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January 23,1997
American Music Awards:
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UNCG Downs Liberty:
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Issue 27, >
Volume 76
Mathis expresses confidence, concerns to campus
•Chancellor Sullivan answers, "Student-centeredness does not mean that you demand and we respond."
Natalie Watson
Senior News Writer
SGA President Brandon Mathis
described the UNCG community
as "Better off than we were in Sep-tember,"
and "on our way to a
great spring semester," in his State
of the Campus Address on Tues-day
night in the Claxton Room,
EUC.
In his address to the assembly
and a few administrators. Mathis
commended the assembly for all
of their hard work. He reminded
them of all the improvements seen
on campus since September. "I
want you all to applaud yourselves
in recognition of your service to
the University... In early fall, the
assembly passed legislation con-cerning
the improvement of cross-walks
on campus, and recently the
changes were made, and the result
is a safer campus," said Mathis.
Mathis also stressed the fact that
the increased familiarity and com-munication
between students and
the University administration has
improved their relationship. "I
have become better acquainted
with administrators, assistants,
and secretaries ... [and] this will-ingness
for communication makes
for a well-balanced arena for ex-change,"
Mathis stated.
Concerning UNCG's notorious
parking problems, Mathis stated
that although we are better off than
we were in September, because of
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Setting it Straight:
Chancellor Sullivan made an effort at
Tuesday's State of the Campus Address
to say that the Student First Program
has been taken out of perspective, and
that students arc expecting too much.
class schedule changes and other
reforms, the problem still has far
to go before being solved. "The
reason for the terrible parking situ-ation
in September is excitement.
Students are excited to be back at
school; I believe it is worth the
inconvenience to have a renewed
school year at UNCG," said
Mathis.
During the speech, Mathis also
addressed problems facing the as-sembly
and urged the members to
work together to tackle challenges
facing the UNCG committee. "We
have done a good job so far. This
assembly has passed more written
legislation than any other assem-bly
in recent years, and we have
also dealt with a high turnover rate
as far as positions. I urge you to
renew your commitment to serve,"
he said.
Current concerns that Mathis
plans to address immediately in-clude
the new computer superlab,
coming in February, and the Uni-versity
calendar, which does not
include reading day for the 1997-
98 academic year.
According to Mathis, the stu-dent
fee increase and proposal for
the superlab were accepted under
the impression that students were
to have access to a 24-hour com-puter
lab. Instead, the lab will be
housed in the library and will ob-serve
library hours.
The SGA President expressed
his disapproval of the new aca-demic
calendar. Mathis feels that
See Address, Page 2
Elizabeth Gilktte/THK CAROLINIAN
SGA President Brandon Mathis gave his State of the Campus Address, Tuesday
night, in the Claxton Room. Mathis discussed current concerns of liNCtl includ-ing
the new superlab and the 1*W7-'>X academic calendar.
Electronic commerce
to be established on
the World Wide Web
UNCG Gets A Taste of Israel
Geoffrey Gartncr/THK CAROLINIAN
Rabbi David Hartman (far right), director of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel, spoke Tuesday, at the UNCG Alumni
House. Hartman, seen here with Dr. Henry Levinson, Chair of Religious Studies at UNCG, and Dr. Bob Miller, Assistant
Provost Faculty Advisor for UNCG Hillel. discussed "Kxodus and the Sinai Covenant: Paradigms for the Quest of Freedom
and Human Dignity." Rabbi Hartman is an Israeli scholar, public intellectual and social activist. The Shalom Hartman
Institute is dedicated to building bridges between religious and secular peoples living in a pluralistic world. Hartman re-cently
spoke to the group of North Carolina leaders in business and education led by Gov. James Hunt in Israel.
Steve Gilliam
• Department oj Information
Services
Businesses are moving closer
to establishing electronic com-merce
on the World Wide Web
as they continue to develop and
refine the use of Web sites, ac-cording
to an ongoing study
done by two faculty members at
UNCG.
In the initial report, titled
"The Use of the Web as a Busi-ness
Tool," 82 national compa-nies
were surveyed to determine
the extent to which they arc us-ing
the Web for business activi-ties.
The firms ranged in size
from annual sales of less than S1
million of over $ 10 billion. The
survey included banks and com-panies
in manufacturing, retail/
wholesale, publishing, commu-nications
and utilities, medical
and health care, consulting, edu-cation
and construction.
The researchers. Dr. Pierre
Balthazard and Dr. Chang Koh.
are faculty members in the De-partment
of Information Sys-tems
and Operations Manage
ment in the Joseph M. Bryan
School of Business and Econom-ics.
"The major thing we found is
that firms are taking a fairly con-servative
attitude toward this tech-nology."
said Koh. "Which in our
opinion is the right approach,
["hey are not jumping on the band-wagon
and putting everything
they have into it. They are being
very careful in what they do."
