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A Century of Editorial Freedom
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Volume 101, Issue 52
UNC dissolves
RTVMP, plans
new program
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
After almost a year of questions and
debate, the fate of the troubled Depart
ment of Radio, Television and Motion
Pictures was decided Monday.
Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences, announced his
plan to dissolve the RTVMP depart
ment and the Department of Speech
Communication and combine the two
to form anew Department of Commu
nication Studies beginning Aug. 1.
The School of Journalism and Mass
Communication, which previously
shared the broadcast program with
RTVMP, beginning this fall will absorb
all broadcast journalism and broadcast
management studies.
“I’m absolutely confident this is a
good solution,” Provost Richard
McCormick said of Birdsall’s decision.
“This gives Carolina a remarkable op
portunity to be innovative and at the
cutting edge of an extremely exciting
field.”
Combined, the RTVMP and speech
departments will make up a department
of about 600 majors —one of the larg
est at UNC.
During the next two years, courses
offered in both RTVMP and speech
communication will not change, Birdsall
said. Graduate and undergraduate stu
dents cunently majoring in either disci
pline will be able to finish their majors.
Students also have the option to keep
RTVMP or speech communication on
ffieif transcripts until 1995.
All faculty and staff positions will be
maintained in both speech and RTVMP.
The new department will include 10
RTVMP faculty members and 14 from
speech communication. At least one
RTVMP professor will move to the
journalism school, Birdsall said. But he
would not identify the faculty member.
The decision to form the new depart
ment comes after a year of controversy
over what to do with RTVMP, which
suffered from financial and manpower
troubles.
The ailing RTVMP department un
derwent a series of consultations
throughout the year. One, an external
review recommending the department
be “disestablished” and the programs
Comparison of UNC Faculty Salaries
Name Position Year hired Salary 1992 raise Name Position Year hired Salary 1992 raise
David Lowery chairman 1985 $53,000 $0 Georoe Sheldon chairman 1984 $302,400 $22,400
Dick Richardson disting, professor 1969 $99,500 $2,000 Steven Gudeman distino. professor 1991 $380,000 $70,000
Pamela Conover professor 1984 $52,250 $0 Hugh Peterson distlng. professor 1983 $222,970 $15,554
Lewis Lipsitz professor 1964 $43,650 $0 Charles Herbst professor 1973 $154,085' $7,337
Jonathan Hartlyn assoc, professor 1988 $45,500 $0 Stephen Powers assoc, professor 1983 $202,659 $0
George Rabinowitz assoc, professor 1974 $38,500 SI,OOO Dale Oiler assoc, professor 1987 $181,440 $14,982
Patrick Bruer asst, professor 1986 $29,000 $0 Mark Weissler asst professor 1986 $170,117 SIO,OOO
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Name Position Year hired Salary 1992 raise ■
Laurence Avery chairman 1966 $70,900 $2,000 Name Position Year hired Salary 1992 raise
Markßeed disting, professor 1963 $70,558 S7BB Carl Zeithaml interim dean 1986 $107,000 $30,000
PhSipGura professor 1907 $62,400 S4OO William Perreault disting, professor 1976 $121,000 $16,000
Julius Raper professor 1966 $42,222 $625 Rollie Tillman professor 1960 $84,000 $5 000
Janes Coleman assoc, professor 1991 $47,800 S6OO Robert Headen professor 1967 $62,400 $0
Anne Hail assoc, professor 1974 $38,840 $750 Mustafa Gultekln assoc, professor 1985 $81,500 $14,500
Ashley Barbour asst professor 1988 $32,252 $752 Julie Collins assoc, professor 1989 $74,000 $9,500
Pamela Cooper asst professor 1990 $29,900 S9OO William Jackson asst, professor 1992 $72,000 $0
Kenneth Wiles asst, professor 1990 $69,000 $4,000
Name Position Year hired Salary 1992 raise tlHil'UliiilliivM
Ralph Quatrano chairman 1989 $86,000 $8,500 Name Position Year hired Salary 1992 raise
John Pringle disting, professor 1991 $65,522 $522 Judith Wegner dean 1981 $112,500 $1,200
Albert Harris professor 1972 $52,208 $522 Paul Haskell dlsting. professor 1977 $112,785 SI,OOO
Robert Pee professor 1975 $49,522 $522 Patricia Bryan professor 1982 SBO,OOO SI,OOO
Gustavo Maroni assoc, professor 1975 $49,622 $2,953 Jerry Markham assoc, professor 1991 $85,000 SI,OOO
Alan Jones assoc, professor 1986 $37,822 $2,572 Ussa Broome assoc, professor 1984 $59,100 SI,OOO
Victoria Bautch asst, professor 1989 $51,084 $522 Louis Biltonis asst professor 1988 $56,50) SI,OOO
Mark Peifer asst professor 1991 $35,522 $522
Source: UNC Personnel Records, Human Resouces Dept. As of 8/92
Professors’ salaries vary greatly
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
Lewis Lipsitz makes $43,650a year
as a UNC political science professor.
