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Poetry in:
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Editorials...
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Miriam Levy: Vice-
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FSU student Re-
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Music News From
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SPORTS...Page 11
STUDENT FEES TO INCREASE
By Roger A. Harris
Students want access to the lat
est technologies. The Student Gov
ernment Association wants a larger
budget to address and effect stu
dent concerns. The Broncos’ Voice
wants a larger budget to publish a
higher quality product. The list
goes on. Now, consider that stu
dent fees haven’t been raised in
some cases since 1985-86. Con
trast this against the fact that FSU
currently charges the lowest gen
eral fees in the UNC system and
what you’re faced with is this di
lemma; how do you meet the de
mands for increased services with
out hampering the students ability
to afford those services. Simply put,
you increase fees.
The issue of increased student fees
has been making North Carolina head
lines for the past few weeks. Talk
started when Governor Hunt proposed
a 3.1 percent tuition increase for In-
State and Out-of-State students (rep
resenting $24 and $224 increases re
spectively). Tuition represents ap
proximately half of the total annual
costs that in-state students are charged
to attend a university. The other half
goes to general fees, which are sepa
rate and apart from tuition, and go to
support such or
ganizations as
athletics, the
yearbook, band,
choir, drama
guild, SGA, Stu
dent Activity
Council (SAC),
and this very
publication, to
name a few.
Mr. Benson
Otovo, Vice
Chancellor For
Business and Fi
nance, was very
open about the
fiscal realities that FSU has to confront
as well as the perceptions that might
be held with respect to this dilemma.
“We currently pay the lowest general
fees within the UNC system. If ac
cepted, our proposed increases will
allow FSU to still offer our students
the second lowest general fee rate
within the UNC system while gener
ating the revenue necessary to more
readily meet student’s requests for in
creased services.” Mr. Otovo ex
pressed a real concern that students
might think that they “are getting the
See Fees Page 4
Mr. Benson Otovo
Vduise IV
RIOT MAY THREATEN
FUTURE ACTIVITIES
By Roger A. Harris
On March 2, 1995 at FSU’s Lilly
Gym, an altercation during an intra
mural basketball game erupted into a
riot. Negative fallout from the melee
could threaten future campus intramu
ral activities. Mr. John Marshall, Di
rector of Intramural Activities, con
ceded that the skirmish was “a very
serious matter” and that “right now,
anything [administratively] could hap
pen.” He would not speculate as to
what might be the final outcome of the
incident.
Sources present during the event
explained that the riot started as a re
sult of a flagrant foul during an intra
mural basketball game between Grove
Phi Grove Social Fellowship, Inc. and
New Breed, a team composed prima
rily of FSU’s redshirted varsity mens
basketball team members. After the
game, the two students involved in the
flagrant foul confronted each other and
began to fight. Members from both
teams then entered the fray, followed
by fans from the stands supporting ei
ther team.
It was reported that the incident
escalated so quickly that although the
game was supervised by university
See Riot Page 8
CHANCELLOR’S SEARCH
COMMITTEE TO HOLD OPEN
FORUM MARCH 23,1995
By Roger A. Harris
Mr. Hector McEachern, Chairman of FSU’s Chan
cellors Search Committee, was recently contacted to
obtain an update on the progress the committee has
made to date. In a very candid telephone interview,
McEachern was enthusiastic and specific. “I am happy
to relay that the search process is on schedule. We
have more than forty applicants [mail in and nomina
tions] for the position thus far and will start our screen
ing process as of March 31, 1995.” March 31 is not
the cut off date for applicants, merely the date that
the review of applications thus far received will be
started. Protocol dictates that applicants’ names will
not be made public. However, when selected, the
names of the three finalists will be made public.
McEachern expressed deep concern about the
rather poor turnout at the previous forums held to
solicit input from the university and community on
the selection process, especially from students. “This
process offers students the opportunity to participate
in a historic event. As students, they have a vested in
See Search on page 8
AILEY DANCERS BREAK BREAD
By Lance Snead
On February 19, 1995, I had the rare privilege of meeting
the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble. The Ensemble was hav
ing breakfast
in the H.L.
Cook Dining
Hall prior to a
performance
at the
Seabrook Au
ditorium. Gift
T-shirts were
presented by
T a m m i k a
Price on be- Jhe Alvin Ailey Dancers at Seabrook Auditorium
half of the stu
dent body of
Fayetteville State University to the Ensemble while they dined.
The Ensemble was also entertained with two dance pieces,
courtesy of the F.S.U. Dance Troupe. Later, I interviewed
Sylvia Waters, the ensemble’s Artistic Director, Ishanee
See Ailey Page 12