VOLUME 113, ISSUE 95
UNC balks at federal directive
1994 LAW EXTENDED IN AUGUST
BV ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS
STAFF WRITER
Universities nationwide will be forced to
overhaul their Internet networks to offer
the federal government greater access if
a recent appeal against the expansion of
the Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act is unsuccessful.
CALEA, originally passed in 1994, stipu
lates that digital telecommunication services
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Seven ROTC students gathered early Monday morning in 40-degree,
pitch-black weather to practice throwing grenades in prepara
tion for the Ranger Challenge this weekend. They met at Hooker
Intramural Fields for an hour-long session when they crouched behind
Dearmin touts
finished work
BY JENNY RUBY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Student government officials
released the 2005 October Report
on TUesday, providing the executive
branch’s assessment of its progress
thus far on Student Body President
Seth Dearmin’s platform.
The 167-page report highlights
issues and work tackled by the
Dearmin administration such
as increasing accessibility of stu
dent government and establish
ing tuition predictability.
The report calls the vision
of anew student government
—one that is more accessible
and friendly the “single, most
important goal of this year’s stu
dent government.”
Dearmin said Tuesday that hav
ing open office hours in the Pit and
various other locations on campus
has helped realize that vision.
“We’re always looking at ways
to better communication with
the student body,” he said.
The focus of communication
with students was evident in the
manner in which the October
Report was distributed, he said.
A shorter, 26'-page version also
was released as a way to give stu
dents the opportunity to quickly
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be accessible to law enforcement wiretaps.
The law was extended in August to
include Internet communications instead
of only telephone companies.
Peter Deßlois, director of communica
tions and publishing for Educause, called
the expanded law a “major unfunded man
date for higher education.”
And John Streck, assistant vice chancel
lor for telecommunications at UNC, said
peruse the report.
New methods of communica
tion such as the Mambo tech
nology that will link calendar
information of all student organi
zations on a single Web site play
a key role in connecting the entire
student body. The new Web capa-
bilities will be
available to
student orga
nizations by
Tuesday.
“Right now,
you can look
at a lot of ini
tiatives that
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What platform
points did
Dearmin not
accomplish?
the University
has tried to do,” said Mark Laabs,
Dearmin’s chief of staff. “None
of them has been truly more of
a central source of information
regarding student life.”
Another achievement noted in
the report is a tuition hike policy
that calls for more predictability.
Dearmin, co-chairman of the
tuition task force, and Student
Body Vice President Adrian
Johnston met individually with
other task force members to deter
mine the policy’s feasibility.
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PUBLIC IS MUM A Board of Aldermen
hearing Tuesday sees no public comment
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the law would require a “fairly massive
upgrade to our network” in the $lO mil
lion- to S2O million-range for hardware,
such as network switches and routers.
As the law now stands, universities
would have to upgrade their Internet net
works by spring 2007.
“If the mandate was in the next 18 months,
I don’t know where the money would come
from,” Streck said. “People higher up than
me would have to make trade-offs.”
Educause and the American Council on
Education are appealing the law’s expansion
RANGER READY
trash cans, substituting for trees, and threw metal balls resembling gre
nades in shape and weight. Here, Dom Lerario (right) and Andy Herring
(second right) march along South Road. Check Friday’s Daily Tar Heel for
a story on the cadets’ preparations for the annual challenge.
DIGITAL IMPACT UNCERTAIN
BY CLINT JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
“Actually, I’m procrastinating
right now,” says sophomore Ben
Greenberg, as he displays his
America Online Instant Messenger
window.
“I have a paper due today. As
you can see, I’ve got one paragraph
written,” he says.
Clearly, technology plays a
major role in the lives of students.
Laptops are a requirement, iPods
are a major trend and online tools
like AOL Instant Messenger and
Latinos offer new set
of challenges for area
BY MEGHAN DAVIS
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
A town government functions
to represent the interests of its
residents and neighbors. Everyone
gets a voice, no matter what lan
guage that voice might use.
And Carrboro is hearing more
and more voices in Spanish the
2000 U.S. Census states that
roughly 12 percent of the town’s
population is Latino.
