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the Rally for the ARTS info and CALL FOR ACTION from the CAMPUS ARTS
COUNCIL, Mu Beta Psi, and Alpha Psi Omega
What is ARTS NC STATE?
It is YOU! It is:
- 1800 of you taking Music Department classes and
making wonderful music in eighteen music ensembles
- Student theatre that puts your talent onstage
in acclaimed University Theatre shows such as Grease, Cabaret,
Romeo and Juliet and The Laramie Project
- The nationally recognized Dance Program, where
you have a chance to create and perform, and maybe even dance
onstage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- The Crafts Center, where you can learn pottery,
jewelry making, woodworking, fabric arts, sculpting, watercolors,
photography and more
- The Gallery of Art & Design, where you will
see wonderful works by outstanding artists and photographers such
as Rick Beck and Chris Hondros
- Center Stage, where professional, internationally
acclaimed music, dance and theatre come to you from all parts
of the world for your entertainment and experience
ARTS NC STATE has brought you all this for
years, offering quality seasons of outstanding productions, exhibitions,
classes and performances with shoestring budgets. BUT although we
have done the best we can for the past ten years with increasing
costs and a couple of modest fee increases, there are cracks in
the structure that are beginning to show. Our high level of service
to you—the students—is beginning to slip away.
Here’s what’s happening now:
- Center Stage shows are down from 22 in 1990 to
12 in 2005
- University Theatre has cut one main season show,
one student-produced Student Studio, the Diversity Series show,
and our children’s theatre program
- The Crafts Center instructors have received exactly
the same salary for more than 10 years... we are losing them!
- The Dance Program is strapped for funding for
master classes, production materials, artistic collaborators and
transportation to regional and national dance conferences
- The Gallery of Art & Design has half as many
exhibitions as it did in 1990, has ceased taking student trips
and is engaging fewer visiting curators and speakers
- The Music Department can’t afford to tune
pianos regularly, or staff and operate a music library—the
heart of a good music program
- Ticket Central has cut its student staff, shortened
hours and availability, and can’t backup or replace aging
equipment
Without the requested fee increase, we will
no longer be able to offer even the wonderful things we do today.
We haven’t asked for much over the last ten years, but the
time has come that we need your support. Without you we may be forced
to:
- Cancel even more productions and program offerings
- Cancel some classes
- Limit exhibitions
- Trim our faculty and staff
- Lay off student workers
- Curtail open hours for our facilities
- Increase our prices
Proposed Student Center Operations
Fee Increase for 2006-07
$22.00 |
ARTS NC STATE (total $550,000) |
$ 5.00 |
Campus Activities, CSLEPS, Student Centers Maintenance
(total $125,000) |
$12.45 |
Increased Costs for salaries, health insurance, inflation
and funds required by the University as a cash reserve (1/12
of our annual operating budget: total $311,000) |
$39.45 |
TOTAL increase requested for 2006-07 |
This fee increase makes it possible to maintain
our current level of quality programming for students, and it also
allows us to do some of the things you have been asking for:
- Center Stage will bring higher profile artists
that you have asked to see
- The Crafts Center will lower student prices,
expand outreach on campus, hire and retain quality instructors
- The Dance Program will bring in guest choreographers
for master classes, and hire a part-time artistic director for
DanceVisions
- The Gallery of Art & Design will increase
their exhibitions, take students on trips to museums and studios,
bring in more speakers and expand learning opportunities for interns
- The Music Department will tour and record, and
create and staff a proper library for its growing collection of
sheet music and recordings
- University Theatre will increase the number of
student shows, add workshops and professional training and upgrade
sound and light equipment the students use
- Ticket Central will add equipment for backup
servers and off site services, and raise the hourly wage of the
student workers
If you have questions or would like more
information, please email cac@ncsu.edu
OUR PROMISE TO YOU:
In addition to continuing as good stewards of your money and continuing
the ARTS NC STATE tradition of quality concerts and shows, outstanding
exhibitions and interesting and challenging classes, we will lower
ticket prices for shows to
Five Dollars for Five Years!
How can you help?
You may contact the student representatives
on the NC State Fee Review Committee and share you experience with
the center and ask them to support the increase.
University Student Center Board
of Directors
NC State Fee Review Committee
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