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Walters Plans to Veto Money for Club Trip
The bill would have paid for
part of the UNC Investment
Club’s trip to New York City
during Fall Break.
Bv Shannon Clubb
Staff Writer
Student Body President Reyna
Walters said Monday she would veto a
Student Congress bill allocating $3,150
to the UNC Investment Club for a Fall
Break trip.
The club requested travel and lodg
ing funds for a trip to New York City to
visit businesses.
Walters said she would veto the leg
islation, passed last Tuesday, because the
trip would benefit only those going to
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Sharonda Mann, right, Residence Hall President David Jernigan and Harita Patel, all juniors, play twister in the Pit on Monday.
The afternoon games are part of a weeklong celebration recognizing RHA's 25th anniversary. Other activities for the week include
an open house, a dinner theater performance and a roommate feud.
CAA Funds
To Remain
Available
Student Body Treasurer
James Dasher says he will
not freeze CAA funds after
last month's loss of $3,000.
Bv Carol Adamson
Staff Writer
Despite the theft of $3,000 from the
Carolina Athletic Association’s cash
box last Tuesday, the group’s funds will
not be frozen.
CAA members
said the group
would not have its
funds frozen and
homecoming
would proceed as
planned.
Since CAA
plans and exe
cutes homecom
ing activities,
freezing funds
could have ham
pered the Oct. 31
Nov. 7 celebra
tion.
Student Body
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CAA Co-president
David Cohn
met with the student
body treasurer
to discuss
the missing money.
See CAA, Page 4
New York.
“Which one is more beneficial - if I
went to hear the speaker and brought
the information back to everyone else,
or if I brought the speaker here?”
Walters said.
She said she discussed the bill with
Investment Club President Erin Clark
before deciding to veto.
Members of other student organiza
tions also approached Walters to express
their displeasure with the bill.
Chris Anderson, president of the
Natural History Club, said that regard
less of the valuable learning experience
a trip might provide, the money to pay
for it should not come from student fees.
“(The Natural History Club) could go
to South America, and it would be a
great learning experience, but it’s not
something that students should pay for,”
TWIST AND SHOUT
Caroline Makes Her Way to Web
By Kelli Boltin
Staff Writer
Members of one University committee got a sneak
preview of the new online registration system Monday.
Officials from Administrative Information Services
and the Office of the University' Registrar made the
presentation to the Student Information Committee.
The registrar’s office is planning to feature online
registration for the spring semester pending the success
of scheduled trials on Oct. l 2 and Oct. 23.
Associate Director for Student Information Services
Danny O'Neal, who led Monday’s presentation, said
the system had the same basic features as telephonic
UNC, Marriott Corp. Tied by Contract
Although independent of
UNC, Marriott Corp. works
on campus under the name
Carolina Dining Services.
By Dave Premawardhana
Staff Writer
Although it falls under the label of
Carolina Dining Services, the
University’s food service is actually han
dled by Washington, D.C.-based
Marriott Corp.
This integration of Marriott and the
University balances the dining needs of
students with Marriott’s bottom line.
“We’ve taken the approach that food
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said Anderson,
who was present
the night Student
Congress passed
the bill.
Funds allocated
to organizations
by Student
Congress should
benefit the
University, said
Chris Agosto,
president of the
Carolina Hispanic
Association.
“Before we
asked for the
Student Body
President
Reyna Walters
said club trips had to
benefit the student
body to get funding.
money, we’d make sure that it would
benefit the University as a whole,” she
said.
Rep. Jason Arnold, Dist. 13, who
registration, except the student’s updated schedule
would be constantly displayed in the lower right cor
ner.
The online format would also include a message
center on the screen that would give the student infor
mation about a class’s availability and whether the stu
dent had successfully enrolled in a class, he said.
“The student schedule is always available to the stu
dent, as is the message center,” he said.
O’Neal said students would also be able to view
their day-to-day schedules and information such as the
room, building and instructor for a class.
He said the system would also feature a function that
would organize available sections into those that fit the
service is a University operation and
integral part of campus life,” said Rut
Tufts, director of Auxiliary Services.
With that philosophy, the contract
unites CDS and Marriott as a single unit.
“Technically, (Marriott) is a separate
corporation, but they’re working as a
part of the University,” Tufts said.
“CDS is the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill’s manifestation
of Marriott. It’s geared not toward the
Marriott Corporation but toward the
needs of the University.”
He said the idea of incorporating an
outside organization within the
University was known as “outsourcing.”
This intermingled setup of Marriott
and UNC has financial implications.
The University and Marriott operate
voted against the legislation, said if the
club had asked for substantially less, he
would have seriously considered voting
in their favor.
It is difficult for campus groups to get
money, said lan Palmquist co-chairman
of Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and
Allies for Diversity. It is not a worth
while expenditure to send a small group
on a trip, he said.
Palmquist said that when members of
B-GLAD went on trips, they did what
ever they could to cut down on expens
es. “We drive; we don’t fly,” he said.
