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Volume 103, Issue 113
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Legislator Supports Giving UNC Matching Funds
■ A N.C. senator supports
matching the S4OO tuition
increase with state funds.
BY ANDREW PARK
STAFF WRITER
With students preparing to pay an extra
S4OO for tuition next fall, the leader of the
N.C. Senate said he would ask the 1996
General Assembly to match the money
raised by the increase and give it to the
University.
Sen. Marc Basnight, D-Dare, president
pro tern of the N.C. Senate, pledged Mon
day to support a proposal to send an extra
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Public Objects to Changes
In Development Process
BY JENNIFER ZAHREN
STAFF WRITER
Monday’s public hearing concerning
proposed changes to the development re
view process focused on a number of objec
tions raised by representatives of town ad
visory boards and area residents.
Ruby Sinreich voiced the Transporta
tion Board’s unanimous rejection of the
proposal on the grounds that reframing the
board’s functions to be a policy review
board would create further dilemmas for
the town.
“I can’t imagine how cutting out trans
portation could help the development pro
cess, ” Sinreich said. “Since these decisions
are a big deal and have a great impact on
the there is nothing wrong with
taking our time.”
The proposed
changes also in
clude creation of a
Long Range Plan
ning Board, which
would focus exclu
sively on long-range
planning.
Jennifer
Vruwink, also a
member of the
Transportation
Board, questioned
the efficiency of
such a move.
“You can’t di
vide long-range
Council member
ROSEMARY
WALDORF said the
council was not ready
to make a final
decision.
planning without the involvement of short
range planning,” Vruwink said. “Just like
you can’t have a cardiologist who doesn’t
know about theheartand circulation .Keep
ing the town healthy requires keeping its
heart healthy, and transportation is a ma
jor part of that. It can’t be cut out.”
According to the proposal, the develop
ment review functions of the Appearance
Commission, Design Review Board and
Planning Boards would be consolidated
into one new commission. The majority of
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$9 million to the University. The idea came
from Chancellor Michael Hooker, who
challenged the legislature to match the
increase during his University Day instal
lation speech Oct. 12.
Hooker said he expected Basnight’s
commitment to apply also to N.C. State
University.
In personal conversations with Hooker
before and after University Day, Basnight
endorsed the proposal, the chancellor said.
He first pledged his support publicly in a
speech to the Rotary Club of Chapel Hill
last week.
“(Hooker) has convinced us that the
students have come more than halfway. If
we leave our part out, it’s not going to get
done,” Basnight said.
BYERICA LUETZOW
STAFF WRITER
UNC offers campus women everything from gy
necological exams to lesbian support groups to sexual
harassment legal advice but trying to track down
resources can be a
challenge.
Many student
and University
leaders say that
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campus resources are hard to locate and that too few
students are aware of them.
Through the work of the Chancellor’s Task Force
on Women commissioned by former Chancellor
Paul Hardin’s office last spring, UNC hopes to assess
the services it offers women and to make recommen
dations as to how these services can be improved.
“Students were the driving force in having this
task force created,” said task force student represen
tative Katie Hultquist.
Hultquist said that while the needs of all the
women of the University community were met to
the Development Review Commission
members would be required to have dem
onstrated special training or experience in
a design field.
Despite the proposal’s guarantee of
seven instances for public input, many
residents claimed board cutbacks would
reduce involvement to an unacceptable
level.
“The most controversial aspect (of the
proposal) is that in the overuse of profes
sionals on boards, the democracy of town
government is reduced,” Sinreich said.
Planning Board member Julie Coleman
said such a decrease in potential resident
involvement would be detrimental to the
town’s future.
“When you start putting professionals
in, you begin putting us, the citizens, out, ”
Coleman said. “I urge the council to keep
the doors open to all citizens who want to
become involved in their town’s develop
ment. Everyone who can understand the
English language can learn, and then it
comes down to common sense and point
of view.”
While much opposition to the system of
peer review was aired, Brace Balentine
said it would have a positive impact on the
development review process. “When the
people who are reviewing a peer’s work are
knowledgeable in that field, it is very diffi
cult to hide anything,” Balentine said. “It
is not a good ‘ole boy system.”
Due to the complicated and extended
nature of the issue, council member Rose
mary Waldorf suggested the normal proce
dure should be bypassed. This procedure
generally involves sending Town Manager
Cal Horton and his staff back to work out
an improved proposal based on area
resident’s concerns and the council’s de
sires.
“We need to make a commitment to
have a work session on this,” Waldorf
said. “There have been so many forums,
public hearings and redone staff proposals.
I say the council sits down and gets things
hammered out.”
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Basnight’s ap
proval was vital to
the University’s
goals even though
the funding also
would have to pass
the Republican-led
House, said Vice
President for Public
Affairs David G.
Martin Jr., who lob
bies the General
Assembly on behalf
oftheUNC system.
“This is real en
couraging because
he is the most im
portant member of
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BASNIGHT will
propose the plan
during the General
Assembly's short
session.
some extent, resources could be more complete.
“I do not think they are adequate for every part of
that spectrum,” she said.
Courtney Fitzpatrick, co-chair of People Orga
nized for Women’s Empowerment and Rights, said
it was difficult to determine whether the University
adequately met all the needs of women at UNC.
“I think that UNC represents the rest of this
country, and the country does not meet the needs of
women either,” she said. “1 would like to see more
resources for and more visibility of lesbians on cam
pus.”
