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10 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2005 BOARD EDITORIALS FAREWELL TO BROAD Outgoing UNC-system President Molly Broad has done an admirable job serving our institutions of higher education and will be missed. After eight years at the helm of the state’s public university system, Molly Broad will step down as president Dec. 31. Her last UNC-system Board of Governors meeting was held Friday. Behind her, she will leave an impressive legacy. Uprooting from California, the “unsinkable” Molly Broad came to the Tar Heel State and held her own in a tough crowd of good ol’ boy politicians. Careful to balance overall system interests with those of individual universities, Broad stood her ground in the face of intense pressure with a strong vision to guide the UNC system and to continue serv ing the state. She also oversaw a great deal of change and expansion for the 16-campus entity during those eight years, including the passage of the largest bond referendum coming in at $3.1 billion in U.S. higher education history. The Pennsylvania native has watched the system as a tightening budget crunch continues to strangle funding for North Carolina’s universities funding needed as enrollment increases —and causes fights READY FOR WINTER Gov. Mike Easleys plan for the state and utility companies to see to the heating needs of the poor and elderly is one that deserves high praise. It might be difficult to tell by the weather we have had the last few weeks, but winter is coming and it will be getting cold soon. This can be a difficult time for the elderly and lower-income members of our community. Heating costs during the winter are not particu larly good, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and with steady increases in the cost of fuel, the coming months could prove to be troublesome. But thankfully the private and public sectors will be working together to help the poor families and elderly of North Carolina get through the winter. On Wednesday, Gov. Mike Easley introduced an initiative to provide close to $lO million to help peo ple with their heating costs. Money from Duke Energy, Progress Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas and others as well as from private donors will go to about 70,000 families. The hope is that both sectors will be able to work together to help ease the impact of rising costs on North Carolina’s families. Some utility companies are going further than the governor’s initiative and giving to programs that pro vide aid to families trying to cover their energy costs. COOKIN’ UP VICTORY It’s time to send the Dookies running back to Durham with those devil tails between their legs because yes, the smell of victory is so sweet. On the off chance that anyone isn’t aware of why tomorrow’s football game is important, there is just one word that could possibly sum up its magnitude: Duke. Yes, kids, tomorrow is the UNC-Duke football game, and once again that glorious Victory Bell and another year of flagrant gloating are up for grabs. As if just the mere mention of Duke’s name isn’t enough to get any Tar Heel’s blood boiling, this foot ball game comes with even higher stakes, which is why it is all the more important to haul yourself out of bed or off the bathroom floor and get to the game on time. Actually, get there early kickoff will be at 1 p.m., but pretend it’s at noon. The earlier students start filing into Kenan Stadium, the less bottle-necking there will be at the student gate. Plus, this will be a game worth seeing from a good vantage point, so if only for the sake of a decent seat, try to get down to the stadium at least an hour before the action starts. If you weren’t planning on going to tomorrow’s football game at all, then besides deserving to be flogged in the street, you really should reconsider EDITOR'S NOTE: The above editorials are the opinions solely of The Daily Tar Heel editorial board and were reached after open debate. The board consists of three board members, the associate opinion editor, the opinion editor and the DTH editor. The 2005-06 DTH editor decided not to vote on the board and not to write board editorials. Address concerns to Public Editor Elliott Dube at dubee@email.unc.edu. Gryffindor House is back again ' CHECK PLUS For those who know the refer ence, you know that the new Harry Potter movie was released today. It’s rare that a good book series translates into a good movie series —and one that both adults and children like, no less. ✓ Solicitor general post finally filled CHECK J. Robert Austin, formerly of Student Congress, has been appointed