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36 Rebuilding the Gulf Coast remains a lengthy process after Jurricane Katrinas destruction ranstbrmin^j; the Gulf Opinion • \oung Marriage: A brief s(x:ial trend or the return of old tradirions? • 8 anner It are inga good theii Drdet and ^ctof irked ihool geles issee sin- :bill issed con- See Life io Junior outfielder Rob N'ernon reexeix es Rig South Conference honor after w eekend series la\ cr of the \\ cck IFacebook raises political issues I By Usa Gille^ie & Jim MacKenzie I Assistant Editor & Staff Writer With the development of new Internet social networking services, like Facebook.com, new issues arise, especially within the last Student Government Association elec- ition, dealing with campaigning |and constitution bylaws. “It seems like these rules are created for past elections, when do these rules change for new technologies?” said Mark Gibney, political science pro fessor. No campaigning of any kind by anyone at a polling site is allowed. People who cam paign at a polling site are in violation of election procedure, according to Section Five, No. 10 of the SGA constitution. “With Internet campaigning, you would have to be looking for it,” said Tarik Glenn, for mer SGA president. “To apply this bylaw the the last election, you would have to have to I have two windows up, one for the campaign on Facebook and one up for voting. It’s not like the campaign info was a pop up.” President-elect John Noor said no investigation into dis missing Facebook from student campaigns will be conducted. “My feeling on Facebook is , that it’s just like any other medium. It has potential for ( abuse,” Noor said. Students are allotted 10 days for campaigning, according to uhe SGA Campaign Rules. A candidate cannot post cam- 1 :paign material around campus ; or on-line until that time. Noor said the most likely [ thing that will happen is that Facebook will be monitored more closely in future elec tions. Following recent rumors regarding certain campus can didates and student conduct I violations. Campus Police told i The Blue Banner reporters that these citations are not public record. The officer decides whether to issue a student con duct citation instead of a state I citation, according to Melanie khodarmer, associate director , of housing and residence life. This is [a] Campus Police officer’s discretion,” j Rhodarmer said. “Usually, if it I js a first time, non-serious vio lation, and the student is coop erative, they will be issued a ^udent conduct citation. However, if a federal, state or bcal law has been broken, Gmpus Police always have die discretion to file a state I citation.” T^e student-conduct cita- dons are confidential for all j students, according to 1 l^odarmer. Student Conduct citations ^0 not public record at any time,” Rhodarmer said. “Part °f the educational component ®f the conduct process is the opportunity for the student to ®aintain confidentiality during ®id after the conduct process.” Facebook has implications baling with aspects of student tfe that were never thought of jfote, according to Pat I ^'■Clellan, associate vice I chancellor of student affairs. 1 hope they (SGA) realize there are loop holes and that need to be ; ^ dressed,” McClellan said. ■ 1’'WFi.JiwarfHWiWl See Spor i'S 7 April 20, 2006 vr rsm’ Shanna Arney - Staff Photographer Senior biology student Emily Sampson collects money for an item she sold at the rummage sale on the quad on Saturday. The proceeds from the sale will be donated for land preservation in Peru. There was also entertainment, speakers and musical acts during EarthFest 2006. EarthFest 2006 UNCA raises money for land preservation By Jim MacKenzie Staff Writer Saving the earth is necessary, but it can be a lot of fun as well. UNCA hosted EarthFest 2006 on the quad Saturday. The event aimed to educate the public about various ecological dilemmas fac ing the world and raise money for land preservation, with a rum mage sale. “We can have an outstanding quality of life, freedom, economic opportunities and life can be sus tained on this planet,” said Dee Eggers, assistant professor of environmental studies. “I think it’s a question of having the will and the responsibility and the maturity and caring to make it happen.” All of the volunteers worked hard and lost sleep for several days, according to Maggie Ullman, senior environmental sci ence student and chair of the Active Students for a Healthy Environment club, who helped organize the event. “There’s been a lot of support,” Ullman said. ‘There have been a lot of things bought (at the sale), which is what it’s all about. We wanted to preserve some land and have a community event.” All the money raised will be donated for land preservation, according to Liz Wilcox, senior environmental science student and Better Asheville Recycling Coalition member. ‘The money we raise will be donated to an international con servation project, which will go to Peru,” Wilcox said. “We have a donor, matching us dollar for dol lar, who will donate to the Hickory Nut Gorge around Lake Lure.” The club accepted donations of just about anything from the com munity, according to Wilcox. Wilcox said the amount of stuff given was overwhelming. “I think this is great,” Wilcox said. “We’ve made a lot of money. There’s a lot of things that can be done with this.” Throughout the day, EarthFest featured entertainment, speakers and various musical acts. Junior Dave Malutich helped as U J? We can have an outstanding quality of life, freedom, eco nomic opportunities and life can be sustained on this planet. Dee EfiGERS assistant professor of environmental studies an event coordinator. ‘The vision for this has been in the works for a year,” Malutich said. “It has worked out really well.” Tandy Solomon’s non-profit organization, Asheville’s Green, helped