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Outside Today Ymnmonow Briefs Technician ill North Carolina State University's Student Newspaper Since 1920 Sunny Raleigh, North Carolina January 13, 1997 Volume 77, Number 45 “' 42 L0 21 “'44L0 23 CALS scholarship deadline nears Wolfline adds buses to deter overcrowding .»\ll students who wish to be I increased ridership Wolfline planners were taken by - .y reduced from |< to eight minutes on "This 'wttuld Itilkc ctilL‘ ill UT) considered for arty scholarships surprise last fall w hen ridership rose :\vcnt Terry and from ‘stl to 15 percent of Wolfline complaints." available through CALS during causes NCSU’s Wolfline to by 29 percent. The Wolf'line ‘4 C t is totally ; minutes oit the Kmart line (ielber \Llltl, ' the “997-08 academic year must purchase three new buses. currently carries an average of l The new system was put riito complete an application, lt).t)(l() passengers each day. l‘ntil unacceptable i effect on January ts‘ Funding for the Woll‘line comes These applications are By JENNIFER THOMPSON now. these passengers were being i ”We went an entire first day from a transit fee 'l‘i‘ansportation is available in HS Patterson Hall StAH VVQUER crammed into a system designed to Iit one person gets without a single complaint call." "trying to optimi/e the level of and must be corttpleted and carry only 7.000. {turned away." (ieiber said. service and cost," (ielber said But. returned by March 1. |997. It should be a lot easier to catch a The unexpected increase was Senior Kristie liiitlgers said she in order to fund this expansion. the Contact Pam Warrick. 5|5~ ride on the Wollline this semester. causing several problems. People Jonathan (ielber. appreciates the expansion She said ucpartment has been “dipping into ZbI-f. if you have questions. NC. State's Division of were turrted away at the bus stop Wolfline manager that with more buses coming by the transportation fund more then Transportation has added three new arid the buses were experiencing LIV 7 "it‘s not quite .is hard to catch like to “ buses to the Wolfline system in breakdowns due to overcrowding. added to the Avent l'erry' route. but one." we‘d Tuition charge response to a dramatic rise in Transportation Planner and one new bus was added to the (ielber hopes that this is rust the (ielber added that .in increase in ridership last semester. This has Wolfline Manager Jonathan (lelber Kmart route to accommodate its beginning of Wolfline eypansion the transit fund will probably be deadline is Jan. 23 enabled transportation planners to said. morning peak. After this peak. it is He envisions a transit center on necessary to maintain the new revamp the Wolfline schedule and “it is totally unacceptable if one switched over to the Ayent Ferry llillsborotigh Street that will help husses reduce the time interval between person gets turned away." he said, route. clitttinate layoyers at Carmichael The transit fund is subsidized The tUition charge and refund Most of the new buses have been The interval between buses was Curt. largely by student fees academicdeadline semesterfor the I‘m?is 5 pm.Springon Jan. 33. Tuition charge and refunds are based on the official Spanish Dean wants number of hours and courses carried as of Jan. 1}. Double—play The last day to drop courses class goes with a full refund of tuition is I. ”' to move Jan. 33. T997 Refunds resulting from courses dropped can be obtained at I It)! Pullen Hall. on-line Full refunds will be made for College of withdrawals occurring on or before Jan. )4. “N7. For I FLS 110 will be Withdrawals from Jan. 9-l7. a primarily taught on-line Engineering 90 percent refund is effective: this semester. front Jan .‘l-Feb. 5. a 50 percent refund; Feb. b-March 4. By' KRISTEN SPRctu. a 25 percent refund. and after 8'“ WM? March there is no refund. An innovative Spanish class is relocate to a site away from making waves in the department of NCSC‘s main campus. foreign languages and literatures. Five NCSU faculty in order to meet new general Bv PHii.i.iP REist education requirements. Frank N-NaE." members named Abrams. assistant provost for Reynolds Professors academic affairs. initiated a drive to It‘s going to take a pretty big l5 utilize technology as a tool to teach Haul foreign languages more efficiently. Engineering College Dean Nino Five North Carolina State The Spanish department has Masnari wants to move the bulk of l'niversity faculty members designed a multimedia approach to NC. State's engineering program have beett named William Neal teaching a foreign language. FLS- to Centennial Campus. Reynolds Professors. one of the llO features regular lecture “We have always felt that the highest honors faculty of the sessions and paired—activity ultimate place for the lzngineering (‘ollege of Agnculture and Life exercises. supplemented by extra College I‘s the ('entennial Campus." Sciences at N C State can assignments which are primarily .