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Tuesday, February 6, 2001
FORUM
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Young plans to support students by:
redirecting the student body president’s:
stipend to the student body.
Ritter said an online calendar, a feature
that would post upcoming events and;
provide space for student input, is the
most important issue on his platform.
Candidates Charlie Trakas, Matthew
Wilhite and Larry Harper did not attend'
the forum.
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Tenured Teachers Oppose Rubric Ratings
By Carolyn Pearce
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of
Education officials are investigating a
new system for evaluating teachers’ per
formances, despite opposition from
tenured teachers who are satisfied with
the existing standards.
School board members must imple
ment anew system by August to comply
with new state Board of Education crite
ria for teacher evaluations, set in 1997.
The new policy, called SERVE,
would require all teachers to be
observed by a principal or assistant prin
cipal, evaluated by a rubric system and
rated. Tenured teachers argue that they
should not have to be evaluated by such
a rigorous system that is similar to what
ELECTIONS
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year, said two parties existed when he
ran for student government. “I ran for
student body president in the spring of
1964,” Spearman said. “At that time,
there were two parties, the University
party and the Students party.”
A member of the University party,
Spearman said students had the option
of running as independent candidates,
but did not remember any student doing
so. “Back at the time I was running, I
don’t have any recollections of anyone
running as an independent,” he said.
Taking their cues from national par
ties, campus political groups held con
ventions to rally student support,
Spearman said. “In a terribly rough
way, it was like the Democrats and the
Republicans,” he said. “Each of those
two political parties had a convention
which many students attended.”
Spearman said he believed the com
petition between the campus parties
meant that each one had to work hard
to nominate quality candidates who
would discuss a wide variety of issues.
“Having the rivalry between the two
(parties) was probably helpful in getting
many issues on the table.”
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Dianne Jackson, media specialist at
Glenwood Elementary School, said teach
ers think peer evaluations should be
incorporated into the policy so evalua
tions are less subjective. “You need some
one who is in your position to give you
the best kind of advice,” she said.
“Feedback should come from not only the
administration but from teachers as well.”
SERVE was selected by a local com
mittee from six potential options. The
program was chosen as the best because
of its reputation and system of evaluation.
The school board will not vote to
approve the SERVE program before
the next meeting on March 1. But local
teachers say they don’t want a change.
Teachers in all 13 district schools have cir
culated petitions to be signed by all
Some of the issues debated during the
1960s included a campaign for reversing
a ban on speakers who were labeled
Communists and the promotion of
diversity on campus.
Spearman said the late Kellis Parker,
one of the first black students to inte
grate UNC in 1961, added to the diver
sity of student leaders when Parker ran
on the University ticket and was elect
ed as a member to the National Student
Association - currently known as the
United States Students Association.
While political parties at UNC began
to fade in the 19705, the practice is still
popular on other campuses.
George Kramer, the University of
Florida’s student body president, said he
favors political parties because he
believes students tend to form groups.
Kramer said political parties help stu
dents ran more successful campaigns
because the candidates are united by
similar interests and their collective
opinions are passed along to voters.
“When we run, we run with 40 sena
tors, so it’s the president, the vice presi
dent, treasurer and the senators,”
Kramer said. “By creating parties, you
may not be able to meet every individ
ual who is running, but you get a sense
of the ideas they have.”
Kramer added that he believes the
presence of political parties helps to put
focus on issues that are important to the
student body. “I think what the party sys
tem does is show what are the priorities.”
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tenured teachers, demanding more infor
mation about the new system and the pos
sibility of exploring other options. At
Carrboro Elementary School, the petition
already has been signed by 20 teachers.
“The teachers have some concerns,”
board member Teresa Williams said. “But
the principals have heartily endorsed it
We would like to have buy-in from every
one who is involved.”
The present system, which includes
teacher-principal meetings to discuss
goals and then evaluation and improve
ment of those goals, will not be eliminat
ed: But it is mandated by the new state
requirements that teacher ratings must be
implemented. “(The board) saw the peti
tion and the names of the people who
signed it,” Jackson said. “These are out
standing educators. (Those who signed)
But student leaders at other colleges
say that while political parties might be
effective at larger universities, they are
not needed on all campuses.
