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Gtyp Baihj Jar Mrri African culture focus of Unity banquet BY CHERRIECE WRIGHT STAFF WRITER The African Students Association treated UNC alumni, students and par ents to a small piece of African culture through food, fashion, poetry and dance Saturday in the Great Hall. The more than 100 people who at tended the banquet saw hours of dedica tion and hard work pay off in the form of brightly colored traditional clothes, spicy Nigerian beef and fried plantains. "With programs like these, we hope to give African-Americans —and others who otherwise wouldn’t know —a taste of African food and culture,” said Ukonwa Kuzi-Orizu, co-president of the ASA. ASAmember Zenitra Smith said, “We Thanksgiving travelers to pay more at pumps BY KISHMA PATNAIK STAFF WRITER The annual trip home for turkey will cost travelers in North Carolina more this Thanksgiving weekend. According to an AAA study, a gallon of regular, unleaded gasoline in North Carolina will cost 16.9 cents more than it did last Thanksgiving weekend. “I have heard very little complaints about the price of gas in reference to last year’s price,” said David Walker, who is the owner of Walker’s BP on East Franklin Street. Walker said people tend to notice week-to-week changes instead of long term hikes. Although local service station owners said the price of gas had not increased in the last two to three weeks, the study reported that the traditional holiday hike came a little earlier this year. The current average price per gallon, Dilbert * i THE EVIL MR. CATBERT, UIHE.N DILL j f DIRECTOR OF H.R., 15 RAISE I f- THF FiAFAF 1 ! FEELING ''IN THE.ZONE." BE ” E? ! ™e W I (rrsTriTwT) V S [ ARE ; J ; ■ /the employees 7 f" 1 ) j Jf\ f ARE MOVING IN) i THE Daily Crossword by Florence C. 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The play began with a disembod ied voice telling the audience ofthe change in control of the government. “That’s all you get sometimes,” Kuzi- Orizu said. “ You just wake up one morn ing and hear over the radio someone telling you, ‘I have killed your president, now I’m the president and now this is punishable by death and that is punish able by death.’” Members of the ASA also performed the “Atilogwu,” a traditional dance of the Igbo ethnic group in Southeast Nige ria, and Olufunke Moses, a 24-year-old $1,201, represents a two-cent increase since Labor Day. “The price of gasoline is perhaps the purest example of supply and demand,” said Donna Emmary, public relations manager for AAA in Charlotte. Since Thanksgiving is the most trav eled holiday of the year, Emmary said, gasoline stations have a higher demand and must pay for delivery more often. “We try to keep our tanks full, ” Walker said. When the tanks get just below ca pacity, they order deliveries immediately to fill them back up. “And that happens much more fre quently during the holiday season,” he said. Emmary said the moderate price in creases due to increase in demand would not affect people’s plans to travel this Thanksgiving. “Even when gas prices are very high, we do not see much of a decrease in travel.” 3 Hiding place 4 Recommend 5 Clairvoyant 6 Lenient 7 boy (acolyte) 8 Venerate 9 Wind dir. 10 King Arthur's wife 11 English composer 12 For fear that 13 Carry 20 Russian sea 21 Chaplain 25 Become a member 27 Tribunal of prelates 28 Public 30 Director Kazan 31 Tear 32 each life some rain..." 33 Term of affection 34 King Arthur's sword ™ H ~ ill-:- B' Bia t 19 20 21 H 122 23 ■ mmp —■■ Bps p 7 30 31 32 33 34 ■■36 37 ■■3 B 39 ■■4 o HTT 42 B|.l ' Mf44*T 45 46 ■■l47 U 8 59 60 63 ■■64 66 Bir 69 H7O ■■ performance studies major, read three original pieces titled “Color Theory,” “Pretty Brown Blues” and “Nine o’clock Post Meridian.” “It was a wonderful event, very cul tural,” said Traci Currie, dance teacher at The Lord’s Church of Chapel Hill and a UNC alumnae. Currie brought several children to the event so they could expe rience a dance from a different culture. Marie Sengal, who is originally from Gambia, said, “They showed all the beauty of African dress and music. ” Adam Aberra and Eddie Neufville, executive officers of the ASA, said they were pleased with the turnout and were glad people enjoyed the banquet. “We were trying to promote awareness,” Aberra said. “We wanted to give every body a little taste of Africa.” Emmary said the 15-centincreaseover last year’s price only meant $1.50 more for every ten gallons and was not enough to affect people’s travel. Students agreed the effect would be minimal. “The price isn’t going to discourage me,” said Jennifer Moore, a graduate student from Lincolnton. “Think ofhow much it would cost you to stay in Chapel Hill and have a decent Thanksgiving meal,” Moore said. “That would cost much more than the gas. But if the price was closer to $1.50 or $2.00 a gallon, then I would question it," Moore said. Laura Sprenkle, a junior communica tions major from York, Pennsylvania, said the increase wouldn’t really have an effect on her plans to return home either. “If the price were raised a lot so that I couldn’t pay for it then I wouldn’t go. “But that’s not in the foreseeable fu ture,” she said. © 1996 Tribune Media Services, Inc. All rights reserved. 