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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008
Candidates
focus on the
environment
Platforms vary
in approaches
BY ABBY FARSON
STAFF WRITER
From the statewide drought to
w aste reduction to global w anning,
campus attention is increasingly
focused on the environment.
The candidates for student body
president reflect this growing focus
in their platforms.
Many of the candidates' environ
mental plans overlap and include
similar goals, though each has
approached the issues differently.
“I think the environment is one
of the most pressing issues for
Carolina." said Logan Liles, a stu
dent body president candidate.
Liles' platform is divided into
long-term and short-term envi
ronmental goals, while candidate
Kristin Hill's platform is broader
and much less specific than her
opponents'.
J.J. Raynor, the third candi
date, has a platform extensively
researched with footnotes backing
up her ideas.
Raynor's platform includes an
effort to stop the UNC Grounds
Department from planting inva
sive species, as well as a plan to
expand recycling options around
campus.
Both Raynor and Hill are
encouraging collaboration. Hill
stressed the need for campus
groups to work together, w hereas
Raynor emphasized the need for
student government to cooperate
with student groups.
“Student government isn't meant
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“There are already
so many great
things going on. We
just need to pool
our resources”
JJ. RAYNOR, SBP CANDIDATE
to replace student organizations
but to work with them," Raynor
said. “There are already so many
great things going on. We need to
pool our resources."
Additional targets included
in Hill’s platform are improv
ing UNC’s grade on the Campus
Sustainability Report Card and
strengthening green ties with the
Triangle area.
One of the primary goals of Liles'
platform is a push for a Styrofoam -
free campus.
“We'll be sitting down with
Carolina Dining Services and ask
ing what our options are beyond
Styrofoam," he said. “We want
to make Chapel Hill a leader in
environmental issues, especially
this one."
The candidates' environmental
platforms borrow heavily from
former student body presidents'
environmental goals.
Following current Student Body
President Eve Carson's lead, both
Liles and Raynor's plans include
the aim of pursuing more efficient
campus lighting.
Raynor's platform also con
tinues to discourage the use of
mountain-top removal coal, an
effort started by former Student
Bodv President James Allred and
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STUDENT ELECTIONS 2008
How the SBP candidates feel about the environment:
J.J. Raynor Logan Liles Kristin Hill
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continued by Carson.
All three of this year's candidates
will continue the push for more
recycling options around campus.
Raynor said students are more
concerned about the environment
than past generations were.
Hopefuls try to woo out-of-staters
All have in-state
residency status
BY ANTHONY MCPEEK
STAFF WRITER
Even though the three candidates
for student body president are all in
state students, all are confident they
will be able to equitably represent
their out-of-state peers.
JJ. Raynor is the only candidate
to have a separate section within
her platform especially for out-of
state students. Both Kristin Hill
and Logan Liles said they decided
against a separate section because
they want to integrate the concerns
of out-of-state students into their
general platforms.
Mike Winters, co-chairman of the
Out-of-State Student Association
political committee, said he is not
concerned about the ability of any of
the candidates to fairly represent the
issues out-of-state students face.
*1 think that all three candidates
are perfectly capable of represent
ing out-of-state students compe
tently," he said.
But Winters said an out-of-state
presidential candidate could con
nect with out-of-state students more
because of “shared experiences."
The Out-of-State Student
Association endorsed Liles on
Monday night.
“I’m not an out-of-state student.
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“This is the issue of our genera
tion," she said. “We are educated
about the environment, but we
need to continue to encourage that
climate here."
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mental affairs committee will host
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JJ. RAYNOR
CHARLOTTE
so 1 can't say what it feels like to be an
out-of-state student,’ said Raynor.
She has had several out-of-state
students give their input to her
campaign to overcome her lack of
personal experience.
Hill, who was bom in Atlanta but
has lived in North Carolina since the
fourth grade, also said she had aid
from out-of-state students in writ
ing her platform, especially the
portion on tuition.
In November, the Board of
This tees raised out-of-state tuition
again by $1,250, while in-state
tuition didn't raise a cent, thanks
to a state mandate. Out-of-state
tuition now will cost $20,986 per
year about3oo percent more than
in-state students.
Hill said that her empathy for
issues facing out-of-state students
stemmed from the experience of
one of her friends who had to leave
a forum Thursday to endorse one
of the candidates.
The candidates are eager to
make strides to help the earth
while improving UNC's reputation
as ecologically friendly.
‘Carolina sets the standard for
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LOGAN LILES
ZEBULON
UNC after the non-resident tuition
was raised last year.
“These tuition increases are
almost killing his dreams of gradu
ating from this University,' Hill said
of her friend, who is now working
in the area and trying to establish
residency so he can return.
Raynor said the closest experience
she has had to those of out-of-state
students came from a summer pro
gram in Asia. She said trying to fit
all her belongings into one suitcase
and worrying about being accepted
in anew, unfamiliar place were all
experiences that she felt out-of-sate
students also deal with.
Liles said that despite being a
native North Carolinian, he has
no doubt that he can work for the
needs of nonresident students.
“As SBP, you serve every single
studenC Liles said.
He considers the term out-of
state to be a label used by the Board
of TYustees, the Board of Governors
and the admissions office, but not
one that he uses.
“If you’re from Fort Myers or
Fort Bragg, once you're here, you’re
a Tar Heel."
Raynor said that if you divide up
the community along in-state and
out-of-state lines, like the Board
of Governors and the General
Assembly do, it ultimately ends up
harming the entire community.
“We’re all friends,* she said.
“We’re all students. We all go to the
same school*
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just about everything across the
country," Hill said. “I don’t see why
environmental issues should be
any different."
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KRISTIN HILL
CHARLOTTE
did not make that much of a differ
ence in the representation offered
by the last two presidents Eve
Carson, who is from Athens. Ga..
and James Allred, of Chapel Hill.
Winters said.
This year’s candidates offer out
of-state students several specific
initiatives.
Liles said he wants to fight for
fairness on tuition, saying that he
would prefer to pay a couple hundred
dollars more for tuition rather than
place the entire burden of increases
on out-of-state students.
Liles also wants to start a “ride
board" that all students can use to
coordinate rides back home and
also wants to use University Day
in October as a day to reach out
to out-of-state students through
games and other activities.
Raynor proposes a similar pro
gram. called the Carolina Experience
Program, in which she hopes to tran
sition out-of-state students into N.C.
culture upon arrival.
Raynor also said she would inves
tigate the potential disadvantage the
recommended out-of-state C-TOPS,
which is the last session of the sum
mer, places on non-residents when
registering for classes.
Hill talked about starting a
mentoring program and securing
off-campus storage space for out
of-state students through a campus
partnership.
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