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4 Wednesday, January 9, 2002 UNC Freshman Makes Stuff Magazine's Finalist List By Emma Burgin Staff Writer UNC freshman Jeanette Wingler is one of 12 finalists in Stuff Magazine’s “Women’s Studies” contest, a search for the hottest female college student in the nation. People can vote for their choice on the magazine's Web site, http://www.stuffmagazine.com. Each month, the magazine features a different contestant that readers can vote More Information May Be Put on IDs By Nathan Coletta Staff Writer The U.S. Congress, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Transportation, is developing a system to beef up state driver licenses. The plan being discussed would cre ate a type of national identification sys tem by taking state IDs currently in use and electronically encoding them with information such as fingerprints and reti nal scans. The additional information proposed to be included in state licenses could fur ther prevent criminals from using false Kudzu couMSELOfT \r rD ASWWG \ | k M THE Daily Crossword By John Greenman 48 Deli favorite 52 Face the day 53 Web and camp? 54 Authoritative statements 55 Bit of news 56 Travel charge 57 Satisfactory symbols 58 "Pretty Woman" man 59 Altar area DOWN 1 Stand open 2 Caspian feeder 3 Milanese mon etary unit 4 Gratifies vanity ACROSS 1 Wide separa tion 5 Plant starter 9 Cassettes 14 Seed coat 15 Type of duck? 16 Muse of poetry 17 Twenty cents? 19 City near Canton 20 With joy 21 Javanese and Japanese 22 Beech or birch 23 Hurl 24 Quaking trees 27 Principal 28 Computer acronym 31 Scorches 32 Existence 33 Reverence 34 Old sailors 35 "The Power of Positive Thinking" writer 36 Period of time 37 Period of time 38 Paint layers 39 Motilal or Jawaharlal 40 Indistinct 41 Burden 42 Intuits 43 White heron 45 Miguel's coin 46 Broadens D l E l ß l'B ß l'l T l E l s ß s l N l A l p ALE cß|l O R R e||c U B a iAiliAl® R t[u r k e y p L A C_ E__M A 3H(LJL e l S Ihhel a ijbe zpißl r u s t i oBBmTu ff U N C A ppi BEEF YlB SLR SHAMUSOR GUMSHOE S I R Mg' L A R ~E Ma L E U T O P EjCMO R A iJsllO RTS e[e t vpBBI _S__H__E_ E_ rJBBO U__T__R_ A_ C_ JH R E P E ~A|T E D L Y A _N _N TEE S[S PEA R|L OOP a|l|eleße|a|rlnlsßy|a|lle UIYIC Student Groups & watch the women's Basketball Team iaeqf: NC State at the same time Thursday, January 10th at 7pm Dean E. Smith Center raaaaie qeecbgim] ■ rn 0303333 Students free with id ■ The DTH will give $250 to the charity of choice for the student group with the most members in attendance at the game (or $250 worth of ads to promote your group in the DTH). - Register your name & organization at entry B. ■ Win a Mongoose Mountain Bike from Dick's Sporting Goods. f Sponsored by The Daily Tar Heel & UNC Sports Marketing for. The winner will receive a $4,999 scholarship. Wingler said she sent her pictures to the magazine last January. She was the featured contestant for April. “I read about the contest in the maga zine,” Wingler said. “The main reason I entered was for the money. I couldn’t afford to go to (UNC) if I didn’t because the tuition seems to be hiked up every other week." But Wingler said she does not think she is like the typical girls who enter identification. Advocates say the altered licenses could alert authorities if a sus pected terrorist tries to enter the country or board an airplane. Bill Jones, spokesman for the N.C. Department of Transportation, said he thinks the plan is a response to the recent acts of terrorism. “I don’t think there is any question that this plan comes in response to the September 11 attacks as a way to increase security," Jones said. He said the plan is in its early stages and will not come to fruition until fed eral legislation is enacted. The new license format would enable 25 Puppeteer Lewis 26 Hawkeye and Trapper? 27 Cold cuts 29 Cognizant 30 Program choic -32 Lulu 35 Cornmeal dish es 5 Shifts out of place 6 First ship on the moon 7 TV award 8 Some French 9 Mocking play fully 10 "Catch-22" star Alan 11 Plot and chart? 12 Bond's alma mater 13 Miller play. "All My " 18 Bruce and Laura 21 Type of skirt 23 Jibs 24 Played a part i p [3 n |6 it p HF 1 10 I*' 12 13 __ SBR m r im 26 WM 29 - 34 ISIpD ■Hsu 3 ■■3* - 44 BB ■1 49 Dll _ ‘ S9T SB these contests. “I really don’t look that good physically," she said with a laugh. “Those were just really good pictures.” Wingler added that she doubts her par ents would approve of her participation in the contest. “My father is a Southern Baptist deacon and my mom is a Sunday school teacher, so we tried to keep (the contest) quiet," she said. “I think my moth er knows, but she hasn’t seen the pictures." Wingler said she has an advantage over the other finalists because of her intelligence. She said she was valedictori officials from one state to check and ver ify license information from any other state. Thirty seven states store information on licenses electronically using a mag netic stripe or bar code, but none include fingerprints or retinal scans. Nathan