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Outside ..Today m . r— ..,.__.,A,.,,_.Tomorrow l Technician i,-.,_,,,,, c. “at". .- a ______ North Carolina State University’s Student Newspaper Since 1920 partlycloudy Raleigh, North Carolina February 21, 1997 Volume 77, Number 61 "'68L059"'67L056 Medical school Expo to be held Heavy computer usage spurs memory upgrade The Deans of Admission from every North Carolina medical I An increase in NCSU stu- classes. and many students use the is to eliminate single-disk memory inc phase will take place before stirri- school will be speaking on dent computer usage has minority of their quota to run web failures. Another benefit of the new sy stem iner sessions begin. when quotas Saturday. Feb. 22nd from 1 pm. page's. ”The RAH) technology allows is that students who inadyertently will increase, to 6 pm. in Poe Hall. motivated a system up- “l’coplc's titili/ation was catching riiore redundancy and makes file delete a file will be able to restore it Although there were a few initial Topics of discussion will in- grade. tip with the amount of quota we systems more reliable.” Willis said more easily than before. glitches in the new Ri\ll) system. clude scholarship information were providing." said William The system being implemented "This file space." said Willis. "is operators haye ironed them out and and information regarding how Bv KRISTEN SPRl‘IIJ. Willis, the associate provost of aca» uses seven hard disks. with five in backed tip and reliable. and you can expect the implementation to go to choose a MCAT program that SIAM Winnie dcinic computing, “Twenty constant use. Should one hard drive get to it and put things on it and ex- through with no problems. is right for each individual. Student computer memory qUotas megabytes is nothing to some guys fail. the sixth is :ictiyated to restore pect things to stay there.” "For almost two weeks now we Free refreshments will be pro- will increase significantly after in design.“ hc added. the information. and the seventh Thc money to pay for the have had a system up and running vided. Spring Break. in the past. if students needed ex- acts as a hot swap drive to transfer 8300.000 upgrade Will be taken with a full load." said Kneifel. “We The expo is being presented by N.C. Slate's computer system al- tra memory space. they had to pay the information to the failed sector. from student fees oyer the next four are quite confident with the new the NC State PreMed/Prel)ent lows a certain amount of default for a higher quota in some cases. With this sy stein. “we should haic years. system.” club. memory per student. and this quota extra memory was proyided from a tio downtime if a single dose tails." “The money comes from the edu- Many students returning from will more than double from eight to surplus “class locker." tised primar- Director of ('oinputing and cational technological fee." ex- spring break will not notice any dif- 20 megabytes this semester. il_\ in class When students began lnforiniitions Systems (‘harles plained Willis. "All students pay it." ference in their on~canipus comput< N.C. State grad The change reflects an increase in taxing this extra memory. the ad- Kneifel said. The first phase of the change will er service. Kneifel said , student receives student usage of NCSU's computer niinistiation decided it was time to Kneifel also said the entire system take place oy er spring break. when “it may feel a little bit faster." system. Design and engineering stu- upgrade. will be backed up nightly on mag- the system will be moved to the Kneifcl said. “But my goal would Fellowship dents routinely riiii out of memory One goal of the new memory sys— netic tape. so that nothing will be liigh~.iyailability redundant memory be that they didn't really notice the for the programs they run for their tem. which uses RAll) technology. lost in the event of a hard drive fail- with faster seryers. The second change." Karen F Harwell of Raleigh. a doctoral candidate in NCSU‘s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. has re- CHASS sponsors ceived a 56.000 Zonta if Car, motorcycle collide ” International Foundation Amelia Earhart Fellowship for 1996-97. <ii‘ * S The graduate fellowships are Ebonics forum awarded annually through the Zonta International Foundation I Wednesday ‘s forum outlined miscon- to women graduate students in aerospace-related sciences and ceptions about Ebonics. engineering on the basis of acad— emic excellence. scholarly Bi .lizssn'iik Titthll’stiN achievement and faculty recom- mendations. layery seat was tilled in room (i-l li (‘aldwcll Hall Wednesday afternoon as people gathered to hear l:n guistic experts Walt Wolf am and Tracey Weldon hold a forum on the controtcrsy surrounding Symposium to focus [Ebonics on crime. The “Hot Topics Forum.” sponsored by the ('ll.