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Amber Kenney Senior Staff Writer
As the N.C. Legislature continues to finalize a fiscal budget for the 2009-10 school year, University officials are preparing for up to a 7-percent budget cut. Charlie Leffler, vice chancellor for finance and business, said a seven percent budget cut would mean the loss of up to 150 jobs and a decrease in the number of
classes offered to students across campus. “[Lay offs] are a last resort,” Leffler said. “We are continuing to work to minimize job cuts.” Leffler said one option for the University is to move employee’s into positions that are unfilled to prevent having to cut those people. “Our goal is to minimize the impact by looking at vacant positions,” he said. Although Leffler said the University does not want to make cuts, he also said hundreds of people leave the University on a year-to-year basis because of other jobs.
Leffler said losing up to 150 jobs or more is typical. “Hundreds of people leave because of other opportunities,” he said. “There are a lot of comings and goings of people and of open positions.” Leffler also said many employees work on contracts, and when contracts expire, the University re-evaluates and decides how to reorganize jobs in a more efficient manner. “We reorganize, constantly create new jobs, and keep a dynamic workplace,” he said. Students, like Matthew Harris, a sophomore in arts applications, have expressed concern
for campus academics and the impact budget cuts may have on programs. “I have noticed they are cutting back on the number of classes offered in each course,” Harris said. “I think it will impact a lot of people.” Larry Nielsen, the University provost, said officials are attempting to make the impact of budget cuts on students as small as possible and limit the impact. Nielsen said that while the University as a whole is preparing for budget cuts that individual colleges would not be cut the full 5 percent. The College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences, as well as the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, will have only about a 1-percent budget cut, Nielsen said. Nielsen also said a 1-percent cut in class seats in sections will not drop the academic standard below what it should be. “The quality of our faculty will stay the same,” he said. “The faculty has been extremely responsible in taking on greater loads to ensure student affairs are not greatly impacted. The faculty are the CUTS continued page 3
RD parking sign stolen from Bragaw Officials reported sign stolen for second time to Campus Police Saja Hindi Editor-in-Chief
University Housing officials sent Bragaw residents an e-mail Wednesday alerting them that someone stole an RD sign in the South Bragaw parking lot. This is the second time someone has stolen the same sign, which marks a spot reserved for Resident Director Michael DREIER CARR/TECHNICIAN Bumbry. Bumbry could not be reached Two incidents have been refor comment Wednesday night. ported involving the removal of “Parking and Transportation, the post and sign that marks the as well as University Police, have RD parking space in the South Bragaw parking lot. been notified of these crimes. We are looking for information on what may have happened to the Campus Police will then carry signs and who may have been in- on an investigation in an attempt volved,” the e-mail from Sher- to find out who stole the sign as londa Clarke, assistant Housing well as make everyone aware of director, said. the incident “in case it does show Capt. Jon Barnwell of Campus up in someone’s dorm room or Police said both incidents hap- discarded somewhere,” Barnwell pened without much time in said. between each other, but he said Although Campus Police canHousing alerted Campus Police not yet speculate on the cause of of both incidents after the one the theft, Barnwell said it could officials reported Friday. be the result of a variety of rea“When they reported it the first sons, not just to intentionally detime, they said that it had been prive the University of property the second time it was taken,” but out of spite from someone Barnwell said. “It happened rela- or a want to cause damage to tively quickly.” something. Barnwell said Thomas Dahe doesn’t know v is, Bragaw the specifics of resident a nd the first incisophomore in dent but Houseconomics, ing may have agreed the inreplaced t he cident seems sign the first more like an time without act of vandalreporting it. ism than anyShaun Jernithing else, but gan, a junior that parking is in First Year a problem for College, said Bragaw resihe didn’t hear dents. Capt. Jon Barnwell about the sec“It ’s re a l ly of Campus Police ond incident, only on weekbut his resident ends when I adviser spoke to his suite about come back late at night and the the first incident right after lot is full, but I didn’t think they spring break. issue more passes than spots,” “The RA asked if we knew any- Davis said. thing about it,” he said. Davis admitted, however, that Barnwell said this is the first people “incapable of parking in time Campus Police has heard of lines” also cause some of these an incident like this happening. parking issues. “The biggest thing we’ll do is Parking on late week nights is we’ll take a report that [the sign] also a problem, he said, and on has been taken, and it’s reported as a theft,” Barnwell said. SIGN continued page 3
“The biggest thing we’ll do is we’ll take a report that [the sign] has been taken, and it’s reported as a theft.”
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Adam Compton, a senior in agricultural business management, bursts a water balloon on Anna Patton, a senior in psychology, at the Delta Upsilon and Circle K International’s Duck Hunt at the Brickyard April 8. Participants could pay $1 to throw a water balloon at some University staff members and select student leaders.
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tudents assembled on the Brickyard Wenesday to assault campus staff members and student leaders with water balloons. Delta Upsilon and Circle K sponsored the Duck Hunt to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Raleigh. Adam Compton, senior class president, Jay Dawkins, student body president for 2008-09, Jim Ceresnak, student body president, Capt. Barnwell of Campus Police, and Mike Giancola, director of the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service, were some of the participants in the hunt.
Commission recommends hate policy Special task force to look at diversity education for incoming freshmen Derek Medlin Managing Editor
Vice chancellors and provosts from all 16 UNC system schools discussed a system-wide policy regarding hate crimes and diversity education during a video conference Wednesday. UNC system President Bowles formed an 11-member commission in response to the hate speech incident in the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 5, 2008 and charged the group with looking at ways to develop a system-wide hate crimes policy. He also asked it to look at the possibility of having system-wide diversity orientation for incoming freshmen. Bowles informed Board of Governors members of the final recommendations of a UNC system commission via a memo he sent April 3. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said the video conference allowed all the leaders to be on the same page regarding the commission’s recommendations. “The commission recommended that the Board of Governors make a policy regarding hate crimes, personal violence and intimidation,” he said. “President Bowles is going to ask Harold Martin and Laura Luger to work on drafting that policy. They will then present it to the Board of Governors.” Stafford said it is likely the BOG will pass the policy, which will prompt each campus to cater its student code of conduct to fit the system-wide policy. “Each campus will look at its own individual policy and compare it to the system policy to make sure the language on each campus doesn’t conflict with this policy,” Stafford said. “He also said this policy will in now way inhibit people’s right to freedom of expression.” While the commission did make a recommendation regarding hate crimes, it did not make a solid decision on how to handle the issue of diversity education. “When they got into that discussion they discovered it was a very complicated issue,” Stafford said. “It’s not quite as simple to say every freshman ought to be required to take training. Because of that the president is going to make a special task force to look at this issue in more depth.” Stafford said the special commission could take up to six SYSTEM continued page 3
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THE FACEBOOK (R)EVOLUTION As Facebook continues to make changes not only to its Terms of Service but also to its layout and features, some students refuse to adapt even after a four-month adjustment period. But despite initial hatred for Facebook’s ever-changing interface, users either adapt or resist, but remain present on the site. Although some of the most recent changes to Facebook resemble Twitter, a social networking site that has been experiencing exponential growth over the past year, Office of Technology staff member Jennifer Riehle said the two sites could ever be interchangeable. Technician chronicles the life and times of the most popular social networking site in the... well, in the world. To read more about the Facebook revolution, SEE PAGE 6.
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