to the role of student government’s solicitor general. It sure would have been help ful to have one when the Student Supreme Court ruled on a case. . BOT trying to fleece graduate students CHECK MINUS The UNC Board of Trustees needs to take a good hard look at the tuition options that would have higher increases for graduate stu dents than for undergraduates. We already pay low TA stipends. Don’t make them pay more as well. about increasing tuition. It was a tough eight years, one marked with battles and successes. As BOG member emeritus and former Gov. Jim Holshouser pointed out at last week’s meeting, it was a hard but positive journey. “You leave scars and you pick up a few,” he said. “It comes with the territory. History is going to show just how remarkable this term has been.” We look forward to the fine work and leadership we expect from former Clinton chief of staff, two time U.S. Senate candidate and Charlotte investment banker Erskine Bowles. With his direction, Broad’s vision can continue to help our storied university system grow to its lull potential. Board members should heed the words of Broad at her last meeting and keep an eye on global com petition facing the system. “You must keep your vision clear and your eye on the horizon,” she said. President Broad, on behalf of the University of North Carolina and the state, we thank you for your service and vision. Both Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas will be donating to one such program, Share the Warmth. Also, utility companies are promoting educational tips on improving energy efficiency. If you are interested in making a donation to help fellow North Carolinians who live on fixed incomes or who have fallen on hard times deal with energy costs, please go to www.piedmontng.com/itc/com munityOutreach/shareTheWarmth and donate what you can. And if you don’t want to spend money, you can always chop wood for elderly folks who have a wood burning heating system. Gov. Easley, Duke Energy, Progress Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas and all other donors deserve to be applauded for taking a whack at energy costs. It is especially encouraging for energy utilities to step up and help. Those companies often get bad press, and putting cynicism aside, these are highly commendable acts. It may not be snowing yet, but the cold weather is a cornin’ and it’s good to see the public and private sectors working together to make sure that all North Carolinians can stay warm. what your priorities are. This game is the sort of matchup that sports leg end is built on even for the apathetic spectator, this is a big game. Besides, this is Duke we’re talking about. Who wouldn’t want to watch Dookies get trampled out on the football field? Even more important is once again winning the Victory Bell. We might have won back that precious lump of metal last year, but in 2003, we lost it on our own turf. Losing to Duke is always embarrassing, but when they get to revel in painting the bell that disgusting shade of blue and ring the fool out of it in Chapel Hill, it just adds insult to injury. This year, the stakes are still high: We still have to reclaim victory on our own field. Fill the stadium to capacity; there’s sure to be a lot of dark blue in the crowd, and it would be utterly humiliating if their numbers came anywhere close to our own. So come out, come early and cheer on the UNC football team as it once again rings the Victory Bell and strips the Blue Devils of any scraps of dignity they’ve managed to hold on to after going to such a sorry school. READERS’ FORUM Registrar explores tests of new registration methods TO THE EDITOR: Many students express frustra tions with the current registration process. During peak registration times, demand on the server exceeds capacity, and they must wait to gain access to the site. Most blame the system infrastructure, but the true problem lies with the practice of front-loading all registration assignments to one start time for each class. Although the server can handle all students at once, only 170 can simultaneously “enter” their course selections. However, more than 3,000 students registered for 12- plus credit hours within the first 30 minutes. ' With input from student gov ernment, the Registrar’s Office is proposing to reformat the process to better accommodate students’ needs and desires. The proposal involves dividing classes into smaller units, split into 30 minute time slots; e.g. all seniors would be randomly divided into groups of 200 students corre sponding to specific time slots. In following semesters, we would invert the order to keep the process