The Carolinian [January 23, 2002]

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THE CAROLINIAN
The student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 1919
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Advocates for Students rally in spirit of Dr. Martin
tolerance of Luther Kjng? Jr
Former U.S Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders speaks at Aycock Auditorium sexual orien-tation
taste
victory
Kevin Harvey
Senior Writer
Sexual Orientation
added to non-discrimi-nation
clause
Joe Wilbur and Elizabeth
Fenn
The Carolinian
For years students and fac-ulty
have been pushing for
UNCG to add "Sexual
Orientation" to its official non-discrimination
policy, which
protects against racial, reli-gious
and cultural discrimina-tion.
Struggling over legal hurdles
and through an endless
marathon of arbitration, advo-cates
of the change finally
crossed the finish line this
semester when the addition
was officially announced.
"Equal treatment on the
basis of sexual orientation is
an issue of justice and fair-ness."
said Derek Krueger.
professor of religious studies
and gay rights advocate.
See sexual orientation, page 2
The UNCG chapter of the
Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. fraternity
hosted a candlelight vigil in
honor of Dr. Martin Luther
King. Jr. Wednesday. Nearly
one hundred students were on
hand to take pan in the vigil
and subsequent march to
Aycock auditorium, where
former U.S. Surgeon General
Jocelyn Elders spoke.
Eric Harris, member of
the Beta Epsilon chapter of
Alpha Phi Alpha, described
the event as "remembering not
only one of the brothers in our
fraternity, but and extraordi-nary
man himself.
Several brothers
spoke, including brothers
Students gather for Alpha Phi Alpha Inc.'s Martin Luther King celebration in the Atrium.
Textbooks: What
they cost us
from the Beta Epsilon chapter
at North Carolina A & T
University.
"I think the turnout
was great," said UNCG's
Alpha Phi Alpha president Jay
Hawkins. "The whole point is
to draw a little crowd and then
once people start coming out
of the atrium they can see and
just stop and listen to what
happened tonight."
Corey Taylor began the
evening with invocation, say-ing
"Heavenly Father...we
know it was you who spoke
through [King] in order to
facilitate our love for all
mankind."
The evening pro-gressed
with a brief candle
lighting ceremony honoring
famous Alpha Phi Alpha
Brothers Thurgood Marshall.
WEB DuBois, Jesse Owens.
and Duke Ellington among
others. Afterwards Brother
Laurence Aikens spoke, high-lighting
King's life and
See King, page 8
Stephen Cook
Senior Writer
Buying textbooks is for
many a long and arduous
process, highlighted only by
the deceptively cheery ring of
the cash register at the jour-ney's
end. With the buyback
line pouring out of the book-store's
front doors and the
checkout line snaking across
the EUC lobby, students have
been talking (and sometimes
ranting) about the UNCG
bookstore this week.
Many students
expressed frustration with the
bookstore's prices.
"I think they're over
priced. But it is nicer now, so I
don't know if they raise their
prices because they're tying to
pay for all this," said Jenny
Gleason, junior.
"We're already broke
anyway so you know they're
just taking more money that we
could use on other things that
we need like toiletries or gro-ceries
or anything else we want
to use our money for besides
just buying books," said Nikki
Harris, junior.
"I feel that it's over-priced
compared to what I
experienced last semester at
Addam's Book Store," said
Tori Simmons, freshman.
"I would say they're
very, very overpriced. I don't
think it takes that much money
to make a book, especially
when you buy them in bulk,"
said Rory Scott, freshman.
"The used prices are a little
better, but I still think they
could do better, especially for
what they buy them back for."
According to Kelly
Young, the textbook manager,
the bookstore marks all new
books up 237c uniformly.
Not everyone felt the
prices the UNCG bookstore
sets for its textbooks are inap-propriate.
"I heard another guy
complain about the prices of
books, but that's to be expect-ed,"
said Neal Sexton, junior.
"Well I mean that's part of the,
ah, you know- I don't want to
call it a racket; I mean it's just
the system- it's the way it
works."
"I thinks it is an exces-sive
expense but I don't blame
it on the UNCG bookstore. I
mean that's just the way the
text book racket is. I don't
blame the bookstore necessari-ly,"
said Sexton. "I guess it
would be you know the pub-lishers,
I would assume. They
don't have to update a text-book
every couple of years just
with a fe.w minor changes.
That's a racket, you know, to
make more money."
The bookstore's rates
for buying books back has left
many students saying they feel
cheated.
"You pay a $100 for a
book and then you get $15 for
it. It's a rip off," said
Gleason.
"They buy back your
books at the end of the semes-ter
and they're like discontin-
New parking deck under construction;
many unsatisfied
Will Avers and Liz Fitzpatrick
The Carolinian
The University has
begun construction on a
1000 space parking deck
near Spring Garden St. that
has eliminated 150 "A" ami
"C" permit parking spots in
the old Oakland/Forest St.
lot.
The five-story deck
will be finished around June
2003, according to Parking
Services director Kenneth
Honeycutt.
"Initially we will lose
a few spaces." said
Honeycutt. "That loss will be
felt. To compensate, we've
increased the size of the Park
and Ride lot from 379 spaces
to 750 so we can maintain
that 15 minute interval
[between Park and Ride
shuttle arrivals)."
The Park and Ride
lot has been moved to the
corner of Chapman and W
Lee St. from its old location,
but the opening has been
delayed because of weather
conditions. The temporary
Park and Ride lot is in sec-tions
B and D of the
Greensboro Coliseum park-ing
lot.
"We got a few days
of rain, and in the interim the
temperature dropped below
the mark at which [the con-struction
crew] could pro-duce
asphalt." said
Honeycutt of the delay.
The new deck will
hopefully alleviate some of
the stress on the existing
decks and shorten the waiting
lines for deck passes, accord-ing
to Honeycutt.
"It"II feel a thousand
spaces better." said Honeycutt
with a chuckle. "That's going
to make a huge difference."
Many students
expressed frustration Tuesday
despite the construction of the
new deck.
"It's going to be worse
now that they closed the park-ing
lot on Oakland to put the
parking deck in." said Olicia
Gatlin. junior. "I know it's
temporary, but it's still taking
spaces from us. and we're
having to fight for them."
"I've been on the deck
waiting list for over a year.
When am I going to get
called?" said Sharon
Davenport, junior. "It hasn't
been a good experience. If
you want to park, you have to
come an hour before your
class starts. If you don't have
an 8:00 class, you're not
going to find a parking spot
on campus."
Many students agree
that early arrival is crucial to
finding parking spots. Still
more said it's a veritable bat-tle
for spots during the day.
"There are not
enough parking spaces." said
Marja Franklin, junior. "If
you get in late onto campus,
there's nowhere to park. If
you want to park, there's
parking all the way behind
Tower Village, but then you
have to walk, like, so far to
See Parking on page 8
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The site of the future deck behind Yum-Yum. Elizabeth Fenn.
The Carolinian
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