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Graduate Schools
Earn High Marks
By James Pharr
Staff Writer
Graduate programs at UNC-CH
earned high marks as four schools
earned spots in the top 25 of U.S. News
& World Report’s latest rankings.
The Kenan-Flagler Business School
scored highest, placing 16th among the
nation’s business schools. Also in the top
25 of their respective disciplines were
the schools of Medicine, Education and
Law.
The business school fell one place
from a four-way tie at 15 last year. Each
of the other three schools improved its
ranking from last year. The law school
reached 21st, while the education school
ranked 22nd and the primary care med
ical school tied for eighth.
Emily Adcock, publicist for U.S.
News, said rankings incorporated com
prehensive criteria in the evaluation of
each graduate school discipline. Each
ranking also took into account the repu
tation of each program among its peers
and those outside of graduate education.
Adcock said that along with reputa
tional factors, U.S. News compiled sta
Re-election
To Feature
New Policy
Students who vote in the
RHA presidential re-election
will be checked off a roster
listing all students' names.
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
Following the Student Supreme
Court trial Wednesday, new Elections
Board chairwoman Whitney Wright
will conduct the re-election for Resident
Hall Association President
Wright stepped into office after for
mer chairwoman Heather Faulk volun
tarily resigned after the trial.
In the trial, plaintiff Jermain Reeves,
former RHA presidential candidate,
said the defendants, former RHA
President-elect Murray Coleman and
Faulk, compromised the validity of the
Feb. 9 election results.
Coleman will remain a write-in can-
didate for the re
election, which is
set for March 30.
Wright said the
Elections Board
would organize
and conduct an
efficient and well
run re-election by
utilizing a check
list of everyone
who voted.
“We are plan
ning to use a ros
ter of all under
graduates and
graduates who
Former RHA
president-elect
Murray Coleman
said he was looking
forward to
campaigning again.
live on campus and are eligible to vote
in the RHA election instead of the com
puter system that was used last time.”
To ensure that everyone votes only
once, the rosters will be compared after
the elections, Wright said. The rules and
regulations will also remain the same as
they were in the first election.
“The candidates could actually begin
campaigning (Thursday), but you will
probably start seeing most people out
next week,” Wright said.
Faulk and Wright said they did not
yet know if the candidates would get
more money for their campaigns but
would check the Student Code.
Both candidates said they were ready
to trek down the campaign trail again.
“I will definitely be out there in full
force campaigning,” Coleman said.
Reeves said he was glad he and
Coleman would have the chance for a
See RHA, Page 2
tistics to evaluate the input qualities of
students entering the graduate school.
Statistics are also collected to determine
how well schools prepared students.
Alison Adams, spokeswomen for the
business school, said the school was
excited to see it had done well in the
rankings. “These rankings are very
important to admissions,” Adams said.
She said the ranking could in part be
credited to the success of the school’s
MBA students.
“If you deliver a good program and
have good students, the rankings will
follow,” she said.
In a prepared statement, UNC
School of Law Dean Judith Wegner stat
ed, “We’re happy to know that others
recognize the quality of our program
here at UNC, but believe that such qual
ity is best articulated through other
means.”
Wegner stated that the rankings
might not tell the whole story.
“The effort to quantify the diverse
characteristics of law school in an over
ly simplistic fashion does not provide
See RANKINGS, Page 2
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Susan Murphey unbuckles her dog, Rasper, from the baby stroller in which he rolled down
Franklin Street on Thursday afternoon. Murphey, who is from Albany, New York, took
advantage of the day's warm weather to explore Chapel Hill.
Inter-Faith Council Plans Expansion
By Kim Dronzek
Staff Writer
The Inter-Faith Council will petition
the Chapel Hill Town Council on
Monday to support an addition to the
Rosemary Street homeless shelter and
community kitchen.
The addition will allow the IFC to
combine its administrative offices and
shelter into one center. The IFC’s
administrative offices must be relocated
by the spring of 2000 because the land it
leases on Wilson Street was recently
sold by the United Church of Christ.
A bigger IFC center will also provide
more services like crisis intervention
and medical clinics, said Chris Moran,
IFC executive director.
The advantages of having the build
ing next to the current shelter include
easing overcrowding pressures, inte
grating the agency, and providing more
social services, he said.
“Whether people are hungry, need
medical attention, or crisis intervention,
we want to have more service opportu
nities for them” Moran said.
However, a North Carolina
Department of Transportation road con
struction project could threaten the
IFC’s shelter expansion plans.
The state’s Thoroughfare Plan would
make Pittsboro Street and Columbia
Street a one-way pair of streets and
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Friday, March 19, 1999
Volume 107, Issue 14
The Nation's Best
And Brightest
UNC graduate and professional schools
exhibited overall improvements from last
year's U.S News rankings.
Business Schools
1. Stanford University
2. Harvard University
2. Northwestern University
2. University of Pennsylvania
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16. University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill (tied for 15 last year)
Law Schools
1. Yale University
2. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
4. New York University
5. Columbia University
21. University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill (tied for 25 last year)
Medical Schools - Primary Care
1. University of Washington
2. Harvard University
3. Mayo Medical School
4. Oregon Health Sciences University
5. University of Mass. - Worcester
8 (tie). University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
(tied for 6 last year)
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make traffic run parallel to North
Columbia. This route would ran straight
through Walker’s Funeral Home,
Granville Towers and the Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity house.
The IFC’s petition will call for the
state to remove the Pittsboro Street
Extension from the Thoroughfare Plan.
