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volume 6 no. 2
Wayne Community College^ Goldsboro, NC 27533-8002
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BY BRYAN HEDRICK
The Wayne Community
College basketball team
continued its winning
charge with a 79-64
victory over Forsythe
Technical Community
College (FTCC) Monday,
January 31.
With the win, the
Bison team raised its
record to 14-5 and
increased its current
winning streak to 8
games.
In contrast to their
current success, the
Bisons started the
season with a
disappointing 1-3.
February 23,1994
streak
pIayoffs
The poor start was
punctuated by two
blowout losses to
Catawba Valley
Community College, 122-
97 and 124-91.
However, the Bisons
recovered quickly and
went on to post
victories in 13 of the
next 15 games.
The current record
also includes a 5-0
conference mark.
These recent
victories have given
. the team momentum for
the upcoming play-off
tournament, slated to
begin in early March.
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WCC links with Information Highway-
By BRYAN HEDRICK
On Friday, January 7
representatives from
Seymour Johnson Air
Force Base, the Wayne
County Chamber of
Commerce, Wayne
Memorial Hospital,
Southern Bell, the
Department of Community
Colleges, the Economic
Development Commission,
as well as Congressman
Martin Lancaster, met
in the Seminar Room of
Wayne Community College
to discuss the future
of the North Carolina
Information Highway.
Presenters included
Mark Collins and Carol
Johnson, representa
tives from Southern
Bell.
The meeting gave an
initial taste of the
widespread applications
of the proposed
Information Highway
The purpose of the
meeting was to intro
duce a barebones frame
work of the Highway to
local leadership to
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determine interest.
All representatives
who attended expressed
interest, although a
few raised concerns
over the economic
feasibility of the
project.
Dr. Charles Rivers
from the Wayne County
Public School System
warned, "Inevitably in
a project like this the
public schools are the
low men on the totem
pole. We would need
aid in the funding of
this project."
Future meetings are
planned to solve these
and other problems
involving the
implementation of
Information Highway.
Once completed, the
NCIH will put North
Carolina at the
forefront of modern
communications
technology, Collins
said.
Through the use of
fiber optic technology,
the NCIH transmits
audio, visual, data.
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and multimedia
information at mind-
numbing speed.
"The highway can
transmit 155 megabits,
or the equivalent of 33
volumes of Encyclopedia
Britannica, in 4.8
seconds," according to
Johnson.
Possible uses for
this type of technology
are innumerable.
For example, college
courses could be taught
simultaneously to
students across the
state by a single
instructor.
Doctors could consult
one another, determine
the proper dosage of
certain important
treatments, and
transfer important
information such as x-
rays with an efficiency
previously unattainable
under conventional
technology.
These goals would be
only the beginning of
the NCIH project,
however.
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Hirk Collins, Southern le)1 representa
tive, welcMes participants at the first
Meting about the North Carolina
infonatioA Hijhvay.
PHOTO: BRYAN HEDRICK
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