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In Brief
Journalism Institute
Will Convene at UNC
More than 450 high school journal
ism. students and their teachers will
gather at UNC from June 13-16 for four
day's of study with journalism experts.
The 62nd annual institute is spon
sored by the N.C. Scholastic Media
Association and the UNC School of
Journalism and Mass Communication.
Students will attend classes in six areas
of mass communication: newspaper,
yearbook, literary magazine, photojour
nalism, desktop publishing and televi
sion production. Teachers also study
any of those areas or gain skills in a class
for publications advisers.
Anyone interested in participating in
the institute should call Director Kay
Phillips at (919) 962-4639.
Derby Days Check
Presented at Telethon
Tom Hutchinson, president of the
Alpha Tau chapter of Sigma Chi frater
nity at UNC-Chapel Hill, presented a
$19,000 check to actor Merlin Olsen on
the Children’s Miracle Network
Telethon last weekend.
The UNC-CH Sigma Chi chapter
was selected to present the check
because they had raised the most
money for the network of any Sigma
Chi chapter this year, said Dr. Ron
Binder, the director of Greek Affairs.
The Carolina chapter raised the
money through its annual Derby Days
last fall. Hutchinson appeared on the
telethon, which was broadcast live from
Orlando from 9 p.m. on Saturday, June
3, to 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 4.
Dance To Celebrate
Gay, Lesbian Culture
A smoke-free, alcohol-free Pride
Night Dance will be sponsored by the
Ruby Slipper Dance Asylum on June 10
from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. at the Marriot
Hotel in downtown Durham. The
group promises a wide range of record
ed dance music, with songs selected to
reflect gay and lesbian culture of the last
few decades.
Dance admission is SB, with pro
ceeds benefitting both Ruby Slipper
Dance Asylum and NC Pride 2000. All
ages and orientations are welcome.
Musical Show Includes
Famous Final Operetta
The fourth and final Distinguished
Artists’ program will feature 25 soloists
and chorus from the Durham
Savohards on Sunday June 11, at 3 p.m.
at the Chapel Hill Senior Center. The
performance will include selections
from Acts I and II of the recent pro
duction of “The Grand Duke,” the final
operetta written and composed by
Gilbert and Sullivan. Admission to the
program to benefit the Friends of
Chapel Hill Senior Center will be $7,
including refreshments afterwards.
Community Picnic
Offers Fun for All Ages
Orange County Family Resource
Centers is hosting a Community Picnic
to celebrate the end of school at
Umstead Park in Chapel Hill on June
10, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The event will include a chicken
lunch, an educational workshop on
summer safety, activities for children, as
well as a visit from the Chapel Hill
Police and Fire Departments, including
McGruff the Crime-Fighting Dog and a
fire truck for children to explore.
‘Tar Heel’ Boys’ State
Gathering at WFU
The 61st session of the American
Legion “Tar Heel” Boys’ State will be
held at Wake Forest University during
the week of June 11 through June 17.
Approximately 400 rising high
school senior boys are expected to
attend. Speakers will include Gov. Jim
Hunt, N.C. Secretary of State Elaine
Marshall and WFU head football coach
Jim Caldwell.
Hillsborough Hog Day
Welcomes Year 2000
The 18th annual Hillsborough Hog
Day will honor the past and celebrate
the future with a time capsule to wel
come the year 2000. Items representing
Hillsborough and Orange County will
be buried on the Old Courthouse
grounds, and attendees will be asked to
share their thoughts about the new cen
tury. Thousands will venture to down
town Hillsborough on June 16 and 17 to
enjoy live music, vintage cars, arts and
crafts, children’s entertainment, contests
and over three tons of barbecue
From Staff Reports
Probation Period Ends for UNC Hospitals
Three months after state
officials put it on probation,
UNC Hospitals has regained
its Level I designation.
Courtney Mabeus
University Editor
Officials with the North Carolina
Division of Facility Services reinstated
UNC Hospitals’ Level I Trauma Center
designation Friday, ending three months
of state imposed probation after inspec
tors found shortcomings in the center’s
Gore Envisions Gov.
Services Online Soon
Brian Frederick
Editor
RALEIGH - Vice President A1 Gore vis
ited N.C. State’s Centennial Campus on
Monday to tout his vision for an “e-govern
ment,” where every citizen is just “a couple
clicks away” from virtually every government
service.
Gore’s campaign event in the Research
Triangle Park was his second stop of the day.
Earlier that morning, Gore delivered the
commencement address at Tarboro High
School, where he called the seniors
“American heroes” for their efforts in clean
ing up after the floods that ravaged the
region.
Gore’s “second American revolution”
would place nearly all government services
online by the end of 2003.
“The power of government shouldn’t be
locked away in the nation’s capital, but
rather, put at your service - no further away
than a keyboard,” the Democratic presiden
tial contender said.
