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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2003
Halls see new checkout system
Enhancement processes hit Internet
BY DANIEL MALLOY
STAFF WRITER
Welcome to the 21st century,
South Campus.
Despite their distance from
much of the rest of campus, both
the Hinton James and Morrison
communities are debuting new
enhancement technology that soon
will spread to every residence hall.
Both communities now have
scanners that read the bar codes on
students’ UNC ONE Cards and on
corresponding enhancements. The
information is recorded on the
front desk computer.
The status of the enhancements
also is available on the Internet,
allowing students to find out which
enhancements are checked out
without taking a trip to the resi
dence hall’s front desk.
GOSPEL
FROM PAGE 3
UNC, the Roanoke-Chowan
Award has a rich history' of its own.
Past UNC recipients include
English professors Alan Shapiro
and Michael McFee in 2002 and
2001 respectively as well as 2000
winner Margaret Rabb, a Creative
Writing Program lecturer.
“I’m honored to have won this
award because of the long line of
fine poets who have won it in the
past,” Chitwood said.
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level of support from the chancel
lor and provost, who both encour
aged me to do more than keep the
boat afloat,” he said.
Bresciani and Soloway said that
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istrators they replaced and that
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Checking out a movie in Hinton
James Residence Hall used to
require a trip to the front desk that
could have ended in disappoint
ment if the movie was checked out.
If the movie was in stock, a long
wait to fill out paperwork ensued.
Colin Scott, vice president of the
Residence Hall Association, said
that the new system will continue
to spread and that the RHA hopes
to have the technology in every hall
by the start of the spring semester.
The idea was proposed by
Morrison community leaders last
spring, and RHA members worked
throughout the summer to have the
new system ready for the first day of
classes, Scott said. The technology
made its debut in the Hinton James
community' Oct. 10.
Senior Erika Smith, who lives in
Bland Simpson, Creative Writing
Program director, said having such
a long list of distinguished faculty is
a “real salute” to the University’s cul
ture of creative writing. “It’s over
whelming to have our faculty' mem
bers win the state’s top poetry' prize
four years running.”
Simpson credited what he
described as UNC’s “lively and
diverse cultural life” with drawing
top-notch faculty to the University.
McFee agreed, adding that “Chapel
Hill has been a focus for writers for
a long, long time.”
While interim administrators
learn about their positions, a com
mittee conducts an extensive
search to find the perfect person
for the job.
The committee, usually compris
ing 10 to 15 members from across
the University, advertises the job in
the Chronicle of Higher Education
along with professional magazines
and some mainstream media, such
as The New York Times.
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Hinton James and works at its
office, said the new system makes
her job easier. Under the old sys
tem, she said, the paperwork was
quite time-consuming, and the
automated system is much easier.
Scott added that the equipment
is surprisingly inexpensive. The
scanners cost SIOO each, and each
residence hall uses about SIOO of
outside server space. But the RHA
is looking to move onto the campus
server to cut costs further.
“There are a lot of benefits for a
low cost," he said. “It adds reliabil
ity to the system.”
However, Scott said, there have
been a few complaints that the sys
tem is too precise. Fines have been
automated with they system, and if
an enhancement is turned in even
a minute late, computers will
assess a late fee.
Freshman Lauren Carpenter, a
Morrison resident, said the system
While both McFee and
Chitwood said summer is the opti
mal time to write, Chitwood added
that he believes teaching at the
university level also has been very
conducive to his writing.
“You don’t have to go to a job
everyday from 9 to 5,” Chitwood
said. “(Teaching) affords you the
time.”
Chitwood, who is on leave from
the University this semester, will
return to campus to teach an inter
mediate creative writing class in
spring.
It then sifts through applica
tions, whittling down the candi
date pool to three to five people.
Those candidates come to cam
pus for interviews with the com
mittee and to answer questions
from the UNC community in
forums.
After the interviews, the com
mittee makes its recommendation
to the chancellor or the provost,
who then makes a decision. Gray-
Little said the process can take
anywhere from six to 15 months.
The costs of the search are rela
tively low. Advertising costs
between several hundred and a few
thousand dollars, and bringing the
candidates to campus for inter
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is occasionally inaccurate as well as
overly strict with fines.
“My two suitemates and I each
rented a movie,” she said. “I turned
all three of them in at the same
time, about two minutes late. My
two suitemates got late fees, but I
didn’t.”
But despite the possible inaccu
racies in the system, Scott said, any
fines can be appealed to the RHA
and will be considered on a case
by-case basis.
Other students praised the sys
tem. Freshman Prashant Thakur,
also a Morrison resident and a fre
quent user of the enhancement
system, said he enjoys the ease and
convenience of the online listing of
enhancements.
