Technician
monday november
23 2009
Raleigh, North Carolina
Roast boasts different stakes, fare, same purpose Annual event to deter UNC students from painting tunnel changes food offerings to include more students
of a postseason bid has no bearing on what the Carolina game meant to fans. “It’s disappointing that we don’t have a bowl to look forward to, but we still have this very important game with our rival,” she said. “We have every reason to get excited [tonight] and Ty Johnson protect the tunnel all week because Editor-in-Chief winning this game is something a lot Fans will again gather tonight at the of fans care about.” Kumar said the Roast, which is trasouth entrance of the Free Expression Tunnel on central campus to prevent ditionally held Thursday nights, had UNC-Chapel Hill fans from painting to be moved to Monday because of the the tunnel blue at the Alumni Asso- Thanksgiving holidays “They would come Thursday before ciation Student Ambassador program a Saturday game so the students would is once again holding its Ram Roast. The events begin at 8:15 p.m. with see it on the way to class Friday,” Kua pep rally featuring Tom O’Brien mar said. “This year, the only night and members of the football team, they could do it would be Monday night.” and while the Thompson said team’s postsearain could factor son hopes are in to the events over, organizers tonight, though, said the finale as poor weather against Carolina c ou ld pre ve nt is just as impororganizers from tant to fans as it setting up a screen ever has been. to watch last year’s “It’s always the Jai Kumar, chair of STAT’s traditions Carolina-State biggest game of committee game, which she the season,” Jai said would likely Kumar, chair of Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow’s garner a lot of viewers. “If it’s not raining after 6 p.m. we’ll Traditions committee, said. “No matter how well or how bad were doing, no set up the big screen of the game,” she said. “We thought peple would want to fan wants to lose this game.” Chandler Thompson, another orga- come out and watch us score 41 points nizer of the event, said the team’s lack on Carolina.”
“No matter how well or how bad were doing, no fan wants to lose this game.”
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Justin Gray, a senior in construction engineering, performs with the a cappella group Grains of Time during the Ram Roast pep rally in front of the Free Expression Tunnel Nov. 20, 2008. “We perform for people in a unique and different way,” Gray said. Students attended the pep rally to protect and paint the Free Expression Tunnel before the Carolina football game.
The event will also feature a 2 a.m. scavenger hunt. Teams will consist of five participants each, and prizes for the winners include autographed footballs.
Thompson said another change will be in the food in an attempt to involve a more diverse audience, especially vegetarians and others who don’t eat the Roast’s traditional barbecue pork.
Dominos pizza will deliver after the pep rally, featuring cheese pizzas as well as other toppings so all students can take part in the tradition.
Trustees send ‘Talley fee’ to Bowles, BOG Sewage leak displaces concerts
Board approves fee package, campus-initiated tuition increase plan
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The Board of Governors, the governing body of the UNC System, had its last meeting of the calendar year Nov. 13 and will meet next Jan. 8. with Chancellor Jim Woodward’s fee package and the campus-initiated tuition increase on the agenda.
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The Board of Trustees voted Friday to approve the fee requests submitted by Chancellor Jim Woodward as well as the campus-initiated tuition increase plan. Both the fee package and the CITI await approval from UNC President Erskine Bowles and the Board of Governors before going to the state legislature for final approval. The fee package includes the indebtedness fee increase to fund the renovations to Talley Student Center and Atrium Food Court. Students turned out en masse at a Student Senate meeting last month after senators passed a resolution endorsing the “Rally4Talley fee” which some said went against the results of Oct. 5 fee referenda. The fee review committee, which Student Senate President Kelli Rogers co-chaired, then approved the package, sending it to the BOT where it needed and received full board approval to be passed on to Bowles and the BOG. Rogers, who did not attend the BOT meeting, said the Board’s decision to reallocate 50 cents from the athletics fee increase to the education technology fee increase was a good indica-
Plumbing problems force Ladies in Red, Fridays on the Lawn to alternate locations
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Chancellor Jim Woodward speaks about the deficiencies in the N.C. State IT Support Staff at the N.C. State Board of Trustees meeting in the Park Alumni Center on Centennial Campus Friday. Woodward acknowledged the IT support department is understaffed and not comparable to other local universities. He vowed to add two new staff positions by the beginning of next year.
tion of the University’s dedication to education. “Specifically, the adjustment for the education technology fee and the athletics fee to make sure education was kept as a top priority for N.C. State
was important,” she said. The approval of the campus-initiated tuition increase is an effort to both decrease and redirect a $200 tuition increase passed by the general assembly earlier this year. The plan reduces
the “tax on tuition” to $150 and allows the funds to be reinvested in the University instead of going to the state government. Rogers said the CITI was created with intention of not making the tuition increase a tax on students. “[The approval of the CITI] was important and I think that the decsion to allow 50 percent of that increase to go back to financial aid was crucial, especially during this economic time,” she said. “The Board of Governors almost certainly sees and agrees with this tuition increase, as well.” The Board of Governors, the governing body of the UNC System, next meets Jan. 8, 2010 where the CITI and the fee package will be on the agenda.
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Instead of warming up for their much-anticipated album release concert Friday, the Ladies in Red were in Talley Student Center without a venue to perform in. At about 4:45 p.m. building operators told the female acapella ensemble their concert, which had been scheduled to be held in Stewart Theatre, would have to be moved. Alyson Boswell, a senior in animal science, said the troupe had been forewarned about the possible cancellation about 4 p.m., but said her group was told to warm up and set up anyway before the news came. But, according to Boswell, the Ladies, who had sold tickets for the concert, didn’t let the cancellation bring them down. “We were all really shocked, but we stayed positive,” she said. “We were
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Windhover open mic night draws crowd Annual arts magazine provides artists with venue to express themselves through poetry, music in Caldwell Lounge Ty Johnson Editor-in-Chief
Though it has now returned to its position as a quiet sanctuary for students in between classes in Tompkins, Caldwell and Winston Halls, Caldwell Lounge played venue for a wealth of talent Sunday as Windhover, the University’s literary arts magazine, hosted its open mic night. About 50 performers and spectators gathered in the lounge to hear and
present their talents, ranging from spoken poetry to music. The entire show was recorded and the audio will be considered for entry in Windhover’s annual print edition, which is set to be released this April. But unlike years past when the limited print edition was the only vehicle for content, the renovations to the magazine’s Web site allow performances, images, poems and drawings to be uploaded and viewed anytime throughout the year. Windhover Editor Helen Dear said the new Web site features allow the magazine to serve more students than it could through its print edition, which, due to a limited number
of print copies, often leaves some students without a copy. “It showcases the literary, visual and audio talents of N.C. State,” Dear, a senior in graphic design, said. “Now it has become a yearround showcase.” Dear said the magazine is still accepting submissions for consideration in the magazine up until the deadline of Dec. 1. Dear said the magazine is especially looking for visual submissions such as photos, drawings or etches.
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Submissions to Windhover, including audio from open mic night, will soon be available at the magazine’s Web site, ncsu.edu/windhover. Submissions are also still being accepted for consideration to be included in the spring print edition of Windhover. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 1. For more information visit ncsu.edu/ windhover. Selections from open mic night can also be heard during the Dead Week episode of WKNC’s Eye on the Triangle with Saja Hindi Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. on 88.1 FM. Source: Helen Dear, Windhover editor
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