—\SS Office of Minority Affairs. was organi/ed to c\p|ore the educational. political and social r.iiiiitic.ittons of New York Times Journalist the recent ()akland School Board decision to incorpo- Toni Wicker and former US. rate ltbonics into the classroom. Senator Terry Sanford will be One issue raised by the controy ei‘sy oyer Ebonics is featured guests at N.C. State's the state of information in American society about di— Erika S. Faircliild Research alect diycrsity. Wolfram said Symposium. Feb. 27 and IS. “liveryone has an opinion about Ebonics. because The program. "("rime and everyone has \ery strong beliefs about language. and Community: Balancing these beliefs are .is strong .is belicts about religion Prevention and Punishment." is and morality said W oltrain presented by N(‘SL"s (‘ollege of Another issue that is raised by the libonics contro- Humanities and Social Sciences. yersy is the "fact that we liayc d scy ere educational Wicker will deliver the lag." Wolfram said. keynote address at 7 pm. "laboiiics telescopes American education. what it‘s Thursday. Feb. 27; Sanford will doing and what it's not doing." he said moderate a panel of distin- Wolfram said l'bonics .ilso targets issues of lati- guished national experts from 3 guage and race The last issue raised by libonics is to 5 pm. on Friday. Feb. 28. Hire l: A/b'A‘ri that of language and identity. Both programs. free and open "learning a language is not like learning other edu- to the public. will take place in cational facts." Wolfram said. “When we learn a lan- Stewart Theatre in the guage. we learn an identity University Student Center on A motorcycle struck on automobile "To learn Standard English is to take on an identi- (‘ates Avenue. on Hillsborough Street in front of ty Woltram said, Often this identity comes across as Starbuck’s Coffee Thursday at 1:30 someone try mg to “talk w hitc." he said. pm. The motorcycle was traveling Wolfram recalled that during a recent interview. a from downtown toword compus radio announcer had referred to Ebonics as "corrupt ‘ '2': w- ‘.§“§ when it hit the parked car. No one English." y 3 “in was injured. but the Raleigh Police "No linguist would eyer endorse the myth that Department was coiled to the l‘ht‘lllcS is corrupt l:nghsh.'" Wolfram \itlti. Technician scene. The car suffered minimol Wolti‘ain said the question now is what to do to re- damage. Domoges to the motorcyle place tlie myths. Sports: Men’s were more severe. Above. the "W e don‘t educate about the nature of dialect diver- basketball team owner of the cor checks out a few sity he said. scratches. Left. the motorcycle‘s Weldon addressed the issues that generated the me- falls to Virginia owner stores disdainfulty at his dia contro\ct'sy over Ebonics. ()ne of these was the 5546. mangled bike while 0 Raleigh Police issue of lzbonics as a separate language. officer looks on from his patrol car. Weldon said that the lingursttc understanding was Page 3 that "language and dialect exist on a continuum." ()ther misconceptions that Weldon addressed were the myths about the African origin of Ebonics and the Opinion: Cigars: the theory of a genetic base of Ebonics. pro, the con. “Actually. there is a great disagreement between liti— guists about the origins of Ebonics.“ Weldon said. Page 6 Weldon denounced any genetic base. “What you Ttobbery motivates security upgrade speak is based completely oii what you‘re exposed Tech Too: Get to." she said. Weldon said the biggest misconception produced by Vertical (Horizon). I A student was robbed in front dorm room. The man displayed a gun and any evidence that might have been left be- the Ebonics controversy is the assumption that the Page 5 of Bragaw Hall Monday night. demanded the student‘s wallet and jacket. hind. Oakland School Board is now trying to teach Ebonics By the time Public Safety arriv ed. the man Public Safety is also cliecking with other to teachers. who will in turn teach it to students. Bv LEA Dr:i.icio had fled the area. agencies to see if any similar events haye S’Ati Waiter: The suspect is described as a black male. occurred at other locations. Ellis said. "The goal is to teach students Standard English." approximately 26 years old He is of medi— There have been no similar incidents Weldon said. “We can use Ebonics as a tool. as a An armed robbery has caused .iii in» um build. about 5‘] l and lb() pounds He around Bragaw lately. lzllis said. He also guide to teaching Standard English.” Reach Us crease in security in the area around Dan has short.