“It’s a really efficient way for stu
dents to get the movies they like.”
Con tact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
Sally Buckner, retired professor
of English at Raleigh’s Peace
College and author of two antholo
gies of North Carolina literature,
said Chitwood’s works stand out
for academic and pleasure reading
alike.
“He handles the technique of
poetry very well,” Buckner said.
“You can call him the Bruce
Springsteen of North Carolina
poetry.”
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views costs between $3,000 and
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number of people and the distance
they must travel. The University
pays for transportation and accom
modation at the Carolina Inn.
Gray-Little said that despite the
cost and time involved in the hiring
process, it is important in ensuring
the best fit for the University.
“The searches themselves are
time-consuming and important,
and they do represent a significant
investment,” she said. “But I don’t
think they’re seen as a drain or a
strain on University resources.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
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ATN says e-mail
should be stable
Hardware failure
atfault in crash
BY GREG PARKER
STAFF WRITER
Academic Technology &
Network officials and representa
tives from Sun Microsystems
determined in a meeting
Wednesday that a number of con
current hardware failures were at
fault for the e-mail crash that
occurred two weeks ago.
The IMAP server that controls
the campus’s e-mail systems
crashed the morning of Oct. 14 and
returned to normal operation the
night of Oct. 15, after officials were
forced to reinstall the system from
scratch.
Judd Knott, director of academ
ic computing systems for ATN,
said that at the time of
Wednesday's meeting ATN staff
members were not sure whether
the system had recovered fully
from the crash.
Therefore, ATN performed
extensive maintenance on the serv
er Friday.
The maintenance included
replacing a number of hardware
components, such as fiber optic
cables and controllers. It also
involved installing several software
patches.
APS
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During the last six years, contri
butions by APS toward shelter
operations have ranged from 5.45
percent in 2001-02 to 19.12 percent
in 1998-99- Last year APS covered
13.67 percent of its expenses relat
ed to running the facility.
The most significant change in
APS’s projected expenses since last
year was a salary increase totalling
$23,540, which made up 66 per
cent of the increased funding.
County manager John Link
expressed displeasure with the
manner in which APS made its
request in the middle of the fis
cal year and outside the budget
process.
“In effect, the APS board, with
out county input or discussion, has
decided to change the funding
structure for the shelter and the
financial relationship that has
existed between APS and the
county since 1975,” Link said.
The board also agreed to have
staff request proposals from organ
izations for how to handle interim
management and operation of the
shelter in the case that the county
takes control from APS.
Members of APS’s executive
board have complained that uncer
tainty’ over whether the organiza
tion will continue shelter operation
has caused a decrease in the
COSTS
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ing) tuition, one of the ways to do
that is to close academic depart
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Despite the problems facing
most colleges, the report found that
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After working through the
night, ATN officials rebooted the e
mail server several times Saturday
morning without incident.
Officials now are convinced that
the server is fully operational,
Knott said.
He added that there are not
many additional measures that can
be taken to avoid a similar crash if
the University continues to use the
single-server e-mail system it now
has.
However, he said, the system
should be OK because it already
has a number of built-in redun
dancies aimed at preventing mas
sive failures.
One way to decrease the possi
bility of a failure of that magnitude
from happening again is to switch
to a multiple-server system.
Knott added that ATN already
has the software licenses necessary
to implement such a system.
However, he added, the group
needs additional funds to install
and operate the hardware neces
sary to run it.
ATN made a request for the
additional funds two days before
the e-mail crash. Knott said he
anticipates that those funds will be
allocated sometime in the near
future.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
amount of donations and the num
ber of volunteers.
The board has shortened APS’s
contract with the count)' from
annual to monthly.
“You all knew APS had been
contributing a substantial amount
of money to the shelter. When you
put us on a month-to-month leash,
I thought we were going to have
problems with getting contribu
tions and staff,” APS board mem
ber Ann Petersen said.
County staff' wrote in their
report that the county will require
a minimum of four to six months
for an “orderly and effective transi
tion” of shelter management.
The board approved the forma
tion of a task force to examine how
to improve shelter operation. The
group will present its findings in
December.
Proposals must be submitted by
Nov. 4, and the chosen applicant is
to take over shelter operation no
later than Feb. 1. Staff will report
back to the board about applica
tions Nov. 18.
Proposals for more permanent
operation of the shelter will be
requested in a separate process.
The board still has to decide
whether to cede control to the
health department, the manager's
office or another entity.
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at city desk @ unc.edu.
“significantly lower than the pub
lished tuition and fees.”
Topiel also said that the benefits
of a college education outweigh
the increasing cost of tuition.
“We don’t want families to freak
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were very big this year, but we
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