Charles Herbst makes almost four
times that amount 5154,085 —as
a surgery professor of the same rank in
the School of Medicine.
Similarly, law Professor Patricia
Bryan and business Professor Rollie
Tillman make twice the amount Lipsitz
makes.
These figures illustrate the dispar
ity between salaries of professors who
teach in the College of Arts and Sci
ences and those who make a living in
the medical and professional schools.
To top it off, newer and lower
ranking professors such as Jonathan
WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION
Thursday, July 22,1993
split between a sequence in Media Arts
and a curriculum in cultural studies,
raised the ire of students, faculty and
alumni who were afraid administrators
would cease all courses in production.
Concerned students, faculty and
alumni banded together to protect the
department. But after numerous meet
ings with Hardin, Birdsall and other
administrators, many said they felt they
had no impact on the final decision.
“I think the University has failed
miserably in trying to communicate with
students enrolled in the department,” H.
Taylor “Bud” Vaden, an RTVMP alum
nus and former president of the Na
tional Broadcasters Promotion Asso
ciation, said in an interview Tuesday.
“(Birdsall) failed to bring anybody in
who knows anything about production
in radio, television or motion pictures,”
said Vaden, who was one of more than
100 alumni urging the University to
maintain the RTVMP department.
But Birdsall said he considered sug
gestions from students, faculty and
alumni when he made his final deci
sion. In addition, he said he planned to
keep production a part of the new com
munication department.
“Production and the experience of
production ... is a key component and
should not be done away with,” Birdsall
said.
In a report to Hardin on the commu
nication department, Birdsall recom
mends establishing a program fee—an
extra fee for students taking courses
using production equipment—and “vig
orous partnerships with industry” to
obtain donations of equipment and sup
plies for production classes.
Birdsall said the new department
would focus on the changing field of
communication — ; both technical and
theoretical.
“Obviously, technology is changing
very rapidly,” he said. “The
interconnectedness between the medium
of the current forms of communication
make an almost new medium.... That
includes the understanding that what it
is we say and how we say it —and that
could be orally or visually has tre
mendous impact on the success of the
message and it’s impact.”
See RTVMP, page 6
Hartlyn, a political science associate
professor, and James Coleman, an asso
ciate professor of English, often make
more money than the veteran Lipsitz.
University administrators will try to
juggle the concerns of the many under
paid professors as they decide how to
distribute state money earmarked for
faculty salaries in the next few months.
The General Assembly has budgeted
a 2-percent raise and a one-time 1-
percent bonus for all state employees as
well as an additional $7.1 million spe
cifically for faculty salaries in the UNC
system for the 1993-94 fiscal year. The
UNC Board of Governors will deter
mine how the $7.1 million will be dis
tributed among the 16 campuses.
“One of the key things is how much
of the $7.1 million we’ll get,” said Pro
I don’t want to swim in a roped-off sea. —Jimmy Buffett
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Murder suspect
to face hearing
By Kelly Ryan
Associate Editor
The 18-year-old Chapel Hill High
School student charged with killing and
attempting to rape a jogger on Estes
Drive last week will appear in Orange
County District Court Friday for a prob
able cause hearing.
Chapel Hill police arrested and
charged Anthony Georg Simpson, 18,
of 127 Essex Drive, with first-degree
murder and first-degree attempted rape
early last Thursday morning.
• Kristen Ann Lodge-Miller, of 103
Misty Woods Circle, went out for an
early morning jog just before 6 a.m. last
Thursday on Estes Drive. According to
police reports, Simpson jumped out of
some bushes on the south side of the
street near Somerset Drive and tried to
rape her.
Lodge-Miller struggled free and ran
west on Estes Drive, eventually falling
about two feet from the edge of the
pavement, reports stated.
Simpson opened fire with a handgun
while she was running and then caught
up with Lodge-Miller and shot her a
fifth time, police said.
