The Carolinian [October 3, 2006]

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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
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