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Immune Alumni
I While police cracked down on students with open containers of alcohol during
the last two weeks, unknowing alumni were given a gentler lesson in town law.
Town and University Police need a lesson in
fair play. When police chose to kick off the
school year by issuing citation after citation,
they sent a message that the law was to be taken
seriously.
But when alumni came strolling into town for
the seasonopening football game, police let the
law slide.
Police need to be consistent. Either cite every
one with an open container, or give everyone
warnings
The first lesson students received on the new
law, which took effect Aug. 1, was a throng of
charges during a party in Fraternity Court before
classes had even begun.
Yet, when alumni made their first trek to
Chapel Hill this year, police let many offenders
off with a slap on the wrist and a request to empty
a beer bottle. Not one citation was issued at
Media Ban Ensures Inaccuracy
Like any other defendant, Wendell
Williamson is constitutionally guaranteed a fair
trial. His attorneys want to ensure that he gets
one, not by pursuing traditional options, but by
barring the press from pretrial hearings in which
Williamson’s mental history will be explored.
Banning reporters from the courtroom is
hardly appropriate, both in principle and in
practicality. It deprives the public of their right
to know what occurs in the trial, and it forces
reporters to rely on secondhand, less reliable
sources than their own presence in court.
Seven months ago, the entire community was
shaken by the Henderson Street shooting spree
that ended the fives of Kevin Reichardt and
Ralph Walker. Since then, details of
Williamson’s mental history have been included
in the hundreds of stories published and broad
cast about the shooting —and concerned resi
dents have hung on every word. Headlines have
blared that he will use the insanity plea, that he
was diagnosed as a schizophrenic and that he
had stopped taking his medication before the
shootings occurred. What will come out in the
pretrial hearings will expand on what has al
ready been made public. Residents deserve to
know the whole story.
Defense attorneys say that information from
the pretrial hearings, if published, would shrink
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Saturday’s tailgate parties.
Because the law is new, many visitors may
break it unintentionally. Maybe this was the
logic behind the lack of citations issued at
Saturday’s game.
If police are going to give alumni a break and
warn them about the law before slapping them
with a fine, they should have done the same
thing for students returning to school instead of
gleefully shutting down eveiy party serving
Budweiser in and not Brie.
Many students had no idea the law had gone
into effect until they witnessed the sea of blue at
Fraternity Court or the unusually high number
of police out on Franklin Street.
Both current and future alumni should be
treated equally under the law. Whether it be
football games or fraternity parties, police need
to be consistent.
the number of potential jurors who think they
can remain fair. Their concern is valid: The
magnitude and emotional aftershock of the shoot
ing virtually guarantees that the chances of find
ing an impartial jury in Orange County are
almost zero. The defense has several recourses to
better those chances, such as moving the trial to
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Practically speaking, the media ban would do
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certain tidbits of information, embellish other
tidbits, or simply say, “No comment.”
Wendell Williamson is suspected of commit
ting a crime that left all of Chapel Hill shocked
and saddened, and each step in his trial is rel
evant and important to those whose fives were
jarred by the January shooting. Judge Gordon
Battle should consider that when he rules on
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EDITORIAL
Chancellor Shouldn’t Throw Out Idea of Tea Party
At Friday’s reception for student leaders,
new Chancellor Michael Hooker made his
first impression on a bunch of student
groups whose members had never seen him in
person before.
You never get a second chance to make a first
impression, and on most counts, Hooker scored
well. But he left lingering doubts about his acces
sibility to students.
When anew leader takes over, expectations
tend to be unreasonably high. We cannot expect
all the questions we have about him to be an
swered after only two months on the job.
Students have no right to expect that the
chancellor can orwill have an open door to all of
them. While Hooker has shown inordinate con
trol over the issues facing the campus, many
members of the University community have a
fear that, like the Energizer Bunny, he’ll keep on
going and going and leave us all in his wake.
The chancellor has been more than happy to
gather comments from students in his first month
on the job. A question is raised, however, when
we consider that all the student concerns he
receives are channelled through the office of the
student body president. The speaker of Student
Congress has had trouble finding a spot on the
chancellor’s calendar. In feet, many student
leaders have been told they will simply have to
wait. One of the few students with regular access
to the chancellor is the student body president.
