slated to be open for the fall semester. One hundred lucky students will be the fi rst residents of the new sophomore hall in the coming months. The new 27,000-square-foot residence hall is located on the perimeter of Sink Field, fl anked by the Greek houses on opposite sides of the intramural fi eld. The building will top off the development around the fi eld and be a centerpiece for a new community on the MU campus. The new hall is very different from any other residence halls on campus, and embraces by ERINN CRIDER Downtown Fayetteville has always been a place of note, but more recently it has been for the lively cultural and artistic scene. Throughout the week downtown is buzzing with events and people enjoying the individual shops and delicious restaurants, but once a month they all band together and stay open late to give the public a venue to enjoy the cities wealth of culture and art. This month on July 27, downtown Fayetteville will be open and bustling, with most shops staying open later for the event. This month the theme for 4th Friday is Christmas in July. The local kids museum Fascinate-U has fully embraced this theme by offering families a chance to come in and make mitten ornaments for their Christmas Tree. Additionally admission is free and everything in the gift shops is 10 percent off. The museum reminds patrons that the gift shop is full of perfect stocking stuffers for children. The museum will be open for 7 - 9 p.m. For those interested in history, particularly history pertaining to Fayetteville, the Market House and the Transportation Museum are the places to be. The Market House in the center of downtown will be open from 6 - 10 p.m. hosting an exhibit on the Downtown Revitalization in its upstairs room. The Transportation Museum at 325 Franklin St. will be open to the public with history directly pertaining to Fayetteville and its growth as a city. It will have a model train room and many artifact fi lled exhibits. The art scene in Fayetteville will also be alive and on display during the 4th Christmas in July at 4th Friday marketing director of the Arts Council, explains that this exhibit has been on display before and is always sponsored by the Environmental Services Department. Local artists were given a list of materials that were allowed to use, but given no other specifi cations for this exhibit. "What's new this year is we will also be holding a recycling fashion show," Kinney said. Artists in both shows are given the same list of materials and access to a local recycling center to claim materials. Artists are free to be creative with their art with what they choose to make it. a modern living/learning model that is creating a buzz in higher education. As well as lobbies on each fl oor and a snack-bar store to service residents living around or visiting Sink Field, the new building will have a functional classroom space. The hall will have 50 two-person rooms, each with its own private bathroom. Those 100 beds will also mean the end of subsidized off-campus apartments for the many students who wanted to live on campus but just could not fi nd a space. Across campus, work is nearly done on the new Nursing Building. Next semester will be the fi rst full semester of nursing classes for the Professional Nursing Studies Program. For the past two years, pre- nursing students have been taking all their core and pre-required classes. until they are discharged. The simulation hospital also includes a pharmacy, nurse's stations, pediatric ward, critical care rooms, triage suite, and six simulated patients who range from an infant to adult, including an expectant mother. The patients — life-sized computerized mannequins — can breathe, speak, have audible vital sounds and progress through various medical scenarios from birth to death. The patients are not the only high-tech part of the hospital, either. Throughout the hospital, 41 ceiling-mounted cameras will record the action so students can go back and observe, and ultimately improve their performance. The cameras are part of the learning space by Medical Education Technologies, Inc., which acts as the brain of the simulation. programs, please visit www.methodist.edu or search for "Methodist University" on Facebook. In addition to the hospital, the new facility will have a 60-seat auditorium, classroom space, a computer lab, faculty and administrative offi ces, and a student lounge. To learn more about Methodist University and its ROXANNA ROSS, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@ upandcomingweekly.com. The jewel of the new $3.2 million facility is the MU General Simulation Hospital. About half of the 10,000-square-foot facility will be designed for the hospital — designed to replicate scenarios from the fi rst moment a patient arrives to be admitted garbage into art. The Arts Council will also provide cash prices for those who enter; a $350 prize for the winner of the art show and for the fashion show there is $250 up for grabs. Deadlines for forms and artwork must be turned in July 20-21. "They could use plastic, newspapers, aluminum foil, cereal boxes, junk mail, newspapers, magazines," says Kinney listing some of the possible materials artists could use. The creativity of the area is truly on display and imagination is the only limiting factor when transforming what many would consider Friday Festivities. The Arts Council will be embracing the green movement and promoting creative recycling by opening its newest exhibit "Recycle! It's Second Nature." This event is being sponsored by the City of Fayetteville's Environmental Services Department and will be on display from 7 to 9 p.m. Mary Kinney, the 12 UCW JULY 18-24, 2012 entire family can enjoy. From 7p.m. to 8:45p.m.the library will present a Broadway Musical Review with refreshments provided by SYSTEL. Local dancers, singers and students as well as choreographer Rhonda Brocki, accompanist Adita Harless and Dr. Gail Morfesis make up the group Gail Morfesis & Company. ERINN CRIDER, Contributing Writer, COMMENTS? Editor@ upandcomingweekly.com. WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Gallery One13 will also be open later than normal for the festivities. Located on 113 Gillespie Street the gallery will be open until 9p.m. displaying art for all to enjoy. Headquarters Library located at 300 Maiden Lane will also host activities the