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Officials to Plan Cancer Center Programs
Legislators request
more specific terms
By Nikki Werking
Staff Writer
UNC Hospitals officials will begin to
outline the benefits anew cancer treat
ment center could provide to the state
after the N.C. General Assembly’s
request last week for a more concrete
plan for the center, Chancellor James
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under student affairs
By Rachel Hodges
Staff Writer
Provost Robert Shelton and Professor
Pamela Conover met Monday to discuss
Shelton’s decision to place the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender and queer
resource center under the jurisdiction of
the Division of Student Affairs.
But some LG BTC) leaders have sug
gested that they will not support a cen
ter under student affairs.
In the provost’s office report on the
campus climate for the LGBTQ com
munity released this summer, it was sug-
gested that the
center be placed
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enable work on developing a curriculum,
establishing relationships with faculty
members and creating new scholarships.
Dean Bresciani, interim vice chan
cellor for student affairs, said placing the
center under his department’s jurisdic
tion would not rule out the possibility of
a curriculum in the future.
But for now, the center is “going to
function more as a referral service until
we actually have staff members to offer
resources,” Bresciani said.
Grossman said he worries that if the
center is placed under student affairs, it
will be used for sensitivity training and
nothing more. “Unless UNC makes the
LGBTQ resource center essentially an
intellectual center, it will fail,” he said.
Some members of the community
also cited the location of African-
American studies under academic affairs.
“I’m confused as to why the University is
treating LGBT people differendy than
any other minority,” Grossman said.
Although not all involved think as
Grossman does, some are upset that the
LGBTQ Advisory Committee, which
drafted the provost’s office report, was not
consulted before the decision was made.
“As chair of the advisory board, I
would have preferred a more consulted
decision-making process,” Conover said.
“However, I understand the provost’s rea
soning, and I’m hopeful that an LGBTQ
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Moeser said Monday.
Hospital officials will work to solidi
fy the programs and purpose of the cen
ter by the time the legislature convenes
again in January, Moeser said.
Last Thursday, the legislature passed
the final version of an economic incen
tives bill that did not include money for
the cancer center at UNC-Chapel Hill
or a biopharmaceutical research facility
at N.C. State University.
The Senate version of the bill origi
nally included a provision providing
$ 130 million for a cancer treatment cen
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Three years after its inception, the Carolina Computing Initiative is on the verge of
reaching a milestone.
Come next year, officials expect that every UNC student will be toting a CCI
portable computer.
The only question facing the program now is where CCI goes from there.
In August 2000, UNC kicked off its cutting-edge campaign, two years in the making,
designed to enhance technological access on campus by requiring that all incoming students
own laptop computers.
And administrators boasted of CCl’s pre-eminent position in the country - at the time, no
other public institution could lay claim to a program like UNC’s.
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February 1998
• Chancellor Michael Hooker introduces CCI.
July 1998
•UNC signs a four-year contract with IBM.
August 1998
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Summer 1998
• Two-thirds of incoming freshmen participate in
student laptop distribution pilot.
June 1999
• Hooker dies one year before plan becomes a reality.
August 2000
• CCI commences.
January 2001
• Wireless technology takes CCI to next level.
August 2003
• All students on campus will be required to have
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ter, which was then reduced to $6 mil
lion in startup funding before being
eliminated in a conference committee
Thursday.
House Speaker Jim Black, D-
Mecklenburg, said the proposal for the
cancer center came at a time when the
state didn’t have the funds to start the
project.
“Money is tight, and we had to put
some things on hold,” Black said. “The
economy is still slow. It means we have
to be innovative in how we spend our
money.”
Now when upperclassmen stroll through the Pit and see
younger students writing e-mails or reading assignments on
their laptops, it’s not such an unusual sight.
With CCI in its third year
By DANIEL Thigpen now, students have become
University Editor accustomed to the technological
climate.
But officials contend that as CCI gains steam at the
University -and technology becomes a more prominent cam
pus resource - now is the time to test the program’s bound
aries.
UNC seems up to the challenge, but there are still obstacles
in the project’s path.
Uncertainty about who will lead the campaign and decide
what direction it will take prevails. CCl’s two guiding figures,
the late Chancellor Michael Hooker - the mastermind behind
CCI -and Marian Moore, former vice chancellor for infor
mation technology, are no longer at UNC.
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Funding for the planning of the can
cer treatment center is coming out of
hospital operations, said Karen McCall,
vice president of public affairs and mar
keting for UNC Hospitals. Moeser said
hospital officials will continue to work
on the plan as long as the funds are
available.
