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Volume 103, Issue 80
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Michael K. Hooker swears in as UNCs eighth chancellor Thursday at Polk Place in front of students, faculty and friends
of the University while his wife Carmen looks on. Hooker's installation was the highlight of University Day.
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the Pit, Hooker also announced
the SRC will reopen Monday.
BY JENNIFER BURLESON
STAFF WRITER
In a showdown in the Pit Thursday afternoon,
Student Body President Calvin Cunningham got
Chancellor Michael Hooker to commit to putting
the student advisory committee to the chancellor
back on his calendar.
Hooker told the group of several hundred stu
dents at the reception following his installment
that he wanted to make UNC the best university in
the nation. He said he needed student input to
reach the goal.
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Black Student Movement President Ladell Robbins and other BSM members sit in on Wednesday's meeting of Student
Congress. They were supporting minority recruitment and the Alliance of Black Graduate and Professional Students.
Speaker Withdraws Request for Stipend
BYBRONWEN CLARK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
After facing a Student Supreme Court
case and fierce debate in Student Con
gress, Speaker of Student Congress Roy
Granato withdrew his request for a S6OO
stipend Wednesday night.
“(I withdrew the request) because I real
ized that I was not going to get the neces
sary two-thirds vote to pass the stipend,"
Granato said. “Me personally, I wouldn’t
want my stipend to get a majority vote and
My memories of Chapel Hitt carry with them a quality of magic which is present to this day.
Chancellor Michael Hooker
in the country By Hie year 2000,” he saicl. “If I
want to do that, I need input from you."
To facilitate the communication, Hooker said
he would hold Cunningham responsible for get
ting the information from students to him
Cunningham then passed the buck back to
Hooker when he walked to the microphone and
asked Hooker to walk with him to the chancellor’s
office in South Building.
“You’ve really put me on the spot, chancellor, ”
he said. “I want to ask you to go up to South
Building with me now and put the student advi
sory committee to the chancellor back on your
calendar.”
Cunningham said the committee, which was
set up several years ago but has been inactive, was
an efficient vehicle for communication between
students and the chancellor.
still fail.”
During the debate Wednesday night
Rep. Tod Blackwell, Dist. 20, said that
while he respected Granato’s work,
Granato had been aware when he took the
position that it was an extracurricular ac
tivity.
“I don’t think that eliminating the
speaker’s stipend is judging Roy’s work,”
hesaid. “But the fact is it is an extracurricu
lar activity.”
Jonathan Jordan and Charlton Allen,
two UNC law students, had filed a motion
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“The advisory committee is apowerful avenue
to express concerns to the chancellor, ,r
Cunningham said after the reception. “We have
asked to be on his calendar several times and his
office canceled.”
Hooker said he was not aware the advisory
committee had been removed from his calendar,
which is reportedly booked solid.
“I’m at the mercy of the people that schedule,”
he said. “You can only fit so much in the calen
dar,” he said.
“I intensely desire to leam about the perspec
tives of students that I am presently not aware of. ”
Hooker also told students he was glad to be able
to announce the reopening of the Student Recre
ation Center which has been closed closed for
almost three months to make repairs.
See PIT, Page 6
asking the Student Supreme Court to issue
a temporary restraining order on congress
Wednesday to prevent the them from fund
ing the stipend. The motion was denied.
However, Jordan and Allen also filed a
complaint asking the court to permanently
bar congress from allocating funds for such
expenditures.
The court will hear the case later on this
week, despite the withdrawal of the re
quest, Granato said.
See CONGRESS, Page 6
BY JAMES LEWIS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
On the 202nd anniversary of UNC’s
founding, Chancellor Michael K. Hooker
called for a renewed commitment to the
historic tradition of cooperation between
the University and the citizens of North
Carolina as the state enters the 21st cen
tury.
“The University, responding to the hope
of the people of North Carolina, has a
partnership role to play with industry and
government,” he said. “Together, we must
light the way to a more productive society,
a society in which continued growth will
make it possible for all people to have hope
of useful, productive work beneficial to die
whole of society.”
The chancellor’s installation speech
came on an exceptionally sunny and crisp
day, upholding die conventional wisdom
that it never rains on University Day.
Hooker, who earned an undergraduate
degree from UNC in 1969, went on to be a
professor, academic administrator and
most recently served as president of the
University of Massachusetts system, was
welcomed back to his alma mater in all his
roles.
In his speech after taking the official
oath as UNC’s eighth chancellor, Hooker
stressed that he wanted to guide the Uni
versity to fulfill its obligations to the state
as a public institution.
“We accept the responsibility to be ac
countable for our stewardship of this two
centuries-old heritage of service to North
Carolina,” he said. “We accept the obliga
tion to explain what we do to the people of
North Carolina. We gladly acknowledge
our obligation to build a strong future on
this treasured past.”
In recent yean, legislators have ques
tioned UNC’s commitment to serve all of
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Chancellor Hooker celebrates his moment in the sun by giving his wife Carmen a quick kiss before
UNC-system President C.D. Spangler (far right) presents him with a ceremonial medallion.
