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The University and Towns
In Brief
Nike Recruits Coaches
For City Youth Leagues
Nike’s P.L.A.Y (Participate in the
Lives of America’s Youth) Corps is
recruiting college students to coach in
city youth leagues.
An interest session for UNC students
will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday in 104
Fetzer Gym.
After completing a Nike training clin
ic, students coach a team for 80 to 100
hours.
At the end of the season, coaches
receive SSOO to use for college tuition
expenses.
Applications are due March 1. For
more information, contact Taylor
Laumann at 932-6748.
UNC’s Martin Honored
By President Clinton
Scot Martin, assistant professor of
aquatic and atmospheric chemistry a
the School of Public Health, was pre
sented with the Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers at a White House ceremony
Feb. 10.
The award, which recognizes the
nation's top researchers in the sciences
and engineering, was created by the
Clinton administration in 1996.
Martin, 28, was the only winner in
the geosciences out of 20 researchers
honored.
Each award winner will receive
$500,000 over five years to further his
or her research.
Comedian to Attend
Gospel Comedy Show
Comedian Jonathan Slocumb, of the
album “Laugh Yo’Self 2 Life,” will be
featured at a comedy show sponsored
by the UNC Gospel Choir.
The show will start at 4 p.m. Sunday
in the Great Hall of the Student Union.
Tickets are on sale at the Carolina
Union Box Office.
The cost is $5 for UNC students, $6
for the general public and $8 at the
door.
Art Show to Examine
Social Role of Women
Artists Rachel Watkins and Lynnsy
Logue will exhibit the art show
“Homecoming Queens” at the School
of Social Work on Feb. 22-23.
The show is aimed to raise questions
about the social and political status of
women.
Local poet Jaki Shelton Green will
speak about using art to advance social
justice at the show’s opening reception
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 22.
The event is free and open to the
public.
For more information, call Michelle
Trask at 493-2674.
Frisbee Registration
Starts in Carrboro
Registration begins Monday and
runs through March 3 for a three-on
three Ultimate Frisbee Tournament
sponsored by the Carrboro Recreation
and Parks Department.
Men’s and coed divisions are offered,
and the team entry fee is sls.
Forms are available at the recreation
department office at 301 W. Main St. in
Carrboro. For more information, call
968-7703.
Sessions to Educate
Families on Adoption
The Orange County Department of
Social Services is sponsoring a program
designed to prepare individuals and
families to make an informed decision
about becoming a foster or adoptive
family.
The program will be held Monday
evenings from Feb. 22 through April 19.
Sessions will be held at the Southern
Human Services Building in Chapel
Hill from 6 to 9 p.m.
For more information, call 968-2000,
ext. 237 or 238.
Volunteer Orange!
Asks for More Help
Volunteers are needed to assist in a
variety of programs in the Triangle area.
Individuals and groups are needed to
plan landscaping projects, provide
behind-the-scenes assistance at a local
television station and tutor children.
Volunteer Orange! is also seeking
volunteers to provide counseling for
victims of domestic violence and to
build one-on-one friendships with
developmentally disabled adults.
For more information, call Volunteer
Orange! at 929-9837, or email to vol
unteerorange@mindspring.com.
—From Staff Reports
Hooker: Tuition Hike Might Ease UNC 'Crisis'
UNC is faced with problems
including low faculty
salaries and large research
laboratory space deficits.
By Amberly Calloway
Staff Writer
Chancellor Michael Hooker has
called for a discussion of a possible
tuition increase to offset the “financial
crisis” the University is facing in its need
for competitive development.
Hooker said in a Faculty Council
meeting Friday that funds from a tuition
increase might help resolve low teaching
salaries and large research laboratory
space deficits. Such a need for laborato-
Kinnaird Poised for Progress in New Role
The N.C. Senate appointed
local Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird,
D-Orange, as chairwoman of
two influential committees.
By Dan O'Brien
Staff Writer
Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D-Orange,
has leaped into the new legislative ses
sion with a powerful appointment.
Recendy chosen as chairwoman of
the Senate’s influential State and Local
Government Committee, Kinnaird
could gain greater
control over the
N.C. General
Assembly’s leg
islative agenda
through her new
position.
Kinnaird, who
served as
Carrboro mayor
until elected to
the Senate in
1996, said she
would like to see
taxes, growth and
the environment
addressed in the
Democratic Senator
Eleanor Kinnaird
said she planned to
focus on taxes and
school funding issues
this session.
upcoming legislative session.
Kinnaird said that over the last four
years, huge tax cuts had been made but
they had not been distributed equitably.
“Since 1994 ... the legislature has cut
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Dhyana Cabarqa and Che Downs take a spin around the dance floor
during the 19tn annual Brazilian Carnival at the Carrboro Arts Center
on Saturday night. The festivities included dancing and live music.
