The Carolinian [January 23, 1996]

              The
rolinian
In Sports:
UNCG topples
Appalacian
Mountaineers
Final score: 20-17 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Celebrating 73 yean covering I VCG
Volume 75, Issue 26 Tuesday, January 23,1996 See the story, page 10
News Briefs'
Lecture to focus on
fundamentalism
Greensboro— "Global and Lo-cal
Perspectives on Religious
Fundamenalism" will be the
topic for the annual Harriet
Elliot Lecture, scheduled
Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb.
6-7, at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. Bruce B. Lawrence, pro-fessor
of religion at Duke Uni-versity
and author of the book
"Defenders of God: The Fun-damentalist
Revolt Against the
Modern Age," will deliver the
Elliot Lecture at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the audito-rium
of tthe Ferguson Build-ing.
Lawrence's lecture on
"Wrestling with Global
Fundamentalism(s) in the Mid-
9()'s" and two additional panel
discussions are free and open
to the public.
"Religious fundamentalism
is an important topic for this
year's Elliot Lectures," said
Dr. David Mitchell, assistant
professor of sociology and pro-gram
chair of the lecture series.
"Religion is not isolated in any
society. In the 1990's, social,
economic and political
changes abound in the United
States and abroad, and religion
and religious movements often
react to those changes.
"Dr. Bruce Lawrence is a
specialist in fundamentalist
movements and how they re-spond
to the modern aage. He
addresses the question, ' As
societies become more mod-em,
how and why does funda-mentalism
express itself?' His
address will provide insight
into a fascinating topic, and we
hope the community will join
us."
Lawrence, who has been at
Duke University since 1971,
teaches courses in Islamic civi-lization
and the history of reli-gion.
He is president of the
American Society for the Study
of Religion. He is the director
ofcomparative studies at Duke.
He serves on the editorial
boards of the H.F. Guggenheim
Review and the journal Reli-gion.
He has served as an ad-visor
to the American Academy
of Anthropology, and Joel
Elliott, graduate student. De-partment
of Religion, both of
UNC-Chapel Hill; Dr. Louis
•See Briefs, page 3
Stadium catches conflict,
fee hike angers students
Osia Knowles
Senior News Writer
Leigh Robbins, like many stu-dents,
is upset about the empha-sis
the school has put on athlet-ics
since she enrolled in 1991.
The most recent example of her
complaints is the baseball facil-ity
sceduled for completion late
next year. "Building this base-ball
stadium is just another ex-ample
of how this school does
things for show, and not for
things that really count," said
Robbins.
The facility will be built on
Walker Avenue across the street
from the Student Rec and the
HHP, where houses stand cur-rently.
It will cost $3.7 million
and will seat 1,000.
The facility is facing a lot of
oppostion from students and fac-ulty.
Many students do not want
to see their student fees raised
to pay for a ball park that they
may never get to enjoy. "This
is an academic institution I pay
$13,000 a year to go to," said
Diana Gervits. "I don't play
baseball and to me it makes no
difference if I go to the games
or not," she continued.
Other students and faculty
have stressed concern about the
stadium as well. Professor Wil-liam
Coleman, like many stu-dents
and faculty members, is
upset with the course the univer-sity
has taken since the switch
to Division I Athletics in 1991.
"In my 25 years at UNCG, I
have not seen the emphasis on
academics climb as rapidly as
the emphasis on athletics," said
Coleman. For the first time in
the history of UNCG, student
fees will be higher than the in-state
tuition, according to the
•See Ball, Page 2
PAUL BATT-THE CAROLINIAN
The site pictured, located across the street from the Walker Avenue parking deck, is where the estimated $3.7 million baseball stadium will be built The cost
of the stadium is coming from Student Fees. Currently the UNCG baseball team is paying to use Greensboro's War Memorial Stadium.
Student fees escalate beyond
tuition, 2nd highest in state
Natalie Watson
Senior News Writer
The Thursday Jan. II, 1996
edition of the News and Record
reported that UNCG plans an-other
raise in student fees for the
1996-1997 academic year.
Student fees at UNCG, al-ready
the second highest in the
University of North Carolina
system, would rise from $920 to
$987, marking the first time stu-dent
fees would be higher than
tuition, which is around $976.
Chancellor Patricia Sullivan
told the News and Record that
her administration has no other
alternative but to raise fees next
year. The reason for the pro-posed
7.3 percent hike? The
majority of the increases would
go toward the development of a
$3.7 million baseball stadium
and a computer super lab.
Construction of the stadium is
expected to begin this summer.
Because non-academic build-ings
cannot be paid for by the
state, the fee hike to support the
stadium was expected. The sta-dium
project was approved by
legislature last year.
The superlab, an idea of
James Clotfelter, vice chancel-lor
for .idmimstunuui and plan-ning,
is being projected as a way
to keep up with faculty and stu-dent
demand. By constructing
one giant lab, Clotfelter hopes
to alliviate the need for smaller
ones.
Student reaction to the pro-posed
increase has shown nega-tive
feedback. Sophomore An-drea
Jennings feels maybe the
superlab and the stadium could
wait until a strong donor base
was established or fundraisers
began. "I do not feel that the
superlab and stadium are of such
high priority that student fees
should be raised so drastically.
Maybe those projects should
wait until more money is avail-able."
Student Government
President Steven Ade-Tomiwa
says that the administration
needs to generate funds from
other sources. According to
Sullivan, the only options are fee
sources and donor sources and
•See Fees, Page 2
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