fair. Ultimately, keeping the system fair is crucial to the reg istration process, and we encour Opinion age students to vote at www.ibiblio. org/sg/poll and enter feedback. In the long term, UNC plans to obtain a completely new database to replace all the existing adminis trative systems. A task force is in the initial stag es of gathering project funding and determining how it will staff and organize the process of collecting input from the broad swathe of stu dent, faculty and staff that will be impacted by anew database. Hopefully many of registra tion’s future goals will appear on the “wish list” of considerations in choosing anew system. Alice Poehls University Registrar GLBT-SA petitions to extend the nondiscrimination policy TO THE EDITOR: UNC should affirm a policy of nondiscrimination of gender iden tity and gender expression for both symbolic and practical reasons. Enacting an official policy change to foster a safe environ ment for transgender students, faculty and staff not only benefits the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen der, queer and ally community, but the entire population, as the con structed division between “men” and “women” hurts anyone not conforming to respective mascu- FROM THE DAY’S NEWS “Markets work in unintended ways to help consumers.” JOHN STOSSEL, 20/20 co-anchorman, in his speech at memorial hall EDITORIAL CARTOON HShwmlS ngll Ntu.'uiLtmwmc.V smu'JdS^l IS MTTlfie, ]g|j HAVE to CHAMC.E, Both M, uimmy. kjl [emu ><es,BuT ujmen yov'm j -jJtV tToo eu!eVe |§|l ps&v sYj OUT thirc, oohT fwu&t I g AY" nor mnm T*|| COMMENTARY Turducken or no turducken, the holidays are good eating It’s not very long now until I’ll be hurtling up Interstate 95 toward Massachusetts, inevitably hitting traffic jams in Virginia, New Jersey and New York. My father and I are going to sound like we never left the Bay State while my mother and broth er roll their eyes. We will require winter wear. And the f00d... Oh, it will be excellent. My Grammy, like many, knows how to do a holiday, and we haven’t celebrated together in years. Say what you will about the excess the holiday season inspires, but I find it hard not to love a time of year when it is a perfectly logical course of action to bake three different pies plus a cake for the people with whom you share a common history, if not actual genes. For it is out of these traditions and events that great culinary invention is bom. I will never forget the year we pulled up to my uncle’s home in Fayetteville, only to find him looming over an odd, shiny device that was definitely not an oven with a maniacally happy gleam in his eye. Ah, yes. Why wouldn’t you deep fry a turkey? And why would you stop there if you could inject it with hot sauce or a cider and whiskey reduction? That’s just good thinking. The first time I saw a fried turkey I was a little frightened by it, but it appears this trend has caught on like a brush fire on a windy summer day, or a few lawns. The Web site eatturkey.com offers an offhand warning about keeping a fire extinguisher near by for safety reasons. Without Thanksgiving, would turducken have expanded beyond line and feminine traits. In practical terms, a change would mean the ability for queer and straight students to choose campus housing that is LGBTQ-friendly and for students not to be assigned to housing based on gender. By relabeling single-stall restrooms in campus buildings to gender-neutral terms, transgen der students would have access to safe bathroom facilities, free from harassment or embarrassment. Furthermore, LGBTQ students pay the same student fees and tuition as everyone else yet are shut out of student health care services that might not be relevant to their individual health care needs. Expanding our nondiscrimi nation policy, a measure already taken by dozens of schools such as the University of California, Cornell and our neighbor, N.C. State, would be the first step in recognizing that the gender binary is problematic for many. Stop by the Pit from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. today to sign the GLBT SA’s petition to make our nondis crimination policy friendlier to all, because what’s between our legs should not restrict access to basic dignity and equal treatment on a university campus. Tommy Rimbach Co-chairman GLBT-SA tr JmM | AMY ROSSI LIFE OF SPICE Cajun country and John Madden? (It’s a chicken inside a duck put into a turkey each separated by a distinct layer of stuffing, if you’ve been living in a turducken-free zone for the past few decades.) It’s just a little bit less decadent than the ancient Roman method that involved a pig and