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Thursday, June 20,1996
N.C. House Reluctant to Increase Smart Start
■ Based on Smart Start’s
young age and lack of proof
of success, the House refuses
to increase funding.
BY JOHN SWEENEY
STAFF WRITER
Governor Jim Hunt’s plans to expand
Smart Start, a state-run child development
program, hit a snag last week when the
North Carolina House of Representatives
proposed a budget that did not include the
additional $21.2 million Hunt requested
for the program.
The refusal to increase Smart Start’s
funds was part of a larger trend in the
conservative House budget, which leftmore
than S4OO million unspent. By compari
son, Hunt’s proposed budget left about
SIOB million unspentandtheN.C. Senate’s
proposed budget left no excess.
Stephanie Fanjul, director of the state’s
Student Congress Discusses Code Revisions
■ A “code convention” would allow congress
members to standardize the Student Code.
BY JOHN SWEENEY
STAFF WRITER
Citing numerous inconsistencies and inadequacies in the Stu
dent Code as the reasons for its concern, Student Congress
discussed at its Tuesday-night meeting means of revising the
document that defines student government.
At issue was whether the Student Code currently circulated by
student government had been correctly updated and modified by
past speakers of student congress.
Rep. Joe Kledis, Dist. 12, who is also chairman of the Rules
and Judiciary Committee of congress, said he was worried about
the many different versions of the Student Code circulating.
“I think this is a good idea because we need to standardize (the
Student Code),” Kledis said.
Student Body President Aaron Nelson suggested that such
Ahmma’s First Poetry Book Deals With Love, Family
■ Journalist Donna Whitaker Rogers
includes poems written while attending UNC.
STAFF REPORT
Journalist Donna Whitaker Rogers, a 1982 UNC graduate
with abachelor’s degree in journalism and a former features editor
of The Daily Tar Heel, recently published anew book of poetry,
“TIMELINE: One Black Woman’s Journey Through Life.”
WIS-TV (Channel 10) journalist Carolyn Sawyer in Columbia,
S.C., has recommended the book on her Midday Report program.
The author has also been featured on “The Awareness,” a black
cultural program,, of which Ms. Sawyer is host.
The bookbythe Columbia, S.C., native takes readers from her
early poetry, beginning in 1971 at age 11, to poems honoring her
father, the late Rev. C.J. Whitaker, and late mother, Mrs. Ernestine
Peay Whitaker, and older brother, Charles J. Whitaker Jr., who
died March 27,1996, weeks before she was to publish her book.
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Division of Child Development, said the
Smart Start program received $57.2 mil
lion from the state for last year’s activities,
spread out over 36 counties. The $21.2
million increase would be used to expand
the program to an additional 12 counties.
But the House’s proposedbudget doesn’t
include any new money for the program,
though no cuts have been made to last
year’s budget figures.
“Basically, what the House has said is
they’re not going to expand the program,
but they’re going to keep funding it at its
present level,” said Dana Simpson, special
assistant to House Speaker Harold
Brubaker, R-Randolph.
The Smart Start program is composed
of organizations from around the state that
have formed a partnership to address is
sues affecting children and their welfare.
“The main goal of the program is to
make sure children ages zero to five are
ready for school when they begin,” Fanjul
said.
This statewide partnership distributes
differences could result in confusion over which version is the real
Student Code and which laws should be recognized, since much
of the code’s contents has changed over the years.
“I think this is an endeavor that has needed to be done for a long
time. I’m really anxious to have something we can call ‘The
Code,”’ Nelson said.
Nelson suggested a “code convention” in which congress
members could work to form a single version of the Student Code,
making changes as they felt necessary to create a more consistent
document.
Some of the changes suggested included having candidates for
student body vice president run for office after being selected by
the SBP and annotating the Student Code to give readers a better
understanding of what thoughts went into the passage of laws.
Speaker of Student Congress Jamie Kilboume, Dist. 1, said he
thought annotating the Student Code would increase its strength
as a legal document.
