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Tuesday, November 9, 1999
The Office of Greek Affairs
proudly congratulates
the 44 Fall 1999
Gamma Sigma Alpha National
Greek Academic Honor Society initiates
Rebecca S. Baxter
Erin Berigan
Rita Billingsley
Brooke Kathleen Bussen
Carol Elizabeth Chalk
Michelle Lynn Chiavetta
Meredith Joyner Copeland
Mary Caroline Cosby
Marissa Lynn Downs
Katherine Barkley Ducker
Elizabeth Lee Dyer
Tracy Elizabeth Engel
Carrie Alise Estes
Kristin Freas
Elizabeth Ga/leher
Jamie Elizabeth Harper
Amanda Suzanne Haynes
Emily Horton
Robyn Ann Johnson
Jerri Anne Kallam
Anna Paige Kroncke
Emily Lynne Land
Anne Marie Lenhart
Jonathan Reed Liggett
Jaime Luton
Julie Reid Marks
Elizabeth Ann Michel
Lan-Anh Ngoc Nguyen
Laura Franklin Palmer
Mrudula Patel
Melissa Susan Putman
Molly Marie Putman
Lauren Eve Reid
Torrey Elizabeth Rieser
Joseph Clay Ruggieri
Anne Catherine Schaap
Allison Jaye Schwartz
Michael D. Shuman
Natalie Kay Waldner
Andrea Elizabeth Westerfield
Stacey Weston
Laura Jane Wriggelsworth
Thomas Carlton Younger 111
Lindsey Michelle Zuckerman
All Fall 1999 New Members will be initiated by Monday, November IS, 1999
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3.500 cumulative GPA
Greek GPA: 3.017
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Y2K Bug
County Touts Y2K Readiness
By Amanda Cook
Staff Writer
As 1999 draws to a close, officials say
they are ready for the year 2000 bug
and hope to ring in the new year with
very few problems.
Officials and residents in Chapel Hill,
Carrboro and Orange County have
been preparing for Y2K for at least a
year and said they were confident that
the new year would not cause any sig
nificant problems.
Some of the changes made included
the routine updating of several comput
er systems.
The critical systems in Orange
County, which include emergency ser
vices, were the first to be addressed, said
Pam Jones, director of purchasing and
central services for the county. These
systems were made Y2K compliant
before summer began, she said.
“We have been assessing Y2K expo
sures for way over a year,"Jones said.
“We have looked at mission critical ser
vices like the 911 service, the sheriffs
department, at the jail in terms of its
integrity and life saving programs at
social services.”
Other non-critical systems like desk
top computers and the county’s tele
phone system have been updated more
recendy to meet Y2K compliance, Jones
said.
“(The systems) have been tested to
the extent they can be tested; some (test
ing) was a natural process of getting rid
of old systems,” she said.
Jones said some of the software
replacement process was a routine
process that would have occurred even
if Y2K was not a concern.
Based on analysis, assessment and
testing that has been done, the county
could not identify any points of vulner-
Study Says Schools Unprepared
Local public school officials
and UNC computer experts
say the year 2000 bug will
have little effect on them.
By Alex Kaplun
Staff Writer
Despite a recent survey stating that
the United States’ public schools are
unprepared for the year 2000 computer
bug, local officials say they have the sit
uation under control.
A survey released Oct. 27 by the U.S.
Department of Education stated 36 per
cent of public elementary and sec
ondary schools and 39 percent of col
leges were not ready for Y2K.
But 96 percent of all the schools sur
veyed reported they would be Y2K
compliant whenjan. 1 rolled around.
Y2K is related to a problem poten
tially causing many computers to mal
function when the year changes to 2000
because of a programming design flaw.
Jim Bradshaw, spokesman for the
U.S. Department of Education, said he
was concerned many vital school sys
tems could malfunction onjan. 1.
In a worst-case scenario, he said stu
dent and financial records could be cor
rupted. Many security, cafeteria and
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ability in its sys
tems.
There were
contingency plans
in place as back
up in case a prob
lem should arise,
she said.
