(Tljr Oaily oar Hrel Nursing graduate to be remembered with fund BY ALEX ROBINSON STAFF WRITER Katherine Wilson, an inspira tional and dedicated graduate of the UNC School of Nursing, died Feb. 16 after a 4 1/2-year battle with cancer. She was 28. Now the University community is mounting a fund-raising effort to ensure her name is not forgotten. Wilson entered nursing school in 1999 and was slated to gradu ate in 2001. Several months after joining school, she was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer, a rare form of the disease usually found in 50-year-olds. Wilson is the young est person on the East Coast to be diagnosed with the condition. “She was undaunted,” said Norma Hawthorne, director of advancement at the nursing school. “She had this extraordinary desire to become a nurse.” When chemotherapy and radia tion started to deteriorate Wilsons eyesight, her mother read her text books into a recorder so she could continue to study, Hawthorne said. While in nursing school, Wilson organized a campuswide bone mar row drive and advocated for a cancer LICENSING FROM PAGE 3 would stop licensees from increasing production of UNC goods in coun tries like China, where the govern ment prohibits labor organizations. “In China, it’s illegal to have an independent labor union,” Stratton said. “These unions are the only way for workers in garment factories to have a voice in the workplace.” Stratton’s proposal also suggests that licensees publicly disclose the volume of UNC goods produced in each factory. She said this stipulation would allow the University to monitor whether companies are shifting the manufacture of UNC apparel to locations deemed off-limits. The committee expressed sat isfaction with the general spirit of Stratton’s ideas and decided to spend additional time exploring all of the angles of any new policy. SPINOFFS FROM PAGE 3 ness. “It’s more work for me that I hope is going to pay off in the long run.” When the Carrboro Board of Aldermen discussed what type of businesses best benefit the com munity at its February planning retreat, high-tech spinoffs such as Duncan’s emerged as a favorite. These businesses saw broad approval because the University provides many tech-sawy would be entrepreneurs. Technological endeavors also tend not to endanger existing busi nesses in the area. “We’re not going to support something that hurts somebody else’s business,” Harris said. Many tech businesses also fit existing local office spaces, requir ing only minor adaptations for machinery, such as extra cooling for computer systems. Harris said Duncan’s firm is the quintessential business Carrboro is looking to attract. “They don’t have any byproducts that are negative,” he said. One of Duncan’s programs, a microscope simulator, emerged about three years ago from a science education project he was working on at the University. Because he developed the simula tor while working for UNC, Duncan does not own the rights to the pro gram. Instead, he pays the University a small fee for each program sold. What he does own are the virtual slides recordings of what he sees under his research-quality micro scopes. He digitizes these images for use with the program. His company markets these slides, packaged with the simula tor program. Science Learning Resources has sold only a handful of these packages, which retail for just under SIOO each though there are bulk rates available. Yet Duncan remains hopeful that business will improve, as his prod ucts recently appeared in the cata logue of Carolina Biological Supply, one of the largest suppliers of class room biology materials nationwide. As Duncan builds his business, Carrboro continues to try to attract new ventures by touting advantages such as its loan program. Duncan said it was only through the town’s support that he was able to realize his business aspirations. “I felt very supported. This kind of high-tech business is what they wanted to promote,” he said. “To form the business, buy equip ment, I needed the town’s support for that.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. hospital to be constructed in Chapel Hill. Wilson graduated as a member of Sigma Theta Tau, a national nurs ing honor society, in May 2004. Wilson, a Morganton native, showed her determination to succeed from a young age. While in middle school, she was the first girl to play on an all-boys soccer team when no teams were available for girls. Six weeks before Wilson died, several friends decided to establish a scholarship in her honor for an undergraduate nursing student. “She was ecstatic that she would be able to live on and have an impact, even after she passed, through the scholarship,” Hawthorne said. UNC requires a minimum of $50,000 to create a scholarship. Wilson’s friends hope to raise SIOO,OOO and have collected about $45,000 so far. There will be a silent auction and benefit tonight at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Va., to raise more funds. The event will include a basket ball signed by members of the UNC men’s basketball team and Coach Roy Williams and one signed by former coaches Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge. But the committee also said immediate action is needed. Derek Lochbaum, committee co-chairman, decided that,he and Stratton would represent the University in a conference call with other universities and Nike. University officials will try to persuade Nike to pressure its Korean supplier of baseball caps, Yupoong, to comply with workers’ rights and labor code initiatives. Officials said they will request that Yupoong follow through with a 10 percent wage increase it promised to workers at the BJ&B Factory in the Dominican Republic. The committee also tackled the question of whether to reaffiliate with the Fair Labor Association and Worker Rights Consortium, two groups that monitor interna tional labor issues. In a 6-2 vote, the committee decided to maintain ties to both organizations, noting that they complement each other nicely. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. Y‘AC‘K£T’Y y s i mo oV! o■ iTTTs >Bu|T|NjA r BUM I >i/ *'*'- " !I.S .ia FORCE ij H Join the Air Force and receive a $30,000 bonus. 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Problems with dress codes sparked disputes last summer at several late-night venues. A separate lounge area, called Bedz of Kryptonite, is expected to open Saturday. The lounge is filled with beds available to rent, much like the New York City hot spot featured in HBO’s “Sex and the City.” European techno music and extensive martini and wine offer ings will compliment the laid-back atmosphere, which owners hope will appeal to young professionals. “It’s something different then what you are going to find on Franklin Street,” Parris said. A unique niche might be key to the new business’ survival. Dan Markscheid, a co-owner of 21 More fluid 23 Pizza order 26 Vichy very 27 Xenon or neon 30 Italian dumplings 31 Architect Saarinen 32 Harvest 33 Perry's creator 34 Strokes 35 Israeli port 36 Observe 37 West Coast airport code 41 Provo's place 42 Fiction writer 2 5 6 7 ■■pT""9 |lO 111 |i:> 1 3 ii. I "ii ipr _ ?3 ““■■■pr" 25 30 31 3? 33 34 35 36 —— _ _ 54 55 56 62r* IhN idtht the Avalon nightclub, W.B. Yeats Irish Pub and Carolina Blue Bar in Chapel Hill, has more than 20 years of experience in the nightclub and bar business. And while Markscheid said he welcomes the new' club, it might have trouble competing with more established destinations. “(Chapel Hill is) a small place,” Markscheid said. “The amount of places that are open does not go hand in hand with the amount of people who go out.” Also, the nighttime business climate of Chapel Hill is not active every day and lulls during the summer, which could make it hard to make profits, Markscheid added. Parris said that he expects to see a drop-off in business during the summer, but he is optimistic about the club’s potential to attract customers. “We’re really excited,” said Viggy Struna, a co-owner. “There are a lot of good people around here.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. (C)?005 Tribune Media Services. 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