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Tuition hike will take effect fall 1997
■ Legislators approved a 3 percent
hike for in-state students and 5
percent for out-of-state students.
BY VICKY ECKENRODE
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
When the N.C. General Assembly passed the
1997-98 budget Wednesday, UNC-CH and North
Carolina State University students learned they
would pay for a tuition increase effective this
semester.
During budget negotiations, legislators expressed
hope that the tuition hike would not take effect
until next semester so students would have time to
plan their finances.
However, the budget made the increase retroac
tive, said Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange.
“This was a House proposal, and they always
wanted it to be effective July 1, so even though the
budget was passed in August, the revenue still has
to come from somewhere,” Lee said.
D. G. Martin, vice president for public affairs at
UNC’s General Administration, said he did not
know when this semester’s students would receive
UNC could
follow Duke
housing plan
■ Student lounges would
promote learning by having
stages and blackboards.
BY SHARIF DURHAMS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
At Duke University, some professors
have an open-door policy for all fresh
men.
The students just walk down the hall
from their rooms and knock.
Duke administrators decided three
years ago to combine intellectual life
with social life for all of their freshmen,
which included moving professors into
residence halls.
On Monday, a group of UNC pro
fessors, staff and students suggested
testing out a similar system at UNC.
The Chancellor’s Task Force on
Intellectual Climate gave a 71-page
report to Chancellor Michael Hooker
with suggestions on how to encourage
intelligent interaction on campus.
The task force said the most impor
tant recommendation they could make
was to give freshmen a totally new first-
year expenence.
Asa part of
that change, the
task force suggest
ed creating fresh
man residence
halls that combine
student life with
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the classroom, said History Professor
Leon Fink, head of the task force’s first
year initiative subcommittee.
"(Duke) moved dramatically to try to
create a special climate for the fresh
men,” Fink said. His committee sug
gested converting five floors of Hinton
James Residence Hall into a small intel
lectual society for 500 freshmen.
Duke changed housing all over cam
pus. All freshmen were assigned rooms
on Duke’s East Campus.
The 1,600 freshmen had to eat
together, study together and had social
events specifically for East Campus res
idents, said Jason Barkley, chief of staff
of Duke’s student government.
“Students were very skeptical,” he
said. “Nobody thought it was going to
work.”
But he said students changed their
minds quickly.
Professors hold classes, give advice
and work out with students.
One professor plays on an intramur
al basketball team, Marrero said. A neu
robiology professor tutors students on
one day and has a class on building bet
ter abdominal muscles the next.
“If you have an opportunity to go to
one of these things, it can make a dif
ference in how you study,” Duke
Student Body President Lino Marrero
said.
Marrero, a senior and former resi-
See FRESHMEN, Page 4
the extra bill.
“The legislature does not have control over that,
so it will be the campus’s decision on how to han
dle the extra bill,” he said.
The tuition increase took effect as previously
reported with a 5 percent increase for out-of-state
tuition and a 3 percent increase for in-state. That
means an extra SSOO per year for out-of-state stu
dents and an extra $46 for in-state students.
Lee said, “There will also be a slight 2 percent
across-the-board increase in 1999.”
Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D-Orange, said she and
other members close to the university community
were disappointed in the final decision.
“I don’t understand it,” she said. “We had extra
money so there was no reason for the increase.”
The late nature of the increase would be hard on
students because their families need time to budget
college expenses, said Student Body President Mo
Nathan.
“(The General Assembly) is going to force fam
ilies to scramble to pay for their delay,” Nathan
said.
Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, said she hoped
tuition increases did not become a trend. “This is
the second time we’ve done it, and it’s not a good
precedent to set.”
DTH/JENNIFER GUTHRIE
Protesting the ongoing construction of Ram Road near Hinton James Residence Hall, students place candles by a
cherry tree they planted Wednesday night. Twenty-five students marched silently to the construction site.
Rock climbers to reach
new heights inside gym
BY MARY-KATHRYN CRAFT
FEATURES EDITOR
Max Schoenberger looks forward to
dangling 29 feet above the ground next
week at Fetzer Gymnasium.
Schoenberger, a senior from Bryn
Athyn, Penn., and vice president of the
Carolina Rock and Gym Climbers, said
he planned to spend a great amount of
time climbing on the new indoor climb
ing wall, which opens next week at
Fetzer Gym C.
“I wiil be on the wall all I can,”
Schoenberger said. “I am excited.”
