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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 99 Issue 41
Tuesday, April 23, 1991
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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College students hurt
by parents' breakup
By Jennifer Dunlap
Assistant University Editor
By Sarah Barrett
Staff Writer
Student government members said Mon
day that a proposal to raise tuition by as much
as 1 5 percent in the UNC system could be in
the works at the General Assembly.
"We have heard some tentative numbers,
and it's going to be about 15 percent," said
David Henderson, student government bud
get crisis coordinator. "It's a rumbling right
now."
Although a written plan to increase tuition
has not been proposed, informal discussions
about the idea have occurred, Henderson
said.
"It's in the planning stages," he said. "I
don't know if it's going to come to fruition or
not."
Marc Basnight, Senate Appropriations
Committee chairman, said the General As
sembly would consider raising tuition for the
UNC system.
"It hasn't been discussed a great deal as of
yet," he said. "It certainly will be discussed
in the coming weeks."
Joe Hackney, House Finance Committee
co-chairman, said he was sure members of
his committee would discuss the issue of a
tuition increase in the next few weeks.
"Almost everyone assumes that there will
be at least a modest tuition increase," Hack
ney said.
Jay Robinson, UNC-system vice president
for public affairs, said he had not heard of any
specific tuition increase proposals, but agreed
that the issue would be considered in the
future.
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Elissa Randall was 1 8 when her parents separated in 1 989.
They had been married for 24 years.
Dealing with her parents' breakup has been difficult for the
sophomore from Shelby. "The fact that I don't have a real
family anymore upsets me, and it always will," she said.
Grieving the break up of a family is very common among
older children of divorced parents, said John Reinhold,
D.S.W., a clinical social worker at Student Psychological
Services.
Some students who experience divorce may literally lose
their homes because their parents sell the house to live in
condominiums, he said. "Even those who still have the same
home to go back to feel they have lost their family," he said.
Randall is just one of a million children who experience
divorce every year. About 35 percent of American children
born in 1980 will endure two divorces between birth and the
age of 18.
Behind these numbers are faces and names, and a growing
number belong to children over 18.
Although the median age of children affected by divorce
is 7, a growing percentage of college-age students are af
fected by divorce as more middle-age adults end their mar
riages. Jamee Mills, a student at Kutztown University in Kutztown,
Pa., was 16 when her parents were divorced in 1987. They
had been married for 20 years.
Mills was jolted to reality by her parents' divorce. "It made
me grow up real quick," she said. "It really opens your eyes."
She said she's still confused and isn't over it yet. "Emo
tionally it really strains everything."
The divorce made hermore nervous and insecure, she said.
"You do think it's your fault," she said. "I thought a lot about
it to analyze it and figure out what happened."
Mills comes from a family of six children. She thought her
parents may have focused more on their children than on their
marriage, and she used to blame the divorce on that, she said.
According to Reinhold, older children generally are less
likely to blame themselves than younger children. But some
older children do feel responsible because they may have
encouraged the parent to leave the marriage, he said.
For example, a child may urge a parent to leave a marriage
when the other spouse is an alcoholic. Then when mom or dad
leaves and is miserable, the child may feel responsible, he
said. Or an older child may feel that he should have known
and maybe should have done something to prevent the
divorce, he said.
Kim Berdy, a student at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, Pa., was 6 when her parents divorced in 1977.
They had been married for 10 years.
"I was too young to understand it, so it wasn't a big deal,"
she said. But as she has grown older, she realizes that the
divorce has made her unable to relate to men.
She said she didn't remember her parents as a couple so she
couldn't learn how to deal with a relationship.
"I won't put myself on the line for anybody because I don't
want to get hurt," she said. "Idealistically I see myself getting
married, but realistically I'm not sure."
Divorce tends to make children wary of having long-term
relationships. There is an increased rate of divorce among
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afternoon as students try their luck at scoring goals. The activity was sponsored by members of
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the UNC handball club team to raise funds for their trip to the national handball tournament in
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of leg
afaing marijuana
BySheaRlgssbee
Staff Writer
Seventy percent of people who took
part in a vote on the legalization of
marijuana think the drug should be
regulated and distributed like alcohol
and tobacco.
The survey was sponsored by Stu
dents for Individual Liberties and an
off-campus organization, friends of
Hemp. Results showed the majority
of voters favored legalizing the drug.
More than 500 students participated
in the survey held Thursday in the Pit.
Some of the results were:
Q Ninety-one percent of voters said
doctors should be allowed to prescribe
marijuana to patients who could ben
efit from its use.
Q Eighty-five percent said they
thought American fanners should be
allowed to grow non-smokable mari
juana for industrial purposes.
Q Seventy-nine percent said adults
should have the right to do whatever
they want in the privacy of their own
homes if others are not imposed upon?
Members of Students for Individual
Liberties do not advocate marijuana
use, but they believe that the govern
ment should not impose morality on
i people, said Chris Martin, chairman of
the group. The group hopes to publicize
the survey results but does not plan to
present them formally to anyone,
Sean Lyles, a junior from Charlotte,
disagreed. "I think it is good that gov
ernment takes some interest in our
health," he said.
Martin said the media, not laws, was
the key to reducing marijuana abuse.
