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Group Chosen to Pick Chancellor
By Katie Abel
Staff Writer
A 14-member committee has been
slated to begin a nationwide search for
the University’s ninth chancellor.
The group will receive its first charge
from UNC-system President Molly
Broad at a 3 p.m. meeting today in
Morehead Planetarium.
The new chancellor will replace
Chancellor Michael Hooker, who died
June 29 after a six-month battle with
Budget Deficit
Sliced by $1.2 M
By Ashley St ephenson
Editor
University officials have whittled
UNC’s budget shortfall by $1.2 million
and found new funds to cushion the
blow, but the carving has cost 15
employees their jobs so far.
Interim Chancellor William McCoy
said the University received an unantic
ipated $3 million from the state after the
legislature approved the final budget.
The additional funds will be used to
strengthen the technological infrastruc
ture of the University, he said.
“Technology is the foundation behind
our academic mission,” he said.
“(Using the funds toward technology)
is a very sound balancing of priorities.”
The money will be used mostly to
wire campus buildings to prepare for the
Carolina
Computing
Initiative, which
requires all stu
dents starting with
freshmen in 2000
to purchase their
own laptops.
He said despite
the shortfall, there
could be no ques
tion of the
University’s finan
cial health.
“I have met
with senior lead
ership and I think
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Interim Chancellor
William McCoy
said unexpected
revenues from the
state helped ease the
budget shortfall.
we’re ready to say we think this is the
optimum situation,” McCoy said.
“I think the University if financially
sound. I see a continued trajectory at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.”
McCoy said the remaining $6.8 mil
lion shortfall only represented less than
1 percent of the University’s $1.2 billion
Slice and Dice
University officials have cut UNC's budget deficit by $1.2 million. An unanticipated $3 million
received from the state will be used to improve UNC's technological infrastructure.
■ UNC-Chapel Hill's 1999-2000 budget deficit was reduced to $6.8 billion, which is $3 mil
lion less than expected.
■ 15 employees will be affected by their positions being eliminated. Only two academic
jobs were eliminated.
■ Two from the Institute of Government two from Information and Technology, and 11 from
Business and finance have already been notified.
■ The Office of Human Resources has worked with the affected employees to match them
with placement opportunities.
■ Vice chancellors, deans and directors of centers and institutes said in June that they would
spend less on travel, printing, supplies and computers in response to the budget cut
SOURCE: UNC NEWS SERVICES
Candidates for City School Board Remain Hard to Find
By Jacob McConnico
City/State & National Editor
Candidates for the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City School Board have been
scarce during the elections filing period
that started last month.
As of Wednesday afternoon only
three residents had filed for a seat on the
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non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
William McCoy, a retired UNC-sys
tem vice president of finance, is serving
as interim chancellor until anew person
is appointed to the post.
Richard Stevens, who recendy fin
ished two one-year terms as chairman of
the UNC Board of Trustees, will serve as
chairman of the committee.
Stevens said finding the right person
for the job would be a challenge, but
that he was confident the search would
attract top education officials from
operating budget.
Of the 15 UNC employees who had
been laid off as a result, McCoy said
only two of the positions were from the
academic side to “minimize the impact
on the academy."
Two cuts came from the Institute of
Government, two from Information and
Technology, and the remaining 11
employees were laid off from the busi
ness and finance department
The employees are working with
UNC’s human resources department to
find new jobs, he said.
“When I look at the size of this orga
nization, there is always movement with
people who are retiring and moving out
side of the University," McCoy said. “I
hope the other 15 find jobs with the help
of human resources, and there is a pret
ty good chance that can be done.”
Provost Dick Richardson said depart
ments were notified Friday that their
cuts would be smaller due to the new
shortfall figure.
Department chairmen initially sub
mitted a heavier list of cuts in June when
the shortfall was projected at sll mil
lion, Richardson said. Department
heads signaled that they planned to cut
comers on travel, printing and comput
ers, as well as reducing salaries for
unfilled positions.
McCoy said because plans for the
shortfall were cemented, officials were
starting to take a look at how to improve
the University’s budget process overall.
Senior officials now plan to examine
various strategies to determine resource
allocation and a get a better under
standing of University priorities, he said.
“I think a really fine job has been
done bringing the figure down from $ 11
million to $9.8 million.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
school board and three of the four mem
bers that are up for re-election had
announced that they would not seek
another term.
Despite the lack luster response,
Roger Waldon, a member of the school
board, said it was too early to be pes
simistic about this yean turn out
“I would place no significance at all
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across the nation.
“It is a major
undertaking but I
believe we will
attract the best
penon for the job.
It may be the best
job opening in the
state this year.”
Other members
of the committee
include the fol
lowing:
UNC System
President
Molly Broad
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P2P Service Reduced by Cuts
By Will Foushee
Staff Writer
Budget shortfalls and lack of available
funding has put the Point-2-Point shuttle
service in trouble.
P2P shuttle services is the latest
University-funded service to come
under the knife in the University’s effort
to make broad across the board cuts to
trim the budget. P2P has had to trim
their service for the fall, and the budget
cuts take effect Aug. 2.
