The Carolinian [March 15, 2011]

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The student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Established 1919
Vol. XCI No. 23 www.carolinianonline.com March 15 -March 21, 2011
Restructuring Committee announces final report
The proposed reconstruction is outlined by two possible plans for the university
James Nichols
News Editor
On Tuesday, March 1, the
UNCG community received an
e-mail from Chancellor Linda
Brady alerting faculty and stu­dents
to the presence of a final
"report on different options for
the new school or college" on
the university's Academic Re­structuring
website. The docu­ment
titled "Recommendations
for a New Academic Unit - Fi­nal
Report;' outlined the UNCG
Restructuring Committee's plan
to move programs and create
a new school around ihe field
of "health and human develop­ment:'
The 51-page document is
densely filled with important in­formation
for any member of the
UNCG community. For this rea­son,
The Carolinian composed a
summary, colloquially construct­ing
an outline of the document
for students that may not have
taken time to read it.
According to the document,
this restructuring process has
four overarching goals: "1) posi­tion
UNCG to respond to emerg­ing
disciplines/fields and the
hanging needs of the state and
nation, 2) to create an academ­ic
unit that builds on existing
strengths in health and human
development ... 3) to strengthen
the connection between graduate
As spring begins to bloom in North Carolina, major changes lie ahead for UNCG and the entire UNC System.
education and UNCG's research
mission, and 4) to enhance ad­ministrative
efficiencies in prep­aration
for significant budget
reductions:'
The first portion of the docu­I)
lent encompasses a breakdown
of the Restructuring Committee's
formation and their meetings
throughout the year. It informs
the reader that these meetings
have resulted in two final recom­mendations
for structuring the
new unit at UNCG, detailed in
this document. As stated: "One
option includes all HHP [Health
and Human Performance] and
all HES [Human Eilvironmen-tal
Sciences] departments except
Interior Architecture, as well as
the programs in Gerontology
and Genetic Counseling under
a single dean and administrative
staff. The other option is identi­cal
to the first but adds the School
of Nursing under the same Dean's
administration:' Coinciding
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The Blind Tiger moved from its old location on the corner of Walker and Elam to 1819 Spring Garden Street, be­tween
Mayflower and Chapman.
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Matthew Howard
.. Editor-in-Chief
The Blind Tiger has been a
UNCG staple on the corner of
Walker and Elam since 1988.
Now, 23 years after its estab­lishment,
the neighborhood bar
has moved to a new home along
Spring Garden Street.
Richard Donaldson, the Ti­ger's
General Manager, told The
Carolinian in a phone interview
that the move to the new venue
was to draw in not only regional
acts but national acts as well.
At the old venue, the Tiger was
able to draw national acts such as
The Ben Folds Five, Hootie and
the Blowfish, and Edwin Mc­Cain.
The Ben Folds Five show
was actually their first show
together.
Donalason commented that
Hootie and the Blowfish was one
of the biggest acts to ever come
through the Tiger.
"Either Ben Folds Five or Hoo-
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with this, the universityrecently
announced that Interior Archi­tecture
would be moving to the
College of Arts and Sciences.
The next portion of the docu­ment
individually discusses each
department that would be affect­ed
by the restructuring. The rea­son
why the committee believes
that each individual department
is justified in restructuring and
would fit under the umbrella
of "health and human develop­ment"
is examined and discussed.
Following this breakdown, the
committee offers an "underlying
philosophy of the structures:' It
is noted, "the proposed Struc­tures
reflect selected models of
academic reorganization while
also supporting UNCG's strategic
plan and building on strengths
in nursing, health, and human
development-related disciplines:'
Following this, the document
discusses the individual restruc­turing
models. As noted earlier,
"With the exception of Interior
Architecture, all HHP and HES
departments would be included
in the new unit with the addi­tion
of Gerontology and Genetic
Counseling Programs from the
Graduate School:' The commit­te.
e attributes the strengths of this
plan to be that the commonality
of theses programs allows for in-
SEE RESTRUCTURING, PAGE 2
Are science
and religion
compatible?: A
lecture
Laurel Nakkas
Staff Reporter
Are religion and science com­patible?
Dr. Richard Carrier
discussed this question and ulti­mately
stated that they can be, at
a lecture put on by UNCG's Athe­ists,
Agnostics, & Skeptics Club
on Wednesday, March 2.
Carrier, who holds a Ph.D in
ancient history from Columbia
University and who is an ardenr
defender of secular naturalism,
used his knowledge of history to
discuss how various ancient phi­losophers
approached both the
exploration of science and some
sort of belief in a higher power.
Among.these philosophers, Car­rier
discussed Democritus, He­rophilus
and Asclepiades, and
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