Council to Examine Use Permit Process Amendment
The council will also
discuss a proposal to
limit the initial paving of
approved parking areas.
By Shelley Levine
Assistant City Editor
The Chapel Hill Town Council will
hear public input tonight on two
changes in development processes
raised by its own members.
ry space includes preliminary plans for
developments in the natural science
departments, he said.
“A dialogue is needed to address the
issue of our financial crisis - our faculty
salaries have been declining in relation
to our peers, and our faculty facility
needs are phenomenal,” he said. “We
are clearly in a crunch, and it has to be
discussed. Over time, there will be a
gradual decline in the University if we
are not able to remain competitive with
our peers.”
Hooker said the University was not
aware of the magnitude of the deficits
until UNC-system President Molly
Broad issued a study concluding that
there was a 900,000 square feet deficit in
research labs on campus.
The projected amount of cost is $1
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Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D-Orange, awaits the results of the November 1998 election at her Carrboro home.
Kinnaird kept her Senate seat by defeating Republican challengers P.H. Craig and Teena Little.
$l.B billion in taxes,” Kinnaird said.
“They cut corporate income taxes,
intangible taxes and inheritance tax.”
Kinnaird said these kinds of tax cuts
were creating a heavier tax burden for
the middle and lower classes.
The problem is amplified by a lack of
money for government programs, she
said. “The money is really tight now,”
Kinnaird said.
In addition to the $l.B billion in tax
Council members Joe Capowski and
Julie McClintock proposed last
September that a fifth finding be added
to the list of requirements developers
must meet before receiving a Special
Use Permit.
The finding would require developers
to ease the automobile-related impacts
of their development on the site and in
the affected area, town documents state.
“For example - if one were to build a
10-acre asphalt parking lot, they’d also
have to make a 5-acre green space to
compensate,” Council member Joe
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billion for the
additional square
feet, Hooker said.
He said there was
no connection
between the cost
and the Billion
Dollar Campaign,
a University fund
raising campaign
whose purpose is
not yet known.
Another prob
lem facing the
University is fac
ulty salaries, he
said.
Chancellor
Michael Hooker
said the University
needed to remain
competitive
with its peers.
Hooker said Vice Chancellor for
Business Jim Ramsey would work with
administrators to come up with solutions
cuts, two lawsuits, which repealed the
intangibles tax and refunded incorrect
taxes on government worker pensions,
cost the state more than sl.l billion.
Without these funds, Kinnaird said,
important programs benefiting the poor
could be cut. The limited funds will go
toward education priorities, not social
services, she said.
“Teacher’s salaries are to go up, and
Smart Start will continue to be funded,
U.S. Sanctions in Iraq
Prompt Holiday Protest
By Carol Adamson
Staff Writer
More than 50 people gathered and
mailed Valentine’s Day packages Friday
from the Franklin Street Post Office, not
to woo a loved one but to protest eco
nomic sanctions in Iraq.
Group members from eight organi
zations mailed the gifts, intended for
Iraqi children, to U.S. government offi
cials. Students United for a Responsible
Global Environment, the Arab Anti-dis
crimination Committee and the
Campus Y participated in the protest
The U.S. government imposed the
sanctions when Iraq did not comply
with the United Nation’s special com
mission on monitoring and dismantling
Iraq’s mass destruction weapons.
Salem Shubash, a member of the
Arab organization, said the care pack
ages were one of the ways the groups
protested the sanctions.
“The mission is to prove how ludi
crous the sanctions are because we can’t
even send small gifts to the starving chil
dren of Iraq.”
Because the sanctions forbid mailing
packages that weigh more than 12
ounces to Iraq, protesters sent them to
government officials to show how offi
cials were denying children harmless
gifts, Shubash said. “We’re sending them
to government representatives instead.
The initial address was to Iraq, and that
was left in place.”
Capowski said.
Under the cur
rent permit
process, the coun
cil must already
find that the devel
opment maintains
or promotes the
public health, safe
ty and general
welfare and main
tains or enhances
the value of con
tiguous property,
Council member
Joe Capowski
is pushing for the
process amendment.
to the financial crises.
The University has three sources of
revenue - state appropriations, tuition
and fund raising. The only thing the
University has its hand directly in is the
fund raising, Hooker said.
“It is unreasonable to think that the
legislature in North Carolina in the fore
seeable future is going to be in a position
to appropriate the necessary dollars to
this campus - or were they in the posi
tion would be willing, given the size of
the need.”
Hooker’s comments came after
UNC-system administrators’ recom
mendation last week for an increase in
tuition of 4.9 percent for in-state under
graduates and 8.4 percent for graduates
to keep up with other universities that
had recently raised costs for students.
but there is just not enough money,”
Kinnaird said.
Instead of raising taxes, Kinnaird dis
cussed changes to the the tax code and
equal distribution of tax liabilities.
