The Carolinian [March 19, 1996]

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In Sports:
Coverage ofthe
NCAA tourna-ment
in Florida
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Computer courses
offered at UNCG
A series of introductory
classes on computers, the
Internet and various types of
software will be starting in
March at UNCG. The
classes offered are "Intro-duction
to the Computer,"
Introduction to the
(Internet," and "Spread
Sheets."
For more information re-garding
courses, times and
dates, contact Henry Sholar
at (910) 334-5414 or 1-800-
306-9033 weekdays.
Professor to lecture
at UNCG
"Violence Among Afri-can-
American Children and
Adolescents: Preliminary
Findings" is the title of a lec-ture
by Dr. Sheree Marshall-
Williams scheduled for
Thursday, March 21 at
UNCG.
The free, public lecture
will be in Claxton Room of
Elliott University Center. It
is sponsored by the African-
American Studies Program,
Office of Minority Affairs
and Black Faculty/Staff As-sociation.
Native American
Spirituality Course
Registration is now open
Ifor "Walk in Beauty: The
Ways of Right Relation-ship,"
a course in Native
American spirituality which
opens March 27 and is be-ing
offered through the Arts
and Sciences Academy at
UNCG. Registration is
through the UNCG Office of
Continuing Education and
Summer Session.
Those interested in the
workship should contact
Betty Lopp at (910) 334-
5414 weekdays. The cost is
$70 and early registration is
encouraged.
UNCG Legal Club
The Legal Professions
[Club presents the Young
Lawyers Division of the NC
Bar Association Wednesday,
March 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the
Alexander Room ofEUC. A
panel of four local attorneys
will speak, followed by a
short reception. Refresh-ments
will be provided.
Students sacrifice time and
money to support Spartans
AFRA KOOPMAN-THF. CAROLINIAN
Last Friday students gathered in Cone Ballroom of the EL'C to support the UNCG Spartans in the NCAA
Tournament. UNCG Senior, Warren Bright was only one of the many cheering students that crowded campus.
Osia Knowles
Senior News Writer
Most students, faculty
and alumni may have been
satisfied watching the
Spartans take on the
mighty Bearcats of Cincin-nati
from the comfort of
the Cone Ballroom of
Elliott University Center.
For a few students,
though, the pull to Orlando
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the
game
was just
t o o
much to
"bear."
S o
some
eager
stu-dents
and
alumni
rented a chartered bus to
Orlando.
"The fact that I'm a se-nior
and I had the chance
to see the Spartans in their
first ever NCAA appear-ance
forced me to go," said
Craig Maxa, who helped
organize the event.
"It was a great feeling
knowing my favorite team
made the NCAA tourna-ment.
I can't imagine miss-ing
it," said Maxa.
Maxa and 44 other students made
the 12 hour bus drive to Orlando. The
group consisted of members of the
Rowdy Crowd, the Spartan G's. The
Carolinian and many other students
and alumni. The group had to sacri-fice
work, study time for tests and
money, and at least one student went
down without any money at all.
"The sacrifice that I had to make
was minimal compared to the ben-
- efit of
seeing my
team
play,"
said Ryan
Whitehursl
Whitehurst
worked
over
spring
break to
be able to
afford the
trip.
"It was a great feel-ing
knowing myfavor-ite
team made the
NCAA tournament. I
can't imagine missing
it."
Craig Maxa, senior
The major organizers for the trip
were Maxa, Melanie Alston, and
Sally Thomas. The three had to put
forth many efforts to organize it and
to get enough contributions to make
the tripaffordable.
"Sally's apartment and mine be-came
offices," said Maxa. "We were
constantly getting calls from people
reserving and canceling seats."
In the end, contributions from fac-ulty
and the SGA brought the total
cost down to roughly $65 per person.
which included round-trip
bus fare, hotel costs, and
game admission.
Chancellor Sullivan,
Vice-Chancellors Jim
Allen and Skip Moore.
Athletic Director Nelson
Bobb, Provost Uprichard
and the SGA all contrib-uted
money for the bus
trip.
The defining moment
for many on the trip was
watching the Spartans
take the floor. "I was so
excited," said Maxa. "Ev-ery
time a senior ran by, I
got more pumped up. I
couldn't believe these
same guys that I've gotten
to know since freshman
year were now playing in
the NCAA tournament."
Maxa has rarely missed
a game in his four years at
UNCG. "It's my hope that
all students that graduate
get to say UNCG is their
favorite team, as I have."
"The most defining mo-ment
of the trip for me was
during the reception at the
hotel [after the game],"
said Alston. "I remember
Derrick Nix saying 'you
don't know how exciting
it is to come out there and
have your fans supporting
you.'"
Students register,
vote at the same time
TALLAHASSEE (CP)-
Linda Reale was struck by
how many of her classmates
were not voting when she
helped campaign for a Florida
Senate candidate last year.
Her candidate lobbied for
votes by knocking on doors,
working the crowds at com-munity
functions and shaking
a lot of hands.
But when it came to one
huge group of potential voters,
the campaign trail hit a dead
end. "We didn't go to the stu-dents,"
says the University of
Central Florida junior.
Even though she is a regis-tered
voter, Reale can under-stand
why a candidate would
not waste the time or money
to make the rounds on college
campuses.
"We looked at the break-down
from the voter registra-tion
office [of previous elec-tions]."
she recalled. "Students
weren't in the variable at all."
In an effort to reach Florida's
two million students, a student
lobby group, the Florida Stu-dent
Association is pushing for
state legislation that would al-low
students to register to vote
when they register for classes.
The proposal, called Regis-ter
Once, is modeled after the
National Voter Registration
Act or "motor voter" law.
which allows people to fill out
voter registration forms when
they obtain or renew a driver's
license or visit another state
government office.
Since going into effect a
year ago. the law has swelled
the ranks of Florida voters by
about a million people.
Though unsuccessful, the
"motor voter" law still fails to
reach the college-age voters,
Reale, who interns for the
Florida Student Association.
sold.
Most students obtain their
driver's license at 16, two years
before the voting age, then
may wait six years before re-newing
it. By then, "they're
not students anymore," she
said.
Requiring universities to
provide voter registration
forms to a traditionally apa-thetic
voting population makes
sense to Sharon Pacheco. the
group's executive director.
"Since colleges are institu-tions
of higher learning [that
•see Vote, page 2