Tootin' His Horn: Bowman Gray
Professor Joseph Lowman and his
tuba take the field with the UNC
marching band.
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the state’s citizens, describing the Univer
sity as an arrogant, elitist institution that is
unresponsive to the needs of the state and
unaccountable for the tax money on which
it operates. Consequently, many legisla
tors have said they were unsympathetic to
UNC’s request for funding increases.
His vision for fulfilling the University’s
historic mission centered on preparing
UNC and ultimately leading the state into
the technologically-advanced, knowledge
based economy of the future, Hooker said.
“In ways not yet imagined, technology
will change the way humanity orders life
on this planet,” he said. “The change from
an energy-based economy to a knowledge
based economy wi11... thrust universities
into new roles they have not traditionally
played.”
Hooker said the University’s most im
portant duty to the state must be preparing
students for this new world.
“It will be a primary obligation and
privilege for me ... to lead the further
implementation of our long and historic
commitment to excellent undergraduate
Faculty Council Mulls
Domestic Partners
BY STEPHEN LEE
STAFF WRITER
The Faculty Council will discuss ben
efits for domestic partners of University
employees and a proposed policy on deter
mining faculty salaries today at its 3 p.m.
meeting in Wilson Library.
Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane
Brown said Thursday a policy implemented
within the last month on domestic partners
would allow partners of University em
ployees to receive
the same benefits
that spouses of mar
ried employees re
ceive.
An ad hoc com
mittee of the faculty,
which was charged
with studying the
issue, defined a do
mestic partnership
as a committed re
lationship in which
two people consider
themselves life part
ners, share a princi
pal residence and
are financially inter
dependent.
Faculty Chairwoman
JANE BROWN said
domestic partners of
employees deserved
the same benefits as
spouses.
“The chancellor has a non-discrimina
tion policy and what we’ve been doing fits
into that,” Brown said. “They should be
accorded the same benefits. (The policy)
just expands benefits that are available to,
them.”
Domestic partners currently have gym
and pool privileges, membership at the
Carolina Club and counseling fiiom Hu
man Resources.
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education,” he said. “We must educate
young men and women for an age ofswiftly
developing, sophisticated technology.”
He also said UNC must maintain and
strengthen its ties to serving the people of
the state through the public school system
and the medical care infrastructure.
Hooker also calledfor the state’s leaders
to uphold their end of the partnership. He
said that as part of a relationship renewal,
the University would be more account
able, and in exchange would expect the
General Assembly to fulfill it’s constitu
tional obligations to fund and support the
University.
In defining the new spirit of coopera
tion, he pointed to the recent S4OO tuition
increase. In his first public statement about
the hike since the UNC Board of Trustees
approved it last month, Hooker asked leg
islators to boost financial support the Uni
versity. “Recently, this institution has ac
cepted a challenge of the General Assem
bly to increase tuition sharply so as to raise
faculty salaries and provide added support
for the libraries,” he said. “Now I call on
the the General Assembly, in response, to
do all in its power at its next session, to
match with a general fund appropriation
the additional resources our students and
their families will now provide.”
Hooker said after his speech that the
contribution would amount to about $7
million. As part of that commitment, he
asked for support of all UNC employees.
“I also urge the General Assembly to
give sympathetic and realistic support to
the salary needs ofUniversity staff as well,
especially our housekeepers.”
He said that the state’s reciprocal sup
port for the University would pay the state
longtermbenefits. “The state can make no
investment in its future that is likely to
yield a greater return or more likely to
fulfill the hope of its people.”
cil executive committee and professor of
physiology, said he thought the University
community supported the new policy.
“What people have been saying is ‘sure
it’s the right thing to do,”’ he said. “There
hasn’t been any kind of conflict and people
are saying it is the proper way to act.”
Fare! said the issue came about because
domestic partners at the University felt
excluded from the benefits spouses had.
“We were far behind, and it was some
thing that needed to be looked into,” he
said. “The Faculty Council and the Execu
tive Committee are very concerned.”
He said these benefits would not cost
the University more money. “The experi
ence of private and public institutions is
that it does not cost any more,” he said.
Farel said he would like domestic part
ners to be provided health, dental and life
insurance in the future.
The council worked with the State
Employees Association of North Carolina
and the General Administration to get those
benefits, he said.
Duke University, Princeton University
and Southern Illinois University and some
private companies, including R.J.R.
Nabisco and IBM, already provide ben
efits for domestic partners. Chapel Hill and
Carrboro both have domestic partner ordi
nances which grant the same benefits to
homosexual and heterosexual couples who
live together as to married couples.
The council also will discuss a set of
principles formulated by theexecutive com
mittee concerning faculty salaries. Con
cerns about the process for determining
faculty salaries were raised by the South
ern Association of Colleges’ reaccreditation
See FACULTY COUNCIL, Page 2
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