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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2005
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everyone gets a great experience,
great food and gets to sit with the
friends that they came in with.”
Simon said the first step is to use
signs to remind students of other
dining options on campus.
“Students establish a traffic plan
at the beginning of the semester,
and once they are in that pattern
it’s hard to change that,” he said.
“We’re trying to encourage students
to take that five minute walk.”
Earp said that she thinks it’s
good that people go to Ramshead
but that the signs don’t help.
“People know that it’s there,” she
said. “They don’t need a sign to tell
them. It’s a good idea to start rout
ing people that way though.”
But, apparently, not everyone
knows about all Ramshead has to
offer.
Molly Chadbourne, a junior
transfer student from Greensboro,
said she didn’t know it exists.
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“It seems like there’s a lot of
good food choices on the Carolina
campus,” she said. “It’s inconve
nient to have to wait 20 minutes
for a Subway sandwich.”
Simon said that the transition is
not going as well as he had hoped
but that it is still a positive process
so far.
“We want to fill more seats down
there from a service perspective
and from a financial perspective,”
he said.
Jennifer Smith, a sophomore
chemistry and Spanish major, and
Meredith Dixon, a sophomore
dramatic arts and business major,
said Ramshead isn’t convenient for
them.
“We live on North campus,”
Smith said. “It’s just more conve
nient for us to eat at Lenoir.”
Dixon said her class schedule
doesn’t provide enough time to
walk to Ramshead.
“It’s not that Ramshead isn’t
good,” she said. “It’s just not con
venient for lunch especially.”
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Simon said many older students
are set in their ways, so he is con
centrating his efforts on first-year
students and next year’s class.
“With time we can improve the
balance in our facilities,” he said.
“We’ve had excellent feedback
based on comments and numbers
that we’re seeing.”
Stefan Ringel, a sophomore
from Ridgewood, N.J., said he is a
fan of the new Ramshead facility
because of its leather wrap-around
tables, the convenient End Zone
sports diner and the video games
available upstairs.
He likes it so much he comes
from his off-campus residence to
eat there.
“Why not come here?” he asked.
“It’s cleaner-looking. Lenoir is
starting to get a Chase (Hall) smell
already. Lenoir is the new Chase.”
Simon said he is trying to put a
faculty meal plan in place due to an
increase in faculty and staff using
that facility.
“They want a place that they
can go and actually find a seat,” he
said.
The new sports diner and the gro
cery store should be positive addi
tions to the campus, Simon said.
They will remain open on Friday
and Saturday, which should make
weekend activities easier, he said.
Students can order certain menu
items and participate in contests
such as shooting a basketball to
win prizes at the End Zone.
“It’s a great opportunity for us
to be creative and provide great
service and give students a chance
to have fun,” he said. “We’re excited
about it.”
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GOSSIP
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Although freshman Emily
Morgan says she generally doesn’t
like gossip, she once had a positive
experience with it.
Morgan says she began to think
of one of her male friends differently
after a mutual friend spread a rumor
about them liking each other.
The two victims of the rumor
ended up dating as a result —and
they still are together.
“I liked him for other reasons, too,
but it definitely put the idea in my
head,” she says about the rumor.
Though senior Michael Pennink
avoids the chatter, calling it irre
sponsible, he says that he under
stands the desire to gossip.
FEES
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raise education funds by $94,000,
bringing the total to $4.15 mil
lion.
“Keeping pace with technology
is costly,” he said.
“Please keep in mind this fee
could be a lot more than we’re
proposing.”
The fee goes hand in hand with
the technology fee, proposed with
a S4B increase, that will be dis
cussed later this semester.
Last year, the University’s
Board of Trustees approved a
last-minute proposal to raise the
athletic fee by $l5O during a two
year period —a decision later
overruled by the UNC Board of
Governors.
Student leaders said they are
worried about the pressure that
would be put on students by rais
ing fees at least SIOO espe
cially in light of a possible tuition
increase.
Student Body President Seth
Dearmin, a member of the com
mittee, said that while it is too
early to decide where he will focus
on fees, he does intend to take a
close look at the proposals as they
come up in the next few weeks.
