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University forced to bear millions in cuts Following the cuts from the General Assembly, University officials respond to severe financial blow.
seven percent from academics and 10 percent from administration. This is consistent with the Chancellor’s goal of “protecting the academic core” outlined by his realignment plan. “Over the course of the last two years, we have been working hard John Wall to prepare this University for a sigStaff Writer nificant budget reduction,” Woodson N.C. State received a 15.1 percent said. Each college—across the board— budget cut from the UNC System Board of Governors July 7, one of will receive the order to cut 10 percent. several universities dealt double digit Individual deans will choose what to keep and what to get rid of. reductions. Schools in the UNC System were Although course section availability not given identical will dwindle, Chancuts, ranging from cellor Randy Wood8.4 percent at the son said there are School of Science currently no plans and Math to 17.9 perto eliminate macent at UNC Chapel jors. Woodson also Hill as the Board of said there will not Governors wrangled be a tuition increase with a $2.65 billion beyond the one apreduction given to proved last Novemthem by the General ber. Assembly. According to Charles Graham, democratic One of the main representative of Robeson Woodson, it will be county factors the Board of the professors and Governors considfaculty will carry ered in deciding how the burden of fewer to allocate cuts across the system was funds. “It may be more difficult for us to school size and population. Larger offer sufficient class sections of vari- schools received larger budget reducous courses because of limits on the tions, and vice versa. East Carolina faculty and staff that we have,” Wood- University, Appalachian State University and UNC-Charlotte were also at son said. Instead of cutting each college un- the top of the list. Public universities have revenue der the University by 15.1 percent, administrators have decided to cut sources beyond what taxpayers pro-
“Our universities have a proven track record of adjusting along the way.”
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Chancellor Randy Woodson listens during the Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday, July 13. Woodson has tasked each of the colleges within the University with finding ways to cut costs. The University is facing a 15 percent budget cut to its state funding.
vide. UNC-CH received a transfer of $20 million from UNC Health Care last week in order to offset budget reductions. “UNC Health Care had a good year, and we are glad to be able to give back
Racial slur in ‘The Brick’ raises ire Booklet meant for incoming freshman contains photo deemed offensive.
until the photo was pointed out. “I don’t believe administrators made the right decision in pulling the book,” Miller said. “Personally it doesn’t offend me, so I don’t really worry about it.” John Wall Twelve incoming freshman who Staff Writer had not received the booklet were also Due to a photo depicting a racial shown the photo. Matthew Skinner, slur on the inside pages, distribution one of these freshmen, picked out the of copies of a publication given to in- offensive word on his own. Four said coming freshman was temporarily the decision to pull the entire book was correct. halted. “They could have The Brick, a 129just taken the whole page booklet given page out,” Skinner to students at freshsaid. “That would man orientation, be the easiest thing contained a photo to do.” of the Free ExpresSt udent G ovsion Tunnel in which ernment has been the N-word could be given the task to seen. Student Media place the stickers representatives met over the offensive July 8, and came to Jonathan Miller, incoming part of the photo. a compromise: place freshman Chandler Thompa sticker over the son, student body word, and continue president, contributed to the bookdistribution. A parent brought the photo to the let. Her photo can be seen on several attention of University administra- pages, including a dedication page near the end. Thompson said she tors. “[The photo] jumped out at me, and also attended the July 8 meeting. it is offensive,” said Tracey Ray, director of multicultural student affairs. “Students [at orientation] still have a decision of where they want to go, and we need to be welcoming to our entire community.” Orientation attendees receive a bag containing items organizers deemed necessary. Students at the orientation held Monday, July 11 did not have a copy of The Brick in their bags. Although he did not have a copy of the booklet, incoming freshman Jonathan Miller was shown a copy, and shown the photo in question. Miller said did not immediately recognize why he did not receive the booklet
“I don’t believe administrators made the right decision in pulling the book.”
“My brother has orientation Monday, and we all agree that this picture is not something we want to put in The Brick,” Thompson said. Much of the talk at the meeting revolved around the apparent necessity for all content in the booklet to be University approved. Although it was a product of Student Media, orientation organizers said they do not want students and parents to start out their college experience with a negative view of the University. “We will not distribute this book,” Gabe Wical, director of New Student Orientation, said at the meeting. The same photo was printed in Technician. Photojournalism ethics stipulate photos are not to be altered before going to print. Against those ethics, the photo was altered to blur out the racial slur. While Wical said that publication would no longer be given to new students, redistribution of the altered booklets began Wednesday.
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to the system,” UNC Health Care News Director Jennifer James said. However, the health care facility did not give back to the “UNC System”—it gave back to UNC-CH. UNC Health Care falls under the same umbrella as
all North Carolina public universities. Their boss, Tom Ross, is president of the UNC System.
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Permit problems bring changes to system University Transportation revisits its parking permit system. Brooke Wallig News Editor
Following a slew of complaints in the past few days, University Transportation is working to change the way students buy parking permits. According to Christine Klein, public communications specialist for University Transportation, the transportation website experienced significant problems because the system became severely overcrowded on the first days of purchase per credit group. “The system was very slow on initial purchase days. We have several sophisticated systems that have to interact with each other—the parking allocation software, the credit card processor and our payment website. Credit eligibility, housing assignment—if applicable—and other qualifiers are analyzed before a permit is offered,” Klein said. “The best analogy is to picture a crowd rushing a door. People stumble, fall down and no one is able to enter. That’s basically what happened.” Chandler Thompson, senior in economics and student body president, said her experience with the current system has at times been quite nerveracking. “I used the system last year, and I remember the online process moving slowly and worrying about getting a pass,” Thompson said. “There is extra stress because when I was entering information and it wouldn’t load or accept it quickly I knew I was racing against other students for a pass.”
PARKING PERMIT ELIGIBILITY PERMIT TYPE
CREDIT HOURS
Resident Storage
0
Resident West
12
Resident East
12
Varsity Lot (commuter)
0
West Deck (commuter)
30
Coliseum Deck (commuter)
75
Dan Allen Deck (commuter)
100
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION
At the same time, Thompson said she believes the Office of Transportation is actively working to update its systems, and said she’d like to work with them to make the process as smooth as possible. “I would like to work with transportation to explore options for a parking system that can handle large volumes of requests at one time,” Thompson said. “If that is not possible, maybe break it down into smaller groups so the demand is not high at one point it time.” According to Klein, while the permit system has not experienced many changes since its inception, it is meant to make it easier for students with more credits to purchase better permits. “The process hasn’t changed significantly. This is our third year for online sales. We did change the eligibility credit requirements slightly to do a better job of balancing supply and demand,” Klein said. “We want to
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Caught between protesters for democracy and riot police, student catches glimpse of Malay struggle. See page 6.
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Game-day experience to be enhanced by new scoreboard. See page 8.
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Record-holding swimmer returns to Wolfpack as head coach. See page 8.
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