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(Flip latlu (Ear Uppl p Aits, \ 105 yean of editorial freedom Sm,ing community amxlVH™™** Protesters denounce Playboy’s presence ■ Playboy representatives are interviewing students for an upcoming issue. BY LAURA STOEHR STAFF WRITER Protesters cried out against the‘look ist’ society created by Playboy magazine and the women students who will pose for it, in reaction to the magazine’s arrival Tuesday. Waving signs that declared “This bunny lays rotten eggs” and “Women of the (Atlantic Coast Conference) cry foul Don’t play with Playboy,” demon strators protested Playboy magazine’s search for female models for its “Women of the ACC” issue. The group of about 40 protesters began its march at 12:30 p.m. in the Pit and marched silently to the Carolina Inn while protest organizer Kathryn Kooistra addressed passersby with a DTH/ION GARDINER Protesters of Playboy magazine marched from the Pit to the Carolina Inn, and down Franklin Street on Tuesday afternoon. FAA approves new airport landing policy ■ Since the FAA does not fund the airport, it cannot regulate its operations. BY JON OSTENDORFF CITY EDITOR The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that landing restric tions at the Horace Williams airport could not be regulated by the FAA. In response to a Feb. 25 crash at the airport in which three people were seri ously injured, University officials decid ed to staff the airport later in the evening and to close it to most air-traf- fic during late night and early morning hours. Under the new policy, the airport is staffed from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is closed between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. to airplanes, except those flying on official University busi ness. Last week there was some discus sion between the University and the FAA regarding ■ Executive Vice Chancellor ELSON FLOYD said he was pleased with the FAA's decision concerning the landing policy. the wording of the new policy concern ing non-University or transient aircraft. However, Kathlyn Bergen, manager of public affairs for the FAA’s Southern Regional Office in Atlanta, said the air port’s hours of operation could not be regulated by the administration because the airport did not use FAA funding. She said the airport’s new operations policy was acceptable as long as landing provisions were made for transient air craft. “We would prefer that all airports See AIRPORT, Page 6 There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots. Henry David Thoreau megaphone. “(Pornography) silences us into shame,” said Kooistra, a freshman from Cary. “We’re silent, but we’re loud.” Representatives from Playboy started conducting interviews Tuesday at the Carolina Inn, where the magazine’s photographers are staying, and will fin ish interviewing candidates today. Many of the protesters wore purple ribbons to increase awareness about sex ual assault and black clothing because they said it symbolized how pornogra phy killed women’s dignity. The marchers stopped on Cameron Avenue across from the Carolina Inn and lis tened to speeches from march leaders. “We are all oppressed because we live in a lookist society, one which bases us on our physical appearance,” said Christine Mallinson, a sophomore from Salisbury. “(Playboy) contributes to our lookist society. We are protesting this lookist propaganda and cultist beauty.” See PLAYBOY, Page 6 Local travel agencies lose ‘preferred’ status with University BY MATT LECLERCQ STAFF WRITER Several local travel agents said they worried business could soon take a downward spiral after changes in the University’s travel policy. During the past three years, the University’s Travel Management Program has designated local travel agencies as being “preferred” for official travel provided they did not charge ser vice fees and collected information about the volume of University travel they handled. This allowed the University to use the recorded data to get airline discounts based on volume, said Jerry mm \W wT U ■ Some UNC technology specialists said UNC might cease to exist in 50 years. BY LAUREN BEAL STAFF WRITER Imagine having a microchip implant ed in your brain, instantly feeding you information as you shuttle across cam pus in a high-speed monorail. Hard to believe? These ideas aren’t beyond the imagination of some UNC technology specialists. Online registration, wired residence hall rooms and the Carolina Computing Initiative already show UNC is on its way to anew technological level. With all the technology changes tak ing place, it is hard to imagine what UNC will look like 50 years from now. Wednesday, April 15,1998 Volume 106, Issue 32 4 JMk DTH/ION GARDINER Mary Furr, a senior from Chapel Hill, stands across the street from the Carolina Inn, where interviews for Playboy's ‘Women of the ACC" issue are being held. Wehmueller, owner of Small World Travel Agency and Circle Travel in Chapel Hill. However, a decrease in how much commission agencies could collect from 10 percent to 8 percent of the tick et fere forced local agencies last fall to charge a service fee to make up the dif ference, Wehmueller said. The University also changed the pol icy in December to require agencies who wanted to remain “preferred” to refund 15 percent of agents’ commissions to the University, he said. “Almost all of the local agencies said they couldn’t live with that rule, so that meant they can’t remain preferred,” he said. But a few technological giants on cam pus used their imaginations and came up with some interesting theories. “I suspect that there will be no UNC system, no UNC-Chapel Hill, 50 years from now,” said Computer Studies Instructor Marcus Breen, who teaches a course about government policy and technology. “Maybe the campus will