VOLUME 113, ISSUE 57
North Carolina passes lottery
Tony Rand,
threw the 24th
vote in favor of
lottery, in dra
matic fashion
VOTES FOUND IN SPECIAL SESSION
BY ERIC JOHNSON
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
It was an anxious scene as 48 N.C.
Senators and a standing room only
crowd awaited the final tally.
Nearly two hours of debate and
procedural protests in the Senate had
finally come to a head.
Twenty-three aye’s and 24 no’s
flashed onto the screen, and for a brief
moment it looked as if the final push
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School of Pharmacy student patiently wait for the game to start. In order to qualify for the final call back, students had to pass a 10-qliestion qualifying quiz.
TRIVIAL PURSUITS
Throngs of students storm Fetzer Gym for chance at being on show
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Textbook market tightens up
BOG committee
to analyze options
SARAH RABIL
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Allison Barnett, a UNC-Chapel Hill
biology major, didn’t want to comb local
bookstores or surf international Web
sites for the slew of textbooks required
for her first semester of college.
Instead, the freshman from St.
Louis pre-ordered the load from
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for a lottery had failed.
But there was one vote uncounted.
Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand,
D-Cumberland, had decided to add
a final bit of flare to an already dra
matic day.
Forgoing the electronic voting sys
tem, Rand spoke up and asked Lt. Gov.
Beverly Purdue, presiding over the ses
sion, to count him among the aye’s.
BY DON CAMPBELL
STAFF WRITER
More than 900 students lined the halls
of Fetzer Gym on Tuesday for a chance to
take a test on their first day back to class.
But for this test, grades were not at
stake.
Instead, students were competing for
a potential spot in the 2005 Jeopardy!
College Championship.
The Jeopardy! Brain Bus visited Chapel
Hill on Tuesday, the fourth of six North
Carolina stops, on a quest to find contes
tants for the show’s college tournament.
Up to 1,000 students had the chance to
take a 10-question pretest to qualify for a
UNC’s Student Stores for $425.
“This is all new for us,” said her
mother, Carol Barnett. “This is just
the easiest way to do it.”
And even though they didn’t shop
around, Carol Barnett said the $425
price tag is likely comparable to other
booksellers. Textbooks are generally
overpriced, she said, and those prices
need to come down.
The Barnetts came head-to-head
with the same escalating textbook
prices with which college students
across the country are grappling.
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Purdue quickly announced her own
tie-breaking vote in favor of the lottery
bill, and the bang of her gavel brought
to a close a 12-year debate about the
creation of a state-run lottery.
A surprising turnaround
Tuesday’s vote marked an unexpect
ed finish to a legislative session that
just a few days earlier appeared to be
another dead end for the state lottery.
The measure faced firm opposi
tion in the Senate from an unusual
second round.
Many students said that although mak
ing it on the show would be a long shot,
they owed it to themselves to try.
“Being on the. show has been a dream
of mine since l'was a dorky little kid,” said
Justin Tabor, a junior music major. “I liked
my chances better when the line ended at
me, but I’m still excited to try out.”
Representatives from both ABC and
Jeopardy! said they shared the students’
excitement about the tryouts.
This was an excellent opportunity
for Chapel Hill students to shine, said
Rebecca Erbstein, executive director in
charge of promotion for the game show.
The average college student doles
out about S9OO each year for text
books, according to a 2004 survey
conducted by the California Public
Interest Research Group.
CALPIRG found that factors rais
ing prices include textbooks bundled
with additional workbooks and CD
ROMs, publishers offering incentives
to professors to choose a certain book
and a constant flow of new editions.
Earlier this year, student leaders
SEE TEXTBOOKS, PAGE 5
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NEED TICKETS?
Lines dot entranceway to
Memorial Hall as tickets go
on sale Monday. The hall will
reopen its doors Sept. 9 for
the first time since 2001.
coalition of five Democrats and the
chamber’s 21 Republicans.
But the absence of two Republican
opponents Sens. John Garwood, R-
Wilkes, and Harry Brown, R-Onslow
gave the Senate’s Democratic lead
ership just enough room Tuesday to
push the bill through.
