The Carolinian [August 23, 2004]

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IN THIS ISSUE
GET OUT OF HERE!
UNCG's study abroad
program lets students see
the world while earning
college credit.
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WEEKEND CALENDAR
Don't go home; find cool
stuff to do in Greensboro.
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GET YOURSELF OFF
(CAMPUS, THAT IS)...
Fine art at your fingertips:
The Weatherspoon Art
Museum.
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FIRST ROUND
KNOCKOUT
UNCG golfer Nick Baker
misses the cut at the U.S.
Amateur tournament by
one shot.
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HELLO STUDENTS,
GOODBYE SAFE SEX
At this year's new student
convocation, the keynote
speaker preached absti-nence
and avoided the
word "condom." Are we
trying to lose the battle
with HIV/AIDS?
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DIRECTORY
Arts & Entertainment 4
Classifieds 10
Comics 5
Opinions 6
Sports 8
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Students return; Fall Kickoff marks start of classes
Carolinian staff
Students returned to campus early
this month - and in staggering num-bers.
While the final figures aren't
yet confirmed, this year's freshmen
class is estimated to be a record -
with the school's total enrollment
swelling to more than 15,000 stu-dents.
Move-in was a bit smoother this
year than last, with the construction
to College Avenue finally complete.
The street was opened to cars for
move-in, but with the beginning of
classes has returned to allowing
pedestrian traffic only.
Students moving into the eight
story "high rise" dorms had it rough
during move-in - with new construc-tion
preventing any street access to
the Grogan, Reynolds and Cone
buildings. Students moving into
those dorms were directed to the
Mclver parking deck, carrying their
things along a cleared path to their
new buildings.
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Jack Bonney, General manager at campus radio station WUAG greets students at the station's
booth at Fall Kickoff. WUAG was one of approximately 90 student groups lining College Ave.
Minerva joins University logo
Roman goddess of wisdom, traditionally associated with UNCG, becomes
official symbol; design based on statue donated last year by Class of 1953
Carolinian staff
UNCG students will be more
widely represented by a new yet
familiar face beginning this school
year. An updated logo featuring
Minerva, the Roman goddess of wis-dom,
will be added to our official
school logo - which, until now, was
simply the University's name in blue
and gold.
The renovated logo features an
image of Minerva over a blue and
gold shield and will be featured on
official university stationary, busi-ness
cards and in UNCG publications
to accompany the current school
motto, "Inspire. Change."
Associated with UNCG since first
appearing on diplomas issued in
1894, schoil officials said that main-taining
a consistent visual identity
communicates UNCG's essential val-ues
to audiences on campus, in the
Triad and throughout the eastern
region. The idea of being grounded
in the past and reaching toward the
future, the symbol of Minerva
emphasizes UNCG's mission of
scholarship and enlightenment.
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The hope is that a consistently
presented image will aid in attract-ing
the best students, faculty and
funds by reflecting values of dis-tinction,
strength and, most impor-tantly,
unity.
Design for the new trademark
was largely based on a statue donat-ed
last year by the Class of 1953.
This stone representation of
Minerva can be seen standing
watch between the Elliot University
Center and College Avenue.
The updated 2004-2005
logo (bottom) features
more color and detail
than the older model
(top). The shield with
Minerva's image was
inspired by the statue
(right) standing between
the Elliot University
Center and College
Avenue, a gift from the
Class Of 1953.
Slowly, UNCG enters the Wi-Fi age
Will Avers
Staff Writer
Wireless Internet hot spots are pop-ping
up all around UNCG There's
one at Kinko's on Tate St., and the
Center City Park downtown is rolling
out free Wi-Fi service later this
month. But what about the universi-ty?
Shouldn't UNCG be hopping on
the wireless bandwagon?
Indeed, it already has. In fact, the
entire EUC is Wi-Fi accessible,
excluding a few corners on the sec-ond
floor. That means anyone with a
Wi-Fi equipped laptop can sit down
anywhere in the building or at one of
the tables out front and send email,
check the news, or just surf the web.
