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e larolinian N8tc &.1 News I -4 / Arts and Leisure 5 Sports 6/Class!fleds 7 ^^^^^^T The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 Fix-(910) 334-3518 Online http://carolinianuncg.edu/ Thursday, November 14,1996 Romeo and Juliet: See the Review, Page 5 Men's Soccer Rankings: See the Story, Page 6 Bryan students gather for advising Natalie Watson Senior News Writer Students in the Bryan School of Business and Economics noticed a new method for advising when they received registration materi-als for the spring semester. In an effort to make advising more pleasant and cost effective for stu-dents, the Undergraduate Advis-ing Department of the Bryan School has devised a new and, hopefully, quicker method to ad-vise students. In the past, two students were seen by an advisor every fifteen minutes. If an appointment ran be-hind, every student with an ap-pointment on that day would be behind, so in some cases students would wait 1-2 hours to be ad-vised. Under the new system, ten of the same majors are taken in to a room every hour. The students hear a brief overview and an-nouncements and then they each see a faculty advisor individually. Pam Cash, head of Undergradu-ate Advising for the Bryan School, explains the advantages of Aca-demic Advising's method: "Those who are ready and only need a sig-nature are in and out in ten min-utes, and those who need a little more time - their maximum wait is an hour, and it usually does not take that long." Appointment books are placed by major in the Bryan building for students to sign up for a suitable time. For students without ap-pointments, the opportunity for a walk-in advising session is avail-able with the knowledge that with-out an appointment, you must wait until all students with appoint-ments are taken care of. Student response is mixed on the new system. Marcus Johnson, junior Marketing/Management major, feels that the "advising" session was not individualized enough. "They want you to come in there with your whole schedule already made out," said Johnson, "I thought the point of advising was to help with scheduling. I just did not feel that the session was individually focused." On the other hand, Derek Artis, also a Marketing/Management major, summed the new system up as "quick, easy, and helpful." According to Cash, except for a few minor glitches such as the issue of walk-ins, the system has been positively received by fac-ulty and students in the Bryan School. "This was just a trial run, we will probably use this plan next semester, but we are asking stu-dents to evaluate their experience so that we can get their input, be-fore we make any definite plans," said Cash. Crystal Barnes, a junior Infor-mation Systems and Operations Management major really did not notice a difference between advis-ing this year and in past years." I felt like the advising session was positive. I did not wait long and I felt like I received enough per-sonal attention. With the Bryan School being so big, with so many students, I feel that this is a very time effective way to handle ad-vising." # 2 in the Nation. Liz <.ill.-M.-/I III CAROLINIAN Spartan midfielder Mark Pinch races toward the ball. The UNCG men's soccer team is second in this week's National Coaches Poll. UNCG will host Furmanon Saturday at 7 pm in an NCAA play-in game. Caught in the Web Kerrie Koslowe Staff Writer The Internet currently serves as a valuable tool for students and faculty. The growth of this me-dium has spurred the creation of UNCG's World Wide Web Advi-sory Board, which guides the University's Web development and its products. The World Wide Web Advisory Board (WAB) was created in No-vember 1995. The Board is devis-ing an approach to structuring the UNCG homepage that includes responsibility for content organi-zation, graphic design, informa-tional management and calendar-ing, and other issues pertinent to the University's image on the World Wide Web (WWW). The Board also develops policies, pro-cedures and guidelines for the cre-ation of UNCG-affiliated pages for distribution to campus Web developers. Dr. Dana Sally, Associate Direc-tor of Jackson Library and WAB co-chair, said WAB is in charge of design and policy considerations. WAB makes recommendations to the UNCG site. They have al-ready designed the front page and determined the hierachy of infor-mation included on that page, while making sure the depart-ments are represented with infor-mation that is consistent and rec-ognized. "WAB creates and designs for the front page," said Sally, "Our charge was to come up with a de-sign for the homepage." After cre-ating the design, they decide what sort of level to go to from there. The current homepage is the Uni-versity homepage. The WAB has completed Jackson Library's homepage as well, which is also one of the links to other sites. The library sends webbers out to news-papers and other academic sites. The Board cannot control what is available on the other sites, but it can control what is relevant; they back up the promise that users will get the relative information when you click on a particular link. Miriam Barkley. Director of the University Publications Office and WAB co-chair, said that UNCG's new page is up now, but only as a prototype, which means See WAB, Page 2 UNCG undergoes extensive surgery to meet expanding need Chris Binkowski Staff Writer The University of North Caro-lina at Greensboro is growing in a number of ways. While the num-ber of students continue to rise, many facilities are becoming cramped and outdated. Current construction projects are sched-uled to meet the University's ex-panding needs. The Carolinian had the opportuntunity to interview Dave Lumpkin, Associate Director of Facilities at UNCG, to clarify what construction will take place on campus. Lumpkin first noted that the process of expanding is