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BY LAURA FRIED
STAFF WRITER
When the Student Union
reopened after renovations in 2004,
the Underground bowling alley was
touted as one of the exciting features
students could access again.
But there are plenty of bowling
balls on the shelves and an abun
dance of unused bowling shoes.
Since the Underground opened
it has been unable to make a profit
largely due to old and worn
down equipment.
Don Luse, director of the
Student Union, told The Daily
Tar Heel three months after the
Underground opened that the goal
was to break even financially.
But from June 1, 2004 to July
30, 2005, the Underground lost
$32,184, Luse said Monday.
The projected loss for this year
is $76,000, he said.
Now, the fate of the bowling alley
is on the agenda for the Union’s
Officials tell students to back it up
BY ROBBY MARSHALL
STAFF WRITER
The e-mail virus of two weeks
ago infected many students’ com
puters, deleting their files —and
showing them the importance of
backing up their work.
In light of this and other recent
attacks, Information Technology
Services is leading an initiative to
educate University students about
the importance of saving electronic
files on their computers.
The growing over-reliance on
computers and technology has led
to many lost files that could easily
have been prevented, officials said.
“The universal excuse, ‘my dog
ate my homework,’ of 10 years ago
has been replaced by ‘my computer
crashed,”’ said Todd Taylor, direc
tor of composition in the English
department.
Faculty are working with ITS to
inform students of the dangers.
ITS blocks four thousand to eight
thousand viruses per day and blocked
UNC feels effects of drunk driving
BY MEREDITH KING
STAFF WRITER
Students stumbled through
a sobriety test in the Student
Union and drunkenly drove cars
into buildings Monday as others
watched in amusement.
A drunk-driving simulation,
sponsored by the Center for
Healthy Student Behaviors, allowed
students to experience firsthand
the consequences of driving while
impaired.
The front of the Student Union
was plastered with banners por
traying a girl holding a set of car
keys, gravestones and a full-sized
coffin.
Students sat in front of a panel
of video screens and drove a virtual
car that responded slowly to steer
ing and braldng as if students were
intoxicated.
While controlling the speed and
direction of the car, participants
also had to watch out for various
obstacles including other drivers
running stop signs, police cars and
school buses.
Shai Oman, a junior linguistics
major, said he was surprised by
how the car reacted to his driving.
“I was barely pressing the gas
and it would jump up to 60 miles
per hour,” he said. “I don’t con
done drinking and driving, but
I don’t think this has had much
effect.”
Students also had the opportu
nity to take a sobriety test while
wearing “beer goggles” modi
fied laboratory goggles that cause
distorted vision and impair equi
librium.
Trying to walk on a straight
line of duct tape proved difficult
for many participants, who could
be seen stumbling around in the
general vicinity of the line, but
came nowhere near passing the
test.
While most students enjoyed the
simulator and drove with smiles on
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Luse said in August 2004 that
Union officials would reconsider
the Underground if it didn’t break
even.
“We have to take a good look at
things,” Luse said. “It needs signifi
cant improvements from physical
improvements the atmosphere,
the checkout counter, the lanes, the
billiards.”
He said that if the bowling alley
remains, a complete overhaul
would cost upwards of $1 million.
Luse said he hopes to see a deci
sion handed down by the board by
April.
As of Monday, seven of the 12
bowling lanes were in working
order —a number that fluctuates
from day to day. Three lanes were
working Thursday, and on Saturday
the number increased to 10.
Lanes continue to go down
because of old age and wear and
about three million spam messages
last week, said Jeanne Smythe, direc
tor of ITS computing policy.
But she said students must take
responsibility for their hardware.
“People need to take their own
action,” Smythe said. “I can’t do
enough to totally protect you.”
Taylor said that he has witnessed
all levels of lost work even gradu
ate students’ dissertations so he
understands preventative measures
are worth the time.
Bruce Egan, manager of the
Information Technology Response
Center, will speak to all English 10,
11 and 12 and Communications 9
classes.
“It is the first systematic attempt
to reach an entire class,” Egan said.
Officials said it does not matter
how students back up their files
just that they do it.
“They can print it off, bum it to
a CD, or even store it on an iPod,”
said Egan, who is still swamped
with roughly 140 computers infect
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David Oudbier (top) of the Save A Life Tour watches freshman Sheena
Jacobs in a drunk driving simulator Monday in the Student Union.
their faces, the goal was to educate
as well as entertain.
Joshua Corbett, a junior com
munications major, said that he
hasn’t had much experience with
being intoxicated but that he still
took something away from the
event.
“I would be more concerned
with other people drinking and
trying to make sure they’re not out
there driving like I was just doing,”
he said.
