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VOLUME Llll , Number 25
Serving UNC-Wilmington Since 1 948
Inside
This
issue.
SGA elections bring a new
face in president’s office/ 3
St. John’s moves
into new facility/ 7
Tennis teams headed for
conference tourney/ 9
INDEX
News 3
OP/ED 4
UNCW Life 5
The Scene 6
Classifieds 8
Sports 9
More campus exposure may Bmit diversity
Whik recent NCAA tournament
exposure is bringing in many
applicants to the university,
officials say that most will be white
SARAH BRODER5
Pik^ shiMe
program begins
MDLL.Y HANDLER
The results of the NCAA Tour
nament could pose a new threat
to campus diversity that could
push minority student numbers to
the lowest in 15 years.
In 2000, the Seahawks made it
to the NCAA Tournament for the
first time. The national exposure
has caused enrollment to increase
but only selectively.
“National recognition does
have an impact, we know that, but
there is a one year lag phase. This
year, there was a dramatic in
crease due U) the tournament ap
pearance in 2000,” said Bob Fry,
assistant to the chancellor for
planning.
Fry said he expects to see the
same jump after this year’s per
formance, but the increase, he
said, will not be composed of
Potential applicants to UNCW tour the campus on a recent
visit. Minority enrollmentis currently low, and some officials
expect the number to dwindle even further.
minority students. The increased
exposure will draw applications
from white students, but minor
ity students do not usually come
to the university without aca
demic recruitment. Minority en
rollment could potentially de
crease on campus, he said.
varsity high of 7 percent to some
where between 4 percent and 5
percent in the past year.
After the first tournament ap-
See NCAA, Page 2
Women feculty members tq> men in salary
John White
Women nationwide still av
erage only 75 percent of men s
salaries, according to a U.S.
Department of Labor report.
However, these figures do not
represent the salary equity at
UNCW.
In fact, UNCW’s female
faculty and administrators
earn well above national fig
ures reflecting gender discrep
ancies in pay, according to last
year’s Salary Equity Study
performed by the university’s
internal audit department. Ac
tually, the female faculty
members average I percent
higher earnings than their
re, but
very hard
“Nationally, there are a
number of campuses
that have gender issues
in salary structure, but
we ’...were willing to ask
the question, so we don’t
lose ground, ”
- John Cavanaugh
s been working
D address those is-
ere willing to ask
the ques-
we don’t
male counterparts.
Female administrators
campus aver
aged 97.3 per
cent of the
men’s total sala
ries. Women
employed as
professional
non-faculty av
eraged slightly
lower earnings
at 96.5 percent.
According to
the report, both
statistics are
above the esti- _
mated national average for in- study concluded, “salary rela-
stitutions like UNCW. . tionships at UNCW are sub-
“Nationally, there are a stantially free from adverse
number of campuses that have
gender issues in salary struc-
ground,”
Provost
John
Cavanaugh
about the
survey.
BEE Salary, Page 3
The Student Government Asso
ciation has proposed a new solution
to the parking problems—an eight-
person intra-campus shuttle.
The shuttle, which is an ex
tended golf cart, will circle campus
in a pilot program to test the feasi
bility of a permanent shuttle system.
“We just decided on this last
T\iesday night. We are hoping this
will solve some of the problems with
parking. This should build the
UNCW community. Students can
ride and talk to other students and
the students drivers,” said Adrien
Lx)pez, SGA president and volunteei
driver, while riding on the golf cart.
The shuttle starts in the Trask
parking lot, behind the tennis courts.
It then proceeds past Hanover Gym,
beyond Hoggard and Westside halls,
and eventually ends up in front ol
the Randall Library. Another cart
will be bringing students from
Morton Hall down to Wagoner Hall.
The carts try to stay off the streets
and on the sidewalks and grass.
The program started late last
week and will continue through fi
nal exams, which officials say they
hope will encourages students to
park over near Trask Coliseum and
not in the Warwick Hall or Randall
Library lots.
Auxiliary services authorized the
start of this program. Some of the
parking officers have been recruited,
such as Harold Green, to drive the
cart until all of the volunteer drivers
learn the route.
“Most students don’t realize there
is parking available over on
(theTrask Coliseum) side of cam
pus,” Green said.
This pilot program could increase
the amount the students parking
away from the classroom buildings,
said Betty Gurganus, administrative
assistant in auxiliary services.
“There have been positive reac
tions so far based on the ridership
and comments given,” she said.