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Wednesday, November 1, 2000
CARNIVAL
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He said the ghoulish dance contest
was an alternative activity for kids in
fourth- to sixth-grade.
“We’ve got smiley face balloons, alien
dracula balloons, and hundred-dollar
bills for the rest of our hundred-dollar
dancers,” he said.
The bills were not real.
But the carnival’s activities drew kids
even older than the Monster Mash
dancers.
Paul McGinley and Karen
Alexander, who recently moved from
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the Washington, D.C., area, said they
were impressed with Carrboro’s Fourth
of July activities and figured Halloween
would be even better.
“We both won cupcakes. That’s note
worthy," Alexander said, rubbing her
pink pig snout.
McGinley and Alexander came to
the carnival as Super Pigs.
Chapel Hill resident Jana Collins
came to the commons with her son
Wilson. She said the carnival offered
alternatives to the standard Halloween
fare.
“Wilson wanted to go trick-or-treat
ing, but he didn’t want to go up to peo
ples’ doors," Collins said.
“It is wonderful,” she said. “If I’d
known about this, we wouldn’t have
even bothered to try tncfyor-treating.
We’ll do this every year.”
Judy Lindsay, a part-time staff mem
ber for the Carrboro Recreation and
Parks Department, echoed Collins’ sen
timent
“This is probably my 12th carnival,”
Lindsay said.
“It’s a fun time for kids and adults
and an alternative to trick-or-treating.
It’s also a great place to work - making
magic wands for a living.”
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News
UNC-G to Study Bioterrorism
By Rachel Cottone
Staff Writer
UNC-Greensboro will receive half a
million dollars to fund research aimed at
finding detection methods for water
borne bioterrorist agents.
President Clinton signed the bill
funding the grant on Oct 27.
Ed McDonald, press secretary for
Rep. Howard Coble R-N.C., said the
seeds of the bioterrorism research
endeavor lie in recent terrorist attacks -
most notably, the 1995 Sarin gas attack
in a Tokyo subway.
“It showed the potential for bioter
rorism,” McDonald said.
McDonald said the grant could allow
UNC-G to be a leader in the field of
bioterrorist agent research.
Dorm Internet Access Low at HBCUs
By April Bethea
Staff Writer
Students at historically black colleges
and universities do not have access to the
Internet in their residence halls, despite
the presence of network systems on cam
pus, according to a recently released study.
The study, titled “Historically Black
Colleges and Universities: An
Assessment of Networking and
Connectivity,” was released by U.S.
Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta.
The study surveyed the computing
resources and network capabilities of 80
of the 118 HBCUs in the nation.
According to a Department of
Commerce press release, Mineta said the
report demonstrated that the nation’s his
torically black educational institutions
stand poised to make a digital leap into the
21st century.
Three of the five HBCUs in the UNC
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the treats provided by the merchants.
Five-year-old Kendall Atwater, wear
ing a blue-checkered dress like Dorothy
from the Wizard of Oz, said that she
enjoys the festivities.
Joanna Carter, also a 5-year-old,
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He added that one of the reasons
UNC-G received the grant was because
of its facilities and faculty specializing in
bioterrorism research.
Peter Alfonso, spokesman for UNC
G’s Provost’s Office, also said UNC-G
has experience researching bioterrorism.
“It represents an area of research that
we’re creating a larger base to support,”
Alfonso said.
UNC-G assistant Professor Neal
Stewart will be heading the research and
said the university has already invested
in technology it will need.
Specifically, the research will ulti
mately try to identify certain bioterrorist
agents.
“We’ll be looking for certain biologi
cal warfare elements,” Stewart said.
“We’ll be looking at bacteria, finding
State, Elizabeth City State and Winston-
Salem State universities - participated in
the survey. “The point of the study was
to look at the readiness of historically
black colleges and universities to provide
Internet services to students,” said Art
Brodsky, National Telecommunications
and Information Administration com
munications director.
Brodsky said the NTIA administered
a grant to the National Association for
Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
to conduct the survey. Approximately
25 percent of students attending HBCUs
bring their own computers to campus,
the survey said. At non-HBCUs, that
number of students jumps to 50 percent.
The survey also said while 98 percent
of HBCUs have some form of campus
network, only 50 percent of the schools
provide dormitory access to the Internet.
Joyce Williams-Green, WSSU asso
ciate vice chancellor for academic
affairs, said the university is actively
dressed as Ariel from the Little
Mermaid and enjoyed the different
clothes worn.
“I like the costumes,” Carter said.
Jason Gray, a parent of four cos
tumed children, said he is glad to have a
fun and safe environment for his chil
dren to trick-or-treat in.
“For the past few years, we’ve gone to
University Mall,” Gray said. “To me it
seems to be a safe environment. It has
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genes and DNA sequences that can be
used for diagnostic tests.”
Stewart said this research could be
beneficial because of the changing
nature of biological warfare.
“Anthrax and plague cause disease in
a very acute manner and are getting eas
ier and easier to grow,” Stewart said.
With a method to identify these bioter
rorist agents, the water supply can be
monitored for presence of such agents.
UNC-G will receive the grant in
2001. But Stewart said the initial half
million dollars will only cover research
costs for the first year. He said he hopes
Congress will continue to fund the grant
for three years.
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working to provide Internet access in all
campus buildings. “We are in the final
stages of the project,” she said.
Williams-Green said all campus dor
mitories will be operating on a network
by December. But she said students can
currendy access e-mail and the Internet
via 15 campus computer laboratories.
“Students have access now in labora
tories and via modems,” she said.
Fayetteville State spokeswoman
Lauren Burgess said the university is
also working to make the campus
Internet accessible to all students.
Burgess said all classrooms and
administrative offices are connected to
the Internet and the university is current
ly working to connect residence halls to
the network. “We have one residence hall
completely wired and are now wiring the
rest of the residence halls.”
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lots of lights. We’ve never had any prob
lems. Safety is the biggest issue.”
Jenkins said she enjoys the annual
University Mall activities.
“For me, I don’t care that I don’t have
many sales,” Jenkins said.
“It’s just a wonderful, good feeling for
this town.”
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