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March 27, 2001
Online voting to make debut on campus
Todd Vqlkstdrf
STAFF Writer
Online voting has become a topic
of national debate, and the UNCW
Student Government Association
decided last week to make it the of
ficial method of selecting student
leaders.
Improving voter turnout is a goal
the SGA has worked toward all year,
and this is a way they felt they could
achieve that goal, said Crisp
McDonald, sophomore class presi
dent. Carolyn Farley, the acting stu
dent government advisor, proposed
the idea at the beginning of the aca
demic year, according to McDonald.
The elections are set for Tuesday,
April 10 and Wednesday, April 11,
and students will have both days to
cast their votes. Each UNCW stu
dent email account will receive a
message that will link to a Web site
containing the ballot. Once on the
Web site, in order to cast a valid
ballot, students will have to enter
their identification number and
password just as they would if ac
cessing SEAWEB,
the UNCW online
registration sys
tem.
All UNCW
email accounts can
be configured to
forward messages
to other commer
cial email accounts
including Hotmail,
Yahoo! and AOL.
Students unaware
of this feature can
contact the com
puter help desk in
Hoggard Hall at
962-4357.
According to
Ashley Delph,
SGA secretary of public relations,
the SGA is hopeful that using the
online system for voting will reduce
the chance of error in the election
and increase participation.
“It’s been a goal of SGA to bring
in online voting and to try and move
us into a more technological stage,”
she said.
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Rosalie Cost, a UNCW senior
who has voted in past student elec
tions, is concerned about learning a
candidate’s platform. She said in
the past it was difficult to find the
information, and she usually voted
for a friend or a name she frequently
saw on a campaign poster.
See voting, Page 2
WLOZ will remain silent until station reorganizes
Dan Guy
^ICWS EDITOR
WLOZ will remain closed until
the station can be reorganized, at the
earliest next academic year.
The decision was made at a Stu-
Sunset on the Cape Fear
The U.S.S. North Carolina is illuminated by
the setting sun over the Cape Fear River
downtown this past week.
dent Media Board (SMB) emer
gency meeting last Thursday. The
board allotted the station $2,000 in
money for training and reorgani
zation. It also requested that a rep
resentative from the WLOZ core
group work with the board and
present them regular progress re
ports.
The decision of
the SMB comes one
week after the
WLOZ viability
committee recom
mended to the board
that they reopen the
station with certain
guidelines and con
ditions. After a
lengthy and emo
tional discussion
the SMB decided
the station needs to
remain closed until
the WLOZ core
group can make
more progress.
James Flint/ The Seahawk
IHualmbon by Gabe Herman/ The Seahawk
Several SMB members agreed
that the station must be reorganized
and receive some form of training
before it will begin broadcasting.
The format of broadcasting is an
other issue since the current signal
would be considered “pirate” if it
bleeds off campus, according to Bill
DiNome, student media coordinator.
“The only two other options I see
right now are web streaming and di
rect feed (via cable),” he said. “Nei
ther of them can guarantee much of
an audience.”
See WLDZ, Page 2~