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Volume 103, Issue 101
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Faculty Debates Salary Reform
■ At a Thursday forum,
professors voiced concern
about salary inequities.
BYMOLLYFELMET
STAFF WRITER
Faculty members expressed their views
on a proposed set of principles governing
the faculty’s role in salary and budget deci
sions at a forum hosted by theN.C. chapter
of the American Association of University
Professors Thursday afternoon.
The newly proposed principles call for a
clear and open policy for salary allocation
and procedures for faculty to make sugges
tions about salaries at three different levels:
the department level, the school level and
the pan-university level.
The principles state that each faculty
unit must have a clear policy for salary
decisions and the policies must be subject
to regular review by the faculty members
within the unit.
Audreye Johnson, an associate profes
sor in the School of Social Work, voiced
concern Thursday that although the pro
posal included a way to review policy,
there was no mechanism for addressing
individual complaints that the policy did
See SALARIES, Page 2
Student Aid Bill Moves to Conference
■ The Senate passed a
proposal to cut $4.7 billion
from federal student aid.
BY ROBYN TOMLIN HACKLEY
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
In an about-face, the Republican-domi
nated Senate voted unanimously Friday to
approve a revised budget that reduces the
amount of cuts to the student aid program
by $4.7 billion, instead of the $10.2 billion
in cuts previously approved by the House.
This moves the bill from the Senate to a
joint reconciliation conference committee
which will be responsible for proposing a
compromise to be voted on by the entire
Congress. Aides in both houses say the
conference should have a final proposal
before Thanksgiving.
The Senate voted to strike three of the
five controversial House bill provisions
that would have impacted college students
directly .ThefinalversionoftheSenatebill
was passed without the 0.85 percent loan
volume tax and the increase in the PLUS
(parent) loan interest rates, but at the same
time reinstating the six-month interest-free
grace period after graduation, all of which
were cut in the House bill.
The changes to the original proposal
were brought to the floor by Senate Labor
and Human Resources Committee Chair
woman Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan.
Kassebaum stated in a press release,
“The savings in my plan come primarily
from lenders and guarantee agencies. Other
savings are found by capping the Direct
Lending program at 20 percent, an appro
priate level for a demonstration project.”
Education Secretary Richard Riley was
supportive of the final Senate plan, but
continued to be critical of the 20 percent
cap on direct lending. Riley released a
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• _ DTH/KELLY BROWN
Jane Brown and Janies Peacock discuss the process of determining faculty salaries Thursday in the Wilson Library
Assembly Room. Many faculty members feel departments should be more open as to how salaries are allocated.
House vs. Senate on Student Aid Cuts
The House and Senate have each passed budget bills which must
now be reconciled in conference. These are the specific differences in
the two bills.
Proposed cut or fee House bill cuts Senate bill cuts
Cuts or foes which fall on students:
Student loan volume tax of 0.85 percent N/A Eliminated
Eliminate interest-free six-month grace $3.75 billion Eliminated
period after graduation
Increase PLUS (parent) loan interest SB9O million Eliminated
rates and raise interest rate cap
Termination/Capping of direct lending eliminated $855 capped at 20
million percent
Cut administrative budget and oversight $ 1.63 billion $1.54 billion
of both direct and guaranteed loan
programs
Total cost imposed upon loan $1.66 billion $1.50 billion
industry
Total cuts imposed upon students $7.13 billion $2.14 billion
Total student Iran program cuts $ 10.21 billion $4.70 billion
SOUHCLCONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
statement saying, “(The Senate) acted only
after a storm of protest shamed Senators
into taking the right course. Unfortunately,
these voices of reason were drowned out
by the special interests when it came to
Direct Lending.”
The Direct Lending program cap, which
has drawn considerable criticism from
President Clinton, would cut in half the
number of schools whose students could
borrow directly from the federal govern
ment, rather than from banks.
Currently, UNC does not participate in
the direct lending program, but according
to an aide in Sen. Edward Kennedy’s of
fice, approximately 40 percent of ail U.S.
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colleges and universities do.
In addition to the direct lending cap, the
Senate voted to retain the provisions in the
House bill, which cuts the administrative
budget and oversight funds for director
lending, the Stafford and the PLUS loan
programs.
Kristi Kimball, an aide on Kennedy’s
education staff, said this cut would reduce
the discretionary administrative budget by
more than three-fourths, making the pro
gram impossible to ran.