certainly not an easy one. "This campus has a general architectural look. Most Weather Outlook Thursday: Possible freezing rain High 45 Low 31 Friday: J Partly cloudy High 46 Low 27 Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the buildings are around three to five stories. In addition, there is a lot of open space on this cam-pus," he said, "The university did not want to build buildings that would change the appearance of the campus or take away all the green space on campus. A plan was made that would allow the university to expand classroom space by 30 percent. The buildings in the plan will fit the current ar-chitecture of the school and the open spaces will still be around. "The plan will change the park-ing on campus. The vast majority of parking will be in parking decks; most of the existing surface lots will be built over." According to Lumpkin, all con-struction projects for this campus are detailed in a master plan. A master plan for a college campus is somewhat unusual, but this campus has benefitted from plan-ning. The first master plan for this campus was drawn up in 1983. It was a ten-year plan that outlined the needs of the UNCG at that time. The plan was tentative; not all the projects listed on the plan were ever built. However, every-thing that has been constructed since 1983 on this campus is in-cluded in that original plan. The plan has seemed to worked very well for the university so far. How-ever, the University and its needs * ^*"" "— CeolfreyCrtnermitcABJ "The'university did not want to build buildings that would change the appearance of the campus or take away all the green space on campus. A plan was made that would allow the university to expand classroom space by 30 percent. The buildings in the plan will fit the current architecture of the school and the open spaces will still be around," said Dave Lumpkin, Associate Director of Facilities at UNCG. . have changed. In 1991, the process was initi-ated to revise the original plan. Lumpkin said the University Plan-ning Council has been a very im-portant organization to the plan-ning process. The council looks at the mission statement of the Uni-versity and determines what con-struction projects need to occur for the University to fulfill it's mis-sion. "The process is a long, involved one," stated Lumpkin, "Everyone's input is needed." Lumpkin points out that many stu-dents are frustrated in their deal-ings with the current problems of the campus. Many possible solu-tions were discussed, but the none of them could have been imple-mented until long after the con- See Construction, Page 4 Issue 21, Volume 76 DNC orders all staff to save fund-raising documents Ken Fireman Times/Post News Service WASHINGTON—The Demo-cratic National Committee, under fire for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in question-able contributions, has ordered its staff to preserve all fund-raising records in preparation for an in-vestigation by a new Justice De-partment task force. The task force has not yet re-quested any material from the committee or interviewed any staff members, DNC Chairman Donald Fowler said Tuesday. But he said the committee's general counsel circulated a memo to all staffers "just within the last day or two" directing that all fund-rais-ing documents and records be pre-served in case investigators ask for them. The task force was established last month in response to requests from reform advocates and mem-bers of Congress seeking an inde-pendent counsel to investigate al-legations of fund-raising abuse by both major political parties and their presidential campaigns. A Justice Department spokes-man, Burt Brandenburg, said the task force consists of "at least a handful" of career prosecutors from the public integrity section of the Criminal Division. He said it will report to Lee Radek, the chief of the public integrity sec-tion. Brandenburg said establishment of the task force was mainly an "organizational" move to marshal existing resources within the de-partment, not to add new ones. But he added: "It's certainly a reflec-tion of the seriousness that we're according to the charges." A senior official of Common Cause, a reform advocacy group that had requested appointment of an independent counsel, hailed the creation of the task force as an important step forward. "The questions we raised are not being dismissed," said Donald Simon, the group's general counsel. "They're being investigated within the Criminal Division." In its complaint. Common Cause accused both major parties and presidential nominees of vio-lating campaign-finance laws. But most public attention has been fo-cused on the DNC, which in re-cent days has returned 10 contri-butions totaling about $762,000 that it acknowledges were im-proper, and on its now-suspended fund-raiser John Huang. Fowler later said that Huang had raised about $2.5 million. In addressing those allegations publicly for the first time. Fowler Tuesday conceded that he and other party officials made "seri-ous" mistakes in accepting tainted contributions from foreign com-panies and other inappropriate sources. But he insisted that no one had intended to violate the law and that the committee has estab-lished new procedures to screen future contributions. Much of the news conference was notable for what Fowler did not disclose. For example, he re-vealed that more contributions to the committee are under internal review for possible improprieties and might be returned. But he at first declined to say how many or what amounts were involved, say-ing he did not know. He later re- See Documents, Page 4 _____^_______
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Title | The Carolinian [November 14, 1996] |
Date | 1996-11-14 |
Editor/creator | Whitlow, Jeff |
