Senator Isabella Icenogle presented a bill in senate on Monday for a new media center in Lewis. If passed, the bill will take $1,300 from the Campus Project Fund for one 75” smart 4K UHD with HDR TV for $899 and a full motion wall mount for $98.17.
“We’ve had a lot of requests for this,” said Sen. Icenogle. “A big thing the RA’s have to deal with is people trying to bring their TV’s into the lobby, and we have to shut it down because of copyright laws.”
The Evangel University Handbook Ruling
The 2019-2020 handbook states the following for movie viewing on campus, found on page 25. “In keeping with federal copyright laws, movies (EU’s community standard is PG and under) may be viewed in private living spaces, such as a room or suite. Showing a movie in a lobby, lounge, or hallway requires a license to be legal.”
The media center would be an enclosed space which would make watching things as a group permissible based on the Evangel University handbook rules, and regulations. Lewis Hall would also not be the first hall to have a media center. Scott Hall, Spence Hall, and Krause Hall all already have media centers in their dorms. If the bill is based that would only leave two halls without media centers Walther Hall, and Burgess Hall.
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