Without trying in any way to discredit Stu
dent Body President Calvin Cunningham, he
clearly has his own interests and agendas. If the
chancellor expects one student to objectively
collect and convey all student sentiment to the
Distinction of ‘Public Ivy’ Easily Worth 134 Shakes
Four hundred bucksgoesalongwayat UN C:
57 pitchers of Bass Pale Ale at Linda’s, 134
Trio’s shakes, two dinners at Carolina Court,
or an extra month or two of rent. If the Board of
Trustees and the General Assembly have their
way, students will be charged another 400 Big
Macs (for a limited time) for the privilege of
attending UNC-Chapel Hill.
It’s a good thing, too!
As products of a culture that has taught us
that “society owes us” an education, our reac
tion to any challenge to our “right” is one of
indignation and horror. We fail to remember
that our education is financed not only by our
selves and our parents, but by the taxpayers of
North Carolina. In 1994, UNC-Chapel Hill re
ceived $877 million in total revenue, with $283
million (32.3 percent) coming from state appro
priations. Only 8.6 percent came from tuition.
In essence, UNC is a huge, middle-class entitle
ment. The entire state pays for 3,500 new stu
dents each year to receive an excellent educa
tion.
Carolina is highly touted as the one of the
“best buys” in higher education by Money
Magazine. A crucial part of this ranking is qual
ity of education. As our libraries decline, and
our national ranking falls and the best and bright
est faculty leave for better pay, cheap tuition
becomes less ofan issue. Otherwise, community
colleges and Sally Strothers’ correspondence
schools would top every bargain list in the coun
try. We must maintain a balance between being
a low-cost university ($1,348 for in-state stu
dents is not all that bad) and the real value of a
UNC degree.
The mission statement of the University
adopted by the BOG in 1994 states that UNC
must “provide high quality undergraduate in
struction to students.” Without books and well
paid faculty, this mission goes unfulfilled. In
Many Nations Granted
Women Suffrage Before U.S.
TO THE EDITOR
In the second paragraph of "Setting an Ex
ample,” (Aug. 29) the editorial claims, "... the
United States was the first nation to grant women
suffrage. ” I beg to differ! This is only true if one
considers the United States as the only nation in
the world.
It saddened me to read that the editorial
board (of whom I’m sure some are women) of
the DTH, at North Carolina’s flagship univer
sity would not be aware that in at least 15
nations, women were empowered with the right
to vote before 1920. For example, in Finland,
women could vote as early as 1906 and in
Germany and England by 1918.
Perhaps most of these countries, being such
“small’’ and “unimportant” nations in such “fer-
administration, his
hope is naive at best,
manipulative at
worst.
At Friday’s dis
cussion, Hooker said
he “doesn’t do tea,”
but planned to invite
students to dinner
parties at his home
and to work with the
fledgling Student
Advisory Committee
to the Chancellor,
| THANASSISCAMBAMS |
EDITOR
which currently exists under the aegis of the
office of the student body president.
I’m not doubting the chancellor’s good will;
I’m doubting his calendar. He himself joked,
“I’m as accessible a person as you will find, I just
don’t know which year it will be.” His calendar
is currently booked three months in advance,
although it’s easier, for the time being, to get an
appointment with his new Chief of Staff Elson
Floyd.
What I’m worried about is not that the chan
cellor is trying to stonewall students —I think he
cares about our interests very deeply—but that
by entrusting student access solely to student
government he might miss out on an array of
issues and student voices.
And by appointing a chief of staff whose job
it is to keep the ball rolling on issues, he might
inadvertently set up a barrier between members
of the University community and the chancellor,
if people begin to find that they can rarely get in
to see the chancellor himself
1994, Carolina
ranked 46th in aver
age professorsalaries
at $70,100; 38th in
associate professor’s
salaries at $51,200;
and 56th in assistant
professor salaries at
$41,000.
