I just got word of this from the News-Journal. The Board of Trustees is negotiating with University Housing Services Inc. to build student apartments on or near the Daytona Beach campus.

Actually, no negotiations are happening yet. Plans to negotiate have been approved. You’ve got to love paperwork.

The college already owns a whole bunch of property around it (29 lots), so they might use those for something. They still don’t have enough parking though. I can’t believe they want to build dormitories.

“A 120-bed building might be built with eventually as many as 500 beds becoming available.

They’re counting student housing by …

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These presentations were given by four students, many of which were funded by the NIH Bridge Grant, at Daytona State College in Room 134 in Building 410 at 2 P.M. on Friday, 2008 October 24. I wasn’t there to take photos, but I took a few anyway.

Dr. Backer saying hello to friends and students.

Dr. Backer explaining the pizza, which was given out before the show.

Students acquiring the pizza. There were two types: pepporoni and mushroom. I ate a slice of mushroom pizza and drank …

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According to the News-Journal, Daytona State College has given up on taking over the theater. The Seaside Music Theater is part of the News-Journal Center for which a college acquisition was in the works.

Lester Malizia had this to say:

“I realize the economic situation is horrible around the country, but good God, why turn your back on something that was so positive, so good for the community and was doing such good work?”

He’s been the art director at the theater for 20 years. I haven’t been to the theater, and I see their website is a couple months …

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I got this email from the Honors college department today, at 10:41 A.M. local time (EDT):

From: Beverly Gibson <gibsonbe@daytonastate.edu>

Welcome Daytona State College Student,

Would you like to get more out of your college experience? Then consider joining the Honors College! The benefits are numerous and include, smaller classes, a tightly knit group of fellow motivated students, more in depth and interesting classes, research experience, and many opportunities for scholarships. You are receiving this correspondence because you have been identified as having an excellent record of academic performance, and as such, you may be eligible to join the Honors College. If you

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I see the college, or in fact, Higher One on their behalf, registered this new domain, presumably for students to access their debit card accounts. DaytonaStateOne.com is currently inactive. It says “Omnis Network: This web page is parked free.” That means their registrar is omnis.com.

It’s curious that they waited till August 5 to do this; a month and a half after the name change. Someone could have easily snatched up the domain name first. I wonder if they wanted DSCone.com, but picked the longer name because they were beaten to the punch? The old name was …

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I just read read that Daytona State College is buying the Daytona Beach News-Journal Center.

Have you seen the newspaper’s huge building at 221 North Beach Street, near International Speedway Boulevard, pictured above? The college is buying that. The Foundation, the philanthropic wing of Daytona State, is spending $2.6 million to pay off the terrible debt the Journal owes.

Even now, the building is not for the newspaper’s production; it’s a theater and “cultural community center.” The DSC foundation president, William Olivari, made this statement to the press:

With the college getting ready for a

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