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Committee Members: Tuition Plan 'Outmoded'
Bv Matthew B. Dees
State & National Editor
As officials prepare to decide today
on a plan to raise tuition to boost faculty
salaries, two members of the voting
committee have called for a significant
ly higher increase and questioned the
financial mission of the University.
In a Friday letter to members of the
Chancellor’s Committee on Faculty
Salaries and Benefits, Professors David
Guilkey and Edward Samulski drafted a
plan that would raise in state under
graduate tuition by $1,500 over five
years - three times the amount pro
Employee
Assaulted
In Union
An attempt to sexually
assault a UNC housekeeper
has left University Police on
the lookout for a suspect.
By Dawne Howard
Staff Writer
University Police say they are fol
lowing several leads after an attempted
sexual assault on campus Saturday.
University Police Chief Derek
Poarch said Sunday he could not reveal
any details of the ongoing investigation,
but confirmed that a female housekeep
er was sexually attacked at the Student
Union at about 6 p.m. Saturday.
This weekend’s attempted assault
marks the third attack on a woman on
UNC’s campus since the fall semester
began.
Two female students were attacked
on campus in August. The man arrested
by the Department of Public Safety for
those assaults is awaiting trial in the
Orange County Superior Court.
Poarch described Saturday’s attacker
as a black man between the ages of 14
and 16.
The man was 5 feet 3 inches tall, had
a very slim build and was wearing black
pants and a long-sleeved red shirt at the
time of the attack, according to police
reports.
The 37-year-old victim was checked
on the scene by emergency medical
personnel, Poarch said. She did not
require treatment.
The housekeeper first encountered
the attacker and his two companions
when they knocked on a door and
asked to go to the bathroom, Poarch
said.
The attacker then knocked the
housekeeper to the floor and dragged
her into the bathroom, he said.
She screamed for the police, and the
three then ran to a vehicle in Union
Circle. Poarch said the vehicle was a
light brown or tan Jeep Cherokee.
See ASSAULT, Page 6
Hurricane Irene Soaks State
Staff & Wire Reports
WILMINGTON, N.C. - Hurricane
Irene drenched southeastern North
Carolina with nearly half a foot of rain
Sunday as it churned up the coast,
unleashing more flooding in a region
still saturated by record floodwaters
from Hurricane Floyd.
But East Carolina University, a
school ravaged by Floyd’s flood waters,
and UNC-Wilmington did not evacuate,
deciding to ride out Irene.
Neither school’s officials made plans
to cancel classes today, citing the storm’s
projected oceanbound path and relative
weakness.
But Robert Carver, a spokesman for
the State Emergency Response Team,
said flash flooding was “a very real pos
sibility” along the Tar, Neuse and Cape
Fear rivers.
When asked how much rain would
cause the already swollen banks of these
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posed last week by Provost Dick
Richardson.
Guilkey and Samulski also stated that
UNC’s tuition policy was in need of
revision, criticizing the “literal and out
moded interpretation of our mission to
keep the cost of a Carolina education as
low as practicably possible.”
They advocated a plan to incremen
tally raise tuition over five years, starting
with a SSOO increase for the 2000-01
school year and going up $250 each
year until the 2004-05 school year. They
also supported beefing up initiatives to
help low-income students, including
need-based and merit-based aid pro
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Fairgoers (above) perched on the gondola
view the fireworks display that lit the sky over
some of the 104,000 people that attended the
132nd State Fair on Saturday. The nightly
show starts at 9:45 p.m. at the Sam Rand
Grandstand. The classic ferris wheel (right)
lights up the sky at the Midway. The annual
event draws people from all over
North Carolina. See story page 4.
rivers to flood, Carver replied, “It’s not
going to take much.”
Late Sunday night, up to 7 inches had
fallen in parts of eastern North Carolina,
with more rain possible, the National
Weather Service said.
More than 2,100 homes and busi
nesses were without power in the east
ern half of the state as of 7 p.m.
A tornado spawned by the hurricane
touched down near the town of
Weeksville in Pasquotank County about
6:40 p.m., destroying six homes and
damaging several more.
“It appeared it touched down in that
neighborhood and then either went out
over the water or lifted up and went on,”
said James Edwards, Pasquotank
County’s central communications direc
tor. Edwards said one person received
minor injuries.
As the storm turned east and its
strongest wind moved away from land,
the National Weather Service dropped
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Guilkey and Samulski argued that
asking the legislature to foot 72 percent
of the pay raises, as was suggested last
week, was unfair and unrealistic.
Guilkey said in a telephone interview
that the burden for raising faculty
salaries should rest on students and par
ents, not taxpayers.
“To think that we’re going to get (a 5
percent salary increase) in the aftermath
of Floyd is unrealistic,” he said.
“The people who benefit more than
anyone else are people who get their
degrees from here. So why should they
not pay their share of the freight?”
