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Adam Bennett
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Voters
OK Student Activity Fee Hike
UNC-CH – University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill student voters passed a referendum last Tuesday increasing
student activity fees by $8 for undergraduate students and $10 for
graduate students to benefit student organizations.
“It’s going to do so much for the intellectual climate
and campus life,” said Charles Phaneuf, president of the Carolina
Union. “We already had one of the best campus climates of any
school with our under-funded organizations, so this will only help
more.”
The referendum, which garnered 53.1 percent of the vote, raised
the student activity fee to $19.50 per semester for undergraduate
and graduate students to cover inflationary increases.
“I think this is long overdue,” Phaneuf said. “This
is a fee that students control, but it’s not something that
should remain the same over 20 years.”
Jason Perlmutter, station manager for WXYC, UNC-CH’s student-run
radio station, said he is excited about the prospects for expanding
the station’s impact on campus.
“We’ve been managing in the past, but we haven’t
been able to branch out and do other stuff,” Perlmutter said.
“We’ve been struggling to pay operating costs.”
Events such as concerts and speeches, that could
happen more frequently as a result of increased funding, will benefit
many students in future years, Phaneuf said.
As war looms, campus anti-war groups return
UNCG – A University of North Carolina at Greensboro campus
wall is plastered with fliers for anti-war meetings and demonstrations.
On-campus rallies are slated for later this month.
“We’ve got plans for if and when a war actually breaks
out,” said Mackie Hunter, a senior and member of the UNCG Campus
Anti-War Coalition. “But we’ve been having forums and
discussions and marches and things off campus recently. Now we’re
bringing it back to the campus.”
“For the day when the [war] announcement is made, or the first
attacks happen, we’re staging a ‘Die-In’ outside
[Jackson] Library,” Hunter said. “It’s going to be
a dramatic representation of how civilian lives are going to be
lost in this war.”
Hunter said the group plans to gather as many people as possible
to lie on the ground and ‘play dead’ in symbolic unity
with dead Iraqi civilians.
Hunter said the group expects as many as 30 students to start the
demonstration and hope they will bring enough friends to turn it
into a huge event.
“We were part of a community-wide anti-war
march recently in downtown Greensboro that started with 170 people
and ended with like 214,” Hunter said. “We’d like
to see that sort of thing happen on a larger scale.”
UNC Police cite four protesters at game
UNC-CH – Four protesters rushed the court at last Wednesday’s
UNC-CH men’s basketball game against the University of Virginia,
waving anti-war banners to gain public recognition for their cause.
Four members of the Campaign to End the Cycle of Violence were charged
with disorderly conduct by disrupting a sporting event, according
to police reports.
After a foul was called on the Tar Heels during the second half,
the group ran onto the court with banners stating “No War”
and “World Says No to War.”
According to reports, Chapel Hill University Police removed them
from the court, issuing each a misdemeanor citation and banning
them from the Smith Center for two years. They are set to appear
in Orange County District Court in Hillsborough May 12.
“We knew there were risks associated with what we did,”
one protester said. “But we didn’t go out with the intention
of getting arrested.” |
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