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Thursday, February 16,1995
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Raise Your Voice; Save Your Wallet
So much for being a bargain.
UNC has long been heralded as one of the
best buys in higher education for its affordable,
solid program for both in-state and out-of-state
students. Obviously, Gov. Jim Hunt wasn’t
thinking about UNC’s reputation —but only
about hying to work with the Republicans who
have taken over the legislature when he pro
posed his state budget this week.
Hunt has proposed a one-time tuition hike of
3.1 percent for in-state students and an increase
of 10 percent per year for three years for out-of
state students at most of the 16 campuses in the
system.
Plain and simple, these numbers mean that
out-of-state students will not be able to afford
UNC and that they will invest their money and
talent in their home states, or anywhere else.
And that sets the wheel spinning for even lower
rankings and fewer students interested in a North
Carolina education.
At a time when some professors are calling for
the University to relax its policies on letting in
out-of-state students, Hunt’s proposal only stands
to discourage those who want to travel to North
Carolina to attend a prestigious and inexpensive
university.
Yes, the state’s responsibility is to make sure
that UNC stays accessible for the people of
North Carolina. But in the process, UNC should
not and cannot keep prices down at the expense
of out-of-state students who contribute to the
quality and reputation of our state university
system.
The effects of ballooning tuition rates will be
felt on all levels. Our school stands to lose the
potential and talent of up-and-coming graduate
students to institutions more willing to meet
their needs.
Already, the skimpy stipends and benefits
graduate students receive threaten to turn the
most talented students away from Chapel Hill.
UNC only has 385 remissions that exempt some
Out-of-State, Out of Mind
The Board of Governors seems to think that
threatening further funding cuts is the best way
to make the UNC system safe for in-state stu
dents.
At a time when in-state and out-of-state stu
dents must witness the quality of their education
slipping amid cuts, this plan is simply the wrong
way to deal with the problem of overadmission
of out-of-state students.
On Friday, at their annual retreat, the UNC
Board of Governors voted to penalize UNC
system schools for exceeding the 18 percent
maximum of out-of-state students.
Funding cuts would be enacted against of
fending schools if they enrolled out-of-state stu
dents beyond this rigid limit for two consecutive
years.
Since 1988, when the BOG first decided to
limit the number of out-of-state freshmen ac
cepted, the admissions office has restricted the
number of prospective students from outside
North Carolina to which they offered admis
sion.
They could rely only on past evidence to
predict how many of these acceptees would
actually enroll. Now, the Board of Governors
plans to penalize UNC for overenrollment be
yond its control. The Board of Governors’ ac
tion will do much to harm the University.
BAROMETER
The Week’s Opinion in Review
Free Silver Candidacy
While SBP runoff candidates hit their
cash reserves to finance more
campaigning, it's encouraging to know
that Congress member-elect Bryan
Kimzey spent zero dollars to get
himself into office.
Latex Love
During Valentine's Day. we give out
chocolate candies, flowers or maybe
even jewelry. But when it comes to
giving up a bit more, give out one
more thing -a condom. Passion need
not be bottled up, it simply needs to be
wrapped. Like we should with
Valentine's Day. make National
Condom Week every week of the year.
JL
Buy Back the HiU
Recent surveys indicate that buying
guns can improve a community's
safety. That is if residents, such as law
student Allen Baddour, are buying
them - back. Buy Back the Hill
organizers encourage residents to pass
over their guns to the police depart
ment and in return they can receive a
tidy sum.
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graduate students from paying full out-of-state
tuition. While Hunt’s plan significantly hikes
tuition, it does not provide for more remissions,
which means even more graduate students will
be paying their bills in full. This, added to the
lack of health insurance at the graduate level,
makes UNC an exceedingly unattractive place
to further an academic career.
And, at the undergraduate level, fewer quali
fied graduate students means less-gifted teachers
in the classroom.
The state is sending out a message that it is not
thinking about its universities, especially as this
hike is coupled with shrinking raises for faculty
and significant cuts in the system’s capital bud
get.
The entire University community must face
the budget crisis together. As soon as the new
student body president is elected next week,
students, faculty and administrators must make
themselves heard in Raleigh.
Our delegation—along with every legislator
who has a university in his or her home district
must listen and must fight for our needs.
Write to your representatives. Call them in
Raleigh. Don’t sit by and let the legislature make
a decision it can’t explain.
