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the Serving UNC-Wilmington Since 1 948 Inside' This Issue^^ War affects holiday celebrations/ 3 Holiday perfermance comes to campus/ 9 Womens Basketball has home winning streak/13 INDEX News 3 OP/ED 6 7 UNCW Life 9 The Scene Sports 13 Native American celebration held in Campus Commons Cdllin Beck Native Americans across the with ai country gathered in the campus portunity Commons last Saturday to cel ebrate a shared sense of commu nity and spirituality. The pow wow—the third co sponsored activity by the Native and to join American Student Organization Native and minority affairs department Americans —included an afternoon of mu- in their cel- sic and dancing events, ebration of storytelling, food and crafts. life, family “Traditional pow wow’s are a celebration presented by one tribe or band to welcome and honor other,” said Lorrie Smith, NASO’s faculty advisor. Members of the local Lumbee enced community, who invited people pow wc from tribes throughout the coun- will be si try to participate, organized prised by Saturday’s powwow. The pow the variety wow included Native American of music - ni riety of vendors selling apparel spears and dream catchers. Other tribes such as the Lumbees and dances and stones that they will crtlH niithpn- vpnHnr« fnriise.d on offerinc au- encounter,” Smith said. Among the experiences for -goers to take ir Wacamaw Siouan. “Having the pow UNCW campus provides students The UNCW Native American Student Organization sponsored the Fall pow wow, a program to help preserve the traditions of the native American culture. atchers. Oth n offering a See pdw wdw, Page 5 and crafts. Vendors sold authen- vendors focused ic Native American items such as handmade bows and arrows. Privatization of bookstore now lacks SGA support Josh Putnam, UNCW Book store employee, labels shelves for next semesters books. Putnam may or may not be looking for a new job when the bookstore changes ownership. WES Melville SPORTS Editor At last Tuesday’s meeting, SGA passed a resolution that stated it did not “support at this time the privatization of the UNCW book- The resolution was in response to the anticipated recommendation of the Bookstore Advisory Com mittee in support of outsourcing the bookstore to Barnes and Noble. The objective of the committee, which was made up of students, faculty, and staff, was to explore the idea of privatizing the UNCW bookstore and make a recommen dation to the chancellor and his se nior officers on whether outsourcing was in the best inter est of the university. Some of the students who were on the committee expressed con cern about the move to recommend outsourcing the bookstore because they said the decision was made too quickly. SGA President Adrien Lopez and Representative Kris Clapper, both of whom voted in the minority, said they had too many questions left unanswered for them to make a fair and accurate deci sion. Therefore, they brought the issue before the SGA body. “Certain concerns still need to be expressed,” Clapper said. “We’re taking an answer without fully looking at the problem.” Some of the issues that Lopez and Clapper indicated as being left unanswered were those surround ing scholarships, prices of books and supplies to students in the new establishment and job security for current bookstore employees. “We need to know what will be the impact on students,” Lopez said. Also in attendance at the SGA meeting were Dick Scott, associ- chancallor of business af fairs and Director of Internal Au dit Nikki Howard, who was the chair of the advisory committee. Some SGA members said they felt that if the bookstore was outsourced to Barnes and Noble, the corporation might not match the near $100,000 yearly contribution the bookstore currently provides for student scholarships. Evidence of this claim was sited in a book store memorandum of financial terms that showed Barnes and Noble providing only $25,000 over a five-year period in scholarship funds, compared to a $625,000 pro jected return by the university bookstore. Scott countered this concern by saying that those financial terms were misinterpreted by students and as part of Barnes and Noble’s agreement with the university, it See Bqdkstqre, Page 5
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