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■ The Board of Trustees
discussed issues relating to
technology Thursday.
BY KELLI BOUTIN
STAFF WRITER
The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center is now SIOO,OOO closer to the
$7.5 million needed to build a free
standing center, thanks to the William
R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.
University officials announced the
gift at the Board of Trustees meeting
Thursday.
“I think that this contribution speaks
to the confidence that some have in our
project, and it also speaks to the fact
that our goal will be reached,” said
Gerald Home, BCC director.
The pledge brings the total raised in
the campaign to
build a freestand
ing BCC to $3.9
million.
“For the first
time, I, in my
bones, feel a sense
of optimism that
we are in sight of
our fund-raising
goals,” Chancellor
Michael Hooker
said.
The BOT also
adopted an
amendment to
require the chair
man of each
department to
Sonja H. Stone Black
Cultural Center
director
GERALD HORNE
said the donation
showed confidence in
the BCC's efforts.
conduct extensive reviews of each
tenured faculty member at least every
five years.
The BOT approved a master plan for
the location of anew
Herbarium/Research Building at the
N.C. Botanical Garden, ordered the
demolition of the Grounds Storage
Building and renewed the lease for the
Carolina Inn.
But much of the BOT meeting
focused on technology at the University.
“We’ve turned from iaggeis to lead
ers in terms of technology,” said
Charles Sanders, Academic Affairs and
Personnel Committee chairman.
During the committee’s meeting,
Hooker gave a presentation about
LEARN North Carolina, a computer
network that offers teachers across the
state the latest classroom technology
and online support.
During the Student Affairs
Committee meeting, University Career
Services director Marcia Harris gave
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BY COURTNEY WEILL
ASSISTANT STATE 6 NATIONAL EDITOR
When Wade Cavin attended
UNC-Chapel Hill, he struggled to
finance his education. But today,
needy students can breathe a little
easier, thanks to a $4.4 million
donation for need-based scholar
ships Cavin willed to UNC-CH
when he died.
And donations like his are not
an exception but the rule. Each
year, alumni donate money to
their alma maters across the state
to ensure the continuation of
A weeklong series
looking at the politics
of higher education in
the UNC system.
quality education.
This funding is a necessity, as each year the UNC sys
tem battles to gain more money from the N.C. General
Assembly. But the pub
lic purse is not the
University’s only
source of funds.
Hidden from the
public eye, a network
of alumni exists on
each campus to pro
vide both valuable
feedback and finan
cial support.
Private funding
often provides univer-
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sities with foundations for improvement.
“It’s hard to overstate the importance of alumni,"
UNC-system President Molly Broad said.
Alumni play a vital role on every campus, especial
ly at UNC-CH, said Ellen Smith, director of develop
ment communications at UNC-CH. “(Alumni support)
is the margin of excellence,” Smith said. “It’s what
brings the top faculty and the top students to Carolina.”
She said private gifts to UNC-CH from alumni,
friends, corporations and grants reached an unprece-
New ONE Cards ready next week
BY BETH HATCHER
STAFF WRITER
Along with graduating students,
UNC will soon have to part with anoth
er set of friends, the old UNC ONE
Cards.
Starting Monday, students can pick
up their new ONE Cards from 7 a.m. to
9 p.m. in the Student Union lobby area.
During the next two weeks, the cards
will be distributed daily in alphabetical
order of students’ last names.
Afterward, the cards will be available in
the ONE Card office on the second floor
of Student Stores.
The cards will contain anew 16-digit
personal identification number, which
will replace the social security numbers.
Students can use their old cards until
the official changeover date, May 18,
Tar Heels meet unexpected company in Final Four
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UNC forward Antawn Jamison (with ball) battles for a rebound in the Tar Heels' victory against
Connecticut in the East Regional final. Jamison was named the East Regional's MVP.
dented high of $107.5 million in the 1997 fiscal year.
More than 42,000 UNC-CH alumni made individual
donations last year, with 2,602 of the donations exceed
ing $2,000, Smith said.
The alumni’s financial ties with their alma maters
open other opportunities to influence the schools.
“The alumni are at the core of making things hap
pen," said Siegfried Herrmann, vice chancellor for uni
versity advancement at Appalachian State University.
Alumni compose the majority of the boards of
trustees and the foundation boards, which control cam
pus funds, across the UNC system.
“(Alumni) have influence by serving on boards,”
Broad said. “About 90 percent of the members of the
(Board of Governors) are alumni of UNC campuses.”
The past experiences of alumni give them the insight
needed to successfully manage each campus. “Alumni
that take pride in the university can be very helpful in
communicating the vision and the ideals upon which
throughout the university system,” Broad said.
The Kenan family has donated everything from a
chancellor’s residence at UNC-Wilmington to money
for the football program at UNC-CH, she said.
“We’ve certainly benefited enormously from the gifts
of the Kenan Foundation,” UNC-CH Chancellor
Michael Hooker said. “The faculty we have is largely
from the support of the Kenan family.”
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Spring, with her golden sms and silver rain, is with us once again.
Henry Timrod
Friday, March 27,1998
Volume 106, Issue 20
said Rut Tufts, director of Auxiliary
Services. By the end of the summer, stu
dents will need the new cards to register,
Tufts said.
He said privacy issues partly influ
enced the changeover to the new cards.
He headed the UNC ONE Card
Committee, which was created in May
1995, to look at ways of improving the
card. “The social security number by
most people’s interpretation is a private
piece of information,” Tufts said.