“We have a 75- to 80-year tradition of student government at
this university, and I think if we could draw from that in our own
document there would be a lot of power to that.”
Whitaker’s brother encouraged her to be creative at an early age.
Other poems deal with feelings of self-worth, love, loneliness
and spiritual revival. She also features poems about former Presi
dent Jimmy Carter and herself.
Poem titles include “Make Time,” “To My Babies Yet Un
born,” “I’m Something Else!” “Don’t Go,” and “Go Forth!”
Rogers wrote several of the poems while she was a student at
UNC.
Rogers used her skills as a former copy/layout editor to publish
the book herself.
This is the first published book for Rogers, who is a business
editor at The Augusta Chronicle newspaper in Georgia. The book
is available by mail order. Cost is $7.50, plus $1.50 shipping and
handling for the first book, 75 cents for each additional book.
Order by writing TIMELINE BOOK, Donna W. Rogers, Post
Office Box 14087, Augusta, Ga. 30919-0087.
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“The House is just trying to
say, ‘Let s be prudent and
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DJUU SIMPSON
Special Assistant to House Speaker
Harold Brubaker, R-Randolph
state money to local community service
programs that improve child welfare.
The Orange County Partnership for
Young Children, for instance, has pro
grams to improve the health of young chil
dren through immunizations and increases
in the amount of child care available to
working families.
Simpson said the House’s reluctance to
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from concerns over the handling of the
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questions regarding where funds were be
ing spent.
“There are some financial accountabil
ity problems,” Simpson said.
An overview of the audit states that,
“the lack of knowledge about accounting
and the absence of a uniform accounting
system and chart of accounts continued to
be a major roadblock for establishing a
framework to ensure accountability.”
Simpson also said the House wanted to
wait for conclusive proof that Smart Start
was meeting its goals before expansion.
“They believed Smart Start was on the
right track, but they had no hard data,”
Simpson said. “The House is just trying to
say ‘Let’s be prudent and show some re
straint.’”
Simpson said it would probably be an
other year before any hard data on the
program’s success rate became available.
The House and Senate have entered
into joint committee to consolidate the
budget proposals. A finalized version is
expected no later than Monday.
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ARTS BRIEFS
What’s happening in entertainment
around the Triangle
Attend It
■ The American Dance Festival will
hold an international dance film festival on
Friday, June 23 at Duke University.
■ An African-American Dance En
semble with Chuck Davis will be presented
on Saturday, June 22 atthe North Carolina
Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Hear It
■ Chulrua, an Irish trio, will perform
traditional Irish music on Tuesday, June
25 at the Skylight Exchange.
Play It
■ Barnes & Noble Booksellers in the
New Hope Commons Shopping Center in
Durham will hold a chess night on Mon
day, June 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the cafe.
Players of all skill levels are welcome to
come and try their hand at a game of chess.
CLEAN UP CONGRESS
FROM PAGE 1
Hundreds of volunteers go door-to-door, or “canvass,” in
neighborhoods to educate residents about Helms’ voting record.
Grayson, who canvasses the Triangle area, said Chapel Hill and
Raleigh residents had made up their minds. But Cary, with its
influx of new residents, has a lot of first-time voters.
“People who haven’t made up their minds welcome the infor
mation,” shesaid. “Theysay, Treallyrespectyoufordoingthis.’”
Gasparini said the demographics of North Carolina’s growing
population might help Helms, rather than CUC.
“The state has gained a lot of Republicans recently, especially
in the Raleigh area,” she said.
Aaron Green, a first-year UNC medical student, said “I run
into a number of people who support Helms.”
In addition to going door-to-door, CUC also creates its own
events, like Saturday’s rally, and attends other events.
UNC Sophomore Talya Atkins said one important task at all
events is to register new voters and to focus on the 10 percent swing
vote the people who haven’t made up their minds.
“They make the difference in the election," she said. “(Helms
has) never won an election by over 55 percent.”
CUC is focusing on college campuses for part of this swing
vote, with over 20 chapters in the fall, including one at UNC.
