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Volume 99, Issue 43
Thursday, April 25, 1991
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By Warren Hynes
Staff Writer
One UNC-system student could soon
be given partial representation on the
Board of Governors if a bill introduced
in the N.C. Senate Tuesday becomes a
law.
The bill, whose short title is "UNC
Board of Governors' Changes," pro
poses that the president of the UNC
Association of Student Governments
be given a one-year term as a non
voting member of the BOG, said Mark
Bibbs, a UNC-CH student and ASG
president.
In this ex officio role, a student rep
resentative could receive full speaking
privileges in all BOG general meetings
and functions, as well as in one of the
board's standing committees. But the
student would not be allowed to vote on
any issue, Bibbs said.
The bill was sponsored by N.C. Sen.
George Daniel, D-Caswell and
Alamance, and referred Wednesday to
the Senate Committee on Higher Edu
cation. The student representative plan
is tied to a proposal to extend the terms
.Bariboiuur
By Cathy Oberle
Staff Writer
UNC dentistry school employee
Martha Barbour reached a settlement
Friday at Step 3 in her sexual harass
ment grievance against the University
and James Bader that included the cre
ation of a human relations committee in
.Residents say
By Amber Nimocks
Staff Writer
Residents of a neighborhood south
west of the UNC campus have expressed
concerns that they were not informed
about University power lines that emit
potentially harmful electromagnetic
waves being installed near their homes.
Paul ine Grimson, of 407 Ransom St.,
submitted a petition to the Chapel Hill
Town Council Monday night signed by
67 area residents.
According to the petition, the Uni
versity has plans to install a new power
line beneath Ransom Street and
Briarbridge Lane. Residents are con
cerned that the University consulted
only with the town engineer and the
department of public works, and not
with residents of the area.
"All the University had to do was go
to the town," Grimson said Wednesday.
Graduate students hang sign from New East windows to protest
By Stephanie Johnston
University Editor
Graduate students in the city and
regional planning department want
University officials to know how they
feel about the effects of budget cuts on
their department.
They hung a sign stating, "We Need
Site Planning and G.I.S." from second
floor windows of New East, where the
California student fees rise sharply as state struggles with $12
Editor's note: This is the fourth 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
After eight years of holding their
own in the state budget struggle, Cali
fornia higher education systems are
about to " pay the piper."
A $12 billion piper.
Although tuition is free in this West
Coast public system, education itself
isn't, and student fees are on the rise as
California struggles to escape from its
overwhelming $ 12 billion state deficit.
"We are still in the process of figur
ing out how severe it will be," said Jesus
Mena, public information officer for
the University of California at Berke
ley. "Overall, the state is in very dire
straights."
Bearing the largest brunt of educa
tion cuts are the nine-campus Univer
sity of California system (UC) and the
19-campus California State University
system (CSU). UC in-state students at
schools such as UC-Los Angeles and
moeiE mem
of BOG members from four to six years,
Bibbs said.
The bill, like all bills that do not
contain appropriations or tax changes,
must be approved by the Senate by May
1 5. If the bill is passed in the Senate and
the House, it will take effect July 1.
But Bibbs, who is beginning his sec
ond term as ASG president, said he
would be ineligible to serve as the rep
resentative because he is a state em
ployee. He now works as a special aide
to House Speaker Daniel Blue Jr. The
position would be filled by a designee
of Bibbs or by someone else chosen by
ASG members.
Bibbs said he was not disappointed
that he could not fill the role himself.
"It's not necessarily disappointing be
cause when I was elected last year, the
student body presidents wanted to see
that this bill would be introduced," he
said. "I promised that I would work to
get the bill in, and I think I fulfilled that
promise."
State senators and BOG members
had differing opinions about the pro
posed position.
BOG Chairman Samuel Poole said
settles grievance at SteB
the school.
Barbour, manager of the dental ecol
ogy department, alleged in the griev
ance that Bader, a research associate
professor in the UNC School of Den
tistry, had harassed her frequently with
rude comments for a period of five
years.
Bader could not be reached for com
"Plans weren't revealed until April 1 1
at the neighborhood meeting. ... This
clearly affects our neighborhood. Any
project like this should involve the
people who will be affected by it."
Don McChesney, of 205 Vance St.,
said: "All we are questioning is the city
procedure for approval. ... City proce
dure should at least acknowledge people
who live here."
James Mergner, UNC associate di
rector for utilities operations, said the
University was adding power lines to
serve the new buildings on South Cam
pus. The development includes an am
bulatory care center, a medical research
complex and a proposed Environmen
tal Protection Agency complex. Work
began on the Ambulatory Care Center
in July 1990, and the groundbreaking
for the research facility took place sev
eral weeks ago.