“The route being proposed will affect
certain buildings and the Old Municipal
Building (IFC Shelter) will be affected,”
Moran said.
The Town Council has already
vetoed the state’s plan, and town offi
cials say it is unlikely that the state will
build the road.
“The state and the town have thor
oughfare plans, and this plan was vetoed
and removed by the town a long time
ago,” Capowski said. “For the road to be
built it has to be on both the state and
town plans. To me it is not a big deal, the
road won’t be built”
Moran said the petition would bring
more pressure on the state to kill the
Thoroughfare Plan. “I’m sure the thor
oughfare would never happen so it is
reasonable to take it off,” Moran said.
The petition also suggests that a 25-
year long-term lease be acquired for
both the Old Municipal Building, where
the IFC kitchen and shelter are current
ly located, and the property immediate
ly west of the building, where the pro
posed addition would be built.
BOG, Students Await
Vote on Tuition Hike
A Board of Governors'
committee approved a 4.9
percent tuition increase for
undergraduate students.
By Cate Doty
Assistant State & National Editor
RALEIGH - The UNC Board of
Governors is expected to pass a tuition
increase plan today which would raise
tuition across the system and have the
greatest impact on graduate students at
UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State
University.
The proposal adopted Thursday on
the N.C. State campus by the Budget
and Finance Committee includes a 4.9
percent increase for all students across
the system, as well as an additional hike
of 3.5 percent for graduate and profes
sional students at UNC-CH and N.C.
State. The added 3.5 percent would
equal an extra $122 on top of the 4.9
percent increase. University graduate
Dean Proposes Increase
In Law School Tuition
By Jim Harris
Staff Writer
Future students at the UNC School of Law could
be digging deeper into their pockets to pay for a
proposed tuition increase that many faculty and
students say will improve the school’s overall
resourcefulness.
UNC School of Law Dean Judith Wegner sub
mitted the proposal March 12 to the UNC Board
of Governors. The tuition increase, if fully imple
mented, would net the law school an additional
$2.9 million by the year 2003.
If the proposal makes it through the BOG, it
would then have to be approved by the N.C.
General Assembly.
Wegner said the increase would be phased-in
slowly during a three-year period beginning in
2000. In-state tuition would rise by $5,000 while
the out-of-state tuition would rise by only SI,OOO.
“Several additional faculty members would be
added in areas of growing importance and the
library and student services would be improved,”
Wegner said.
“In addition, the school believes the proposal is
Proposed Addition to Homeless Shelter
Inter-Faith Council officials say the proposed expansion would allow the center to combine
administrative operations and community services at one central location.
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The Town Council will briefly discuss
the petition Monday to see if the mem
bers have cm interest in the issue.
“I think that IFC has a unique rela
tionship with its public entities and the
essence of having this kind of
students are vowing to continue their
fight against the proposal.
Outgoing president of the UNC-CH
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation Bryan Kennedy said the bat
tle to keep tuition down would persist as
the proposal headed to the legislature.
“It’s not over now, Etnd it’s not over
until the legislature says it’s over,”
Kennedy said. “We would have liked to
have killed it at the BOG, but we will
take measures at the legislative level.”
GPSF President-elect Lee Conner
said he did not agree with the philoso
phy behind the increase.
“This money is not earmarked to
come back to us,” Connor said. “We
understand and accept the privilege of
having the BOG set tuition levels, but
we as students will not see the effects of
the money.”
BOG Committee member Ray Farris
said the revenue generated from the
tuition increase would be transferred
into the UNC-system’s general fund.
This recommendation is the board’s first
attempt at suggesting tuition levels to the
public/private relationship is very
important for many low income indi
viduals,” Moran said.
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legislature, he said. In November 1998,
the board adopted a policy which
requires tuition to be determined by
October each year, giving students time
to plan for increases in tuition.
BOG student representative Jeff
NiemEin, who does not hold voting
power, said he headed into the commit
tee meeting with the express purpose of
conveying student opinion to the board.
“I wanted to make sure that the com
mittee knew that they did not have grad
uate student assent,” Nieman said. “But
I think with this proposal it’s a sign that
... we reached a controlled, moderate
decision that made sense.”
The projected tuition hike deviates
from the past decade’s trend of an aver
age 8 percent annual increase. Had the
BOG gained control of tuition increases
a decade ago, tuition at UNC-CH and
N.C. State would be approximately
$750 less under this plan, Nieman said
in a previous interview.
Creators of the policy chose 4.9 per-
See TUITION, Page 2
shaped in a way that will
allow mitigation of any
adverse effects on students,
for example, through the
delayed phase-in and provi
sions for financial aid.”
Provost Richard
Richardson said in order for
University to stay competi
tive with other large stEite uni
versities, the ratio between
out-of-sate and in-state
tuitions needed to be com
parative.
The law school has gener
ally been ranked among the
top 20 American law schools
by reputation, Wegner said.
Law School Dean
Judith Wegner
said a tuition
increase would
improve resources
offered to students.
In the new rankings released Thursday, U.S.
News and World Report placed the law school
number 21 among other law schools in the nation.
That is four spots higher than last year’s ranking of
25.
See LAW, Page 2
INSIDE
Center Faces Deficit
Although the Orange County Rape
Crisis Center is facing a budget deficit,
officials say they are confident that
funding will be found to continue the
center’s services. See Page 2.
Teaching Teachers
A national task force, on which
UNC-system President Molly Broad is
a member, recommended revamping
teacher-education programs at
American colleges. They suggested
more hands-on experience for
prospective teachers. See Page 4.
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