The Carolinian [March 24, 2009]

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Taylor Theatre burglarized, equipment stolen, returned in working condition
Lili Johnson
News Editor
Luke Mcintyre
Editor-in-Chief
When Shay Lydick ran to her
office to get a drink during a re­hearsal
last Sunday night, she
didn't expect to thwart a robbery.
"We were on a 10-minute break
from (Lysistrata) rehearsal in (the
Brown building) and I ran over
to get a bottle of water from my
office in Taylor. I went into the
common space and passed a
young man coming out. As a grad
student I know all of the students
and faculty--everybody knows ev­erybody
in· theater-and I didn't
recognize him," Lydick said.
That non-theater student was
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·Taylor Theatre, broken into March 15. All stolen material was found in working condition.
UNCG receives 6 million dollar donation
Donation given anonymous/>" largest in school history
Luke Mcintyre
Editor-in-Chief
UNCG has received six million
dollars in an "unexpected" anony­mous
donation, the largest dona­tion
in the UNCG's history, the
university announced last week
The donation was given with
the conditions that out of the
six million dollars, five million
of it is reseved for financial aid
and one million is put aside for
professorships.
The five million allotted for fi­nancial
aid is good news for the
more than 60 percent of UNCG
students who receive some form
of financial aid, especially in the
wake of last week's announce­ment
that Governor Perdue's re­cession-
minded 2009-2010 bud­get
cuts UNG-system funding by
$167.9 million. '
, ·Though UNC schools are cut-
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ting funds across the board,
Chancellor Brady promised stu­dents
via email that "the Gover­nor's
budget does provide fund-.
ing for enrollment growth for
next year and provides us with
adequate funding for need-based
financial aid. These are critical
funds we need in order to protect
the University's core acad€mic
miSSiOn."
"As economic forecasts are in­creasingly
stormy, this gift for
scholarships and faculty develop­ment
will be an extraordinary in­vestment
in UNCG's future," said
Vice Chancellor for University
Advancement Patricia W. Stew­art.
"It is impossible to calculate
the benefits that will result." ·
. The one milljon dollars giv­en
for professorships actually
represents much more money
than that, since these funds will
be matched in part by the C.D.
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Spangler Foundation and the
N.C. Distinguished Professorship
Endowment Trust Fund, resulting
in more than double the original
amount.
In total, the donation puts the
university's Students Fi.J;st Cam­paign
at $1 10 million raised, up
fro in. $104 million at the end of
February and a full $10 million
past its original goal. The cam­paign
is set to end in June of this
year, but announced in July 2008
that it .had met its $100 million
goal a year earl~
This campaign helpid to create
14 professorships before this large ·
donation, which will increase the
total to 16 with the assistance of .
matching funds.
For more information on the Stu­dents
First Campaign, or to make
a donation, visit www. uncg. edu!
· dur/studentsfirst.
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.no student at all. Twenty-seven­year-
old Brandon Alan Dun­can
was soon to be arrested and
c;harged with trespassing, carry­ing
a concealed weapon, breaking
and entering the Taylor Theatre,
and larceny after breaking and
entering, but neither he nor Ly­dick
knew tha~ yet.
· "In the office we had this huge
box with props and on top of
the box was a huge blanket, and
that's what he walking out with,
so I knew I didn't kllow him and
he was walking out with some­thing
that belonged to me," said
Lydick "(Duncan) passed me and
kept walking down the hallway
and I confronted him and asked
where he was going. He-contin­ued
to walk and said he was go­ing
to rehearsal. I asked rehearsal
for what, he said a show. I asked·
who was the director and he said
'Mr. Jo.nes.' We don't have a Mr.
Jones .... I realized we were being
robbed."
Lydick then told her stage man­ager,
Sam Mackey, who called
Campus Police.
Michael Vuncannon, a Greens­boro
police officer, heard the call
and recognized the description
of the subject at Walker Avenue
and Springdale Court. When
Vuncannon approached Duncan,
he dropped the backpack he was
carrying and ran. Vuncannon
chased him on foot for two blocks
before catching him at 613 Joyner
Street Officer Jessica Hudson of ·
UNCG's Campus Police arrested
, Duncan and filed the report
When apprehended, Duncan is
charged with having stolen two .
computer monitors; keyboards
and mice, a pair of headphones, a
power supply and a soundboard.
He was also charged with resist,
delay and obstruct for running
away from the police officer.
All stolen material was returned
to the theater undamaged.
"Lydick said Campus Police had
few suggestions for how to pre­vent
an incident like this from
happening again.
"The cops said just to keep the
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Vice President: Galen Price
Freshman Senator: Rachel Lowe
Sophomore Senators: Kaleem Kingston,
Madison Potter, and Scott Vang
JuniC?r Senator: David Austin Lambert, Son-
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Senior Senator: Debranna Cook, JUlie Tesh,
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CAS Senator: Megan- George.
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