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NCA&T State University Greensboro, NC 27411 VOLLEYBALL TEAM STRIKES BACK The A&T REGISTER FREE WEDNESDAY NCATREGISTER.COM SERVINGTHE AGGIE COMMUNITY FOR OVER 80 YEARS THE STUDENT NEWS PAPER OF NORTH CAROLINA A&T CAMF JS NOTEBOOK Suspect arrested in connection with bu^t Hodges killing BALANCING DEXTER R.MULLINS Schoolbegins with an over $ 10million budget cutandplans toraise tuition 8 percent nextyear EditorIn Chief SYLVIA OBELL Greensboro Register Reporter Police Department, he troubled state of the economy facts in conjunction F I has tgmfiuick with the U.S. ■ begun to trickle down into the world of M a r s ha 11 s , about the budget have made college students. Due to the state of the an arrest in Springfield, ,JL- economy, A&T has been forced to make A&T's budget JaguarEmanuel Mass. in the Wright killing of some changes due to budget cuts that have been was scaled back former A&T # student Derek put in place. * \ -*v >. $10.6 million Carl Eaddy Hodge II, who was / . on 26, in murdered April 2008 * his off campus home. Hodge Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr. was 21 at the timeof his death. Tuition is going Jaguar Emanuel Wright, 23, is posted a letter on the school website about the the prime suspect in the killing to increase$200 and is being charged with first- upcoming budget cuts that would be taking place. degree murder according to or 8 percent next reports by Lt. D-L. Willoughby. is Wright has never been an A&T Martin said ■-aca^e^ic programs through the student, and was arrested at 82 / /" ihave Advisory Board was to efficient and effective use of all Melha St. in Springfield, based emphasized working on a tip from North Carolina mycommitment to make some budget reductions. available resources. law enforcement. • It is not presently building trust, creat- known " how Hodge and Wright were outline the On July 23, Martin posted Due/tctfiie connected. four guidi another letter on A&T's workmhe Wright's defense lawyer, Iines»fc4mmukica- Nassar, f«en committee: stated George said his client budget JJiW has family in the city. He also them be administaUmfb saidWrightdid not shootHodge. enhancing transparency. to guide« 10 and 2010-11. principles; to first to protect tuition wiltpSw "He maintains his innocence," ofthat states Nassar said, after offering an In the letter he that innocent on behalf commitment, we designed classroom and core functions increase this plea of to extent Martin is they will be planning Wright. this website to update the greatest possible, academic school Wright will be held without to implement a 10 percent right to bail until a pretrial you on the status of the second to protect essential student services including budget cut which equates to year conference on July 29. Nassar continuing economic 10.6 has requested to review the financial aid, third to maintain approximately million details in the police record, challenges that plague our dollars per year for both 2009- and will make a decision on a safe campus environment for can contesting the warrant and State and the implications and fiscal Budget info students to learn and faculty 10 2010-11 years. arrest for our university." The big question is where will be found at www. North Carolina law and staff to work, and finally enforcement initially stated that to protect the quality of the A&T students expect to see the ncat.edu/budget the killing was a drug-related HAROLD L MARTIN SR. robbery gone wrong, but have CHANCELLOR See BUDGET on Page 2 See SUSPECT on Page 2 University breaks ground on 'green' General Classroom Building DEXTER R.MULLINS building acknowledged, and all participants in Editor In Chief Junior Class President Wayne Kimball the crowd welcomed, the ceremony Jr. presided as the master of ceremonies shifted from under the protective tent to Amidst the mid-morning Aug. 18 heat, over the groundbreaking ceremony. the dirtpile. construction, and traffic, a white tent "This is a most momentous occasion," Martin and member's of the stood in front of a mound of dirt, which Kimball said as he described the Chancellor's Cabinet and Board of will soon become the newest edition to atmosphere of the ceremony during his Trustees each tooktheir positions behind the campus. opening. a golden shovel as they prepared to turn Tuesday marked the "official" With a price tag of $25 million, the over the first shovels of dirt. beginning of the planned 18-month facility will be the 61 st project in the last After a brief three-second countdown, construction on the new "green" General 10 years on campus, with 58 of them each member dug up a sizable pile of Academic Classroom Building. being completed on time. dirt, and shoveled it out of the way, The building is set to be 88,000 Inside this massive building will be signifying the beginning of construction square feet, and will be the new home two lecture halls, one, which can hold on the project. of the University Studies, International 70 students, and another that can hold Martin, the former Dean ofthe College Studies, and Honors Programs. 260 students. of Engineering, quickly found himselfat "Not only is it a high technology There willalso be 13regular classrooms home as he took the controls of one of building," Chancellor Harold L. Martin and two distance learning classrooms. the CAT digging machines and scooped Sr. said. "This new project is estimated by up some dirt. "It will be a green facility, I received economists to create roughly 922 jobs "This building will bring much needed assurance of that just earlier today. We in the area," Interim Provost Alton space to the campus," Martin said. will seek UEED certification. This really Thompson said. "It is critical,to providing the students is an outstanding building." "The team will be comprised of the high quality, first rate education they The festivities began at approximately 25 percent minority construction need and deserve." 10:30 a.m. in front of the construction businesses." site, next to the School of Education After all special guests had been GROUNDBREAKINGprogram officially began work on the New GeneralAcademic Classroom Building. 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THURSDAY: Mostly Sunny (.High 93° www.ncatregister.com PAGE 2 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 8 FRIDAY: Mostly Sunny | High 88° ftJ1 Wm The A&T Register | ncatregister.com | Wednesday, Augu it 19,2009 track Wright down and bring related, that has just been page to drug SUSPECT From 1 him back to North Carolina. speculation for a while." Budget cuts and changes "When we discovered that While the trial has not yet not offered further details this individual (Wright) was taken place, Black says that In an interview, Police in Springfield, Massachusetts Wright will have to face justice. affect students 2010 Captain Barry Black, Patrol through communicating with "He's (Wright) got to come will in Division Commander, said other law enforcement agencies home," Black said. "He has got that the department was across the country," Black said. to come back to North Carolina elated that an arrest was "That, along with the fact that and face us. I'm hoping that at the end of the summer said page this individual had outstanding with all the evidence we have, BUDGET From 1 tuition might increase by 8 made. "It's been a thorough warrants for absconding gave this individual will change his percent. us the ability to contact the aid plea to guilty and try to seek NESD/ A 8 percent tuition investigation, and with most loss? A total of 71.25 possible time," of the U.S. Marshalls to serve some type of a plea bargain." increase after the start ofclasses thoroughness comes staff and faculty positions Black said. "We know that those federal warrants." Looking to the future, Black, have been cut in 2009-10. Six could lead to a number of Black did clarify that the along with the University problems for students. the community is finally glad of, those 71.25 positions are to see and hearthatsomething crime being drug related might Police Department are strongly already occupied and the other However, onAugust 14,Martin have been a misstatement on the encouraging students to posted another budget update.