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BY BECCA MOORE
SENIOR WRITER
Mark Laabs is a senior
majoring in international
studies at the University.
He is involved with student gov
ernment and the men’s crew team,
considers “Dead Poets Society” to
be one of his favorite movies and
has spent time studying abroad
in China.
I am not friends with Laabs.
I know all this because Laabs
made information about himself
public through an account on the
popular social networking Web
site Facebook.com.
It’s easy to pick out anyone’s
interests and what they are
involved in within five minutes of
browsing an account. Thousands
of UNC students have profiles on
the Web site, composing a small
fraction of the 3.6 million users
registered at more than 800 col
leges nationwide.
Student government, of which
Laabs is chief of staff, also has
a presence on the Internet that
makes it easy for UNC students
to familiarize themselves with the
goals and activities of the organi
zation.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
And thanks to the efforts of
a handful of people in student
government and the office of
the vice chancellor for student
affairs, every one of the 627 stu
dent groups on campus will soon
be able to craft a Web site and
heighten its visibility in the cam
pus community.
The project, which student gov
ernment hopes will be launched
later this semester, will utilize
free Web-design software called
Mambo.
Toting the tagline “power in
simplicity,” Mambo is designed
for creating and updating user
friendly Web sites. Even with the
free technical support and Web
space that is provided for students
on UNC’s official online network,
it can be daunting to create and
maintain an online domain.
Brian Payst, director of tech
nology and systems support for
the office of student affairs, said
having Mambo generally available
will benefit all UNC students.
Payst found Mambo, which he
calls “powerful and easy to use,”
while working to implement a
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