Campus briefs
Bronco student services launches delivery program
Starting tonight at 9:00 p.m. students living in the Walsh, McLaughlin, Swig and Dunne Residential Halls will be able to order room service from Bronco Student Services.
All orders will be placed online and students will be able to pay for their orders online using dining points. According to the Bronco Student Services the food will be delivered hot and fresh.
Santa Clara is also launching a program where students can order food for pickup from the Bronco. This is being implemented tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. as well.
Arthur Gallanter and Anthony Prieto, the owners of Bronco Student Services, worked together with Bon Appetit and Santa Clara Housing to implement the delivery program.
The estimated delivery time is 20 minutes from the time the food is finished being prepared by the staff at the Bronco. They recognize that this time will fluctuate based on demand and the number of orders they have to fill.
To ensure that the delivered food is warm, they have invested in heated bags for the Bronco Runners (delivery staff) to transport the food.
The program is currently in a pilot stage, but if everything goes according to plan, it is expected that they will have room service available for all of the dorms on the Santa Clara campus, excluding St. Clare Residential Hall, in the fall of 2010.
Students can go to www.broncoss.com for more information on the new service.
Santa Clara's spin on TED
TED is all about "Idea's worth spreading." It is a non-profit organization that brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers from all walks of life, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives.
The Psyc Club here at Santa Clara has taken that idea and applied it to our own faculty.
Katelyn Rossler, the vice president of the Psyc Club explained, "We knew about the TED talks from TED.com, so we thought it would be a cool idea to invite our professors to come and talk about their interesting and innovative ideas and research."
The two talks featured in the event were "Evidence for Learning Styles: Can you turn up the scent on that Power Point? I'm an olfactory learner!" given by Dr. Lisa Whitfield, and "Do You Practice Being Old?" given by Dr. Patti Simone.
Both are professors in the Psychology Department here at Santa Clara.
Dr. Whitfield's talk focused on the idea of learning styles, like visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning. She discussed how companies like Learningstyles.net are using the concept as a business, charging people a fee for evaluations. Dr. Whitfield also talked about how there are over 70 different learning style models.
Dr. Simone's presentation began by listing issues faced by the elderly: motor/balance problems, dementia, incontinence, poor driving, vertigo, clothes/style, falling asleep in public, and vision problems. "Doesn't sound like something you would look forward to does it?" she exclaimed midway through her lecture. "Well then you should know this isn't a talk about old age it's a talk about alcohol." Dr. Simone made an eerie connection between these eight issues and college drinking behavior.
This was the second TED event the Psyc Club has organized this year.
Big Names and a Big Band
On May 9, this past Sunday, the Center for Performing Arts hosted Hot Jazz & Cool Music, a concert dedicated to the music of the Big Bands.
The concert was held in the Recital Hall at 8:00pm.
The concert was directed by the distinguished Bay Area musical director and new Santa Clra faculty member, Bob Moorefield and Dave Pier, a performing artist.
Santa Clara's event website promised that it would "keep your toes tappin' all year long."
From staff reports. E-mail news@thesantaclara.com