Technician
friday february
11 2011
Raleigh, North Carolina
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UNC leaders mull tuition hikes In-state students may face $300 more in tuition in 2011-2012 if BOG approves. Chelsey Francis News Editor
Chief Tom Younce has been with Campus Police since October 2000 and will be retiring effective July 1. Younce said he will miss campus life.
Campus police chief retires
After 11 years with campus police, Chief Younce is retiring IN July Story By elise heglar | photo By Alex nitt “I’ve been in law enforcement for about 43 years now. My wife recently retired, so we decided to move to another page in our lives,” Younce said. Younce came to the University in October of 2000. He took over as chief of the campus police department when he came to the University. His retirement is effective on July 1 of this year. “I have always and will always love N.C. State. This was a really difficult decision to make, but it’s time for me to move on,” Younce said. Younce said that he has plans to work and travel once he retires. “Usually when people retire, traveling is kind of the go-to thing. I’ll be doing some of that, as well as some consulting work,” Younce said. Younce worked closely with Student Government on many issues and has been very involved in University athletics, especially the gymnastics team. He said that he has enjoyed traveling and watching the team grow. “I will miss all of the students that I have had the chance to work with. I am a po-
lice officer first, and sometimes that means making arrests, but I have had the chance to work with the students a lot. This is an excellent campus and all of the students I’ve encountered have been great to work with,” Younce said. There is currently not a replacement for the chief position, according to Jon Barnwell, patrol division commander for campus police. “Chief Younce has taken us to a flagship department that is recognized all over the country as a place where things get done. I hope that in his absence, we take his vision and stay progressive as we move on as a department,” Barnwell said. Barnwell said that Younce made a great impact on his own career. The two have worked together since Younce came to the University in 2000. “He has been the greatest boss that I’ve ever had. The impression he has made on my professional career cannot be measured. We’re all going to miss him and we wish him well,” Barnwell said. Since Younce became chief, there have
been a lot of good changes in the campus police department, according to Barnwell. Many people in the department recognize Younce as a mentor. “The thing I’ll miss the most is his willingness to listen to the thoughts and ideas of everyone. He valued everyone’s input when making decisions, and that is a rare thing,” Barnwell said. Younce said that he would miss the campus environment after he retires. “This is a really unique environment, especially for law enforcement. I have worked with a top quality department here,” Younce said. Younce said, among other things, he will definitely miss the football stadium. “Yesterday, I went by the football stadium. Standing there and looking at that field, I realized I am really going to miss it,” Younce said. “I don’t know what it is about that football field, but I just love the feeling I get standing right there. That’s something I will miss.”
The UNC Board of Governors will decide Friday whether in-state students will pay an additional $300 in tuition to attend N.C. State next year. The BOG’s budget and finance committee approved the 6.2 percent hike for undergraduate residents Thursday, according to committee member and Association of Student Governments President Atul Bhula. The full board will consider NCSU’s proposed hike, along with the proposals from the other UNC System campuses, at its meeting Friday morning. According to NCSU Provost Warwick Arden, the committee approved the tuition hike as suggested by the Board of Trustees, the University’s governing body. “Everything was approved as we had submitted it,” Arden, who did not attend the committee meeting Thursday, said. “If you go back to the memo the chancellor sent the Board of Trustees last November, it goes through the recommendations that were approved through our Board of Trustees.” The Board of Trustees proposal was divided into two categories, according to Arden. “We have a regular campus-initiated increase, which will increase the base tuition,” Arden said. “It’ll be $300 more for undergraduate residents and $600 more for others. That’s where the 6.2 percent comes from.” The other category, according to Arden, is premium tuition. “We have a number of premium tuitions, which are only for professional degree programs, which were approved as submitted,” Arden said. According to Arden, the campusinitiated tuition increase will affect more students than the premium increase. If the UNC Board of Governors approves the hike, it will move on to the General Assembly. “Our tuition increases are bottled with everyone else in the UNC System,” Arden said. “The legislature has the authority to approve this and add other increases as well.”
