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Wednesday, November 8,1995
DTH/KELLY BROWN
Joel Carter casts his votes in the local elections at Fetzer Gym Tuesday. According to elections officials,
the turnout at the polls was as good as in previous years, despite the bad weather.
Rainy Weather Does Not Keep
Voters Away From Local Poll Sites
BY JENNIFER ZAHREN
STAFF WRITER
Tuesday’s constant showers may have
dampened Chapel Hill sidewalks, but they
did not affect voter turnout at some key
polling sites.
“The turnout has been excellent,” said
Board of Elections employee Jeanette
Tolley.
Many municipal office candidates fre
quented polling sites, greeting and answer
ing voters’ questions. Working the Fetzer
Gym site, mayoral candidate Kevin Foy
remarked that the rain only proved the
devotion of Chapel Hill’s constituency.
“The large numbers of voters I’ve seen
come out today have been the real die
hards,” Foy said.
Virginia Julian, a 20-year veteran of the
Board of Elections at the Country Club
precinct, also said the devoted politicos of
Chapel Hill could not be held back by the
weather.
Campus Turnout Less Than Expected
BYMATTLECLERCQ
STAFF WRITER
Standing in the cold rain beneath her
umbrella, freshman Reyna Walters kept
her eyes peeled for potential voters outside
Chase Dining Hall Tuesday afternoon.
Walters, a member of Young Demo
crats, was one of several volunteers from
the Campus Voter Registration Coalition
who braved bad weather Tuesday to re
mind students of elections, direct them to
polling sites and motivate them to vote.
After speaking to students at Chase for
two hours, Walters said only seven or eight
students said they had voted.
“Besides the reason that they’re not
registered, the second biggest reason why
people aren’t voting is that they aren’t
familiar with the candidates,” she said. "I
think turnout will be low also because it’s
New TA Guidelines Expected by Next Year
BY JAMIE GRISWOLD
STAFF WRITER
University officials plan to have cam
pus-wide guidelines for the administration
of graduate teaching assistants completed
by the end of the semester, according to a
report submitted to the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Schools on Oct. 12.
“Basically the purpose of the guidelines
is to ensure that graduate students who are
teaching assistants with full responsibility
have a contract and some background or
training in the subject area and in instruc
tion, and that they have a variety of other
characteristics that one would expect in a
teacher, ” said Stephen Birdsall, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences and chairman
of the University’s committee to formulate
TA guidelines.
SACS’s Reaffirmation Committee
Commission on Colleges visited the Uni
versity May 9-12. The committee recom
mended that the University establish gen
eral, institution-wide guidelines for the
administration of graduate assistants as
classroom instructors.
UNIVERSITY & CITY
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Municipal
“Voters have come out regardless of the
weather,'” site'said. “We’ve'Kad 'elderly
people just released from the hospital so
that they could vote. One gentleman was
led in by his wife after having cataract
surgery this morning. ”
Sophomore Latisha Valker said she
agreed the weather was not an excuse for
staying away from the polls. “The rain did
not bother me,” she said. “I was going to
come out regardless if it was raining.”
Julian said voting was probably not
affected by the rain because the impor
tance of the issues represented in this elec
tion. “I have had a number of phone calls
from people who wanted to know which
candidates were pro-development,” she
said. “Because it will have such a great
effect on voters in this precinct, folks on
rainy and nasty outside.”
Senior Jennifer Custer used her vehicle
to shuttle students from South Campus to
voting sites Tuesday evening. Waiting
outside Chase Hall for students who needed
a ride, she said she was disappointed with
student voter turnout.
“People just don’t see the urgency of
voting in community elections,” said
Custer, who is the vice president of Young
Democrats. “The laws that the Town Coun
cil put in affect the lives of students, and
many don’t see that connection.”
The coalition was made up of volun
teers from the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Inc., Young Democrats, Senior Corps, the
UNC chapter National Association for the
Advancement ofColored People, the Black
Student Movement and the executive
branch of student government. Coalition
volunteers also posted information about
The committee also recommended that
each academic unit within the University
establish and publish unit-specific guide
lines for the administration of TAs. These
guidelines should include criteria for ap
pointment, renumeration, evaluation and
reappointment, and statement of TAs’
rights and responsibilities, the committee
said.
According to the report submitted to
SACS in October, the University already
was working to produce these policies when
the SACS visit occurred.
In the six months since the visit, the
University has completed an analysis of
campus-wide practices on the training,
mentoring and evaluation of TAs. A unit
by-unit identification of adherence to Uni
versity guidelines for the administration of
graduate assistants also has been com
pleted.
In addition to Birdsall, the guideline
committee includes representatives from
the Graduate School, the Office of the
Provost, the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for Health Affairs and the Center for Teach
ing and Learning.
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this side of Chapel Hill seem to want to
vote for as few pro-development candi
dates as possible.”
Julian said the bulk of neighborhood
voted throughout the day, with a
ing site serviced five UNC residence halls.
The verdict is still out as to whether the
combined efforts of the Black Student
Movement, the UNC chapter of the Na
tional Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, Senior Corps, Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity Inc., the UNC Young
Democrats, the executive branch of stu
dent government and The Daily Tar Heel
were effective in promoting increased stu
dent voter participation.
University students and community
members also braved the weather to par
ticipate in the elections, handing out pam
phlets for candidates and answering ques
tions outside polling sites.
Emily Newell contributed to this story.
polling sites in South Campus residence
halls and organized a voter registration
drive last month.
Custer said despite factors that made
voter turnout low, she thought the coali
tion accomplished its goal.
"The greatest mark we made is to show
that people need to vote,” Custer said.
“We reminded people to get out and go to
the polls, and we’ve identified the areas
where we need to strengthen the coalition.
Coalition member John Dervin said
campus groups worked well together to
help the coalition mn smoothly and said he
hoped the coalition would be stronger next
year.
Dervin said, “It was a very successful
voter registration and motivation drive,
and you’ll see these groups coming back
together in 1996 and being even more suc
cessful.”
According to figures provided by the
Office of Institutional Research, 31.8 per
cent ofUNC students were taught by gradu
ate students in 1993. This included 43.5
percent of students in introductory courses
and 8.4 percent of students in advanced
undergraduate courses.
Figures for the College of Arts and Sci
ences, the largest academic unit in the
University, indicated that 7.4 percent of
students in advanced courses were taught
by TAs in 1993.
In comparison, Office of Institutional
Research figures showed that 20 percent of
undergraduates were taught by TAs at the
University ofTexas; 12 percent at the Uni
versity of California at Berkeley and the
University of Wisconsin; and 40 percent at
the University of Virginia.
Office of Institutional Research figures
also indicated that the percentage ofUNC
students taught by TAs increased by 6.4
percent between 1984 and 1993. However,
statistics show that this percentage appeared
to stabilize between 1991 and 1993, when
it actually dropped by one-tenth of a per
cent.