The questions were worded to indi
cate the variety of uses for the drug, he
said. But some people complained that
the questions were vague, he said.
David Crowe, a freshman from Cary ,
said the wording of the survey's ques
tions hurt its validity. If the questions
were more neutral, the results would
have had more impact, he said
Martin said the survey was an at
tempt to raise voters' level of knowl
edge about marijuana. The legalization
of the drug would help relieve the bud
get crisis by reducing the number of
people in prison for marijuana-related
crimes, he said.
Crowe said he thought the results
would have had more impact if the
survey had been given at another col
lege. "Its not going to surprise any
one,' he said. "There will just be a few
more jokes about Carolina around the
old senators' lunch table."
Rob Beck, a senior from Marion,
said he did not thinkthedrug would be
legalized, "Politics around here is a
pretty grass roots, conservative thing."
William Mau-Asam, a freshman
from Curacao, Neth. Antilles, said he
had visited countries where marijuana
was legal, and did not agree with the
drug's legalization.
A high drop-out rate in Hollands
schools can be attributed to the stu
dents use of marijuana, he said. "One
of the reasons I came to the U.S. was
that the percentage of people who
make it in schools there is really low."
Dawn Stricter, a sophomore from
Advance, said, "What stops people
from doing it are their own morals, not
the legal aspect"
Committee approves
proposal elmmiatoig
180 teaching posts
By Bonnie Rochman
Staff Writer
Massachusetts higher education suffering from cuts
Editor' s note: This is the second seg
ment of a five-part series examining the
effects of state budget cuts on higher
education across the United States.
By Wendy Bounds
State and National Editor
When Massachusetts students and
faculty marched to their legislative
building last week in protest of state
education budget cuts, they didn't just
bring picket signs and complaints ....
They brought cake.
A large cake, in fact. One the size of
an average student. And the protesters
shared their art department's creation
with the legislators in a ceremony ap
propriately dubbed, "The Devouring of
the Student Body."
The symbolic gesture was part of a
two-day faculty strike at two of the
University of Massachusetts campuses,
Education
Amherst and Boston. After suffering
cuts of over $170 million for public
higher education during the past three
years, students and professors fear they
are witnessing the destruction of educa
tional opportunities for the middle and
working classes of their state.
"Massachusetts is a basket case," said
Allan Ostar, president of the American
Association of State Colleges and Uni
versities. "Their governor is taking des
peration measures, and they're in real
trouble."
Real trouble indeed.
Many teachers are working days with
out pay. Under the new governor's state
wide furlough program, any state em
ployee with a salary over $20,000 must
work between two to 15 days without
pay during the year, depending on the
level of their salary.
The furlough affects Republican
Governor William Weld himself, who
will withstand a 15-day pay cut in his
annual $75,000 salary.
Weld is taking a lot of heat from
state education organizations for the
state's education woes. Different
sources say the governor will seek any
where from $92 to $ 1 1 5 million more in
cuts during the upcoming fiscal year.
Weld's officials say the figure is closer
to $79 million. Regardless, Weld has
refused to raise taxes to help soften the
blow.
"This is the worst I've ever seen it,"
said Edward Marshall, executive direc
tor for the Mass. branch of the Ameri
can Association of University Profes
sors. "Until citizens and politicians are
ready to bite the bullet and raise taxes,
things won't get any better."
Whether the Mass. legislature under
stands the school's plight is question
able, according to David Gagne, stu
dent body president at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst (UMASS).
He said the rally last Wednesday and
Thursday solicited sympathy from some
and demonstrated the naivete of others.
"It was funny because some legisla
tors were saying that Amherst has fat
that needs to be cut," Gagne said.
"They didn't have a grasp, and they
didn't want to 'rock the boat.'"
Gagne pointed to fast rising tuition
See BUDGET, page 4
The N.C. House Appropriations
Committee voted Thursday to accept a
proposal calling for the elimination of
about 1 80 teaching positions in the UNC
system.
The Democrat-sponsored bill, if
passed by the full House, will decrease
the number of administrative positions
that had been proposed to be cut.
Jay Robinson, UNC vice president
for public affairs, said the final compro
mise consisted of a 2.1 1 percent cut in
teaching positions and a 5 percent re
duction in non-teaching Exempt-from
Personnel Acts positions such as deans,
administrators, financial aid officers and
vice chancellors.
"The teaching positions possibly
fared better than anyone," Robinson
said. "It's impossible to not cut any
teaching positions without devastating
other parts of the budget by not having
the support personnel necessary to help
teachers do their job."
The committee rejected a proposal
by Rep. J. Arthur Pope, R-Raleigh, that
would have preserved teaching jobs by
cutting more administrative positions.
The plan would have cut 10 percent of
the administrative positions in the UNC
system and one percent of the teaching
jobs.
House Minority Leader Johnathan
Rhyne Jr. said he thought the Demo
cratic proposal was an outrage. "We
think it's a very bad deal for the stu
dents," he said. "We're not out to save
the bureaucracy but to save class
availabilities."
The difference between the two plans
was that the Republican proposal would
have saved 110 faculty members, but
the Democratic plan will save 86 ad
ministrators, he said.
See CUTS, page 6
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