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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 44 State budget treats UNC system well BY ERIC JOHNSON SENIOR WRITER RALEIGH University officials always have been quick to praise the North Carolina legislature’s generosity, even as lawmakers responded to tight budgets in recent years by enforcing cuts in funding for the UNC system. Now, with state coffers buoyed by a sur plus of almost $2 billion, system officials are finding ample cause for gratitude. CONSTRUCTION CRAZE Think it’s hard getting around campus in the fall? Summer often means peak construction season at UNC. Here are some of the most prominent projects now under way. West House South Building Project date: July 2006 Project dates: May 2006-Aug. 2006 Student Stores Currently home of the Carolina Asia Center, West Construction around South Building will replace underground hot-water lines behind the building, blocking Project dates Aug. 2005-Jan. 2007 House is slated to be demolished this pedestrian paths in the area. The project is scheduled to be completed before the fall semester begins. / This project to improve students' first stop summer to make way for the planned Arts / for buying textbooks, supplies, University Common. Preservationists dispute the move. —y —jjg" ‘ gear and snacks will extend through the fall * BS ,°, I |ij • semester The third floor will be open for The renovation of the Campus Y buildina will u h ■ ■ il"®l ®l< I III™ MW / / R®l®igh Street create several new rooms, including faculty [| """""if data*: May 2006-Aug. 2606 installedaspart^/a^w sidewalk BSm^ g MtMtJ 1 Road and connecting to South Road. Caudill La b or ato r i North ch ||,. f Mlnt projactdates:dm.2oo2-Aug.2006 T^9lmL " and Parking Deck Caudill Laboratories is anew chemistry building MW*. 1 0%. ■ —j \ Ml rtolad data*: lai. 2005-Aua 2006 located between Wilson Library and Dey Hall. The £&&_/ . . building is part of a larger science-complex building .r— \ 1 JUI 5\ The 10,000-ton chiller plant will bring plan, which includes plans for New Venable. jf di j^ b |J“ a Manning Drive Steam | flf Plant Tunnel f / and Woollen Gyms Projoct datoa: Juno 2005-Aug. 2006 / / Prajoct Baton April MBB*Jm.MB7 Manning Drive temporarily will be shifted iHf X \ Construction work in the alley between Fetzer to build anew road underneath it that will pflHaEgr P O f /§ p and Woollen gyms to repair underground house steam and utility tunnels. While the mHjp ea \ < steam lines has forced students to find an project has been under way since 2005, the [Hi JO u TTTTT i Tft 1 \ alternate to the well-travelled corridor from doeTnotteg'n JT ° f Mannin9 Drive I aß3f NA ' \N < Eringhaus Residence Ha!l t 0 South Road \ MorHcon Residenct Hall Jackson Circle Parking Deck- ' tvJCvf' HHTW X\ \ m|ia swiamum^mw Projoct datoa: Juno 2005-Aug. 2006 j Renovation on one of the University's largest Jackson Circle Parking Deck is located at the \ up to date with modern standards. New piping w ' X „ f*Wl ~W V and lighting also will be installed. Ram Villaga V * StudentAcademicServjces Projoct dotoo: Aug. 2004-Aug. 2006 I V IMA ouun. jum *m-npn bki Ram Village Apartments is scheduled to open for T^ Url ”?L I r° , "°r? IriftV . new building will house various academic this fall. The will offer vari- -p- serv ‘ ces relocated from North Campus. Victory celebrations to carry on as usual BY TOM HARTWELL STAFF WRITER Fans of post-game bonfires on Franklin Street can breathe easy. After a week of consideration, the Chapel Hill Town Council decided Monday not to take steps to prevent the Franklin Street gatherings that break out after key Thr Heel victories. Town leaders also decided Monday to continue the Festifall arts and crafts fair, though the future of the popular Halloween celebration will be decided at a later meeting. “I have little interest in messing with nature,” Mayor Pro Tem Bill Strom said regarding post-game cel- SEE CELEBRATIONS, PAGE 4 more inside NEW KID ON THE BLOCK N.C. Wesleyan might join UNC system. PAGE 2 AMPING IT UP The campus Board of Elections gears up for next year. PAGE 7 MOVING ON Tar Heel men's golf team heads to NCAA Championship. PAGE 9 olie Sail}} ®ar Hrri The 2006-07 budget proposal put forward by the N.C. Senate on Tuesday would folly fond a host of major system priorities, including more than $79.2 million to support enrollment growth and almost $21.6 million for need-based financial aid. Without major spending cuts looming, students at UNC-Chapel Hill shouldn’t have to dread what have become inevita ble increases in class size and cuts to the DTH FILE PHOTO/JUUA BARKER Students crowd onto Franklin Street to party and jump over fires after the UNC basketball team beat Duke on March 4. WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dallytarheel.com number of course sections offered. And in a move that surprised even the most optimistic system officials, senators are backing a pay raise of 8 percent for system faculty during the next academic year and the promise of annual 6 percent increases in future years. The system’s Board of Governors had requested only 5 percent. “We are very pleased,” said Rob Nelson, UNC-system vice president for features | page 7 PUMP YOU UP Chapel Hill was voted one of North Carolina's "most fit" towns thanks to the University's gyms and the town's park system. finance. “When we put the request together in January and February, we didn’t realize the state is doing as well as it is. “Had we known that, we would have asked for more.” Still, not everything on the system’s wish list made the cut, and the General Assembly’s budget approval process is far from over. Once the Senate has finalized its pro New system: Swipe to print By fall semester, campus printers all will include One Card readers BY WEESIE VIEIRA STAFF WRITER The University will install One Card readers at every printer on campus during the summer, according to student government officials. The readers, which require students to swipe their One Cards before printing documents in their queues, will be in place for the start of the fall semester. Widespread concern about stu dents’ printing habits arose last year, coming to a head when The Daily Tar Heel discovered that students print enough paper in a typical month to create a stack 10 times as high as the Bell Tower. A number of student govern arts | page 8 NOT SO MUCH The Daily Tar Heel's review of "The Da Vinci Code' echoes complaints that the story just doesn't translate from the page to the screen ment committees joined in work ing together on the problem, and Student Body President James Allred included dealing with the issue as a platform plank in his election campaign. The original proposal, drawn up by academic affairs committee chairman Warren Cathcart and environmental affairs committee chairwoman Logan Yonavjak, suggested that each student be subject to an annual printing quota —and that students be charged for exceeding it Members of Allred’s cabinet decided not to implement the charges without a trial run of the SEE PRINTERS, PAGE 4 Sports | pagt; 9 BALLIN' The Tar Heel men's baseball team is competing in the ACC Tournament and will come home for the NCAA regionals June 2. THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2006 posal, the House must draft its own ver sion and negotiate to reconcile the two. Lawmakers have set a target date of July 1 to complete the process. But even at this early stage, lobbyists for the UNC system and individual cam puses say this year’s process is a far cry from recent, leaner budget years. “For the first time in many years, we SEE BUDGET, PAGE 4 DTH/SELKET GUZMAN Environmental science major Catlin Cox prints out lecture notes for her first-summer-session chemistry course Monday at the Undergraduate Library. weather T-Storms H 85, L 65 index calendar 2 briefs 3 crossword 7 sports 9 editorial 10
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