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CENSUS
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ulation in past censuses, but the stan
dards for the 2000 census were less strin
gent than in previous years. The looser
standards are constitutionally suspect as
they might qualify as a form of sam
pling, which the Supreme Court has pre
viously ruled unconstitutional.
In 1999, the Supreme Court ruled 5-
4 to prohibit “the use of statistical sam
pling in calculating a population for pur
poses of apportionment” but did not
strike down the use of any statistical
methods whatsoever.
During the hearing Wednesday, Utah
counsel Thomas Lee argued that infer
ring the population of a home based on
that of a neighboring residence is uncon
stitutional because making such an infer
ence goes beyond using a mere statisti-
ACADEMICS
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cems, saying lack of funding in the dra
matic art department has prevented the
hiring of new tenure-track faculty for the
past five years.
“At the present time in terms of reg
ular faculty we have no members of
color,” Dooley said. “We have self-iden
tified the need to diversify the faculty.”
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cal method for gathering data.
“That’s sampling,” he said. “Sampling
is taking information about a part to
make an inference about the whole."
But U.S. Solicitor General Theodore
Olson, who represented the federal gov
ernment, argued that estimating occu
pancy in a select few cases is not a form
of sampling.
“Sampling technique is completely
discrete from the imputation technique,”
Olson said. “In my thinking of it, it is
drawing logical inference from the data
available.”
But Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
held that the key was not to determine
whether hot deck imputation was a sta
tistical method but whether all statistical
methods can be mled unconstitutional
sampling. “We have to establish whether
this hot deck imputation is a type of
sampling, which it seems to me it very
well may be,” she said.
Kenan-Flagler Business School Dean
Robert Sullivan said there is a lack of
qualified minorities for faculty positions,
so there is a high demand for candidates.
The school has 12 minority faculty mem
bers - 11.8 percent. “We specifically try
to seek out talented minority faculty,”
Sullivan said. “There is clearly a recog
nition to increase the size of the pool.”
Administrative Response
Despite the gap between the ntimber
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Justice David Souter said a distinction
should be made between making an
inference for a small group and random
sampling like that previously struck
down by the court.
Souter held that it is logical to make
an educated guess about occupancy
based on who lives next door. “Birds of
a feather flock together,” he said.
“People who five near one another tend
to be alike.”
But Souter said that no matter
whether inference is determined to be
unconstitutional sampling, Utah’s griev
ances might not be redressable because
more than two years have passed since
the transgression occurred.
“It’s a real issue in this case whether a
statute that is geared to information at a
particular time can reverse itself,” he said.
O’Connor concurred that both states
have progressed since the census was
taken and that population likely has
of white and minority faculty and stu
dents, officials said diversity is an integral
element in any learning environment,
and efforts are being made to increase
the number of minorities at UNC.
“I’m going to make better decisions
when I’m sitting at a table and nobody
looks like me,” Shelton said.
“You want that diversity of input.”
Minorities make up 19.7 percent of
the business school’s undergraduate
population and 48 percent of students in
the Master’s of Business Administration
Program.
According tojeff Cannon, director of
the school’s undergraduate program, 15
of the 20 black students who applied to
enter the business school this coming
fall were accepted.
Sullivan said it is much easier to
attract graduate students because the
school can more directly target them.
The school works to attract minorities
to its graduate school through programs
like the Consortium for Graduate Study
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shifted. “Things have happened since
that census was taken,” she said.
But Lee claimed Utah could not have
filed suit earlier than it did and that revised
population numbers could still be legally
gathered and used for apportionment
The Supreme Court is expected to
rule some time before its summer recess.
Even if the Supreme Court were to
rule in favor of Utah and new popula
tion data were collected, President Bush
might not submit those numbers to
Congress and would be within his legal
right not to do so, stated several justices,
includingjustice Antonin Scalia.
“I sort of wouldn’t want to take away a
representative from the people of North
Carolina,” he said. “If I were the president,
I might not want to do it and risk making
the people of North Carolina mad.”
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in Management, an alliance of 14 busi
ness schools that offers merit-based
scholarships to facilitate the entry of
minorities into managerial positions.
