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Expo Shows Off Advances in Technology
By Geoff Wessel
Staff Writer
Free popcorn and rubber ducks drew
students and faculty to have their tech
nolog) questions answered at the
Carolina Technology Expo 2000 held
Tuesday and Wednesday.
The two-day program featured
speakers, presentations on topics such as
technolog) in the classroom and various
vendor displays and demonstrations in
the Student Union.
“A picture is
worth a thousand
words,'" said
Marian Moore,
vice chancellor for
Information
Technology
Services. “You can
talk a lot about
technology, but
you get ideas
about how- you can
“You get ideas about how you
can use it when you have the
opportunity to see it or have
someone demonstrate it for you.”
Mari an Moore
ITS Vice Chancellor
use it when you have the opportunity to
see it or have someone demonstrate it
for you.”
Most vendor exhibits were oriented
toward educating faculty and adminis
tration, with a focus on using new tech
nology as a teaching and research tool.
“We are always interested in w'hat
new technologies are available,” said
Fritz Klein, a medical school adminis
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it has a lot of things I am interested in.”
Computers are becoming increasing
ly important in UNC’s classroom envi
ronment with the growth of the
Carolina Computing Initiative, which
offers special deals on IBM laptop com
puters.
All freshmen will be required to own
laptops beginning next fall.
The expo marked the University’s
second annual technology exposition.
Moore said the turnout for last year’s
one-day event was
low.
“We’re hoping
people who hadn’t
heard about it will
see it (Tuesday)
and have a second
opportunity to go.”
Interim
Chancellor Bill
McCoy spoke on
the exposition's
first day, addressing general issues of
technology at UNC.
“1 am increasingly amazed when l
think of what’s happened in just the last
five years,” McCoy said. “Computers
are changing a lot of things about the
way we work, learn and play.
“It’s very important to have modern
advances on campus.”
The expo featured a keynote address
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by author Michael Dolence, who spoke
on changes to higher education with the
arrival of virtual or distance learning.
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environments,” Dolence said in his
speech Tuesday.
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She said the event took many months
to plan, and that ITS, the Faculty
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Committee and student government
contributed to the preparations.
“If it weren’t for students helping out,
there would not have been an expo,”
said 1 .ori Casile, the event’s coordinator.
Expo 2000 planners said they felt it
was successful in teaching both students
and faculty about new technological
opportunities in education.
Moore said, “This was a wonderful
opportunity for folks who may not be
using technology as much to get some
ideas.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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UNC Employees Oppose
State Makeup Day Plan
UNC workers are upset the
state decided that they will
have to use their annual
leave to cover missed days.
By Jessica Jove
Staff Writer
Despite the warming temperatures,
January’s record snowfall is still causing
trouble for employees around campus.
During the past month, objections
have been raised since the N.C. Office
of State Personnel announced that
UNC employees and all state staff
would have to use annual leave to cover
the three days missed because of the
snowstorm.
At the Employee Forum meeting
Wednesday morning, delegates and
other employees were given the oppor
tunity to voice their concerns.
Many UNC
employees said the
move was a great
injustice because
the days missed
were scheduled in
the budget.
Therefore, the
state is not losing
any money by
paying staff for the
days missed
“We are dedicated employees
who sacrifice higher
salaries for a work
that we love. ”
Elaine Tola
UNC Computer Consultant
because it was already allotted in the
budget, they claimed.
Mike Haw kins, a networking analyst
at UNC, argued there would be no loss
of money because UNC employees
produced services, not products.
Thus, production of a product was
not lost.
And because there was no one to
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receive the services, no services were
lost either, Hawkins said.
Interim Chancellor Bill McCoy
briefly addressed his involvement in the
issue.
The administration has been making
efforts to reverse the situation and to
further examine the adverse weather
policy, he said.
Jack Evans, interim vice chancellor
for finance and administration, said he
was concerned because the chancellor
was denied the authority to make the
decision for UNC.
“Our adverse weather policy gives
the chancellor the power to make these
decisions,” Evans said.
However, it was Gov. Jim Hunt who
decided that all state employees would
make up the snow days.
Employees said they wanted to talk
to the governor and find out why he
made such a “ridiculous decision."
Laurie Charest, associate vice chan-
cellor for finance
and administra
tion, noted the fact
that Hunt granted
UNC employees
two paid days in
the fall to help
Hurricane Floyd
flood victims in
eastern North
Carolina.
Because the
governor excused absences in the fall
for a natural disaster, many employees
are confused as to why he would not
excuse days caused by the January
storm that blanketed Chapel Hill with
more than a foor of snow.
UNC computer consultant Elaine
Tola said she was worried about the
image the University was sending to the
general public about how it treated state
employees.
This type of behavior projects a neg
ative image to both current and
prospective employees, Tola said.
Employees said they felt unappreci
ated and taken advantage of as a result
of the decision. “We are dedicated
employees who sacrifice higher salaries
for a work that we love,” Tola said. “But
we can’t continue our hard work with
legislators dictating our pay.”
The University Editor can be reached
atudesk@unc.edu.