March. 18, 2004 Online Since 1996 Vol 78 No. 41

The Appalachian | Opinion
Our Perspective ... Big voices can come from any size crowd

With a tuition hike looming, the Board of Governors will decide the fate of the University of North Carolina system tomorrow.

The Board will vote on a proposed $600 campus-based tuition increase to make up for the recent budget cuts.

The $600 is to be divided over two academic years.

After a series of state budget cuts combined with raising tuition and fees, this latest installment seems inevitable.

Many feel the BOG will pass the increase without a second thought, anticipating another hike two years down the road.

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Moore-Bertuzzi incident: Is hockey too violent?
A guy gets his neck broken, his face thrown into the ice, a concussion, may never walk again and could be out of business forever, yet somehow that is acceptable and is called hockey.

Hockey, one of the more dangerous sports, is expected to have fights resulting in players receiving serious injuries.

I heard on the radio, just the other day, fans of the fights claiming they love to see two hockey players go at it.

They went on to name some of the more memorable fights they had witnessed.

Fights in hockey are normal, but these are people’s lives we are talking about.

How far is too far when it comes to hockey?

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Moore-Bertuzzi incident: Is hockey too violent?
Hockey is a violent sport. It’s a game played in relatively tight quarters at high speeds. Things happen in this type of game. When bodies and pucks are flying, it’s inevitable. That’s what the Steve Moore/Todd Bertuzzi incident last week in Vancouver was: inevitable.

For the casual, or even less-than-casual fan, Vancouver Canucks’ winger Bertuzzi was chasing the Colorado Avalanche’s Moore down the ice during a game last week. Bertuzzi, allegedly responding to an incident a month ago where Moore laid an open-ice hit on another Canuck, sucker-punched Moore and then dragged him onto the ice.

The end result? Moore is laying in a Denver-area hospital that specializes in spinal cord injuries. He suffered a broken neck, a concussion and multiple facial lacerations.

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