The Carolinian [August 28, 2003]

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IN THIS ISSUE
CAMPUS ADDITIONS
New dining options and
structural upgrades wel-come
students and staff
to campus this semes-ter.
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POP WONDER
The Rocket Summer
has come a long way
from the coffee shops
of Dallas.
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LONG DISTANCE LOVE
Neurotica explores the
ups and downs of long
distance relationships.
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PARKING WOES
Harvey says parking at
UNCG is a big joke.
Poor college students
are getting too many
tickets.
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SPARTAN SPORTS
Men's soccer defeat
Radford 2-0 in exhibi-tion
game despite
unruly weather.
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Kelly Snow's college
football predictions for
the upcoming season.
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DIRECTORY
Arts & Entertainment 4
Classifieds 5
Comic 9
Opinions 6
Sports 8
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THE CAROLINIAN
VOL. LXXXIV
ISSUE 2
EST. 1919
The Carolinian AftMrfetSvpftS
End of an Era?
University cracking
down on Kazaa and
otherfile sharing pro-gram
users
Carlos Rountree
Staff Writer
Last semester students were warned
that music downloading through pro-grams
like Kazaa and Limewire
could result in the loss of their uni-versity
Ethernet connection.
But after a summer that saw the
Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) suing individual
downloaders and the Universities that
harbor them, music downloading
may be more dangerous this semester
than ever before.
In perhaps the most famous exam-ple
of illegal downloading crack-downs,
a LAN (Local Area Network)
operator and student at Princeton
University, Daniel Peng, had a com-plaint
Tiled against him in April by
Sony Music Entertainment Inc..
Atlantic Recording Corporation, and
Warner Bros. Records Inc.. among
others. Peng had set up a program
called "Wake" which allowed people
on the Princeton University campus
to share information between them. It
was said in the filed complaint that
Peng had caused "grave and irrepara-ble
harm" by creating the program.
His case was settled the next month
and he agreed to pay $15.(KM) to the
RIAA.
Peng's case serves as an example of
how recording companies can pres-sure
universities into cracking down
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Sights like this one may be a thing of the past at UNCG and universities
across the country if the war on file sharing programs continues.
STAH- PHOTO I AMBIR SMITH
The fountain in front of the Atrium has been broken since May 2002. and an official with the university said it
could be September before any work starts on its repair.
Amidst record-setting
rainfall, fountain stays dry
Official says
$100,000-$200,000
needed to fix UNCG
landmark
Anna Liles
Staff Writer
UNCG has seen the most rainy
summer days on record this year,
which makes it even more obvious
that the fountain, epicenter of campus
life, has been bone dry for a loftg
time. A couple of inches of water
stand in the bottom, but its trademark
spout has been silenced-which has
students asking, "Why?"
"We drained the fountain in May of
2002 because it leaked continuously."
said Tony Schallert. UNCG Utilities
Engineer, "so the fountain has been
empty for over a year now."
As the fountain sits dehydrated in
front of the cafeteria, it's no surprise
that incoming students notice it isn't
in working condition.
"I saw the fountain running when I
came here on a tour before I even
actually started school here," said
Lawanna Minis, sophomore. "It's just
ugly now and it takes away from the
beauty of the campus."
Courtney Russ, a freshman,
explained her disappointment upon
discovering the condition of the foun-tain
when she arrived at school this
fall:
"I came here this summer and
expected the fountain to be up and
running by the time we moved in."
said Russ. "I was pretty disappointed
when I saw it wasn't fixed."
A Drought of Funds
The reason the fountain is dry.
according to officials, is the state's
bad financial situation. Schools
across the entire UNC system are
struggling to balance their budgets
with meager funds from the state,
which is struggling perhaps harder to
balance its own.
"The state legislature budgets
money every year that goes towards
building repairs and renovations,"
said Schallert. "We have not received
money to even get an estimate until
this year."
Many students said they think ren-ovating
the fountain should be high
on the school's list of priorities.
"The fountain is already the center
of campus, but more people would
hang out here if the fountain was
working," said Nate Calhoun. sopho-more.
"I think that would make this
area a much more social environment
and people would spend their free
time here instead of in their rooms."
According to Schallert. there are
signs of slight progress on the foun-tain's
repair, but not until next month
will anything be done.
"We are hoping to have someone
come and look at the fountain by the
middle of September." he said.
Fixing a Hole
Schallert explained that getting the
fountain running again will be a diffi-cult
task. He said that the process has
many steps and may prove to be a
long one.
"If you haven't noticed, the tiles
inside the fountain are falling off." he
said. "This means that we are going
to have to remove the tiles and the
grout so that we can find out where
the leaks are."
Schallert went on to say that fixing
the leaks in the fountain only solves
half the problem.
"Once we finally fix the leaks we
have to decide what will go back in
the fountain," he said. "Then we will
have to decide whether to put the tile
back up again or try something else."
Dealing with a problem this size
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Parking
spaces
disappear
Vacant lot at old
YMCA on Tate Street
is now in use
Will Avers and
Heather Viano
The Carolinian
A golden window closed this week
with the opening of Greensboro
College's new Royce Reynolds
Family Student Life Center, which is
housed in the old YMCA building at
the comer of Tate and Market Streets.
What's so bad about our neighbor
school's expansion? One word: park-ing.
Since the YMCA moved to its new
digs further east on Market St. over a
year ago. the parking lot at the old
building on Tate St. sat unused. After
it seemed the coast was clear, many
UNCG students jumped at the chance
to find sanctuary from the ubiquitous
three-wheeled Parking Services
scooters.
But now. according to Greensboro
College officials, there's no more free
parking.
"I have not had a definitive conver-sation
about that topic, [but] I would
tend to say that it's going to take
Greensboro College parking passes
or you're going to get a ticket." said
Ben Giuliano. manager of the
Reynolds Center. "They're probably
going to start putting tickets on cars if
they're not marked. I don't know
when they are going to check for
parking passes- at the latest
Monday."
UNCG students, now 50 or so park-ing
spaces poorer, said tfiey were
used to parking in the abandoned lot
without any consequences.
"I parked there all last semester and
nothing happened." said Doug
Presley, a graduate student at UNCG.
"I parked there a couple of times
last year but nothing happened." said
BJ Schofield. a senior.
Giuliano said there was never a
decision at Greensboro College about
what to do with the lot. Regarding
whether UNCG students were techni-cally
allowed to use it. he said, "as a
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