The Carrboro
Board of
Aldermen
received and
accepted a report
from Town
Manager Robert
Morgan that stat
ed the town was
Chapel Hill Town
Council member
Joe Capowski
said ail the town's
computers were Y2K
compatible.
Y2K compliant, with separate provi
sions being made for the financial sys
tem, said David Durham, information
and communication specialist for the
town.
“The computer systems were inven
toried and tested by Micro Medic and
alterations were made, if needed,”
Durham said.
As for systems where the computer is
embedded within, such as in televisions
and videocassette recorders, Carrboro
received a letter from each manufactur
ing company that contained a certifica
tion of compliance for the product,
Durham said.
“We have documentation and we
hope everything will go as planned,” he
said. “We have no real way to test those
things.”
The existing financial system, which
will still be in use injanuary, has also
been made Y2K compliant, said Bing
Roenigk, assistant town manager of
Carrboro. Anew financial system is also
being installed, she said.
“The new system was not purchased
because of Y2K,” Roenigk said. “It was
primarily bought to get more opera-
heating systems could fail as well,
Bradshaw said. He said many schools
were unprepared because they felt there
were more important issues to deal with
than the Y2K problem.
“There are so many things involved
in running a university,” he said. “This
issue is sometimes not top priority.”
Bradshaw said he hoped most schools
would be ready byjan. 1 as they report
ed in the survey, but some schools
would probably come up a little short.
“Realistically, there
could be more
schools that say
they will be ready,
but don’t quite
make it to the fin
ish fine whenjan. 1
rolls around,” he
said.
But Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Public
Schools
“Realistically, there could be
more schools that say they are
ready, but don’t quite make it
... whenjan. 1 rolls around.”
Jim Bradshaw
U.S. Department of Education
Management Information Services
Director Doug Noell said local schools
were nearly ready for Y2K. “We’re from
70 percent to 80 percent ready,” Noell
said.
Noell said all the equipment was
ready but had not been completely test
ed. He said everything would likely be
completed byjan. 1.
Noell said there was no way to know
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tional flexibility than we currently
have.”
Precautions are being taken in
Carrboro, even with Y2K compliance,
Durham said. For instance, the fire
department is putting together an emer
gency plan for officials to be on hand
New Year’s Eve.
“We really were very' lucky. We didn’t
have much to upgrade,” he said. “But
we probably will have people on hand
at Town Hall to make sure there aren’t
any problems.”
Chapel Hill’s technology committee,
consisting of town staff and residents,
has been investigating the computers
and financial systems for the past year,
Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe
Capowski said.
“Almost everything that’s not Y2K
compliant has been updated to make it
so,” he said. “What hasn’t been updated
yet will be in the month of November.”
What has not yet been updated is
mostly software in non-critical, older
systems, he said.
The only potential problems in
January are the fare boxes on the buses,
he said.
“Some systems are critical, like police
departments, life support systems... and
ones that deal with public safety like the
911 system are in good shape,”
Capowski said.
Testing was also performed in Chapel
Hill on Sept. 9, he said.
Capowski said he was not aware of
any failures and could not foresee any
major problems occurring on Jan. 1,
2000.
“My guess is that for the town of
Chapel Hill the Y2K thing will be much
ado about very little.”
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definitely how well the district was pre
pared for Y2K until after the new year.
Noell said the decision to extend
Winter Break would only come after
Jan. 1 when the systems were re-evalu
ated. The final decision belonged to the
superintendent, he said.
“Even though you’re as ready as you
can be, there could be things that go
wrong that you had no way to prepare
for,” Noell said.
Academic Technology & Networks
director for com
puting policy
jeanne Smythe
said UNC was also
ready for Y2K.
“The University
here is in very
good shape,”
Smythe said.
Smythe said the
University had
been aware of the
Y2K problem for years and had fixed all
the problems that could potentially arise
onjan 1.
Smythe said ATN had also extended
its service to individual academic
departments to make sure their com
puters were Y2K-compliant.
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.