A FAIR TO REMEMBER
hurricane warnings at 11 p.m. Tropical
storm warnings remained in effect for
most of the N.C. coast.
The National Hurricane Center in
Miami said it appeared increasingly like
ly that Irene and its 75 mph winds might
skirt the N.C. coast without coming
ashore.
“It’s moving more toward the east,
but it could be very close to the Cape
Lookout area in the early morning
hours. That’s what it looks like,” said
meteorologist Bill Frederick. “The
strongest part of the storm is to the east,
so the strongest part should remain out
over the water, but it will all depend on
how close the eye will get to the land."
But the greatest concern was rain, not
wind, and the eastern coastal plain,
inundated by Hurricane Floyd just four
weeks ago, was especially vulnerable to
more flooding.
See IRENE, Page 6
The proposal has drawn harsh criti
cism from student leaders on the facul
ty salary committee.
Lee Conner, president of the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation, described the letter as
“morally reprehensible.”
He railed against the professors’ crit
ical comments of the University’s prior
ity of keeping tuition low and a state
ment in the letter that “significant num
bers of parents within our state are (or
should be) ‘embarrassed by Carolina’s
low tuition.’”
“It flies in the face of our mission,”
Conner said. “To say that people should
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October Report Details
Heinke's Achievements
By Lauren Beal
Assistant University Editor
Six months into his administration,
Student Body President Nic Heinke
counts accessibility and accountability
as two of student government’s greatest
achievements this year.
Heinke
broke down the
progress and
accomplish
ments of the
executive board
in the annual
Report Addresses
Nonplatform
Progress
See Page 6
October Report, presented to Student
Congress members at Tuesday’s session.
Of the 36 platform goals outlined last
spring, Heinke and his executive branch
have touched on all but three issues,
according to the report.
be embarrassed by low tuition is just
completely disrespectful of the student
body.”
Student Body President Nick Heinke
said he was infuriated by the timing of
the letter as well as its contents.
“This was so last minute,” he said.
Heinke argued that raising tuition too
much would deter poorer families from
even considering sending their children
to UNC. He added that public igno
rance of financial aid programs reduced
their effectiveness.
“(Some parents) are just going to pick
See COMMITTEE, Page 6
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“Holding Cabinet meetings in differ
ent locations, going door to door, talk
ing with students - it’s given me so
much feedback I wouldn’t have other
wise,” Heinke said.
Executive branch members have also
worked to increase student accessibility
by holding Pit-sits throughout the
semester. Heinke has delivered a State
of the University address each month to
the student body. Both activities were
key points of Heinke’s platform.
Heinke said he got great satisfaction
out of the implementation of the cam
pus Emergency Alert System, another
platform goal.
Under the new system, campuswide
e-mail messages alerted students to the
attempted sexual assaults in August and
See REPORT, Page 6
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Leaders Seek
Alterations
To Proposal
Student leaders say their
decision to support the
plan hinges on whether
officials revise its details.
By Katie Abel
University Editor
Student leaders are calling for a
University committee to alter details of
a proposal that would increase faculty
salaries at UNC before it leaves the
negotiating table today.
Student Body President Nic Heinke
and Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Lee Conner said
the plan, presented last week by Provost
Dick Richardson, should include a
greater percentage of financial aid for
students, lower tuition increases for
both in-state and out-of-state graduate
students and a written oath signed by
top UNC officials that would refute any
additional tuition increases during the
next five years.
“We saw some major flaws in the
proposal, especially the security of the
long-term plan, the proposed financial
aid percentage and the graduate tuition
increase,” Heinke said.
Heinke and Conner, both of whom
sit on the committee, have asked that 40
percent of the proposed tuition increase
be dedicated to financial aid, instead of
the 30 percent allocated in the original
proposal, which was brought to the
committee by Provost Dick Richardson
last week.
Their requested amendments also
stressed that the University should com
mit to meeting the financial needs of all
students - both in-state and out-of-state
students - in contrast to Richardson’s
original plan that called for UNC to
“continue to meet 100 percent of the
financial aid of all in-state undergradu
ate students.”
“We believe that financial aid status
for students is just as important as facul
ty salaries,” Conner said. “If you can do
one, then you can do them together.”
Heinke and Conner also said the
See REQUEST, Page 6
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Monday
Lending a Hand
Help and Homelessness Outreach
Program members have spent their
weekends in eastern North Carolina
helping victims clean out their homes
and businesses after Hurricane Floyd.
See Page 5.
Community Outreach
Several former UNC athletes joined
together to use the lessons they
learned in school and in competition
to start their own Raleigh-based
business. See Page 9.
Speak Your Mind
Student group representatives are
invited to attend the DTH’s second
Association of Student Leaders meeting
at 7 p.m. Tuesday in 100 Hamilton Hall.
Call 962-4086 for more details.
Today’s Weather
Sunny;
Low 70s.
Tuesday. Sunny,
High 60s.