This is the first year the program
has come to UNC.
The simulator is one of only
three in the nation and travels to
approximately 240 different loca
tions in order to educate students
about drunk driving.
“We wanted to bring in some
thing that would stimulate the
minds of the students and give
them a hands-on experience
rather than a lecture,” said Morris
Godwin, coordinator of substance
abuse programs at the Center for
Healthy Student Behaviors.
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tear, but as of Friday, the facility
was without its own mechanic.
The automatic pin setters break
frequently, and the lanes have been
stripped down nearly to the nail
heads due to being refinished many
times, Luse said.
“We had hoped to fix it when ren
ovations were being done, but when
the budget got tight it was some
thing that got left out,” he said.
Scott Hudson, associate director
of the Student Union, said the only
attention that the Underground
which was added to the Union
in 1968 received during the
Union’s renovation were the addi
tion of sprinklers and life-safety fire
alarms as well as new carpeting.
In the meantime, the limited
number of lanes has forced the
Underground to turn away cus
tomers.
Christian Rhodes, the assistant
manager of the Underground, said
workers have to promote the other
ed with last month’s virus.
This campaign has become the
major concern of ITS, Taylor said.
He acknowledged that even premier
technology such as UNC’s Carolina
Computing Initiative and Help Desk
cannot escape floods of problems.
Workers at the ITS Help Desk
have been overloaded with students
whose computers are infectedby the
recent virus leaving students with
out computers for up to seven days,
Egan said.
The virus hit 25 or 30 machines
on the first day, mostly transmitted
through e-mails with the subject
line “admin alert,” Smythe said.
She said ITS officials made it so
computers on the campus network
could not access the link, but the
e-mail still cannot be blocked com
pletely.
She said that because the link and
the text kept changing the e-mails
will continue reaching computers.
The best way to fight virus
attacks is for students to back up
Godwin said he was happy with
the turnout.
“Students come in on their way
to classes and a lot of them chal
lenge their friends to see who can
do it better,” he said.
Todd Hittes said he travels
around the country with the sim
ulator to educate people about
the dangers of driving while
impaired.
“I lost my cousin Kimberly in
1987 because of a drunk driver,” he
said. “I want to make a difference
so that doesn’t happen to someone
else.”
David Oudbier, who travels with
Hittes, has a similar story.-
“I started doing this because
both of my parents were hit by
drunk drivers,” he said.
“A lot of people just see it as a
game. Even if you can change just
one person’s opinion, though, it’s
worth it.”
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aspects of the facility.
“Our customers are loyal,” said
Rhodes, a senior political science
major from Concord. “They’ll play
pool or air hockey and not complain
too much, but people want to know
what the progress of the alley is.”
And Shoshanna Engel, a gradu
ate exercise and sports science major
who teaches bowling, said she usu
ally has to put six to 10 students per
lane, forcing many to wait.
“I didn’t sign up for pool, I signed
up for bowling,” said Christopher
Smith, a senior ancient history
major from Charlotte.
Luse said he hopes to see the
facility more accessible for students
in the future.
“We want to provide students
late-night alternatives with things
to do besides going downtown
especially those under 21.”
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udesk@unc.edu.
Protect your PC
■ Back your data up on external
storage devices such as iPods,
jump drives and CDs.
■ Utilize campus drivespace
accessible to students from
locations both on and off campus.
■ Regularly run virus scanning
software that is available for free
from http://shareware.unc.edu.
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their data, officials reiterated.
“All of us have to work together to
protect the systems,” Smythe said.
Egan and Taylor said computers
tend to crash at the worst times.
With the new initiative underway,
they said they hope the “worst times”
in school will no longer be associ
ated with lost computer work.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
Neighbors concerned about UNC plans
Cite Mason Farm
road expansion
BY KATHY CHO
STAFF WRITER
Residents of neighborhoods near
campus are casting wary glances
at UNC’s burgeoning growth, spe
cifically at plans to expand Mason
Farm Road to twice its size.
UNC is currently updating its
Master Plan because of faster than
expected progress on campus con
struction, officials said at a presen
tation before the Chapel Hill Town
Council on Sept. 26.
University officials will hold
three on-campus meetings open
to residents this week to collect
feedback on the updates.
Suggested changes include
reducing the capacity of the Bell
Tower parking deck from 1,000 to
750 cars.
But the change that caught the
eye of close-by residents was the
proposal to expand Mason Farm
Road from two lanes into four. The
expansion was one of two options
originally included in the master
plan, with the second option being
the construction of a separate four
lane road.
