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4 Friday, February 4, 2000 High School Business Program Plans Hands On Learning By Jason Owens Assistant City Editor Hashing out ideas about a specialized business program, local financial leaders met with school officials Thursday to have breakfast and discuss the future of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. East Chapel Hill High School hosted the meeting that mapped out the Academy of Finance, a program that will kick off in local schools during the 2000-01 school year. Dilbert© . I CAN’T DO ( THING BECAUSE ) f QUIT BECAUSE | §!I IN WORKING / IT'S ALWAYS WAIT- / I YOUR STOCK ISN'T j ! ! HECK? THE OVER 'S ING FOR SOMEONE ) f 1 VESTED, f sSp FLOW FROfA {ascyjy j v -—I THE Daily Crossword By D.J. 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The program is a branch of the National Academy Foundation, which implements specialized programs in finance, technology and travel and tourism in various schools across the 8 The nearer one 9 Snakelike fish 10 Korbut and oth ers 11 Mob melees 12 SIOO 13 Choreographer De Mille 16 " Gantry” 18 Birthplace of Flaubert 22 Subway station 23 Has permission 24 Eliz. Il s son 25 Lively dance 26 Actress Lanchester 27 Scads 28 Italian eight 30 Part of U.A.E. 31 For instance 32 Narrow cut 33 Lofty 34 Heart problem? 35 Home team at 52A 38 Body toss 40 Cart track 41 Spark producer 42 "The Silver Streak” co-star 44 Chilean heights 45 Hotelier m 6 78 9 TT ~ 16 ■■^3 24 25 26 27 ~ 3l ■■■32 33 34 35 36 ■■T ■■■3 B mamJ^- z mf zzzzz 47 Mi 49 ■■■■■■■■l 53 ■■sl ||M52 53 54 55 _ . |56 country. Selected students will begin the pro gram during their junior year when they will take two accounting courses, a bank ing and credit class and a world finance class. Seniors in the program will focus on financial planning and Internet skills and will be allowed to take classes at a local college. Tony Asplin, a program consultant, explained that students in the finance academy would have advantages that (C)2000 Tribune MM* Service*. Inc. All rights reserved Helmsley 46 Rorschach images 47 Cary of “The Princess Bride" 48 Brit's title in India 49 Jungle vine 51 Use a stiletto 52 "Leaving Las Vegas" co-star 53 Take cover 54 Author Bagnold 55 Gets older 57 Sch. group 58 Brown shade News other students might not experience without the new program. “(The mission of the academy is) to create academic programs by partnering private industry and the public sector in order to provide quality, industry-spe cific education,” Asplin said. “Students will actually do a paid internship.” Pamela Bello, director of secondary education and work force development for the school system, said the program would recruit students with excellent ASU Explores Benefits Of Online Education Anew program allows freshmen at Appalachian State University to complete dasswork over the Internet. By Taena Kim Staff Writer A pilot program at Appalachian State University is experimenting with com puter-based classes to prepare students for the changing technology of the 21st century. Project Experiment in Enhanced Learning is a one-year program ASU is sponsoring that connects students to a network, through which they can com municate with each other outside of class. EXCEL was implemented this year as a pilot program for freshmen and came at the same time that UNC- Chapel Hill introduced its Carolina Computing Initiative, requiring fresh men to purchase a laptop computer. The ASU program allows students to participate in chat rooms, edit papers and exchange information online. “The idea was we wanted to see how we can move less complex material out of the classroom and save time for high ly critical skills,” said Steven Breiner, manager of EXCEL. Sixty freshmen interested in EXCEL were required to purchase a computer compatible with the network and enroll in a specified class schedule, Breiner said. “We targeted students who w ere not computer geeks," he said. “(EXCEL wanted students to leave with higher computer skills.” EXCEL students enrolled in fresh men seminars to learn computer skills, Breiner said. English composition, introduction to world civilization and biology classes Do you suffer from „ cold sores! If so, then you may be just who were looking for We are conducting a paid ($350) research study of an investigational medication for the treatment and possible prevention of cold-sore lesions. You must be 12 years of age or older (with parental consent if appropriate), and in good general health to participate. You do not need to have a cold sore now to qualify. ®Jf ' If interested, please contact c'z Susan or Heather at 966-0129 5* University of North Carolina Hospitals Summer 2000 at TAXCO, MEXICO Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico j I Students who wish to experience Mexican life, culture, and academics on a rural estate in a colonial city can study in Taxco, Mexico for a summer This program is offered by UNC- CH through the Centro de Ensenanza para Extranjeros (CEPE) of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Eligibility: Sophomores, juniors, and seniors are eligible for the program, which is open to both UNC-CH and non-UNC students with a 2 5 CPA or better. There is no language prerequisite, but at least two semesters of college-level Spanish or the equivalent is recommended. Summer 2000 students will be accompanied by Amy McNichols, a Ph D. candi date in Latin-American literature from the UNC-CEt Department of Romance Languages & Literatures. While on-site, Ms McNichols will advise and tutor stu dents, as well as serve as the Resident Coordinator in Taxco during the program. A group flight will be available, and the orientation will take place in Mexico City prior to the beginning of courses in Taxco. The dates: The summer 2000 program runs from |une 16 to August 4, 2000. The cost: Total billed cost $1,451. Please contact the Study Abroad Office in 12 Caldwell Hall, or the program leader, Amy McNichols, in 114 Dey Hall, or our web site at http://study abroad.unc.edu. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE February IS, 2000. NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. attendance and average to above-aver age achievement in school. “We’re hoping to jump-start their careers.” Bello said. “The academy model is needed.” Community business leaders were invited to provide feedback as well as to offer help to the program by working directly with students. Donna Cayonette of First Citizens Bank said the program was a good opportunity to help students interested in business. were also part of the schedule. Professors who are participating in the pilot program have received a posi tive response from students. “Students were glad to do things online,” said ASU English Professor Emory Maiden. “Asa uniting course, (students) can do drafts online. It is very effective.” Students could also exchange drafts and edit online rather than setting up a meeting outside of class, he said. “For the most part, I was surprised by how students were serious about the work,” Maiden said. “I was encouraged by the interaction online.” EXCEL does not specify the types of technology professors use, giving them more freedom to determine how tech nology can fit into their particular course work, Breiner said. Although no determination has been made about the future of the pilot pro gram, Breiner said many positive results had come out of EXCEL. “Students’ (grade point averages) shifted in a high er direction,” he said. “Editing and writ ing has also improved.” But there are still some kinks to be worked out in the program. Some professors have been hesitant to incorporate new technology into their teaching, Maiden said. With the rate that technology is expanding. Maiden said learning to use it was inevitable. “People are going to have to learn how to work (online) effec tively," he said. Breiner said the new program at ASU was part of a larger trend toward increasing technology on college cam puses. “ The technology itself is infusing into all areas of the university,” he said. “We’re trying to make sure expansion of technology is moving in the right direction.” The State & National Editor can be reached atstntdesk@unc.edu. (Flj? Qaily (Far “Getting in there and helping the young people better assess their lives will benefit everybody,” Cayonette said. “I’m very much interested in speaking in the classroom.” Chris Lawrence of Harrington Bank was also excited about the program. “It’s awesome,” he said. “It’s really needed. I wish I could have had this pro; gram.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Top Stories From the State, Nation and World In The News Europe Tries to Isolate New Austrian Regime VIENNA, Austria - Austria’s presi dent agreed Thursday to swear in a coalition government that includes a far-right party whose leader Joerg Haider has applauded aspects of the Nazi regime and who campaigned on an anti-immigrant platform. Reaction was swift. Israel recalled its ambassador and banned Haider from visiting, even though the right-wing leader has repeatedly apologized for pro-Nazi remarks made years ago. European Union nations started making good on threats to politically isolate Austria, something the United States has backed. The EU also warned it might suspend Austria’s membership. The prospect of Haider’s Freedom Party in government prompted about 2,000 protesters to take to the streets of Vienna late Thursday for a second straight night. A group of them pushed their way into the city’s historic Burgtheater and stormed the stage, calling on the audi ence to join a protest rally Friday before fleeing the building. Rebel College Students Occupy School Building MEXICO CITY - They see them selves as anew generation of rebels. They like “direct action” and collec tive decision-making. They oppose entrance exams, university fees and selective admissions. They sport ski masks and Cuban-style field caps. These striking students would be just a group of 2,000 malcontents - if they didn’t have the Mexican government backed into a corner. The strikers control the sprawling main campus of the National Autonomous University, Latin America’s largest university system. For nine months they have occupied the school, locking out 260,000 classmates. Many are young anarchists. They identify with Mexico’s student protest ers of 1968, hundreds of whom were gunned down by soldiers in a massacre that continues to haunt the nation. Largely because of memories of that massacre, the government has shied away from moving against the strikers. Unwilling to retake the campus bv force, it has encouraged university authorities to capitulate to some of the strikers’ demands. But this week, the strikers might finally have stepped over the line: On Tuesday, they staged a bloody skirmish with anti-strike students, security guards and adults hired to chase strikers from a university-affiliated high school. Researchers Pioneer New Insulin Treatment WASHINGTON - A technique that allows insulin hormone to be stored in cells and then released as needed by a pill eventually might offer a treatment for diabetes that does not require daily injections, researchers say. The experiments, thus far, have been performed only on mice, but researchers say a system using an implanted insulin gene might be ready for human testing within two years. In a study to be published Friday in the journal Science, researchers at Ariad Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Mass., and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York said the cell engineering technique was able to con trol diabetes in a group of mice and is now being tested on larger animals. Um Clackson, senior author of the study, said that the technique caused insulin, or some other protein, to clump inside a cell with another protein, form ing a molecule that is too large to leave the cell. A drug, given as a pill, breaks up the clump, allowing the 1 insulin to flow into the blood stream in a way that mimics the spurt of hormone normally secreted by the pancreas. Associated Press
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