The Carolinian [August 30, 2004]

              IN THIS ISSUE
BEHIND THE UNE8
Former POW Shoshana
Johnson to speak at
UNCG Sept. 7 as part of
Human Rights Week.
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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)...
Free programs from the
School of Music
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ANTE UP
It gets good ratings...but is
poker a sport?
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TATTOOED DOWN
SOUTH
When you're in love with
your body art, does it mat-ter
what the world thinks?
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DIRECTORY
Arts & Entertainment 4
Classifieds 10
Comics 5
Opinions 6
Sports 8
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SGA to focus on voter registration drives this Fall
Kathryn Kennedy
News Editor
The importance of increasing voter
registration at UNCG played an enor-mous
role in this semester's "State of
the Campus Address," which was
presented by Student Government
Association President Dare Edelman
Tuesday night.
"We are responsible to register fel-low
students, friends and loved ones
to vote in November," Edelman
explained in her speech to a crowded
Alumni House. "When we don't vote,
we give them permission to make
laws that are student-unfriendly."
SGA plans to be highly active in
encouraging voter registration this
year by setting up drives around cam-pus
and tables with information on
voting and candidates. They are cur-rently
looking for volunteers to man
drives and registration forms are cur-rently
available on campus through
SGA and Jackson Library.
Edelman was emphatic about
needing the youth represented this
November, and praised organizations
that have already conducted registra-tion
drives of their own.
"We've (various affiliated groups)
probably registered almost 100 stu-dents
already," she said, and added
that though they've set no official
goal, SGA hopes to register "as many
as we can."
Edelman also made a point to
highlight her appreciation of the
many physical changes occurring
across campus. She said the
enhanced UNCG logo, featuring the
Roman goddess Minerva on a blue
and yellow shield, will serve to "unite
current Spartans and alumni."
Amid ongoing campus construc-tion,
Edelman said she anxiously
anticipates repairs on the fountain in
the Atrium plaza drawing to a close.
"We watched it change from stu-dent
center landmark to dried up pit,"
Edelman said of her frustration and
decision to push for its renovation.
The fountain has not been opera-tion
since last fall, when it was shut
off because of drought. SGA has
planned a celebration for the estimat-ed
completion date at the end of
September.
Finally, Edelman urged freshman
to get involved in SGA and the vari-ety
of extra-curricular activities
available on campus this semester.
SGA is currently taking nominations
for freshman senators online by
clicking on the "Freshman Elections"
link at sga.uncg.edu.
UNCG's SGA meets every
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the EUC.
Annual job fair attracts hundreds
Greensboro employers want YOU....for part-time jobs
Charla Duncan
Staff Writer
Dozens of local companies in and
around Greensboro and the Triad area
assembled in the Elliott University
Center's Cone Ballroom for
Wednesday's Part-Time Job Fair.
The Career Services annual event
gladly welcomed a variety of busi-nesses
anxious to recruit eager and
ambitious students looking for some
extra cash.
Guests represented a variety of
establishments, ranging from Chik-
Fil-A to Mary Kay and Enterprise
Rent-A-Car. UNCG also represented
a percentage of on-campus jobs
through ARAMARK Dining
Services and Disability Services.
While there, students were able to
talk availability and criterion with
representatives from each employer.
A student rest area was provided as a
place to sit and fill out applications
and information sheets for desired
jobs.
When asked what they look for in
their applicants, UPS stressed dedica-tion
and reliability. Jason Scon and
Sarah Poole, representatives of Green
BROOKE KEMP / THE CAROLINIAN
The Walt Disney College Program is a steady force at UNCG's annual
Part-Time Job Fair. Carolyn Green (right) explained their requirements
to students throughout the day, including Charlena Hogue, junior (left).
Valley Grill and UNCG Speech
Pathology and Hospitality students
respectively, emphasized workplace
standards.
"A lot is based on smile factor,
communication skills, and the ability
to interact in a friendly and confident
manner," they agreed.
The typical student reaction was
positive, though there were a few
disappointed remarks on the small
percentage of on-campus jobs being
represented. Overall, employers
and prospective employees alike
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New email introduced at UNCG
Designed by Information Technology to meet everyone's needs, e-Spartan
has recieved mixed reviewsfrom the student body.
