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Student Riders Could Face 15-Cenl Bus Fare Increase
BYDAN THOMAS
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council agreed
May 17 to consider raising bus fares as a
part of the new budget to be adopted June
The council voted 5-3 in favor of in
creasing bus fares from 60 cents to 75 cents
and increasing the price of annual bus
passes from SB9 to $204, according to Mark
Chilton, a council member who voted
against the measure.
“We discussed it some at a budget hear
ing,” Chilton said. “At this point, it looks
likeitisgoingup. It would take some effort
not to have it pass.”
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Chancellor-elect
Michael Hooker
and his wife
Carmen Hooker
Buell answer
questions at a
press conference
Friday. Hooker will
replace outgoing
chancellor Paul
Hardin, who is
stepping down
from his position
June 30.
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New Chancellor Ready For June Campus Visits
BYTHANASSISCAMBANIS
EDITOR
Before Michael Hooker takes office as
UNC’s chancellor July 1, the newly-ap
pointed leader said he planned on making
at least two earlier visits to campus to
coordinate his transition.
When accepting the chancellorship last
Friday, Hooker, president of the Univer
sity of Massachusetts system, described
coming to Chapel Hill as “the dream of a
lifetime.”
“It has always been my professional
UNC to Create Guidelines
for Teaching Assistants
BY USA MARIE COLLINS
STAFF WRITER
The Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools (SACS) recommended last
week that the University establish univer
sity-wide guidelines for the administration
of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs).
The request came as no surprise to Uni
versity officials who have been working to
establish such guidelines in response to a
similar request made by the Board of Gov
ernors in September 1994.
Provost Richard McCormick, who ap
pointed the committee collecting data to
analyze policies already in place, said the
initial indication that there was a problem
came in the form of anecdotal complaints
to the general administration.
“We didn’t get too many, but even one
is too much. Aside from the Board of
Governors’ request and the SACS recom
mendation, we have our own initiative to
ensure the quality of instruction of all our
undergraduates," McCormick said.
Senior Allison Rae Allen said she be
lieved there should be higher standards for
graduate students for whom English is a
second language.
“My freshman year, I had to drop my
first calculus class, and it wasn’t because
the teacher, a TA, didn’t know what he
was doing. He could stand up there and do
it all day. He just couldn’t explain it to us,”
Allen said.
Steve Hoffmann, Graduate and Profes
sional Student Federation (GPSF) presi
dent, said that although there were occa
sional horror stories circulating about the
If the budget is adopted, the increase in
bus fares would take effect July 1.
Steve Hoffman, president of the Gradu
ate and Professional Student Federation
at UNC, drafted a letter to the town coun
cil encouraging them to look for other
alternatives to offset budget decreases.
The letter stated that an increase in bus
fares would not encourage bus use in any
way, but it would instead lead to less
ridership and more automotive conges
tion.
Cal Horton, Chapel Hill’s town man
ager, said the last day for the council to
remove the increased bus fares from the
budget would be June 5.
“It would not be voted on until June 5, ”
ambition to finish off my career at Chapel
Hill,” he said. “My vision is always that
this would be the last stop in my career.”
So far, Hooker has not set firm dates for
the visits he plans on making to UNC
before actually taking over.
“I’ll probably make some visits before
(July 1) but obviously I have some respon
sibilities in Massachusetts, ” he said. Hooker
said he planned on spending much of the
next two months lobbying for the UMass
budget in the Massachusetts Legislature.
Hooker will draw a salary of $200,000
at UNC an SII,OOO raise for him. The
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teaching ability of GTAs, this was the
exception and not the rule.
“Most of these people are very, very
good. They are usually senior year, third or
fourth year graduate students,” Hoffmann
said. The guidelines, when put in place,
“are to show the people, to show the legis
lature and everybody, that these people
(GTAs) are very well trained and they’re
not just somebody thrown into a
‘gemishma’ class,” Hoffmann said.
Hoffmann and Kim Miller, vice presi
dent of the GPSF, have been working very
closely with the Center for Teaching and
Learning to establish requirements for all
graduate student teachers.
