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Swing the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 97, Issue 117
Tuesday, January 30, 1990
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Health Service Monday afternoon.
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By STEPHEN POOLE
Staff Writer
Two proposals that could result in a
$21 increase in student fees are now
being debated by Student Congress
members and University officials.
One proposal calls for a $10 per
semester increase in the Student Ath
letic Fee, which is now $25 per semes
ter, said Martina Ballen, director of
finance for the Athletic Association.
The other proposal would require
students to pay an extra dollar each year
to finance a student-funded financial
aid plan, said Student Body President
Brien Lewis.
The proposal to raise the athletic fee
stems from a decision made early in the
1 980s to raise it over a two-year period.
The second increase never happened,
Ballen said.
In 1980, the Board of Governors
authorized the athletic department to
introduce a two-phase increase in the
fee. Under the first phase, the fee was
increased from $17.50 per semester to
$25 in 1982, she said. The second phase,
which would have raised the fee from
$25 per semester to $30 in 1983, was
never implemented.
"The athletic department chose not
to implement the second phase at that
time," Ballen said.
The Student Athletic Fee finances
the maintenance costs of University
athletic facilities and covers the cost of
tickets to basketball and football games.
The proposed increase is a response to
the rising costs of operating and main
taining athletic facilities, Ballen said.
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fee hikes
The UNC Board of Trustees will
vote on the proposal later in the year, at
which time Lewis anticipates the in
crease "will meet general support con
sidering the comparatively low student
fee (as to that of other schools)."
If the increase is approved, it will go
to the Board of Governors for a final
vote, Lewis said.
Under the second proposal, students
may have a chance to vote Feb. 20 on a
referendum requiring a 50-cent per
semester increase in student fees. The
money would go toward the
University's financial aid fund through
a program known as the Student Body
Scholarship Fund, he said.
The proposed referendum will go
before the Student Congress Rules and
Judiciary Committee Wednesday. If the
bill passes the committee, congress will
vote on it the following week.
If the proposal is approved again, it
will be placed on a ballot for the general
election, Lewis said.
Lewis, who introduced the increase,
said the proposal was largely a sym
bolic gesture.
Other schools have a much gTeater
student-funded scholarship plan, he
said. Lewis cited Cornell University,
which draws $5 from each student.
Most students said they were in favor
of the Scholarship Fund, but weren't in
favor of an athletic fee increase.
Vipul Nishawala, a sophomore from
Saudi Arabia, said he thought a fee
increase was a bad idea because of the
already increasing student fees as a
result of the Student Recreation Center.
Dunnington, Taggart to run for Daily Tar
By KENNY MONTEITH
Staff Writer
Mary Jo Dunninglon, a junior geog
raphy major from Winston-Salem, and
William Taggart, a junior journalism
major from Chatham Township, N.J.,
have announced their candidacy for co
editors of The Daily Tar Heel (DTH).
Dunnington and Taggart said they
chose to run as co-editors so that one of
them could focus on the editorial page
and the other could concentrate on news
coverage.
"We approach things in the same
way, and we trust each other's deci
sions," Dunnington said.
They said a main goal of their cam
paign was to get the student body more
involved with the DTH.
"We want to present issues or ques
tions on the edit page and ask the stu
dent body what they think of certain
issues, kind of like an ' issue or question
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By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON
Staff Writer
Rams Club officials and student
organization leaders are discussing the
possibility of building a parking deck
on the site of the tennis courts behind
Hinton James Residence Hall.
Carolina Athletic Association Presi
dent Lisa Frye said current discussions
included possibly rebuilding tennis
courts on top of the parking deck or
building tennis and basketball courts
on top of the deck.
"We don't see a problem as long as
students don't lose anything." Frye said.
"It could be a nicer facility."
Gordon Rutheiford, director of fa
cilities planning and design, is con
ducting a feasibility study on the site.
Rutherford was out of town Monday
and could not be reached for comment.