The reason UNCG's foray into the
wireless age has been a secret is
essentially financial. The EUC has
been Wi-Fi ready since it was reno-vated
in 2002, but the IT department
doesn't have the money to provide
adequate technical support, said
Chuck Curry, director of networks
for UNCG
"There's not been a whole lot of
background work on individual
devices to see what works and what
doesn't," he said. The rollout of
Spart.niM.nl. UNCG's new email
service, has also sapped resources
from the EUC Wi-Fi project, which
will not be fully operational until
after classes start.
That means students can log on,
but if the system has problems,
"you'll just have to wait until they can
fix it," said Curry.
Curry said he plans to have an IT
employee at the EUC information
desk sometime this fall to help stu-dents
with Wi-Fi questions or techni-cal
problems.
To use the network, students need
a laptop equipped with an 802.11 b or
g compliant WiFi card. The network
is available 24 hours a day but is for
Web access only: That means pro-grams
such as Kazaa will not work.
Access to the network requires a
UNCG Novell user name and pass-word.
Besides the EUC. the Bryan build-ing
will be WiFi ready this fall, but
only for graduate students. The
school of business has requested the
technology because of its new day-time
master's program classes, which
will put as many as 50 students in one
room. As there are no labs large
enough to hold that many students,
the only way to provide Internet
access across the board is through
Wi-Fi equipped laptops
Wireless Internet access is similar
to traditional high-speed access. In
both cases, digital information is
transmitted via telephone or cable
wires to a DSL or cable modem. (Wi-
Fi does not work with dial-up
modems.) With Wi-Fi, digital infor-mation
goes from the modem through
a wireless router, which converts it
into beeps on the 2.4GHz radio fre-quency.
The beeps are picked up by a
computer with a Wi-Fi card and con-verted
back into digital information.
The whole process is similar to
walkie-talkies.
Curry said there are no plans to
expand Wi-Fi beyond the EUC and
the Bryan building, but added that the
university could adopt the technolo-gy
for widespread use.
"It really depends on what the uni-versity
wants to do with it," he said.
"If the faculty say. We want it in the
classrooms,' that means it gets in all
the classrooms and public areas by
default."
Wi-Fi in the classroom would
reduce the need for large computer
labs by making Web access available
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Campaigns
reach out to
young voters
By Gavin Lesnick
Knight Ridder Newspapers
(KRT)
When incoming freshman pull into
their dorm parking lots for the first
time at the University of California
at Berkeley, they will be greeted by a
swarm of loud, clipboard-wielding
upperclassmen with one thing in
mind: registering as many students as
possible to vote in the November
election.
Kalin McKenna, who will be a
senior at UC-B in the fall, has been
active in registering both students
and citizens since her sophomore
year. This year, she said there is an
added energy toward mobilizing the
younger population - people aged 18
to 24 - because in an election promis-ing
to be close, new voters could
make all the difference.
"We're such an untapped resource
with so much power behind us," she
said. "We could be the deciding fac-tor
in the election, and that's excit-ing."
McKenna is not alone in her
efforts. In addition to similar commu-nity-
based programs at college cam-puses
across the country, this election
is witness to the largest national
youth voting campaign ever.
Nonpartisan groups like Rock the
Vote. Smackdown the Vote, the New
Voters Project and others will spend
an estimated $40 million to publicize
their messages. I .ikeminded groups
are blanketing television, radio sta-tions
and billboards with advertise-ments
and Cingular Wireless cus-tomers
can even begin the registra-tion
process through their cell
phones.
Rock the Vote, one of the largest
organizations, works to register new
voters through an alliance of hun-dreds
of entertainment icons preach-ing
the same message, running the
gamut from popular bands
(Aerosmith, Dave Matthews Band) to
actors and comedians (Ben Stiller,
David Spade) to sports stars (Drew
Bledsoe). Through partnerships with
MTV. BET and Time Warner, Rock
the Vote has registered 400,000 vot-ers
so far and will register 600,000
more before the election.
Washington, DC. Rock the Vote
Director Hans Riemer said the
group's efforts are empowering
young people to choose the president.
"The elections are so tight and the
public is so split and people know
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