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INC Picks Insider as Nursing School Dean
Linda Cronenwett, the Sarah
Frances Russell Professor of
Nursing, says she wants to
improve N.C. health care.
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
One of UNC’s own received the rec
ommendation on Monday to be the new
School of Nursing dean.
Linda Cronenwett, who serves as the
Sarah Frances Russell Professor of
Nursing, displayed a determination to
improve of the quality of health care in
North Carolina that led to her getting
the recommendation, acting Provost
Ned Brooks said.
Cronenwett was one of the top five
Committee
Dismisses
Charges
Erica Smiley, chairwoman
of the Rules and Judiciary
Committee, says she will
issue an apology tonight.
By Carrie Callaghan
Staff Writer
The Student Congress Ethics
Committee dismissed charges Monday
night of inappropriate behavior brought
against Rules and Judiciary Committee
Chairwoman Erica Smiley.
The charges stemmed from an April
20 Student Affairs Committee meeting
where other representatives said Smiley
behaved in a manner unbecoming a
Congress representative following
debate regarding a resolution.
Smiley said she would issue a public
apology’ to the student body at tonight’s
Congress meeting. Smiley’s counsel,
Laura Killinger, said Smiley used pro-
See CHARGES, Page 6
Council Debates Budget Spending Items, Tax Hike
By Daniele Eubanks
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill Town Council members
questioned spending items on the town’s
budget proposal, which was presented to
the council at its Monday meeting.
Town Manager Cal Horton said he
and the council would further delve into
the proposal, which includes a 3.3-cent
property tax hike, at a work session
Wednesday.
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candidates Brooks reviewed to make a
recommendation for the new dean. The
nomination must now be approved by
the Board of Trustees and the Board of
Governors.
Cronenwett said her prime mission
was to ensure an outstanding quality of
health care improvement in the state, by
improving the quality of education that
nurses receive from the school.
“I want to make the School of
Nursing relative to nurses who work in
the state by continuing the excellent
quality 1 of education from the school and
developing ideas to affect health care in
North Carolina,” she said.
Cronenwett, who joined the faculty in
August after teaching in the hospital at
Dartmouth College, teaches a course to
graduate students and nurses from the
community. The course researches the
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The tax increase would go toward a
town general fund that typically pro
vides for fire and police protection, park
construction and other general govern
ment services, town documents state.
A tax hike would allow the town to
hire additional firefighters and a
stormwater management engineer, and
fund the improved maintenance of the
town’s capital assets and infrastructure
and increased pay for some town
employees.
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Volume 107, Issue 40
methods and mea
sures on quality
improvement in
health care.
In addition to
teaching,
Cronenwett also
represents the
nursing school in
the UNC Health
Outcomes pro
gram.
The program is
a campuswide
effort to develop
teaching and
research skills that
Nursing Professor
unda
Cronenwett
said she wanted to
continue the school’s
excellent education.
will improve the educational and pro
fessional outcomes in the area of Health
Services. Bill Roper, dean of the School
of Public Health and developer of
The proposal calls for $53.5 million
divided into eight categories.
Most money would go into the gen
eral and transportation funds,
$31,780,000 and $6,272,500, respective
ly. The town relies on property taxes to
pay a major portion of the costs in these
two areas, town documents state.
With the higher tax rate, a taxpayer
whose property was valued at $150,000
would pay $49.50 more per year for the
services, a copy of the proposed budget
Health Outcomes, said he worked on
the project with Cronenwett and was
impressed with her expertise in the field
of science.
Brooks said he thought very highly of
Cronenwett, but the fact that she came
from UNC did not play much of a role
in determining her nomination.
“If she had come from the outside, we
would have looked at her the same,” he
said. “It is only a bonus that she is cur
rendy at the school, so she has had time
to become acclimated to it She is an
absolute gem.”
The search for anew dean began last
summer when current Dean Cynthia
Freund announced she would step down
July 1 after nine years at the position.
Roper, chairman of the search com
mittee, said his committee received hun
dreds of nominations and applications,
states.
Several members presented Horton
with questions about decreasing spend
ing, and he said he would address them
at Wednesday’s work session.
Council member Joe Capowski said
he was confused about the amount of
money available in the fund balance.
Council member Pat Evans suggested
that some service bonds be postponed.
The bonds go to human services agen
cies, such as Habitat for Humanity and
UNC Family Holds On
To Tobacco Tradition
The Troxler family says they
fear they will have to give
up farm life thanks to the
recent tobacco settlement.
