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THIS WEEK: WGS TO STUDENTS: LOVE THYSELF NEWS PAGE 3 00 3 On 9 2006 SPARTANS LEAP INTO SOCON TOP SPOT SPORTS PAGE 8 THE TRUTH ABOUT MISCARRIAGES i/FFPAGElO ON TORTURE, TESTING, BIRDS AND BASS OPINIONS PAGES 4-5 FREE THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www.carolinianon ne.com PAC/WUAG stage Turn Up and Rock the Vote Elizabeth A. Terry Staff Writer Spray-painted t-shirts, poster boards, markers, tents that housed discussion issues that would never be raised at the dinner table, and regis-tration papers all packed into a gor-geous sunny day—-one could easily mistake College Avenue for a small summer festival. Thursday definitely ushered UNCG students into the beginning of a long weekend with the "Rock the Vote" campaign—with a UNCG flare—to the Tate Street Festival on Saturday to the Fall Fest Events that were being held all week. Action packed, the events on Thurs-day for "Turn up the Vote" lasted from 9 a.m. for tent and table holders to 11 p.m. Although the registration drive was under the MTV campaign of "Rock the Vote," it had a UNCG spin to it, thus labeling it "Turn up the Vote." "Turn up the Vote" is differ-ent from the regular college campus "Rock the Vote" because it offered live music from WTJAG. The concert hoped to promote more turn out because young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 are least likely to vote in an election out of any age group. According to the U.S. JOHN READ/THE CAROLINIAN Sophomore Ashley Weinberger (foreground) and senior Alicia Cipicchio fill out registration forms at the table manned by (from left to right) PAC President Danielle Nelson, James Hauser and Ben Berkowitz. Census Bureau's Web site, only 46.7 percent voted in the 2004 presidential election. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 63.8 percent of all Americans voted in 2004. Registration was offered for voters all day on College Avenue in the Free Speech zone. Emily Pendleton, presi-dent of College Democrats, stated this is an issue of "the political envi-ronment, (and how) people need to realize it's not just the presidential elections that matter." The voters who registered would be valid for the No-vember midterm elections this fall. Another service offered was for the many students who need to change their registration from the area they used to live in, to instead be involved with Guilford County. The November election is approaching fast. Organiz-ers hope many of those who turned out to support those in booths and the music featured on Thursday night will also show up at the polls next month. The groups represented were the College Democrats, College Liber-tarians, College Republicans, VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood, and PAC: Political Awareness Club, as well as smaller groups from STAND, that focuses on the awareness of genocide in Darfur, to "Drive Out the Bush Re-gime!" The last group is formed by UNCG students and other support-ers from places like Guilford College. They aimed to bring awareness of their nonpartisan group and upcom-ing events on Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. to or-ganize a Drive Out the Bush Regime rally. "We wanted to get as many groups involved...we feel it's one of our civic duties," said Daryn Iwicki, president of the College Republicans. Accord-ing to Iwicki, the College Republicans SEE ROCK THE VOTE PAGE TWO Student Laptop Center offers free services Janlne Camara Staff Writer On Sept. 22 at 10:30 a.m., UNCG's new Laptop Support Center (LSC) held its Grand Opening Ceremony. The ceremony included a ribbon cut-ting, refreshments and a tour of the newly instated center located in Mc- Iver, Room 354. The center is a facet of UNCG's Student Laptop Initiative (SLI), a program conceived by Vice Provost Uprichard and the Deans Council. SLI allows students to purchase "ful-ly- featured" laptop computers from IBM/Lenovo and Apple with the ben-efit of a student discount. The LSC provides on-campus service and con-sulting only for students who've pur-chased laptops through the initiative. In addition to the installment of the LSC, SLI also requires incom-ing freshmen, in the fall of 2007, to purchase laptops either through the initiative or bring a device that meets the program's software and hardware requisites. "They understand the growing needs of the classroom," said Veron-ica Norville, IT Manager of Student Computing, of the Dean Council's and Uprichard's choice to implement SLI. According to a project mandate, found on the SLI portion of ITS's website, the "laptop program is an outgrowth of the rapidly maturing mobile computing environment on campus." Plans to begin the initiative have been in the works, since last school year. "We were very meticulous," said Norville, who was a member of the project team created to help estab-lish SLI at UNCG. She and her team members spent over 14 months plan-ning and researching. They visited schools like neighboring Wake For-est University and UNC-Chapel Hill — each with established SLIs. Response to the LSC, which has been operational since this past sum-mer, has been positive according to Norville. "We've been very pleased, we've been very fortunate," continued Nor-ville. She also serves as manager of the LSC. "They love it, it pays for itself," said Scott James, a shift leader at the LSC, of student response to the cen-ter. James is one of two full-time shift leaders that staff the center, as well as five student employees and several ITS technicians who support the cen- SEELUWP PAGE TWO Discussing the hot issues Reps, Libs, Dems and ISO all