An off-duty police officer responded
to the shooting at 5:56 a.m. and arrested
Simpson at the Church of Reconcilia
tion on North Elliott Road, reports stated.
The South Orange Rescue Squad
transported Lodge-Miller to UNC Hos
pitals, and she died several minutes
later.
Simpson, who was employed by the
Carolina Dining Service, is being held
in the Orange County Jail without bond.
Police Chief Ralph Pendergraph said
police still were investigating where
Simpson got the gun used in the shoot
ing. Pendergraph said he could not say
much about the incident because pre
trial publicity could adversely affect the
trial.
“(Simpson) was observed by offic
ers in the vicinity before the incident,
and witnesses pointed us in his direc
tion,” he said. “We have no indication
anyone else was involved.”
Police officers had to physically sub
due Simpson when arresting him,
Pendergraph said. Public defender
James Williams will defend Simpson in
court.
Although there are other charges
pending against Simpson, Orange-
Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox
said they would not affect the hearing. It
is too soon to tell what kind of punish
ment the state will pursue in this case,
See SHOOTING, page 2
Compiled by Yi-Hsin Chang Chart by John Caserta
vost Richard McCormick.
According to the Office of Institu
tional Research, professors in the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences are paid an
average of $62,641, associate profes
sors earn $42,954 and assistant pro
fessors take home $36,197.
Meanwhile, medical professors’
salaries range from an average of
$135,282 for professors to $91,448
for assistant professors. Business pro
fessors make an average of $83,981
while assistant professors get $66,625.
Law professors’ salaries average close
to those of business professors.
Market forces in the way of outside
offers from competing universities and
private enterprise play a large role in
See SALARIES, page 4
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jogger’s death
spurs women
to play it safe
By Kelly Ryan
Associate Editor
Be aware of your surroundings. Be
confident. Be aggressive.
But don’t look afraid.
“I try to teach people to be aware, not
to be fearful every minute of the day.
Don’t look or act like a victim,” said
Terry More-Holland, a UNC graduate
student who teaches self-defense, weight
training and karate.
One week after a 26-year-old woman
was shot and killed in broad daylight in
front of about six witnesses, More-Hol
land, like other self-defense instructors
and police officers, is encouraging
women to be aware of their surround
ings to prevent an attack.
“If you’re going to go out, you want
to know the area you’re walking in or
any possible danger zones,” she said.
“Every situation is different. You can’t
say if someone approaches you with a
weapon, you should do this. It depends.”
Kristin Ann Lodge-Miller, a resident
of Shadowood Apartments on Estes
Drive, was jogging at about 6 a.m. along
Estes Drive last Thursday when police
suspect Anthony Georg Simpson, 18,
jumped out of the bushes and attempted
to rape her, according to Chapel Hill
police reports.
Lodge-Miller, who was carrying
mace at the time of the incident, got
away and ran west on Estes Drive, even
tually falling about two feet from the
edge of the payment.
As she was running, Simpson opened
fire and followed Lodge-Miller to the
other side of the road. He then shot her
point blank with a handgun, police said.
Lodge-Miller was rushed to UNC
Hospitals and died several minutes later.
Police arrested and charged Simpson
with first-degree murder and first-de
gree attempted rape. He is being held in
Orange County jail without bail.
Jim Hugerich, supervisor of the
Chapel Hill Police Department Crisis
Unit, said the best way for a woman to
protect herself was to avoid situations
that could put her in danger.
“Most people prey on those who are
vulnerable,” he said. “If you’re with
another person, you’re several hundred
percent safer.”
Trustees to address
BCC issue on Friday
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
Although the UNC Board of Trust
ees plans to meet Friday, it is uncertain
whether it will vote on the issue of a
free-standing black cultural center.
“I don’t know what action will be
taken, if any, at the July meeting,” said
Chancellor Paul Hardin on Monday,
adding that the board may discuss the
issue at the meeting in executive ses
sion.
The BOT must approve plans for a
BCC before the proposal can move to
the UNC Board of Governors.
Hardin has not made a recommenda
tion to the BOT regarding the issue and
does not know if he will do so Friday.
He said he would not make a recom
mendation until the board was ready to
vote on it.
“I’m not going to make any recom
mendation until I’ve discussed it with
the board,” he said. “It’s very much in
their court right now.”
Five new members will arrive on the
BOT Friday. Hardin said he had dis
cussed the issue with some of them as
well as with the returning members.