‘vlasnari said "It‘s itist been a case receive accessible via computer. of how and when to make the The new Reynolds professors Audio materials have been transition " are Wendell (iilliani. professor digitized and programmed into Masnart will soott .isk N(‘Sl"s of soil science. Trudy F C. computers in the foreign languages Board of Trustees to approve the .‘ylackay. professor of genetics; lab so that students can access construction of a Centennial Luther ()tto and Ronald specific listening comprehension Campus btiildiitg where all Junior \‘l'intberlcy. professors of lessons without having to spend and senior-level engineering sociology. and Michael time manually searching traditional classes can be held. All freshman Wohlgenant. professor of audio cassettes. and sophomore—level engineering agricultural and resource Additional computerized classes will remain on NCSUs economics. activities are accessed from a web main campus The Distinguished Reynolds site designed for the course, The proposed building will house Professorship Fund was The new course. which instructor all NCST' engineering departments. established iit 1950 with a gift Scott Despain describes as an Bringing all of the engineering from \yilliam Neal Reynolds. "experimental multimedia departments together under one longtime president and board beginning Spanish course." roof will let students in one chairman of R] Reynolds condenses materials from two department ltilt‘rdcl with students Tc‘uacco Co . to honor the tnost semesters into an intensive. one- from another. Masnari said. outstanding scholars and semester course. “Engineers work in teams to solve teachers in the College of Arlene Malinowski. assistant head problems." \lasnaii said. ”They Agriculture and Life Sciences. of the department of foreign need similar kinds of facilities that languages and literatures. said the they can share ” department spent last semester ! SA..AFC? FAvrANlH/S‘A” Freshman and sttphumore developing course materials and i Sophmore Chad Messer can't make up his mind about which game to watch. Messer is engineering classes and programs checking out Sunday's NCSU basketball game while he watches the Panthers play on TV. will be held in one burlding oit main campus. \lasnari said. Technician See SPANISH. Page 3 P l The mm c to Centennial Campus will probably take ltl-lS years to Sports: Terrapins complete. Masnari said However. cream the Pack. he said the move could be NC SU professor knows how to make itsnow negotiated by the year 2000 if Page 3 funding for the proposal is received I A meteorologist says he can Canadian Government would be called into soon and construction proceeds Opinion: Are you action, The task forces would have to work rapidly. outsmart Jack Frost. around the clock to increase the height of the “If we are lucky we will get the normal? Canadian Rockies. which hopefully. would resources to do this within the next Page 6 D By JOSH JL'STIN reroute the Santa Claus cold air mass. five years." Masnari said 8'»; Wait: “it's going to take at least a couple of dump The move will have to be Can you imagine the Triangle looking like trucks." said Riordan. approved by the l'NC general Frontiers: Learn Aspen“? Or Lake Tahoe. perhaps'.’ The next step seems like a feat that Neptune administration and the N C. what makes men would have trouble with: to encourage the cold legislature before it is initiated. Devised as a lighthearted academic exercise air farther east. the Canadian Government The moves biggest potential tick. Page 5 P grounded in real science. Allan Riordan. a N C. would have to free/e Hudson Bay for a few obstacle is the price tag attached to State meteorologist. has fashioned a scheme days before the planned day of snowfall, it. for making it snow in the Triangle and across The ice would maintain the cold air by "it‘s going to cost a lot.” Masnari ntuch of the liast Coast. keeping a high-pressure system on the land‘s said. “It will be several hundred But don't expect this to be a midwest-style surface. million dollars." Reach Us blizzard. The plan pieced together by Riordan As the cold air headed southward to the east Another potential problem would require the help of the US. Navy. the of the Appalachian mountains and oyer involves transporting students back Internet Servlces: Army Corps of Engineers. and the Canadian Virginia. it would meet warm. moist air over and forth from NCSl"s main (iovemment. the off-shore waters of the (iulf Stream, campus to the Centennial Campus. TOL: Technician OnLine For the plan to work. weather pattems would Realistically. even with this hemispherical The constriiction of a monorail tittp‘ /,'www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/ have to be altered across the Northern scheme.