“One of the most important things is to get people to vote at
UNC,” Grayson said. "Lots of them are registered at home and
might not apply for an absentee ballot.”
Grayson, who will be studying abroad during November’s
election, has already applied for an absentee ballot. “I’ve worked
this hard, I’m not going to not vote.”
Grayson said she worked for more than a paycheck: defeating
Helms. “My job is to beat Jesse Helms,” she said. “You can say,
‘I hate Senator Helms,’ but I’m actually working to beat him."
Helms supporters said CUC’s victory would be easier said than
done. “It’s the same match-up," Gasparini said. "It was fairly
heated last time and he won. And I don’t think he’s changed.”
Foreman said CUC would still make a difference. “Whether
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Association of Student
Governments Meets,
Discusses State Budget
■ ASG members listened as
UNC-CH students explained
the need for lobbying efforts.
BYAMYCAPPIELLO
CITY EDITOR
The UNC-system Association of Stu
dent Governments, led by newly-inaugu
rated President John Dervin, met Friday in
their first-ever summer meeting to discuss
with system student body presidents the
North Carolina House and Senate fiscal
budgets and their effect on the UNC sys
tem.
Representatives from seven of the
system’s 16 schools attended ASG’s first
summer meeting ever. N.C. State Univer
sity, UNC-Wilmington,UNC-ChapelHill,
UNC-Pembroke,
Appalachian State
University,
Fayetteville State
University and
UNC-Asheville rep
resentatives listened
as Dervin outlined
the basic differences
in the proposals.
Dervin said the
Senate budget was
more University
friendly with an ad
ditional $44 million,
compared to the
N.C. House’s slash
ing $6 million.
Association of Student
Governments President
JOHN DERVIN said
the system-wide effort
reaped positive results
in the Senate's budget
“They gave money to just about every
thing,” Dervin said. “This is a huge im
provement over what happened last time.
“Now we have to work on what we can
do to make this stick. We made our voice
heard in the Senate. We need to go back
and do this in the House. If we don’t push
for education now, we’ll be in trouble when
it comes time for election season.”
Dervin said the organization had come
togetherbecauseofthebudget. “The whole
budget thing has forced us to communicate
in a way that we haven’t had to before, ” he
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we win or not, we are shaking up the way people in North Carolina
think about their representatives.”
Amy Cappiello contributed to this article.
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said. “We’ve realized how powerful we
can be when we act in concert together.”’'
Aaron Nelson, UNC-CH student body
president, said UNC-CH and East Caro
lina University had pushed in recent weeks
to get the system funded.
“(UNC-CH students) have been to Ra
leigh for the last two weeks on and off,
walking the halls, knocking on doors,”
Nelson said. “We sent letters to both ap
propriations committees’s members. ECU
did that as well, but they also sent One to
every member of the Senate.”
Nelson said UNC-CH students had also
written letters about the budget and the
funding of higher education to the editors
of their hometown newspapers.
"We are putting this as a system effort.
We are saying that supporting higher edu
cation reaps benefits, reaps dividends more
so than investing in technology,” he said.
“The state has forgotten that we are impor
tant. They need to see that the people of
North Carolina support higher education.”
Mo Nathan, a member of UNC-CH’s
executive legislative team, said the easiest
way to excite legislators about the system’s
needs was by visiting them in Raleigh.
“They really like seeing students. They
don’t get the opportunity to talk to students
very much, ” Nathan said. “It’s very impor
tant that something on a sheet of paper
comes to life for them. I don’t think any
thing could be more effective than stop
ping by and seeing them.”
Nathan said talking to the legislators
and proving the system’s worth to the state
was the only way to ensure that funding
did not get cut.
“We have to do a good job explaining
what we do to extend beyond our cam
pus,” Nathan said. “We have to do a good
job proving to them what we contribute to
the state.”
Nelson said encouraging students to act
now was the key. “If they’re not giving us
money now, things won’t get any better,”
he said.
The Senate’s budget also provides $4.55
million for graduate student health care.
The House budget provided no funding for
this area.
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