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2 Friday, September 13,1996 Carolina Review receives $1,300 in funding BY MARVA HINTON ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Student Congress heard requests for the appropriating of funds to two conser vative student groups at their Wednes day night meeting. Congress allocated $ 1,300 to the Caro lina Review, a conservative publication, while Common Sense received no funds. Bill Heeden, president of Common Sense and publisher of the Carolina Re view, said he could not understand why Common Sense, a group that brings con servative speakers to campus, was not Outsourcing team plans to better inform workers Employees to offer their input ■ A subcommittee of the outsourcing team plans to hold informational sessions. BY JOHN SWEENEY ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR The Employee Relations Subcommit tee of the Outsourcing Steering Team met Thursday to discuss how they could better inform University employees about the outsourcing evaluation process. Subcommittee members agreed that the most important idea to convey to employees was that they could take part in the University’s outsourcing evalua tion process. Three groups house keepers, groundskeepers and employees in Heating, Ventilation and Air Condi tioning are still being evaluated. One component of that participation will be a departmental self-study employ ees can help write, said Associate Vice Chancellor for Human Resources and Subcommittee Chairwoman Laurie Charest. iOREOCOOKIEI If you're crazy about our Oreo Cookie yogurt, maybe you'd like an Oreo Shake, an Oreo Flurry, or a delicious Oreo Pie with an Oreo crust! Oreo, Oreo, Qive Me Some Moreo! Downtown Chapel Hill lUm // 106 W. Franklin St. (Next to Hes Not Here) yI w if J<fj) \\ 942-pump uoGURTc; ¥)) North Durham I A i ■■rui-.n. A 1 fll JJ Northgate Mall (Nemo Carousel) 286-7868 1 ■ WELLSPRI NG SS*9KS9 SUNDAY ◄ SEPTEMBER 15 1-5 pm _AII 3 stores! Tastings • Cooking Demos • Activities for Kids Music • Entertainment *• Prizes** • Fun •Chapel Hill **A sampling of the prizes Entertainment Schedule: you could win in Chapel Hill: Polka Plus • Charleston Weekend - 2 nights 1-3 p.m. at the Charleston Hilton Los Viajeros . Mariachi Band * D ' nner f ° r 2at p vewacket • _ c r,rn Restaurant J • 3 month membership at the Activities for Kids: Spa Health Club The Scrap Exchange • SSO gift certificate from 1-4 pm Kltchenworks Including a special Health & Fitness Area Elliott Road at Franklin in Chapel Hill • 968-1983 funded. “We’re frustrated with the situation,” Heeden said. Congress members said they could not fund the speaker’s group without the assurance that it would get speakers. “If we’re funded we’ll have speakers,” Heeden said. “How do you get speakers with no money? That is the question.” Last year Common Sense brought two speakers to campus with $15,865. “It was not required of the group to produce the date and time of the speech,” Heeden said. This year members of Congress said Committee member Julia Wood said the self-study could play a key role in the decision on whether or not a service would be privatized. “If the departments turn in good information, (Chancellor Michael Hooker) has no vested interest in privatization,” Wood said. The subcommittee also began plan ning informational meetings for the three departments being evaluated. The meet ings, which should be scheduled for late next week, will give employees a more detailed look at the evaluation process and allow them to ask questions. Subcommittee members also ap plauded the work of University employ ees over the last week. Many employees worked overtime last weekend to clean up damage left by Hurricane Fran. Charest questioned whether privatized workers would have been as dedicated to their work as University employees were. “If these folks were not (University employees), we would still be putting in calls and leaving messages on answering machines saying, ‘This is a mess,’ or ‘There’s a tree that fell on my building, can you come and clean this up?”’ they were reluctant to fund the group without money. “I intend to go back be fore (Student) Congress again,” he said. “Without funding, we can’t exist.” Joe Kledis, rules and judiciary com mittee chairman, said he thought Com mon Sense should have been funded. “I don’t understand why they didn’t get any funding,’’Kledis said. “Toomuch emphasis was put on the Charlton (Allen) and Jonathan (Jordan) thing. I feel like there’s a lot of animosity.” Allen served as publisher of the Caro lina Review last year, and Jordan served as chairman of the Young Republicans. Negative publicity worries team BY HALLEY TOOSI STAFF WRITER Members of the Outsourcing Steering Team raised concerns about misinfor mation regarding the committee during their meeting Thursday. Team members said people should be made aware that the purpose of the team was evaluating whether it was necessary to privatize certain services, not the ac tual outsourcing itself. “The plan is not to implement privatization, but rather to ensure that our services are provided in a competi tive manner,” Outsourcing Coordinator Bruce Runberg said. Particular examples cited included posters placed around campus by the Coalition for Economic Justice, which accused Chancellor Michael Hooker and Runberg of keeping secrets about the number of workers who would lose jobs because of privatization. “Not a single member of the Coalition for Economic Justice contacted me after the last meeting, except for two who came up for a couple of minutes,” Runberg said. The Employee Relations Subcommit tee of the outsourcing team suggested several otpion, like sending out fact sheets about the team, hosting sessions for the employee forum to give accurate infor mation and holding a media briefing with nous’Nß $2.00 IMPORT PINTS SUNDAY 41.00 LONGNECKS Pool, Foosball, A/C, TV's Call us for your mixers! 