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WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE Hatty (Ear UM INSIDE THURSDAY : JUNE 5,1997 Potential increase in tuition targets out-of-state students ■ Non-residents will be paying almost SSOO extra, residents $42, if the N.C. House gets its way. BY MOLLY GRANTHAM UNIVERSITY EDITOR If the proposed North Carolina General Assembly budget passes, out-of-state UNC stu dents could have an extra $496 tacked onto their tuition bill in August. “I think students need to raise their voices and let people know they are upset by this,” UNC-System President C.D. Spangler said. “It is a detrimental increase.” The bill has already passed through the House and was being debated in the Senate Wednesday. If the Senate does not pass the bill, a conference committee will meet to make a decision hopefully before the end of June. The five-percent increase applies only to The rising cost of education If the proposed N.C. House budget passes, out-ofstate UNC students will see yet another tuition increase. In the past five years, out-of-state students have seen a 33 percent increase in their tuition per semester while residents have faced a 69 percent increase. f* ® ■Out-of-state tuition 2 B In-state tuition 1 1 ~ s4ll $423 s4a7 5474 I 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 Academic year DTH/ELYSE ALLEY Perpetual budget bickering renewed B Legislators say they expect a lengthy battle over this year’s proposed state budgets. BY JEFF YOUNG STAFF WRITER The N.C. General Assembly revisits its bien nial battleground this month as Republican and Democratic party leaders brace for a tangle over the 1997-1999 state budget. Every odd-numbered year, lawmakers repeat the process of agency requests, analyst reviews and executive and legislative branch budget pro posals. These efforts result in funding, or lack Search for athletic director continues BY HARRISON RAND SPORTS EDITOR The nation-wide search for anew Director of Athletics at UNC has offi cially begun. A 14-member search committee for the new athletic director met May 27 to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the current list of candidates for the position. Dr. Elson Floyd, executive vice chan cellor and panel chairman, said the com mittee reviewed 20 applications and remained on schedule to select the new athletic director by month’s end. “We have started the review process, but we have not spoken with any of the candidates to date,” Floyd said. Floyd declined to disclose any appli- Rabies epidemic plagues county Four new cases have been confirmed in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Page 3 non-resident students at UNC-CH and N.C. State. In-state students at all 16 UNC-system schools will have a three-percent increase, about $42. On top of that, a two percent increase across the board is slated for the 1998-1999 school year. This means after two years, non-residents will have an approximately S7OO per year tuition increase and residents a S7O increase. “The proposal is unfair in the context (it came under,)” Student Body President Mo Nathan said The context Nathan mentioned is the impli cation that North Carolina state government is making out-of-state UNC-CH and N.C. State thereof, for state-run agencies and departments including the 16 cam pus UNC system. Debate began Wednesday over the N.C. House of Representatives budget bill, which includes a proposal for tution hikes at UNC- Chapel Hill and N.C. State this fall. The N.C. Senate, meanwhile, has proposed a more educa tion-friendly budget. Rep. Verla Insko, D- Orange, said she was cants’ names, or whether any of the candidates had been dropped from considera tion. The committee will narrow the field to a handful of candidates probably three and hand the applications over to Chancellor Michael Hooker to make the final selection. Executive Vice Chancellor ELSON FLOYD said the position would be filled by the end of June. Hooker was also responsible for appointing the members of the committee. If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. Jules Renard U2’s Raleigh show derailed by storm Violent weather wrecked some fancy equipment, nixing the concert. Page 5 ♦ /'\ students pay for the state’s revenue lost in tax cuts last year. “It’s bewildering to me that with the (N.C.) tax cuts over the past two years, there is a pro posal to increase tuition," Spangler said. “Right now actually seems like a good time to consider lowering it.” If passed, the House expects the increase to bring in approximately $lB million from both UNC-CH and NCSU. Separately, nearly $lB million was given solely to UNC-CH and NCSU last year to supposedly make both more competitive on a world wide level. But to some, the two amounts seem too sim ilar to be pure coincidence. “It’s hypocritical and makes little sense,” Nathan said. “Last year (the General Assembly) was telling us we were a special place and they wanted us to be the best,” he said. “But you fast forward a year, and they’re raising tuition, threatening our competitiveness.” But UNC students are not strangers to tuition hikes. Since the 1990-91 school year, in state tuition has increased 129 percent, while out-of-state tuition has been raised 90 percent. Just last year, in-state students had a $438 tuition increase, while out-of-state students dealt with an $854 increase for the entire year. Last year’s increase was especially large because of the controversial tuition hike that raised all students’ tuition S2OO a semester, in addition to the four percent added because of yearly inflation. “No one anticipated a tuition increase this year,” said Nathan, adding that student gov ernment is doing what it can to stop the tuition hike. Nathan said since first hearing about the proposal last Friday, student government has held strategy meetings, is working on an out reach program for concerned students to protest the proposal, and even asked parents visiting for C-TOPS to speak against the hike to their local senators and representatives. In a handout Nathan distributed to the approximately 60 parents, Nathan questioned why students, specifically out-of-state UNC CH and NCSU students, had to carry the bur den of tax cuts for the entire state. Nathan said, “The parents in the