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Serving UNC-Wilmington Since 194^8
VOLUME L.III , Number 1
August 30, 2001
Inside
This
issue.
Campus construction
only beginning
Lakeside Hall is the first of
many upcoming additions
to the university / 3
Dezeray’s Hammer
hits the commons
Read atx)ut this altemative
rock band along with other
entertainment news /11
Construction in Trask
underway
UNCW basketball teams
to gain new floor /18
State shortfall will lead to rising tuition bills
Heather Grady
The Scene...
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It seems inevitable that stu
dents will be shelling out even
more money for a UNCW edu
cation this year. The only ques
tion that remains is how much
Due to what some adminis
trators are calling the worst
budgetary situation ever to hit
campus, the exact dollar figure
students can expect on their
second tuition bill is only
speculation for now.
House and Senate legislators
are currently torn on how to ac
cumulate funding to cover the
state’s $853 million shortfall.
Many individuals expect the
session to drag into October,
though some feel it could be
resolved as early as the end of
August.
“ One of the biggest prob
lems with the legislature still
being in session at the begin
ning of school is that we still
don’t know what the tuition bill
Students can expect another tution bill from UNCW once
the House and Senate plans have reached resolution.
will be when everything is said
and done,” said Mark Lanier,
special assistant to the chancel-
However, both plans will hit
students’ wallets fairly hard.
“In either plan, though, tu
ition increases are significant as
proposed by the legislature, and
they don’t result in new money
for the university. It’s just re
placement [money],” Lanier
said.
A large piece of the financial
burden then falls to students to
make up in tuition and fees
some of the operating monies
lost by the university due to the
state’s shortfall and lack of fi
nancial support this year.
The Senate plan calls for a
tuition raise of about $25 mil
lion for students across the
ith increases spread
evenly on in-state and out-of-
state students at about 12 per-
To the contrary, the House
plan calls for out-of-state stu
dents to bear the entire weight
of the hike. This could add
about an extra $2,000 for out-
of-state students if the plan is
adopted.
“The downside here, with re
gard to tuition and fees, is that
the approach the legislature is
taking so far this year is to in
crease tuition substantially be
yond what was requested by the
university,” Lanier said.
The Board of Governors ap-
See Budget, Page 5
Saunter on the Sea
Sailboats often fill the Intracoastal waterway near
the Wrightsville Beach bridge during the busy
summer months.
Bookstore privatiTjotbn possible
WES Melville
As UNCW positions itself
for tackling an ambitious uni
versity union expansion pro
gram, new and improved ways
of raising more money for the
project are being sought.
Over the summer, senior admin
istration officials put together a
contract for outsourcing the
campus bookstore. Currently,
the Request for Proposals
(RFP) is out, and private com
panies now have the chance to
study the contract.
What this means is that the
chancellor and other officials
are considering the idea of sell
ing the university-operated
bookstore to a private firm.
They are interested in knowing
whether privatizing the book
store could reap larger financial
benefits than the current opera-
“UNCW is interested in find
ing out if there is anything to
be gained potentially from con
tracting out our bookstore, and
the only way to really know that
is to receive proposals from
various companies,” said Dick
Scott, vice chancellor for busi
ness affairs and the university’s
spokesman for the bookstore
RFP.
Part of the union expansion
project includes plans for build
ing a new bookstore, he said.
“We are contemplating the
idea of moving the new book
store in conjunction with the
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