The changes to the bill came only after
months of lobbying efforts by students
See STUDENT AID, Page 5
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Dons Betts, a creative writing professor, jokes around with one of her
students. She has published 10 books and has one in the works.
A Spark of Creativity
BY OLIVIA PAGE
STAFF WRITER
Doris Betts published her first book
while a sophomore at UNC-Greensboro.
She lives and writes in the South, yet
she vehemently rejects the label of
“Southern Writer.”
She has been teaching creative writ
ing at UNC since 1966, but she holds no
earned college degree.
“Unconventional” is certainly a word
which fits her well.
Betts has published 10 books to date,
has one at the printer’s and yet another
one in the works. One of her books,
“The Ugliest Pilgrim,” has been made
into a movie, “Violet,” (named for the
BY JULIE CORBIN
STAFF WRITER
Acknowledging that chronically
low minority test scores are a signifi
cant problem within Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City Schools, candidates for
the Board of Education say the search
for solutions is a central issue in the
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Theard. “There’s a serious problem.”
Some blame socio-economic in
equality for differences in achievement
and propose that schools increase the
attention given to at-risk students and
provide support to them and their fami
lies.
Other candidates think the dispar
ity points to system-wide ailments and
say complete renovation of the way
public schools are run is necessary.
SeeSCORES, Page 6
Jurors Hear Suspect’s
Confession to Shooting
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
AND LAURA GODWIN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
HILLSBOROUGH—Jurors in the trial
of double-murder suspect Wendell
Williamson heard his reasons for the Jan.
26 shooting spree from an audio taped
statement he made to police officers at the
hospital on the night of the murders.
Family members of the victims bowed
their heads as they listened to Williamson’s
statement in which he emphatically spoke
about the events leading up to the shooting
and the shooting itself.
“I killed two people, that should be
sufficient,” Williamson said in the taped
statement. “I felt like I needed to do it. I
wanted people to acknowledge I am a
telepath.”
Williamson told the police he stole the
rifle from his father, walked down the
street the night before the shootings and
decided he had to do it because people
were mocking him. Williamson also ex
plained he did not shoot everyone he saw
that Thursday afternoon.
“I walked passed a couple of people, but
I didn’t feel like shooting them,”
Williamson said. He then explained in a
main character) which won an Acad
emy Award.
Betts writes stories about the ordi
nary and the average, the normalcy of
daily life. Most of her stories deal with
society, families and contemporary life
and are set in the South.
“I write mostly about blue-collar
workers,” Betts said. “I write the sto
ries of ordinary people and how they
are significant. My last book, ‘Souls
Raised from the Dead,’ is all about
sickness and death. I said after I fin
ished that book that I wasn’t going to
write about anything but love and sex
from now on.”
Betts said once she completed a
novel, she never reopened it for fear
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matter-of-fact tone who he shot and why.
“I could have seen him (either of his vic
tims) two weeks ago in his car, and he
could have easily started turning my left
shoulder around,” which was one way
Williamson believed people were trying to
harm him.
At the end of the interview, Williamson
was asked if he was sorry for what he did.
He very quickly and sternly replied, “no.”
Dr. James Bellard, a psychiatrist in pri
vate practice, interviewed Williamson at
Central Prison on Feb. 1. Bellard said that
by talking with Williamson so soon after
the shootings he could get “a more accu
rate representation about (Williamson’s)
state of mind at the time of the crime.”
Atthe time ofthe shootings, Williamson
was very delusional and intent in his belief
that he was a telepath and people just
refused to admit it, Bellard said.
“He took it on himself to prove to the
world his telepathic powers,” Bellard testi
fied. “He believed that if he didn’t do
something to prove that he was a telepath
that something terrible was going to hap
pen to the whole world.”
Bellard said Williamson believed men,
in particular, were harming him and his
See WILLIAMSON, Page 6
Making a mark
■
Using a distinctive
approach to teaching,
Professor Doris Betts
inspires students with
her a unconventional f)
life, and provides
that she would discover numerous things
she could have done differently. How
ever, her favorite work to date is “Souls
Raised from the Dead.”
“But my best book is always the next
one,” she said. “The truly great book is
unattainable. If I ever thought that I’d
done what I set out to do, then I’d quit.”
The idea of reaching that unattain
able goal keeps Betts producing books at
a rather constant rate. However, she
candidly admits that “it takes longer to
make a book than have a baby.”
Inadditiontothedemandsshe places
on herself to write consistently, Betts
spends a great deal of her time helping
some of tomorrow’s authors polish their
See Betts, Page 5
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