Balthazard said: "At the same
time, we see that a lot of compa-nies
are wide awake to the poten-tial
thai the Web holds. The) also
are aware of the fact that devel-oping
Internet information infra
structures is ;i lol less expensive
than developing more traditional
technologies 1 fully expect that
when we run this study again,
there will be a shift from strictly
using this technology as a mecha-nism
to tell the world about your
products, which 1 call a passive
use. to .: vei> active use of the
Web. including taking orders and
supporting day-to-day opera-tions/'
See Commerce, Page 3
Texas Educator named dean of UNCG School of Education
from Staff Reports
Dr. David G. Armstrong, a pro-fessor
and former associate dean
with the College of Education at
Texas A&M University, has been
appointed dean of the School of
Education at UNCG, effective this
Feb. I.
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Armstrong's appointment to the
position was approved by the
UNC Board of Governors on Jan.
10. Armstrong was selected for the
position following a national
search which attracted 46 appli-cants.
He succeeds Dr. Mary W.
Olson, who has been serving as
interim dean.
As dean, Armstrong will have
administrative responsibilities for
a school which has long been rec-ognized
as a leader in teacher edu-cation,
educational research, and
in other related academic pro-grams.
Since 1990. the school has been
awarded more than $40 million in
federal contracts to operate the
SouthEastem Regional Vision for
Education (SERVE), the regional
education laboratory that assists
state and local educators at the K
12 level in a six-state area in the
Southeast. SERVE is one of the 10
federally funded education labo-ratories
in the nation. It received
its initial five-year contract of $ 18
million in 1990. The contract was
renewed for an additional five
years and was increased to $22.5
million in 1995.
In 1995, faculty within the
School of Education attracted
$10,012,779 in grants, contracts
and other external funding for edu-cational
endeavors.
"The University has conducted
an extensive national search to
find the right person to lead our
School of Education into the 21st
century," said UNCG Provost A.
Edward Uprichard. "Dr. David
Armstrong is the right person to
assume this important and chal-lenging
responsibility. In the time
he was on campus as part of the
interview process, he earned the
respect and admiration of faculty,
students, staff and administrators.
"Dr. Armstrong brines to this
position outstanding academic
credentials, broad administra-tive
experience, knowledge of
issues that need to be addressed
by both schools of education
and K-12 schools, and energy
... he will be an asset to the Uni-versity.
The leadership of the
School of Education is in good
hands."
Armstrong served as associ-ate
dean for undergraduate
studies in the College of Edu-cation
at Texas A&M from
1991-95. He is a professor of
educational curriculum and in-struction.
From 1977-90. he
served as chair of the second-ary
education program area in
educational curriculum and in-struction
for the institution. He has
been a member of the education
faculty at Texas A&M since 1975.
He is the co-author of multiple
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Dr. David G. Armstrong
college and university textbooks.
These include "Education: An In-
See Armstrong, Page 3
Possible Cosby
witnesses released
Curtis L. Taylor
Times/Post News Service
LOS ANGELES-Two men de-tained
as possible witnesses to the
murder of Ennis Cosby last week
were questioned and released
Tuesday by Los Angeles detec-tives,
who concluded that they
knew nothing about the crime.
Los Angeles Police Com-mander
Tim McBride told report-ers:
"It does not appear they're
involved in this crime or have any
information of substance to help
us."
The two men, whose names
were not released, were ques-tioned
because one of them fit the
description in a composite sketch
of a possible witness who had
been in the area of the Cosby kill-ing,
in a car that also fit a police
description, less than an hour be-fore.
He was the goateed white man,
reportedly seen by a security guard
near the site shortly before the
slaying, and pictured in the sketch
of a possible witness released ear-lier
this week.
He told police he was in the area
of Mulholland Drive, near the spot
where the 27-year-old Cosby was
slain Thursday, to look at the city
lights.
He couldn't provide any infor-mation
about the killing, police
said.
"The driver of the vehicle fit the
composite ... . He acknowledged
being near the location. However,
he was unable to provide any sub-stantial
information. The indi-vidual
was candid and coopera-tive."
Los Angeles Police Depart-ment
spokesman Mike Partain
said in a prepared statement.
Partain said the other man did
not fit either description, appar-ently
was not with the driver the
night of the murder, and also was
released.
The two had been detained
Monday after the car they were in
was spotted near a Torrance phar-macy
parking lot by a woman who
lives in the area. Hers was one of
some 400 calls police detectives
have received since releasing the
composite drawing of the possible
witness driving a blue hatchback
car. as well as a separate drawing
of a suspect in the case.
The sketches were drawn based
on information from a private se-curity
guard who was in the area
the night of the murder, and by a
friend of Cosby's who police say
saw the gunman shortly before
Cosby was shot.
Based on a challenge by Bill
Cosby, tabloid newspapers The
Globe and The Enquirer, have put
up more than $300,000 in reward
money.
Tuesday, the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors also
posted a reward, of $12,500. for
information leading to the arrest
and conviction of those respon-sible
for the shooting. The super-visors
also approved the same
amount as a reward for Corri Wil-liams,
a 17-year-old Los Angeles
girl killed the same day after be-ing
caught in the crossfire of a
gang shooting.
Cosby, 27, was finishing up a
two-week vacation on break from
Columbia University, where he
was a doctoral candidate in spe-cial
education, when he was fa-tally
shot after he stopped to
change a flat tire on his Mercedes-
Benz convertible in the exclusive
Bel Air neighborhood.
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