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Faculty, Students Clash at Debate
By Elizabeth Breyer
Staff Writer
Despite faculty and students’ pleas for
unity on the proposed tuition increase, a
Monday debate revealed deep divisions
in the opinions of many campus leaders.
Student leaders and faculty members
of the Chancellor’s Committee on Faculty
Salaries and Benefits came to a debate
sponsored by the Dialectic and
Philanthropic Societies to express their
ideas about a tuition increase plan that the
Board of Trustees will vote on Thursday.
Panelists were Ed Samulski, chair
man of the Department of Chemistry,
Graduate School Dean Linda Dykstra,
Chairman of the Faculty Pete Andrews,
Student Body President Nic Heinke,
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Lee Conner and
JeffNieman, president of the UNC
Association of Student Governments.
The disagreements among faculty
and students were based primarily on
the amount of the proposed increase.
“I fear that this proposal will divide
the University and put students against
faculty,” Heinke said.
“In 206 years, (in-state undergradu
“We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it
very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dec. 8, 1941
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After three days of bloody conflict in February 1945, U.S. forces captured the eight-mile island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
The American flag was raised on Mount Suribachi, the island's highest point, by six Marines, three of whom would perish in the war.
STAKING A CLAIM
By Evan Markfield
Assistant Sports Editor
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that ushered in the modem
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inated instead by
something the
world had seen
once before and all
too recently.
Not even 25
years removed from a
first global conflict, the nation
was once again preparing to march
into world war.
The country adopted its first-ever
peacetime military draft, and 966
University students between the
ages of 21 and 35 registered in
October 1940 alone.
When Japanese bombs detonat-
ate) tuition has increased $1,454. In the
next 3 years (in the proposal), it will go
up $1,500,” he said. “That is a radical
departure from what this university is
founded on and why the state feels a
connection to the University.”
But Samulski said the proposal was
justified. “Salaries and infrastructure
have been neglected for the last decade,
and now it is time to sacrifice like the
faculty has been sacrificing.”
However, student panelists feared
that the new price would discourage
lower-income students from attending.
“Even if we set aside 30 percent to
help with financial aid, that is only 30
percent,” Conner said. “A public uni
versity should not be in the business of
marginalizing people in need.”
Samulski disagreed. “The idea of low
tuition leading to access is almost a lie,”
he said. “We must take a proactive
stance to bring disenfranchised students
in, no matter what we do with tuition.”
The consensus among the faculty was
that access would not be restricted
because of financial aid packages and
that the overall quality of the University
was the first priority. “We want people to
know that a degree from UNC-Chapel
ed in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941,
the ripple was felt across the coun
try, and Chapel Hill was no
exception.
Immediately after Pearl
Harbor, Chapel Hill
Mayor John
Foushee led the for
mation of a joint
town and University
defense program,
with its headquarters
in the alley next to the
Carolina Coffee Shop.
The first victim of the war from
Chapel Hill died Feb. 4, 1941, in
Inverness, Scotland.
The University turned over resi
dence halls to the Navy, and The
Daily Tar Heel became a weekly
newspaper in 1943 because of the
campus’ emphasis on the war.
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Student Body President Nic Heinke addresses the audience at a tuition
increase debate between student leaders and faculty members.
Hill carries an association of excellence
- that’s what this proposal is about,”
Dykstra said.
Another clash came over the issue of
accessibility and affordability for grad
These events signaled the begin
ning of a total war effort on the part
of U.S. citizens, one that brought
women and blacks into jobs they
were previously denied.
The United States established
itself as one of the predominant
world powers after dropping atom
ic bombs on Japan and emerging
victorious from World War 11.
But the war, combined with
Hitler’s systematic genocide of
Jews, consumed the world’s atten
tion, overshadowing many of the
other events that took place through
the decade.
As veterans returned home, the
U.S. birth rate increased 20 percent
in 1946. Levittown, the first middle
class suburb, was erected on Long
Island, N.Y., in 1947. A variety of
products such as bikini swimsuits,
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uate students.
Conner said most students at peer
schools paid no graduate tuition because
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M&M’s and the Slinky indicated the
move to large-scale consumerism.