The task force has already inventoried women’s
resources at UNC and surveyed other universities to
find out how they provide services for women, and a
significant aspect of the task force’s assignment just
began the electronic survey of members of the
University community.
Barbara DeLon, co-chairwoman of the task force,
said the task force hopes to learn through the survey
what services are actually being used by women on
campus before it makes any recommendations for
change.
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the Senate, ” Martin said. “Under his lead
ership, the Senate has stood up for UNC.”
Those broad goals include raising fac
ulty salaries to the level of peer institutions,
bolstering financial aid for needy students
and improving library facilities. These
needs will be addressed by the tuition hike.
The proposed matching funds would
not necessarily be used in only those areas,
Hooker said.
“We will use it in ways that will directly
benefit students,” he said. “One of the
main areas that I am very concerned about
is information technology on campus and
the pace in which we are wiring the resi
dence halls.”
Interim Provost Dick Richardson said
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“I’m hoping things do not stay the same, ” DeLon
said. “I do not think the ways things are right now are
the way things should be.”
“If nothing else, what will happen is that some
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Katryna Allen (left) and Stephanie Shaw make their own music video Monday at Fun Flicks in the Great Hall.'stud'ente 1
could chose their own costumes, props and songs to make their videos.
Students Shake Their Rumps For Tun Flicks’
BYDAVTOSILVERSTEIN
STAFF WRITER
For those aching to be stars, the Caro
lina Union Activities Board had the cure
when it presented Fun Flicks in the Great
Hall on Monday.
“Fun Flicks is an interactive video expe
rience that allows people to make their
own video," said Fred Jones, CUAB’s
social committee chair. “It’s a very fun
thingto watch. It’s agood memory-maker. ”
. CUAB’s social committee has brought
the make-your-own-video program to cam
pus the last four years. According to Jones,
Fun Flicks had always been successful and
usually brought out 300-400 students.
This year, in a departure from the past,
ated the sacrifice students and their parents
were making under the tuition hike. “I
think (Basnight’s support) says that we
picked up the challenge handed to us by the
legislature.”
Although Basnight only speaks for Sen
ate Democrats, Richardson thought the
entire legislature could find the idea ap
pealing.
“In light of the fact that we have surplus
monies in the state treasury, I think this has
a chance of passing,” he said.
Thad Beyle, UNC professor of political
science, agreed that the funding could hap
pen if enough tax revenue had been raised.
“Politically, it is tempting and attractive
for the General Assembly, because they’re
all up for re-election next year.”
the social committee initially decided to
charge $5 per group for the video. Jones
said the fee was added to keep students
from abusing the program.
He said in years past students would
make three or four videos, preventing oth
ers from getting a chance. On Monday,
low turnout early in the day prompted the
committee to ditch the $5 charge.
“We recognized that they are college
students,” Jones said. “We wanted to give
everyone a chance.”
Omar McCallop, a senior from Clinton,
said he thought the fee would have de
terred students from participating. Like
others who made videos Monday,
McCallop said the program was a lot of
fun.
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Access
Expanded
■ New hardware set to
arrive early next month will
double the capability of the
campus e-mail system.
BY JENNIFER BURLESON
STAFF WRITER
Because of massive increases in the num
ber of campus e-mail users, the University
hopes to activate new equipment by Janu
ary that will allow an unlimited number of
people to access e-mail, said Jim Gogan,
director of the Office of information Tech
nology.
The new equipment will allow e-mail
users to access a variety of programs that
are part of the Internet Message Access
Protocol system. The equipment will be
delivered by the first week of December.
The new hardware will increase the
number of people who can log on to e-mail
from 260 to about 750.
IMAP will allow users to access e-mail
without logging on to the UNC system.
IBM has been working to help upgrade
the e-mail system. Originally, IBM planned
to upgrade the system so I,ooousers would
be able to log in to e-mail simultaneously.
But OIT eventually realized this increase
would be impossible with the hardware
currently available at the University.
Bill Graves, associate provost for infor
mation technology, said he did not blame
IBM for the difficulty that still existed with
logging on.
“This is not the fault of (IBM), ” Graves
said. “We are really trying as hard as we
can to rectify this problem.”
Through the IMAP programs, people
will be able to access e-mail without having
to log on.
“The login command puts pressure on
the system,” Gogan said.
Programs accessible through IMAP will
include PC Pine, Siren, Simeon, Mail Drop
and Mailstrom. These programs will allow
a major increase in the number of people
who can access e-mail at once.
“There is no restriction on the number
of users we can support with IMAP,”
Gogan said.
He said the new equipment was neces
sary because there had been an increase in
one year from 8,000 e-mail users at the
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“I think it’s agood program, ” McCallop
said. “It relieves stress before exams.”
Janechka Richards, a sophomore from
Apex, made a video to a Mariah Carey
song. “I always liked the karaoke thing,”
Richards said. “It’s a chance to let some
stress out and be silly.”
The program was put on by Kramer
International, an entertainment company
based out of Grand Rapids, Mich. Accord
ing to John Perez, a road manager for
Kramer, the company brings the program
to colleges all over the country. Perez said
they offered over 380 songs and over 23
backgrounds plus costumes and props to
those making a video.
“Kids love it,” Perez said. “We are the
No. 1 college touring show in the nation.”