“It’s too early in the game to
tell,” he said.
Dearmin also said that approv
als and disapprovals will occur
throughout October and into
November.
The committee will meet again
at 6 p.m. Monday to continue
deliberations on all fee propos
als.
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“It probably makes people feel
good about themselves to talk
about other people’s problems,”
Pennink says.
Many students say they think
women are more prone to gab.
“Girls are the worst,” Atkinson
says. “The only time I’ve heard
guys participate in gossip is when
girls initiate it and pull them in.”
But that may be more than
just a stereotype girls develop
a stronger relationship focus at
adolescence, Prinstein says.
“It is that relationship empha
sis that makes gossip such a potent
mechanism for harm,” he says. “It
hurts girls and women where it
hurts the most, in terms of rela
tionships and social reputations.”
Some research suggests, how-
INVESTIGATION
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been so faulty as to be terminated,
Millman said.
“That’s less than 1 percent. Most
hospitals are able to get their act
together.”
The CMS’ finding is the second
repercussion from the incident.
In April an investigation by the
state’s division of facility services
also found UNC Hospitals to be at
fault.
In response to that finding, hos
pital officials drafted a plan that
month to improve its operations,
ONGOING
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Elliot Grudem, who worked in
the poverty-stricken ninth ward of
New Orleans for two years, came to
campus Monday to drive home the
dire need of Gulf Coast residents.
“This is not a problem that’s
going to be solved when the French
Quarter reopens,” said Grudem,
who moved to Raleigh three months
ago. “It’s a long-term problem that
needs a long-term solution.”
He said most people only vol
unteer while a disaster is fresh in
their minds.
“You do what you have to do to
get rid of that nagging feeling and
then move on to something else,”
Grudem said.
But he stressed that people will
need help for years, describing the
hurricane’s devastating effect on
one community the ninth ward,
a particularly poor part of the city.
“Hurricanes don’t discriminate,
do they?” Grudem said. “But the
area that got hit the hardest was
an area where people didn’t have
ever, that men are just as likely as
women to gossip.
The varying findings are char
acteristic of a developing field of
interest.
Prinstein says gossip can
encourage empathy, friendship
and healthy social interactions.
But those being talked about often
experience depression, low self
esteem and anxiety, he says.
Perhaps that is why students
seem to he so opposed to it, even
if they admit to engaging in it.
“I’ve had my feelings hurt by
gossip before,” Atkinson says. “And
most of my best friends have too.”
And while many call it point
less, gossip seems to sneak into
conversation even when people
don’t want it to.
Sailg (Tar Meri
McCall said.
One of the changes made is the
implementation of a waiver that
a patient must sign when leaving
the emergency room against the
advice of medical staff.
UNC Hospitals will point to
these initiatives in its forthcoming
response to CMS, McCall said.
“We will come up with a very
good plan that we hope they accept,”
McCall said. “In the process we’ll
make sure that we’re all educated
and our policies are up to date.”
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the resources to get out. For them,
it’s a general confirmation that life
just isn’t going to be fair.”
Committee members will focus
their efforts on a specific location,
and Small said they are in contact
with several communities. But she
said they won’t know which location
they will help until they know how
many students will get involved.
Interested students can e-mail
Small at smallm@email.unc.edu.
Committee members handed out
small envelopes, hoping students
will keep the envelopes in their
wallets as a constant reminder to
donate money to the cause.
“Squirrel away what you might
be able to spare for 10 weeks,” said
Benjamin Inman, a minister for
Reformed University Fellowship.
The committee will collect
donations from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
every Wednesday in the Pit.
“I can’t say it enough,” Grudem
said. “These people have lost every
thing.”
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Comparing yourself to others,
which inevitably means talking
about others in an evaluative way, is
bound to happen, Prinstein says.
But ideally, that can be curbed
as adolescents come into adult
hood and focus on internal
instead of external sources of
esteem, he says.
Reklis says that while it might
be impossible to avoid gossip, it is
important at least to try.
Reklis summed up his feelings
about gossip with a verse from
Proverbs:
“Without wood, a fire goes out;
without gossip, a quarrel dies
down.”
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