Call Fred Hobbs and Teena Little and let
them know that tuition hikes this high are not
OK. Tell Reps. Joe Hackney and Anne Barnes
that they must make UNC’s needs a priority.
The main number at the General Assembly is
(919) 733-4111. Use it.
This campus cannot sit back and let this bud
get move through the assembly. Hunt and his
colleagues must be reminded that the state still
has to sell UNC to high school students all over
the United States and that the message high
tuition sends is one of indifference.
We must teach our legislators that higher
education distinguishes our state and that the
only way to invest in our future is to keep tuition
bills down.
Now, out of fear of further cuts spurred by the
possibility of another overenrollment, the ad
missions office will be forced to drastically lower
the number of out-of-state students offered ad
mission.
Students from outside the state, and outside
the country, bring diverse perspectives and inter
ests to this university, not to mention a boost to
the academic strength of the student body. Their
loss would be a tragic blow to the goal of having
a diverse University community.
The BOG’s penalty of choice, restricted fund
ing, will further harm the University.
Right now is not the time for more funding
cuts.
Faculty are facing pay raises below the level of
inflation, and departments are looking to see if
there is anything left to cut. Facing falling
rankings, the University cannot withstand an
other blow.
Unless the Board of Governors changes this
shortsighted policy, it will end up harming the
universities it wishes to protect and preserve for
in-state students.
In the past few years, the University of North
Carolina has attracted more students than even
the Office of Admissions could have predicted.
Why should the University be punished for be
ing recognized as such a great place?
A Hot and Sunny February?
Is there something wrong with the
barometer? The rain is miserable; it's
cloudy, windy and cold; and people are
getting tan. Oh yes, you know Spring
Break is definitely on the way when
UNC women are spotted sneaking into
local tanning salons —one of the few
rituals this campus can depend on year
after year.
A Stormy Sea for UNC
We've all heard about the separation of
church and state in America. But after
hearing Gov. Hunt's proposals for UNC.
perhaps we should consider a
separation between education and
politics in North Carolina. Hunt's
proposals are about as academically
sound as a 1.5 GPA.
Extended Forecast
Hey Calvin and Stacey, we know who
you are! If you won't spare our campus
brickwalks from your unsightly chalk,
may Adolph Coors pray for rain on
Tuesday. Then our precious walkways
will be cleansed with a bath from the
Lord.
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EDITORIAL
Fred X Hall: Racism Remains ‘Sugar-Coated’ at UNC
When I started graduate school in sociology
here at UNC in 1977, my family and I
lived in a mobile home park about 8 miles
out of town. The setting was bucolic and serene,
and though 5 of us were cramped into a 12-foot
by 56-foot single-wide trailer, it was located with
several others in view of a placid lake. The man
who collected our rent was an older black man—
a dairy farmer —and his wife was a retired
school teacher from the Chapel Hill-Canboro
schools. Both were either from Orange County,
or had been living here most of their lives Being
from Philadelphia and having the usual stereo
typed images of the South, I said to him one day
how amicably races appeared to get along with
one another here in “The Southern Part of
Heaven.” This gentleman said something to me
I shall never forget: “There’s plenty of racism
here Fred, but it’s ‘sugar-coated.’” Today, in
1995,1 can bear witness to the truth of what he
said. I now know exactly what he meant.
The ongoing embattlement of black Student
Body President George Battle, the disgustingly
drawn-out appeal of Keith Edwards’ case, the
mistreatment of Eric Browning, the gymnastics
and conniptions required year after year for the
Black Student Movement to obtain binding, not
to mention the blatantly disproportionate repre
sentation in custodial, feeding, and other
“caretaking” services of blacks on this campus,
all serve to illustrate that UNC at Chapel Hill is
nothing more than Plantation 1995. WThenlwas
a child, I heard a song entitled “a White Man’s
Heaven Is a Black Man’s Hell.” Now, at age 47,
I know what that is really all about. The “South
ern Part of Heaven” for some people is really the
“Northern Part of Hell” for others. Take a look
at the “Tar Heel” logo. It sometimes is shown as
blue in color, but usually it is white, while the
heel is almost always black.
