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Wednesday, March 22,1995
College Students Get New On-Ramp to Internet
BY RACHAEL LANDAU
STAFF WRITER
The information superhighway recently
got another on-ramp, as anew on-line
service offered by Peterson’s Guides Inc.
provides access to educational informa
tion ranging from summer jobs to financial
aid to college programs.
The new service is called Peterson’s
Internet Education Center. The inspira
tion behind the idea came from Casey
Hegener, one of the founders ofPeterson’s.
“It came as a result of our own aware
ness of the power of the Internet and the
thinking on our part that students on col
lege campuses were very much involved
through e-mail and on-campus connec
tions to the Internet,” said Peter Hegener,
the president and co-founder of Peterson’s
Guides Inc.
“Asa result, it was a natural step for us
to take what we had been publishing in
print and make it available to students
through an electroric format,” he said.
Susan Ritchie, In iemetcommunications
c inagerat Peterson’s, said that the system
had started J. t. 3 and that students could
access information in four sectors. She said
the company’s extension into the com
puter realm was a natural transition.
“We’vealwayswo. ery closely with
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McCreary County, Ky, would hardly
be considered a tourist area.
In fact, it is one of the 10 poorest coun
ties in the United States, but that didn’t
keep seven UNC students from spending
their Spring Break there helping to im
prove the living conditions.
The Newman Center, a Catholic church
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dents, worked with the Christian Appala
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about 90 other students from around the
country in eastei n Kentucky in two of the
country’s poorest counties.
The Christian Appalachian Project, a
charity organization based in eastern Ken
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priest who visited ’he impoverished areas
of McCreary and Martin counties.
Students worked during break to im
prove the homes of poor families that could
not afford the necessary repairs and addi
tions. Tasks included insulating a house,
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colleges to bring them the largest audi
ences,” she said. “The on-line world is the
way things are going.”
The center provides educational infor
mation and opportunities at vanous levels.
All of the information published in
Peterson’s guides is included, but it can be
accessed more conveniently and without
the cost using the new system.
Users can cross-reference for specific
programs and information without sifting
through a comprehensive book.
Information is available on undergradu
ate colleges, summer jobs at camps, sum
mer programs for kids and teens, and gradu
ate and professional study.
The undergraduate sector has many
practical applications for students. Not only
will they be able to find information about
colleges and institutions but they will also
be able to apply to more than 130 schools
on-line without mailing in an application.
When not in school, students can use
the summer job postings to find that elu
sive, ideal employment. Part of the career
and jobs area, which is not yet complete,
will include the postings for job informa
tion for various summer camps.
The job descriptions include informa
tion about the camp such as a general
purpose, requirements, contacts, number
of openings, dates, pay and the date the
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installing storm windows and building a
kitchen.
“We were working to make this
woman’s house warmer,” said Gina
DeFranco, a sophomore from Cleveland.
“We put insulation on the outside of the
existing structure and vinyl siding over
that.”
In a county where the average annual
income is $7,000, there’s not much money
left overfor home improvement. McCreary
County got its first house with running
water only about six years ago, and most
still do not have it, said Jeff Holman, a
sophomore from Hickory.
“You always hear about poverty, but
when you go there it’s really an eye-open
ing experience,” Holman said.
McCreary County also has a 60 percent
illiteracy rate. Only 25 percent of those
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information was last updated. The open
ings are listed alphabetically by the name
of the camp.
The summer programs sector has list
ings for more than 1,400 organizations
from traditional camps to tour groups to
private schools and colleges. The camps
are located across the United States,
Canada and several other countries.
Users can search alphabetically, geo
graphically, by activity and by the type of
program: day, residential or travel. More
than 340 categories are available under the
type of activity offered.
The final branch of the service, the gradu
ate and professional study sector, gives
information on more than 1,500 accred
ited U.S. institutions. Users can search for
institutions by academic area, geographic
area, alphabetical listing and faculty.
The apply function also is available for
graduate schools, but only a few schools
have requested this service, Hegener said.
At the moment, these applications are free,
but this might change if schools choose to
charge students for the service.
“My hunch is that as they see how the
education center works, and as they be
come aware of the traffic in the Peterson’s
Education Center, they are bound to react
with making sure they have an electronic
application on their site on the center,”
who go to high school graduate, and teen
pregnancy rates are one of the country’s
highest.
“There’s not really a push for educa
tion,” said Christina Aquilante, a fresh
man from Phoenixville, Pa. “There’s a
push to acquire skills and get a job really
fast to make money for the family.”
Despite the poverty, students were im
pressed with the generosity of the commu
nity. “It was amazing to see how much
compassion people can have for each
other,” DeFranco said. “Though these
people live in such poverty, they would
give you anything.”
Holman got to know the family he was
helping, a couple with three young girls,
during the week. Neither the husband nor
the wife had jobs or much money.
“I had my birthday over Spring Break,”
Holman said. “They found out and baked
me a cake. I don’t know how they did it.”
Students did run into some minor diffi
culties during their stay. The residents of
McCreary County, which is isolated in the
mountains of Kentucky, spoke with hints
of Old English, according to some on the
trip. "I couldn’t understand them,” said
Sara Brandt, a sophomore from Derry,
N.H. “Up until the coming of TV and
radio, they’ve had no contact with the
outside world.”
Hegener said.
Users can access this information on the
World Wide Web at http://
www.petersons.com.
The education center will be adding and
updating the system with new information
and installing new features at the various
sites throughout the year.
Since the center’s opening, it has been
accessed more than 250,000 times from
countries all over the world.
“Because of the great interest in surfing
in cyberspace, we realize that the Peterson’s
Education Center is a central place for
accessing information on any college at the
undergraduate or graduate level,” he said.