157 E. Rosemary Street (Below Cheap Shots) • 942-0990 Tar Heel T radition “UNC’s delivery favorite is Gumby’s” -DTHM2/95 \ X-Large 16” 1 I CHEESE PIZZA j Set 99 “ | AdXv&uJ. | __Exptrs BAIB/96 - Toppings SI.BO Student Advantage Card I b^vO Granville Towers Card ( jjgjg aj| I I J SPfMMEE ___ Sun-Wed: 11am-2am 968""FAST Thur-Sat: 11 am-3am FAST FREE DELIVERY! NEWS Heeden said he had wanted more fund ing for the Carolina Review, too. He said the Review wanted to become self-supporting. The group will sell T shirts and subscriptions to raise funds. The Review has also purchased an ad in the Alumni Review to solicit donations. Vince Rozier, speaker pro tempore, voted for a failed amendment to give the group more funding. “We should be fair to them and look at the physical quality of their publication,” Rozier said. Heeden said he thought the Carolina Review and Common Sense were scruti nized more than other groups. “The plan is not to implement outsourcing, but rather to ensure that our services are provided in a competitive manner. ” BRUCE RUNBERG University Outsourcing Coordinator the purpose of informing students to com bat the perceived misinformation. Team members unanimously ap proved the subcommittee’s suggestions. Charest also said that her subcommittee would seek endorsement of these infor mative methods from Student Govern ment. Other topics discussed included sub mission of a report to the UNC-system General Administration about evalua tion of seven University services by today’s deadline. Of the seven departments currently under evaluation, only three were identi fied as requiring further study for the group: grounds maintenance, housekeep ing, and heating, ventilation and air con ditioning. The report of the evaluations will be sent to the General Administration by today. TV viewers have chance to crown Miss America BY BRENNA PEARSON STAFF WRITER Forgo the big plans for Saturday night. Put the belated hurricane bashes, roadtrips and other exploits on next weekend’s social calendar. The enter tainment thrill of this weekend will re quire only two simple appliances —a television and a phone in the conve nience of your own home. If you haven’t figured out what the upcoming event is, then be ignorant no more. For the first time ever, the Miss America Pageant will grant its view ers the chance to help place the glit- Miss America Pageant Saturday. Sept. 14 9:30 - midnight NBC tering crown of the finest cubic zirconia on the next Miss America. After the top ten finalists have been chosen by a panel of seven judges, home viewers will be allowed to call in and cast a vote for their favorite contestant as an “eighth judge.” A 900 number will be assigned to each of the 10 contestants, and viewers will be able to place one vote per phone number until the time when the top five finalists are announced. The cost per call is 50 cents. Surprising as it may seem, many UNC students don’t plan to run up their phone bills for the pageant. “If the pageant hadan 800 number, I’d participate,” said Mandy Smith, a sopho more from Havelock. “But since it is a 900 number, I probably won’t. Who wants to pay to vote for Miss America?” Although it is predicted that the call-in vote will be as successful as last year’s Campus Calendar Friday 4 p.m. - The Study Abroad Office will hold an information session on India in Union 211. There will also be an information session on programs in the United Kingdom, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16 in Union 205. Please call the Study Abroad Office at 962-7001 for fur ther details. 5 p.m.-6 p.m. - The Catalyst will hold a The College of Arts and Sciences The Michael Polanyi Visiting Lectureship in the History & Philosophy of Natural Science invites you to the 1996 Michael Polanyi Lecture The Origins of Science The Impact of Babylonian Astronomy on the History & Philosophy of Science Francesca Rochberg, free and Open Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside I*** l _ _ _ Refreshments follow ■ Hanes Arts Center Auditorium • Tues., Sept. 17 • 8:00pm the lecture JAR HEEL SPORTS SHORTS. TODAY AT CAROLINA! Volleyball vs. Nebraska 6:00 pm at Carmichael Auditorium THIS WEEKEND! SAT-SEPT 14 North Carolina Cross Country Challenge at Finley Golf Course Driving Range 5:00pm: All Comer 5K Race - Race Day Registration s:3opm: Women’s Collegiate 5K Race 6:00pm: Men’s Collegiate 8K Race Volleyball VS. Wisconsin 6:oopm Saturday at Carmichael Auditorium Students & Faculty Admitted FREE w/ID! - —; and The South and the * 1996 Election * ★ ★ JOIN US TODAY FOR A TALK BY Merle Black ★ , co-author of The Vital South and Politics and Society in the South Friday, September 13, 1996 . rC 11:00 am ★ Pleasants Family Assembly Room Wilson Library Presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Center for the Study of the American South As part of their a Program on Politics, the Media, and Public Life For more information, call (919) 962-5665. T Saily (Tar Hml swimsuit vote —in which viewers could vote whether or not to keep the swimsuit competition—many UNC students said they were simply not interested in par ticipating in the process. “I don’t plan to vote for any of the contestants,” said Lora Walters, a junior from Durham. “But if people are that interested in it, then by all means let them vote.” Senior Julie Story of Granite Falls said'she didn’t plan to even watch the pageant, but thought the call-in voting was a good idea, although it may be biased toward the more populous states. “It’s a little more democratic than just having judges, but some more heavily populated states will have an unfair ad vantage," she said. According to the Miss America web page, the Miss America Organization and NBC are aware of the population controversy and plan to address the issue in a pre-pageant telecast when voting instructions will be explained. After the public’s votes have been tal lied, they will be converted into contes tants’ scores and then combined with the seven judges’ scores. The contestant with the most call-in votes will gain a maximum of 10 points on the judging scale. The remaining con testants will receive a score between one and 10 based on the number of votes obtained as a percentage of the winner’s total. Even though it seems most students don’t plan to vote, many will watch the pageant anyway. Sam Williams, a junior from Char lotte, said, “I’m not going to waste my time or money by calling in. ... But I might watch it anyway.” general interest meeting for the first issue in Union 226. Editors, writers, layout staff, advertising staff, artists and poets needed. For mote infor mation contact Vita at 914-2198 or Vita@email.unc.edu. 7 p.m. - The Newman Center will begin its Student Lxtutgy in front of the Phi Gamma Delta house, in memory of those students who died. The congregation will then process to Newman for the rest of Mass.
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