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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2004
Zeta Psi to reopen at UNC
Tear of inactivity will end this fall
BY ALLISON PARKER
STAFF WRITER
After a one year hiatus one of
UNC’s oldest fraternities will be
reintroduced to the University this
fall.
Zeta Psi was established at UNC
in 1858, but because of low mem
bership and a decline in recruiting,
the fraternity was inactive this year.
“The membership was low, and
they had to deal with competition
with fraternities similar to them,"
Jay Anhom, director of Greek
Affairs, said.
He said interest among mem
bers also declined in recent years.
“Members had terminated
memberships themselves and
chose not to be involved,” he said.
Will Wright, nationwide director
of chapter development for Zeta
Psi, is in charge of refreshing the
fraternity’s involvement at UNC.
Zeta Psi was the first fraternity
to expand internationally with
chapters in Canada, and it was the
Request for Nominations
The Class of 2004, the General Alumni Association
and the Division of Student Affairs present the
Edward Kidder Graham Awards
In 1917, Graham called for a structure to enhance
student life on campus. Now, it’s your turn
to recognize the individuals who embody
that spirit Graham envisioned.
Nominate an outstanding:
• Senior of an officially recognized student organization
• Professor, TA or instructor for work both inside
and outside the classroom
• Advisor of an officially recognized student organization
Nomination forms can be picked up
at the Student Union (South Road Desk)
or downloaded from alumni.unc.edu.
Nominations are due by 5 p.m.
March 25, Suite 2501 Room A,
CAROLINA Fp G Student Union
Questions? E-mail seniorweek@unc.edu
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first coast-to-coast fraternity.
“We’ve had a proud history, and
UNC’s chapter is our southern
most chapter,” said Andy O’Brien,
executive director of Zeta Psi
Fraternity of North America, Inc.
“It’s a crown jewel within Zeta Psi.”
Wright said the revitalization
will call for a unique group of stu
dents. “The house is ready to go.
We just need determined young
men to pick up the torch.”
The Zeta Psi house is located in
the small fraternity court on
Cameron Avenue, and was closed
down last year.
The fraternity has seven active
members, who will be graduating
this year.
“Zeta Psi wants to use this
opportunity to restart before it fiz
zles out,” Anhom said.
Wright said he will focus on
advertising and heavy recruitment
to attract new members.
“We hope to get new members
by word of mouth, phone calls and
recruiting from other student
organizations,” Wright said.
Zeta Psi officials will help new
UNC members get accustomed to
the fraternity, O’Brien said.
“Next fall, the chapter will
receive visits from headquarters to
ensure that the young men are
learning the ropes,” he said. “They
also will receive a lot of support
from local alums.”
He said representatives from
national headquarters will also
teach new pledges special skills.
“We will get them involved in
leadership training, resume writ
ing and management skills,” he
said. “There’s a big expenditure on
our end to provide support.”
Wright said he hopes to encour
age new members to get involved
and prevent them from leaving the
fraternity in the future.
“It all goes back to recruiting,”
he said. “I want to be sure all the
guys I recruit know the obligations
and duties before joining.”
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Report: Settlement fund
being used for budgets
BY ADJOA ADOFO
STAFF WRITER
States nationwide increasingly
are using their $206 billion settle
ment with tobacco companies to
fix their budgets, according to a
report released Monday by U.S.
Congressional auditors.
Despite promising to spend
money from the 1998 Master
Settlement Agreement on health
related programs, the U.S. General
Accounting Office found that 36
percent of last year’s settlement
earnings was spent on budget
shortfalls. Twenty-four percent
was spent on recovering the cost of
treating sick cigarette smokers.
“We hate to see funds used to
patch up the budget,” said William
Upchurch, executive director for
the N.C. Tobacco TVust Fund
Commission. Upchurch said state
officials changed plans from the
original intentions to spend the
money on health-related programs.
“That was a decision left up to cer
tain powers.”
But Jeffrey Houpt, a member of
CORRECTIONS
A page 1 article in Monday’s
paper incorrectly stated that
CUAB sponsored the 2000
Outkast homecoming concert. The
Carolina Athletic Association
sponsored the concert.
A page 3 article in Monday’s
paper incorrectly identified Justin
Guillory as the president of
Carolina for Kerry. The coordina
tor of the group is P. J. Lusk.
Renan Snowden also was quot
ed incorrectly.
Snowden said in an e-mail that
she actually said what she appreci
ated about the “Dean campaign was
that it felt like a movement that was
greater than just this one candidate
and was especially effective at
engaging young people in politics.
“Furthermore, a candidate like
Howard Dean made it acceptable
to be a liberal and a Democrat,
encouraging the participation of
many progressive Democrats who
had felt disaffected by the increas
ingly moderate stance of the party.”
To report an error, contact Managing Editor
Daniel Thigpen at dthigpen@email.unc.edu.
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the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust
Fund Commission, said the state is
not using the money to help fix the
budget. “Other states may be, but
North Carolina is not doing that,”
he said. “None of the money was
sent out before being evaluated for
effectiveness first.”
According to the report, North
Carolina received more than $174
million in MSA payments and
interest in the 2003 fiscal year. Out
of that total, close to $7 million was
used for health-related programs
while more than S7B million was
used for general purposes.
“(The state) is putting more
money into prevention programs
this year than last year,” Houpt said.
For the 2004 fiscal year, almost
sls million will be directed toward
health-related programs out of
more than an expected $159 mil
lion in MSA payments.
The report also stated that for
the 2004 fiscal year, North
Carolina plans to spend 48 percent
of its settlement money on eco
nomic development for tobacco
Medicare running dry
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Medicare will have to begin dip
ping into its trust fund this year to
keep up with expenditures and
will go broke by 2019 without
changes in a program that is
swelling because of rising health
costs, trustees reported Hiesday.
Social Security’s finances
showed little change.
The deteriorating financial
outlook for the health-care pro
gram for older and disabled
Americans is a result, in part, of
the new Medicare prescription
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regions.
“The state needs to invest in eco
nomic opportunities to create new
jobs and diversification programs,”
Upchurch said. “The rural areas
have become very dependent on
tobacco.”
But the report showed that
states plan to spend 54 percent of
the annual proceeds from the set
tlement on budget deficits this year.
In contrast, states plan to spend 17
percent on health programs.
In 1998,46 states signed the set
tlement with tobacco companies to
receive $206 billion over 25 years.
Though it was not a requirement
to allocate the money toward spe
cific programs, states pledged to
spend it on anti-smoking and
other health-related initiatives.
In 2002, Congress included a
provision in the 2002 Farm Bill
requiring the accounting office to
examine annually how states
spend the settlement money.
Contact the State & National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
drug law that will swell costs by
more than SSOO billion during a
period of 10 years, according to
the annual report by government
trustees.
Provisions of the law President
Bush signed in 2003 “raise seri
ous doubt about the sustainabili
ty of Medicare under current
financing arrangements,” trustees
said.
Social Security’s projected insol
vency date remained 2042.
The 2019 go-broke date for the
Medicare trust fund, devoted pri
marily to paying beneficiaries’ hos
pital bills, is seven years sooner
than last year’s projection.
The trustees’ report is the first
official estimate of the long-term
costs of the Medicare law.
Trustees said that projected
lower tax receipts devoted to the
program and higher expenditures
for inpatient hospital care also
contributed to the growing finan
cial problem.