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February S, 2004
VOLUME LV, Number 18
Serving UNC Wilmington since 1948
Wanted: Salary increase
Faculty ask for higher pay
Katie Trapp
Eoitor-in-Chief
received the same $550 bonus as
all state employees.
English professors Dan
With the recent tuition and fees Noland and Dick Veit, and chem-
increase, students have recently - istry professor Jimmy Reeves
been denied a voice at UNCW.
What few know is that the faculty
are treated the same way.
Faculty from all 16 UNC-sys
tem universities
met Jan.
23 at the
most
recent
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Assembly meeting in Chapel Hill
to discuss two new resolutions.
The first was to stop campus-
wide tuition increases, and the
second was to raise the salaries of
all university employees.
According to an article in the
Charlotte Observer, the last time
faculty received a significant pay
raise was four years ago in 2000-
01 with a 4.2 percent increase.
The following year they received
a flat $625. In 2002-03 they
received nothing. This year, they
represented UNCW
at the meeting.
“Every campus
elects faculty repre
sentatives to the
acuity
Assembly,”
Veit said.
The
Faculty
Assembly
was creat
ed in 1972
and is entirely
made up of UNC-
system faculty,
meet four
times per year,
being the
third of the
year. “The
assembly
can draft resolutions but they
can’t change policy,” Reeves
said. That power lies with the
administration.
“The Faculty Assembly is to
the general administration what
the Faculty Senate is to UNCW,”
Reeves said.
Not only has there not been a
faculty increase in several years,
but benefits are shrinking.
University employees have to
purchase their own health insur
ance now.
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With the increase in cost of
living, many university employ
ees are having difficulty paying
bills.
“A “pay” increase of 6 percent
would be very welcome. We
would like to keep pace with the
cost of living increase over the
last few years,” Veit said.
Most UNC campuses, includ
ing UNCW, plan to raise tuition
by $300. A portion of these
increases at will go to faculty
salary increases. However, the
faculty does not want student
money; they want government
money.
“Generally, the Assembly said
that while certain campuses may
have a need for additional funds,
the main funding belongs with
the state and with the legisla
ture,” Veit said. “Students should
not be asked to take over the
responsibilities of the state.”
According to Veit, who served
as Assembly chair from 2001-03,
most faculty pay increases have
been based on merit, so there’s an
incentive for high performance.
The faculty is used to having that
every year, but there hasn’t been
an increase in four years.
As a result, quality faculty
members are flocking to private
and out-of-state schools where
salaries are substantially higher.
“It has an impact on morale,
which has an impact on the qual
ity of education,” Veit said.
Insidtt This Issue
UNCW graduate
Brad Land had his
essay, Brothers in
Harm, published in
the January issue
of GQ. The essay is
from his recently
published
book,”Goat,” which
was published
Tuesday.
UNCW Alumnus
gets published in GQ
Brian Tucker
Staff Writir
A UNCW alumnus is making a
name for himself in print.
Brad Land had his first novel,
“Goat,” published Feb. 3. An
essay from the book. Brothers In
Harm, was published in the
January issue of GQ.
The essay recounts Land’s
hazing experience while pledging
Kappa Sigma at Clemson
University. A second story inter
woven throughout Brothers
recounts the kidnapping and beat
ing he underwent after leaving a
frat party in his hometown a year
before attending Clemson. The
second story within the essay is
an interesting illustration in that it
couples stranger violence (kid
napping) with institutionalized
violence (pledge rituals).
Land’s writing style is differ
ent in that it is direct and brutally
honest. He describes the incidents
with brief, punchy sentences and
the structure is antidotal to the
typical memoir.
Land graduated in 2002 with a
Master of Fine Arts degree in cre
ative writing. Sarah Messer,
Land’s graduate school advisor,
wasn’t surprised by his success.
“His style is very immediate
and breaks some of the rules of
non-fiction writing,” Messer said.
Messer watched him nurture the
story into what would become the
forthcoming novel. The basis for
Goat was also his MFA thesis and
is available at Randall Library.
The author is prepping for a
book tour that will stop at Bristol
Books on March 3 and a reading
on campus is “in the works,” Land
said.
He credits a reading by Philip
Gerard at his undergraduate
school, Francis Marion, for his
decision to attend UNCW.
“The whole (creative writing)
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