Sullivan said the school also has
joined other business schools in intro
ducing a program for minority high
school students in hopes of promoting
the business administration major and
attracting students to the University.
Cole said the journalism school
makes many efforts to recruit minorities.
Also, Cole said the school has a number
of scholarships with minority preference.
Shelton also suggested that more entic
ing introductory classes may make certain
majors more attractive. He said diversity
is necessary among faculty and students
and that efforts like these are just the first
step in making UNC a more inclusive
and realistic place to teach and learn.
“It is a much better preparation and
reflection of the real world," he said.
Dooley also said he strives to include
minorities and minority issues in all
aspects of the dramatic art department.
“We take the idea of diversity very
seriously,” Dooley said.
“It is not an addition to an education.
It is an education.”
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STATE BUDGET
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The N.C. General Assembly will con
sider recommendations from those
committees when it reconvenes May 28
and begins redrafting the budget.
But legislators insist that the current
figure for budget cuts is preliminary.
“That’s just a target,” said Rep. Warren
Oldham, D-Forsyth and co-chairman of
the House Appropriations Committee.
“That’s just what we’re trying to reach. It
has to do with a certain percentage of the
budget, and education accounts for a
great proportion of the budget”
Although Gov. Mike Easley informed
state agencies last week to brace for bud
get cuts, he wrote in a March 21 letter to
UNC-system chancellors that one of his
goals was to “protect the classroom”
from the effects of the budget cuts.
Since then, the Easley administration
and the General Assembly have pro
duced conflicting numbers about the
best way to spare education from the
cuts while balancing the budget.
But Jeff Davies, UNC-system vice
president of finance, said the system
budget could not stand to lose hundreds
of millions of dollars. “If those kinds of
dollars are cut, we would certainly cut
instruction,” he said. “We are very hope
ful that this will change substantially.”
Davies said the UNC system usually
tries other measures like restructuring
school administrations and leaving
vacant positions unfilled - only rarely
does it make cuts directly to the class
room.
PARKING
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“Knowing transit will be available from
the parking lot, as opposed to what stu
dents on North Campus experience now,
provides safer parking for our students
who will be here in the evening," said Sue
Kitchen, vice chancellor for student affairs.
But others expressed worry that stu-
MARCH REPORT
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became a member of the Transportation
and Parking Advisory Committee.
But Young said he felt his connection
with campus administrators deteriorat
ing throughout the year. “It became a lit
tle more strained,” he said. “It tended to
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“I don’t doubt that we have an eco
nomic problem in the state,” Davies
said. “But I don’t think that we could
provide the same level of education with
those cuts.”
Oldham said universities can manage
the cuts better than K-12 education or
community colleges.
“At the higher education level, they
do have some options," he said. “The
larger research institutions have the
option of going to funding provided by
research (grants).”
He said the legislature’s numbers are
not in agreement with the governor’s
because Easley has a dual role - dealing
with the current budget and attempting
to formulate one for the next fiscal year.
Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, co
chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, said the General Assembly
will consider factors besides finances
when making cuts to the UNC system.
“The subcommittee will take the
($695 million) and apportion it out,” he
said. “They will also evaluate if they
took the whole amount and find out the
impact on the (individual) campuses.”
Lee said he further expects the sub
committee to look at cutting adminis
tration costs first.
“Obviously, our first commitment is
to protect the classroom,” Lee said. “As
to the university system, our other com
mitment is to fund enrollment. It’ll be
painful, and it’ll be tough to do.
Everything has to be justified at this
point.”.
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dents might have to walk farther to their
destinations or wait alone for buses.
Young said he hopes that when the
trustees vote on the proposal, they will
keep students’ safety and access needs in
mind. “To us, in our eyes, the safest alter
native is granting access as we do now and
letting us park near where we need to go."
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be frustrating at times.”
He said that once he and his officers
noticed the trend, they did their best to
continue to communicate student con
cerns to administrators. “We stepped in
where we could, but the outcomes were
a little unfortunate, in my eye.”
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