Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / April 29, 2005, edition 1 / Page 16
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
16 FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005 NURSING FROM PAGE 11 called for construction workers to use logging mats to protect trees around the construction site. The new building features an extensive green roof, where the soil extends about four inches, similar to the grass at the Rams Head Center. Shea said the application of green building principles will encourage other universities in the UNC system and agencies throughout the state to employ similar guidelines. Many officials are praising the nursing school’s expansion. “I think it’s really going to increase our capacity to educate students,” said Amanda Dindino, associate director of public relations and com munications for the nursing school. “We were cramped for so long, I think it was long overdue.” The school’s human patient simulators, robots that can be pro grammed to develop symptoms of specified illnesses, have anew spot. Faculty, who often shared offices, now will have individual offices. “We can bring in more equip ment and have more space and a better learning environment,” Dindino said. Officials said they hope this expansion is just the beginning. “I think the nursing school needs to continue to grow,” Tonges said. “It’s a wonderful asset to our state and needs to be financially supported so they can take more nursing students because the state needs it, and the people in North Carolina need that care.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. Nissan Graduation Gifts. 2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8 S ■ 126 Horsepower Engine • AM/FM/CD Stereo System • Power Windows, Door Locks & Outside Mirrors s 2,sooCash Back 1 + s sooCollege Grad Cash 3 s 3,OOOTotal Cash Back 2005 Nissan Altima 2.5 S ■ 175 Horsepower Engine ■ Remote Keyless Entry • AM/FM/CD Stereo System With 6 Speakers *l,sQOCash Back 1 4- s sQOCollege Grad Cash 3 s 2,OOOTotal Cash Back IhR All-New 2005 Nissan Frontier ■ 265 Horsepower V 6 ■ Available Spray-On Bedliner And Utiliti-Track™ System ■ King Cab Or Crew Cab Models All-New 2005 Nissan Xterra • 265 Horsepower V 6 • Easy Clean Cargo Area With Utili-Track™ Channel System • Rugged Off-Road Capabilities Vehicles shown with optional equipment. NOW AVAILABLE WITH S SOO GRAD CASH. ...For Future Graduates For More Information About S#flf/iafl/reGRADUATE®, Visit Your Nissan Dealer Now Or Visit NissanUSA.com/Financing 1 .Cash back on new 2005 Altima, 2005 Sentra from dealer stock. Offer ends 5/2/05. 2.Deferred interest added to contract balance and payable over remaining contract term. New purchase only. For contracts up to 60 months. Subject to NMAC credit approval. 3.Must be a college graduate in six months or have graduated in the last 24 months and provide proof of employment. Subject to NMAC credit approval. See Nissan dealer for details. Nissan, the Nissan Brand Symbol, and Nissan model names are Nissan trademarks. ©2006 Nissan North America, Inc. ACCURACY FROM PAGE 11 in the Information Age.” When we rank the DTH’s error rates against those of the other papers, this student-run publica tion falls somewhere in the middle. Though analysis of sources’ trust of the paper indicates that one of the greatest concerns of the people we interview every day is reporter training, and though it’s clear that we need to make our editorial page into a stronger venue to provoke action, the DTH shares many ailments common to an industry. With the information we’ve discovered and will continue to investigate after the end of this semester, we’ll be able to target some of those ills. And we’ll be able to help other college papers with some of the same problems, as we’re aiming to see this investi gation published on the Internet, in print, or both. Hopefully, our efforts will bet ter connect us to you, the readers, and to the people who trust us enough to call us back and to take the time to treat student journal ists like the professionals they someday aim to be. The students who write for this paper are the torchbearers for future journalism, whatever form it takes. The work done this year will improve their ability to critique themselves, to target their weak nesses and to understand their great responsibility. Contact Michelle Jarboe at mjarboe@email.unc.edu. From Page Eleven MIXON FROM PAGE 11 “Had only one person I met said, ‘This place is all right,’ or ‘This place is OK some days,’ it might have caused me to stay in Chapel Hill,” he said. Mixon, a 1980 UNC graduate, recently completed his 16th season alongside Woody Durham on the Tar Heel Sports Network’s football and basketball broadcasts. “You need a team that has a glue,” said Gary Sobba, general manager ofTar Heel Sports Marketing. “Mick was the glue of the broadcast team he pulled everything together.” Mixon also earned respect with his preparation and his profession al approach to each broadcast. “He brought a ton of research and background, and he brought insight into what was happening on the court or on the field,” said Director of Athletics Dick Baddour. Mixon also endeared himself to his listeners with his ever-present sense of humor. “He had an uncanny wit,” Sobba said. “He was a very, very sharp guy, a very intelligent guy.” The Tar Heel Sports Network likely will name a replacement for Mixon within 30 days. But Sobba, who first learned of the Panthers’ interest in Mixon three months ago, declined to iden tify any candidates for the position Thursday. “We’re in a pretty good position there,” Sobba said. “We hate to lose Mick, but I think we have capable replacements.