With the mayor and three seats
on the Board of Aldermen to be
elected this year, the town is talk
ing about how officials can meet
City I page 5
A LITTLE BUSY
The Chapel Hill Planning
Department has seen a busy
workload in wake of its
director of 21 years leaving
earlier this May.
on behalf of universities nationwide.
Deßlois said that the universities are not
appealing on First Amendment grounds,
but that they feel the scope of the required
upgrades is unnecessary. “We can already
provide access for surveillance activities
and have done so in the past.”
Streck said it already is possible to pro
vide the federal government with access to
UNC’s network.
“There are many ways with the technol-
SEE REACTION, PAGE 4
Facebook.com are used almost
universally across campus.
But is the increasing promi
nence of technology helping or
hurting students?
Procrastination is one of many
concerns for UNC health officials.
“There are a fair amount of stu
dents up ’till three or four in the
morning,” says Bob Wirag, direc
tor of Student Health Service.
“They just can’t pull themselves
away from the computer because
they are so addicted.”
Besides this potentially harm-
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ALDERMEN
the needs of this growing demo
graphic.
Candidates and observers alike
believe Carrboro’s opportunities
and atmosphere attract Latino
immigrants to the area.
Sharon Mujica, director of edu-
SEE LATINOS, PAGE 4
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fill behavior, Wirag says repetitive
motion, such as constant typing,
can lead to disorders like carpal
tunnel syndrome. Also, listening
to music at excessive decibel levels
for extended periods of time can
lead to hearing loss.
“The word ergonomics has
really become a household term,”
Wirag says.
Furniture increasingly is being
adapted to fit specific individuals, he
says. When Wirag’s bifocals caused
him to have a stiff neck, he had a
new pair of glasses fashioned.
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Sarah
Shah
Freshman,
major
undecided
“Politicians are
representing what
everyone wants and
you should stand up
and make a difference.”
Vote early at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center through
Nov. 5, Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m„ Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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READY OR NOT
The UNC football team faces
perhaps its biggest test of the
season Saturday at Miami,
one year after its improbable
31-28 upset at home.
Project
creates
several
red flags
The biggest development on the
agenda for the Chapel Hill Town
Council in the coming year is not
Carolina North, but the public-private
downtown project being submitted by
Ram Development Cos. of Palm Beach
Gardens, Fla.
Ram proposes to build 124 resi
dential units and
24,000 square
feet of retail space,
along with public
open space and a
375-space under
ground parking
garage on parking
lot 5, across from
University Square.
The central build
ing would be nine
stories tall, ris
ing to 120 feet,
with four levels
of underground
parking.
Ram also pro-
GUEST
COLUMNIST
Dave
Godschalk
writes about
the lot 5 project
poses to build 109 residential units
and 6,000 square feet of retail space
atop and adjacent to the Wallace Deck,
on East Rosemary Street behind the
Franklin Street Post Office.
Fifteen percent, or 35 of the 233
total housing units, will be quali
fied as affordable and provided by
the Orange Community Housing
and Land Trust. The town will pay
$500,000 toward construction of
parking for the units.
Development will proceed on a fast
track, with town approval expected by
September 2006, and construction
completed by September 2008.
The town will give Ram a 99 year
lease on the sites, receiving $7.9 mil
lion in prepaid revenues, which it
then will return to Ram for construc
tion of the parking garage and other
improvements to be owned by the
town.
The aggregate town investment is
fixed at $8.4 million, unless it requires
Ram to add improvements. All risks
of cost overruns, including increased
SEE DEVELOPMENT, PAGE 4
As technology advances further,
students may be apt to adopt a
more sedentary lifestyle.
“It certainly seems that with
limitless information and enter
tainment options through a
computer that many people are
less active,” says Allen Hamrick,
associate director of Counseling
and Psychological Service. “This
decrease in activity will definitely
negatively affect physical health.”
The effects on mental health,
SEE DIGITAL AGE, PAGE 4
David
Suitts
Freshman,
major
undecided
“I’ve done stuff in the
past to try and get
other people to vote. If
you... talk the talk you
gotta walk the walk.”
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