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4 Tuesday, April 18. 2000 LA PETITE From Page 3 No matter what the DCD decides, Wright said, all parents, regardless of what day-care they used, needed to make themselves aware of conditions and efforts from staff to improve problems. Chris Ketcham, assistant director of Chapel Hill Day-Care Center, said no TUITION From Page 3 tuition increase is that it has no financial aid package. But if he’s going to lobby for aid, that’s totally different.” Jeff Nieman, a nonvoting student rep resentative on the Board of Governors, said that given the unusual length of Moeser’s opening speech to BOG mem bers Friday, he had hoped for a more definitive stand against higher tuition. I was disappointed to bear there was no specific commitment to keeping tuition low,” Nieman said. “I’m not super-excited about my initial impres sion on that.” Junior Michal Osterweil, also a mem ber oi the coalition, said while she was excited about the idea of developing a EfptnJ DAY 2000 at UNC-Chapel Hill Please/ join/ for the/ following/ activities': ® Reverend Carrie Bolton © Tuesday, April 25, 7:oopm Gardner Hall Rev. Bolton will speak about local environmental issues © Earth Day Celebration © Wednesday, April 26,10:00am-3:oopm Polk Place The celebration is entitled, “Sustainable College Kids: Things You Can Do Every Day." 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For more complete information on CREF, including charges and expenses,call I 800 842 2776,ext. 5599, for the prospectus. Read it carefully before you invest or send money. O 2000 TIAA-CREF 1 /00. facility was immune to problems. But she said fixing them quickly was of utmost importance. “We’ve had no major problems (at Chapel Hill Day- Care Center)," she said. “But it’s very important that you fix any minor prob lems within five days - just as long as you keep the children safe.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. working relationship with Moeser, she realized the coalition would have their hands full while fighting for access. “Our focus right now is to establish a two-way legitimate relationship,” she said. “We’re excited about this new beginning, but we have a tough road ahead of us.” Osterweil said the coalition planned to keep Moeser accountable to whatev er tuition plans he put forth. The tuition for in-state students at Nebraska for 1999-2000 was $2,829, making the school’s tuition the eighth highest among its 11 peer institutions. In-state tuition at UNC stands at $2,364, with a proposed S6OO increase in the hands of the state legislature. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. From Page Three PENNY VOTES From Page 3 eral budget’s expenditures, because few people polled would give the military the money it actually receives. According to information from the War Resisters League, 47 percent of the U.S. Federal Budget for fiscal year 2001 will go toward military spending. “It’s pro moting the military when it could be solving real domestic problems,” said Marilyn Dyer, a volunteer at the poll. Joel Wilson, a graduate student in the School of Social Work and the School of Law, gave most of his pennies to the jars labeled “education” and “other.” “Education is an equalizing opportu nity the people of the U.S. deserve,” he said. “The courts should also be given more money because the law is the foun dation of the government." Jon Allen, a graduate student in the Department of Biology, put three pen nies in the environment jar. “There is all this emergency funding for natural disasters like Hurricane Floyd but not enough for slow emer gencies like hog waste,” he said. “We get billions of dollars for the short-term, but in the long-term, there’s not enough being done about people drinking pol luted water.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Yogurt is our menu! ySSFO • - Downtown Chapel Hill • 942 PUMP 106 UJ. Franklin St. No* to Ha's Not Here's North Durham • 286-7868 Northgate Mall (Next to Coroosei) Mon-Sot 1 lam-11:30pm. Sun 12pm-11:30pm MEDIA From Page 3 turned their fingers to the same medium they had just spent days glued to. They claimed the two shooters at Columbine acted under the influence of a violent mass media - newspapers, television shows and the Internet. But others said the mass media mere ly served as a convenient scapegoat for a public unable or unwilling to deal with the real roots of school violence. Ron Stephenson, executive director of the National School Safety Center, said the news media could play an important role in either preventing or causing school violence, depending on how reporters approached the issue. Stephenson said reporters should place equal emphasis on the aftermath of the shooters as they did on the event itself to keep from possibly glamorizing the event in some youths’ minds. But Bob Giles, former newspaper reporter and editor and senior vice pres ident for the media think tank Freedom Forum, said the Columbine coverage was handled more sensitively than other school shootings. “There’s nothing I’ve seen in the cov erage of Columbine that seemed to glo rify violence,” Giles said. “They covered what the shooters did and the effects on the community, but that’s all.” He said reporters took care to stay behind police barricades, and the tele vision media waited to broadcast a stu dentjumping out of a window until they were sure the student