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Thursday,
November 14,1996
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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."
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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
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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
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"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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