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Page 4 October 27,2G04 LOCAL/WORLD NEWS Hints for Using the D. H. Hill Library at NCSU JEAN PORTER Reference librarian As many of you know, Meredith College and North Carolina State University (NCSU) are members of a local con sortium called the Coop erating Raleigh Colleges (CRC). This agreement allows students and fac ulty to borrow materials from other CRC librar ies directly without going through interlibrary loan. Students need a form from the library signed by a li brarian in order to borrow books from NCSU. In addition to borrow ing books, you might need to use an online da tabase or obtain access to an online journal at the NCState library that the Campbell Library does not have. Then you must use the computers in one of the NCSU libraries to search for the information. Current policy restricts access to most of the com puters in the D. H. Hill Li brary to those people with an NCSU ID or an NCSU borrowing card. Six com puters have been set aside for use by non-affiliated people, so you may not al ways be able to get on to a computer immediately when you arrive. To help you cope with this policy, here is some information that might be useful. The time limit for use of the computer is 30 minutes. There are no sign-up sheets. You must just wait in line for the next available computer. The staff at the reference desk gives passwords for access. After 30 minutes online, the computer will automatically log you out whether you are finished with your research or not. If you need to continue your search, you will need to wait for the next avail able computer. However, if no one is waiting you may log back in (with a new password), but you will need to reconstruct your search, so be sure to keep notes on your search terms. The least busy times for the guest computers are Friday evening, espe cially between 5-6pm, and early mornings. Access to the D. H. Hill Library building is also restricted for outside us ers. No unaffiliated us ers are allowed into the building after 10 p.m. At 10 p.m., security officers make random sweeps of the building asking for NCSU identification. Those without an NCSU ID will be asked to leave. Beginning in January 2005 the reference area of the D. H. Hill Library at NCSU will be under renovation. The refer ence service desk will be moved to the opposite end of the main floor near the periodical collection of the library. There is a likelihood that there will be even fewer computers for non-affiliated users. Because of these restric tions, we recommend that you come to the Campbell Library and ask a librarian for assistance before go ing over to the NCSU Li braries. There may be re sources available here that you haven’t discovered yet. Come to the Informa tion Desk in the library for assistance or call us at 760-8095. Spring BreaK Travel with STS, America’s #1 Student Tour Operator to Jamaica, Cancun, Acapulco, Bahamas and Florida. NOW HIRING ON-CAMPUS REPS. Call group discounts. Information/ Reservations 1.800-648-4849 or www. ststravel.com World News in Brief SARAH MARGARET TULLOSS Contributing Writer Iraq: Car bombs, suicide at tacks, and hostage kill ings are still plaguing Iraq, Baghdad in particular, cul minating in the killing of fifty unarmed soldiers last Saturday outside Bagh dad. Violent acts such as these were the catalyst for the meeting, in Tokyo, of potential benefactors to Iraq’s reconstruction. This meeting produced the de cision that financial aid already committed to Iraq must be distributed in a more rapid fashion. On a more positive note, the government’s plan to dis arm Iraq’s Shiite militia has been very successful. China: There are sixty-six people dead and eighty-twopeople missing due to a gas explo sion in a Chinese coalmine. Coal mining is dangerous business: over four thou sand men have died in coalmining accidents this year alone. On a good note, China and Russia signed an agreement resolving a border dispute dealing with the 2,700-mile border that runs between them. North and South Korea; Twenty-nine North Kore ans have entered a South Korean school in hopes of receiving asylum. How ever, the school does not have diplomatic status; so the asylum seekers may be turned over to the police. Sudan: The United Nations re ported that over 70,000 people have died in refu gee camps in Darfur. More than that, the U.N. states the death rate could in crease at a rate of 10,000 deaths per month without international aid. Con currently, Sudan, Chad, Egypt, Libya, and Nige ria have publicly rejected all foreign intervention in Sudan, maintaining that the humanitarian crisis is a purely African issue. Thus the European Union has offered financial support instead of manpower, de claring that it will pay half of the peacekeeping costs for the African Union’s presence in Darfiir. Afghanistan: Threats and attacks by the Taliban have not stopped the recent Afghan election that took place on Octo ber 9, 2004. Unofficially, the incumbent president, Hamid Karzai, has been declared the wiimer. Over ninety-four percent of the votes have been tallied, and Karzai has received over fifty-five percent of them. Pakistan: A suicide bombing rocked a Pakistani mosque, killing several Shiite Muslims. The government blames this rise in the frequency of violence on terrorist organizations, yet the vio lence could be a sign of in creased sectarian confron tation between the Surmis and the Shiites. General Musharraf, both presi dent and army chief, vows to continue his efforts against militant groups; whilst showing no indi cations that he may step down from his multiple governmental positions. Israel: Defense Minister Mofaz has met with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the religious Shas Party, to persuade him of the merits of the planned Gaza with drawal. Israel’s opposition leader, Shimon Peres, has said Ariel Sharon risks being assassinated by ex tremists opposed to his Gaza withdrawal plan. On Monday, October 25, Sharon opened his Gaza withdrawal plan to debate on the Knesset floor. He argued that the withdrawal plan would only strengthen Israel, but he also admitted that the plan could not be accomplished by violence alone. Sharon stated that he remains open to peace talks with the Palestin ians if they cease carry ing out terrorist attacks. As Sharon was giving his speech, thousands of disengagement support ers demonstrated in sup port of the withdrawal plan outside the Knesset.
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