Root, standards director for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, said the plan will make licenses more secure by mak ing a definitive connection between the license and the person presenting it. “Right now, the license just has the photo, and the photo can be altered, along with other information,” Root (C)2002 Tribune Media Services. Inc All nghts reserved Murdoch 48 Head 49 Perched on 50 Blanc and Blount 51 Seagirt land 53 Slovenly per son 36 Mexican miss 38 Parts of eyes 39 Hemlock homes 42 Opening word 44 "The Last Remake of Beau " 45 Kitchen knife 46 Walk in water 47 Novelist News an of her high school, and made a perfect score on the verbal portion of the SAT. “The rest of the girls are 24-year-old, community college students,” she said. But Wingler said the competition is tough. “They’re all tan, with big, fake breasts,” she said. “There’s not a whole lot I can do to compete with these girls. Maybe if there was a SAT competition, I could win." Wingler said she thinks her chances of winning would increase if she had more support from her fellow students. said. “But a fingerprint can tie the license directly to the cardholder.” He also said that creating a system using the driver licenses that are already in place is more practical than develop ing a completely new system with ID cards. But some privacy advocates are con cerned the plan will allow authorities to electronically track citizens nationwide by creating a type of national identifi cation system. Root said he is not concerned that encoding fingerprints on licenses will cause privacy problems. “It’s really a matter of interpreta tion," he said. “Some will say it is inva sion because there is fear that some one’s activities can be tied together through scanning of licenses.” But Root said it might actually pro tect privacy by preventing similar-look ing people from using the same license. Root said it is important that groups do not abuse their privilege to obtain the type of information that would be included on the revamped state licens es. “After scanning the license to make sure the person is who they say they are, the groups should then delete the infor mation instead of storing it.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. CALENDAR From Page 1 to better suit their individual students and subject matter. “What’s best for the learning envi ronment is autonomy for the instructor,” Estroff said. “You want structure, but you don’t want it to be too rigid.” Estroff said the Faculty Council has been working for these changes ever since then-UNC-system President C.D. Spangler increased the academic calen dar from 140 to 150 days in 1996. But she said previous proposals to reduce the required number of classroom days met with staunch political opposition. “It was very politically unpopular,” Estroff said. “People didn’t read or under stand the situation. “They thought (the faculty) just want- FINANCIAL AID From Page 1 already qualify for aid. “The Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid could always use more funding, but they do an excellent job with that amount,” Young said. “It ensures that all students already receiv ing aid are held harmless against future increases.” M To* JL&ide One Located Near You Voted Students’ #1 Tanning Salon 'a Friendliest Service Around Cleanest Salon In Town 919-933-2117 919-942-7177 TAN YOUR HIDE 2 TAN YOUR HIPE 151 E. Rosemary St. 15-501 S. & Smith Level Rd. CALL FOR HOURS DURHAM ROOFINGa COMPANY Serving Durham and Chapel Hill Since 1963 Residential & Commercial • Flat Roofs • Shingles • Slate • Tile • Metal Roofing • Licensed Statewide SJL Hi “(My odds) would be a lot better if Carolina students voted,” she said She also described her strategy for getting votes from UNC students. “I sent out an e-mail to the president of every fraternity,” she said. “A lot of people are in fraternities, and I thought that would be a good place to start.” Wingler had friends vote for her online as well. UNC Freshman Brandon Walker, who has known Wingler since high school, said he voted for her. Ruling Narrows Scope Of Disabilities Act The Supreme Court decision was the most recent ruling altering the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. The Associated Press WASHINGTON - In a victory for employers, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for workers to demand special treatment when they suffer par tial physical disabilities such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Tuesday’s unanimous decision in the case of a former assembly line worker narrows the scope of the landmark civil rights law that protects the disabled. It was the latest in a series of Supreme Court rulings that set boundaries on who is covered by the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act and tell why. Disability cannot be measured sole ly on the ability to do certain tasks at work, the court ruled Tuesday. Whether someone is disabled also must depend on the ease with which they perform “activities that are of