VOLUME 115, ISSUE 45
Senate budget favors higher education
University-system officials express relief
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
RALEIGH To the widespread relief of
university officials, the N.C. Senate turned in
a budget draft last week that would reverse
most of the funding cuts proposed by the
House.
The Senate’s earmarks for the UNC-sys
tem are almost $137 million greater than
what the House put forward, meaning leg
islators will have a lot to talk about as they
begin work to reconcile the two drafts.
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Orientation leaders demonstrate a potential roommate conflict to
incoming freshmen during The Heel World on Monday evening.
Freshmen get
feel for campus,
fellow students
BY DANIEL PRICE
STAFF WRITER
The Pit. The Union. Lenoir.
They’re everywhere.
Freshmen.
New-student orientation
began this week and hundreds of
new Thr Heels got their first expe
riences as such, as the orientation
staff helped future Heels become
comfortable with the many facets
of their new school.
With most high schools just
now wrapping up their calendars,
it might seem a bit early to be
introducing next year’s students
to campus already.
But with 17 orientation ses
sions, orientation leader Emily
Fannin, a rising junior, said the
early start is a necessity.
Some students at orientation
have yet to graduate from high
school.
Carmen Castanet, an incoming
freshman from Charlotte, will not
graduate until Sunday.
After graduation, Castanet said
she will be a summer camp coun
selor, but she is also excited about
coming to Chapel Hill in the fall.
“I’m pretty excited about sum
mer,” she said. “But I just finished
registering for classes, so I’m really
excited about getting started.”
But orientation isn’t only for
students.
Castanet’s mother, Cathy
Youngblood, said the parents’
orientation was a great benefit to
her.
“I think it was very well orga
nized,” she said. “We got a whole
ton of information.”
As far as being ready to see her
daughter leave home and enter the
pseudo-adult world, Youngblood
said it has been a process.
“I think I am ready,” she said.
“I’ve been preparing this last year.”
Perhaps the highlight of ori
entation was “The Heel World,”
when orientation leaders offered
comedic interpretations of Tar
Heel life, complete with arguing
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“There’s a very wide variance in the two
packages,” said Andy Willis, UNC-system
vice president for government relations. “In
the past, you could probably have had $l3O
million in difference between all three sec
tors of the education budget, let alone just
the university.”
The release of the Senate draft capped
an intense month of lobbying by campus
administrators and university supporters.
There was near-universal dismay among
system officials at the House budget submit-
New students
meet Carolina
*■ 17 two-day orientation ses
sions
► Started June 4
Ends Aug. 17
At CrOPS, students:
> Take placement exams
Receive One Cards
Configure CCI laptops
Register for classes
roommates, an introduction to
the P2P and bad acting.
“They were funny,” incoming
freshman Matt Harris said. “I
appreciate all the time that they
put into it.”
One thing many of next year’s
freshmen agreed upon was that
the most helpful part of orienta
tion was registration counseling.
“I would have had no idea what
classes I wanted to take,” said
Andrew Hartnett, a journalism
major from Centreville, Va.
First-year orientation leader and
rising sophomore Thomas Byrd
said it’s no coincidence that he
became an orientation leader.
“I loved the experience I had at
my orientation,” he said. “That’s
what made me want to do this for
the University.”
But Byrd said one thing could
really enhance the orientation
experience an extra day.
“It would be great if we could
have more time,” he said.
After meeting several new stu
dents and interacting with his
small group Monday, Byrd said
he believes the fresh crop of Tar
Heels will do just fine.
“We have a good group of fresh
men coming in.”
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Josh Horton looks for the call of “Safe! * after sliding into third base in the top of the ninth inning on Monday afternoon in the final game of the
NCAA Regionals against Western Carolina. Horton's single to get on base resulted in the game-winning run for the Tar Heels against the Catamounts.
CARDIAC ’HEELS
North Carolina upends Western Carolina in ninth
BY DAVID ELY
SPORTS EDITOR
The North Carolina baseball team stood
in the dugout, caps turned around, watching
a tenacious team only three outs away from
upsetting the Tar Heels. It seemed just like
dij& vu.
