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Athletics[edit]

Warren Wilson has varsity teams for both men and women in mountain biking, cyclocross, road cycling, basketball, soccer, swimming, and cross country. The college also has club teams for timber sports and paddling.[1] All varsity teams except cycling and swimming compete under the United States Collegiate Athletics Association (USCAA), while cycling and swimming compete under USA Cycling (USAC) and the Appalachian Swim Conference respectively. At one point, the college also had football and baseball teams, although they have not existed for multiple decades.

History[edit]

Sam DeVries, the namesake of DeVries Gym, was the first athletic director and was at the school for 42 years. He also coached the football, basketball, and baseball teams. The creation dates of the basketball, football, and baseball teams is unknown. Soccer was started in the 1960's by Sam Millar and Dr. William Klein.[2]

Major Titles[edit]

The mountain biking team finished on the podium at collegiate national championships until 2016, when they won the team omnium in Varsity Division II.[3] In 2017 they finished fourth, for a 16th consecutive year on the podium.[4] Although the mountain biking team was formed in the 1990's, the road and cyclocross teams were not added until much later, not competing in at the national championship level until the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years respectively.[5] In 2016, the cyclocross team placed 4th in the DII team omnium at nationals and 3rd in the team relay.[6]

The men's basketball team won the USCAA DII national title in 2013.[7]

The women's cross country team won the USCAA national title in 2000.

Residence halls[edit]

The campus maintains 16 residence halls of varying layouts and capacities.

  • The EcoDorm was the first college dorm to be certified as LEED Platinum in 2009 in the category of Existing Buildings,[8] and features an active permaculture garden.[9]
  • Sage Hall has the student-run coffeehouse, Sage Cafe, located in the lower level which provides a space for bands, open mics, studying, and food.[10] It is an all male identifying dorm.
  • Stephenson is located adjacent to Sage around Sage circle and is an all female identifying dorm.
  • Dorland is the third dorm in Sage Circle proper. It closed in Fall of 2017 for renovations. A time has not been slated for these to begin.
  • The Schafers are one of the two suite-style dorms on campus. There are three buildings (A, B, and C) located around a small quad. Each building has four suites that house eight students each, as well as one RA apartment. Each suite has four rooms, a common space, and a bathroom with two showers, stalls, and sinks. The shared common area for the building has a kitchen.
  • The Villages are the other suite-style dorms. Each suite/apartment houses 4-6 students and has its own kitchen and bathroom. Apartments are connected by breezeways rather than an indoor common space. There are two buildings (A and B). The Villages are the furthest dorms from the rest of campus, located alone past the Kittredge parking lot.
  • Sunderland Hall is one of three First Year residence halls and the largest on campus, holding 134 students.[11]
  • Asheville Normal Teacher's College (ANTC) and Sutton are the other two First Year residence halls as of Fall of 2017. Previously they were upperclassman dorms. Sutton has some housing specifically for freshman who have taken gap year(s).
  • Wellness Dorm is one of the dorms in the Ballfields. It is "values based" housing for students who wish to live a substance free lifestyle.[12]
  • Korevec and Elmslie are Ballfield A and B, located between Wellness and EcoDorm. They are traditional dorm housing, with three floors of rooms, each housing two students. Halls have common bathrooms and kitchens.[13]
  • The Vinings were freshman housing until fall of 2017. Vining B is currently closed and Vining A is medical singles.
  • Shepard House is the only co-op style housing on campus. The residents receive a collective food stipend and have weekly family dinners as well as sharing house chores.
  • Preston House was previously a second co-op style house, situated among the staff houses. Punk shows and other musical events were regularly hosted in its living room. It was condemned as structurally unsound and closed after the 2014-15 academic year. It was demolished via a controlled burn in 2016.

Service[edit]

Previously, Warren Wilson required that students complete 100 hours of community service over the course of 4 years. Beginning in 2012, however, incoming students had new requirements under the Community Engagement Commitment called PEGs, or Points of Engagement and Growth.[14] In PEG 1, students must complete 25 hours of service in any issue area. This is generally completed in freshman year. PEG 2 consists of 25 hours in a specific issue area, such as food security. PEG 3 requires 50 hours in a leadership position within a specific issue area (this does not have to be the same as PEG 2). This often takes the form of an internship or leading a break service trip. PEG 4 is reflecting on your service experience and can be done via a group reflection or an essay.

Campus life[edit]

The Old Farmer's Ball hosts weekly contra dances providing the students and the community with old-time music and dancing, and an ever changing line-up of musicians.[15]

There are two dining halls on campus: Gladfelter and Cowpie. Gladfelter is a standard dining hall run by Sodexo, while Cowpie serves all vegan and vegetarian dishes. It works with Sodexo but is largely run by students who work under a full time supervisor. Both dining halls use produce and meat from the college garden and farm, although Cowpie uses this more extensively.[citation needed]

The Student Government Association (SGA) meets weekly and discusses various topics relevant to the student body. President Lynn M. Morton has attended two meetings in her first semester.[16] There are also community meetings that occur with varying regularity. Beginning in the spring semester 2018, the college is introducing "deliberative dialogues," which are facilitated discussions on topics that are potentially difficult to have balanced conversations about.

History[edit]

Warren Wilson College Farm

Warren Wilson College went through many phases before becoming what it is today. Its property, situated along the Swannanoa River, was purchased in 1893 by the Women's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, which was concerned that many Americans in isolated areas were not receiving a proper education and decided to establish church-supported schools in impoverished areas.[17] On November 30, 1894, the Asheville Farm School officially opened on 420 acres, with 25 students attending.[18] A professional staff of three offering the first three grades of elementary instruction.