The wall is the latest addition to
Carolina Adventures, an outdoor recre
ation and education center which is part
of the Intramural Sports Program.
Carolina Adventures director Mike
Lyons has been working for the last two
years to bring an indoor climbing wall
to UNC.
“This is one of the things where
UNC is at the back of the pack,” said
Lyons, who has coordinated outdoor
programs at several other universities as
well as been a back-country ski guide.
“Most major universities across the
United States have walls. They have
become very popular.”
UNC’s indoor wall, which was paid
for by alumni donations and contribu
tions to the Student Recreation Center,
will be open to all students, faculty and
staff who attend climbing orientation
and training sessions.
After receiving belay certification,
climbers can use the wall whenever it’s
open.
Schoenberger explained that when
one is climbing a wall or rock, there is
a person who holds the rope, takes up
the slack and locks the rope for the per
son climbing. That person is called a
belay, he said.
"When you are dangling, that’s
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thursday, August 28, 1997
Volume 105, Issue 58
Rolling down the tuition road...
The General Assembly passed the state budget,
which includes a retroactive tuition increase.
OThe UNC Board of Governors meets and issues directives to an
implement a 5 percent tuition increase for out-of-state an
students and a 3 percent tuition hike for instate 11
students at N.C. State University and UNC-CH.
Olt will be left up to the campus’s administrators
to figure out how to send students ■■
supplementary bills. ■■
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consult with the Office of
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belaying,” he said.
People with previous climbing expe
rience must still complete a wall orien
tation class, demonstrate their skills and
pay a sls certification fee. The first class
for those with past experience is Sept.
29.
For those with no previous experi
ence, Sept. 30’s class will introduce all
the necessary skills to properly use the
wall, Lyons said. The class costs S2O
and lasts 1 1/2 hours. Lyons said the
wall will be open nightly, and certified
See WALL, Page 4
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Mike Lyons lunges for the uppermost hold on the new Fetzer Gymnasium climbing wall. The wall, which is located in
the gymnastics room, will officially open to students and faculty next week.
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Climbing craze
Hours for the indoor climbing wall in Fetzer
Gymnasium are as follows:
Monday 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Tuesday 8 a.m.-noon, 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
Wednesday 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
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Thursday 8 a.m.-noon, 8 p.m.-10 p.m.'
Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
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Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday 1 p.m.-8 p.m.
DTH/CHRISTMN HELMS
General Assembly
passes state budget
m The N.C. General Assembly’s budget
includes provisions for fire safety, mass
transportation and welfare reform.
BY WHITNEY MOORE
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
RALEIGH Exhausted and relieved, members of the
N.C. General Assembly passed the state budget late
Wednesday and prepared to adjourn the longest-running ses
sion ever.
“Everybody’s so weary, it’s hard to be as elated right now
as we will be next week," said Julia White, communications
director for the N.C. Senate. She said legislators worked late
nights through the weekend to settle on a compromise budget.
With bipartisan support, the budget passed 47-2 in the
See BUDGET, Page 4
Road’s construction
draws more protest
■ Students planted a tree
named “Hope” at the
road’s construction site.
BY KERITARLTON
STAFF WRITER
Twenty-five students gathered
Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil
to protest the ongoing construction of
an access road near the Smith Center.
“We’re marching silently because the
tax payers have been silenced in this
issue,” Young Democrats President
Shannon Stamey said.
The students marched silently from
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the Pit to the construction site. They car
ried a cherry tree, which they named
“Hope.” They planted the tree in the
middle of the construction area.
The “Ram Road,” as critics have
dubbed it, will connect the VIP Ram’s
Club lot to Manning Drive. Several stu
dents and community members say the
road will serve only as a quick exit to
certain members of the University’s
Educational Foundation.
Students said they protested because
the Department of Transportation used
state funds for a project that would ben
efit only a small group.
Lauren Attanas, a member of the
See PROTEST MARCH, Page 4
INSIDE
‘The King’is dead?
Although Elvis Presley
died 20 years ago,
students and older
fans remain fascinated
by his music and
movies. Page 5
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Is the well really dry?
Universities across the
country struggle to
implement dry rush
policy for fraternities
and sororities. Page 3
CAMPUS
CONNECTIONS
Football’s feminine side
UNO’s Mack
Brown
taught
about 280
women the
IB
basics of football Wednesday. Page 9
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