Garwood is confined to his home
with a leg injury, and Brown is on his
honeymoon.
“It needed to be resolved,” Rand
SEE LOTTERY, PAGE 5
“We want as many kids to pass as pos
sible,” she said. “That way we can get the
best representative from UNC as pos
sible.”
In addition to the testing, everyone had
the chance to play a just-for-fun version
of the show hosted by members of the
Jeopardy! Clue Crew.
When all the fun and games were
over, 150 students scored high enough
to advance to the next round, which then
narrowed the field to 18.
Freshman music major Sarah Dempsey
remained skeptical throughout the day,
SEE JEOPARDY, PAGE 5
Shop around for textbooks
Students looking for other outlets to purchase textbooks beyond Student Stores should shop around for the
best deal. Below is a list of the typical general college courses and their respective prices at four locations.
POLI4I $83.05/$83.12 $78.60 / $104.20 f 573.20 / $97.60 $83.90 / $93.90
PSYCIO f $35.00/ $65.00 $45.00/ $71.20 $55.50/ $74.00 $51.45/$74.00
MATH 32 NOT AVAILABLE 15.00 / $145.30" $142.00 / $189.35 $135.05 / $174.05
ENGL 11 NOT AVAILABLE $41.92 / $47.66 $43.00 / $57.35 f $39.95 / $53,70
GEOLII NOT AVAILABLE $71.25 / $101.33 $76.00 / $101.35 f $53.70 / $95.55
* Used denotes the cheapest available price from each location, possibly including new books.
** Price only for required textbook, required workbook not available from source.
SOURCE: HALF.COM, AMAZON.COM, STUDENT STORES, RAM BOOK SHOP DTH/BOBBY SWEATT
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GONE FISHIN'
After 24 years, John Edgerly,
UNC's director of Counseling
and Pyscological Service, is
retiring to open his own prac
tice and do some fishing.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2005
Campus
reacts
to state
budget
Provost proposes
campuswide cuts
BY BRIAN HUDSON
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
University administrators have
recommended across-the-board cuts
in University spending in response to
the state budget’s $6.3 million reduc
tion of UNC-Chapel Hill’s budget.
In a memo sent Friday to University
deans and vice chancellors, Provost
Robert Shelton recommended a 1.75
percent budget cut in academic affairs
and a 2.5 percent cut in health affairs.
Provost Robert
Shelton, pro
posed campus
wide budget
cuts Friday.
this week.
“I sent this to them in a draft form,”
he said. “And then we’re going to work
on the numbers at the dean’s council
on Thursday.”
Shelton attributed the difference
between health and academic affairs
budget cuts to a complicated series
of financial considerations.
Some factors, such as scholarships,
were not considered when calculat
ing the University’s total budget, he
said. Therefore in order to compen
sate, the two areas’ budgets would be
reduced by a different percentage.
Budget cuts would not differ with
in health affairs and academic affairs,
Shelton said.
For some campus units the cuts
would be minimized because of direct
allocations from the state budget.
The School of Government, for
example, received $250,000 for the
development of a judicial college.
In addition to the budget cuts, the
provost has proposed allocating $1
million to administrative computing.
“We have real needs in adminis
trative computing,” he said.
“We need to develop ... a plan to
move at least into the 20th century,”
he said.
The cuts in state appropria
tions mark an gradual shift in the
University’s funding priorities.
State appropriations have played
a gradually smaller role, while other
factors, such as tuition and private
and government grants, have become
more pronounced sources.
The role state appropriations play
in UNC-CH’s funding scheme has
SEE BUDGET CUTS, PAGE 5
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ART & ALCOHOL
Legislative bill permits
campus arts venues to sell
alcohol. Arts officials plan
to use the change to recruit
diverse interests.
The pro
posed cuts were
necessitated
by the recently
approved 2005-
07 state budget,
which reduces
the allocation of
state funds to the
University by 1.72
percent.
Shelton said he
will discuss the
proposals with
deans and vice
chancellors later
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