The town received approval for the
department is located. The sign referred
to the elimination of nine courses in the
department, including site planning and
geographical information systems. The
nine courses are taught by guest lectur
ers, often people in the community.
"If administrators are unable to make
the case, if faculty are unable to make
the case, the students have to," said
Michael Stegman, chairman of the de
partment. Education
UC-Berkeley will face a $650 increase
next year in their student fees.
And they're not happy. At UC-Irvine,
several phones were set up outside the
student center for students to telephone
their legislators with complaints or sug
gestions about the budget cuts. Frater
nities and sororities there are launching
a massive postcard-writing campaign
voicing similar concerns to their assem
blymen. UC-Riverside students participated
in a campuswide class walk-out last
Friday in which about 70 percent of
them didn't attend class to symbolize
the detrimental effect the fee increase
could have upon the schools.
"You're looking at a stringent time
for us," said Paul West, spokesman for
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he wanted everyone to have the chance
to be heard, but UNC-system students
had been given this opportunity through
representation on their schools' boards
of trustees.
One student from each system school
serves on his or her school's BOT.
'That's where the input from the cam
pus needs to be," he said.
Having a student BOG member
would not be as effective as having
students serve on the BOTs because
there are too many differences among
the schools, Poole said.
"The students (at any UNC-system
school) really have very little in com
mon with the policies of other schools
in the UNC system," he said. "There are
totally different interests involved. The
students at Chapel Hill don't know any
thing about what goes on at Pembroke
(State University)."
Sen. Betsy Cochrane, vice chair
woman and ranking minority member
of the higher education committee, said
she did not object to a student being a
member of the BOG as long as it was in
See EX OFFICIO, page 4
ment Wednesday.
Barbour said Bader's actions would
be documented and a final written warn
ing placed in his file as part of the
settlement.
Bader will not be allowed to move
his office back into the dentistry school,
Barbour said. Bader's office was moved
from the school in October because of
.enow oi
projects from the N.C. General Assem
bly in 1988, Mergner said.
"We knew in 1990 that we were
going to be doing the construction,"
Mergner said. "In pre-design meetings
we invited members of the town and
local utilities. The town staff was in
volved in coordinating design. ... Town
residents were not informed individu
ally." The University did not discuss the
effects of electromagnetic fields with
the designer because of the small amount
of current in the system, Mergner said.
"Normal procedure is not to specifi
cally consider electromagnetic effects
in a 15-kilovolt system," Mergner said,
referring to the lines that will be laid in
the area. "Systems with 69 kilovolts or
more are normally considered (a con
cern) in design.
"We expect minimal effects because
it is a 15-kilovolt system and it is in
The courses were eliminated when
the department's funds for financial aid
and guest lecturers were cut in half due
to state budget cuts, he said. The faculty
decided to eliminate the classes instead
of cutting the graduate student aid.
"That meant we literally had to can
cel every one of the courses that in
volved outside people," he said.
Jillian Detweiler, a student in the
department's master's program, said she
the UC-system president. "After about
eight good years, it's about time for us
to pay the piper."
Apparently, although California
higher education didn't have money to
waste during the past decade, universi
ties and colleges never battled with a
monstrous budget like this year's.
"In general, it's true we have pro
gressed all right over the past year,"
Mena said. "Now this deficit is phe
nomenal, and the governor walked in at
a particularly bad time economically."
These economic hardships will fall
hardest upon the lower- and middle
income students who will be forced to
drop out of school because of the fee
increases, said Jeff Chang, legislative
advocate for the CSU system.
CSU, in fact, will be hit harder than
the UC system because 80 percent of
CSU funding comes from the state,
Chang said. This will leave the poorer
students who attend CSU searching for
work because they can't afford to stay
in school, he said.
"A lot of folks are getting pushed out
into a void," Chang said. "The long
term effect is going to deplete the
workforce needed to drive the Califor-
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who together form the Band Geebs, won second place in the co
the grievance.
The settlement with the University
includes the formation of a dentistry
school human relations committee, on
which Barbour will serve, she said.
"It will deal with these kinds of prob
lems and it will be there to educate," she
See GRIEVANCE, page 4
"power
stalled underground in a concrete-encased
conduit."
Horst Kessemeier, UNC associate
professor of physics and astronomy,
said people must consider the long
term effects when dealing with electro
magnetic fields.
Some studies have concluded that
electromagnetic fields increase the in
stances of cancer in children,
Kessemeier said.
"Since all our nerve action is done by
small electromagnetic currents, (elec
tromagnetic fields) have some effect,"
he said. "Whether it is detrimental or
not is unknown."
Design standards such as the ones for
the University's construction are based
on inconclusive information,
Kessemeier said.