Gore said his “e-govemment” would elim
inate the red tape that frustrates most
Americans.
Government should be “online," he said,
“so you don’t have to stand in line.”
The idea of putting government services
on-line is nothing new.
“Every single tool that we need to make
this vision a reality already exists,” Gore said.
Many states, counties and cities are
already incorporating online services. The
federal government currently offers some
some online services, such as electronic tax
filing.
DTH/EMILY SCHNURE
Michael Feldman, senior adviser to Vice President Gore, keeps things
running smoothly from behind the scenes as Gore speaks Monday.
Morehead Debuts New Show
"Extreme Weather" will first
show June 12 at Morehead
Planetarium. It was written
by a WRAL meteorologist.
Courtney Mabeus
University Editor
During the past 12 months North
Carolina has experienced floods, heat
waves and record snowfalls. Now, hur
ricane season is officially underway, and
with it, a week of “Extreme Weather” at
Morehead Planetarium.
“Extreme Weather,” anew planetar
ium presentation, will premiere at the
facilities’ Star Theater on Monday, June
12.
Organizers plan to celebrate the pre
mier through Thursday evening by
bringing in a different weather expert
each night to speak before each show.
Austin Giles, producer of “Extreme e
Weather,” said the show developed in
part because of the extreme recent
weather in the state.
“People are curious about the weath
er," Giles said. “People have had ques
tions. The last decade has been the
operations.
The Trauma Center was placed on
probationary status on Feb. 29 pending
a revisit and corrective actions, after a
December visit by a state review team
uncovered problems that carried over
from the Trauma Center’s review four
years earlier.
Problems cited included trauma team
response times as well as surgeon over
sight.
Karen Stinneford, public relations
manager for UNC Hospitals, said the
problems stemmed not from the quali
ty of care the Trauma Center offered,
but from inadequate paper trails docu
But Gore’s plan seeks to eliminate the bar
riers between the different departments and
agencies and make them more accessible.
Gore even pitched the idea of a “g-bay,” a
web site similar to ebay, that could be used to
accept bids for government business and to
auction off government equipment that is no
longer needed.
The importance of the Internet to the Gore
strategy was most obvious when Sen. John
Edwards referred to the success of Gore’s
“gore2ooo.com” web site. In perhaps his
most animated moment of the day, a con
cerned Gore quickly corrected Edwards, stat
ing that the official Gore site is “algo
re2ooo.com.”
Indeed, the site Edwards mentioned has
nothing to do with Gore. Cybersquatters con
tinue to pester Gore and Republican con
tender George Bush by registering domain
names such as “gwbush.com” and “algore
-2000.org” and using the sites for their own
ends.
The Gore campaign uses his interest in
technology and the Internet as a strength, but
Gore has also been ridiculed for telling CNN
last March that he took the initiative in cre
ating the Internet.
The tightly scripted campaign event took
place on N.C. State’s self-described campus
of the future.
Gore was joined by Edwards and Marshall
Brain, the CEO of Howstuffworks.com, a site
that Brain started at his kitchen table. Brain
called his site a “classic Internet success
story.”
Brian Frederick can be reached at
brifred@yahoo.com.
warmest on record.”
The show, which was written and
prepared by planetarium staff and nar
rated by WRAL-TV meteorologist Greg
Fishel, compares and contrasts the
Earth’s ever-changing weather systems
with climates on other planets.
Giles said the inclusion of other plan
ets in the ftow provides full-scale mod
els of different weather systems and
offers a perspective that people may not
often consider.
“There is a lot we can learn about
weather from other
planets,” he said.
Carrie Anne
Spinelli, public
relations coordina
tor for the planetar
ium, pointed to the
show’s educational
content, citing the
planetarium’s pop
ularity as a school
field-trip and fami-
“People are curious about the
weather. People have had
questions. The last decade has
been the warmest on record. ”
Austin Gills
“Extreme Weather" Producer
ly destination.
“Weather is such a large part of cur
riculum nowadays,” Spinelli said. “We
do keep in mind what is being taught.”
Though organizers said that the tim
ing of hurricane season and the show's
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menting patient information.
“We were providing the care, we’re
just making a better effort to make sure
every ‘t’ is crossed and every ‘i’ is dot
ted,” Stinneford said.
Sharon Rhyne, hospital program spe
cialist with the facility services division,
said officials at the Trauma Center acted
quickly upon receiving notice of proba
tion to get the problems fixed.
“They demonstrated a response that
I would expect from them and is indica
tive of how they deliver care,” Rhyne
said.
Still, state inspectors waited until the
hospital treated 100 trauma cases before
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Vice President Al Gore speaks at N.C. State University on Monday afternoon about using
technology to create a responsive "e-government".
Sr. Adviser Always by Gore's Side
Brian Frederick
Editor
Michael Feldman has a “very
patient” girlfriend.