The center has classes and seminars
underway for GTAs about teaching a col
lege class. These courses cover such areas
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
Lester J.Pourciau
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
THURSDAY, MAY 25,1995
Horton said.
“The basic thing it would do is provide
a little more funding to pay for basic oper
ating expenses. The bottom line depends
on where you look in the system.”
Bob Godding, director of transporta
tion for Chapel Hill, said ridership was
expected to decline slightly with the in
creased fares.
"It anticipates about a five percent
change in ridership,” Godding said.
Although the ridership might decline
initially as a result of raised bus fares, the
increase in the services may lead to higher
ridership over the long ran.
“Back in 1990 when we increased the
fares, ridership actually increased,” he said.
Board ofTrastees will discuss Friday which
University-related foundation will provide
the $50,000 supplement to the UNC
chancellor’s base salary as provided by the
N.C. General Assembly. “I have a daugh
ter to educate, so I wasn’t ready to take too
much of a pay cut,” Hooker said.
He said it was difficult to leave UMass
after only three years, and have someone
else cany out his plans for that institution.
But he has already begun to talk about
UNC’s priorities as if they were his own.
Hooker said, “As an alumnus I’m very
worried about seeing the campus maintain
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“In the current budget, the only new ser
vice would be the North-South Express.”
The increased fares would raise bus
revenue by $85,000 from its present level
which is $457,000 per year.
This would serve to offset a decrease in
federal funding the town could experience,
Horton said.
He also said he thought public reaction
to the fare increase was mixed. Students of
the University had expressed concern over
the potential increase through both the
representation of their student body presi
dent and Hoffman.
At the budget hearing on May 17,
Hoffman spoke against the bus fare in
crease and asked council to reconsider the
its prestige and strength." He said he would
continue to fight to protect UNC’s budget
in coming years.
“If the state is going to have a secure
future, we need to keep a faculty that is
excellent,” he said. The University, he ex
plained, must maintain competitive fac
ulty salary levels to fight its slipping posi
tion relative to other universities. “You
can trade ambience for salary only so far. ”
Hooker said he had read the University’s
self-study report, and was familiarizing
See HOOKER, Page 2
proposed hikes.
“We are students, but valuable voting
citizens of this town and we deserve ac
countability for our interests,” he said.
Hoffman told the council that two-thirds
of the town’s bus ridership were students of
the University who already paid their
share.
"I thought the people who use mass
transportation were the good guys,"
Hoffman said.
Members of the council are still search
ing for other options.
“I oppose raising the bus fare,” Chilton
said. “There are cuts out there. There’s
also the possibility that an alternative rev
enue source may be offered to us by the
Decision Won’t Affect
Carolina Scholarships
BY STEPHEN LEE
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision
Monday to allow a Maryland ban on race
based scholarships to stand should not
affect the University of North Carolina
system’s scholarship program, officials said.
“We have a minority presence scholar
ship that is designed to meet federal guide
lines,” said George A. Antonelli, associate
vice president of student services General
Administration. “I’mconcemed.butldorit
think it’s like Maryland. But then again
I’m not a judge.”
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled unconstitutional a University of
Maryland scholarship program for black
students. The Supreme Court refused to
hear an appeal of the decision, letting it
stand but refusing at the same time to set a
national precedent.
Antonelli said the Maryland case was a
scholarship exclusively for black students
at a white school. “There is a crucial dis
tinction,” he said. “I don’t think there is a
comparison between the Maryland case
and the minority grants here.”
Provost Richard McCormick said the
Maryland decision should not affect UNC
CH’s scholarships, which give “preference”
to minorities, as opposed to being tagged
exclusively for members of one ethnic
group. In anticipation of the Supreme
Court’s decision, the University’s legal
counsel has looked at scholarships that
might pose a problem, McCormick said.
“We think our scholarships are okay,”
he said. “It’s very important to our aca
demic excellence that we become even
more diverse racially.”
