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Vnliime LI. Number 17
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January 19.2000
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OP/ED
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Classifieds
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Tuition hike fails in Board of Trustees meeting
Governors mull sMewide rate hike, UNCW Ph. D. program
by SOMER STAHL & THOMAS M. RUYLE
The Seahawk
The UNCW Board of Trustees (BOT) met last Thursday at
Madehne Suite and voted against university proposal to raise tu
ition by 24 percent, or $235 per year. The board recommended
the university look into the possibility of increasing fees in the
future.
James M. Corcoran, chairman of the BOT proposed a single vote
for both the $235 tuition hike and a $400 raise in the MBA Pro
gram at the Cameron School of Business. Patrick Gunn, student
body president and BOT member, then motioned to split the vote
allowing each issue to be voted on separately. Gunn’s motion
passed along with the proposed increase at Cameron.
“I have philosophical problems with this (increase),” said Chan
cellor James Leutze. “I do not like asking students to fund aca
demic buildings, however, if there’s no other way to do it, and at
present it seems there’s no other way, then we (himself and the
Members of the UNCW Board of Trustees listen as
Chancellor James Leutze as he makes a point at last
Thursday’s meeting at Madeline Suite.
other UNC chancellors) reluctantly must accept,” he said.
UNC President Molly Broad, who was also against the UNCW
hike, asked the Board of Governors (BOG) at Friday’s meeting for a
university-wide tuition increase of 2.1 percent for undergraduate stu
dents. Her proposal also calls for increases for the MBA program at
the Cameron School of Business and a system-wide fee of $275 per
student to be distributed by a raise of $100 the first year, $100 the
second and $75 the third in order to fund capital projects.
The destruction wrought by Hurricane Floyd last September and
dilapidated buildings and equipment at UNC campuses were cited
as primary reasons for the need to increase tuition and fees. “If we’re
expecting (an increase of) almost 50,000 students in the next ten
years, we must do whatever it takes to rectify that situation,” said
BOG Chairman Benjamin S. Ruffin. Broad’s proposal will ask for
matching funds from the N.C. General Assembly.
The BOG will vote on the increases Feb. 11 at Chapel Hill.
Leutze and other UNCW Board of Trustees members expressed
their concern of a “domino effect,” which can mean negative reper
cussions in long-term funding. Some are scared that once the uni
versity starts to increase fees and make the students fund academic
buildings, this will in turn remove the burden from the General As
sembly and the act will become irreversible. Leutze said the 2.1 per
cent increase would round out to a raise of approximately $36 per
student, per year.
Leutze said that when compared to other schools, UNCW is ap
propriated fewer dollars per student than any other school in the
system. Gunn expressed his growing concern for this issue and its
effect on less fortunate North Carolina colleges and universities. “We
need to increase the status of the entire system and everyone needs
to stay on the same page,” he said. While Gunn voted against the
tuition increase, he was in favor of the proposed Cameron School of
Business increase. He believes that for a prestigious master of busi
ness program, UNCW was lagging behind.
UNCW to consider first Ph.D. program
At the BOG meetings on Thursday and Friday, held at UNCW
See BOT, oaae 5
Students to be restricted from Morton parking lot
by HEIDI BING
News Editor
Students will soon be facing additional restrictions re
garding where they can park on campus as parking lot “G,”
which is located beside Morton and Bear Hall, will become
a faculty/staff lot sometime this semester.
Parking lot “M,” the small faculty/staff lot next to Morton
Hall will be torn down to accommodate the construction of
the New Classroom Building which will house the depart
ments of communication studies, foreign languages and lit
eratures, political science, social work, and the UNCW-TV
station. When construction begins gates, similar to those
surrounding lot “R” between Cameron Hall and the Social
and Behavioral Sciences Building, will be erected to pre
vent students from parking in the lot.
“We will be giving student spaces back in the library lot
and in the Friday Hall lot,” said Assistant Vice Chancellor
for Business Affairs Richard Scott. “Obviously there is go
ing to be a net loss of some
See PARKING, page 5
James Flint/ The Seahawk
Parking lots at Cameron Hall and the Social and
Behavoral Science building have recently been restricted
to faculty members only. Lots by Morton Hall are soon
to be equipped with these gates as well.