central importance to most people’s daily lives,” Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote for the court. ed to get out of work.” But Bataille stated in her proposal that the change in the academic calen dar would not affect the length of pro fessorial appointments. She said her pro posal, if adopted, would make the UNC system comparable to other institutions of higher education. “It’s very consistent with modern educational methods that focus on per formance and technology,” Bataille said. Although some program directors at UNC-CH and other system schools have voiced opposition to reforming the acad emic calendar in the past, Bataille said she has encountered no opposition thus far. The proposal could be approved by both the planning committee and the full BOG this week. The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. The policy does not include tuition increases across the UNC system, like last semester’s increase passed in August by the N.C. General Assembly. Law Professor Charles Daye, who is the chairman of the advisory committee on scholarships, awards and student aid, said an increase in licensing revenues from a projected $1.4 million to $2.2 million helped the financial aid office cover a greater percentage of student need than in past years. “With the sys temwide increase, there was no money set aside,” Daye said. “It was that extra money that was held over from the year our basketball team made the Final Four that enabled us to cover the extra cost.” But Daye said that because addition al funds for student aid are not typical- learn how to be a nurse, by being a [ntftSe], Here's your chance to do what other students only read about. To get one-on-one training and have a shot at a scholarship worth thousands. It's all part of the Army Institute of Leadership Nursing Program. Talk to an Army Institute of Leadership advisor today. Because it's time you put your passion into practice. ARMY INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP Unlike any other college course you can take. For more information call 962-5546. Ulljr Dailg (Uar Hppl “I thought her pictures were the best,” he said. “She is very intelligent, and she has a great personality, but guys probably won’t vote for anything other than her looks.” Walker said he thinks the contest is a good place for Wingler to get money. “It seems like a good idea,” he said. “It’s a good way to get girls to send their pictures in and a good way to get money." The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. Into that category the court put walk ing, seeing and hearing, among other things. The court said it does not extend, as a lower federal appeals court held, to the ability to perform some manual tasks on the job. The disability must also be perma nent or long-lasting, O’Connor wrote. “It is insufficient for individuals attempting to prove disability status under this test to merely submit evi dence of a medical disability,” O’Connor wrote. Former Toyota engine assembler Ella Williams had such a medical diagnosis and instructions from her doctor not to lift too much weight or extend her arms for too long lest she aggravate her wrist, arm and shoulder problems. She blames repetitive assembly line work for her injuries and has said the problems arose within months of taking a job at the Toyota plant in Georgetown, Ky. Her restrictions meant Williams could perform some but not all her assigned duties on the factory floor, she said. She asked for reassignment and sued under the ADA when Toyota refused. Williams’ disability does not prevent her from doing many tasks at home and at work. She had no problems performing a light-duty quality inspection job at Toyota. TPAC From Page 1 to be postponing discussion and a deci sion on night parking and eliminating parking for campus residents. “Up to now there have only been informational meetings. ... More and more information added on top of the information the committee already knows, which will make it that much harder (to discuss),” Kleysteuber said. He said student leaders are con cerned about parking issues and will be following TPAC’s proceedings. “Student government is going to keep a very close eye on parking this semester, and we hope students will too." The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. ly carried over from each year, licensing revenues can not be relied on to offset future tuition increases that are not cam pus-initiated. “They can be used as a windfall, but can’t be counted on from year to year,” Daye said. Ort praised the BOT for its efforts to allocate money from each campus-based tuition increase toward financial aid. She said Princeton University is the only other institution that has a similar policy. “I have seen overwhelming support to continue this,” she said. “The com mitment our board has given to filling financial need is so uncommon in high er education." The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu.
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