What does that connote? What is the deeper
symbolic message conveyed? The keeping un
der the (white) foot of the (black) tar stuck to the
heel is simply representative of die true position
Out-of-Staters Benefit UNC
TO THE EDITOR:
Your Feb. 14 article “BOG to Enforce Out
of-State Limit” describes the Board of Gover
nors’ threatened financial penalties against UNC
system schools, especially UNC-Chapel Hill, if
they do not sharply cap their numbers of out-of
state students at 18 percent or less. Provost
Richard McCormick bowed to the BOG’s out
of-state policy “which it believes is in the best
interest of its universities.”
Asanout-of-staterwhohasgrowntolove this
state and its people, I STRONGLY DISAGREE
with the BOG’s policy. I have heard many
North Carolinians justify it to me by claiming,
“You don’t pay taxes here for the schools.”
Well, according to Gov. Hunt’s budget pro
posal, out-of-state tuition will rise another 30
percent, designed to ensure that out-of-staters
pay the FULL cost of their education here. Also,
many out-of-staters hold jobs to cover their ris
ing tuition (state wage taxes) and pay other taxes
here (sales tax). So, that argument doesn’t work;
out-of-staters pay their way and pay into the
economy of North Carolina.
As for the BOG’s reason given at the policy’s
passage in 1988 that it didn’t want too many
residents “denied access to the state universi
ties," I believe roughly 14 UNC-system schools
serve this state. The problem seems to be not of
access in general to higher education but instead
access to Chapel Hill. This state is fortunate to
have a tiered system with Chapel Hill leading
the way as a nationally respected institution. In
my native Louisiana, each LSU-system school
has virtually the same (low) admissions stan
dards, leaving all mediocre at best and creating
a “brain drain” of talented students from the
state, many permanently. Conversely, some tal
ented out-of-staters come to North Carolina and
most talented residents stay here forcollege, and
about 50 percent of the out-of-staters stay here
after graduation, helping add to the vitality and
economic growth of this region. However, if the
BOG is truly concerned about maintaining
Chapel Hill’s stature in the face of declining
national rankings and past budget cuts, it should
look to the University of Virginia’s example,
UVa admits a much higher percentage of out-of
staters and has, I think not coincidentally, main
tained its stature and rankings better than we.
I do not mean to focus on those obscure
“rankings,” or even on SAT scores which show
out-of-staters with 150 point higher averages,
for those are just numbers. The focus should be
on the PEOPLE. Two of my best friends here are
from England and Venezuela—out-of-country,
not just out-of-state! The things one can learn
of black people at
Carolina, in Chapel
Hill, in the state of
North Carolina, in
the United States, in
the world!
Apropos
embattlement, did
Rutgers’ president
commit a faux pas
by letting the cat out
ofthebagandmerely
articulating what
America’s majority
is really thinking?
FRED X HALL
GUEST COLUMNIST
What Carolina’s majority is really thinking? Are
Hermstein and Murray at the “upper end” of not
a “bell curve,” but an “innovation/diflusion/
adoption ” curve, having the courage to say openly
what some articulate in privacy, and many oth
ers do in the secret spaces of their hearts? I often
invite my students to make use of what is called
the “sociological imagination" (a term coinedby
C. Wright Mills) to become more fully aware of
the connections between their individual life
experiences (biography), the society as a whole
(social structure), and the part played by the
moving stream of time (history) in shaping both
the individual and society. I invite you to do the
same.
What is your position here at Carolina? How
do you “fit in”? How did you get to where you
are? And perhaps most important of all, where
are you going? Where are we going? In the wake
ofthe 1968 civil disordersinAmerica’scities, the
Kemer Commission intimated we were moving
toward two societies one white, one black (in
deed, nonwhite), separate and unequal. Political
scientist Andrew Hacker seized on this phrase as
the springboard for his penetrating analysis in
the book “Two Nations.”
But we really don’t have to look far to see two
nations. Look at overall allocations of students
to campus residence hall sites. Look at your own
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from contact with people like that is a large part
of one’s college experience, as is the academic
challenge of knowing that you’re butting heads
with some of the brightest people from around
the country, not just the state. The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill will always be and
should always be a university of the people, as
Charles Kuralt described in his Kenan Stadium
speech, but I firmly believe that its people are
NOT well served by the arbitrary 18 percent cap
on out-of-state students. I urge our newly elected
student leaders at all levels to examine this issue
and work to change it.
Alan Arnold
JUNIOR
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Wilson’s TNoHd Without
Racial Distinction* Unrealistic
TO THE EDITOR:
Tadd Wilson’s condemnation of Black His
tory Month as “exclusionary history” (“Black
History Month Makes Exclusionary History,”
Feb. 13) is breath-taking in its ignorance and
insensitivity. It is fine to prefer a world without
racial distinction (“why limit history to black?”),
but that is not the world that we have inherited.
