The Carolinian [October 19, 2000]

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VOLUME LXXX THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19,2000 ISSUE 6
Elliott Center on Schedule
By BRANDI TEW-JOHNSON
Slaff Writer
Clang. Bang. Clang. Will
the noise at the EUC building
ever stop? Bruce Michaels,
director of Student Life, says
construction of the new addi-tion
to the Elliott University
Center is "right on schedule."
The Elliott Renewal Project,
which began in February 2000,
is a $22 million project to ex-pand
and renovate the Elliott
Center. The EUC building first
opened in 1953 and has sur-vived
47 years. Over the years,
however, UNCG's population
has escalated and the building
can no longer support it. Phase
I of the Elliott Renewal Project
is halfway over and the new
addition to the Elliott Center
will open in May 2001. This
addition will expand west
across Forest St. and provide an
entrance to the EUC from Ster-ling
St. After the new addition
opens in May, the current EUC
building will shut down and
remain closed for renovation
until November 2001.
The new building will house
the Career Services Center re-located
from the Foust Build-ing,
and a new Student Com-mons,
which will serve as a
main entrance to the building.
Currently, the only dining op-tions
on campus arc located in
the Caf, Bryan Building, and
the Elliott Center food court.
The new food court located in
the Student Commons will con-tain
many new dining options,
such as Burger King. The
court as well as the bookstore,
which will be twice the size
of the old one, will be spread
across two levels. Also
housed in the building will he
a new 500-seat auditorium, a
multicultural resource room,
a meditation room, a new
game room, expanded meet-ing
rooms with state-of- thc-art
technology, a convenience
store, coffee shop, and much
more.
The new Elliott University
Center will also be more ac-cessible
for pedestrians. This
means no more walking
around the EUC to get to Col-lege
Avc. After the entire
project is completed, students
will be able to cut from Ster-ling
St. straight to College Ave.
in a matter of seconds.
As a whole, the rejuvenated
EUC building will serve many
new functions and solve many
old problems. The end result
will be able to "support the
UNCG community well into
the twenty-first century." "Al-though
the construction will be
an inconvenience for a while,
it will
be worth it when it is all over,"
says Michaels. For more in-formation
on the Elliot Re-newal
Project, visit its website:
http://euc.uncg.edu/
rcncwal.html.
Are You A Donkey or Elephant?
By JEREMY WHITE
Staff Writer
One surprising trend that has
evolved during the last quar-ter
of a century is the general
attitude ofapathy towards poli-tics.
The surprising part is that
only 30 years ago politics was
a hot topic not only among
adults but teenagers and young
adults as well. Politics was the
driving force of the countercul-ture
of the 1960s and early
1970s. In order to inform and
educate young voters, the
Carolinian has devoted much
attention to looking at both
parties' stances on some ma-jor
issues. This election year,
the Democratic and Republi-can
parties arc mainly focus-ing
on the issues of social se-curity,
healthcare, education,
and the economy.
Gore proposes saving Social
Security by devoting all Social
Security surpluses to get rid of
debt, using long-term interest
savings to strengthen Social
Security, and opposing efforts
to raise the retirement age.
Supposedly, these maneuvers
will save Social Security at
least until 2054. Gore's plan
to improve healthcare includes
expanding access to coverage,
strengthening Medicare by tak-ing
it off the budget, helping
seniors and disabled persons
afford their prescription drugs,
supporting the Patients' Bill of
Rights against HMO's, sup-porting
greater research of ter-minal
diseases, and protecting
abortion rights. Al Gore would
improve education by raising
standards and accountability.
He would hold schools respon-sible
by using state assessments
to identify failing schools and
turning them around. Al Gore
borrows this plan from our own
governor, Jim Hunt. Gore
would also invest SI 70 billion
in public schools and raise
teacher pay. A plan for making
college tuition tax-deductible
would also be in the works.
Finally, Gore would strengthen
the already solid economy by
allowing greater tax breaks.
This would stimulate the
economy even more.
On the other side of the
spectrum is George W. Bush.
Bush pledges to lead a bipar-tisan
effort to save Social Se-curity.
The difference be-tween
Bush and Gore is that
Bush would allow individuals
to invest their Social Security
taxes in personal retirement
accounts. Also, just like Gore,
Bush plans to strengthen
Medicare, drug plan options,
and aid senior citizens with
prescriptions. Bush also gives
individuals the option of
keeping their current
healthcare plans. Bush's
plans for improving education
include: regular school testing,
stopping funds for failing
schools, improving literacy,
and improving school safety.
Bush's plans for the economy
include cutting taxes, pursuing
free trade, and increasing ac-cessibility
to technology.
These are only a few issues
and proposals. For more infor-mation
on the candidates and
issues visit their websites:
www.algorc.com or
www.georgewbush.com -
AND REMEMBER TO
VOTE!!
UNCG Students Rock the Vote
By ERIKA HUGHES
Opinions Editor
Six UNCG students volun-teered
to "Rock the Vote" in
Winston-Salem, NC on
Wednesday, October 11. Be-fore
and during the second
presidential debate, Joanna Yu,
Latonya Lipscomb, Chris But-ler
and Greg Shealy volun-teered
at the Lawrence Joel
Veterans Memorial Coliseum,
joining students from Wake
Forest University and Salem
College. MTV's Rock the Vote
is a nonpartisan organization
whose goal is to increase voter
turnout for those between 18-
24 years of age. The students
registered attendees as young
as 18 and as old as 45 to vote
in the November election. "It
was a great experience that got
me excited about Election
Day," said senior and Univer-sity
Ambassador Chris Butler.