Chancellor Paul Hardin said that since
the decision came in North Carolina’s cir
cuit, the University had to pay close atten
tion. “We have to analyze the decision
carefully,” Hardin said. “If a restrictive
interpretation is placed on this decision, it
Former Chancellor Sitterson
Dies After Battling Parkinson’s
BY JOANNA HOWELL
STAFF WRITER
Dr. Joseph Carlyle Sitterson, chancel
lor emeritus and Kenan professor of his
tory, died last Friday after a long bout with
Parkinson’s disease. Sitterson received his
bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees
from the University. He then taught his
tory at UNC from 1935 until he retired in
1981, serving as chancellor from 1966 to
1972.
“I was here the last year and a half that
he was chancellor, "said Boshamer profes
sor N. Ferebee Taylor, also chancellor
emeritus of the University. Taylor’s chan
cellorship directly followed Sitterson’s. “I
think he did a splendid job.”
Taylor was a student in one of Sitterson’s
history classes in the late 19305. “He was a
first class teacher and a very fine human
being,” Taylor said.
“He was known by hundreds of stu
dents as a remarkable teacher,” said Will
iam C. Friday, former president of the
UNC system and current executive direc
tor of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable
Trust.
Current UNC chancellor, Paul Hardin,
noted that Sitterson “was chancellor dur
ing some difficult times. His reputation as
a chancellor and as a distinguished teacher
of American history was well known when
I arrived.” During the time Sitterson was
chancellor, he faced such problems as the
Vietnam War, race relations issues and the
fear of communism
“He was a courageous and compassion
ate leader,” Hardin said. “His academic
leadership was his legacy.”
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state legislature.”
Chilton also said the council was in
creasing feres to raise revenue without call
ing for tax hikes on the residents of Chapel
Hill.
“We’re raising the fees on that sort of
thing,” Chilton said. “(It) is basically to
impose a greater tax on a segment of soci
ety that least deserves and least can afford
the tax.”
He said the people who take public
transportation to work are the ones con
serving fuel and helping traffic problems.
Chilton also said many public transpor
tation users occupy a lower income bracket
and should not have to face the fare in
crease.
“We have to analyze the
decision carefully. If a restric
tive interpretation is placed on
this decision, it could be really
damaging to the cause of
having a diverse student
body”
PAUL HARDIN
Chancellor
could be really damaging to the cause of
having a diverse student body.”
Minority scholarships are necessary to
integrate the universities, Antonelli said.
“I think scholarships help students at
tend the University - black and white,” he
said. “If they did away with it, less minori
ties would attend.”
He said the criteria for minority stu
dents receiving need-based scholarships
are the degree of course difficulty, grade
point average, class rank, standardized test
scores, letters of recommendation and ex
tracurricular activities.
Antonelli said North Carolina has 11
historically white universities and five his
torically blackuniversities. White students
receive minority grants to attend the pre
dominantly black schools and black stu
dents receive grants to attend white schools.
He said the need-based scholarships are
used as recruitment and retention tools.
Eleanor Morris, director of the Office of
Scholarships and Student Aid at UNC,
said some preference is given to minorities
in selecting scholarship recipients.
“The scholarships at this institution are
not restricted to ethnic groups,” she said.
“There are some that have preference to
minority groups.”
Thanassis Cambanis contributed to this story.
Friday also remembered how Sitterson
dealt with the tumultuous times during his
chancellorship. “He was a very devoted,
able, and conscientious adminikrator. He
served this university in a remarkable way
and carried it through troubled times.”
“I had the pleasure of appointing Chan
cellor Sitterson. From that day forward I
was in regular communication with him,”
Friday said. “He had a great sense of hu
mor, loved to play golf and was a good
friend.”
Bill Travis was was student body presi
dent during the 1967-1968 school year. “I
remember him very fondly,” Travis said.
“All four years that I was there he was a
warm and helpful person.”
Travis said he remembered Sitterson as
encouraging an informal relationship with
the student body president and always hav
ing an open door to discuss problems and
campus issues. “I could always go in and
discuss things with him. There was never
See SITTERSON, Page 6
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