The Carolinian [September 7, 2004]

              IN THIS ISSUE
WORLD CRISIS
World news columnist
Andrew Weisbecker pres-ents
the facts on brutal
conflicts in Sudan.
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WEEKEND CALENDAR
Don't go home; find cool
stuff to do in Greensboro.
PAGE 2
QETTWIQ AROUND
TOWN
No car? Use the Greensboro
Transit Authority to get out
and about off campus.
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ACC GOES DOWN
UNCG men's soccer team
defeats Virginia Tech 2-1
in Wednesday's game.
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OHNO-A
REPUBLICAN!
Melissa Westmoreland
launches her column about
being a political minority
at UNCG
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DIRECTORY
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Opinions 6
Sports 8
Classifieds 10
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U.S. Senate candidate courts college vote at UNCG
DBVIN SINGLEY / THE CAROLINIAN
Coalition of Progressive Students President and Carolinian columnist
Jeff Elliott and Cameron Golden talk with I .S. Senate candidate Erskine
Bowles after Tuesday's speech in Aycock Auditorium.
Kathryn Kennedy
News Editor
An enthusiastic Erskine Bowles
spoke to a crowd of over 350 students
and guests Tuesday night, urging col-lege
students to get registered and
help him win a seat in the U.S. Senate
this November.
The Coalition for Progressive
Students and the College Democrats
teamed up to pack Aycock
Auditorium with minimum planning
time and "not one penny" from stu-dent
funds, said CPS president Jeff
Elliott.
"We only had a couple of weeks,"
said Elliott, who upon seeing that
Bowles had planned a college tour,
felt it was important that UNCG host
the candidate. "We organized it and
paid for the catering ourselves. We
were eligible (for funds) but chose to
take the higher road."
Bowles, a self-proclaimed advo-cate
for small business and "common
sense" solutions, is the democratic
candidate from North Carolina run-ning
against Republican candidate
Richard Burr. Despite his affiliation.
Where have all the
flyers gone?
Flyers are no longer permitted in residence halls
across campus by Housing and Residence Life.
Amanda Carl
Staff Writer
The residence halls have been
looking pretty bare lately, and with
good reason. Beginning this fall, the
Office of Housing and Residence
Life will no longer allow paper flyers
to be posted in residence halls.
Due to the number of students liv-ing
on campus, approximately 4,000,
there were just too many clubs and
organizations posting flyers through-out
the twenty-nine residence halls,
and not enough bulletin board space
to accommodate such an influx,
according to HRL director Guy
Sanders.
Also according to Sanders, when
students posted flyers elsewhere in
the halls, oftentimes the paint on the
walls was damaged.
This semester, the only organiza-tions
allowed to post flyers in the res-idence
halls are the Recycling Office
and the Wellness Center, and even
they are restricted to posting flyers in
bathroom stalls.
Sanders explained that although
some organizations may not under-stand
why they cannot have the same
privilege as the Recycling Office and
the Wellness Center, he has his rea-sons.
"These are long standing programs
that have been successful and do not
contribute to problems with paint
being taken off walls, and do not
impact bulletin board space," he said.
"Having said that, we are not looking
for additional programs to put flyers
up in the stalls."
With a policy that prevents stu-dents
from posting flyers in the dorm
hallways, many groups are left won-dering
where and how they can
spread the news about their clubs or
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DBVIN SINGLEY /THE CAROIJNIAN
Bowles took a vastly non-partisan
approach during Tuesday's speech.
"I'm excited to see youth get
involved in voting," he said, and
emphasized that his policies are "not
republican ideas or democratic ideas
- they're just good ideas. We need
someone who'll put politics aside, go
up there and use common sense solu-tions
to issues that are too big for pol-itics."
When a student asked during the
question and answer period, "What
are you going to do with Bush?"
Bowles paused and answered, "If he
wins, I'm going to work with him."
His main goal, Bowles said, was to
"put North Carolina first," and went
on to share his goals and campaign
platform for this election year.
Creating jobs was an issue that he
covered intensively, expressing the
topic as a major concern for college
students upon graduation.
"There are so many students grad-uating
and having to work jobs
they're over-qualified for," Bowles
said, taking a serious tone in his pre-viously
light-hearted speech. "We've
got to make sure when you get out of
here, that there are good jobs out
there."
He also highlighted his views on
the economy, the need for "a more
sensible trade policy," and extensive-ly
covered his feelings about health
care in the United States.
"I think we have the greatest
health care in the world, but the stu-pidest
delivery system," Bowles said.
"We only provide health care insur-ance
to 85 percent of our people. I
want to make sure every kid in this
country gets health care insurance."
The crowd reaction was over-whelmingly
positive throughout, and
Bowles agreed to answer individual
questions during the reception that
followed.
"I heard a lot of things I liked,"
said senior Diane Hutchinson. "He
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Push Pull (below), a local Greensboro band, performed live on-the-air
Sunday, Sept 28 at the WUAG station, followed by a broadcasted inter-view
with the band members.
JENNIE CREASSER / THE CAROLINIAN
WUAG to feature
live bands weekly
Sunday nights at 8 p.m., students can tune into
WUAG 103.1 FM and hear bands play live.
Zack Bridges
Sights like this flyer-ridden board outside of Mclver will be kept far from
the residence halls beginning this semester. HRL directorGuy Sanders is
urging students to use other forms of media, including Spartan TV,
which can be accessed fromevery dorm.
Staff Writer
For the first time in a long time
UNCG's radio station WUAG 103.1
FM will be having bands play live on
the air.
They first experimented with this
again toward the end of this summer,
two weeks before school started.
"The first show was a practice run.
just to see if it would work, but it
went well," said Jared Smith, WUAG
News Director.
Smith is the person responsible
for getting the equipment necessary
to produce the shows and get them up
and running.
"There is so much nice equipment
here but it is all broken," said Smith.
"I had to find out what worked and
what didn't work."
According to Smith, at one time
many rooms in the radio station were
set up to be recording studios, but
time and disuse resulted in much of
the equipment being in need of
repair.
It took smith two weeks to get the
necessary equipment operational, and
even now he continues to work on it.
"Something arises each week that
1 see I need to fix," Smith explained.
Though Smith has put in a lot of
hard work, he admits that he is not
alone in his efforts. Jack Bonny,
WUAG station manager, as well as
his credit students often help him out.
"I have good people helping me
out and it makes it so we can pull it
off," he said.
Now that everything is up and run-ning,
WUAG will be having bands
come and play live on a weekly basis.
The show will air on Sunday nights,
beginning at 8 p.m.
"It is really like hanging out with
the bands," said Smith. "The band
plays live and I get to interview
them."
Smith says that every show is dif-ferent
and is structured according to
the different bands that come and
play, but he added, "I try to get the
bands to play as long as they can. The
more live music the better."
A special show aired Sunday at S
p.m. with Battlemaster of Virginia
serving as the featured band.
Sunday Sept. 12 will exhibit the
electronic music of D.J. Pleaze and
One Eight Wheeler.
For more information, visit WUAG's
Website at www.uncg.edu/wua.
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