“It makes it, therefore, very easy for a
student to link directly to the information
any of the colleges want to provide,” he
said.
The system is, in a way, richer than the
books Peterson’s offers because users can
do many things on the system, Ritchie
said.
Rather than having to look up each
college or program they are interested in,
students can pull up lists that fulfill the
criteria they are interested in.
They don’t have to write each college
for additional information but instead can
simply use the on-line system’s various
functions.
Campus Calendar
Women's History Month
Maijorie Lee Browne and Evelyn Boyd Granville
These two women were the first black women to
receive doctoral degrees in mathematics. Both women
received their degrees in 1949.
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auditorium until 11:30 a m. An IRS representative
will make a presentation. Individual assistance will
be held from 1 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. in Union 224.
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5 p.m. Intelligent Men Achieving Goals of Ex
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in touch with business leaders and helped
him in making decisions about the UNC
system.
When questioned about whether his
business affairs demanded too much of his
time, he said he had been a very accessible
president. “No student or faculty member
has ever failed to receive a call from me or
get attention about matters that they bring
to me,” Spangler said.
Jordan, a former BOG chairman, ques
tioned whether acquiring corporations was
an appropriate activity for a UNC presi
dent.
“If the president’s role on a corporate
board is to simply counsel and advise, then
I see no problem,” he said. “However, if
the president is so active in coiporate af
fairs that it takes time away from his role as
president, then it’s not appropriate.”
Jordan said other BOG members had
similar concerns but were not willing to
say so publicly.
But some BOG members have a differ
ent opinion. “When you’ve achieved the
status in life that C.D. Spangler has, you
don't achieve that without meeting all of
your obligations,” said BOG member and
UNC law student Mark Bibbs.
Robert Eubanks Jr., vice chairman of
Franklin Street Trust bank and a former
member of UNC-CH’s Board of Trustees,
said the BOG should have considered the
issue before Spangler was selected.
“C.D. Spangler fully disclosed that he
was a wealthy man at the time he was
appointed,” Eubanks said.
BOG member Philip Carson, who was
head of the search committee that selected
Spangler, said Spangler’s serving on cor
porate boards was not an issue at the time.
“If I had my personal druthers about it,
I’d prefer that he wouldn’t serve on corpo
rate boards,” Carson said. “But he should
be given credit that he’s been thoughtful in
his decisions. And he truthfully believes
that the University is better for it.”
Setting a New Face
When C.D. Spangler took the post as
UNC-system president nine years ago, he
asked in reference to his predecessor, Wil
liam Friday, “How do you follow an All-
American educator?” The answer Spangler
gave the BOG when accepting his nomina
tion was a Latin phrase that translates as,
“with a different pace, but on the same
road.”
In Friday’s 30 years as UNC president,
he built a reputation as a hands-on admin
istrator and a master politician with a flair
for consensus building. He also set a policy
for himself not to sit on any corporate
boards.
“That was a matter of personal prefer
ence,” Friday said. “The work then was
entirely different than it is now.”
Spangler came to the position with a
reputation as a shrewd businessman and
ait independent thinker. The 1954 UNC
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business administration graduate joined
his family’s successful construction busi
ness as president in 1958, expanding and
diversifying its real estate holdings.
He was also an active supporter of pub
lic education. As one of the few Charlotte
business leaders to support public schools
in the early days of integration, he was
elected to Charlotte’s school board in 1972.
In 1982, Gov. Jim Hunt appointed him
chairman of the N.C. Board of Education.
In what he called a “mid-life career
switch,” Spangler replaced Friday as UNC
president in 1986.
In an era of public-private partnerships,
Spangler’s business experience is invalu
able in strengthening corporate connec
tions to the UNC system, N.C. Rep. Joe
Hackney, D-Orange, said.
Former BOG member William Dees
said these connections also had the poten
tial to create a conflict of interest.
“Serving on coiporate boards and as
UNC-system president can create a com
petitive situation between two companies
with a possibility of jealousy,” Dees said.
“Forexample, one can’t serve on two local
bank boards, so one of the companies can
be seen to have a greater influence or an
unfair advantage."
BOT Chairman David Whichard said
that Spangler avoided conflicts of interest.
“Some of his corporate actions, in that
they’ve become matters of controversy,
may have detracted from his position.”
A Corporate Raider?
During his reign as UNC president,
Spangler’s involvement in higher educa
tion has often been eclipsed in the head
lines by news of his business savvy.
Most recently, media attention has fo
cused on Spangler’s bidding war for Char
lotte-based National Gypsum.
In the past five months, Delcor, a sub
sidiary investment firm controlled by
Spangler, has made two unsolicited offers
to buy the company. Takeover attempts
were made while Spangler served as
nonexecutive chairman Gypsum’s board
of directors. He was replaced as chairman
last month but remains on the board.
Two of Delcor’s financial backers for
the takeover bids were Nationsßank and
First Union, an unusual alliance that also
grabbed headlines. Spangler’s strong repu
tation in the state has been credited for
rallying the two Charlotte-based banks
behind the joint venture.
Delcor holds 19 percent of Gypsum’s
stock and is its largest shareholder. As the
bidding war has heated up, National
Gypsum’s stock has shot up 52 percent
from 32 3/4 in mid-Novemberto 49 7/8 on
Monday.
Bibbs said UNC had always been
Spangler’s first priority while president.
“He’s a highly motivated and highly
organized individual who has fantastic
managerial skills,” Bibbs said. “He’s able
to do more than one thing at one time. His
ability to delegate responsibility within the
University is one of his strongest assets.”