By Ben Brazil
Staff Writer
BROWN SUMMIT - UNC senior
Jeremy Troxler never wanted to be a
tobacco fanner like his dad.
Growing up on a farm north of
Greensboro, Troxler spent every August
getting up before dawn, walking into the
fields and picking tobacco leaves still
dripping with dew.
“I remember it being hot, 90-degree
heat, and kind of cursing the fact that I
was out there,” said Troxler, a
Morehead Scholar. “I think fanning is
the kind of thing you can only appreci-
but had to nanow the pool to five can
didates who made presentations at the
nursing school in February.
“Our committee strongly recom
mended Linda,” Roper said. “She is a
nationally known leader in nursing and
nursing research.”
Roper said he could not say when the
BOG would decide whether to approve
Cronenwett, but he said he would pre
dict the decision would be final within
two or three months.
“I’m excited and honored and look
ing forward to this new challenge in my
life,” Cronenwett said. “I want to con
tinue the excellence that has led us to be
the No. 6 School of Nursing in the
nation.”
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the Orange County Senior Center.
“When we adopted the schedule for
granting bonds, we didn’t know it was
going to be a tight year,” she said.
Evans also wondered if any money
allotted for capital improvements could
be cut out. “Is there money that has
been traditionally channeled into capital
improvements that hasn’t been used in
the last few years and could be cut out
See BUDGET, Page 6
ate when you’re done for the day.”
Troxler doesn’t see that kind of work
in his future, but farming is something
he loves and admires.
It’s also a family legacy that he fears
is dying.
“I know this isn’t my place,” Troxler
said as he rocked in a red chair on his
front porch at home. “I could never be
a farmer for the rest of my life. But it’s
sad that even if someone did, it’s not a
possibility.”
Troxler’s pessimism stems largely
from the $246 billion in settlements that
the nation’s five major tobacco compa
nies reached with the 50 states, five
commonwealths - such as Puerto Rico
-and the District of Columbia last year.
The settlement will reimburse states
for the money they have spent treating
smoking-related illnesses. It might
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POWs Get
Visit From
Red Cross
Officials say the three U.S.
soldiers appear to be in
good condition but will not
be released any time soon.
Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Nearly a
month after Yugoslav forces captured
three U.S. soldiers along a disputed bor
der, the Red Cross was allowed to see
the men Monday, but chances of their
release anytime soon were considered
slim.
Western officials cited critical com
ments by a Yugoslav leader, mean
while, as evidence of the first crack in
President Slobodan Milosevic’s regime
since the NATO air campaign in
Kosovo began March 24.
And the European Union tightened
economic sanctions and banned fuel
shipments to Yugoslavia but left the
touchy issue of enforcing it with an
Adriatic naval blockade to be worked
out by NATO.
International Committee of the Red
Cross chief Comelio Sommaruga gave
no information about the captured sol
diers’ condition but said a Red Cross
doctor and a delegate would pay anoth
er visit to them Tuesday. After meeting
Milosevic, though, he expressed pes
simism that they would be freed before
the war ends.
“International humanitarian law says
prisoners of war would be liberated at
the end of active hostilities. Regrettably,
we are not at this point at the moment,”
Sommaruga said.
The U.S. soldiers were shown on
Serb television after their March 31 cap
ture near the Macedonia border with
braised faces and cuts. The Red Cross
had repeatedly been denied access to
the soldiers, who are believed to be held
in or near Belgrade.
“I was able to talk to them only a few
minutes,” Sommaruga said. “We looked
into each other’s eyes and shook hands
very warmly.”
Sommaruga said “it was not possible
to have a full-fledged (Red Cross) visit
in accord with the provisions of the
Geneva Convention,” but that he had
given the men letters from their families
and paper to write back.
Sommaruga also said the Red Cross
would work to reopen its mission in
Kosovo after receiving security assur
ances from Milosevic.
White House spokesman Joe
Lockhart said Monday’s meeting came
“25 days late” and represented a “bare
minimum” of what international law
requires in terms of access to war cap
tives.
He said the three “appear to be in
good condition.”
Those held captive are Staff Sgt.
Andrew A. Ramirez, 24, of Los
See KOSOVO, Page 6
INSIDE
Fraternity Frenzy
Police responded to a call from
Fraternity Court where many Sigma
Nu members were throwing benches.
One Sigma Chi member’s car window
was shattered. See Page 2.
A Conservative Trend
Some conservative leaders on campus
and nationwide say their presence is
being felt more strongly among college
students. See Page 4.
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