Using UnityID@ncsu. Draft plan premiere pushback possible edu past graduation Office of Information Technology announces update on using Google Apps accounts postgraduation. Alanna Howard Deputy News Editor
Beginning with the spring 2010 class any senior has the ability to use their unityid@ncsu.edu email address for as long as they’d like. Included with this access is docs, calendars and other Google App services. Having a professional email account is considered a must-have for any job search. The account associated with unityid@ncsu.edu includes features that allow students to share calendars, documents and other services with anyone on the gmail service. With the recent student email move from Unity/Wolfware to Google, that technology will follow you after graduation, a service many seniors are not aware of. According to Stan Martin, director of outreach, communications & consulting for the Office of Information Technology, allowing the alumni
to keep their email addresses was always considered a good idea, but not possible until the switch to Google. “As of the spring 2010 graduating class, we have kept the access to features such as email, documents and calendars on for them when they leave because when we were debating options for a new email host, that was one of the reasons we contracted with Google. It allows us to give them that service without costing anything extra for alumni,” Martin said. Morgan Hightshoe, a senior in zoology, said he was not aware he could keep his email after graduation. “This is great! I love Gmail, it’s so easy to use with a variety of applications that anyone can find useful. Gmail is extremely user friendly and works well. It’s a great advantage for students to be able to keep it. Also, people look more credible when they are emailing from university labels ‘.edu’,” Hightshoe said. Although email is a life-time ac-
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Friends of the Women’s Center Presents A benefit production of Eve Ensler’s
The Vagina Monologues
@ Campus Cinema in Witherspoon Sun, Feb 13 @ 2pm & Tues,Feb 15th @ 7pm NC State Bookstore will be on-location with a fundraiser book sale to benefit the Woman’s Center & violance against women
A state filled with diverse economic and educational needs, a student body of more than 30,000, and thousands of faculty and staff members. Chris Boucher Deputy News Editor
Balancing the concerns of all these groups - and boiling it down into one digestible document - is the goal of the University’s Strategic Planning Committee, which is scheduled to release the initial draft of the document on Feb. 18. A state filled with diverse economic and educational needs, a student body of more than 30,000, and thousands of faculty and staff members. Balancing the concerns of all these groups - and boiling it down into one digestible document - is the goal of the University’s Strategic Planning Committee, which is scheduled to release the initial draft of the document on Feb. 18. “This is not going to be a 100-page document. It’ll be 10 to 20 pages,” Strategic Planning Committee cochair and Academic Provost Warwick Arden said of the draft plan. “It’ll be a general document that provides an aspirational statement about where
we’re going as a University, and what our goals are going to be for the next five to eight years.” The weight of the task might slow down production of the first draft, Arden said. If that happens, the draft might not be posted on the Planning Committee’s website by Feb. 18. “We’re shooting for that [deadline]. It’s a tight timeline, and we might not be right on the money,” Arden said. “But certainly it’ll be posted by the end of February.” Once the plan is posted, it will be available for public comment until March 4. The Planning Committee hopes the brevity of the draft plan encourages comment from all University stakeholders, Arden said. “It will be something that you can easily read in an hour or two. And it’s something we want campus input on. We will take that input very seriously,” Arden said. The draft plan will touch on nine key issues identified by the Strategic Planning Committee, which assigned each of these nine “issues” a separate task force. Each task force has already reported its initial findings to the Strategic Planning Committee in the form of “white papers” that are already up on the Planning Committee’s website. The draft plan will be based on the
white papers of all nine task forces, Arden said. One task force member said that there was harmony, yet little hegemony, in his group. “Our task force had faculty, staff and administration folks as well. The makeup really cut across the University,” Roby Sawyers, Resource Strategies Task Force co-chair, said. “We certainly had people with different perspectives, different views of the world and differing visions for the University.” Despite its eclectic makeup, the Resource Strategies Task Force was committed to looking for solutions that were in the best interests of the entire University, said Sawyers, who is also a professor of accounting. “Our task force had a remarkable consensus as to what N.C. State should do moving forward,” Sawyers said. While he was pleased with the diversity of the task forces, Sawyers said some more student involvement might have made things even better. “On the task forces, there weren’t as many students; ours didn’t have any students, for example,” Sawyers said. “However, the [Undergraduate] Student Success group is having the forums to try to increase student participa-
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