A historic social stride was made
when Jackie Robinson broke base
ball’s color barrier, playing for the
Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Yet discrimination was still evi
dent. Dr. Charles Drew, a black sur
geon, opened America’s first blood
bank in 1940, but segregation rules
prevented him from donating his
own blood. Race riots exploded in
47 U.S. cities in 1943, and 26 blacks
were killed in Detroit alone as white
mobs rioted for 30 hours.
Though the war itself dominated
the 1940s from a historical perspec
tive, the decade undeniably also sig
naled the beginning of the modern
lifestyle, with all its luxuries and all
its troubles, that most citizens of the
United States still recognize today.
UNC Outlines Process
Of Salary Allocation
University administrators
say the way each academic
department distributes
its faculty salaries varies.
By Jason Arthurs
and Aisha K. Thomas
Staff Writers
A proposal calling for tuition increas
es to boost faculty salaries has led some
to question exactly how money is doled
out to UNC professors.
University officials said Monday any
proposal approved in the state legisla
ture to increase faculty salaries at UNC
could differ from the normal allocation
of salaries on campus.
Kathleen McGaughey, associate
provost, said that after a S4OO tuition
increase was approved in 1995, a special
committee was formed to pinpoint
departments on campus that needed to
boost their faculty’s salaries.
“We haven’t gotten to that step in the
process yet,” she said. “We’re still in the
first stages.”
McGaughey said the annual proce
dure of determining salaries began
when the N.C. General Assembly allo
cated a sum of money for faculty salaries
Tracing the Path of Faculty Salaries
A push for faculty salary increases travels through several different administrative levels before
any changes occur. Increase recommendations usually take affect July 1.
The UNC-system General Administration
allocates legislative money annually
to each of the 16 UNC-system schools
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UNC Faculty
Face Salary
Inequalities
A professor's salary at UNC
can vary depending on the
academic department in
which he or she works.
By Chris Hostetler
Staff Writer
Despite the simplicity of an “aver
age” salary figure, UNC professors’ pay
falls along a wide-ranging spectrum.
Full professors at the Kenan-Flagler
Business School earn an average salary
of about $112,182.
Professors in the Department of Art
earn an average of $64,480.
As the Board of Trustees prepares to
review a plan Thursday that would raise
faculty pay through tuition increases,
the disparity of salaries at the University
belies the idea of an average salary.
According to a report from the Office
of the Provost, the figure is $88,700.
Business school Dean Robert
Sullivan said his school’s average salary,
though higher than the UNC average,
was low compared to competing busi
ness schools.
By the time UNC business faculty
members reached full professor status,
their average salary was 15 percent to
20 percent below the education market
value, Sullivan said.
Mary Sturgeon, chairwoman of the
art department, said members of her
department’s faculty were discouraged
when they found out UNC’s average
salary’ was $88,700.
The highest-paid art professor earned
$82,083 last year, according to
University personnel records.
Art professors earned less than pro
fessors in other fields because of the
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each year.
The General Administration then
allocates the money to each campus in
the UNC system, she said.
Each campus then distributes the
money to its various departments.
In addition to using state funds for
faculty salaries, departments also pay
their professors out of private grants and
federal aid, McGaughey said.
She said that normally all faculty
salaries were negotiated on a person-to
person basis.
Department chairmen or school
deans assess individual pay based upon
the current salary range and national
salary levels for the field and the funds
available in the University budget.
McGaughey said that if departments
had a need for additional money for
salary increases, they could appeal to
the Office of the Provost for additional
funding.
Department chairmen said they had
established procedures within their indi
vidual units for distributing faculty
salaries.
The way in which each campus
department doles out salaries varies,
said Peter Coclanis, chairman of the
Department of History.
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UNC-Chapel Hill administrators then dole
out the funding to schools and
departments
each year.
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Speak Up
The Daily Tar Heel is looking for
UNC faculty to share their thoughts
and opinions on the proposed tuition
increase at the University. Interested
faculty should write letters to the
edtior or guest columns, all of which
the paper will try to publish during this
week. Call DTH Editor Rob Nelson at
962-4086 or at rnelson@email.unc.edu
with questions.
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