be a museum, or maybe Microsoft’s North Carolina headquarters. But will UNC the university be here? Definitely not” Breen said extreme changes in tech nology would produce unforeseen transformations in education. Large corporations’ influence and presence on campus will increase with the growing technology, Breen said. The corporations will be woven into the educational system and attending college will become unnecessary. Education will be needed only to train “You can either do business with the University and lose money or decide not to and try to make up the volume else where.” Peggy Cobb, co-owner of Travel Associates, said some clients at her agency had indicated they could no longer do business there after it lost its preferred status. “We have had people call and say, ‘We can’t use you anymore,”’ she said. It was still too early to guess how the program would affect her agency, she said. “The reaction so far has not been good,” she said. University travellers are still free to travel with any agency, but they are people to perform for the corporations, he said. “There may be no such thing as an undergraduate education,” Breen said. “And if there is, it may not be held through classroom teaching. UNC as we know it will cease to exist.” Breen said that the privatization of UNC was inevitable. “Sooner or later, it wiR become the prevailing view that the state has no function in our education,” he said. “And we will no longer be state funded.” Media futurist Deb Aikat, assistant professor of journalism and mass com munication, did not imagine the same picture for the future of UNC. Aikat teaches JOMC 50, Electronic Information Sources. Asa member of committees that debate technological benefits, Aikat is familiar with technology’s impact on urged to use only preferred agents, Executive Vice Chancellor Elson Eoyd said. Local agencies could have a preferred status at any time if they met the requirements, he said. “In some ways, I think the travel agencies are being squeezed by the air lines, so we are sympathetic to the agen cies as much as we can be,” Floyd said. “On the other hand, we have six agencies that said they wouldn’t charge fees and would participate in the rev enue sharing,” he said. “It was a busi ness decision.” Only one local agency, Worldwide Business Services, kept its preferred sta tus. Five Wake County agencies met the / iIH education. He envisioned a campus filled with major technological advances, opportunities and choices. Aikat said UNC might be equipped with a high-speed monorail, shuttling students to locations around campus every two minutes. Campus would be a “walking plaza,” and parking and traf fic problems would no longer exist, he said. “It will be a much more wired cam pus,” Aikat said. “For example, students See FUTURE, Page 5 Newt/Features/Arts/Spottx: 962424 J Bbsiikh/Advertising 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina C 1998 DTH PuhhshmgCorp. AO rights reserved. Universities prepare for new Internet ■ Vice President A1 Gore announced the initiative for Internet 2 on Tuesday, BY KIMBERLY GRABINER STAFF WRITER Vice President A1 Gore unveiled a new initiative Tuesday that could let universities take back the networking power they lost when the Internet became clogged with commercial and personal information. The Next Generation Internet will provide a faster and more secure net work than the current Internet The new Internet will be fast enough to transmit 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica in about a second. With SSOO million in private invest ments, NGI will work in conjunction with the current Internet 2 project by the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development. “The traditional Internet is quite busy and is taking the resources univer sities’ projects need,” said Stephen Jarrell, executive director of adminis trative information for Academic Technology Network at UNC. Universities developed the original Internet to exchange research informa tion, said Greg Wood, communications director for UCAID. Today industry dominates it, hindering its original use. Universities are working to regain their place in networking technology through this project One hundred twen ty-two universities are participating, including N.C. State University, UNC- Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, Duke University and Wake Forest University “Our jobs are to sort of live on the bleeding edge and make it worthy,” said See INTERNET 2, Pjux 6 University’s requirements and are now considered preferred. Representatives of local agencies met with four N.C. legislators last week about the issue, Wehmueller said. “We expressed concern because of loss of business in Orange County,” he said. “They were going to talk with state officers to see if the whole process was within state regulations.” Floyd said he was unaware of any regulation broken by the University. Howard Gorman, director of materi als support, said the main goal of the program was saving money. “The bottom line was saving money for the University and for taxpayers.” INSIDE No Time to Kill Senior of the Week Jason Evans is vice chairman of the Honor Court, plays in the marching band and will be attending UNC's School of Law in the fall. Page 2 Today's weather Partly sunny; high 70s Thursday Partly cloudy high 70s * summor inkc wUIBIIIBCrI JVVv Are you staying in Chapel Hill this summer? Looking for a fulfilled summer experience? Then why not apply for a summer desk editor position. We are currently looking for editors for every desk. Stop by the DTH front office m Suite 104 of the Student Union and pick up your application today. They are due Wednesday. April 22 by 5 p.m. Any questions? Call Editor-select Sharif Durhams at 962-0246.
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