Student leaders said preliminary
plans called for the Rams Club to use
the parking spaces during football and
Teleconference
By ELIZABETH BYRD
Staff Writer
An increased state sales tax and the
imposition of a state lottery system
were among possible solutions to state
budget cuts suggested Monday by
UNC-system student leaders during a
teleconference between representatives
of seven system schools.
The conference was held to discuss
the effects of state budget cuts on sys
tem schools and to come up with pos
sible solutions. UNC-CH recently had
$2.8 million in funds cut by the state,
and other system schools were hit hard
as well. Gene Davis, UNC-CH Student
Congress speaker and president of the
Association of Student Governments
(ASG), led the conference.
Representatives from the system's
schools will meet with Gov. Jim Martin
Friday to request an emergency session
of the N.C. General Assembly to tackle
school-funding problems.
The teleconference was a forum for
leaders to discuss the effects of the
budget cuts on individual schools and
to look at possible solutions to present
to Gov. Martin. Brien Lewis, UNC-CH
student body president, took part in the
conference, as did representatives from
UNC-Asheville, Western Carolina
University, N.C. A&T University, N.C.
School of the Arts, East Carolina Uni
versity and Appalachian State Univer
sity. "We need to look for creative solu
tions," Davis said. Otherwise, he said,
they could become long-term problems.
"It seems absurd for education fund
ing in North Carolina to be based on
how much alcohol is consumed and
how many cigarettes are smoked," he
said, referring to the current system of
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By KENNY MONTEITH
Staff Writer
Two candidates for student body
president have reported to the elections
board that their campaign posters have
been found torn from bulletin boards.
Any student caught tearing down or
defacing a candidate's poster could be
found guilty of violating the campus
code section of the Code of Student
Conduct and could be expelled or sus
pended for that violation.
Sophomore Mark Bibbs and junior
Bill Hildebolt recently informed Elec-
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of the week,'" Taggart said.
Dunnington said the responses would
be in the form of a letter to the editor.
"We've gotten complaints about only
running certain sides of an issue, but
we've only been working with what we
have gotten (from students). We're
hoping to get more well-rounded things
to run."
Dunnington and Taggart said if
elected they did not plan any major
changes for the newspaper. They said
they planned to maintain the weekly
business page and would not separate
the arts and features desk.
"We think we have a good, solid
paper," Taggart said. "We'll just be
me. I don't think
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basketball games, but for students to
use the deck at all other times. Frye said
the deck would have at least 200 spaces.
Moyer Smith, Rams Club executive
vice president, said that the possibility
of using the tennis courts for parking
for Smith Center financial contributors
was considered several years ago, but
that the current proposal was not re
lated to that plan.
Residence Hall Association Presi
dent Liz Jackson said that she thought
the general idea for the deck was good,
but that she was concerned about who
would receive the parking spaces.
"I'm hesitant to say we're ready to
be gung-ho about it because it's so iffy
now. If the Rams Club builds it (the
deck), they'll want the spaces for foot
ball and basketball games. If the spaces
are given to people in the dorms, they
can't move their cars when there's a
game. If it was a commuter deck, they
(the cars) would be gone. That still
Gene Davis (left) and
allotment employed by the state gov
ernment. Davis said he hoped the General
Assembly would take action to reverse
the effect of recent state budget cuts on
UNC-system schools. "We need to let
the General Assembly, the governor
and the people of North Carolina real
ize this is a problem. We need to say
that higher education is a priority in
North Carolina.
'This is our own initiative. It is not
being worked through (UNC-system
President CD.) Spangler's office."
Lewis said he feared the real prob
lem may be within the system. "If this
has happened two years in a row, it can
happen a third year."
Every university's funds were re
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tions Board chairman David Smith of
the incidents after many sightings of
missing campaign posters.
Two other candidates for president,
junior John Lomax and sophomore
Jonathan Martin, could not be reached
for comment Tuesday.
Mike Strickland, a sophomore who
striving to improve it."
