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March 25, 2004
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Tuition increase of $360 approved by the board
Sarah Broders
News Editor
Over 250 students from the 16
UNC universities met at the
General Administration Building
in Chapel Hill March 19 to protest
proposed tuition increases.
The students spoke at a press
conference, then to local media
and then to the Board of
Governors in hopes of persuading
ihem to change their minds about
ihe proposed tuition hikes across
ihe UNC system.
The students were not the only
ones standing up against the
taition proposals.
“Gov. Easley has stood in sup
port of the students of the univer
sity system and in opposition to
the board of governors by promis
ing to make every effort for [his]
2004-2005 budget to include fuU
funding for enrollment increases,
support for financial aid, and pay
increases for state employees,
including university faculty and
staff,” Ouellette said.
The students protested two
tuition increases: a campus-initi
ated increase of $360 plus fees
recommended by Chancellor
Rosemary DePaolo, as well as an
additional 2 percent increase sys-
tem-wide recommended by the
Board of Governors.
The Board of Governors
approved the campus-initiated
tuition raises, but voted against
the additional system-wide 2 per
cent increase.
“The tuition increases passed
by the Board of Governors
ranged from 9-19 percent for res
ident students. This means tuition
has doubled since 1999-2000,”
said Evan Ouellette, vice presi
dent for state and national affairs
for SGA.
According to a News and
Observer article, “Increases for
North Carolina students in 2004-
2005 will range from 7 percent at
N.C. State University to 17 per
cent at the N.C. School of the
Arts. Out-of-state tuition and fees
will rise from 2 percent at NCSU
to a high of 10 percent at UNC-
Chapel Hill.”
This will bring a tuition
increase of $250 for in-state stu
dents attending UNC-Chapel
Hill and NC State University.
Most other in-state students at
the other UNC system schools
win have an approximately $225
increase. UNCW in-state stu
dents will see an increase of $360
plus additional fees, which were
also raised.
The board said that these
increases were necessary because
of state budget reductions, which
were hindering the systems’ class
sizes and other academic offer
ings.
UNCW will also see raises in
other services such as meal plans
and on-campus housing next year.
The Washington Higher
Education Coordinating Board
ranks North Carolina as No. 1 in
the nation for tuition increases.
‘Tuition has doubled since 1999-2000.”
’Evan Ouellette,
SGA vice president for state and r)atior\ai
Construction of sports medicine building to begin
Marie Mitchell
Staff Writer
I The new sports medicine
j building is still in the planning
! process but will soon be ready to
i begin being built. The anticipated
■ tae of construction is March
2004, the completion date is late
I December 2004.
‘This is an exciting building- it
*iH be in the same neogeorgian
irchitecture as the rest of cam
pus," said Steven J. Weitnauer,
iPE. director of Facilities,
I Planning and Design. “Hale
) Building Company from
j Wilmington is the low bidder in
I l**>cess and they are going
I frough the award process now.”
courtesy of UNCW
“This building will provide
classroom space and therapy
facilities to support the Health &
Applied Human Sciences pro
gram. Additionally, the building
will include offices for various
coaches and locker room faciUties
for various team sports,”
Weitnauer said.
The total project budget for
this project is $2,221,464.
The Office of FaciUties is in
charge of the project - specifical
ly, the Facilities, Planning and
Design department. The project
will shift to the control of
Construction Services once the
construction contract is fully exe
cuted.
With another building on cam
pus, the question of parking arose
among many students’ minds.
“The funding for this building
does not allow for construction of
additional parking for this facili
ty,” said George Goudarzi, proj-
ect manager assigned to the proj
ect and project manager in the
Facilities Planning and Design
department.
“The sports medicine facility is
a single story building, comprising
9,600 gross square feet, and will
be constructed consistent with
UNCW’s modified Georgian
architectural style,” Weitnauer
said. “The building includes
office for coaches, locker rooms
and showers for various team
sports, a classroom, and a sports
medicine room including a
hydrotherapy room. The
hydfotherapy room will house hot
See building, Page 4
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