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BY NICOLE NORFLEET
STAFF WRITER
After dozens of sleepless nights
and countless cups of coffee, many
seniors will submit their under
graduate theses this spring.
And to ensure that their work
will not be done in vain, two
Dartmouth College graduates
have created an online archive to
circulate research throughout the
worldwide academic community.
The newly created UGResearch
database is the brainchild of Peter
Noteboom and Jeff lacono, who
say they didn’t want undergradu
ate theses to rot in the basement
of college libraries after hours of
hard work.
“(Noteboom) had written a the
sis and was kind of shocked to learn
that after he spent all this time
writing a thesis, that it was going
to be lost in the school’s library,”
lacono said.
After the pair graduated last
year, they launched their Web site,
UGResearch.org, to help students
spread their ideas in the Internet’s
open forum.
“It’s a waste of time to do the
same research twice,” lacono said.
Students can upload their
papers into the online collection
and download others’ for free.
They also can search the database
for papers by school, keyword or
category, and they can post tips
about the best ways to gather
research.
“We think it’s a good idea,” said
Parker Lewis, who heads the mar
keting campaign for UGResearch.
“No other Web site is doing what
we are doing.”
While many of the online entries
are submitted by Dartmouth stu
dents, lacono said the site has more
than 40 or 50 international users.
But the site organizers still are
wrangling with concerns that post-
Famed Jewish writer
to give speech today
BY BETH DOZIER
STAFF WRITER
For those who eat sushi on the
Sabbath and enjoy both dread
locks and dreidels -r or for 20-
somethings in need of inspiration
Jennifer Bleyer has a message.
The 30-year-old Columbia
University graduate and founding
editor of Heeb Magazine will speak
about launching an original publi
cation and the emergence of Jewish
hipster culture at 7 p.m. today in
the Union Cabaret. Bleyer also
will speak about making the most
of young adulthood at the Hillel
sponsored event.
Bleyer, who now writes for The
New York Times, launched Heeb
magazine at age 25. The quarterly
magazine, which promotes Jewish
hipster culture, was a quite a proj
ect for her at the time.
Bleyer said she wants to encour
age college students to undertake
big endeavors in their youth.
“I talk to college students about
using your 20s for taking big risks
like that,” she said. “It’s a good time
to take a big risk if you have some
wacky idea and see what happens.”
Known for its irreverent humor
and unique look at young Jewish
identity in popular culture, Bleyer
said Heeb “appeals to the Jew in
everyone” and lets its Jewish read
ers fuse and forge their own iden
tities.
“It started the idea that you can
be young and American and all
other things that are part of your
identity,” she said.
Although Bleyer said that some
members of the Jewish commu
nity were upset by what they saw
as Heeb’s irreverence, she said that
people now view it as unifying.
“It’s sort of recognized as this thing
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VISIT THE WEB SITE
Info: UGResearch.org
ing papers so freely on the Web will
lead to plagiarism.
“I would be worried if I was a
student and I submitted my paper
there,” said Suchi Mohanty, a librari
an at UNC’s Undergraduate Library.
“I would be concerned that people
would take parts of my paper.”
Many different online sites
already exist which encourage
plagiarism of this kind by selling
research papers by the page.
“It’s more of a showcase than a
place to download a paper for ‘x’
amount of dollars,” Lewis said of
the database.
Professors can e-mail
UGResearch to access the down
loading activity of a student sus
pected of plagiarizing.
While Mohanty said she thinks
UGResearch was a good idea, she
is concerned about how, as a non
profit site, UGResearch could oper
ate on just monetary donations.
“Donations are unreliable,” she
said. “You never know how much
is coming in and how much will be
coming in the future.”
UNC’s library system pays thou
sands of dollars for subscriptions
to different information databases
because of the cost of copyrighting
and digitizing files, Mohanty said.
Undergraduate honors theses, grad
uate dissertations and graduate mas
ter’s theses are accessible online.
As UGResearch expands, Lewis
said he hopes that funding will
come from campus library sub
scriptions.
At the moment a sizeable chunk
of the site’s maintenance cost is
funded from Lewis, lacono and
Noteboom’s own pockets.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
ATTEND THE SPEECH
Time: 7 p.m.
Date: Today
Location: Union Caberet
Info: www.nchillel.org
that sort of awoke a giant within the
Jewish world,” she said. “All of a sud
den, this thing spoke to them to
young, Jewish hipster culture.
“All these people kind of
came out of the woodwork,”
she said. “It’s still looked at with
some skepticism within Jewish
institutions, but largely it’s looked
at as a uniting thing.”
Bleyer said her experiences
defining her own Jewish identity
inspired Heeb.
“I had been a punk-rock teen
ager and had lived in New York for
many years and was part of this
underground culture,” she said.
“I thought that there were a lot of
Jews that wanted to be connected.”
Bleyer said the magazine asks
questions and makes a statement.
“What does it mean to be
Jewish?” she asked in an interview
Sunday. “What does this entail? The
kind of things we don’t talk about
we talk about. What is it like to have
a crazy grandma living in Miami?”
Although Bleyer left Heeb in
2002 and now works for a main
stream publication, saying that she
“didn’t want to be a Jewish media
mogul forever,” she said she wants to
encourage college students to follow
her example and explore creative
possibilities after graduation.
“Take risks while you’re young,”
she said, “before you have kids and
a mortgage.”
