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Storm relief could be on its way
Senate approves
$214.5M in aid
BY MICHELLE MENDON(A
STAFF WRITER
With the western areas of North
Carolina still recovering after last
fall’s damaging hurricane sea
son, the N.C. Senate unanimously
passed a $214.5 million aid pack
age last week to continue recovery
efforts in those areas.
This aid was a $123.5 million
addition to the relief money that
already was allocated. The flooding
from those storms was responsible
for 11 deaths, 140 destroyed homes
and 16,200 damaged homes.
Asa part of the earlier relief
effort, the N.C. General Assembly
asked state agencies including
universities in November to
return 0.75 percent of their bud
gets.
“We were given a number very
early in the year, so every cam
pus at that time set aside funds
Tar Heels look to remain No. 1 in ACC
Game and Time: No. 2 North
Carolina at N.C. State. Tipoff is at
8 p.m.
Site: RBC Center.
TV/Radio: The game will be
televised by Raycom/Jefferson
Pilot. The Tar Heel Sports Network
will provide radio coverage; the
broadcast will air on 100.7 FM and
WCHL-AM 1360.
Records: North Carolina is 22-3,
10-2 in the ACC. N.C. State is 15-
10,5-7 in the ACC.
Series: North Carolina leads
131-74.
Probable Starters:
North Carolina
G: Raymond Felton, 6-1 JR
G: Rashad McCants, 6-4 JR
F: Jackie Manuel, 6-5 SR
F: Jawad Williams, 6-9 SR
C: Sean May, 6-9 JR
N.C. State
G: Engin Atsur, 6-3 SO
G: Tony Bethel, 6-2 JR
F: Julius Hodge, 6-7 SR
F: Ilian Evtimov, 6-7 JR
C: Jordan Collins, 6-10, SR
The Key Matchup: N.C. States
Jordan Collins and Ilian Evtimov
against North Carolina’s Sean May.
May has been the best Tar Heel
—and maybe the best player in the
ACC during the last few weeks,
recording double-doubles in four
straight games.
He hasn’t been barely reaching
double digits either in those four
games, he averaged 17 points and
15 rebounds.
May almost matched those num
bers when North Carolina beat the
Wolfpack by 24 in the Smith Center
three weeks ago, as he had 16 points
and 14 boards. May and Marvin
Williams, who posted a career-high
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to be reverted,” said Jeff Davies,
UNC-system vice president for
finance.
Where the funds came from was
an option left open to the individ
ual schools.
“It varies from campus to cam
pus,” Davies said.
“Each chancellor made a deci
sion based on what would lea-1
affect that school.”
UNC-Chapel Hill had about
$2.85 million taken from its bud
get. “We took it from everywhere,”
said Provost Robert Shelton.
“I sent it out in proportion to
everyone’s state budget, so it was an
across-the-board cut," Shelton said.
"For example, whatever the budget
of the College of Arts and Science
was, they had to give back three
quarters of a percent of that.”
Though no University program
was singled out for budget cuts, it’s
always difficult to give back funds,
Shelton said.
George Wooten, vice chancellor
for administration and finance at
Western Carolina University, said
20 points in that game, wreaked
havoc in the post as the Wolfpack
had a tough time keeping up with
the Tar Heels’ speed.
If Collins who needed just
seven minutes to foul out in the
previous meeting —and Evtimov
can’t handle May, the ’Pack will be
looking at another blowout.
Final Analysis/Prediction: N.C.
State was pretty much left for dead
after losing to the Tar Heels and
then dropping its next two ACC
games after that.
But the Wolfpack has crawled
THE LOWDOWN ON TONIGHTS GAME
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N,cstate in
(22-3,10-2) RBC Center, 8 p.m. (15-10, 5-7)
HEAD TO HEAD
N. C. State couldn't keep up with the Tar
Heels' speed in the previous meeting, and
Backcourt that had a lot to do with Raymond Felton,
who was able to dictate the pace of the I
game practically from tipoff. Edge: UNC
Sean May has been unstoppable of late
with four straight double-doubles. If he
FrontCOurt keeps up his current pace, he'll be the first
Tar Heel to average a double-double since
Antawn Jamison in 1997-98. Edge: UNC
Marvin Williams didn't look too hobbled by
his sprained toe against Clemson, with 14
Bench points and nine rebounds in just 16 minutes.
