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Thursday, February 15,2001
Campus Calendar
Today
11 ajm. - Give blood now! Alpha
Phi Omega will sponsor a blood drive
in the Great Hall of the Student Union
until 4 p.m.
noon - The BCC will sponsor the
Black Film Series: “Black Orpheus.”
This film puts anew face on Samba!
This all-black cast uses Carnival in
Brazil as the backdrop.
8 p.m. - Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-
SSOOO GRANTS
to Student Organizations
tor Public Service Projects
This spring the Carolina Center for Public Service
will award $40,000 in one and two-year grants
for public service projects.
Come to the Grant-Writing Workshop
next Wednesday. February Z l.
6:30-8:30 p.m.
YOU’LL GET:
♦ To go over your project ideas one-on-one with
last year’s winners and selection committee.
♦ A review of the selection process and question
& answer session with Carolina Center for
Public Service staff.
♦ Free dinner
SIGN UP BY MONDAY AT:
www.unc.edu
Click on Public Service
Or contact Sandy Alexander at the Carolina Center for Public Service
843-7567; sandy_alexander@unc.edu; 201 Bank of America Center, Franklin St.
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will be performed in Haymakers
Theatre.
Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for
nonstudents and are available between
11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Pit.
Friday
11 a m. - The Center for Slavic
Studies will be hosting the Russian
and East European Career Fair in
039 Graham Memorial Hall from 11
a.m to 3 p.m. The Business Panel will
take place from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
The Government and Academia
Panel will be from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30
p.m. E-mail questions to
efleming@email.unc.edu.
7 p.m. - The Black Music Series:
“THbute to Louis Armstrong” will
take place in Toy Lounge of Dey Hall.
The tribute will celebrate the contri
butions of African American music tra
ditions. This session will explore the
contributions of be-bop Louis
Armstrong. Robin Vader will facilitate
this session.
Saturday
4 p.m. - Jazz/blues historian and
legend Albert Murray will present a
lecture in the Hanes Art Center audito
rium. A book signing and reception will
immediately follow the lecture.
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Thursday, February 15,2001
Volume 108, Issue 160,
RO, Box 3257. Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Matt Dees. Editor, 962-4086
Advertising & Business, 962-1163
News. Features, Sports, 962-0245
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Tomorrow
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ACADEMIC
CONFERENCE
February 23-24, 2001
Johnston Center for
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UNC-CH
Please contact Kim at 962-6810
www.unc. e du/dept s/iaar/sac.html
News
School Touts Web Studies Minor
By Metoka Weich
Staff Writer
Brandeis University will soon become
the first college in the nation to allow
undergraduates to participate in a liberal
arts Internet studies curriculum.
The program, expected to begin in fall
2001, has spurred discussion about
whether the Internet’s effects on society
are a viable area of study for college stu
dents.
Brandeis undergraduates will be able
to minor in Internet studies with courses
such as visual opera, law and society in
cyberspace and social relations in cyber
space. Ann Carter, an economics pro
fessor and member of the faculty team
developing the curriculum, said the pro
gram has been in the planning stages
since February of last year.
“(In anticipation) we already have
Conference l uncheon ■
Keynote Speaker
RANDALL ROBINSON
President of Trans. Africa. Inc.
and Author of
The Debt: What America
Owes to Blacks
Carolina Inn
February 24, I PM
$2.0.00 General Public
$ 10.00 Students
Tickets riiay-he purchased at
the Sonja Haynes Stone
Black Cultural Center. 002-0001
Sponsored by
• Institute of African-American Research I
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BP9pk Sakjk\ Detailed information about this process will be available
on our site at http://housing.unc.edu and
sent to current residents via email in mid February.
Consider the following information as you begin to make your
campus housing plans for the next academic year:
The recontracting process for campus housing (except Theme Housing) is scheduled for
the week of March 19-23, 2001. Housing assignments will be confirmed in mid-April.
it Recontracting for campus housing will provide you with the opportunity to:
~ return to your present room (with a few exceptions) or select a different room;
~ select a roommate who is currently living in campus housing or an incoming first
year or transfer student.