Amanda Carlson, Wake Forest
University’s student body president,
said she believes political parties are
divisive and make it difficult to discuss
important issues without leaders split
ting along party lines. “Students need to
band together and be one,"she said. “If
we were divided among ourselves, I
don’t think we would be as effective.”
Carlson also said she believes the size
of Wake Forest’s student population is
another reason she is opposed to politi
cal parties on campus.
Carlson said she thinks political par
ties might be useful at larger universities
where students can associate the ideas of
a particular candidate with their party.
“If we were a bigger campus, I think
that it, the party system, would be a
valuable tool.”
But Carlson said, in the end, voters
should work hard to know the individ
ual ideas of each candidate. “Ultimately,
I think it’s better if you know the person
and what they stand for.”
She also said that political parties
might lead some candidates to depend
too much on their party to support their
campaign. “You’re supposed to run on
your own manpower, your own ticket.”
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aren’t threatened by the new evaluation.”
Teachers who are opposed to the sys
tem have suggested that they develop a
system for evaluation that would be
more appropriate for their community.
Still, the evaluation system that is
implemented must be acceptable to the
state, making the system fairly inflexible.
Chapel Hill High School Principal
Mary Ann Hardebeck said the propos
al has only been presented to the staff
for informational purposes.
But Williams said the district is under
pressure from the state to find a quick
solution to the problem. “The villain is the
clock. The instrument must be in place by
August, and it’s already February.”
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SAFETY
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one is located at every P2P stop.
She also said security guards are
needed on every floor of Davis between
10 p.m. and 8 a.m. “There are so many
long halls and nooks and crannies
where you could get caught off guard if
someone was lurking around there.”
■ Candidate Matthew Wilhite said
he feels campus safety is the key issue of
this election. “I think the student voice
needs to be heard through an open line
of communication between the
Department of Public Safety and Board
of Governors to really make any
progress.” He also said campus safety is
horribly underdeveloped. “(Resident
assistants) are not trained well enough
in the area of sexual assault. It would
not be very hard to change.”
■ Candidate Eric Johnson proposed
free 911 cellular phones to students who
feel unsafe. “So if a student feels gen
uinely unsafe, they have the equivalent
of an emergency call box in their hands.”
He added that campus safety is not
only a job for the campus police. “It is
not that the DPS aren’t doing a great
job, it is because we as students need to
step up and help them,” Johnson said.
Poarch agreed that student involve
ment is key to improving campus safe
ty-
“l think the biggest improvement
needed is the willingness of the campus
community and particularly student
body to interact with police,” he said.
“Being active would make a tremen
dous difference in our ability to serve
the campus community.”
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MASTER PLAN
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it, and my lungs can’t take it either.”
Coleman said the community and'
the University would be better served if
housing were developed on the Horace
Williams site. “Let’s get started building
some housing out there and getting
University students out of our rental
properties,” he said.
Others were concerned about the:
impact additional residents would have
on the town’s infrastructure.
Council member Flicka Bateman
spoke at length about the burden these
additional residents and their children
could place on the already overtaxed
Chapel Hill public schools.
“I hope schools will get factored in to
what happens,” she said.
Throughout the meeting, planners
stressed that all development was still in
its working stages.
“I will ask you to bear with us as we
move through the planning process,”
said Jonathan Howes, UNC’s director
of the Master Plan.
Howes also said the meeting was a
great opportunity to present development
materials and plans to a wider audience.
“It was a good meeting."
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DIVERSITY
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owes blacks as a result of slavery.
Moore said she was pleased with the
exchange of ideas. “I wish we could stay
in here all night and talk about it,” she
said. “To ignore history or say it’s not
important is going to affect our future.”
Wilson said she was pleased with the
discussion fostered by the forum. He felt
that it was an excellent way for people
to learn about the many different prob
lems affecting American minorities.
“I thought (the forum) was very good.
It educated me on some things I wasn’t
sure of,” he said. “It surprised me so
many people were willing to speak out.”
Young Democrats President Chris
Brook echoed Wilson’s sentiments and
felt that the forum served a very impor
tant function. “The goal of the forum
was to get information,” he said. “I felt it
was different because the focus was not
on how you feel but on the solutions.”
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