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Volume 101, Issue 51
General Assembly approves tuition increase
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
Students at UNC-CH and N.C. State
University evaded a proposed tuition
surcharge when N.C. legislators adopted
the 1993-94 state budget Friday, but
students at all 16 UNC-system schools
still will see their tuitions increase.
Legislators approved a 3-percent tu
ition increase for in-state students and a
6.5-percent increase for out-of-state stu
dents as part of the state’s $9 billion
budget.
But despite the increase, the new
budget includes a little something to
make everyone happy.
Students at the two research univer
sities will not pay a S2OO surcharge that
would have increased in-state tuition
Students, residents sweat through heat wave
By Vicki Cheng
Staff Writer
Some people carry extra water. Oth
ers dash from building to building, hop
ing to escape. All over Chapel Hill,
people are running for cover.
The heat wave is here.
“The typical heat waves occur in late
July and August,” said Charles Konrad,
an assistant professor of climatology in
the geography department. “This year,
it’s early.”
Average temperatures for the first 12
days in July have been higher this year
than they have been for the past three
years. Daily high temperatures have
reached more than 90 degrees every day
except July 1, according to statistics
from the Orange Water and Sewer Au
thority and the National Weather Ser
vice at the Raleigh-Durham Interna
tional Airport.
Coupled with the heat is a dry spell.
In June, there was a little more than half
an inch of rainfall, compared with al
most nine inches in June 1992.
Konrad said the cause of the drought
was a high pressure system that has
moved over North Carolina from the
Atlantic Ocean.
“(The system) builds to the west in
the summer, typically,” he said. “But
it’s unusual for it to hold over and stay
there. It blocks precipitation. Fronts
move up and over the high pressure
system.”
That’s why the upper Midwest is
getting so much rain this year, he said.
The heat and drought are taking their
toll statewide and locally.
Farmers, for example, have it bad.
Across the state, only 12 percent of
farming soil had adequate moisture,
according to Doug Hicks, an agricul
tural statistician. As of July 9, 58 per
cent of the soil was short of moisture
and 30 percent was very short, he said.
And for UNC, air conditioning bills
are soaring. Tom Home, fiscal officer at
the physical plant, said the University ’ s
air conditioning bill from May 8 to June
8 was $540,958 this year, compared to
$403,751 in 1992. And that doesn’t
include window units.
University no-smoking policies
threatened by bill in legislature
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
The Student Union started a no-smok
ing policy May 15. Carolina Dining
Services made the dining halls smoke
free in mid-June. And the Division of
Health Affairs and other University
buildings went smoke-free before both
of them.
But now a bill in the N.C. General
Assembly could change everything.
House Bill 957 would regulate smok
ing in public places and establish stan
dards for local governments that want
to regulate smoking. The bill calls for
all state government buildings in
cluding the University to designate
20 percent of the space for smokers.
“It’s an attempt to write some rules
so we can all live on the planet to
gether,” said Martin Nesbitt, D-Bun
combe, who voted for the bill. “I don’t
think that’s unreasonable.”
But Kay Wijnberg, chairwoman of
the Employee Forum, a group that rep
resents about 4,500 non-faculty UNC
employees, disagrees.
The 45-member forum passed a reso
lution at their July 7 meeting requesting
Chancellor Paul Hardin “designate all
University smoke-free, except residence
hall and student family housing,” only
to discover the General Assembly was
considering the bill that would set state
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almost 29 percent. And the UNC-sys
tem Board of Governors was given $7.1
million to help recruit and maintain
faculty at the 16 UNC-system schools.
“I’m very pleased about this,” UNC
system President C.D. Spangler said of
the money for faculty salaries. “I’m
equally pleased students won’t have to
be burdened at the wrong time.”
In-state students paid $822 for tu
ition last year, while out-of state stu
dents paid $7,604. According to the
Senate’s original plan, which included
the surcharge and a 5-percent tuition
increase, in-state students would have
paid about $1,063. With the current 3-
percent increase, in-state students will
pay about $847.