At the meeting, University offi
cials had said they were “strongly
committed” to the project in order
to help ease traffic on Manning
Drive and set the stage for the
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2005
Handout date
moved ahead,
still on Sunday
BY JENNY RUBY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Students worried about choos
ing between watching the Super
Bowl and attending the Duke bas
ketball distribution Feb. 5 now can
rest easy.
In an effort to accommodate as
many sports fans as possible, ticket
officials announced Monday that
the basketball distribution will be
moved to Jan. 29 —one week ear
lier than originally planned.
Line-up still is scheduled to
begin for seniors at 1 p.m., and once
seniors receive tickets, underclass
men can line up for the remaining
tickets.
Carolina Athletic Association
President Justin Johnson said he
didn’t think the original date would
be much of an issue, but moving the
distribution would enable students
to devote their entire attention to
the respective games.
“I don’t think it would have been
a problem,” he said.
“This just makes it easier, espe
cially since a lot of people who want
sports tickets are big sports fans.”
Clint Gwaltney, assistant athletic
director for the Smith Center and
ticket operations, said they chose
Feb. 5 because it was the Sunday
before the Duke game, which is
Feb. 7.
“It wasn’t a big issue,” he said.
“It made sense. We don’t usually
like to try and do distribution on
consecutive weekends if at all pos
sible.”
This year, officials found it dif
ficult to schedule distributions, as
November will see three consecu
tive Saturday home football games,
preventing distributions on those
days.
And ticket officials were strained
by the need to schedule distribu
tions for this season’s 17 home
games.
future growth of South Campus.
Some residents aren’t as happy
with the plan.
Consternation was how Dr.
David Lee Mcllwain, president of
the Mason Farm Neighborhood
Association, described his com
munity’s reaction.
Mcllwain said UNC already had
claimed 18 percent of the homes
in the Mason Farm area, mostly to
build new student family housing
units. Now the University is look
ing to buy another 10 percent of the
neighborhood to go forward with
the road changes, he said.
“We are astonished that they
want more of our neighborhood,”
he said.
Mcllwain said UNC has been
willing to ensure that construction
was less intrusive on the area, but
that overall it has not been open
enough to residents’ concerns.
“They got what they wanted essen
tially and tried to placate us with
(minor compromises),” he said.
Joyce Brown, a former Town
Council member and a resident
of Westside, said a newly widened
Mason Farm Road had the poten
tial to be a disaster.
The University was trying to
“accommodate the cars at the
expense of neighborhoods,” she
said. “I thought that was the oppo
site direction that the town and
UNC wanted to go.”
Elaine Barney, a resident of
the Westwood neighborhood
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CAA president
Justin Johnson,
moved the
distribution date
for the Duke
basketball game
up a week.
“The schedule’s just not really
conducive to have all the Saturday
distribution dates that we would
normally have,” Gwaltney said.
Despite the scheduling difficul
ties, officials managed to keep four
of the five ticket distributions on
Saturdays.
The first distribution is sched
uled for Oct. 29 for games against
Gardner-Webb, Cleveland State,
UC-Santa Barbara and Illinois.
On Dec. 3, students will line up
to get tickets for St. Louis, Santa
Clara, UNC-Asheville, Davidson,
N.C. State and Miami.
Students can try for Boston
College, Arizona and Ciemson tick
ets Jan. 21.
Distribution is scheduled for
Feb. 11 for Georgia Tech, Maryland
and Virginia.
For conference games, nearly
6,000 tickets are reerved for
students and for nonconference
games, there are about 4,000.
Because distribution for the
Duke game is run differently from
other distributions, officials did
not want to add Duke tickets into
another distribution, Gwaltney
said.
“It’s always been that way,”
Johnson said. “The Duke game is
the biggest game. We want to try
to give every student at Carolina
the opportunity to go to it. The
best way to do that is to offer it to
seniors first.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
Master Plan meetings
* Thursday, noon-2 p.m.,
2518 Student Union
■ Thursday, 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m.,
136 Tate-Turner-Kuralt Center
■ Friday, noon-2 p.m.,
2518 Student Union
SOURCE: JILL COLEMAN
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and a member of the Coalition of
Neighbors Near Campus, also is
wary of the project.
“Some of us are concerned about
the impact that it will have, not
to mention all the traffic that it’s
going to funnel from (U.S.) 15-501,”
she said.
Barney said she would like to
attend one of the update sessions to
ask more about the project before
reaching a verdict on it.
“It’s one thing to read about it,
but another to ask questions and
fully understand it,” she said.
Officials hope the meetings
will facilitate smoother relations
between residents of the campus
border zones and UNC officials.
“We have a much better commu
nication with (the residents) now
than before, and much of that came
out of conflict, initially,” said Linda
Convissor, University director of
local relations. “Now our communi
cation lines are open all the time.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
(C)2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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