Marketing and Public Relations
Specialist for the Department of Public
Safety Randy Young said P2P service
would be downsizing it positions due to
the budget cuts. “We will be returning
five mini-vans, cutting six full-time posi
tions and eight part-time positions."
He said only employees would feel
on the fact that we only have three can
didates," he said. “I myself waited until
the last week to file when I ran. There
were also four or five other entries in the
last week of that year.”
Kim Hoke, a spokeswoman for the
school district, said there had been steps
taken to increase awareness of the
opportunities available.
■ Ann Cates, chairwoman of the
UNC Board of Trustees;
■ Faculty Chairman Pete Andrews,
who is a professor of public health, pub
lic policy and city and regional plan
ning;
■ William Aycock, chairman of the
General Alumni Association Board of
Directors and Greensboro attorney;
■ Walter Davis, a former BOT chair
man and current BOT member, also for
mer member of the UNC Board of
Governors;
BUMP IT
the crunch of the cuts. “This does not
affect the students in any way.”
The current P2P service operates in
two different phases, the demand
response phase and the P2P Mini-Bus.
Young said only the demand
response phase would be cut, and the
mini-bus would run normally from 7
p.m. to 2 a.m. in the fall.
Director of the Department of Public
Safety Derek Poarch said P2P service
was crippled after its source of funding
allocated in the University budget for
initial start-up costs was cut for next
year’s budget. “P2P was funded on a
yearly basis, but the funding isn’t avail
able this year," Poarch said.
Poarch said the evening service pro
vided by the mini-bus would run nor
mally because ihey would be funded by
the students. “The evening service are
“We had an information session last
week and only about seven people
showed up,” she said.
Hoke said the schools had set a goal
of having two candidates for every
empty seat, but she was not sure if that
would be met this year.
Bea Hughes-Wemer, a school board
member who has announced that she
■ Dr. H. Shelton Earp, professor of
medicine and director of the UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center;
■ Elizabeth Gibson, professor of law;
■ Bernadette Gray-Little, senior
associate dean for undergraduate stud
ies, psychology professor and former
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee chair
woman;
■ Nic Heinke, student body presi
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funded as part of the student’s trans
portation and parking fees," Poarch said.
Poarch said the department had not
anticipated these cuts. “There were no
original long-term plans, the service was
handled year-to-year at the outset, and
there are still no long-term plans to
recover the lost services,” Poarch said.
Poarch said the budget cuts would
affect all levels of P2P’s service. “These
budget cuts have brought serious rami
fications causing employees to seek
alternative methods of travel.”
Associate Vice Chancellor for UNC
Auxiliary Services Carolyn Elfland said
her department, which is responsible for
Public Safety, Health & Safety and
Materials & Resources was given a dol
lar amount that had to be deducted from
See P2P, Page 2
will not seek re-election, said the time
commitment made the job difficult for
people with full-time jobs.
“It’s really just too much," she said.
“It’s a tremendous amount of work. It’s
hard and that is a trend that worries me
a lot.”
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Member
To Lead
2000 BOT
Anne Cates becomes the
first female to chair the
UNC Board of Trustees after
being elected last week.
By Katie Abel
Staff Writer
Anne Cates wants people to stop
talking about all the problems that have
plagued the University during the past
year.
As the new chairwoman of the UNC
Board of Trustees, the 67 year-old
Chapel Hill resident said she wanted
stability for the University. “I feel like a
year from now we’re going to be in
excellent shape,” she said.
“My first priority is working with
Interim Chancellor McCoy and sup
porting him in his work.”
Cates, who is
the first woman
ever to take the
post, was elected
by her fellow
trustees at a meet
ing last Thursday.
The BOT is the
13-member board
that governs the
University.
Cates succeeds
outgoing chair
man Richard
Stevens, who now
shifts his focus to
the search for
UNC Board of
Trustees Chairwoman
Anne Cates
is the first woman
ever to hold the post
for the BOT.
UNC’s next chancellor.
Cates graduated from the University
in 1953 and has been a trustee since
1993. She has also held various other
leadership positions for the University
and has received numerous recogni
tions for her service.
She has been vice chairman of the
Board of Visitors, chairman of the
General Alumni Association and presi
dent of the Educational Foundation. In
1991, she chaired the 1991 kickoff cele
bration for the University’s bicentenni
al campaign.
Cates was awarded with the William
R. Davie Award for her work with the
BOT and the General Alumni
Association’s Distinguished Service
See CATES, Page 2
INSIDJE
Miss Congeniality?
To what
lengths
will a
small-town
girl go in a
brutal race
m
to win a beauty pageant? The well
written mockumentary "Drop Dead
Gorgeous” answers these questions in
comic and outrageous style.
See Page 5.
Hamm to Sign Books
World Cup
Champion and
former Tar Heel
Mia Hamm will
sign copies of
her book, “Go
for the Goal”
from 3 p.m. to 5
p.m. Monday at
the Bull’s Head
Bookshop.
See Page 6.
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