Non-resident students would have
had to pay about $8,184. Now they will
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“That’s a 34-percent increase,” he
said. “I expect it will be at least 50
percent higher in July because the heat
wave has been in the last three weeks.”
Heat exhaustion is another concern,
especially for gym instructors. Michelle
Morris, a UNC aerobics instructor, said
she is liable for any heat injuries that
occur in her hour-long class if she
doesn’t warn her students about the
dangers of exercising in hot weather.
“We must warn the class that there is
a heat advisory in effect,” she said.
“You have to keep yourself hydrated.
We usually take two to three water
breaks instead of one to two.”
Because of the heat, attendance has
fallen, Morris said. “But not dramati
cally,” she said. “There are those die
hards out there.”
Surprisingly, even the ice cream busi
ness has suffered a little from the in
tense heat.
“It’s been busy, but since it’s gotten
especially hot in the past week, busi
ness has dropped off a little,” said Scott
wide standards for smoking policies.
Wijnberg has sent letters to Orange
County legislators pleading them to vote
against the bill. She also sent a letter to
Hardin asking him to help fight for
smoke-free buildings. She has received
no response so far, she said.
Hardin was away until today and
could not be reached for comment.
Wijnberg now is researching past
court cases in which workers have sued
and won compensation for injuries due
to the effects of secondary smoke.
“I’m trying to gather information
about whether the General Assembly
might be subject to future litigation as a
result of this decision,” she said.
According to a report on smoking
issued by the Washington-based anti
smoking group Action on Smoking and
Health, the U.S. Surgeon General has
concluded “an estimated 53,000 Ameri
cans die each year from exposure to
tobacco smoke and others.”
In addition, the ASH report states
that the Environmental Protection
Agency calls second-hand smoke a
“Group A Carcinogen,” which includes
chemicals like benzene or asbestos that
can cause lung cancer. The report lists a
number of cases in which employees
have been awarded thousands of dollars
in damages due to negative health ef
fects from second-hand smoke.
Wijnberg said an ASH representa
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pay about $8,098.
Rebecah Moore, chairwoman of Stu
dent Body President Jim Copland’s State
Relations Committee, has spent the sum
mer in Raleigh lobbying legislators to
keep tuition down and increase faculty
salaries. Moore said student leaders were
glad the surcharge wasn’t implemented.
“The last thing we want out-of-state
students to think is that we support a
larger increase for them,” she said. “But
it ’ s still not as bad as with the surcharge,
and they’re going to get a better value.”
Tuition bills were mailed out Tues
day, and they include the increase.
The Senate proposed the surcharge
to improve faculty salaries and help
fund the libraries and financial aid. Fifty
percent of the funds raised would have
gone to increase faculty pay at UNC
Boger, managerof Ben & Jerry’s Home
made Ice Cream on West Franklin Street.
“There’s a threshold where it gets so hot
that people won’t come out for any
thing.”
Still, the ice cream parlor does good
business in the summer. Boger said
participants in C-TOPS and the sports
camps on campus make up for the loss
of University students in the summer.
On a typical weekday, Ben & Jerry’s
sells about 1,500 single scoops of ice
cream.
Most Chapel Hill residents simply
have to cope with the heat wave. Jenni
fer Schmitt, a sophomore from Jack
sonville, N.C., who is enrolled in sum
mer school, said the only time she spends
outside is when she ducks from one
building to another.
“I seek shelter in air-conditioned
places,” she said. “I don’t sit outside
anymore. It’s too hot.”
But students have it easy compared
to those who work outdoors.
Rich Moore, a biology major from
five cited a U.S. Supreme Court case
that compared second-hand smoke to
being forced to drink tainted water.
“If the Supreme Court is doing that
then how can the General Assembly do
anything less for the employees in its
charge,” Wijnberg said.
But Nesbitt said the bill would only
designate areas for smokers it
wouldn’ t allow workers to smoke around
non-smokers.
“It’s really a tolerance issue,” he said.
“It falls almost into the category of
individual liberties. Smoking is not an
illegal act. Unfortunately, we live in a
society where we’ve got a lot of things
that will hurt us.”