The chancellor publicly has stated
his support for a free-standing Sonja
Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
although he has not committed to a
particular site for the building.
Much controversy has surrounded
discussion about where to build anew
BCC. The BCC Advisory Board and
other BCC supporters favor building on
the Wilson-Dey site the area next to
Wilson Library and Dey Hall be
cause of its central location on campus.
But science department officials have
argued that the Wilson-Dey site is the
best location for a physical-sciences
library.
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Several women's groups held a ceremony Saturday to grieve the death of Kristin
Lodge-Miller. Flowers mark the spots where she was attacked and shot on Estes Drive.
Several years ago, a woman fended
off an attacker by getting on her hands
and knees and having like a dog. Al
though Hugdrich said he would not nec
essarily recommend a similar tactic,
there are no rules when survival is in
volved.
“When beyond the issue of preven
tion, you need to do what you need to do
at that point,” he said.
Chemical sprays, such as mace, can
be effective, but self-defense instruc
tors do not recommend their use be
cause they tend to anger a would-be
attacker.
‘Truthfully, mace only makes people
angTy. It doesn’t work,” More-Holland
said. “You have to have it ready the
whole time you’re running.”
Kathleen Hopwood, the head self
defense instructor at the Durham-based
Safe Skills, said the shelf life of mace
The Buildings and Grounds Com
mittee submitted a report to Hardin in
late June that recommended the Wil
son-Dey site as a more acceptable site
for the BCC than the other possible
location, the Coker site, which is lo
cated across the street between Coker
Hall and the Bell Tower.
In Lddition, the committee suggested
that the chancellor consider the site now
occupied by the Campus Y building as
a possible location for the BCC.
Hardin said that he had been discuss
ing the issue of where to build the BCC
with the BCC Advisory Board, Campus
Y officials, science department faculty,
Buildings and Grounds Committee
Chairman John Sanders and black se
nior faculty.
“I’ve done very little else,” Hardin
said. ‘Tve done a lot of listening since
the last (BOT) meeting.”
Meanwhile, the BCC Advisory
Board, which met with Hardin last week,
wrote the chancellor a letter, urging him
to make a recommendation to the BOT
on Friday to approve building the BCC
on the Wilson-Dey site. ■
“All we ask now is for you to honor
this process that you initiated—that we
all have followed in good faith—do the
right thing and make the recommenda
tion to the Board of Trustees,” the letter
states.
Harry Am ana, a journalism profes
sor and chairman of the BCC Advisory
Board, said he would like the BOT to
approve the site Friday so BCC sup
porters could begin fund-raising for the
building. The BOT is not scheduled to
meet again until September.
“I can’t see any reason for not honor
ing the process, which (Hardin) initi
ated, by recommending a 53,000-
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Although instructors cannot teach
, students absolute defenses, learning to
be mentally prepared for an attack can
be just as helpful.
“Women should take self-defense.
It’s not about kicking and punching,”
Hopwood said. “It’s about the psycho
logical effects that accompany an at
tack.”
Hopwood said she could not second
guess the way Lodge-Miller handled
the attacker last week. “I’m not sure
anything would have happened differ
ently because he had the weapon,” she
said.
“Unless you can run faster than the
speed of light, there aren’t a lot of things
See SAFETY, page 4
Andresen
won’t seek
third term
By Rochelle Klaskin
Staff Writer
Two-term Chapel Hill Town Coun
cil member Julie Andresen this week
became the second incumbent to an
nounce her decision not to run for an
other term on the
townboard
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take time to re
fleet and have an N- jArifpFtSLJ
opportunity to do I
other things,” she
Andresen and
council member C ilfrpCl Hill
Art Werner both fjyWH Council
decided not to
seek re-election. Council members
Joyce Brown, Barbara Powell and Alan
Rimer hold the other three open council
seats, and each has entered the race.
The candidate who receives the fifth
highest number of votes will serve the
remaining two-years of Powell’s term.
Andresen said she thinks she has
made a positive contribution during the
eight years she has served the council.
“There is nothing more satisfying
than serving locally on a government
board,” she said.
Andresen recently was appointed to
serve on the board of directors for the
Orange Water and Sewer Authority as a
liaison to the council.
She plans to stay in close contact
with the council even though her term
will end in November, she said, adding
that she would keep the town’s interests
and needs in mind as a member of the
OWASA board.
See COUNCIL, page 5