Contact the AdE Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
Family showcases artwork
Artists embrace
Ackland crowd
BY ADAM WRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
The Ackland Art Museum offered
a free public lecture Monday night
from one very artistic family.
Though not quite the Jacksons,
Betye Saar and two of her three
daughters, Lezley Saar and Alison
Saar, have been recognized for
their artistic achievement. The
trio spoke at the Hanes Art Center
as part of their ongoing exhibit,
“Family Legacies.”
Patrons packed the center for a
chance to hear the women, whose
first exhibit together has been
on display at the Ackland since
December.
Collectively spanning more
than 40 years, the family’s creative
legacy was a discussion point with
students and community mem
bers.
Moderator Kirsten Mullen, a
longtime aide at the Ackland, spent
about 45 minutes interviewing the
women on topics such as artistic
inspiration, spirituality and black
heritage before opening the floor
to questions.
Coming from black, Irish and
American Indian lineage, Betye
Saar’s work has proved provoca
tive in breaking racial stereotypes
through her mixed media pieces.
“I consider my work to be meta
physical, political and nostalgic,”
she told Mullen.
That mind-set quickly rubbed
off on her daughters, whose work
is equally charged with attacks
on modern political and racial
thought.
“She was definitely a mentor,”
said Alison Saar.
Lezley Saar continued the
thought, saying what an inspira
tion her mother was upon gradu
ating high school.
“She encouraged me to do some-
Medicaid, education joust for funds
N.C. continues to favor K-12 spending
BY STEPHEN MOORE
STAFF WRITER
For the first time states across the
country are averaging greater spend
ing for Medicaid than elementary
and secondary education, according
to a report released this month.
But North Carolina, contrary to
national trends, continues to allo
cate more for K-12 education 56.6
billion this fiscal year more than
twice as much as for Medicaid.
The gap is decreasing, however.
With the overall budget planned
to increase by approximately $268
million in 2006-07, more than
$240 million extra is expected to
go toward Medicaid spending with
more than S2B million dropped
from primary and secondary edu
cation,
“The (N.C.) General Assembly
is targeting other programs,” said
Paul LeSieur, director of school
business services for public schools
in North Carolina. “Medicaid is a
big bearer of it.”
This move will further decrease
the percentage of the state bud
get designated for K-12 educa
tion, which this year fell below 40
percent for the first time, LeSieur
said.
Nationwide, states on aver
age spent about 21.9 percent on
Medicaid as opposed to 21.5 per
cent on K-12 education for the
2004 fiscal year, according to the
State Coverage Initiatives report.
Medicaid was expected to grow
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project "Transitions in Black and White." The piece is dedicated to the memory of the family patriarch, Richard Saar.
thing creative everyday, which is
an excellent piece of advice,” she
said.
When asked about the fear of
stepping out of the shadow of her
mother’s work and facing possible
criticism from her maternal idol,
Alison Saar laughed.
“She’s a mother first when it
comes to our work,” she said. “She’s
too soft to be a real critic.”
Betye Saar said the opportunity
to have an exhibit with her daugh
ters was both comforting and
enlightening.
“I see connections between our
materials, connections between
our political concerns and connec
tions between our shared mem
bers,” she said. “We can relate to
by 8.8 percent during the 2005 fis
cal year.
But a greater percentage set for
education could greatly reduce the
need for Medicaid, said Sen. Jeanne
Lucas, D-Durham, co-chairwoman
of the Senate education and higher
education committee.
“We feel that if you support edu
cation, that people will be able to
gain a livelihood and take care of
themselves,” Lucas said.
During the last few years
Medicaid spending has grown
between roughly 8 percentage
points to 10 percentage points each
year, said Sen. William Purcell,
D-Scotland, co-chairman of the
Senate health care committee.
“There are a lot of programs in
Medicaid,” he said. “The real rea
son that Medicaid is going up is
because the cost of health care has
gone up.
“If you could get a handle on the
cost of health care, you could get a
handle on the cost of Medicaid.”
The problem does not rest solely
on the shoulders of the state legis
lature but calls for a greater effort
from the federal government, said
Sen. Charles Albertson, D-Duplin.
“It’s a national problem that we
have got to address and try to get
a handle on,” he said. “There’s got
to be some major reforms in the
Medicaid department.”
The initiatives report was a defi
nite point of interest, said Senate
Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-
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each other.”
What could be considered the
exhibit’s most important piece is a
manifestation of that connection.
“Traditions in Black and White”
is a rare collaboration between the
three artists that celebrates the life
of Richard Saar, the sisters’ father
who died last year.
The family initially sketched out
the piece together and then sepa
rated to allow each member her
artistic freedom.
The Ackland display is the first
time the family members have
seen their work in its final stage,
and visitors to the exhibit are
encouraged to write memories of
those who have died on a ribbon
encircling the piece.
Rockingham.
“It would surprise me that
states spent more on Medicaid in
state dollars than states on public
education,” he said. “It would not
surprise me that the Medicaid part
increased faster.”
As far as North Carolina is con
cerned, greater spending on educa
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Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m„ Wed. to
Sat.; Ip.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday
Date: Through March 26
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“Asa memorial to our father, we
also invite other people to create a
memorial to their lost loved ones,”
said Alison Saar.
More than just a family busi
ness, the Saars consider art to be
the bond running in their blood.
“It’s the link of art that keeps us
together,” said Betye Saar.
Contact the A &E Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
tion than Medicaid is not likely to
go away in the near future, Berger
added.
“I would think that would con
tinue to be the case for as far in the
future as I can see.”
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