save one of the largest, undeveloped pieces of land within Asheville’s city limits from being developed, according to Solomon. “It was owned by land develop ers,” Solomon said. “They were going to develop it. We became friendly with them over the course of the last year. They gave us a good deal. They are basically sell ing it to us for half of what they could make.” Junior environmental science student Carolyn Fryberger helped Asheville’s Green create Geographical Information System maps of the land. Many different groups operated booths throughout the day. Terri David, of an animal rights group, | said that no one is really an envi- j ronmentalist until they are a vege- j tarian. “We believe that the animals are not ours to do as we please with,” i David said. “Meat production contributes greatly to carbon dioxide emissions.” > Deborah Jones said EarthFest was fun, and she learned a few things as well. 1 “I didn’t know that eating meat i contributed to global warming,” Jones said. “I’m going to at least try to cut down.” Sophomore Matt Machles was one of the many who volunteered | to help with EarthFest. ‘This makes people aware of things going on in Asheville,” Machles said. “You get to help the cause.” I By Sarah Fantle Staff Writer An increase in the number of students attending UNCA means campus construction will inevitably affect the campus community for some time, how ever concerns about environmen tal contamination and student safety become prevalent. “I noticed silt net problems, which were causing the ponds to be bright orange, the color of clay and silt,” said James Wood, senior biology and environmental science student. “I talked to the site manager about silt nets and he called me an ‘idealistic stu dent,’ and told me to get off the property. It is unfortunate that areas on campus the science classes use for research might not be usable much longer.” According to Wood a verbal altercation with a construction worker took place when he came back to the site to take some pic tures. “I talked to some professors about the issue and went back to the area, staying out of the con struction site, to take a few pic tures,” Wood said. “One of the construction workers started yelling obscenities at me, started throwing rocks at me and flip ping me the bird. The problem I was trying to reveal was that the crew covered up their old silt net with new construction and decid ed not to fix it. It was the cheap way out, and they didn’t think anyone would notice. Instead everyone had to pay for their neglect.” UNCA carries a very low toler ance for contractors acting inap propriately, according to Baxley. “After the incident, the con struction supervisor was instruct ed to go back and speak with his employees,” Baxley said. “We have kicked off contractors in the past for inappropriate behavior toward students. It should also be noted that the contractor involved in the con frontation had not been on cam pus regularly, so it is possible he had not been through the exten sive sensitivity training the other workers are required to take regarding rules and regulations on student interactions.” SEE Construction page 21 Professors consider Podcasting lectures , By Paige Reinhard I Staff Writer i UNCA may become more tech- : nologically advanced as teachers I consider using Podcasts as a teaching aid. “I think it would be a good idea I because people might miss humanities lectures otherwise,” said Danielle Burkhardt, junior management student. “They could just listen to it on the computer.” Podcasting is a way of broad casting mostly audio files on the Internet. Earlier this month, plena ry addresses given by speakers at ^ NCUR used Podcast, giving stu dents who were not able to attend an opportunity to listen to them. Eventually Podcasting could be used to help students catch up on what they have missed in class. “I have all management classes and I have humanities,” Burkhardt said. “So, for humanities it proba bly would be useful.” However, for some classes, using Podcasts might not be bene ficial, according to Burkhardt. “I don’t know if it would do it for management classes because sometimes there are group activi ties,” Burkhardt said. Obtaining permission to publish audio files of lectures to the Internet could prove complicated. ‘The main thing is to get per mission from the speaker ahead of time, to not only record her talk, but to broadcast it to the world via the Web,” said Bryan Sinclair, associate university librarian for public services. Other than acquiring the speak er’s permission, getting a lecture Podcast is not that difficult, according to Sinclair. “Surprisingly, it’s a very simple process,” Sinclair said. “There is freeware audio editing software out there that is quite good.” In fact, some might wonder why it has taken so long to gamer interest in having lectures Podcast. “You might be surprised to know that we have had this tech nology for some time,” Sinclair said. “I remember that Chuck Bennett in physics was streaming media over the Internet in 1999.” Some students think that having classes Podcast is a good insur ance policy, according to Burkhardt. “I think it would be convenient if you are going to miss class and it is always better to have a back up,” Burkhardt said. Though some students said they look forward to listening to class es on-line, others said they are Jilt Shanna Arney - Staff Photographer Freshman Giedre Knilikas listens to music on her iPod. Professors are considering Podcasting lectures such as humanities lectures. convinced it will still take a while before the idea picks up steam. “I think it will probably take a bit of time at first for people to even realize that we have it and then get into it,” Evans said. “But I think people will want to use it. It’s a time saver.” ii: i ■ ••
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