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Tuesday,
August 26,1997
Women's Volleyball Preview:
See the Story, Page 8
What Artists are coming to UNCG:
See the Story, Page 5
Issue 2,
Volume 77
SGA to extend Bryan computer lab hours
Natalie Watson
News Editor
In their effort to respond to stu-dent
demands for a twenty-four
hour computer lab. the Student
Government Association(SGA),
along with the Instructional and
Research Computing department
(IRC), have opened two labs in the
Bryan building until 3:00 am for
student use.
After negotiating with Vice-
Chancellor Clotfelter, SGA has
anwipced that the new Bryan 212
an^jfX temporary and extended
hour's are Monday-Thursday,
8am-3am; Friday, 8am-5pm; Sat-urday,
9am-5pm: and Sunday,
lpm-3am.
■"■•^f^Sh lahs 212 and 213 will
observe the new extended hours
on a trial basis until October 10th.
The use of the Bryan labs will
be monitored by IRC to determine
whether or not the extended hours
will be continued past the sched-uled
end of the trial period.
Although this is the first step
towards the twenty-four hour lab
that students have demanded. The
SGA did stress the fact that stu-dents
play an important role in the
process.
According to a press release. "If
students do not use Bryan labs 212
and 213. and take advantage of the
extended hours before October 10,
the labs will go back to their old
schedule. We at SGA need stu-dents
to help us help them get the
twenty-four hour lab we all want.
This is an important first step in
that process."
In addition to the new extended
hours, these two labs will also be
receiving forty-four Pentium
200's and three new Macintoshes.
Bryan Computer Lab
212/213's
new hours
Monday - Thursday,
8am-3am;
Friday.
Sam-5pm;
Saturday,
9am-5pm;
Sunday,
lpm-3am
Geoffrey Gartncr/THE CAROLINIAN
Scott Alex, junior (left) and and William Reese, sophomore, work on a school assignment in the Bryan building where the computer
lab hours are going to be extended. SGA president addresses concerns
Natalie Watson
News Editor
The Student Government Asso-ciation
starts the year off with a
bang, as President Durenda
Johnson tackles issues and con-cerns
important to students as well
as the entire University commu-nity.
During the early part of the sum-mer,
when most students were
lounging and relaxing, and not
thinking at all abou UNCG, Presi-dent
Johnson was focusing on
twenty-four hour computer lab, an
answer to the confusion caused by
construction, and a focus on the
never-ending parking problem.
Concerning the construction
that has many stu-dents
upset and in-convenienced,
Johnson stresses
the need for stu-dents
to remember
the ultimate goal,
and try to under-stand
that the Uni-versity
is not com-pletely
responsible
for the late con-struction
beginning. " I think it is
an eyesore, it is something awful
to look at but you know it will
beautiful in the end. I agree with
students who feel like there is too
much going on...Since the begin-ning
of the sum-mer
most of the
construction
projects i.e. the
baseball stadium,
Phillips/
Hawkins, and the
music building
have begun ex-cept
the Spring
Garden project
because it is a
joint venture with the city of
Greensboro.", says Johnson.
Johnson has also noticed an is-sue
of campus safety, an offset of
Want to Go?
SGA meets tonight
at 7 p.m. in
Claxton Room,
EUC
the construction. "Vice Chancel-lor
Disque and I have discussed
the need for a crosswalk from the
Rec. center to the Walker Aycock
Parking Lot due to heavy traffic
flow in that area. Since Walker
Ave. is a city street. Vice Chan-cellor
Disque and I are going to
encourage the city to expedite the
project as soon as possible", says
Johnson.
Johnson has also been in close
contact with the Director of Park-ing
Services Ken Honeycutt, to try
to find ways to make the campus
more userfriendly. She encourages
students to call Student Govern-ment
and parking services with
questions and problems concern-ing
parking.
The first Student Government
Association meeting is Tuesday,
August 26.1997 at 7pm in the
Claxton room of the EUC.
Johnson encourages all students to
come and take part in this impor-tant
decision making process, as
she hopes for a more involved stu-dent
body than ever before. "I
want SGA and UNCG as a whole
to be phenomenal!! I hope the stu-dents
of UNCG will be more in-volved
in the SGA by coming to
the meetings and participating in
the town meetings and other SGA
See SGA, Page 2
Attendents help alleviate parking problems
Natalie Watson
News Editor
UNCG Parking Services, along
with the city of Greensboro, now
offers additional services to stu-dents
to help alleviate the parking
crunch created by the general
hustle and bustle of the new school
year, along with the inconvenience
of the numerous construction
projects taking place on campus.