Two days before, East
BASEBALL Carolina led the Tar Heels 10-
UNC 6 8 heading into the bottom of
WCU 5 the ninth inning in Game 4of
the Chapel Hill Regional.
But as many champion teams do, UNC (51-
12) fought back to win the game 11-10 and
advance to the regional finals thanks to good
eyes at the plate and freshman Dustin Ackley’s
Roller derby team gaining popularity
BY DAVE PEARSON
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
To be a superhero, one must meet
the following requirements work to
improve the community, wear a cool
outfit and have a secret identity.
The women who make up the Carolina
Rollergirls fulfill all three.
The Carolina Rollergirls are part of the
Women’s Flat TYack Derby Association
and are ranked sixth in the nation in roller
derby, with their final regular season bout
Saturday at Dorton Arena in Raleigh.
“It’s a hell of a lot of fun,” said Kama
Suture, aka Tajhia Whigham, who does the
league’s public relations and marketing.
The Carolina Rollergirls began in
2003, after league founder Celia Fate saw
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rL be
ted last month, which included almost $95
million in targeted spending reductions and
little new money for research priorities.
System President Erskine Bowles went
so far as to suggest the House “didn’t get
it” when it came to long-term investment
in higher education. But officials have had
nothing but praise for the Senate, where
Majority Leader Tony Rand (D-Cumberland)
closely echoed one of Bowles’ most frequent
ly repeated themes.
“The university is key to the economic
development of the state and key to where
we need to be in the 21st century” Rand said.
“We’re just trying to make sure the universi
an all-girl roller derby in Austin, Texas.
“I thought it was going to be cheesy, like
you see on TV,” Fate said. “I found out it
was a sport, and I said, ‘Oh wow, this is
awesome.’”
Fate said that the sport is not like the
roller derby of the 1970 sand that leagues
have sprung up around the country attract
ing new members and franchises.
“We never realized it would be a nation
al thing,” Fate said.
She said the growth has come with dif
ficulties, however, as leagues developed in
isolation.
“We all interpreted the rules differently”
Fate said, adding that this led to a board of
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ties are protected.”
In addition to more than $32 million in new
research funding, the Senate draft reverses a
last-minute provision in the House budget
that would eliminate funding for all job posi
tions vacant longer than six months.
Chancellors have said that such a move
would be disastrous for universities, which
use the salaries from those vacant positions
to pay for teaching assistants, building
repairs and a variety of other odds and ends
not covered by regular funding.
The House used the savings from those
SEE HIGHER ED, PAGE 4
wa!k-off single.
Monday afternoon at Boshamer Stadium
against Western Carolina (42-20), the Tar
Heels went into the top of the ninth trailing 5-4
to a Catamount squad set on forcing a do-or-die
elimination game.
Just like the other day, however, North
Carolina had other plans. With runners on
third and second and representing the final
out, shortstop Josh Horton slapped a 3-1 pitch
to right-center field to score Mike Cavasinni
and Ackley. UNC went on to win 6-5 to advance
to the NCAA Super-Regionals against South
Carolina starting Friday at 7 p.m. in Chapel
Hill on ESPN.
“I don’t take these for granted,” Tar Heel head
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2007
Proposed budget
>■ Salary House would give
4.25 percent to all state employ
ees; Senate would give state
employees 4 percent and UNC
system faculty 5 percent
► Retention and graduation pro
grams House funded $313,136;
Senate funded $5,393,000
► Research House funded
$2.4 million; Senate funded
$32.4 million
coach Mike Fox said of the regional win.
“I was trying to get the players to get excit
ed at the end. There haven’t been that many
regionals won in this program... there’s so much
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After drawing a walk in the second inning
and then scoring the first run of the game,
Horton proceeded to ground out to first
base to end the third. He then hit a chop-
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The Carolina Rollergirls, sixth in the nation, compete in
their final regular-season match Saturday in Raleigh.
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EFFECT AND CAUSE
Professor Daryl Bern says that
future occurences affect our
behavior in the present. He will
be delivering a speech at Duke
University on Friday.
parity in college baseball
nothing’s guaranteed.”
And judging by his pre
vious three at-bats against
Western Carolina, Horton
wouldn’t have been the per
son you’d guarantee would
come through for UNC in
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