In 1923, the school graduated its first high school class, and the first post-high school programs offering vocational training began in 1936.[17] In 1942, the Asheville Farm School merged with the Dorland-Bell School in Hot Springs, North Carolina, to become a coed secondary school, named Warren H. Wilson Vocational Junior College and Associated Schools, after the late Warren H. Wilson, former superintendent of the Presbyterian Church's Department of Church and Country Life.[19] Wilson's name is also on a Presbyterian church started at the school in 1925 so students and teachers would no longer have to walk three miles to Riceville.[20] After World War II, the public education system in North Carolina improved dramatically and the need for the high school diminished, with the last high school class there graduating in 1957. In 1952, the college became one of the first in the South to desegregate, when it invited Alma Shippy, an African American from Swannanoa, North Carolina, to attend. Sunderland dorm residents voted 54-1 to allow Shippy to become a student and live in their dorm.[21] In contrast to its original student population of underprivileged mountain youth, Warren Wilson now enrolls students of many different geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Warren Wilson College was a junior college until 1967, when it became a four-year college offering six majors. In 1972, the National Board of Missions deeded the WWC property over to the college's Board of Trustees.

Steven L. Solnick, formerly the Ford Foundation representative in Moscow, then in New Delhi, became the College's seventh president in 2012.[22] He announced his resignation in October 2016 and his final day was June 30, 2017. He now leads The Calhoun School in New York. The eighth president, Dr. Lynn Morton, is the first female president in the college's history. She is a native North Carolinian and was formerly provost and vice president of academic affairs at Queens University in Charlotte, NC.[23]

Testing[edit]

Applied Testing[edit]

Major results[edit]

Sources:[24][25][26]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Warren Wilson Athletics Website". warrenwilsonowls.com. Warren Wilson College. Retrieved 26 Dec 2017.
  2. ^ "Sam Millar". warrenwilsonowls.com. Warren Wilson College Athletics. 2012. Retrieved 27 Dec 2017.
  3. ^ McCormick, Fred (2 Nov 2016). ""Warren Wilson pedals home with a national championship"". Black Mountain News. USA Today. Retrieved 26 Dec 2017.
  4. ^ ""Mountain Bike Team Podiums for 16th Consecutive Year"". warrenwilsonowls.com. Warren Wilson College Athletics. Retrieved 26 Dec 2017.
  5. ^ "Jones, Leeson lead Owls at Road Bike National Championships". warrenwilsonowls.com. Warren Wilson College Athletics. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 26 Dec 2017.
  6. ^ "Cyclocross Rides to Fourth Place at National Championships". warrenwilsonowls.com. Warren Wilson College Athletics. 12 Jan 2016. Retrieved 26 Dec 2017.
  7. ^ "Owls Win USCAA National Championship". warrenwilsonowls.com. Warren Wilson College Athletics. 3 Mar 2013. Retrieved 26 Dec 2017.
  8. ^ "EcoDorm at Warren Wilson College". BuildingGreen.com. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  9. ^ "Ecodorm featured on Eco Solutions" (flash video). CNN. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  10. ^ "WWC Catalog - Sage Cafe and Baking Crew". Warren Wilson College.
  11. ^ "Residence Halls". warren-wilson.edu. Warren Wilson College. 2017. Retrieved 27 Dec 2017.
  12. ^ "Residence Halls". warren-wilson.edu. Warren Wilson College. 2017. Retrieved 27 Dec 2017.
  13. ^ "Residence Halls". warren-wilson.edu. Warren Wilson College. 2017. Retrieved 27 Dec 2017.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference Community Engagement Commitment was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ "Old Farmer's Ball". Retrieved 9 July 2010.
  16. ^ "SGA Meeting 10/3: Q+A with President Morton" and "SGA 12/5: A Conversation With President Morton!" sga@warren-wilson.edu
  17. ^ a b "History of Warren Wilson College" Accessed 4 July 2010.
  18. ^ "Today in Asheville history: Farm school opens". Asheville Citizen-Times. 30 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  19. ^ "Warren H. Wilson (1867-1937)". WWC. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  20. ^ Neal, Dale (28 November 2015). "College church has rich history or celebrating the harvest". Asheville Citizen-Times.
  21. ^ Lillard, Margaret (25 February 2007). "Honoring an alum who was also a civil rights pioneer". LA Times. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
  22. ^ "Steven L. Solnick becomes 7th president of Warren Wilson College". Warren Wilson College. Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  23. ^ "Warren Wilson's Eighth President is Lynn M. Morton". warren-wilson.edu. Warren Wilson College. Retrieved 29 Dec 2017.
  24. ^ "Phillip Gaimon at USA Cycling". USA Cycling. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  25. ^ "Phillip Gaimon at Cycling Archives". Cycling Archives. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  26. ^ "Phillip Gaimon at Cycling Base". Cycling Base. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  27. ^ "Phillip Gaimon wins Mount Washington Hillclimb". VeloNews. San Diego, California: Competitor Group, Inc. August 16, 2008. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
  28. ^ "Phillip Gaimon defends Mt. Washington crown in Bicycle Hillclimb". New Hampshire Lakes and Mountains. Meredith, New Hampshire: Salmon Press Newspapers, Inc. August 20, 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
  29. ^ http://www.cyclingarchives.com/ritfiche.php?ritid=298003
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