was safe and alive. “Most significantly, when you review the videos, you see interviews with stu dents done beside their parents," Giles said. “To me, that means they got parental permission. “Part of a paper’s community respon sibility is to deal with the tragedy and with the healing process.” News media should exercise some caution in its portrayal of controversial events, he said. “It’s not how you cover it, but how you present it,” he said. “To readers, a story is characterized by the headlines and photographs. They either portray the story as sensational or as a horrible tragedy.” Are You Allergic? Children and Adult Allergy Studies North Carolina Clinical Research Dr. Craig LaForce & Dr. Karen Dunn, Board (Certified in Allergy and Immunology. For more information call North Carolina Clinical Research at 881-0309 between B:3oam and spm. After hours please leave a message. Regardless of how media portrayed the Columbine shootings, Stephenson said the widespread media coverage was one of the event’s few positive out comes. “The media coverage after the Columbine shooting showed school offi cials the need to prepare against some thing like this,” he said. “Hopefully, it will help prevept a shooting.” But Stephenson said the members of the media should exercise some restraint when approaching a topic like school shootings and recognize the role they play in the community by dissem inating accurate information. The Columbine incident prompted many of these ethical questions in the wake of the event’s pervasive coverage. And Giles said the horrific nature of an event like the Columbine shootings caused people to turn toward the media for information but also to criticize it. “Tragedies cause people to be critical of the news media because the event is so terrible, and the media is responsible for bringing it into their homes,” he said. UNC journalism Professor Jane Brown, who studies the media’s effect on society, said mass media played a strong role in school violence, especial ly in the Columbine shootings. “The two young men (who killed stu dents at Columbine) felt they were not part of society,” Brown said. “They created anew world for them selves, using anew form of media - the Internet.” She said the Internet allowed people who never ordinarily would have met to contact each other, but mass media as a whole also added to the problem. “The mass media today provides sup port for being fearful and disrespectful,” Brown said. “Adolescents have grown up with a persistent message that vio lence is the way to solve problems.” But Giles said psychiatric interviews with surviving shooters of other school shootings showed that none said they were influenced by the mass media. Other researchers also said mass media should not bear the blame for the wave of violence hitting schools. Violence researcher Mike Males, author of “Framing Youth,” a book about the myths adults have about ado lescents, said media criticism was blown If you are 12 years of age or older and have seasonal allergy symptoms you may be qualified to participate in a research study. Qualified participants may receive at no cost: • Allergy skin testing • EKGs and Lab Tests • Study related , • Compensation tut .your time and travel ahr Daily Qlar Hppl out of proportion after the incident. “Compared with other factors, media’s influence (on school violence) is nearly nil,” he said. Males pointed out that children in European countries were exposed to similar - if not identical - mass media messages, but their countries still showed lower rates of school violence than in the United States. “(Youth violence) can’t be addressed until people realize that youth issues are. connected to adult behaviors,” he said. Males said it was easier for people to' attack the mass media instead of the” underlying cultural issues contributing to school violence like poverty. “They don’t know what to do (about poverty),” he said. “It’s easier ... to pro pose solutions like restricting media vio lence that doesn’t really cost anything.” Jane Grady, assistant director for the Study and Prevention of Violence, also said the causes of school violence were too complex to attribute to a single fac tor such as the mass media. “The whole community is responsible,” she said. Grady said families, peers, school officials and politicians all played a role in preventing or causing school vio lence. “They just can’t point their fingers at the media,” she said. But Brown said the prevalence of mass media increased children’s access to violence and worsened the problem, She said computer games, particular ly the first-person shooter games like “Doom” and “Quake” which have both sold millions of copies, heavily influ enced violent behavior. In first-person shooters, the player typically slays mon sters with weapons like chain saws. “They’re desensitizing and condi tioning players into shooting to kill.” Regardless of what role, if any, mass media plays in school violence, Brown said the medium existed in a complex relationship with the world as a whole. “It’s a cyclical process. The media presents a narrow view of how the world works. It’s more a spotlight than a reflec tion, and they focus on the bizarre and titillating. The world responds to that image, and so the world changes." The State & National Editor can be reached atstntdesk@unc.edu.
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