When asked about the impact
on his life as a registered voter,
Chris stated that, "being a fu-ture
history teacher I feel that
it is of vital importance to help
out in any way possible to help
America become more civic
minded."
The atmosphere at "Rock
the Vote" was lively, filled
with many area youth too
young to vote. There were
many that came to sec Daniel
Cage and Hootie and the
Blowfish perform. Rah
Digga and Pink were also
scheduled to appear, but can-celed
at the last minute, to the
dismay of many attendees.
The Winston-Salem event
was the largest to date for
"Rock the Vote." Sponsors
included Doritos and
cCampus.com, who distrib-uted
free food and products.
The concourse surrounding
the coliseum was filled with
candidates and representatives
from the Republican, Demo-cratic
and Libertarian parties
and special interest groups.
Libertarian presidential can-didate
Harry Browne spoke to
the crowd about what he called
the "ridiculous war on drugs,"
ending the death penalty, and
the faults inherent within the
two party system. Pat
Buchanan challenger Dr. John
Hagelin of the Reform Party
spoke on many of the same
topics, especially the injustice
he felt was committed by the
Debate Commission in deny-ing
many Americans the
chance to sec the third-party
See Rock it! p. 2
Where is CAB?
By ANTONIA ROMEO
Staff Writer
Throughout the history of
UNCG, the organization that
manages campus activities has
changed quite a bit and quite
often. Three years ago, the
Campus Activities Board was
dissolved and activities are
now planned by the Office of
Student Life. The Campus
Activities Board, or CAB was
a student-run organization that
handled the planning, book-ing,
marketing, and production
of campus events that would
be offered to all students. The
CAB was allocated funds
through a portion of student
fees. The president of the
CAB was elected as part ofthe
student body elections; how-ever,
members of the CAB
applied for their positions and
were interviewed by the out-going
chair. Now that the Of-fice
of Student Life has taken
over campus activities, their
responsibilities and goals re-main
the same as that of the
CAB., but the organization is
run by staff and not students.
The Assistant Director for Pro-gramming,
Charles Amerson,
is the person in charge of
events. He shares these duties
with student assistants who
apply for positions and are in-terviewed
by Mr. Amerson.
There were two main rea-sons
for the dissolution of the
CAB: finances and focus. The
finances ofthe Campus Activi-ties
Board were not well man-aged
and the budget was often
unbalanced. The focus of the
Board, which operated on the
traditional "students for stu-dents"
model, was not re-flected
in the Board or the
events it planned. Bruce
Michaels, Director of the Of-fice
of Student Life, hopes that
in the future the organization
will "evolve to include more
student participation."
UNCG Step
Show is a Success
By KIMBERLY MOORE
Staff Writer
The National Pan-Hellenic
Council (NPHC) put on a suc-cessful
step show Saturday,
September 30. The student or-ganizations
that participated in
the step show were the frater-nities
Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa
Alpha Psi, and Phi Beta
Sigma. Sororities involved
were Alpha Kappa Alpha,
Sigma Gamma Rho, and Zeta
Phi Beta.
The Cone Ballroom of the
Elliot University Center was
very crowded that night. Tick-ets
sold out quickly for the step
show. Students waited pa-tiently
to see the fraternities
and sororities perform.
"Keeper Records" Brandon
Foskcy of the Mu-Iota Chap-ter
ofKappa Alpha Psi said that
because of being nervous, he
didn't really think about how
the tickets would sell. "When
1 found out that the tickets were
sold out, it added more pres-sure",
Foskey said. When
asked how he felt about the
overall performance, Foskey
stated, "After all the commo-tion
of the tickets being sold
out, I think that all the perfor-mances
were very good. 1 be-lieve
that everyone was
See Step p. 2
Reflections of
the Debate (Part 1)
By MICHAEL J. SCAMMELL
Staff Writer
Last week I earned the op-portunity
to attend the second
presidential debate, hosted by
Wake Forest University. The
event was held in the campus'
Wait Chapel, which can only
be described as a presidential
setting. The Wake Forest cam-pus
was under strict security
control, with two out of three
entrances closed to all traffic.
Each entrance was armed with
camera surveillance. Anyone
entering the campus had to
have the appropriate identifi-cation.
Parking had to be re-arranged
in order to accommo-date
vehicles of media and se-curity
personnel who filled the
campus steadily as the night of
the debate approached. Al-though
the candidates arrived
only minutes before the event,
volunteers and staff had been
working tirelessly for weeks to
make it a success.
The reason I say that I earned
this opportunity was all of the
work that went into it. After
three days of sporadic phone
calls to the University, I finally
had the right to go on campus
to pick up a media pass. I tried
to enter Wake Forest through
the only open road off of Uni-versity
Parkway and was told
immediately to go to one ofthe
See Debate p. 2
INSIDE
THIS
ISSUE
Features, pages 4-5
CBS Soaps: Oct 9-13,
Free Love: The Martini,
The Life of Carl Thomas
Opinions, page 6-7
Freshmen Parking,
Out With the Attitude,
Campus Construction
Sports, page 8-9
Women's Soccer Shutout,
Men's Soccer Steak Ended,
How to Stop the St Louis Rams
...and
much