“We sleep on floors.”
Student Body Treasurer James
Dasher said if Walters passed the bill
that it would set a bad precedent. “It’s
not the group; it’s the activity,” he said.
He said the trip was not at the top of
a list of priorities for funding in the
student’s schedule and those that did not.
But one feature of telephonic registration that the
online system would not include is the conditional
drop/add function, he said.
He said this feature would be unnecessary because
the student would have access to the online directory
of classes, which would provide current information
about class availability.
O’Neal said the system was nearly complete, but still
had a few bugs. “I’d say it’s 70 to 85 percent there, so
we have a tremendous workload ahead of us before
next Monday.”
See ONLINE, Page 4
under a fee-based
contract, with
Marriott getting
approximately 3
percent to 4 per
cent of sales rev
enues right off the
top, Tufts said.
Of the remain
ing earnings,
about 35 percent
goes to food costs,
35 percent to
labor costs, 20
percent to opera
tional costs and
about 5 percent to
Director of Auxiliary
Services
Rut Tufts
said CDS recently
held three customer
feedback sessions.
the debt service being used to finance
building renovation costs.
Student Code, and the amount of
money requested was not proportional
with the amount of money available and
the number of student organizations.
“Right now, with $20,000 left to
appropriate over the course of the
semester, $3,000 doesn’t look like as
much,” Dasher said.
Although she agreed with Walters’
decision to veto, Student Congress
Speaker Pro-Tem Morayo Orija said she
would have supported giving the club
some money, but not $3,150.
While she said the bill should be
vetoed because of the controversy
involved, Rep. Cianti Stewart-Reid,
Dist. 10, said she wanted more equity in
the distribution of travel funds.
Stewart-Reid said if travel funds were
going to be granted to one organization,
they should be granted to all of them,
INVESTIGATING THE PRESIDENT
Party-Line Vote
Urges Hearings
On Impeachment
The Judiciary Committee's
motion to pursue a formal
impeachment inquiry will
go to the House this week.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - In a historic step
taken strictly along party lines, the
House Judiciary Committee voted
Monday night for an open-ended
impeachment inquiry of President
Clinton.
The top
Republican
lawyer cited
“substantial
and credible
Congress Seeks
Advice From UNC
Law Professor
See Page 4
evidence” of 15 possible grounds for
impeachment.
The roll call for a formal inquiry
under Watergate-style rules was 21-16,
with all the panel’s Republicans in favor
Another part of the financial agree
ment between CDS and the University
creates a $lO student fee each semester.
Tufts said the fee had existed since the
mid-1980s. That money went toward
Lenoir Dining Hall’s recent renovation
and planned renovations to Chase Hall.
“Now, in an attempt to hold down
student fees, the administration has left
the $lO fee in place and supplemented
that with vending machine and CDS
earnings,” Tufts said.
Despite the passage of a student ref
erendum in the spring of 1996 that
called for a fee increase of 31 cents, the
$lO fee remains. That is because the
Food Services Advisory' Task Force
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regardless of whether the students were
representing the University in a compe
tition-style environment.
But Clark continued to support the
club’s request for funds Monday.
“(The trip is) going to attract a lot of
recruiters back to this school,” he said.
Twenty-seven people will be going to
New York City with the Investment
Club over Fall Break even if the funds
aren’t granted, Clark said.
Investment Club member Terri Edge
said Walters’ plan to veto the bill had
upset club members. “Part of my tuition
goes toward these activities, and this is
one of the very few clubs I’m in,” she
said. “And I don’t feel like I’m getting
back what I put in.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
and all Democrats
opposed.
The full House
is expected to
agree to the
inquiry later this
week, thus making
Clinton only the
third president in
the history of the
country to be sub
jected to the threat
of formal
impeachment
proeedings.
“Do we have a
duty to look fur-
Monday’s decision
could make
President Clinton
only the third
president to face
impeachment.
ther, or to look away?” Chairman
Henry Hyde, R-Dl., asked at mid-mom
ing as he gaveled the committee to
order in the same cavernous room
where Richard Nixon’s fate was debat
ed a quarter-century ago.
“This is not about Watergate,” retort-
See CLINTON, Page 4
1N Tuesday
Symbolic Vote
” A A proposed
US W*P % , amendment
that would ban
e.jJjA % A'li desecration
111 ofthe
American flag
will die a few votes shy of passing
in the U.S. Senate if legislators do not
vote on it by Friday. See Page 5.
Scores Worry Schools
Orange County Board of Education
members expressed concern Monday
night about slow improvement
in standardized test results and
discrepancies among the scores
of white and minority students.
See Page 2.
1,000 Killed
UNC junior Tori Seibert collected her
I,oooth career kill in Friday’s 3-0
volleyball win against N.C. State
at Carmichael Auditorium. Seibert’s
offense has been one of the key
reasons why the Tar Heels are
unbeaten in the ACC. See Page 7.
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