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Newspapers College student newspapers and periodicals-- North Carolina--Greensboro Student publications--North Carolina--Greensboro Student activities--North Carolina--History |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The November 14, 1996, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Full text | e larolinian N8tc &.1 News I -4 / Arts and Leisure 5 Sports 6/Class!fleds 7 ^^^^^^T The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 Fix-(910) 334-3518 Online http://carolinianuncg.edu/ Thursday, November 14,1996 Romeo and Juliet: See the Review, Page 5 Men's Soccer Rankings: See the Story, Page 6 Bryan students gather for advising Natalie Watson Senior News Writer Students in the Bryan School of Business and Economics noticed a new method for advising when they received registration materi-als for the spring semester. In an effort to make advising more pleasant and cost effective for stu-dents, the Undergraduate Advis-ing Department of the Bryan School has devised a new and, hopefully, quicker method to ad-vise students. In the past, two students were seen by an advisor every fifteen minutes. If an appointment ran be-hind, every student with an ap-pointment on that day would be behind, so in some cases students would wait 1-2 hours to be ad-vised. Under the new system, ten of the same majors are taken in to a room every hour. The students hear a brief overview and an-nouncements and then they each see a faculty advisor individually. Pam Cash, head of Undergradu-ate Advising for the Bryan School, explains the advantages of Aca-demic Advising's method: "Those who are ready and only need a sig-nature are in and out in ten min-utes, and those who need a little more time - their maximum wait is an hour, and it usually does not take that long." Appointment books are placed by major in the Bryan building for students to sign up for a suitable time. For students without ap-pointments, the opportunity for a walk-in advising session is avail-able with the knowledge that with-out an appointment, you must wait until all students with appoint-ments are taken care of. Student response is mixed on the new system. Marcus Johnson, junior Marketing/Management major, feels that the "advising" session was not individualized enough. "They want you to come in there with your whole schedule already made out," said Johnson, "I thought the point of advising was to help with scheduling. I just did not feel that the session was individually focused." On the other hand, Derek Artis, also a Marketing/Management major, summed the new system up as "quick, easy, and helpful." According to Cash, except for a few minor glitches such as the issue of walk-ins, the system has been positively received by fac-ulty and students in the Bryan School. "This was just a trial run, we will probably use this plan next semester, but we are asking stu-dents to evaluate their experience so that we can get their input, be-fore we make any definite plans," said Cash. Crystal Barnes, a junior Infor-mation Systems and Operations Management major really did not notice a difference between advis-ing this year and in past years." I felt like the advising session was positive. I did not wait long and I felt like I received enough per-sonal attention. With the Bryan School being so big, with so many students, I feel that this is a very time effective way to handle ad-vising." # 2 in the Nation. Liz <.ill.-M.-/I III CAROLINIAN Spartan midfielder Mark Pinch races toward the ball. The UNCG men's soccer team is second in this week's National Coaches Poll. UNCG will host Furmanon Saturday at 7 pm in an NCAA play-in game. Caught in the Web Kerrie Koslowe Staff Writer The Internet currently serves as a valuable tool for students and faculty. The growth of this me-dium has spurred the creation of UNCG's World Wide Web Advi-sory Board, which guides the University's Web development and its products. The World Wide Web Advisory Board (WAB) was created in No-vember 1995. The Board is devis-ing an approach to structuring the UNCG homepage that includes responsibility for content organi-zation, graphic design, informa-tional management and calendar-ing, and other issues pertinent to the University's image on the World Wide Web (WWW). The Board also develops policies, pro-cedures and guidelines for the cre-ation of UNCG-affiliated pages for distribution to campus Web developers. Dr. Dana Sally, Associate Direc-tor of Jackson Library and WAB co-chair, said WAB is in charge of design and policy considerations. WAB makes recommendations to the UNCG site. They have al-ready designed the front page and determined the hierachy of infor-mation included on that page, while making sure the depart-ments are represented with infor-mation that is consistent and rec-ognized. "WAB creates and designs for the front page," said Sally, "Our charge was to come up with a de-sign for the homepage." After cre-ating the design, they decide what sort of level to go to from there. The current homepage is the Uni-versity homepage. The WAB has completed Jackson Library's homepage as well, which is also one of the links to other sites. The library sends webbers out to news-papers and other academic sites. The Board cannot control what is available on the other sites, but it can control what is relevant; they back up the promise that users will get the relative information when you click on a particular link. Miriam Barkley. Director of the University Publications Office and WAB co-chair, said that UNCG's new page is up now, but only as a prototype, which means See WAB, Page 2 UNCG undergoes extensive surgery to meet expanding need Chris Binkowski Staff Writer The University of North Caro-lina at Greensboro is growing in a number of ways. While the num-ber of students continue to rise, many facilities are becoming cramped and outdated. Current construction projects are sched-uled to meet the University's ex-panding needs. The Carolinian