The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, January 23, 19863
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By RACHEL ORR
Staff Writer
Don Courtney, a junior chemistry
major from Greensboro, and Jane
Miskavage, an advertising major from
West Newbury, Mass., have announced
their candidacy for senior class presi
dent and vice-president.
Courtney said his platform was built
around the three things he felt seniors
cared about most: graduating, finding
a job. and having fun during their last
semester.
He said he and Miskavage would
work closely with administrators in the
registrar's office to ensure that seniors
received priority in obtaining the
perspective courses they needed to
graduate.
"If we can't get anything through
Hanes (Hall), we will go to the depart
ments and see if the professors will open
up more classes," Courtney said.
If elected, Courtney said he planned
to work with the Career Planning and
Placement Center concerning job
eIcfions
placement services for seniors.
Miskavage said she would work to
have a senior section in the Dean E.
Smith Student Activities Center for the
last home basketball game and to
continue having a senior section in
Kenan Stadium.
Concerning the class trip, Courtney
and Miskavage said they planned to poll
seniors about where they wanted to go.
"We'd like to find a low-cost senior trip,
possibly a cruise if not by ourselves
with another college," Miskavage said.
Miskavage also said she wanted to
see the continuation of the Rams Club
one-year senior membership.
Courtney said he wanted to see the
cracked bell in the Bell Tower replaced
as part of the senior class gift.
He said he was seeking election
because he wanted to work for seniors
because he cared about what happened
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Jane Miskavage and Don Courtney
to them.
Miskavage said she wanted to serve
as vice-president to repay the University
for all it had given her.
Courtney served on the Springfest
committee and is presently working on
the band staff as editor of Half-Times,
the band newsletter. He has been a band
member for the past three years.
Miskavage has been a band member
for three years and this year was a squad
leader.
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residences, 1,410 living in Granville
Towers and 306 married students living
in apartments maintained by the Uni
versity housing department. The
remainder are off-campus students, said
Jan Dennis, assistant to the director of
housing.
Dennis said future increases of
dormitory rent depended on the econ
omy and overall inflation rate! If the
rate of inflation stays steady, the rental
rates could remain the same for two
years, she said.
"I'm not sure what (students') reac
tion will be (to the increase)," she said.
"There are a lot of things to consider.
They must determine for themselves
what is most cost-efficient."
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By ALICIA LASSITER
Staff Writer
The estimated 6 percent increase in
dormitory rent next year is the lowest
rate increase in the past three years, said
Larry Hicks, University housing bus
iness manager.
"We are starting to control the costs,"
Hicks said. "When you bury yourself
in a hole, it takes several years to get
out of it."
Expenditure rates and rent increases
have stabilized, so increases may be
lower in the next few years, he said.
Wayne Kuncl, director of housing,
said residence halls were supported
entirely by student rent. Dorm rates
increase in part because of inflation, he
said. Other factors contributing to rent
hikes are salary increases, which are
controlled by the state, and utility
improvements, such as increased steam
and electricity generation.
Rent increases have fluctuated during
the past 10 years because housing did
not base them on expenditure increases,
Hicks said. As a result, the department
Annual Dorm Increases
Average
Year Average Rent Expenditures
1977- 78 0 7.8
1978- 79 10.2 4.7
1979- 80 3.8 2.6
1980- 81 6.9 14
1981- 82 9.9 15.6
1982- 83 6 13
1983- 84 18 -13
1984- 85 18 16.3
1985- 86 10
1986- 87 about 6 about 6
By JOY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Students will have the option of living
in two air-conditioned dormitories next
fall the new Katherine K. Carmichaei
dorm and Cobb.
The housing department will perman
ently install 191 air conditioners in
Cobb after dorms close in May, causing
a $35 rent increase for Cobb residents
in addition to next year's estimated six
percent rent hike, Housing Director
Wayne T. Kuncl said Tuesday.
The plan to install air conditioning
in Cobb is part of an attempt to increase
the number of groups who would want
to use the residence halls during summer
conferences, Kuncl said.
The dorms usually operate at full
capacity for nine months and at very
low capacity during the summer, he
said. Using more of the residence halls
during the summer could help offset the
housing department's operating costs
throughout the year.
"There has been increasing interest
and demand from groups who come to
this xampus over the summer for air
conditioned facilities," Kuncl said. For
two years these groups have requested
housing in Carmichaei, he said, and
some of the groups are large enough
to fill the entire dorm.
Carmichaei has 496 air-conditioned
spaces, less than the summer demand,
he said. Tn aditi will not be ready
for use this summer, he said.
Kuncl said University housing offi
cials chose to install the air conditioners
in Cobb because of its central location.
"Cobb is also the kind of facility people
coming to the campus would like to stay
in," he said.
Cobb's rent will rise to an estimated
$710 to $720, with some of the increase
caused by, the installation cost and
increased power usage of the air
conditioners, Kuncl said.
Kuncl said he presented the idea to
the Cobb dorm council Sunday night,
and it received a "generally favorable
response." He added that he welcomed
additional feedback from students on
the idea, and a letter will be sent to
Cobb residents explaining the change
to take place.
At first, housing officials considered
taking the air conditioners out of Cobb
after the summer, Kuncl said. But he
said they realized that leaving the air
conditioners in would eliminate some
of the wear and tear that would result
from installing and removing them each
year.
"I would like to see if... (the
University) can have air conditioning
in all the dorms," Kuncl said. But he
said the University first had to deal with
the more pressing need for renovations.
He said renovations in all the dorms
will not be completed until 1988.
has compensated with higher increases
during the past few years, he said.
The highest rent increases were 18
percent hikes in 1983-84 and 1984-85.
Kuncl said the increases were high those
years because of the need for general
repairs and maintenance on campus and
because it was a period of high inflation.
Hicks said: "We are starting to get
back to an even keel. We are not a
profit-making entity. We are there to
balance the rates so there is no over
abundance of cash overflow."
Kuncl said the estimated rate increase
for next year included the added
construction cost of the new Carmichaei
Dorm.
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