Volume LVI, Number 15
Serving UNC-Wilmington since 1948
January 13, 2005
Board of Trustees
requests tuition
hike
Carrie Van Brunt
News Editor
The UNCW Board of Trustees
has recently voted for yet anoth
er hike for in-state tuition for the
year 2005-2006. If approved by the
University of North Carolina Board
of Governors, in-state undergradu
ate students will be responsible for
paying an 11.7 percent increase in
their tuition, an extra $225 for the
year. The mandatory fees would
also be raised four percent, making
mandatory fees total $1,767.
The cost of tuition would
increase 63 percent from what stu
dents were paying five years ago.
The purpose of the tuition hike
is to lower the student to faculty
ratio and decrease class sizes.
The decision to increase
tuition was almost unanimous.
The only opposing vote came
from the President of the Student
Government Association and the
only student representative on the
board, Zack Wynne.
“I believe that UNCW could still
find places to cut. I do have some
skepticism as to where past tuition
increases have been spent because
each year the requests discuss the
same needs” Wynne said.
The UNCW Board of Trustees
then submitted the request for the
tuition increase to the University
of North Carolina Board of
Governors.
Chairman to the Board of
Governors, J. Bradley Wilson,
recommended placing a freeze on
tuition increases.
“It is my judgment that the board
should not raise tuition this year and
I would urge you to vote against
doing so,” Wilson said.
see TUITION HIKE page 2
Relay for Life expected to draw 4,000 people
drew 3,600 people
and raised about
$447,000. The
28 teams from
UNCW, with
530 participants,
raised $23,000
in pledged dona
tions.
From among
the 160 county-
wide teams par
ticipating last
year, two UNCW
teams won top
honors. Phi Sigma
Pi, a co-ed honor
fraternity, took
two prizes, “Best
Dressed” and
“Most Spirited.”
The Financial
Aid Department
staff also won
two awards,
“Best Decorated
Campsite” and
“Best Team
Theme,” for their
job .appropriate
name The Money
Runners.
Men's basketball coach Brad Brownell reviews pass- In 2005,
ing and dribbling technique with junior Taylor Lay. UNCW is leading
Coach Brownell has been chosen as the Honorary the parade with
Chairman of the Relay for Life Meet at Ashley High another honor.
School. Men’s basket-
coach
Nolan Dean I THE SEAHAWK
Barbara J. Twigg
Assistant News Editor
On April 23-24, more than 500
UNCW students, faculty and staff
will join the American Cancer
Society’s Relay for Life Meet at
Ashley High School.
The 24-hour-long fundraiser
has teams walking laps at the high
school’s athletic complex located off
Carolina Beach Road. Last year it
ball coach Brad
Brownell will be Relay for Life
Honorary Chairman. “I’m very
excited to be involved,” Brownell
said. “It is a wonderful opportunity
to work for such a great cause, to
help raise money to fight cancer.”
“Unfortunately, we all know
someone who has had cancer,”
Brownell said. “For me, it was my
grandfather, who died of prostate
cancer.”
“I received a telephone call from
Yona Bar-Zeev of the American
Cancer Society (ACS) asking me to
participate,” Brownell said, adding
that he’ll do whatever he can and
whatever his basketball schedule
will allow.
“I think we’re going to play a
game in February with the proceeds
going toward the Relay for Life,” he
said. “And I hope we’re going to put
together a relay team from our men’s
and women’s basketball teams.”
ing to the UNCW liaison from
the ACS, Yona Bar-Zeev. “This is
growing each year. Last year we
raised $447,000, the year before
$312,000. This year we will raise
$500,000,” he said.
Bar-Zeev said anyone wanting
to take part in the relay is invited
to form a team. He also stressed
they shouldn’t be concerned about
the fact that it is an overnight affair,
running from Friday evening to
Kay Pugh, Chris Wrede, Judy Carter and Kimberly Goerne
pose with the scarves and bracelets they have made to sell
in support of the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.
Pugh and Carter of Financial Aid and Veterans Services and
Wrede and Goerne of the Registrar Office will be selling
their wares throughout the semester at their offices in James
Hall.
Student teams from the Student
Government Association, the School
of Nursing, the athletic teams, the
fraternities, sororities and residence
halls, among others, will be taking
part in the fundraiser Also joining
them are staff and faculty from
many departments. There are teams
from the Office of the Registrar,
the English and Creative Writing
departments, the Cameron School
of Business, and the Watson School
of Education.
This year’s event is going to be
bigger and better than ever accord-
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into action.
Saturday evening. “People can stay
as long as they want and walk in the
relays as little or much as they like,”
he said. “We have many people who
stay only a few hours.”
Bar-Zeev, a retired Verizon mar
keting executive, has been working
with the American Cancer Society
(ACS) for more than a decade.
“This is also a celebration of
life. We want to show people that
having cancer is not always a death
sentence,” he said. “Many, many
people survive.”
see RELAY page 2