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(The Sally Sar Med J? 106 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University' community since 1893 Search Committee Rejects Student Proposal By Matthew Smith Staff Writer A proposal that would have allowed students a greater voice in the selection of UNC’s next chancellor has been struck down by the search committee. The proposal called for the finalists to anonymously submit responses to stu dent-generated questions and then to have those responses published in The Daily Tar Heel. Students would have also had the chance to offer feedback to the search committee based upon candidates’ responses. Student Leaders Fear Tuition Hike Faculty salary committee members can recommend state support, tuition increases or a combination. By Katie Abel University Editor Student leaders fear that a University committee could recommend today a tuition increase as the sole answer to solving the facultv salary woes plaguing UNC. Provost Dick Richardson said the Chancellor’s Committee on Faculty Salaries and Benefits could come out of today’s meeting with some type of pro posal. “This is all discussion on the same topic,” he said. For the last month, the com mittee has been examining ways to beef up UNC faculty paychecks to compete with peer universities. The group could propose a tuition increase, state support or a mix of the two to acquire proper funding. Any tuition increase would take effect next Student Body President Nic Heinke said raising tuition was a short term plan. fall if approved by the legislature. The committee was formed after UNC’s recent drop in national polls from third to fifth among public univer sities and the loss of top professors due to low faculty salaries. Richardson said the Board of Trustees asked the committee to submit a recommendation in time for a special Oct. 28 board meeting, in which mem bers would assess the feasibility of the committee’s proposal. But Graduate and joining the Cellular Craze With numbers of beepers and cellular phones on the rise, students are starting to bring them to their classes. By Jermaine Caldwell Staff Writer The craze of getting connected has filtered from the big screen to college life. The “Clueless” girls Cher and Dionne walk out of classrooms talking on their cellular phones only to end up side-by-side conversing with each other. Countless tennis matches and other events are filled with the warn ing, “Please be sure to turn off all cel lular phones and pagers.” Inevitably, the trend has made its Bill Bowen, director of Heidrich & Struggles, the Richmond-based search firm hired by UNC to find chancellor candidates, recommended at last Thursday’s meeting that the committee reject the proposal, Heinke said. David Jemigan, author of the pro posal and member of the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor, said he questioned whether the search committee and Student Body President Nic Heinke - its lone student member - could adequately represent all UNC stu dents. “I am really disappointed,” Jernigan said. “This has always been a University Professional Student Federation President Lee Conner said there had not been enough debate on the issue yet. “Yes, we need the money but we have to balance the issues.” Student Body President Nic Heinke said raising tuition alone would just solve the problem temporarily. “It real ly bothers me that we’re settling for a quick fix,” he said. “It didn’t work four years ago and it's not going to work now.” Heinke and Conner said that if the committee proposed an outright tuition increase, they would immediately hold forums and encourage students to voice opposition to the BOT through e-mail. “We are only going to have 17 days (before the Oct. 28 BOT meeting), but we are going to get this out there to stu dents,” Conner said. Heinke and Conner two weeks ago submitted a report to the committee stat ing that any tuition increase must be combined with state support but said they received no response from other committee members. BOT Chairwoman Ann Cates said it was critical for UNC to develop a rec ommendation early so incoming stu dents would be aware of any impending tuition increase. “We need to let students who are applying here and their parents know how much it is going to cost before they accept,” she said. Cates said a tuition increase was inevitable, especially because legislators would be unable to provide any signifi cant funding to bolster salaries during the upcoming year. “We already know that there won’t be much money coming from the legis lature,” she said. But Conner said the legislature would not make final allocations until May. “Until we know whether the (Hurricane Floyd) aid bill passes, we don’t know' how much legislative support we are going to get.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. it' If A UNC student uses her cellular phone and beeper to keep in close communication with family and friends. way to UNC. The wireless communi cation wave can aid students in emer gencies or even socially. “Its main purpose is in case of an emergency when I’m on the road," said Robin Hunt, a freshman from Winston-Salem, of the cellular phone she has owned since she began driving Money isn't important, but it's the only way to keep score. Anonymous Monday, October 11, 1999 Volume 107, Issue 92 for the (students), and by not including them in the process, we may be sending students the wrong message.” Heinke and search committee Chairman Richard Stevens said they accepted the decision to nix the propos al after Bowen cited several logistical problems. Bowen said getting responses to the student-generated questions from the candidates, editing them to keep from revealing who each candidate was and turning them over to the DTH wouldTiave taken too much time. When early signs indicated that the search process would remain closed, the SACC adopted the proposal to keep stu BS&gr jHHI® '-if:-, v- DTH/GREG WOLF After being crowned Ms. BSM, Niccole Cosby is surrounded by fellow Black Student Movement members holding hands and singing. The Black Student Movement's Coronation Ball was held Saturday night at the Sheraton Hotel. See Page 6. at age 16. Unexpected