These numbers
put us behind not
onlythe top-tier Cali
fornia and New En
gland private
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schools, but also behind schools such as Case
Western Reserve University, Temple, Pitt, Ha
waii at Manoa, and Maryland at College Park.
Current salary increases at UNC do not even
match inflation.
Unlike most of the other schools in the UNC
system, Chapel Hill can actually compete with
the top-tier public and Ivy League schools across
the academic board. While we should maintain
as affordable a tuition rate as possible, we should
not compromise our university in the name of
pecuniary interests.
The distinction of “public Ivy” is worth an
extra S4OO a year, and if you think that smacks of
elitism, you’re damn right.
By paying more in tuition, we demonstrate
that we expect quality education at Carolina and
are willing to pay for it. Also, generating revenue
(an estimated $4 million) through tuition hikes
eases our dependence on the General Assembly.
While some critics argue that we must simply
continue to beg the General Assembly for money,
they miss a fundamental point. As the recent
budget battle shows, state tax dollars are not a
guaranteed source of funding.
Carolina is simply too priceless a gem to
entrust to the General Assembly, and it must be
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away” places called “Europe,” for example, do
not make these facts important in the American
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Calvin Cunningham is not fee student body,
he cannot be expected to represent all 16,000
undergraduates and 8,000 graduate students on
any single issue, as he has been asked to do this
week on the proposed tuition hike.
Hooker has handled many of the crises thrown
before him with aplomb, and he has already
worn out top administrators with his intensity
and hardworking rhythm.
By all accounts, Hooker is an intense man. In
his meetings with other administrators and local
leaders, he has impressed them with the focus
and speed with which he addresses issue after
issue. This sort of energy is much-needed in
South Building. But by the same token, this
demanding meeting style might have a chilling
effect on those who do get the chancellor’s ear,
however briefly.
High-ranking administrators have said that
when they sit down for 30 minutes with the
chancellor, they have to know what they’re talk
ing about and talk quickly.
Efficiency will produce a more dynamic ad
ministration; but it might prevent people from
bringing preliminary ideas to the chancellor’s
table and thus stifle early discussion of crucial
issues.
Before the chancellor gets set in his patterns of
receiving student and University community
input, he needs to make sure he’s doing things
the way he wants to. Or else he may end up
missing out on a lot of voices.
Thanassis Cambanis is a senior creative writing and
history major from Chapel Hill who has had an
extensive haircut
better insulated from an uncertain political at
mosphere.
The financial ramifications of the hike are
matters for debate. While the large majority of
students will be able to absorb the tuition hike
rather easily, one area of concern is the group of
students at the margin those for whom an
additional S4OO pushes UNC out of reach.
According to a chronically misquoted Wall
Street Journal article, “for students with families
of incomes of less than $30,000 a year, every
$ 100 increase in their tuition and fees causes a 2.2
percent decline in enrollment. ” In order to com
bat this loss of students at the margin, 35 percent
of the revenue generated from the tuition hike
must be spent on financial aid. Some right-wingers
cry that this smacks of redistribution, totally
missing the fact that UNC itself is a redistributive
program.
Though all redistribution is inefficient, con
centrating the costs and benefits ofhigher educa
tion within the UNC system is more politically
viable than relying on public funds simply in
order to spread out the cost.
We must pay a little more in order to ensure
quality of education and maintain equality of
access: no amount of whining will change that.
Nobody looks forward to paying more in tuition,
but we have to remember that saving $1,600
dollars now could cost thousands of dollars in
potential earnings when the value of a Pamlina
diploma follows its national rank in its down
ward path.
The best defense of tuition hikes is simple: you
get what you pay for. For more than 200 years
we’ve been “getting.” Now, it’s time to start
paying, and bolster our beloved Carolina blue
with a little extra green.
Tad Wilson is a senior English and political science
major from Charlotte.
student’s view of the “world.”
Insular thinking renders us incompetent in
modem global society. The editorial board, as
well as the DTH readers, would benefit from
becoming more internationally minded. A first
step would be to follow the advice of the great
German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, who chal
lenged us all with “Sapere Aude!” (Dare to
know!).
Ellen Lohr-Hinkel
SENIOR
GERMAN STUDIES
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