Campus Forum 11/24
Housing story needs correcting
Staff writer Alanna Howard reported two items that are inaccuracies in
the Nov. 20 Technician article titled “Residents must vacate as
dorms close for break.” In the article, Ms. Howard writes that “University Housing warns students to take all belongings home…” This is incorrect. Students are neither required nor encouraged to take home their belongings during holiday breaks. We simply encourage all students to remember to gather essential personal belongings they want to have with them over holiday breaks — such as keys, wallets/purses, medicine, eyeglasses, plane tickets, etc. — before departing for the holidays. Contrary to what is stated in the article, there is no “meal plan” offered for students staying in the Avent Ferry guest rooms during the holidays. University Dining is closed during the break. As a reminder, the residence halls will close at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 25 and will reopen at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27. Wolf Village Apartments do not close during Thanksgiving break. Your residence hall staff members are there to address any questions or concerns you may have.
Jim Pappenhagen
University Housing-AVC Operations
Associate Director, Administration
Speak out against tuition hikes
I just wanted to speak out against the continuing pattern of administrative decisions that are hurting students and the University as a whole. I read Friday’s article on the tuition hikes and then wondered if the administration realizes exactly what it is doing to students with this decision. Raising the fees and tuition at a time like this for building renovations is ridiculous. Does the administration know that most of us are working while in school? Three times a week I have to drive to Durham to attend a class that I cannot get at N.C. State. At times like these the administration has decided to run ad campaigns with their friends in Campus Enterprises to try to promote this fee for Talley. They are also trying to make it appear as if the vast majority of students support these changes. This notion was proven false according to the results of the vote that we engaged in. This kind of backroom dealing is continuing at a time where we lack a permanent Chancellor because of political and financial scandals? Enough is enough. We have got to have more accountability and more say in what goes on at our school. If we do not we are just going to see more of the buck passed on to students, teachers and employees. Hopefully students and others will start getting together and demanding to have their voices heard on issues such as these.
Alex Barret
senior, philosophy and economics
White needs to lay off Palin
Zakk White portrays his article as an exploration into the justification of his anti-Palin views. However, after reading the article, it is evident that he merely uses the article as a medium to launch irrelevant attacks on the former governor. The first reason White gives is that the McCain campaign chose her to “stick it” to Obama for not picking Hillary as a running mate, calling her a political calculation by the McCain campaign. Although this is factual in many ways, it sounds more like a reason to dislike the McCain campaign rather than Palin herself. White’s second point is based on her response to Katie Couric’s infamous question. Although her answer was politically harmful, she revealed in the Barbara Walters interview that she misinterpreted Couric’s question as being hostile, and wishes she handled it in a more professional manner. Had White really watched the Walters interview (which he implies doing a mere two sentences before making this point), he would have known this was a weak point. The final reason White states is Palin’s choosing of the word “rogue” in her book title. He backs this up by digging up unused definitions of the word (concerning misbehaved horses and elephants), and then applies it in a warped fashion to hurt Palin. This is ludicrous. On a final note, the “teabaggers” of which White speaks about at the end of the article did not give themselves this name. It was an offensive label applied by left leaning media organizations.
Damon D’Ambrosio
sophomore, zoology