Heather Purvis
Staff Writer
The Information Technology (IT)
group has been working almost non-stop
for the past year to put a new
email system in place, e-Spartan, to
better meet the needs of the entire
UNCG community.
Before the decision to change
email clients took place, there were
IS separate clients being used by
UNCG on two different platforms,
dealing with a mixture of technology
from Macs to PCs. Pipeline offered
little more than basic e-mail service
to those who used it. There was no
SPAM filter in place, and of the 2.4
million e-mails processed in May
2004, 1.6 million of those were junk
mail.
IT officials said it became very
clear that a single enterprise mail sys-tem
would be needed. It needed to be
able to handle encrypted mail and
SPAM filtering. It also needed to
accommodate the legal responsibili-ties
of the university to assure deliv-ery
of e-mail and to comply with
email retention laws. For example,
the retention laws do not allow the
university to delete any e-mail that is
considered a public record. Up to this
point, there had been no real capabil-ity
by the e-mail systems to handle
this kind of archiving.
To deal with these matters, a task
force was assembled, composed of
staff, faculty, administrators and
department heads. They met for a
year, discussing what was desired in
a new e-mail system and what prod-ucts
would best meet those needs. In
the end, they chose the Lotus system.
According to Jeanie Roberts-
Wyatt, IT's project manager for e-
Spartan, the migration to the Lotus
system has been going on for over a
year.
"This is profound. It is the most
serious work IT has ever done," she
said in an interview on Thursday.
She explained that it was only
through a collaboration of students,
faculty, and staff that e-Spartan was
able to get up and running. The proj-ect
was put into place immediately
and was done in addition to the day-to-
day responsibilities of those
involved. They worked with other
Lotus users in the community, such
as Guilford College, to try and make
a smooth transition.
One of die biggest concerns
involved the capability to forward e-mails.
Roberts-Wyatt admits that it
was one of the toughest decisions
they made. Due to the university's
need to guarantee email delivery,
however, the forwarding service was
nixed. Student reactions to this are
varied.
"I despise it because I can't for-ward
my emails," says Josh Pegram,
senior.
Junior Paola Savvidou says that
the system is "both good and bad.
Some email was lost in the transfer
(from UNCG accounts to outside
accounts), but most classes rely on
email, and it's a pain to have to check
more than one account."
The majority of the feedback to
IT's office has been overwhelmingly
positive, according to the staff, and
Roberts-Wyatt feels the system "will
best suit us all, especially the stu-dents."
Questions concerning e-Spartan can be
answeredat http://newemaiLuncg.edu/.
T-shirts honor
victims of
sexual assault
Jeanna Covington
Staff Writer
Walking down College Avenue
last week! one had to be curious as to
why there were colorful t-shirts hang-ing
from a clothesline in front of the
library.
That clothesline, however, was not
just hanging t-shirts, but upholding
the strength and courage of many vic-tims
and survivors of sexual assault
and domestic abuse.
The Clothesline Project was start-ed
in 1990 by a woman's group in
Massachusetts. The concept was to
hang out America's dirty laundry.
UNCG displayed its own during
Sexual Assault Awareness Week,
which ran Monday to Thursday last
week,
"The Clothesline Project allows
for people to tell their own personal
story or remember an act of violence
committed against them," stated
Jeanne Irwin-Olson, Assistant
Director for Wellness Program.
With this project, survivors of sex-ual
assault and domestic abuse were
given an opportunity to talk about
their experiences anonymously, and
to see they were not alone in their
grievances.
"After I read the first t-shirt, I felt
kind of sad. I understood how a lot of
the people felt. I could sympathize,"
said Stephanie Merrill, a survivor.
"This lets people know that abuse is a
common thing and should be report-ed."
The uncensored t-shirts spoke of
events experienced by the survivors
and also served as memorials for
those who did not survive.
"The shirts were left up through-out
the week because it is important
for people to see them. Some schools
take them down at night but we feel
that defeats the purpose," stated
Irwin-Olson.
Continued on page 2
BROOKE KEMP / THE CAROLINIAN
Junior Ashley Lowe (left) and senior Stephanie Merrill were two of the
many students who read the t-shirts representing surviviors and victims
of sexual assualt on display last week.