"I don't put much stock in their stan
dards," he said. "They could be revised
tomorrow."
and other students hung the sign
Wednesday morning. Without the can
celed classes, students will not be as
prepared to enter the professional world,
she said.
"We're not attacking the leadership
of our department," Detweiler said. "We
are saying to our University we are
upset about this.
"The programs that are slated to be
cut represent a huge degradation of this
"There is this myth that
we are the Golden
State' ... The myth is
getting exposed for the
fallacy it is."
Jeff Chang
Legislative Advocate,
CSU system
ma economy.
'There is this myth that we are the
'Golden State' and are able to weather
any economic downturns ... The myth is
getting exposed for the fallacy it is."
The students and university officials
recognize times are tough all across the
state. While mourning their own budget
cuts, they say the "universities must
take their licks like everyone else."
"It's difficult for us to say we've
been singled out," said Lee Butterfield,
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Congress votes to kee
paying student stipends
By Jennifer Mueller
Staff Writer
Student Congress voted Wednes
day night to continue funding stipends
for key student positions.
An act to eliminate stipends was
introduced by Andrew Cohen, Dist. 6,
who said the student fees going to
ward st ipends did not benefit the whole
student body.
"We're not contracting with some
body, we're asking somebody to give
of their time voluntarily,' Cohen said
Impoverished students who most need
a stipend would not be likely to seek
an elected position because they would
be too busy working and keeping up
their grades, he said.
"These positions should be filled
by people who care about what they
do, not the money they'll be getting,"
he said.
Speaker of Congress Tim Moore
said stipends were paid to the student
body president, congress speaker,
BSM president, student body trea
surer, Supreme Court chief justice and
CAA president.
Finance Committee Chairman
Daryl Grissom said stipends should
be paid because the recipients were
required to stay on campus over the
planning program that is supposed to be
one of the best in the nation," she said.
Stegman said the courses that would
be eliminated were in some of the
department's specialty areas.
"Employers expect them to have these
skills," he said. "Essentially we're sac
rificing the quality of our graduating
class to protect the quality of our incom
ing classes."
The department is hoping to have the
billion deficit
executive director for the University of
California Student Association. "We
haven't been hit harder than welfare or
the prison systems. The governor can't
exactly take money away from the hos
pitals and give it to us."
This accommodating attitude is a far
cry from that echoing 3000 miles away
in New York state where students at
public colleges seized control of cam
pus buildings last week, halting any
type of normal academic activity.
"I wish I could say we were barricad
ing doors like CUNY (City University
of New York); that's really cool,"
Butterfield said. "But we're not. Our
goal is to be one voice in a chorus of
groups being affected by these cuts."
Some student leaders, however, don't
think the CUNY approach would work
for California and are opting for less
rebellious action like letter-writing and
rallying.
"We've got a little different situa
tion," Chang said. "If we use those
tactics we may close off a lot of people
more quickly than we would like.
"We have a situation where every-
See BUDGET, page 9
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summer, and the stipend was intended
to cover their living expenses and tu
ition during that period.
uWe're asking them to give up op
portunities that will make the rest of
their life opportunities in their job
field for free," he said. "Without
stipends, we cannot ask, much less
expect, people to fill these positions."
Elliott Zenick, Dist. 17, said that
the stipends did benefit the student
body because they went to elected
student officials.
Mark Shelburne, Dist 19, said that
there might be a need for stipends in
the future and encouraged congress
members not to eliminate budgeting
options.
Jennifer Lloyd, Dist. 12, said there
should be compensation for elected
students who must remain on campus
over the summer. This compensation
would be given for proven expenses
and would not be a predetermined
amount.
The bill was defeated 8-17.
Congress voted 16-10 to table a bill
calling for the elimination of cam
paign subsidies. This bill was also
introduced by Cohen. Presently, SBP
candidates are compensated for half
See CONGRESS, page 2
budget cuts
money restored before the fall semester
starts, he said. They decided to cancel
the classes instead of graduate aid be
cause the classes could be rescheduled,
but graduate students likely would at
tend other schools if dismissed.
Stegman said the restoration of funds
depended on "if sanity reigns."
Detweiler said the department's
graduates staffed most of the planning
programs in the state.
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CITY
Police officer involved in accident pro
tests charges 3
SPORTS
Baseball team comes from behind to
defeat Coastal Carolina 7
Campus and City 3
World Briefs 4
Features 5
Classified 8
WEATHER
TODAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-70s
FRIDAY: PM. clouds; high In 70s
ON CAMPUS
SBP Matt Heyd will discuss Gov. Martin
budget meeting, PassFail and Davis
statues in the Pit at 12:15 p.m.
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