They said they planned to revamp
the managing editor's position. "The
managing editor will focus on long
range planning, and kind of step back
and give a fresh perspective to the
paper," Dunnington said.
Dunnington and Taggart said they
would also strive to get the University
to release full and accurate police rec
ords to the newspaper. "It's important
for us (the DTH) and the students to
have full access to police records,"
Taggart said.
Dunnington has been editorial page
editor since spring 1989. Before that,
she held positions as an editorial writer
and a features writer.
Taggart has served as University
news editor and managing editor. He
also worked as state and national news
editor, assistant state and national news
editor and as a staff writer.
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needs to be worked out. Maybe we
could work out a trade for spaces in
Rams Head lot."
Frye, Jackson, Smith, Student Body
Vice-President Joe Andronaco, and
Frederick Mueller, representative for
the physical education department,
recently met to discuss the possibility
of building the deck.
"So much is still preliminary,"
Andronaco said. "The Rams Club has
been very cooperative. A lot of people
have an us-against-them attitude, but in
this case, it's a cooperative effort."
Mueller said the change in location
of the courts should not affect students
since the courts would still be available
for use.
"We won't lose any space. The courts
will still be open for free play. It won't
affect classes because ail classes are
held up here (on main campus)."
John Sanders, chairman of the build
ing and grounds committee, said his
addresses cut
Brien Lewis discuss budget cuts
duced by the budget cuts, Lewis said.
"It's up to the individual school to
decide how to make those cuts."
Effects can be seen in many areas.
Schools are limiting access to paper
and photocopying equipment and plac
ing restrictions on long-distance phone
calls.
The N.C. School of the Arts has been
among the hardest hit. It has lost more
than half of its maintenance staff, and it
can't afford to hire any more. The school
has had to drop guest artists and direc
tors from its schedule and has been
forced to cut back its number of sched
uled performances.
One effect of the cutbacks common
to most campuses was a freeze on hir
ing in both faculty and non-faculty
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has not officially declared his candi
dacy but has said he intends to run for
president, said Tuesday that he has had
some posters torn down.
It is against the election bylaws for a
student to "deface, destroy, alter or
otherwise change any candidate's
campaign materials ... No material of
any candidate, unless in legally re
stricted areas, may be removed without
the permission of the candidate."
Virginia Mewborne, student attor
ney general, said a person who broke
the Honor Code could be charged with.
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committee would become involved only
after concrete plans had been made to
build the deck.
"Our one function is to advise the
chancellor on sites selected, architects
and exteriors. We'd be asked to advise
yes or no. It would up to the chancellor
to take our advice or not."
Frye said the students she has talked
to so far have reacted positively to the
idea.
"The students I've talked with have
said if we have the same amount of
courts, it (the deck) is fine with them.
We'll talk to more (students) once we
get some more concrete ideas. We want
to be sure students would be playing on
a deck."
Smith said the main concern was
that the students be happy with the final
decision.
"One thing we don't want to do is
something that the students don't want."
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with ECU representatives
positions. According to Davis, NCSU
has had to dismiss some of its faculty
and close class sections. At UNC-CH,
lack of funding has not caused any
faculty members to lose their jobs,
Lewis said, "but there are vacancies
which have not been filled."
"One thing I fear is the effect of these
cuts on faculty morale." Lewis said
UNC-CH was having a hard time
competing with other schools that offer
higher pay and more benefits to their
faculty members.
"If I were a professor and were told
for the second year in a row that I
couldn't make long-distance phone calls
or photocopy material, I would get very
frustrated."
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according to the Code of Student Con
duct, "willfully obstructing or interfer
ing with any normal operation, func
tion, or activity of the University."
The campaign posters are consid
ered the personal property of the cam
paigner, and thus a person could be
charged with "theft of or damage to ...
any personal property," she said.
Hildebolt said he believed the inci
dents involved students just playing
around. "You just learn to expect it and
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