The Carolinian [January 19, 1996]

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rolinian The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Volume 75, Issue 25
(clchiatin^ 75 yeun twcring UNCG
Friday, January 19,1995
In Sports:
Lady Spartans
defeat Bulldogs
Final: 71-54
See the story Page 9
Renowned event
celebrates culture
The African-American Arts
Festival, rated among the top
twenty events in the Southeast,
will run from January 13 to
March 17.
This year's event, which is
sponsored by the United Arts
Council of Greensboro, is fea-turing
Karamu on Friday,
March 1st from 7-11 p.m. in
the Greensboro Cultural Cen-ter.
Karamu, which is Swahili
for "celebration," will offer
African food, dancing, music
and other arts and activities.
The tenth annual African
American Arts Festival was
placed as one of the
Southeast's best events for the
last three years by the South-east
Tourism Society. In 1995,
over 20,000 people partici-pated
in the events.
The two-month long festival
is running in conjunction with
Black History Month, in sup-port
of the outstanding contri-butions
African American art-ists
have made in the Ameri-can
culture.
Online service
helps graduates
Need ajob? Graduating stu-dents
can now contact employ-ers
through the Internet
JOBTRAK Corporation of
California was established in
1987, providing over 600 new
job listings a day.
The "net" site, "http://
www.jobtrak.com," contains
over 1,800 job openings from
employers seeking to hire both
college students and graduates.
"The days ofsorting through
binders of job listings are
over," said student Chris
Huffman.
"Using my computer I can
tap into JOBTRAK OnLine,
search the job listings, access
company profiles, and check
out resume writing tips."
JOBTRAK says that unlike
other online employment ser-vices
focused toward techies,
it lists opportunities in a broad
array of fields, ranging from
health care to communica-tions.
•Need a job?
"http://www.jobtrak.com"
Snow causes inconveniences
•"Blizzard '96" wreaks havocfor returning students
Natalie Watson
Senior News Writer
The white Christmas that
North Carolinians have been
dreaming of came about two
weeks late this year.
"Blizzard '96," a winter storm
that hit the East Coast, dropped
11.5 inches of frozen precipita-tion
in Greensboro, making
travel on area roads treacherous.
Malls were closed and schools
for area students were closed for
a week.
Although classes at UNCG
started on January 10 as
planned, early morning classes
were cancelled. Classes were
also cancelled on January 12th,
after a far less severe storm
dropped a few more inches of
precipitation on an already
slushy mess.
The storm only lasted for two
days. Temperatures remained at
or below freezing during the
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The top level of (he Walker Avenue Parking Deck was one of many parking facilities on campus covered by snow.
nights following the storm and
not far above freezing during the
days. The problem occurred
when precipitation that partly
melted during the day refroze at
night, causing the roads to re-main
dangerous throughout the
week.
Only in the past few days
since temperatures have reached
between forty-five and fifty de-grees
has the melting process
actually created a sense of relief
for residents.
While the snow had an effect
on motorists and school chil-dren,
UNCG students have also
had a tough time. Those who
returned to campus early from
winter break found themselves
victims of cabin fever-snowed in
their rooms with nothing to do.
Many students also had
trouble getting their cars out of
their parking spaces.
Sophomores Jonita Henry and
Treshonda Tucker each had to
seek help to push their cars out
of the Tower Village parking lot.
"Conditions in the Tower Vil-
•See Snow, Page 4
UNCG jumps on info, highway
•Internet sweep catches UNCG students
Dale Leonard
Staff Writer
Do students use the Internet
to do research for class-related
projects? Do students jump on
the World Wide Web to browse
around and "surf the net?"
Many of UNCG's students are
beginning to use the Internet as
a research tool.
Michelle Martin, a senior
business administration major
does not use the UNCG com-puter
network to type her term
papers, but she does use the
Internet to do research for them.
As more and more informa-tion
providers make their data
accessible over the Internet, stu-dents
will be able to retrieve re-search
information from their
computer terminals.
Many libraries are also in the
process of adapting their selec-tions
for display on the World
Wide Web.
Via the Internet, it is just as
easy to visit a library in Brazil
as it is to go to Jackson Library.
This will allow students to ac-cess
data at remote sites that they
would have been unable to use
without the Internet.
Accessing the Internet and the
World Wide Web at UNCG is
very easy. At any computer ter-minal,
just choose option 8 (MS
Windows for computer labs)
from the UNCG net.
Then double click the 'PSE
Group' icon. Next double click
the 'Netscape 1.1' icon, which
takes you to the UNCG Home
Page.
If unsure where to find the
information being seeked, click
the 'net search' button and then
enter the subject desired.
The nearest 100 matches to
the inquiry will be displayed,
and then it will be possible to
'surf' through the locations un-til
the information is there.
The 'Netscape' web-browser
program also makes it possible
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newsgroups. By clicking the
"Newsgroups" button.it is pos-sible
to find a group that pertains
to certain interests.
The newsgroups are displayed in
a convenient hypertext format
(which means that you click a
word to follow it to a new sub-ject
or "thread"). Many
newsgroups also make it pos-sible
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•See Net, Page 2