And despite the Employee Forum’s
efforts, the General Assembly likely
will pass the bill. It is scheduled for a
third reading in the Senate today before
it is sent on to the House for a final vote.
The bill could be changed signifi
cantly before the final vote, but cur
rently it exempts a number of state
buildings such as libraries, museums
and any buildings involved in health
care instruction.
The Division of Health Affairs build
ings, which went smoke-free because
of the negative effects of second-hand
smoke, therefore would remain smoke
free. But the Union and the dining halls
would have to change their newly-es
tablished anti-smoking policies.
CH and NCSU, where salaries have
dropped below those at peer schools.
The proposal met considerable op
position from representatives, students
and university officials at both NCSU
and UNC-CH who felt the increase
would be too great a financial burden
for students.
At the same time, administrators
stressed the need for more money for
faculty. Provost Richard McCormick
has called faculty salaries the most press
ing problem at UNC-CH.
To meet the needs of both faculty and
students, legislators were able to shift
state funds to make money available for
faculty salaries this year, said D.G. Mar
tin, a lobbyist for the UNC system.
Most of the money comes from so
called one-time funds the state raises in
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ber of a crew studying seedling and tree
survival in Duke Forest and on Mason
Farm. The crew works from 7 a.m. to 3
p.m., classifying and measuring trees
and saplings.
“Imagine, if you will, a pseudo
swamp,” Moore said. “Poison ivy ev
erywhere. Flies from hell. And a dense
forest with thick underbrush. That’s the
environment we work in.
“Take that and add the sweltering,
OCAP to appeal decision
allowing PHE relocation
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
HILLSBOROUGH The Orange
Coalition Against Pornography will
appeal an Orange County Superior Court
ruling last week that allows PHE Inc.,
known by the trade name Adam & Eve,
to move to the northern Orange County
town.
. “An appeal will be filed,” said G.I.
Allison, OCAP vice president and pas
tor of Mt. Bright Baptist Church. “Judge
Jenkins, we believe, did not give fair
consideration to the ordinance.”
OCAP was founded in February by a
group of ministers opposing PHE’s at
tempts to move to Hillsborough. The
deadline for an appeal in N.C. Court of
Appeals is Aug. 5.
Orange County Superior Court Judge
Knox Jenkins on July 6 granted PHE’s
appeal against the town’s Board of
Adjustment for denying the mail-order
erotica company a permit to relocate to
the town.
The Board of Adjustment had denied
PHE a site-plan permit on the grounds
that the company was an adult-use busi
ness and thus needed to apply for a
conditional-use permit with stricter re
quirements.
The town ordinance defines an adult
use business as one that “excludes mi
nors for reasons of age,” such as adult
bookstores, adult picture theaters, mas
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
different ways, such as land sales or
Medicaid returns. The budget also des
ignates money for the libraries, he said.
“It’s the best attention the General
Assembly’s given to faculty salaries in
years,” Martin said.
House and Senate committees
worked for almost a month to find a
compromise that would eliminate the
need for a surcharge. Now legislators
say they are pleased with the final re
sult.
“We were able to hold the in-state
tuition increase down to the cost of
living,” said Martin Nesbitt, D-Bun
combe, co-chairman of the committee
that decided the budget.
Nesbitt added that he had been hesi
tant to appropriate money for faculty
salaries because the same teachers
sticky heat. It makes work almost un
bearable, and there’s no escape. We’re
working in what we refer to as our own
private hell.”
But Moore said the work was worth
the suffering.
“Being outdoors, working with na
ture and being able to observe plants in
their true environment—that beats any
type of indoor job,” he said. “That’s
why I wouldn’t trade it for an air-condi
tioned job. At least for this summer.”
sage parlors and adult cabarets.
Jenkins ruled that PHE was not an
adult-use business because it was not a
walk-in business like the examples listed
in the ordinance.
But OCAP members disagree. “It
does not matter if the sale is by mail or
above the counter. It’s an adult-use busi
ness,” Allison said, adding that the ex
amples in the ordinance were not meant
to exclude nonwalk-in businesses.
