The Carolinian [August 24, 2010]

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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro- Founded 1919
Greensboro, NC I Vol. XCI, No: 1 Carolinianonline. com August 24- August 30, 2010
\1 INSIDE
Opinions I Page S
Reflections on the
Deepwater Horizon
disaster, Section 8
housing
A&E I Page 9
UNCG Graduate
takes modern dance to
unlikely places, Real-life
Hogwarts, Bonnaroo
Magic, WUAG top ten
Sports I Page 11
Women's Soccer takes
down Pirates in season
opener, Men's Soccer
turns Devils blue in
exhibition, Why to
support the Spartans
Features I Page 14
Star Wars Celebration
V, How to prepare for
a Convention, Tips on
biking to class, Sudoku
WEATHER
Today
Chance of Rain
H 83°, L 66°
Wednesday
·'At Sunny
H 88°, L 70°
Thursday
Sunny
, H 89°, L 66o·
DIRECTORY
News
Opinions
A&E
Sports
Features
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5-7
8-10, 19
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14-17
Katie Marshall prepares for sc·hool year
SGA President discusses the 2010-2011 tuition increase, new
developments at UNCG and advice for incoming freshman.
Katie Marshall chats with UNCG students about the upcoming school year by the fountain Sunday evening.
James Nichols
With the school year beginning
and campus quickly coming back
to life, UNCG President Katie
Marshall is reaching out to be
a visible presence on campus.
In a time when univer$ities are
facing budget cuts and students
higher tuition rates; "KMarsh"
Marshall plans · t~ bring the
UNCG community together in
a completely different way than
before.
Marshall's main goal for this
year is to enhance the "student
experience" at UNCG. "The
students will be at the heart of
everything that I do as president:'
explains Marshall. "I will begin
with issues that I have heard
repeated since my freshmen year
here:' These include the lack of
SEE SGA PRESIDENT, PAGE 2
Construction
of new
education
building
continues
Matthew Howard
Editor-In-Chief
As students begin to stroll up
and down Spring Garden St. and
fill in classrooms, it will be inevi­table
that they will see the con­struction
6f the new education
building in front of the Bryan
School of Business and Econom­ics
and the new "Tower Village 2"
directly across the street.
UNCG has become fond of
construction on its campus. In
the past year there has been a re­construction
of the walkway be­side
Jackson Library connecting
College Avenue to the Rock. The
Forney building has also seen a
complete overhaul to house IT
services. A new baseball training
facility is also near completion in
conjunqion with UNCG Base­ball
Stadium . .
SGA President Katie Marshall
commented on the recent cam­pus
construction. "I know we
only have so much land to work
with on campus. I also believe in
the people making the decisions
to build have the students inter­est
at heart. That I support:' .
The new education building
will be the very first building
on campus with LEED certifica­tion.
According to the U.S. Green
Building Council website, "LEED
provides building owners and
operators a concise framework
for identifying and implementing
practical and measurable green
building design, construction,
operations and maintenance so­lutions:'
The building is currently
SEE CONSTRUCTION, PAGE 2
Fall Kickoff connects students to campus life
· Sara O'Brien
Staff Writer
As students settled back into
the dorms and classes began,
UNCG celebrated the beginning
of the 2010-2011 school year
with its 25th annual Fall Kickoff.
The festivities happened along
College Ave in the center of cam­pus
from 11am to 3pm on Mon­day,
August 20. Approximately
100 different organizations com­prised
of various student-led
groups, campus services, and
area businesses were represented.
Students, new and old, perused
tables for information pertinent
to their academic and social lives
and gathered fun freebies along
the way. Entertainment was
provided as well, including live
SEE WELCOME WEEK, PAGE 4 The Rock will display Welcome Week events. MATIHEW HOWARD/EDITOR·IN·CHIEF