35 Expiate 37 Always 40 Pilfer 44 Leave out 46 Phantoms 48 Thoroughgoing 50 Inflexible 52 Alert 53 Doorkeeper 54 Flower 55 Traffic sign 56 Ostentatious 57 Antitoxins 59 Immoral practice 60 Distinctive style 62 Ship letters NEWS Students sell Web wares, go out West ■ Four students made waves with their software and are capitalizing on it. BY CORY VAN BELOIS STAFF WRITER Usually students have to graduate from college before they start earning millions of dollars. However, there are some ex ceptions. The exceptions are four former UNC students: Jeff Harrell, Mark Elrod, Gene Hoffman and James Howard. The stu dents have already made it big develop ing their own company, PrivNet, and creating computer software to protect the privacy of people who surf the Internet. Recently, the students sold their busi ness and software, called Internet Fast Forward, to a California-based software manufacturer and plan on moving to the West Coast to work for the company. The students first caught the eye ofbig companies by putting their products on the World Wide Web for beta testing. Beta testing is an opportunity for users to try a company’s piece of software free of charge, and in turn providing feedback on the product. * The software blocks advertisements from showing up when users download web pages. “The benefit of Internet Fast Forward is you save time by not having to down load annoying advertisements,” said Jeff Harrell, corporate financial officer of PrivNet. “Almost all of our software is based on bringing privacy back to the Net. We developed our software on the idea that what you do on the Internet should be your own business," Harrell said. PrivNet also has created “Cookie Cutters” software which blocks “cook ies” from the Web, a method used to track web surfing habits. “When companies know what sites RAISES FROM PAGE 1 Fran, it has been shown how prepared the town was." Horton and Karpinos can also take credit for the town’s successful handling of events like Halloween on Franklin Street, she said. “If they do excellent work and work really hard, then they should get the highest amount possible,” Evans said. “That’s true with all employees.” Capowski said he would vote to give Horton and Karpinos a 5 percent increase because they were doing a good job. “The town is doing very well because of excellent manage- Bizarro (No ST fEOPLE ASSUME I'M CRAZY, BuTjfM m You. You stood by no rf/l IV MATTER WHAT.. j ' Q urn —. Mark Elrod (left) and Jeff Harrell of PrivNet are two of the creators of Internet Fast Forward, a program that blocks ads from web pages. you are visiting, they can send advertise ments specifically based on your inter ests,” Harrell said. PrivNet’s software garnered national attention when first released because of its controversial implications. The New York Times, The L.A. Times and CNN featured the software creators. “We all were excited. We had a really hot and controversial idea,” said Mark Elrod, the head programmer for PrivNet. “Hopefully, we are doing the same thing as Bill Gates (of Microsoft) and Steve Drives (of Apple). “We were ahead of the curve in realiz ing the problem of advertising on the Web,” Elrod said. “That sparked us to start PrivNet, Inc.” Harrell said his partner, James Howard, came up with the idea for the ment and legal services,” he said. , But the Black Public Works Association has protested the possible salary increases. The group presented a proposal called the Freedom Budget to the council last summer that called for an elimination of percentage pay mo-eases, said BPWA attorney Mark Dorosin. The BPWA said the percentage pay increase meant signifi cantly less money for the lowest-paid employees. The associa tion suggested that a flat dollar increase would be more fair, Dorosin said. “A 5 percent raise is greater than any other worker has gotten,” he said. Dorosin said the BPWA was pleased with the efforts the Town Council has made to remedy pay inequities in the town, but that it needed to do more. An investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the town was filed by the BPWA last fall and is in its beginning stages, Dorosin said. The EEOC will investi gate discriminatory practices regarding pay, promotional op portunities and training. RAMESES FROM PAGE 1 received information about Mr. Wade.” Fox said he could not give details concerning the tip that led the sheriff s department to Wade. Fox also said that he could not discuss details of the department’s investigation into the incident. However, Fox said there was no informal-:on to indicate that Wade was a homeless person, especially hungry or a UNC student. Wade’s first court appearance is Dec. 2 in Hillsborough Wade, who has no prior criminal record, could serve up to 120 days in jail for cruelty to animals, which is a misdemeanor offense. UNC Athletic Director John Swofford released a statement in support of the sheriff department’s work on the case. “Our law enforcement officers have done a great job of continuing to follow up on this case,” he said. “I know every one in our department appreciates that and feels badly for what the Hogan family has gone through. Hopefully, nothing like this will ever happen again.” Monday, November 25,1996 programs because the Internet was be coming too commercial. “(James) saw that the Internet was almost becoming like television, ” Harrell said. The ensuing success and the sale of their business has stunned the four stu dents who created PrivNet. “We were bought out in the middle of the development of our products, ” Elrod said. The company’s software has created some concern, though. Some critics say web pages that were previously free to access may soon require subscription fees if there is no money f m ad\ Misers to pay for them Harrell said, “It was a very controver sial piece of software and we knew it was going to make some waves.” 5
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