had the opportuntunity to interview Dave Lumpkin, Associate Director of Facilities at UNCG, to clarify what construction will take place on campus. Lumpkin first noted that the process of expanding is certainly not an easy one. "This campus has a general architectural look. Most Weather Outlook Thursday: Possible freezing rain High 45 Low 31 Friday: J Partly cloudy High 46 Low 27 Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the buildings are around three to five stories. In addition, there is a lot of open space on this cam-pus," he said, "The university did not want to build buildings that would change the appearance of the campus or take away all the green space on campus. A plan was made that would allow the university to expand classroom space by 30 percent. The buildings in the plan will fit the current ar-chitecture of the school and the open spaces will still be around. "The plan will change the park-ing on campus. The vast majority of parking will be in parking decks; most of the existing surface lots will be built over." According to Lumpkin, all con-struction projects for this campus are detailed in a master plan. A master plan for a college campus is somewhat unusual, but this campus has benefitted from plan-ning. The first master plan for this campus was drawn up in 1983. It was a ten-year plan that outlined the needs of the UNCG at that time. The plan was tentative; not all the projects listed on the plan were ever built. However, every-thing that has been constructed since 1983 on this campus is in-cluded in that original plan. The plan has seemed to worked very well for the university so far. How-ever, the University and its needs * ^*"" "— CeolfreyCrtnermitcABJ "The'university did not want to build buildings that would change the appearance of the campus or take away all the green space on campus. A plan was made that would allow the university to expand classroom space by 30 percent. The buildings in the plan will fit the current architecture of the school and the open spaces will still be around," said Dave Lumpkin, Associate Director of Facilities at UNCG. . have changed. In 1991, the process was initi-ated to revise the original plan. Lumpkin said the University Plan-ning Council has been a very im-portant organization to the plan-ning process. The council looks at the mission statement of the Uni-versity and determines what con-struction projects need to occur for the University to fulfill it's mis-sion. "The process is a long, involved one," stated Lumpkin, "Everyone's input is needed." Lumpkin points out that many stu-dents are frustrated in their deal-ings with the current problems of the campus. Many possible solu-tions were discussed, but the none of them could have been imple-mented until long after the con- See Construction, Page 4 Issue 21, Volume 76 DNC orders all staff to save fund-raising documents Ken Fireman Times/Post News Service WASHINGTON—The Demo-cratic National Committee, under fire for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in question-able contributions, has ordered its staff to preserve all fund-raising records in preparation for an in-vestigation by a new Justice De-partment task force. The task force has not yet re-quested any material from the committee or interviewed any staff members, DNC Chairman Donald Fowler said Tuesday. But he said the committee's general counsel circulated a memo to all staffers "just within the last day or two" directing that all fund-rais-ing documents and records be pre-served in case investigators ask for them. The task force was established last month in response to requests from reform advocates and mem-bers of Congress seeking an inde-pendent counsel to investigate al-legations of fund-raising abuse by both major political parties and their presidential campaigns. A Justice Department spokes-man, Burt Brandenburg, said the task force consists of "at least a handful" of career prosecutors from the public integrity section of the Criminal Division. He said it will report to Lee Radek, the chief of the public integrity sec-tion. Brandenburg said establishment of the task force was mainly an "organizational" move to marshal existing resources within the de-partment, not to add new ones. But he added: "It's certainly a reflec-tion of the seriousness that we're according to the charges." A senior official of Common Cause, a reform advocacy group that had requested appointment of an independent counsel, hailed the creation of the task force as an important step forward. "The questions we raised are not being dismissed," said Donald Simon, the group's general counsel. "They're being investigated within the Criminal Division." In its complaint. Common Cause accused both major parties and presidential nominees of vio-lating campaign-finance laws. But most public attention has been fo-cused on the DNC, which in re-cent days has returned 10 contri-butions totaling about $762,000 that it acknowledges were im-proper, and on its now-suspended fund-raiser John Huang. Fowler later said that Huang had raised about $2.5 million. In addressing those allegations publicly for the first time. Fowler Tuesday conceded that he and other party officials made "seri-ous" mistakes in accepting tainted contributions from foreign com-panies and other inappropriate sources. But he insisted that no one had intended to violate the law and that the committee has estab-lished new procedures to screen future contributions. Much of the news conference was notable for what Fowler did not disclose. For example, he re-vealed that more contributions to the committee are under internal review for possible improprieties and might be returned. But he at first declined to say how many or what amounts were involved, say-ing he did not know. He later re- See Documents, Page 4 _____^_______ |
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