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Adam Bennett
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Parking Services
pushes for more parking patrol
UNCC – University of North Carolina at Charlotte Parking Services
is considering enforcing parking violations later than 9:30 p.m.
Currently, the department stops patrolling parking lots at 9:30
p.m., but recent complaints have caused Director Ron Clontz to look
at moving back the time to 11 p.m. The department received 15 complaints,
UNCC Student Body President Brian Bradley said last week.
Bradley came before the UNCC Student Government Association senate
Wednesday to get senators’ opinions on the matter.
“If we pay for parking, we should get the best spots, not the
visitors who don’t pay anything,” Keri Miller, an on-campus
student said.
Bradley will go before the UNCC Board of Trustees Friday to persuade
members to keep the policy as it is.
“Either way, if students come back late
from work or whatever, they are still going to park at the back
whether it is because of visitors or other students,” said
student senator Justin Flores.
300 protesters invade downtown Chapel Hill
UNCCH - Downtown Chapel Hill was brought to a standstill Thursday
evening as more than 300 war protesters streamed onto Franklin Street,
cutting off traffic and overtaking all four lanes.
The event culminated in a two-hour march that jammed traffic from
Chapel Hill to Carrboro, despite poor weather.
Police planned to give the marchers just two lanes but were unable
to contain them as they flooded the entire street.
“You can’t control a crowd of this size,” Chapel
Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies said as he walked with the protesters.
“We’re kind of at their mercy, and that’s fine.”
Despite the crowd’s size and the presence
of counter protesters, there were no arrests.
General Assembly deals fund cut threats to
NCSU
NCSU - What do the following three things have in common: North
Carolina State University Chancellor Marye Anne Fox’s controversial
firings, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s $360,000
severance package given to one of its outgoing officials and UNCCH’s
now infamous summer reading program? According to The Technician
reports, these are all possible reasons that legislators in North
Carolina’s General Assembly are considering discontinuing their
previous support of the idea of no more budget cuts to North Carolina’s
two largest universities.
But NCSU Chancellor Fox disagrees with these reports.
“The North Carolina legislators hold both NC State and UNC-Chapel
Hill in high regard as research institutions and they would not
let things of that nature endanger the quality of education at the
universities,” Fox said. “We are only in preliminary talks,
so it is impossible to know how much will be cut. Right now, the
projection and guesses are around 3.5 percent. I, the other chancellors
and President Molly Broad will be working together on it once it
has been finalized, but all that we can do for now is just wait
for the legislators’ decision.”
NCSU and UNCCH, in addition to being the largest, are the only two
research schools in the 16-school UNC system. However, this year,
due to an almost $2 billion budget shortfall and those previously
stated factors, legislators may be inclined to cut university funding
by more than 2.9 percent, which was last year’s cut. The funding
reduction may be closer to the 10-15 percent all other state agencies
were cut by last year.
“Legislators often get elected mistakenly because the public
and especially us students believe that they will support education,”
said Matt Jordan, a NCSU junior in engineering. “Based on the
recent actions, especially the possible cuts in funding to the schools,
of those elected to govern us, it appears that the mistake was that
we voted for them; and this is a mistake which surely needs to be
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