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. US' - 1 LOTTERY FROM PAGE tl dollars in revenue since its incep tion more than three years ago, receives an estimated 12 percent of its revenue from North Carolina residents, said Ernie Passailaigue, executive director of the S.C. Education Lottery. That money has gone to fund 400,000 scholarships for South Carolina students. According to the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research, N.C. resi dents spend an additional SIOO mil lion on the Virginia lottery. And it is the prospect of these monies in an airtight budget year that has some legislators backing away from personal reservations about state-sponsored gambling. Black said that even though he has reservations about a lottery in North Carolina, he just can’t see any other way. “We just don’t seem to have the political will to take money out of the General Fund.” Adding to the revenue flow won’t solve that problem. “I’m always'cautious and simply will not provide another revenue stream for North Carolina,” said Rep. John Rhodes, R-Mecklenburg. “We have plenty of money. It’s a priority of spending crisis.” Rhodes warned that waiting for the lottery to solve the state’s prob lems could be dangerous optimism. “The numbers just simply do not add up on the lottery,” he said. “The numbers based on the governor’s predictions are grossly overrated.” Rhodes cited deteriorating high ways as one example of a pressure that won’t be relieved by a lottery. Jeff Davies, UNC-system vice president for finance, said that, SHIFT. while beneficial for students, a lottery wouldn’t help the university overcome its budget crisis. “It’s not general revenue to be added to the state’s coffers for gen eral funding,” he said. Rhodes also questioned a lot tery’s ability to have a meaning ful impact within its focus area of school construction. If the lottery netted SSOO mil lion, that would provide $250 mil lion for school construction. Once split among the state’s 100 counties, Rhodes said, the revenue would fund only one-third of an elemen tary school for each county. Rhodes said his district’s school system, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, needs about 75 schools. The price of money Lucrative revenues are the driv ing force behind the lottery, but how much revenue will be made and the cost at which it will come remains unclear. “Estimates are in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” Fulk said. The center stated in a press release that proponents of the lottery have pushed that number as high as S4OO million for the first year. Wagers Chenault, spokes man for the Georgia Lottery Commission, said revenues have risen constantly since the Georgia lottery began in 1993. But skeptics doubt that pace can be maintained. In 1989, lottery revenues consti tuted 3.5 percent of the total budget of the 29 states running lotteries, according to the center. By 1997, lot tery revenues in the same 29 states constituted only 1.9 percent of the budget. To avoid this, the center says, states must advertise the lottery and introduce new gimmicks. But Angie Whitener, policy ana lyst for Black, said the bill passed by the House earlier this month RECRUITS FROM PAGE 11 he’s only a freshman. Even Marvin Williams, who could be the No. 1 pick in June’s NBA Draft, was not forced to start every game, to be the focal point of the offense. But John David Patillo, Hansbrough’s coach at Poplar Bluff (Mo.) High School, said he is ready to take that step. “He gets to expand his role,” Patillo said. “It is a great oppor tunity for Tyler to step in and play with some of those guys coming off the national championship.” But Hansbrough doesn’t just have to play with them he has to be the star, no matter how much he thinks otherwise. “I don’t feel like I’m gonna have to carry the load next year,” Hansbrough said. “I think that it will be a team thing, really.” And because the team needs him to step in immediately as a consis tent post threat, UNC head coach Roy Williams can’t afford growing pains. “I don’t foresee Tyler having a big struggle,” Patillo said. “I think he’ll take it on as a challenge.” Although Hansbrough appears to be polished and ready, the other three North Carolina signees Bobby Frasor, Marcus Ginyard and Danny Green