a cow, but it still amounts to a fantastic holi day adventure nonetheless. I was looking up turducken recipes, because I’m pretty sure I have to make one for Christmas this year, when I stumbled across a rather fascinatingly long list of required items. One of them just happened to be a hammer. And that is what is so great about Thanksgiving and the holi day season in general. It inspires us to make food that requires a hammer or to boil frighten ingly copious amounts of oil. The heightened sense of importance brings victory to the most mun dane activities. Last year around this time, Harris Teeter was carrying mint chocolate chips. I’d been after them for at least two years because I wanted to make mint chocolate truffles as a holiday des sert. I didn’t have the money that day, but I figured I could come back later and pick them up with out a problem. Wrong. Cinnamon chips, white chocolate chips, raspberry chips, peanut butter ones all lined the shelves, but not a lowly bag of mint chocolate chips was to be found in the store, not until what felt like the 10th grocery store of Speak Out We welcome letters to the editor and aim to publish as many as possible. In writing, please follow these simple guidelines: Keep letters under 300 words. Type them. Date them. Sign them; make sure they're signed by no more than two people. If you're a student, include your year, major and phone number. Faculty and staff: Give us your department and phone number. The DTH edits for space, clarity, accuracy and vulgarity. Bring letters to our office at Suite 2409 in the Student Union, e-mail them to editdesk@unc.edu, or send them to P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, N.C., 27515. All letters also will appear in our blogs section. ©I?? iUtiU) (liar Hrel Established 1893 112 years of editorial freedom RYAN C. TUCK EDITOR, 962-4086 RCTUCKOEMAIL.UNC.EDU OFFICE HOURS: TUESDAY, THURSDAY 1-2 P.M. PIT SIT: FRIDAY, 12-1 P.M. JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ MANAGING EDITOR, 962-0750 JOSEPH_SCHWARTZOUNC.EDU REBECCA WILHELM DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR. 962-0750 BECCAO7OEMAIL.UNC.EDU CHRIS CAMERON OPINION EDITOR, 962-0750 EDITDESKOUNC.EDU BRIAN HUDSON UNIVERSITY EDITOR, 962-0372 UDESKOUNC.EDU BRIANNA BISHOP TED STRONG CITY CO-EDITORS, 962-4209 CITYDESKOUNC.EDU KAVITA PILLAI STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR, 962-4103 STNTDESKOUNC.EDU Wat oatty (Ear HM By Philip McFee, pip@email.unc.edu the search. You know what it looks like when a pitcher doesn’t just strike out a batter to end the g£une, but he makes the poor guy look like an absolute fool in front of the whole crowd? Yeah, it was that kind of a victory dance. Completely inappropriate the other 10 months of the yeEir yet entirely understandable when it comes to making the perfect holi day dinner. There is a great deal of stress involved, whether you’re cooking or you’re just trying to get home in time for the holiday. Sometimes emotions run high. Sometimes unflattering imper sonations are made or someone dabbles a little too deeply in the mimosas before dinner smd her little sister yours truly ends up. having to hose her and the deck off later. The hype around Thanksgiving and creating the perfect dinner begs for these moments of imper fection that will be passed down as handy humiliation for years to come. And that’s why I can’t wait. A few hundred miles round trip in a minivan with my recently permitted but still unlicensed brother begging to get behind the wheel is utterly worth my Grammy’s cooking, the way my dad and uncle get when they’re together and getting to eat with a bunch of people I never get to see in my favorite place. Whether you have traditional l\irkey Day plans or not, here’s to lots of great food, big laughs, using hammers in our cooking and having sm extinguisher on standby. Have a wicked good Thanksgiving! Contact Amy Rossi, a senior majoring in communication studies, at amrossi@email.unc.edu. www.dailytarheel.com DANIEL MALLOY SPORTS EDITOR, 962-4710 SPORTS®U NC.EDU TORRYE JONES FEATURES EDITOR, 962-4214 FEATURESOUNC.EDU JIM WALSH ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR, 9624214 ‘ ARTSDESKOUNC.EDU SCOn SPILLMAN CATHERINE WILLIAMS COPY CO-EDITORS, 9624103 WHITNEY SHEFTE PHOTO EDITOR, 962-0750 JENALUET DANIEL BEDEN DESIGN CO-EDITORS, 962-0750 FEILDING CAGE GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA EDITOR, 962-0246 CHRIS JOHNSON ONUNE EDITOR. 962-0750 ONUNEOUNC.EDU KELLY OCHS EMILY STEEL WRITERS' COACHES, 962-0372 ELLIOn DUBE PUBLIC EDITOR, 260-9084 DUBEEOEMAIL.UNC.EDU
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