Temporary personnel have been
hired as lot attendants to help di-rect
cars to available spaces or to
other lots on campus.
In addition to the additional ser-vices,
the University has also been
advised by the city of Greensboro
that past due tickets held past
forty-five days will be assessed an
additional penalty of $25 over the
original fine.
The penalty amount for various
parking violations has also been
increased to $25, including ve-hicles
parked overtime in con-trolled
residential areas without
permit including, the UNCG area.
In another change that will af-fect
campus, local towing compa-nies
have raised their towing fees..
Students may also contact park-ing
services at 334-5681.
Geoffrey Gartner/THF CAROLINIAN
New parking lot attendants are being added to UNCG to help students find parking while campus is under con-struction.
VMI passes test of
sexual intergration
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP)—Vir-ginia
Military Institute cadet Chris
Craft expressed both mild surprise
and glowing pride as he described
how the first female recruits with-stood
their hellish first week.
It's too early for VMI to toast
success, one week into a hostile
initiation that lasts more than six
months.
The 158-year-old school that
fought so long and hard to keep
women out certainly appears to be
meeting the challenge of bringing
them with fairness and equality.
However, nearly a semester
passed before problems emerged
at the nation's other public mili-tary
college. The Citadel, where
two of the four female cadets
dropped out in January after they
were singled out for hazing.
"Most people had no idea what
was developing with those two
women," said Marsha
Greenberger. co-president of the
National Women's Law Center in
Washington.
VMI's Gothic campus, known
as the post, is a secluded society
that forbids new recruits, or "rats."
from talking to reporters.
"We don't know what is going
on behind the walls." said Val
Vojdik. a law professor who rep-resented
Shannon Faulkner when
she sued to enter The Citadel.
In the Justice Department's
lawsuit against VMI. the Supreme
Court ruled in June 1996 that the
state-supported colleges must ac-cept
women. VMI began planning
to integrate women at the same
time that alumni tried to raise
enough money to go private.
Superintendent Josiah Bunting
initially presumed an opponent of
coeducation was to blame for
dumping 30 dead laboratory rats
on VMI's drill field shortly before
the start of ritualized abuse known
as the "rat line."
It turned out to be a prank
pulled by a student at neighbor-ing
Washington & Lee University,
who apparently wanted to embar-rass
the rival school.
Women's groups also presumed
that Bunting was trying to dis-courage
women from entering
See VMI, Page 2
Annual Part-Time
Job Fair on August 27
On Wednesday August 27, the
Career Services Center will spon-sor
its eighth annual part-time Job
fair from lpm-4pm in Cone Ball-room
of the Elliott University Cen-ter.
Over 50 employers are ex-pected
to attend. Last year over
450 students attended and many
were offered jobs or internships on
the spot. Any questions regarding
the job fair, or specific employers
should be directed to the Career
Services Center at 334-5454.
UNCG to offer Grad
Preparation Courses
Four evening courses designed
to help students prepare to take
standardized tests for graduate
school admission will be offered
at UNCG during the first semes-ter.
A fee will be charged for each
of the review programs, which in-clude
the Graduate Record Exami-nation
(GRE), and the Law School
Admissions Test (LSAT). Each of
the programs precede a fall test-ing
date. All sessions will be held
on campus. Registration is through
the UNCG Division of Continual
Learning, at 334-5414.
N.C Women Writers
Festival to be Held
Sept. 19-20 at UNCG
The North Carolina Women
Writers Festival, a major celebra-tion
of published and aspiring
women authors from around the
state, will be held Friday and Sat-urday,
September 19-20. Approxi-mately
sixty writers will take part
in festival sessions. The Festival's
theme is "Inspiring New Literary
Voices."
Over the two days, the festival
will encompass fiction, poetry,
memoir, biography and more. Par-ticipants
and facilitators include
nationally known authors as well
as regionally known writers.
Opening keynote speaker for the
festival will be Susan Cahill of
Fordham University.
Director of the festival is
Katherine Mille. former director of
the UNCG Women's Studies Pro-gram.
Co-sponsors of the festival are
Barnes &Noble and the Greens-boro
"News and Record." Regis-tration
details are available by call-ing
the office at 334-5414 or toll
free at 1-800-306-9033.
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