likely will face more of a struggle. The Tar Heels will be deep at point guard, but quantity does not add up to quality. Rising sophomore Quentin Thomas showed flashes of compe tence but is far from being a con sistent point guard. Telep said Frasor, who hails from Brother Rice High School in Chicago, will compete for the start ing job, even though his future is at shooting guard. “Bobby Frasor, at the core of his game, when it’s all said and done at the end of the day, is a shooter,” | KUNG FU HUSTLE I 7:15,9:20, SAT-SUN 2:30,1:30 {SI lUXM 7:IO *3O,SAT-SUN I\o. it frlW MILLIONS 700. HO, SAT-SUN 200,4:20 rjp 'tfSS Noßocly Knows 7:00. *4O. SAT-SUN 1:50,4:20 7:10,9:20. SAT-SUN 2:10,4:40 "MANIFINTLY KAUTIFUL. ANMN TOO. 9 2S. SAT-SUN 200,4:20 Slip Daily Sar Hppl prohibits advertising. The speaker, not entirely able to overcome his past reservations, doesn’t support a bill that would include ads. Another concern is that the lot tery will provide sufficient revenue so sufficient that the General Assembly shifts sizeable funds away from education. The fear is that lottery revenues will end up supplanting education funds instead of supplementing them, said Ferrel Guillory, direc tor of UNC’s Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life. Protecting the poor Another problem for an educa tion lottery is the understanding that it taxes the poor for the ben efit of the rich. While the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research found participa tion rates across racial and educa tion levels to be relatively equal, they also found that lower-income players used a higher percentage of their income for lottery tickets. In addition, they found high school dropouts to be the highest spenders, indicating an inherent bias against those less educated. But Passailaigue pointed to an annual demographic survey per formed by the S.C. lottery in 2004 that came to different conclusions. Seventy percent of the players surveyed made purchases between $1 and $5, and the majority of them played less frequently than once a week, illustrating more of a casual pastime than a lethal addiction. Passailaigue also said the lottery differs from a regressive tax, such as a sales tax on food, in a major way: It’s voluntary. “The lottery is something if you want to play, you play; if you don’t, you don’t,” he said. “That’s what America’s all about.” Contact the State National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. Telep said. “He has been a service able point guard, but not for the long term.” Ginyard, from Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, Va., also could play the point but is a more defensive-minded player and is the only one of the quartet who was not in the McDonald’s game. Telep called the 6-foot-5 Green, from St. Mary’s High School in Manhasset, N.Y., the second-best player in the bunch, comparing him to Rick Fox, an All-American swingman for UNC in the early ’9os. But the last thing the Tar Heels need is another perimeter player. The frontcourt was the most dev astated by the departures, leaving Byron Sanders as the only return ing big man. And that’s why Roy Williams is back on the recruiting trail, pur suing 6-foot-9 Uche Echefu from Montrose Christian High School in Rockville, Md., who, though unpol ished, is one of the only big bodies still unsigned. Echefu’s other suitors include Florida State, Kentucky, and home town Maryland. But none of those schools are in such dire need of his services. “North Carolina needs Uche Echefu as a more glaring need than anyone else who is recruiting him,” Teiep said. “North Carolina pro vides the greatest chance to play a lot in the ACC right away.” Because of that opportunity, UNC might have the inside track to signing Echefu, who is making an official visit to Chapel Hill this weekend. With or without a fifth fresh man, the Tar Heels will have a tal ented but young core next season, and the newcomers will be forced into action early and often. “It’s gonna be a dogfight,” Telep said. “Those freshmen are going to have to play like sophomores from day one.” Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu. "" Liimiiia Take 15/501 South towards Pittsboro Exit Main St./Southern Village HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY El 1:30-4:00-7:10-9:30 XXX: STATE OF THE UNION FS 1:40-4:10-7:20-9:40 THE INTERPRETER El 1:15-4:15-7:00-9:45 KUNGFUHUSTIi^j4S4jOS^IMj3S .ES, DD|j>°sy] |Ta D i Um 98.00 Iqioita lISEATinS ( MOVIES AT TIMBERLYNE Weaver Dairy at Airport Rd. V 933-8600 XXxTSTATE OF THE UNION EH Daily 12:45 300 515 7:30,9:45 ' ' HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY fjjj Daily 12 40 2:55,505,7:20,9:35 THE INTERPRETER* EH Daily 12:50,3:30,7:10 950 SAHARA EH Daily IDO, 3:35,7:10,9:40 A LOT LIKE LOVE* EE Daily 12:45,3:00,5:20,7:35,955 GUESS WHO EB Daily 12:45,3:00,5:15,7:30,9:45 Ear gpj=gi as
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 29, 2005, edition 1
16
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75