Legislators said they will give the cen
ter’s proposal proper consideration if
hospital officials can develop a more
concrete plan byjanuary.
Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand,
D-Cumberland, said some lawmakers
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need to have more information on
potential costs and the center’s real ben
efit to the state’s residents.
“It would help some people to know
what this would really mean for the
state,” he said. “We need to nail down
what it means for North Carolina - the
fact that we (would) have patients from
all 100 counties.”
Hospitals officials are still in the
process of assessing information from
the legislature and integrating it into
their plans for the center, said Cary
Owen, a member of UNC Hospitals’
Saturday Campus
Events Overlap
UNC birthday, registration, football conflict
By Jessica Bonnem
Staff Writer
UNC-Chapel Hill administrators
have lined up several events to celebrate
the University’s birthday, but schedul
ing overload might keep many students
from attending the Saturday festivities.
The 125-year-old holiday commemo
rating the start of construction on the first
campus building is always held Oct 12.
But this year the celebration will have
to compete for attention with senior
class registration and one of the football
season’s most highly anticipated games
- that against N.C. State.
University Day events begin at 9:30
a.m. with a keynote address in Hill Hall
and continue with the 11 a.m. dedica
tion of the newly constructed Institute
for Arts and Humanities at Hyde Hall.
Thirty minutes after the keynote
address’s start, seniors will flood Student
Central to register for their spring semes
ter classes. With thousands of students
logging on to schedule classes at once,
Student Central often is slow to respond.
In the past, the process has taken stu
dents up to two hours to complete.
But two hours after registration opens
-and one hour after the Hyde Hall ded
ication starts -a sellout crowd will fill
300 Protest to Sway
Price Against Iraq War
By Gillian Bolsover
Staff Writer
A demonstration Monday that began
with more than 300 participants
expressing opposition to a U.S. war with
Iraq ended with 10 protesters spending
the night in the office of Rep. David
Price, D-N.C.
The demonstration was intended to
inform Price that some of his con
stituents want him to vote against a bill
that would allow a unilateral attack on
Iraq. Protesters of all ages began gather
ing at all four comers of a busy Chapel
Hill intersection outside Price’s office at
1777 N. Fordham Blvd. at 3:30 p.m.
Lucy Straley, 88, expressed her long
standing opposition to war. “I have
been a peace activist for a long time,”
she said. “Attacking Iraq won’t stop ter
rorism, it’s the wrong way to go.”
Miles Colescurtis, a third grader, said
he thought that attacking Iraq would be
wrong. “It would kill a lot of people
who didn’t do anything,” he said.
Protesters remained until well after
dark, displaying numerous hand-held
signs and encouraging passing drivers to
“Honk if you don’t want war.”
Drivers responded with a chorus of
hom blasts, but not everyone agreed with
the protesters’ cause. One driver penned
a sign that read “Grow Up” to flash back
at protesters while he waited at a red light.
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board of directors.
She said that the plan is still in its ear
liest phases and that working out the
details could be a long process.
“I don’t know how much can be done
byjanuary,” Owen said. “It’s a very com
plex thing. I can assure you that we’re
working hard on the plan, and we’re anx
ious to get the cancer center going.”
Programs at the new center could
include one that will transfer informa
tion from UNC-CH’s cancer research
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Kenan Stadium for the big matchup
against local rival N.C. State.
The time conflict with the football
game was unavoidable because the
Atlantic Coast Conference set the sched
ule, Department of Athletics officials said.
But UNC-CH administrators moved
up the opening ceremony to accommo
date the traffic congestion associated with
the game, said Provost Robert Shelton.
Starting the ceremony early in the
morning will help ensure that all activi
ties, including the 11 a.m. dedication, fin
ish on time, he said. “The really difficult
part comes in getting everything wrapped
up early enough for kickoff at noon.”
Attending both the University Day
ceremonies and the game leaves little
time for students to register for classes,
but seniors can find a way to manage the
time, said Student Body President Jen
Daum. She plans to forgo the morning
registration to attend the ceremonies.
University officials are not sure how
the time conflicts will affect student
turnout for University Day, but they are
hoping for a large crowd, Shelton said.
“If there were no game, students
would being doing different things -
maybe even going home,” he said.
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Protesters gather Monday in front
of U.S. Rep. David Price's office on
Fordham Boulevard to speak out
against U.S. involvement in Iraq.
of whom were UNC students - held a
sit-in for almost three hours. The group
demanded to speak to Price, who was in
a meeting of the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Rules.
At 6:35 p.m., during a brief commit
tee recess, Price called his office and
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