“Taxes, and the tax code should be
modified so everyone pays their fair
share,” she said.
The cost of growth in North Carolina
See KINNAIRD, Page 4
Sarah Shields, a professor of Islamic
Studies at UNC, was one of the speakers
at the rally in front of the post office.
“Between 6,000 and 7,000 children
are killed every month,” Shields said in
her speech. “Since 1991, the U.S. has
killed over a half million children. The
sanctions have made it impossible for
the Iraqis to get the clean water that they
needed.
“Children are dying of starvation and
easily preventable childhood diseases.
The children don’t need teddy bears,
but they do need the love the teddy
bears symbolize.”
For Hani Alkhaldi, the rally had a
more personal meaning. Alkhaldi, a
sophomore industrial relations major
from Oxford, said he chose to attend the
rally because of his ties to the Middle
East. “I’m a member of the Arab Club
so it was important for me to come out
here and support this.”
Participant Dennis Markatos said the
purpose of the protest was to make peo
ple aware of the effects the sanctions on
innocent people. “The reason why there
aren’t hundreds of people out here is
because not many people know what’s
going on,” Markatos said.
“The foreign policy is heartless.
We’re allowing the deaths of thousands
of children pretending that it is Saddam
Hussein that we’re punishing.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
town documents state.
Because the downside of every devel
opment is the auto-related effect,
Capowksi said the separate requirement
should be added to the process.
“I think the automobile issue has
become such an issue that we need to
address it directly,” he said.
In a memorandum, members of the
town staff stated that the negative
impacts of a proposed development,
including automobile-related effects,
could be addressed in the current
Special Use Permit process.
Monday, February 15, 1999
But Graduate and Professional
Student Federation President Bryan
Kennedy said he was against a tuition
hike. “I think that the rationale that the
Board of Governors is giving is a crock.”
Because many graduate students are
teaching and research assistants who are
exempt from tuition, Kennedy said the
increase for graduate students would
affect only a small number of people.
Kennedy added teaching assistants
hadn’t had an increase in salary since a
SIOO increase four years ago.
But Hooker stressed that he was nei
ther suggesting nor rejecting a tuition
increase. Instead, he said of UNC’s
financial state, “Something is called for.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
Bill Eludes
Appearance
On Ballot
Rep. Mark Kleinschmidt says
a revised referendum on
student fees might come
later in the semester.
By Jim Harris
Staff Writer
Despite criticism about the wording
and publicity for a referendum that
would have increased student fees,
Speaker Morayo Orija stopped action
that could have put a revised proposal
on Tuesday’s election ballot
Rep. Mark Kleinschmidt, Dist. 1, said
the student fees referendum failed in
last week’s election because the wording
misled students on
how much fees
would actually
rise. “It appears to
be calling for a $lO
to sl2 increase,”
he said. “The
undergraduate stu-
dent fees are already $lO now, so the
increase would only be $2.”
Orija said she decided against an
emergency Student Congress meeting
scheduled for Friday to rewrite the ref
erendum due to some discussions with
Congress representatives. “There were
some concerns that we were rushing it
and not taking our time,” she said.
“Some people disagreed with (the refer
endum) because it was fairly worded,
and they did not feel the referendum
should be put on the ballot so soon.”
Referring to past years of low turnout
for run-off elections, Kleinschmidt said
passing the referendum required a large
number of students to vote for it.
Therefore, he said, the referendum
could appear on a ballot later in the
semester.
Student Body Vice President Emily
Williamson said Congress viewed the
referendum’s miswording as a result of
incompetent planning. “Congress is not
happy with what they wrote on the bal
lot,” she said. “They feel they should
have put more thought into it.”
The referendum was co-sponsored
by Kleinschmidt and Finance
Committee Chairman Ryan Schlitt.
Kleinschmidt said the $lO to sl2 and $8
to sl2 figures that appeared on the ref
erendum might have misguided stu
dents when voting.
In addition to miswording. Schlitt
said the referendum did not gain
enough publicity. “I think it wasn’t cam
paigned for enough from the executive
and legislative branches,” he said.
Schlitt said there was an urgent need
for a $2 undergraduate and $4 graduate
student fee increase because of the lack
of funds available for student organiza
tions. He said the student fee problem
arose when 1992-93 Student Body
Presidentjim Copland pushed for a ref
erendum to decrease student fees.
“There hasn’t been an increase in stu
dent fees for over 25 years,” Schlitt said.
“Eighty-eight student groups requested
See REFERENDUM, Page 4
Council member Flicka Bateman said
she did not anticipate that a fifth finding
would lengthen the time period for a
developer to receive a Special Use
Permit. “We dwell so much on traffic
impacts anyhow, I think (a fifth finding)
would just bring to a formal level those
discussions,” she said.
But she said she would wait for fur
ther input from the public before mak
ing any decisions about the proposal.
In the preliminary proposal, die town
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