featured at last week's debate Kathryn Kennedy News Editor Guantanamo Bay, gay rights and immigration policies were all under fire from student political groups last Wednesday night, during the first of this semester's debates - organized by the Political Action Committee and held nearing capacity in the Science Building's auditorium. Representatives turned out from the College Republicans, the campus Libertarians, College Democrats and the International Socialist Organiza-tion (ISO). The format worked so each team received a question they had three minutes to answer. After that, each other team was allowed a two-minute response and the original team an ending one-minute rebuttal. Questions were submitted by groups to the moderator beforehand. The opening round of questions centered on current immigration policies, in particular with regards to Mexico and the labor illegal immi-grants provide. College Republican President Daryn Iwicki fielded the first question, during which he men-tioned immigrants from the southern border as "lawbreakers" but explained his party is not "anti-immigration." "We want them to have proper identification to enjoy the systems the same way we do," said his debate partner, Natalie Sell. But this marked the beginning of a rough night for the duo who elicited boos from the crowd. The audience went on to call them "racist" and "xenophobic" JERRY ARNOLD/THE CAROLINIAN Natalie Sell and Daryn Iwicki (above) of the College Republi-cans prepare to answer a question about Immigration. (Right) Brad Ward of the International Socialist Organization shares his views on gay rights. throughout the first third. Later during the same portion, Libertarian team Robert Sinnott and Richard Schilhavy made a strong ar-gument in favor of the Minutcmcn, a vigilante group interested in securing borders through reporting suspected illegal immigrants who cross their private property. The team's party SEE DEBATE PAGE TWELVE JERRY ARNOLD/THE CAROLINIAN THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL. LXXXVII ISSUE 8 CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmoil.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 FAX: 336-334-3518 DIRECTORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E Sports Life 2-3, 12 2 4 4-5 6-7,13 8-9 10-11 ON THE WEB AT; _D fewtmarte Jocfc rjefc 9 o ® f5 jtolimanonlifir ' <<\»l ■ m—i ___■__ MM
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Title | The Carolinian [October 3, 2006] |
Date | 2006-10-03 |
Editor/creator | Lowrance, Chris |
Subject headings | 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 October 3, 2006, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
Type | Text |
Original format | Newspapers |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Language | eng |
Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Publication | The Carolinian |
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Additional rights information | NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
Object ID | 2006-10-03-carolinian |
Date digitized | 2011 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries |
Digitized by | Creekside Digital |
Sponsor | Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation |
OCLC number | 871560312 |
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Full text | THIS WEEK: WGS TO STUDENTS: LOVE THYSELF NEWS PAGE 3 00 3 On 9 2006 SPARTANS LEAP INTO SOCON TOP SPOT SPORTS PAGE 8 THE TRUTH ABOUT MISCARRIAGES i/FFPAGElO ON TORTURE, TESTING, BIRDS AND BASS OPINIONS PAGES 4-5 FREE THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www.carolinianon ne.com PAC/WUAG stage Turn Up and Rock the Vote Elizabeth A. Terry Staff Writer Spray-painted t-shirts, poster boards, markers, tents that housed discussion issues that would never be raised at the dinner table, and regis-tration papers all packed into a gor-geous sunny day—-one could easily mistake College Avenue for a small summer festival. Thursday definitely ushered UNCG students into the beginning of a long weekend with the "Rock the Vote" campaign—with a UNCG flare—to the Tate Street Festival on Saturday to the Fall Fest Events that were being held all week. Action packed, the events on Thurs-day for "Turn up the Vote" lasted from 9 a.m. for tent and table holders to 11 p.m. Although the registration drive was under the MTV campaign of "Rock the Vote" it had a UNCG spin to it, thus labeling it "Turn up the Vote." "Turn up the Vote" is differ-ent from the regular college campus "Rock the Vote" because it offered live music from WTJAG. The concert hoped to promote more turn out because young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 are least likely to vote in an election out of any age group. According to the U.S. JOHN READ/THE CAROLINIAN Sophomore Ashley Weinberger (foreground) and senior Alicia Cipicchio fill out registration forms at the table manned by (from left to right) PAC President Danielle Nelson, James Hauser and Ben Berkowitz. Census Bureau's Web site, only 46.7 percent voted in the 2004 presidential election. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 63.8 percent of all Americans voted in 2004. Registration was offered for voters all day on College Avenue in the Free Speech zone. Emily Pendleton, presi-dent of College Democrats, stated this is an issue of "the political envi-ronment, (and how) people need to realize it's not just the presidential elections that matter." The voters who registered would be valid for the No-vember midterm elections this fall. Another service offered was for the many students who need to change their registration from the area they used to live in, to instead be involved with Guilford County. The November election is approaching fast. Organiz-ers hope many of those who turned out to support those in booths and the music featured on Thursday night will also show up at the polls next month. The groups represented were the College Democrats, College Liber-tarians, College Republicans, VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood, and PAC: Political Awareness Club, as well as smaller groups from STAND, that focuses on the awareness of genocide in Darfur, to "Drive Out the Bush Re-gime!" The last group is formed by UNCG students and other support-ers from places like Guilford College. They aimed to bring awareness of their nonpartisan group and upcom-ing events on Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. to or-ganize a Drive Out the Bush Regime rally. "We wanted to get as many groups involved...we feel it's one of our civic duties" said Daryn Iwicki, president of the College Republicans. Accord-ing to Iwicki, the College Republicans SEE ROCK THE VOTE PAGE TWO Student Laptop Center offers free services Janlne Camara Staff Writer On Sept. 22 at 10:30 a.m., UNCG's new Laptop Support Center (LSC) held its Grand Opening Ceremony. The ceremony included a ribbon cut-ting, refreshments and a tour of the newly instated center located in Mc- Iver, Room 354. The center is a facet of UNCG's Student Laptop Initiative (SLI), a program conceived by Vice Provost Uprichard and the Deans Council. SLI allows students to purchase "ful-ly- featured" laptop computers from IBM/Lenovo and Apple with the ben-efit of a student discount. The LSC provides on-campus service and con-sulting only for students who've pur-chased laptops through the initiative. In addition to the installment of the LSC, SLI also requires incom-ing freshmen, in the fall of 2007, to purchase laptops either through the initiative or bring a device that meets the program's software and hardware requisites. "They understand the growing needs of the classroom" said Veron-ica Norville, IT Manager of Student Computing, of the Dean Council's and Uprichard's choice to implement SLI. According to a project mandate, found on the SLI portion of ITS's website, the "laptop program is an outgrowth of the rapidly maturing mobile computing environment on campus." Plans to begin the initiative have been in the works, since last school year. "We were very meticulous" said Norville, who was a member of the project team created to help estab-lish SLI at UNCG. She and her team members spent over 14 months plan-ning and researching. They visited schools like neighboring Wake For-est University and UNC-Chapel Hill — each with established SLIs. Response to the LSC, which has been operational since this past sum-mer, has been positive according to Norville. "We've been very pleased, we've been very fortunate" continued Nor-ville. She also serves as manager of the LSC. "They love it, it pays for itself" said Scott James, a shift leader at the LSC, of student response to the cen-ter. James is one of two full-time shift leaders that staff the center, as well as five student employees and several ITS technicians who support the cen- SEELUWP PAGE TWO Discussing the hot issues Reps, Libs, Dems and ISO all featured at last week's debate Kathryn Kennedy News Editor Guantanamo Bay, gay rights and immigration policies were all under fire from student political groups last Wednesday night, during the first of this semester's debates - organized by the Political Action Committee and held nearing capacity in the Science Building's auditorium. Representatives turned out from the College Republicans, the campus Libertarians, College Democrats and the International Socialist Organiza-tion (ISO). The format worked so each team received a question they had three minutes to answer. After that, each other team was allowed a two-minute response and the original team an ending one-minute rebuttal. Questions were submitted by groups to the moderator beforehand. The opening round of questions centered on current immigration policies, in particular with regards to Mexico and the labor illegal immi-grants provide. College Republican President Daryn Iwicki fielded the first question, during which he men-tioned immigrants from the southern border as "lawbreakers" but explained his party is not "anti-immigration." "We want them to have proper identification to enjoy the systems the same way we do" said his debate partner, Natalie Sell. But this marked the beginning of a rough night for the duo who elicited boos from the crowd. The audience went on to call them "racist" and "xenophobic" JERRY ARNOLD/THE CAROLINIAN Natalie Sell and Daryn Iwicki (above) of the College Republi-cans prepare to answer a question about Immigration. (Right) Brad Ward of the International Socialist Organization shares his views on gay rights. throughout the first third. Later during the same portion, Libertarian team Robert Sinnott and Richard Schilhavy made a strong ar-gument in favor of the Minutcmcn, a vigilante group interested in securing borders through reporting suspected illegal immigrants who cross their private property. The team's party SEE DEBATE PAGE TWELVE JERRY ARNOLD/THE CAROLINIAN THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL. LXXXVII ISSUE 8 CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmoil.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 FAX: 336-334-3518 DIRECTORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E Sports Life 2-3, 12 2 4 4-5 6-7,13 8-9 10-11 ON THE WEB AT; _D fewtmarte Jocfc rjefc 9 o ® f5 jtolimanonlifir ' <<\»l ■ m—i ___■__ MM |