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Ticket return switches to bracelets Weather forces switch from scanners for Wake Forest game Derek Medlin Managing Editor
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Savannah Pratt, a senior in mathematics education, helps serve Rachel McClure, a junior in parks, recreation and tourism management, and Dan Miller, a junior in electrical engineering, at the Ram Roast Pep Rally outside the free expression tunnel last year.
Ram roast plans being finalized STUDENT LEADERS PLAN EVENTS FOR FOOTBALL PEP RALLY James Layman Deputy News Editor
With the football game against UNC-Chapel Hill less than a week away, student leaders are putting the final touches on the Ram Roast this Thursday night. Several events have been planned to get students excited about the game and to gather support for the team. “Carolina used to come in and paint the tunnel the Thursday before we played them in football or basketball and it would be Carolina Blue on Friday morning when students walked to classes,� Adam Compton, senior class president, said. “The Ram Roast was
started by the senior class president a The event, which is planned by the few years ago. It started where you just Alumni Ambassador Association, spent the night and guarded the Free Student Government and the Senior Expression Tunnel. This is our way of Class Council, begins with a pep rally taking our tunnel back.� which is led by the football coaches Since the Ram and players and is Roast began, it has “It’s an opportunity to followed by perevolved into a pep forma nces f rom meet new people and the dance team, rally to get students excited about the cheerleaders and have a good time� game. the band. “We actually paint “We’re having a Maggie Reaves [the tunnel] comwing eating consophomore, business pletely red that night, test, a Pig Pickin’, and it’s also a mix of performances from a pep rally, and we toss around our different student groups and certain favorite Carolina jokes, and it’s just prizes such as t-shirts,� Morgan Donbeen a huge tradition since 2005.� nelly, campus community committee
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David Sulock, a senior in computer science, and Esther Ichugu, a junior in biological sciences, contra dance in the Talley Ballroom.
The Student Senate formed the “select committee on hate crimes,� which held its first meeting Friday to discuss the resolution introduced at the last Senate meeting about the incident at the Free Expression Tunnel. Four students admitted to painting hateful messages about president-elect Barack Obama in the Free Expression Tunnel the day after the election. The final vote for the bill will take place Tuesday and another meeting where students can voice their concerns will take place today at 5 p.m. Morgan Donnelly, Senate Campus Community Committee chair and junior in po-
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chair, said. “People stay all night and they go and paint the tunnel, or tell their best Carolina joke as long as it is in good nature.� The Alumni Ambassador Association recently suffered a budget cut and couldn’t allocate as much money as normal to the Ram Roast. Student Government and the Senior Class Council increased their budgets for the event so it didn’t suffer. “The Alumni Association has had to cancel some of the things we have done in the past,� Donnelly said,� such as some of the prizes and the publicity, so they came to student government
litical science, said the turnout have thought of anything like was as expected. that just because the original “People were kind of confused content of the bill was so sewith what the purpose of the bill vere,� she said. was, whether it was to create a During the forum, each perpolicy, to punish the students son was allowed one minute who wrote the things in the and 30 seconds to speak. Free Expression Tunnel — reSen. Maritza Adonis, junior ally the resolve was to punish in lifelong education and authe students by thor of the bill, expelling them said the bill’s or suspending intent was to them,� Donnelly bring attensaid. tion to the inAnd the ideas cidents. students came up “T h i s bi l l with were benefiis not about cial, she said. establishing Maritza Adonia “ We h e a r d a hate crime junior, lifelong education from a lot of the polic y,� she students and they said. thought of things Ben Mazur, that we didn’t, and they kind of senior in religious studies, wanted to recommend that they said the University already do community service or take has a hate crimes policy in cultural diversity classes and place. educate students more rather However, other students at than publishing them, and we the forum had other concerns got some really good feedback COMM continued page 3 because we probably wouldn’t
“This bill is not about establishing a hate crime policy�
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Ticket return workers used different colored bracelets instead of stamps and electronic scanners at Saturday’s football game to assign students to seats because of concerns over the weather damaging scanners. Student Body President Jay Dawkins, a junior in engineering, said he found out about the switch to paper bracelets on Saturday. “It was one of those things where they weren’t sure what the forecast would be,� he said of the decision to use or not use the scanners. “When it got closer to kickoff they decided not to use the scanners.� The high priced scanners, Dawkins said, could have been damaged by the combination of wind and rain. “They have the covered areas to handle some scanning when it rains but when it’s windy it becomes pretty much impossible to keep them dry,� Dawkins said. Tim Canty, a sophomore in physics, said he didn’t notice any adverse effect from using the paper bracelets when trying to enter the stadium. “It was pretty straightforward, I didn’t really see anything too different,� he said. “It took about the same amount of time getting in [using the bracelets].� David Earley, a junior in English, agreed and said the bracelets caused no problem getting into the game. “I thought it was pretty seamless,� Early said. “I got there a little later than usual so we just walked right up and they gave us a wristband. There was a never a line to get in [section] seven and eight.� Although Canty said it was no problem to get into the stadium, he said he thought some students may have been waiting outside to get certain seats. “I got there right when they were switching from section seven and eight to the south end zone,� Canty said. It seems like people might have been abusing the system.� Canty said he thought students were waiting outside to get front row seats in the south end zone rather than seats in the upper rows of section seven and eight. Canty said he thought the system may have been easier than the stamps used throughout the season to this point. SCANNERS continued page 3
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