emergencies seem to be a common and practical reason to own a cell phone or beeper. Prices can range from SSO to S3OO and can have monthly fees of $lO to SSO depending See BEEPERS, Page 5 dents involved, said Kate Randolf, SACC member and co-drafter of the proposal. Now students can only send questions to the SACC listserv, which will eventu ally be passed to the committee for con sideration. Kea Parker, a junior from Berea, Ky., said students were being shut out from one of the most important decisions facing UNC. “This perpetu ates the idea that decisions are made without student opinion,” she said. But Stevens said Heinke’s represen tation and student-generated questions would be a feasible substitute to the pro posal. CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Elections Today To Fill Congress By Karey Wltkowski Staff Writer Special elections will take place today to fill 10 vacant Student Congress seats in both graduate and undergraduate dis tricts. The elections are being held at three polling sites around campus. Students who are represented by districts with vacant seats can vote from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. outside the Student Union, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of Peabody Hall and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the medical bookstore. Vacancies exist in all graduate school districts except those representing the School of Law, business, physics and astronomy, applied and material sci ences, marine sciences, geology, chem istry, biology, math, statistics, operations research, computer science, the School of Public Health, the School of Nursing and the School of Pharmacy. Jemigan said it was now more impor tant for students to submit questions via the SACC listserv so their views were represented. “It’s an opportunity to be involved in perhaps the most significant processes of the University,” he said. But Parker said these questions might not be enough to give students the true advocate they needed. “You can’t tell from someone’s resume if they are going to be able to interact with students well,” she said. “Students should have some kind of a voice in this process.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. All other graduate students can vote for a representative in today’s election. On-campus undergraduates living in Alderman, Kenan, Mclver. Spencer, Stacy, Graham, Alexander, Connor, Winston, Joyner and Aycock residence halls can vote today as well. Off-campus undergraduates who live in the area west of Columbia Street, south of Jones Ferry Road and south of N.C. 54 and those who live in the area east of Columbia Street and Airport Road and north of East Franklin Street can cast their ballots too. “The seats are vacant because people either resigned or no one was elected to those seats during earlier elections,” said Mark Kleinschmidt, speaker of Student Congress. Kleinschmidt said vacant seats had not been a significant disruption to Congress in the past but could affect one See ELECTIONS, Page 5 News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/ Advertising 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina © 1999 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. 500 Tickets Remain for Basketball Students can claim up to two tickets each for the Michigan State and UCLA basketball games. By Arman Anvari Staff Writer Students can grab the basketball tick ets that went unclaimed at this week end’s distribution beginning at 8 a.m. today. About 500 tickets for the Dec. 1 game against Michigan State University and the Jan. 15 game against the University of Califomia-Los Angeles will be handed out on a first-come, first serve basis. Each student can claim two tickets per game, provided they have two UNC ONE Cards. After an error in last Wednesday’s The Daily Tar Heel prompted confu sion among some students about when they could get bracelets for the distrib ution, CAA officials said they were con cerned that frustrated students could cause disruption Saturday. Many students were turned away by CAA officials when they tried to claim bracelets between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday. “We were prepared for what ever was going to happen,” Miller said. “We followed our policy the whole time, and we’re going to continue to fol low our policy in the future.” The most pressing concern for the CAA was that some bracelets had been stolen Thursday evening after students pulled them out of Smith Center ticket windows with coat hangers and key chains, Pruitt said. “I think our entire staff was kind of cautious about (the tick et distribution process) because we did n’t know' how the reactions that some students had on Thursday afternoon might come into play on Saturday.” But CAA officials said there were no problems with Saturday’s distribution process, which lasted only about two hours. “The distribution went very well this weekend,” said Lauren Miller, the CAA’s ticket distribution coordinator. “We were done by 8:15 (a.m.)." Tickets remain in large part because many students checked into line but decided to leave, anticipating a long morning of waiting, Pruitt said. However, because the CAA has increased the number of lines and com puters to expedite the distribution process, students who arrived late were turned away because the distribution ended so quickly. Freshman Paul Schroeckenstein from Minneapolis, said “Once the line got going, it went really fast” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. INSIDE The Dark Side UNC administrators and students took a late night stroll through campus to pinpoint areas that need to have more lighting so grounds can be safer for students. See Page 5. Hitting the Mark Local high schools have requested that the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education consider dropping the class ranking system. See Page 2. We’re Sorry Due to a factual error in Wednesday's paper and a misplaced correction the following day, the DTH confused some readers about CAA's ticket distribu tion. We’re sorry for any inconvenience. Today’s Weather Rain; Low 70s. Ha? SHI Tuesday Cloudy; iHMM High 60s.
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