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State University THURSDAY May 3, 2001 BASEBALL PARTLY CLOUDY Falcons sweep double- HIGH: 82 I LOW: 55 header from Oakland www.bgnews.com 14-13 and 10-0; PAGE 10 independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE 151 NORTH CAROLINA PROPOSES CUTS TO STATE UNIVERSITY BUDGETS Murray State University closes after bomb threat IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS MURRAY, Ky. — Murray State University, acting on anonymous threats yesterday that a bomb had been planted in every building on campus, suspended classes and closed buildings until next week. Finals scheduled to begin on Saturday were postponed. Classes were to resume Monday at the university of nearly 9,000 stu- dents. The university said in a state- ment that "suspects have been detained and are being ques- tioned. ... The release of further information at this time could jeopardize the investigation." The university appealed to fra- ternities and sororities as weU as churches and local residents to help house students who were forced to leave their dormitories and could not go home. The threats also included a warning that a fire could be start- ed on campus, the statement said. One student died in a dormito- ry fire at the university in 1998, and another student was badly Associated Press Photos burned. STATE SPENDING: A sign carried by protesters from the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh, N.C., to the Legislative Building yesterday, as part of a stu- dent-led protest to proposed cuts to state university budgets. Professor apologizes UNC, NCSU angry over for comments about Thomas shooting higher education cuts THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. —A Across the country, fund- Over 2,500 students opposed to state spending cuts gathered in college professor has apologized front of the Legislative Building after marching more than a mile for remarks at a student forum in ing for colleges and uni- which he said the family of a man versities is being reduced. from North Carolina State University. killed by Cincinnati police should retaliate against the officer. In N.C., students Clinton Hewan, a Northern marched against the cuts. The March to the Capitol began at the legislators, such as, "Don't worry Kentucky University political sci- NCSU's Bell Tower, where police escorts about re-election, worry about educa- ence professor, said his com- led the students down Hillsborough tion" and "Tax businesses, don't cut edu- By BUir Parker ments at the forum on race rela- NCSU TECHNICIAN Street toward downtown and the cation." tions were taken out of context in Legislative Building. As expected, the crowd's spirit during a recent issue of the student news- RALEIGH. N.C.—Yesterday afternoon, The marchers were trying to convey the march remained high and vibrant. N.C State students, faculty and staff paper. their message that the proposed budget Dairyl Willie, NCSU's student body In a written apology that was e- joined the hands of other University pro- cut of $125 million to the schools of the president, kept the crowd alive as he led testor in a fight to have their voices mailed Tuesday to the university UNC System is not an option. his peers in the chant, "Hey hey, ho ho, and students, Hewan said the heard by the North Carolina General Signs were held high throughout the Assembly. controversy had caused anguish march, hoping to leave impressions on BUDGET, PAGE 5 for himself, his family, the univer- sity and the community. "I wish to state unequivocally Proposed N.C. bill causes confusion over state student aid that in no way were my com- ments intended to advocate By Spairee Stephens Carolina-Chapel Hill. research institutions. It would go into H-WIRE assaulting police officers," Hewan House Bill 1392, which would allow effect July 1. said. "Rather, they were offered in RALEIGH, N.C —While students, fac- need-based financial aid to be allocated " My interpretation of House BUI 1392 is a hypothetical context intended ulty and staff members in the University "only to the constituent institutions that that it restricts UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C to help people come to grips with, of North Carolina System grapple with are nonresearch constituent institu- State students from all state need-based i.e., if the situation were reversed. possible cuts in the state-appropriated tions," has been referred to the House financial aid," said Association of Student In my comments, I questioned budget, one N.C. House bill has been Appropriations Committee. Governments President Andrew Payne. what would have been society's introduced that would cut state-appro- If the bill is passed, allocations for Payne said students should not be PROTEST: A student carries a sign with a reference to N.C. Gov. Mike response had the Thomas family priated financial aid to all UNC institu- need-based financial aid from the denied the right to attend any of the responded in kind by going after tions except North Carolina State General Assembly would bypass NCSU Easley during a protest Wednesday, in the policeman." University and University of North and UNC-Chapel Hill, which are STUDEHTAID. PAGE5 Raleigh, N.C. PROFESSOR OF Til E YEAR AWAIIDS Reading between the lines in the textbook industry ByMarciLaRue financial report, the average new ■•Mill college textbook is $68.15 with the FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Every average used textbook close semester, college students hit the behind at $50.55. Sixty-three per- books after spending hundreds of cent of all textbook purchases are dollars for textbooks and sup- for new textbooks. A student plies. And after each semester, spends an average of $619 in an some students leave disgusted academic year. after returning textbooks for a Additionally, NACS reported SwrtCakBGNnn partial refund. the total college textbook market "I spend no less than $450 a is estimated at $6.8 billion based A+ PROFESSORS: In what is hoped to become semester and last semester at buy on sales data for the 1999-2000 an annual event, students in each residence hall back I got only eight dollars school year. on campus voted for their favorite professors. A back," said Rebecca Sells, a senior As with any retail operation, list of the top ten was tallied and the professors accounting major at Colorado products are sold with a margin - were honored in ceremonies. Left, Rolando State University. "College stu- - the difference between cost and Anande, a professor in the ethnic studies dents already pay enough as it is retail price, reflecting the work department, received his award in Offenhauer for an education, and book prices required to bring a product to market West last night. Above, Vemer Bingman from the just make it worse." According to the National department of psychology is presented with Association of College Stores 2001 his award. TEXTBOOK. PAGE 5 2 Thursday. May 3.2001 BG NEWS Taped executions heard on radio By larry McShane hour radio show based on the tions, including two where the "When the first surge entered two weeks before the May 16 material in the public record," THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tapes. "The people sound so dis- condemned men needed a sec- his body, he stiffened and I heard lethal injection of Oklahoma City she said. "We believe we have a NEW YORK — When the stale passionate. It sounds like a NASA ond burst of electricity to die, a pop, as if one of the straps bomber Timothy McVeigh, who journalistic responsibility to air of Georgia sal Ivon Ray Stanley in space launch. Even when the exe- were to be posted on the Internet. broke," Marable says. "He is at had requested the first public it" its electric chair in 1984, a correc- cutions are botched, it's routine, In the 11 -minute tape from the this time sitting there with execution in the United Slates The tapes, which have aired tions official provided a step-by- routine, routine." Stanley execution, the inmate clenched fists, with no other since the 1930s. A private broad- locally in Georgia, were made to step account of his death: the fas- The recordings were broadcast offers no final words or prayers. movement." cast of his execution is to be protect the state against possible tening of leg straps, the jolt of nationally for the first time yester- "There arc no stays," intones a Once Stanley is declared dead, shown at a federal prison facility legal action, said Scott Stallings, power, the final slump of his day evening, with Isa/s program, voice over the phone to prison Marable is asked about the pop- in Oklahoma City to accommo- director of public affairs for the body. produced for New York public officials. "You can proceed to ping noise. date dozens of victims and family Department of Correction. Isay radio station WNYC and available carry out the official order of the "I think it was just the electrici- members. received the tapes from an attor- The dry, emotionless recitation 1 is one of 23 Georgia executions to public radio stations across the court." ty arc.' Marable says.