Assignments will be made on a first-come, first served basis according to academic
classification.
We recommend that you pay the required S2OO housing deposit (or confirm financial
aid deferment) at the Cashier's Office by Friday, March 2, 2001. This deposit will be
required prior to accessing the online recontracting application.
The deadline to apply for one of our special Theme Housing
| communities is Friday; February 16, 2001. To learn more about
■ how to apply for these programs, please visit our web site at ■
http://housing.unc.odw.
We invite you to join our campus housing communities
for the 2001 -02 academic year!
For. more information about reserving your place in campus housing, visit our web site at
http://housing.unc.edu or contact your Area Director.
Department of Housing and Residential Education
Division of Student Affairs
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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most of the courses on book,” she said.
“1 have been amazed at the number of
interested people.”
Michael Regunberg, vice president of
public affairs, added that the minor will
focus on how the Internet has changed the
American way of life. “The Internet has
impacted a wide range of challenges for
society,” she said. “(Because) Brandeis has
always looked at taking a hard look at the
world around us, (we understand that) this
is where society is headed.”
But Brandeis is not the only univer
sity to offer an Internet studies program.
Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the
Berkman Center for Internet Society at
Harvard University, said the school has
had an Internet studies program for grad
uate students since 1997. “Our purpose
was to study the effects of the Internet on
people and the legal rules they fashion to
make it work better,” he said.
“We offer a number of online dis
cussion centers to the general public,”
he continued. “(But) the courses are
hosted at the graduate school level as a
curriculum of the law school.”
UNC currently has no curriculum
focusing on the Internet, but adminis
trators say the University plans to inte
grate Internet studies into the comput
er science department
Sub Probe May Result
In Criminal Charges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The admiral inves
tigating the U.S. submarine collision with
a fishing boat is considering a line of
inquiry that could lead to criminal charges
against the sub’s captain or members of
his crew, Navy officials said Wednesday.
The officials also said they cannot
rule out the possibility that civilians
aboard the USS Greeneville, including
two at control positions, were a distrac
tion to the crew and contributed to the
sinking of thejapanese fishing vessel off
the coast of Hawaii. Nine people aboard
that boat are missing and feared dead.
The Navy officials said no evidence of
such a distraction has turned up yet, but
investigators will examine the possibility.
In seelfing to determine how the acci-
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David Stotts, an associate computer sci
ence professor and associate chairman for
academic affairs, said anew computer sci
ence degree program will require students
to take courses in Internet studies.
“We have a number of courses that
could fall under the category of Internet
studies, including two classes in Web
technology,” he said. “(However,)
Internet studies is a broad term.”
But some people question the impor
tance of such courses. Zittrain said he is
uncertain of the relevance of the
Brandeis program. “I am not prepared
to say if it has an obvious place in cur
riculum,” he said. “(Though) it may.”
But Regunberg discredit such criti
cism. “This is not a minor in how to pro
gram or how to do HTML,” she said. “Wq
are focused on how the Internet affects
society.”
And she emphasized that the universi
ty community is excited about the possi
bilities of the program. “We are just begin
ning to understand how (the Internet) is
changing how we interact in life,”
Regunberg said. “Universities (should)
study this just like someone studies anew
scientific discovery -as a field of study.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
dent happened, the Navy is considering
an inquiry that could result in charges
against the nuclear-powered submarine’s
captain or members of his crew, according
to the officials, who discussed the matter
on condition they not be identified.
A decision on how to direct the inves
tigation is being weighed by Rear Adm.
Charles Griffiths Jr., who as commander
of Submarine Group Nine based at
Bangor, Wash., is in charge of ballistic
missile submarines assigned to the
Pacific Fleet. He was dispatched to
Hawaii shortly after the accident.
The captain of the submarine, Cmdr.
Scott Waddle, of Austin, Texas, has been
relieved of duty pending the outcome of
the investigation. The Greeneville is an
attack submarine and does not carry
nuclear missiles.