She must feel like most
Americans, longing for the
November elections and the conclu
sion of the presidential race.
As Senior Adviser to Vice
President A1 Gore, Feldman will be
spending “every waking hour” with
the Vice President and a few others
for the next five months.
This particular day, he’s in
Raleigh’s Research Triangle Park for
a campaign event Gore is using to
lay out his plans for anew “e-gov
emment.”
premiere are merely coincidental, they
gave the show a good forecast.
“I hope people will come away with
a greater knowledge of the causes of
weather and an appreciation of how
intricate and spectacular nature can be,”
Giles said.
Monday’s events are free and will
begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m.. The
evening will also feature Fishel’s live
weather broadcast at 6:15 p.m. followed
his talk on weather reporting. “Extreme
Weather” will begin at 7p.m.
The rest of the
weeks’ talks are
free and will begin
at 7:30 p.m. in die
theater. “Extreme
Weather" will fol
low the talks at
8:30 p.m.
Tickets for the
show are $4 for
adults and $3 for
children, students
and adults.
For more information, contact the
planetarium at 962-1236.
The University editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu
returning for re-inspection, an arbitrary
number decided upon because it would
give the center adequate time to show
improvement, Rhyne said.
The probationary period is intended
to give hospital officials a heads-up on
problems, not to penalize them, Rhyne
said.
“I look at it as having a black eye,”
she said. “They’re in this business to take
good care of patients. A lot of (hospitals)
go through this review to make sure that
they are.”
The Center’s failure to adequately
address the problems would have led to
revocation of its Level I standing, a des
He’s the only guy in a suit, and
there are plenty of them, sitting on
the floor. Not that he’ll get his suit
dirty on the brand new carpet at this
well-manicured event. But, as the
man known to the media and staffers
as the main “behind-the-scenes” fig
ure of the Gore campaign, his floor
seat in the back amidst the media
seems fitting.
As Gore rambles on about the
future to the crowd of a couple hun
dred, neither Feldman nor the media
seem to pay attention to Gore.
There’s no need to listen. Gore’s
speech was passed out to the press
before he started speaking. And
while the journalists use Gore’s
speech as an opportunity to talk on
NC State, Duke Enact
Retooled Ticket Plan
Karen Brewer
Staff Writer
Duke University and N.C. State
University have developed anew policy
for basketball ticket-holders next year.
Duke has enacted anew four-tier
pricing structure for non-student ticket
holders, while N.C. State has created a
random distribution for students wanti
ng to attend the popular Duke and
UNC games.
Beginning next fall, Duke will price
its non-student tickets in four different
ranges based on seating location at
Cameron Indoor Stadium
Ticket prices will range between $23
and SSO per game. Previously all seats
were priced the same.
Jon Jackson, sports information direc
tor at Duke, said the changed in policy
was to raise more money for Duke ath
letics in general. Jackson said, “This
change brings as minimal disruption of
the seats as possible.”
Joe Geer, a Duke season ticket hold
er, said he feels the change was headed
in the right direction because it would
Thursday, June 8, 2000
ignation that hospitals voluntarily seek.
In order to regain its’ status, officials at
the Center would have to go through a
lengthy reapplication process, Rhyne
said.
UNC Hospitals’ Trauma Center is
one of nine facilities across the state with
Level I designation. Trauma centers are
ranked Levels I through 111 based on
the availability of services and specialists
on hand.
A Level I facility becomes the desti
nation of choice for patients with the
most acute conditions. UNC Hospitals’
See HOSPITALS, Page 9
their cell phones, the speech repre
sents a breather to Feldman - the
only time in the day he can take a
break, knowing full well that Gore
will tightly follow the script.
Feldman explains his job is to “get
the Vice President’s head in the
game of what he’s doing today.”
And sure enough, this show goes
off without a hitch.
“(Feldman) quietly is one of the
most influential people on not only
what we’re doing day in and day out,
but providing the Vice President
with a level of confidence,” says
David Morehouse, Senior
Counsellor and Trip Director for the
See FELDMAN, Page 9
help increase funding for athletics.
“The section I'm in didn’t increase (in
price)," Geer added. “I think it will open
up opportunities for people to upgrade
their seating. There really are no bad
seats in Cameron though.”
UNC’s tickets for non-students were
$26 per game last year, regardless of
where the seats were in the Dean E.
Smith Center. The ticket office at UNC
has not yet decided a price for seats next
season.
No changes were made with Duke’s
free 2,500 student tickets, but N.C. State
will begin anew student ticket policy
next year.
The 30-year tradition of camping-out
for tickets ended last February with the
camp-out for tickets to the game against
UNC. Due to trash, drinking and other
related problems, administration can
celled camp-outs as the means of ticket
distribution for students.
N.C. State students will now receive
tickets for the Duke and UNC games by
standing in line at the ticket office on
See TICKETS, Page 9
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