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January 26.2000
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Issue..
OiMstion of ttw Week
Students sound off about South
Carolina flag controversy / 4
RMovatod UiMtor
coming back to IHo
“Fool For Love” to play at historic
downtown venue/ 9
Virginia Commonwoaitli
eauglit in a Biizzard
Seahawks overpower Rams at
Trask /13
New Marine Science Center opens soon
by ANNA C. BROOME
Staff Writer
On Friday, Feb. 4, 2000, the new Center for Marine Science at
5001 Masonboro Loop Road will officially open for UNCW students
and faculty.
Although the original opening date was scheduled for April. 8,
1999, the scheduling was postponed due to hurricanes and other un
foreseeable problems, including inspection delays.
“We are in the final flows of inspection now. We moved a consid
erable amount of our equipment into the new building. We are just
waiting for the green light so we can transfer the rest of our materials
and our staff,” said Assistant Vice Chancellor of Facilities David
Girardot.
UNCW will be sharing the new building with other universities in
the state. N.C. State, Western Carolina, Appalachian State, UNC Char
lotte, Cape Fear and Brunswick Community Colleges and local high
schools will also be conducting research and classes at the building.
“It will be the finest center for Marine Science on the East Coast,”
Girardot said. “The possibilities for its expansion seem as vast as the
sea.”
UNCW is well-known for its marine science programs which have
flourished because of the university’s ideal location and estabhshed
staff.
“UNCW graduates make up a large percentage of our staff. They
come out of school advanced and prepared,” said Rich Carpenter, the
district manager for the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Division.
The old facility, located on Eastwood Road, where the center was
previously housed, will remain open for aquaculture-based activities
like farm raising catfish and flounder. Although the site is functional,
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Nearly a year behind schedule, the new Center for Ma
rine Science will officially open Feb. 4 to UNCW stu-
dents and faculty.
“Now we are able to step out our back door and collect a sample as
opposed to crossing a four lane highway to get to our cars and drive to
the beach,” said Associate Director of Marine Science James F. Merritt.
The new facihties are also better equipped to support different kinds
of research.
“We will be able to investigate marine toxicology,” Carper said. “Pol
lutants and ‘red tides’ are just two areas that will now be subject to
intense research.”
UNCW’s Marine Biology Department is currently ranked among
the top five nationally. Many people expect that the new Center for
Marine Science will expand and improve its program and take the uni-
versity to the next level in the new millennium.
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UNCW, the winter wonderland...
Classes were canceled last Tuesday in the wake
of a rare snowstorm in southeatern North Caro
lina. The Wilmington area recieved less than two
inches of the white stuff, which melted away by
Wednesday afternoon.
“Hurricane” Carter
storms through Kenan
Auditorium
by TORI BOONE &
RACHEL CRUZ
Staff Writers
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, I
former middleweight boxer who
was wrongly convicted of murder,
came out on Kenan Auditorium’s
stage last Thursday night with as
much intensity as the boxing style
that earned him his nickname.!
Carter’s speech mirrored his box
ing style: graceful to the point and' KmrynSchley^ne^aha«k
in your face as he discussed “Hurricane” Carter visited
issues he considered more UNCW last Thursday.
important than his 20-year prison
term or his successful boxing career—he gave lessons on life.
Known for throwing an average of 80 punches a minute, Carter’s
fast and furious boxing career took off quickly. He was the number
one middleweight boxer in the world in the early sixties, and it seemed
that nothing and no one could stop his force of nature fighting.
Carter’s life came to a starthng halt in 1966, when at the age of 29
he went from making $100,000 a year to receiving three life sen
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