When, in 1926, the African-American histo
rian, Carter Woodson, inaugurated the celebra
tion of what has become Black History Month,
the UNC student body was not only all white,
but—like most of their parents and instructors
they also regularly dismissed black people as
a servant class incapable of citizenship, let alone
of higher achievement. Defying the
marginalization of his people, Woodson knew
slfp Satin
dorm, within floors and within rooms. Look at
seating “choices” in classes, in Lenoir and in
other dining facilities. Faculty and staff col
leagues, we may not live on campus, but what is
the nature, quality, and frequency of our work
place and social interactions across racial lines?
With whom do we choose to spend our free time?
With whom do we play and pray (if we do
either)? I know that I have spent a great deal of
my own time and energy on this campus trying
to bridge the racial divide that separates us by
such things as my participating in Black-Jewish
dialogues in both the Sonja Haynes Stone BCC
[sic] and Hillel House.
I am at the point now of wondering how much
good is really being done, how much progress is
really being made by such efforts. It seems to all
be Samsara an endless round of births and
deaths in a changeless cycle of racial “progress”
that takes one step forward and two steps back
(remember the outcome of the national elections
ofNovember 1994?). And now, I read in the Feb.
13 edition of The Daily Tar Heel that 24 (white?)
men at Carolina are about to establish a chapter
of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Oh, joy!
So where does all this leave us? I don’t know
where it leaves you—you’ll have to answer that
for yourself—but I do know where it leaves me.
Studying history is good. Making it is even bet
ter. “Ifthe mountain won’t come to Muhammad,
then Muhammad must go to the mountain. ” Ben
Chavis and Louis Farrakhan have called for
black men in America to converge on Washing
ton, D.C., in a Million Man March in October
1995. I’ll be there. How much of the other “tar”
on the heel will be there from UNC-Chapel Hill?
Or will we just sit at home on the plantation?
P.S. If you find anything I have stated above
disturbing, ortroubling, or offensive, Sony 'bout
that, but just remember: I was made in the
U.5.A.... and at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Brother Dr. Fred X (Hall) is an assistant professor of
sociology.
that the qualities of self-knowledge and self
esteem were prerequisites to a larger spirit of
struggle for civil rights. Initially, he chose the
second week of February to commemorate that
struggle, symbolically connecting the birthdays
of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
Since that time, of course, much has changed.
Black history, like the civil rights movement, has
generally been adopted as a precious part of our
national heritage, part of our self-inquiry as a
people. Like all histories, this one has its charla
tans, including the Afrocentric eccentrics to which
Mr. Wilson refers. But that is no reason to throw
out the baby with the bathwater. It is no reason
to confuse the very different historic roles of
Jesse Helms and Jesse Jackson. Before we close
the book on Black History Month, one question,
please, Mr. Wilson. You call your column, “Roll
It Again, James.” Who is James?
Zachary Smith
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
Hinton Janos Hikers Deserve
PHYA Credit for Daily Trek
TO THE EDITOR:
As legend would have it, over 200 years ago,
a dedicated scholar named Hinton James trekked
over a hundred miles by foot to attend our pres
tigious university. Today, nearly a thousand
students pay tribute to that honorable young
man through a pedestrian journey of their own.
Fittingly, those students who conquer the endur
ing quest from South to North Campus each
morning also share the common bond of dwell
ing in the edifice that bears the name of that first
Tar Heel student: Hinton James. Thus it is only
fair that these deserving students receive not just
recognition and admiration, but one hour of
physical activity credit as well. First of all, the
average James’r walks about 400 miles between
North and South Campus through the course of
a year. That’s 33,000 calories burned, or 56
Chase “Advantage Meals.” Now, compare that
to the calories burned in a semester of howling
and decidewherethatcredithour belongs. Other
physical exertions endured by James’rs include
canying large numbers ofbooks as to avoid extra
trips back to South Campus between classes,
stair-climbing with up to 10 floors available for
true fitness enthusiasts and, of course, speedy
escapes during fire alarms (some real, some just
for fun). Hinton James would surely agree: It’s
time to give credit where PHYA credit is due.
Todd Lasher
FRESHMAN
ECONOMICS