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November 1 6, 20aa
Four percent tuition hike expected this fall
Heather Brady
Staff Writer
UNCW expects to implement the second
phase of its tuition hike next fall if the Board
of Governors and the General Assembly ap
prove an across-the-board four percent tu
ition increase for all North Carohna Univer
sities.
Undergraduate resident students can ex
pect to pay an extra $115 annually on tuition
bills in the fall of 2001. The increase stems
from the Board of Governors (BOG) deci
sion to approve but split the tuition increase
suggested by the UNCW Board of Trustees
(BOT) last year.
In addition, the expected increase of four
percent will most likely be an add-on to tu
ition bills as well. The out-of state proposal
for all universities will be of approximately
the same monetary value as the in-state per
centage, which is projected at about $44.
“What prompt^ those [UNCW specific
tuition] increases was a campus based request
by otff board of trustees. We needed it to ac
complish several things rrwst importantly fac
ulty competitiveness,” Mark W. Lanier, as
sistant secretary for board of tmstees and
special assistant to the chancellor said. “It
will not be applied to salaries across the board
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Students can expect to see higher figures on their Fall 2001 tuition bills.
but instead to attract and maintain the best
possible faculty.”
The BCX3 concluded the projected esti
mate for next year using data from the Na
tional Center for Educational Statistics. All
UNC institutions strrpassed the averages
specified by their Camegie categories, which
divide the 16 universities by their accredited
programs, ranging from Baccalaureate 1 to
Research universities. According to the Uni
versity of North CarolinaAssociation of Stu
dent Governments (ASG) Web site, the fact
that universities surpassed the averages set
by the board, prompted the call for a four
percent irKrea.se.
A 44 member advisory board made the
four percent increase proposal ba.sed on sev
eral factors including general fund availabil
ity, specific campus generated incnsases, the
ability of individual institutioas to manage
and direct costs, the consumer price index
(CPI), higher education price index and the
See TUITIDN, Page 5
Heidi Bing
Many doubt studenfs claim of affair with Michael Jordan
Additionally, Frank Trimble of the
communications studies department said
that there is a notable difference in a
communications major and the commu
nications studies major that UNCW of
fers. While a communications degree
focuses mainly on telecommunications,
communications studies encompasses
more areas of discipline including pub
lic relations, interpersonal communica
tions, performance studies, and corpo
rate communications.
“I am not saying that the woman’s
story is false [but].. .perhaps some of Ms.
Kellogg’s statements may be subject to
scrutiny given she both mislead us as to
her actual status as a student and, in ad
dition, decided to affiliate herself with a
degree program that doesn’t exist,”
Trimble said.
Brian Fleishman, owner of Clarence
Fosters, said he could confirm that
Michael Jordan was “definitely” at the
bar on Oct. 7. However, Fleishman said
he could not verify Kellogg’s claims and
questioned the legitimacy of a tabloid
report.
“We [at Clarence Fosters] feel the
NEWS editor
Many members of the Wilmington
community have questioned the valid
ity of a local student’s claim that she had
a sexual encounter with former Chicago
Bulls basketball player Michael Jordan
when Jordan was in Wilmington for the
Washington Wizards exhibition in early
October.
Twenty-three year old Melissa
Kellogg conducted an interview with
Star Magazine in which she claims that
on Saturday, Oct. 7 she and Jordan slept
together after meeting at Clarence
Foster’s bar on Wrightsville Beach. The
article, which appeared in the Nov. 7 is
sue of the celebrity tabloid, states that
Kellogg and her friends drank with Jor
dan at the bar then she returned with him
in a nearby beach house.
Jordan, a Wilmington native who has
been married since 1989, is the president
of basketball operations for the Wizards
NBA basketball team. The team came
into town on Tuesday, Oct. 3 for a 10-
day camp held in UNCW’s Student Rec
reation Center.
Inconsistencies in the story have led
James FlintThe Seahawk
In a recent tabloid article a
Wilmington student alleged that she
had an affair with Michael Jordan
members of the UNCW community to
doubt its legitimacy. The article states
that Kellogg is a corrununications major
at UNCW, which is untrue. According
to the Student Information System,
Kellogg has never been enrolled at the
university and Sharon Sandiego of Uni
versity Relations said that Kellogg is in
fact a student at Cape Fear Community
College.
See Jordan, Page 4