ConnectCarolina system is misappropriation of funds

TO THE EDITOR:

 In the April 14 edition of The Daily Tar Heel there was a small, seemingly innocuous headline wedged into the Campus Briefs section: “Registration sees second day with no big problems.”

Even if you glanced over it, you probably didn’t give it much thought, for only a few meager paragraphs were devoted to the subject.

However, in case you missed it, allow me to reiterate that our University’s new ConnectCarolina registration system is going smoothly … at a cost of a whopping $88.1 million. Incidentally, this also happens to be the “largest non-capital expenditure in UNC history.”

This is an incomprehensibly large amount of money — money that during the current budget crisis could have been (mis)appropriated elsewhere at UNC.

I believe it is high time Carolina started questioning the merits of this simple Web interface’s unjustifiably astronomical costs.



Joshua Middleton

Sophomore

 Political Science