C-TOPS program were incredibly responsive.” UNG-System President C.D. SPANGLER . said UNC’s lew tuition is not a gift but instead is an investment in the students, i unsure of how the House budget bill would fare on the floor this week, but that a decision should be made by this afternoon. “This budget has a lot of controversial pro visions in it, as well as wide reaching changes in a number of programs,” Insko said on the eve of the House budget’s coming-out party. Rep. William Ives, R-Transylvania, said he expected “a hell of a fight” over some portions of the bill, but not over the proposed UNC-sys tem funding figures. “I don’t see much change coming to the UNC funding,” Ives said. “It came out of the Appropriations Committee very strong and I think die Board of Governors is reasonably See BUDGET, Page 2 N.C. Senator HOWARD LEE. DOrange, said the N.C. Senate would reject the House bill. “(The selection committee) is a broadly representative group consisting of coaches, administrators, students, alums and trustees,” Floyd said. The deadline date for applications is June 10. Letters seeking nominations have been sent to athletic directors at Division I schools, as well as some Division I-AA and Division II schools. Such letters also have been sent to all conference com missioners. The committee hopes to select anew athletic director by July, when outgoing director John Swofford begins his duties as ACC Commissioner. Swofford has been UNC’s athletic director since 1980. The next committee meeting is sched uled for June 13, by which time all appli cations will be in hand. Going the distance Fifteen UNC track stars are competing for titles at the NCAA Championships in Indiana. Page 7 Jit j ; r'ff-j TSmm St Ml B W ~ ■ 1 DTO/JON GARDNER Workers welded beams into place recently at Kenan Stadium. Kenan is just one of several campus sites currently under construction. Kenan construction on time; work rolls on in other areas BYERINWYNIA STAFF WRITER While hardhats and chain-link fences seem to have taken over the University in recent weeks, there is at least one campus construction project that will show significant progress by the end of summer. When the UNC football team takes the field against Indiana in its September 6 season opener, an almost fully-completed new addition to the west end zone will greet students and fans. “(The construction crews have) been right on schedule, maybe even a little ahead of schedule,!’ said Rick Brewer, assistant athletic director for sports information and media relations. Eventually, Kenan’s seating capacity will expand from 52,000 to 60,000 seats. But state legislation prohibits such large amounts of expansion in a single year, so only a portion of those 8,000 seats will be in place this year. Gaps between the new bleachers and the north and south sides of Kenan will be filled, completing the addi Judge limits evidence in McVeigh sentencing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER Determined to keep Timothy McVeigh’s sentencing hearing from becoming “some kind of lynch ing,” a judge Tuesday barred prosecu tors from presenting victims’ wedding photos, a poem by a victim’s father and testimony on funeral arrangements. Judge Richard Matsch also prohibit ed testimony from any bombing sur vivors and victims’ relatives who were prejudiced by trial testimony. “We have to guard this hearing to ensure that the ultimate result and the jury’s decision are truly a moral response to appropriate information rather than an emotional response,” Matsch said. The jurors who convicted McVeigh on Monday will decide whether he should die by injection for the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people. Today's , Weather * Rain likely, high upper-60*. Friday Soma sun. high 70s. I*''*’ vB The sentencing hearing began Wednesday. Despite Matsch’s rulings, the judge will allow plenty of potentially wrenching testi mony, including that of a rescuer who held a hand buried in the rub ble, only to feel the pulse stop. Matsch will also allow photos of maimed sur- Convicted terrorist TIMOTHY McVEIGH could face the death penalty for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. vivors, pictures of victims being wheeled into hospitals and testimony from the coroner about the various causes of 104 yean of editorial freedom Serving the studezua and the University community since 1893 ♦ News/Feamw/Alts/Spoets: 9624)245 Business/Advertising: 962-1163 Volume 105. Issue 42 Chape! HOI, North Carolina C 199 1 IXTH Publishing Corp. AS rights reserved. tion to the venue. The exact number of seats available for the 1997 season was not available. Ultimately, the addition will also mean more seats available to students. However, with the remainder of the construction waiting until 1998, the increase probably won’t happen this year. Rick Hart, an assistant in the athletic ticket office, encouraged everyone to walk by the con struction site. “It looks (right now) pretty much like it will in the fall,” he said. In addition, the “new” Kenan will include a state-of-the-art football center. The center will con tain training rooms, locker rooms, offices and a memorabilia room to which the public will have access. The center will not be completed until the 1998 football season. The Preferred Seating Box, built on the north side opposite the press box, will also open at the first game. This area, composed of 1,016 seats, offers special seating to those who donated money See KENAN, Page 2 death. “We can’t sanitize this scene,” Matsch said. Matsch struggled with balancing what he called the sometimes conflicting requirements for a penalty hearing, a procedure that is only vaguely outlined in the law. “The penalty phase hearing here cannot be turned into some type of a lynching,” he said. Prosecutors plan to call up to 45 wit nesses over three days to describe how the bombing devastated their lives. The defense is expected to call McVeigh’s rel atives to plead for mercy, and other wit nesses to describe the events that shaped McVeigh’s anti-government views. Matsch ruled that the defense may call other witnesses to show what could have led to his anger, including the dead ly sieges at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
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