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2 Monday, October 22, 2001 Funds May Go to First-Year Seminars By Meredith Nicholson Staff Writer UNC officials are exploring possible uses for the SBOO,OOO earmarked for the Chancellor’s Academic Enhancement Fund as part of the contract the University signed with Nike Corp. on Oct. 16. Chancellor James Moeser said last week that the SBOO,OOO, which will be paid in 8 yearly installments of SIOO,OOO, will be used to benefit under graduate education. UNC entered into an 8-year contract with Nike last week. The contract - valued at $28.34 million - the largest collegiate deal of its kind. Risa Palm, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the money will be used to fund additional first-year seminars and research opportunities for undergraduate students. >I I A I Good on any tanning package of 10 I or more visits with this coupon. Good until November 30, 2001 S j | TANNERY i 169 E. Franklin Street • Near the Post Office f __967-6633 . 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Sarah Shields, director of first-year sem inars, said the seminars, which have been offered for three years, are unable to meet student demand because many depart ments are understaffed. She said the new funds will help solve this problem. Palm also said the money will help fill this void. “By putting money into the first-year seminars we are able to get more faculty and free up faculty to teach these seminars,” she said. WllEßifEfs'ftHElSi ! eMO'S I MEXICAN CAFE Cjft' Buy any dinner and | two beverages at the regular price and WtKk, > receive the secon’d dinner VyH of equal or lesser value © M FREE!!!! ’ l Dine-in only. One coupon per table. Valid Sunday-Thursday. Expires Nov. 5,2001 ft 159’/: E. Franklin St. • Downtown Chapel Hill • 919-967-5048 University Shields said the seminars are benefi cial for both the students and professors. “Faculty love it because students are engaged hi the topic,” she said. “Students get a chance to take part in what we call active learning.” Shields said she would like to see the money used to fund seminars that are related to the source of the money. “This provides a tremendous oppor tunity for students to study conditions in and issues affiliated with Nike and other corporations,” Shields said. Shields said another possible seminar related to the Nike contract would be about labor in developing countries and that the seminar could be followed by a semester abroad in China or another similar country. Labor issues were a major point of contention in the development of the Nike contract, and standards governing labor conditions in factories manufac turing UNC apparel were incorporated into die contract. Shields said this seminar would allow students to study third-world working conditions first hand. Apart from the seminars, Palm said funding undergraduate research with the Nike money is equally important. “Students at the undergraduate level should have the opportunity to work with research to see that the disciplines are not fixed and are still evolving,” she said. Palm said some of the money also will go to fund travel for undergraduate students who are presenting and defend ing academic papers at conferences. “This kind of infusion of money will be really helpful. We are really grate ful,” Palm said. “Life for undergraduates will be much more enriched.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. Is the press up to the current challenge? September 11th and the newspaper. l||p* " ' Jay T. 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Franklin SL • Eastgate Shopping Center DURHAM: 626 Ninth Street • Commons at University Place (I*3l MLK Parkway at University Drive) RALEIGH: 2302 Hillsborough Street • North Hills Mall • Pleasant Valley Promenade • Sutton Square, Falls ol the Neuse Rd ■ Mission Valley Shopping Center • Stonehenge Shopping Center, Creedmoor Rd. Harvest Plaza,Six Forks & Strickland Rds. GARNER: 117 Small PW Drive (Hwy. 401N at Pine Winds Dr.) CARY: 122 S.W. Maynard Rd. • Preston Business Center, 4212 Cary Pkwy. Open Seven Days a Week § This Week in Tar Heei History... D22 Years Ago: ■ This week in 1979, UNC Band Director John Yesulaitis requested police protection for future night football STf j games at N.C. State University after Wolfpack fans f I harassed band members at Carter-Finiey Stadium. V. I 39 Years Ago: \ \ ■ This week in 1962, more than 500 students burned \A\ Fidel Castro in effigy then marched down Franklin YB] Street chanting support of President Kennedy's Cuban blockade, which started Oct 22,1962. 74 Years Ago: ■ This week in 1927, five new electric Monroe Calculating machines were installed in Saunders Hall. The machines were capable of simple addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, logarithmic calculation and trial balance. Campus Calendar Today 6:30 p.m. - TTie Student North Carolina Association of Education will have its second meeting. All interested stu dents should meet in 212 Peabody Hall. 7:30 p.m. - The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies will meet 2% iathj ®ar Hwl tonight in New West Hall to debate the topic “Resolved: Capability implies responsibility." Everyone is welcome to attend and speak. There will be free food. Editor's Note To submit an event to be printed in Campus Calendar, go to our Web site, http://www.dailytarheel.com. For the Record The Oct. 17 article “Officials Announce 8-Year Nike Contract” incorrectly reported that SBOO,OOO per year would go to the Chancellor’s Academic Enhancement Fund. The donation will be SIOO,OOO per year for 8 years for a total of SBOO,OOO. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error. (Tiff Saily Sar Hrrl RO. Box 3257. Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Katie Hunter, Editor. 962-4086 Advertising & Business. 962-1163 News, Features. Sports. 962-0245 © 2001 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved EOC Ready For Urgent Situations The EOC houses technology such as fax machines and weather satellites to aid its response to emergencies. By Addie Sluder Staff Writer Trust in the basement of the Department of Public Safety. If a crisis were to affect the University, the best source of information and plan ning might lie in a room nestled in a maze under the DPS building. Since Sept. 11 University officials, along with other public safety officials in the state, have been preparing UNC’s Emergency Operations Center to deal with any situation facing the University. The EOC is a multipurpose room under normal circumstances, but it is equipped to handle a variety of emer gencies. The center houses technology such as fax machines, televisions, weath er satellites and Internet connections. DPS Director Derek Poarch said the center is designed to handle everything from natural disasters and gas leaks to national or international emergencies such as chemical or biological attacks or a state of domestic warfare. He said the DPS has been keeping track of recent events to determine potential response plans for issues that might affect campus. Poarch said he used the EOC on Sept. 11 when he and deputy director Maj. Jeff McCracken went to the room to monitor the terrorist attacks. From the center, they were able to receive the lat est information about the events. Poarch said if the University were in an emergency situation, officials from DPS, the Department of Health and Safety, the Department of Facilities Planning and University News Services would gather in the EOC to generate a response. “It gives us one central location from which to operate,” Poarch said. Poarch said security concerns kept him from discussing what specific reaction the center would have to a terrorist attack, but he said the EOC is prepared to address a variety of crisis scenarios. Similar centers are located in each North Carolina county to coordinate reactions to crisis situations. Emergency precautions have been taken in North Carolina in recent years, and response centers across the state have been developing plans to react in the event of a terrorist or bioterrorist attack. The News and Observer reported Oct 9 that Raleigh was given a grant in 1999 by the Department of Defense to help prepare an emergency plan for the pos sibility of a chemical or biological attack. In addition to having plans ready in advance, Poarch said the convenient location of UNC’s center will help offi cials respond quickly if an emergency situation occurs. Poarch said, “Our response time is however long it takes me to walk downstairs.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu.
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