Jason Arnold, a student representa
tive on the ONE Card Committee said it
was easy for social security numbers to
be misused with the old cards.
“We want to keep social security
numbers as secure as possible,” Arnold
said.
Jim Clinton, director of the ONE
Card office, said he envisioned no prob
the university pro
gresses,” ASU
Chancellor Francis
Borkowslri said.
The UNC sys
tem has been fortu
nate to receive
ongoing support
from influential
families across the
state.
“You see the
Kenan name
“The social security number
by most people’s
interpretation
is a private
piece of information. ”
lOT TUFTS
director. Auxiliary Services
lems in switching over to the new cards.
“The plans are all laid out; it should
go very smoothly,” Clinton said.
He said the new cards would bring
the campus together under a more uni
fied number system.
Arnold said the new cards would be
much more functional, possibly even
being used as debit cards and keys in the
BY ALEC MORRISON
SENIOR WRITER
North Carolina’s self-appointed mission to win
an NCAA championship comes to a head this
weekend though perhaps not as UNC expected.
The East Regional-champion Tar Heels, the
tournament’s only remaining No. 1 seed, make no
bones about their goal of a national title. After
coming up short against Arizona in last season’s
national semifinals, they won’t be satisfied with
anything less. Point guard Ed Cota said as much
after the ACC Tournament: the Wildcats were the
country’s best team until
the NCAA crowned a
new champion.
But Arizona is gone, as
are Duke and Kansas, the other No. 1 seeds. That
leaves North Carolina (34-3) to carry the mantle of
the elite into San Antonio for Saturday’s semifinal
game against third-seeded and West champion
Utah (29-3) at the Alamodome. Does that make
UNC’s road any easier?
Not at all.
“I know (Utah’s) a
good team,” Cota said.
“They’re capable of beat
ing us or any team in the
country. We’ve got to watch out for that.”
Utah might be the most lovable team left in the
tournament. Coach Rick Majerus, the bald butter
ball coaching in his first Final Four, has a team
loaded with honor-roll students, a center who hard
ly played in high school and one of the country’s
top point guards in 6-foot-2 Andre Miller.
The Utes are slow but smart, and their size
matches well with the Tar Heels in a halfcourt set.
Miller went for a triple-double (18 points, 14
rebounds and 13 assists) last week when Utah beat
Arizona by 25 in the West Regional final, and
Majerus installed a tricky triangle-and-two defense
that swallowed the Wildcat shooters by game’s end.
“We know what we want to do with that type of
defense,” UNC coach Bill Guthridge said.
By donating time and money, alumni can have a strong influence on the initiatives
of the UNC system. Many of the most influential families in North Carolina
are large contributors to state higher education.
towards ECU. •.-
future.
“The new cards will be able to grow
with the University,” Arnold said.
Tufts said the new personal identifi
cation number would stay with students
throughout their education at UNC.
Tufts said students will also have the
option of signing up for long-distance
service with MCI through the cards.
Sophomore Adrienne Caldwell said
she never felt like her privacy was threat
ened by the old cards.
“Having to get anew card and
remember anew number is just a has
sle,” Caldwell said.
The cards will also boast anew
design. Students’ ONE Cards will have
a light gray background with an inter
locking North Carolina on front,
Clinton said.
“We felt like spicing them up a little.”
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from 9 ajn.-7 pm.
“Whether or not we can exe
cute we’ll work on.
“We hope going into any
game we know what to do
with a junk defense.”
Utah will run multiple
defenses at UNC on
Saturday, just as the Tar
Heels mix periods of zone with their straight man.
In fact, playing impervious defense could deter
mine beyond all else who advances to Monday’s
championship game.
Both teams have held opponents to 38 percent
shooting this season. Utah is the nation’s best
rebounding team; UNC has anew dedication to
the boards in its last two games.
“Everybody on the team feels we can win,” Tar
Heel forward Antawn Jamison said. “We have to
do the things we’ve done all year long. After we lost
to Arizona last year, people took it on themselves
to take this thing seriously.”
Utah uses different means to achieve the same
result Majerus knows his team is slower and more
deliberate than the athletic powerhouses that made
up the top seeds. So the Utes resolve to out-think
their opponents and exploit both their size in the
paint and the tenacity that emanates from Miller.
Miller’s favorite target under the basket is
Michael Doleac, a 6-11 center who leads the Utes
with 16.2 points and 7.1 rebounds per game.
Doleac can also drift outside the 3-point arc, where
he has connected on 38 percent of his shots. While
UNC will probably body up to him with Makhtar
Ndiaye underneath, Jamison will also have to use
his mobility to chase Doleac around.
Cota and Shammond Williams will take turns
on Miller and hope the game doesn’t hang in the
balance when he holds the ball. But the tables turn
with the Tar Heels on offense, especially if they can
run the fast break. Williams leads the team with 21
points per game this tournament including a53
percent shooting mark —and Cota’s transition
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INSIDE
Coming out from the right
Former religious-right
activist and pastor Me 1
White spoke about
living as a gay man.
Page 2
■
Little tree-huggers
The Town of Carrboro
celebrated Arbor Day
with a treeplanting
ceremony and poetry
readings from local
elementary school
students. Page 4
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honors former DTH staffer Howell, who died in
the May 1996 Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
house fire. Proposals are due April 3. Call 962-
0245 with questions.
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