“We’re concerned about what that
says about Hillsborough,” he said. “It
says that we condone that kind of mer
chandising, and we do not.”
Allison said he was optimistic that
OCAP would win its appeal.
But PHE attorney Nick Herman, who
was surprised that OCAP had decided
to appeal, also believes his side will
prevail in court.
“I believe our legal position is cor
rect,” he said. “I guess it’s going to be,
again, a matter for the court.”
OCAP’s appeal probably won’t be
heard in court for another eight months,
Herman said.
PHE owner Phil Harvey said further
delays on building anew facility in
Hillsborough would mean more costs
to the company.
“We just prefer that they hadn’t (ap
pealed), but there it is, and they have a
right to,” he said. “(But) it’s a case
where clearly one party is obstructing
the rights of another.”
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tended to get raises every year. The
current system rewards professors for
research and not teaching ability, he
said.
But UNC-CH administrators praised
the final plan to eliminate the surcharge
and still increase teachers’ pay.
“We are delighted,” Chancellor Paul
Hardin said. “Now we have the oppor
tunity to be a little more competitive.”
The question now is how much will
be appropriated to UNC-CH. The deci
sion is up to the Board of Governors.
“The original Senate proposal in
volved raising faculty salary money just
at the two research universities,”
McCormick said. “Now what we don’t
know is ... will there be any vestige of
the original plan. Will Chapel Hill get
more than its arithmetic share?”
BOG report
emphasizes
teaching
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
A joint committee of the UNC
system’s highest governing body drafted
a preliminary report last week stating
that teaching should be the top priority
at all UNC campuses.
Two committees of the Board of
Governors the Committee on Per
sonnel and Tenure and the Committee
on Educational Planning, Policies and
Programs have spent the past six
months evaluatingtenure-awardingpro
cedures in the 16-campus system.
The 28-page report still is being fi
nalized and probably will not be voted
on by the fuUBOQ until September .but
it will recommend that the quality of
teaching be the first consideration in
tenure decisions.
“The primary mission of our univer
sities is teaching, and a primary consid
eration of tenure should be teaching,”
said Charles Evans, chairman of the
educational planning committee.
“But we do realize also that research
—particularly at UNC-Chapel Hill and
N.C. State and others in the system—is
important,” he said. “(But) we feel that
perhaps teaching has been relegated to
a lower level than research.”
The report also recommends that the
requirements for tenure be discussed
with professors and the discussions re
corded in the individual’s personnel
file. It also suggests including student
evaluations and reviews by peer profes
sors in teaching evaluation procedures.
In addition, the committee recom
mends that the 16 universities encour
age good teaching through teaching
awards and faculty development work
shops or activities.
The BOG also may offer annual
systemwide awards that will recognize
at least one professor from each institu
tion.
Evans pointed out that the report
would be a policy statement by the
BOG, but it would be left up to the
system president and the individual
schools whether to implement the rec
ommendations.
“I hope it will strengthen the tenure
procedures at our institutions, and it
will elevate the consideration of teach
ing without establishing any hard for
mula,” he said.
Two UNC-CH professors who have
contested their tenure denials in the past
year praised the committee’s emphasis
on teaching and their ideas for improv
ing teaching.
“I think that it’s very encouraging
that they’re taking teaching seriously,
and it’s long overdue,” said Kevin
Stewart, an assistant professor of geol
ogy, who was denied tenure last year
despite winning the Johnston Teaching
Excellence Award in 1991.
Award-winning Professor Paul
Ferguson’s tenure battle spurred the
debate of teaching versus research on
campus last semester. Almost 4,000
students signed petitions on Ferguson’s
behalf, arguing that teaching should
come first in tenure decisions. The Board
of Trustees awarded the performance
studies assistant professor tenure with-
See TENURE, page 2
Editor’s note:
The Rainbow Register, inserted in
this week’s Daily Tar Heel, is a spe
cial section produced by high school
students attending the Rainbow In
stitute, a three-week journalism pro
gram run by the UNC School of Jour
nalism and Mass Communication for
minority students.
Please peruse it at your leisure.