He scored a career-high 20 against N.C.
State while fighting off the flu. Edge: UNC
Both teams have something to play for
UNC for a championship, N.C. State for
Intangibles its postseason life. The RBC Center can be a
hostile arena, but UNC won there last year
when it was a bad road team. Edge: UNC
The Bottom Line North Carolina 82, N.C. State 69
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the $349,000 cut from its budget
was taken from lapsed salaries and
fringe benefits dollars that had
accrued over time.
“We didn’t have any programs
detrimentally affected, but the
money could have been used for
new scientific equipment, research
or other such programs,” he said.
N.C. State University cut about
$2.7 million from funds allocated
to fall semester programs, said
Charles Leffler, vice chancellor for
finance and business.
It is hard to assess the total harm
of the cuts because officials cannot
know what the money would have
been used for, he added.
The budget cuts were handed
down early in the academic year,
giving the 16 campuses the oppor
tunity to anticipate the loss and
minimize its effects.
“I think that the deans and vice
chancellors were able to absorb this
cut without any permanent dam
age to programs,” Shelton said.
UNC-CH adapted to the cuts by
delaying purchases and hiring to
back into the NCAA Tournament
picture with wins at Georgia Tech
and versus Maryland.
At the very least, N.C. State
needs to get to 8-8 in conference
to even think about going to the
tournament. A win against the Tar
Heels would move them closer to
the .500 mark and serve as a nice
line on a resume that is relatively
devoid of any big victories.
But after Duke upended Wake
Forest on Sunday, North Carolina
now is in position to win the ACC
outright and to claim a likely top
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fill vacant positions until after this
fiscal year, he added.
Leffler said there were similar
missed employment opportunities
at N.C. State.
“Those were funds that could
have been used to supplement
competitive salary offers,” he said.
Although no school was devas
tated by this budget cut, all are glad
that it is a nonrecurring one.
“Over the last 12 to 15 years,
when you take into account our
enrollment growth, the budget
has been reduced, so we have less
money per student per year,” Leffler
said.
Shelton said it is hard to be upset
about money going toward hurri
cane relief, even if it does throw the
University’s budget off balance.
“We’ve had budget cuts in easily
nine of the last 10 years. When you
add those cuts on top of everything
else that’s happened, then you have
a real pain.”
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seed in both the conference and
NCAA Tournaments, so the Tar
Heels have something tangible to
play for as well.
UNC proved in the Smith Center
that it was a faster, more athletic
team than N.C. State. Look for the
Tar Heels to show that where the
teams play doesn’t matter.
The Bottom Line: North
Carolina 82, N.C. State 69.
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STAFF WRITER
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According to the report, increased
costs come from gimmicks, including
the frequent release of new editions,
some of which are 12 percent more
expensive than their predecessor.
Companies also produce text
books bundled with supplemen
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a price 10 percent more than that
of their unbundled counterparts.
Yet such supplements rarely see
the light of day, as 65 percent of the
faculty interviewed for the report
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Keith Sipe, publisher of Carolina
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to professors near the middle of
each semester. From these choices,
professors try to pick the best qual
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But only new editions are avail
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information on the subjects becomes
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books to students.
“The best thing students can
do is work with their professors,”
Rosenfeld said. “Demand that they
use only current editions and use
new editions only when needed.”
He also called on professors to
turn in book requests early so that
student bookstores have time to
look for best available prices.
DaraEdelman, UNC-Greensboro’s
student body president, said the
UNC-system Association of Student
Governments is aware of rising text
book costs and is trying combat the
problem. Members of the student
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with publishing companies and are
encouraging universities to adopt
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The effect of textbook prices on
education is significant, Rosenfeld
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