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N.C. State Considers Tuition Hike
Bv Kathleen Hunter
Assistant State & National Editor
RALEIGH - Hundreds of N.C. State
University students filed into a Nelson
Hall auditorium Wednesday night to
voice concerns over a possible tuition
increase on the N.C. State campus.
But unlike a recent proposal to
increase tuition at UNC-Chapel Hill,
faculty salaries would not be the driving
force behind such a move at N.C. State,
said N.C. State Chancellor Marye Anne
Fox. Money would be used primarily to
fund student services.
The forum began with Fox’s presen
tation oudining the university’s needs.
She spoke to the assembly of students
Domino's
Robbed at
Gunpoint
Three teenage men used
a semiautomatic handgun
to hold up Domino's Pizza
on Fordham Boulevard.
Bv Kale Turgeon
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill police are searching for
three men who held up the Domino’s
Pizza shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday
in the fourth ai med robbery to occur in
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area this
week.
Joshua Badgett, 22, a Domino’s
delivery driver, was in the back office of
the score at 1289 Fordham Blvd. when
the three masked men entered and
demanded cash. One man was carrying
a black semi-automatic handgun.
“Once you see they’ve got a gun to
your head ... I mean, it’s not my
money. They can have it,” Badgett said.
After they took money from Badgett,
the men stole money from a drawer.
Then the robbers asked the store man
ager to open the safe. Because the safe
was operating on time-release, they
were not able to get any money out of it.
Police said the three men left the
office and took more cash from the
front register. No customers were in the
store at the time of the robbery.
The men exited the store on foot just
as a delivery driver was pulling into the
parking lot. Confronted with the gun,
he gave the robbers cash.
Badgett said the driver had been
robbed before.
Cousins said the police arrived at the
scene with dogs but were unable to
locate the three men.
She said the only description
employees gave police was that the men
appeared to be in their mid- to late
teens.
Badgett said the store did not have a
security camera or an emergency push
button. “If they had come just a half an
hour later, they wouldn’t have been
able to get in. We lock the doors at 10
p.m,” he said.
The incident at Domino’s was the
fourth armed robbery of the week and
the fourth crime reported in the
Fordham Boulevard area.
Fred’s Beds in Ram’s Plaza was held
up Monday night by two unidentified
men. Police spokeswomanjane Cousins
said the robbery and the Domino’s rob
bery are “possibly related.”
Three other crimes occurred near
Fordham Boulevard earlier this week
and Cousins said these break-ins were
being investigated as related.
The Sushi-Yoshijapanese Restaurant
on Old Durham Road, Southern Parts
Inc. on Durham Chapel Hill Boulevard
and Owens 501 Diner on Fordham
Boulevard were all broken into some
time between Sunday night and
Monday morning.
More than SI,OOO in cash was stolen
from the three establishments and the
locations had a total of $1,300 worth of
property damage.
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through a crackling public-address sys
tem about the results of a study com
paring N.C. State to its peer institutions,
similar to one conducted at UNC-CH.
The peer evaluation at UNC-CH
resulted in a Board of Trustees proposal
last month to increase tuition at least
$1,500 over five years.
The money would help make faculty
salaries competitive with those at peer
institutions, such as the University of
Michigan and the University of Virginia.
Although Fox said N.C. State would
not use tuition to increase faculty
salaries, she said the issue still needed to
be addressed. “The bottom line of all of
this is that the salaries that are delivered
at our peer institutions are not being
Structuring the Search
Student Input, Media Access and Committee Size Shape Process
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
After three tries in 20 years,
University officials think they have
finally created a successful formula for
chancellor search committees.
They hope experienced members,
earlier deadlines and a smaller com
mittee size will circumvent widespread
problems in past
search process
es, including
media leaks and
disorganization.
Because staff
constitute a
large percentage
of UNC
employees, a
member of the
Employee
Forum also
serves on the
current commit-
The Search
Is On
Part three of a series
on UNC's search for
its next chancellor
tee. In the past, committees consisted
only of alumni, faculty, Board of
Trustee members and the student
body president.
Officials are also focusing on more
widespread national recruitment for
this search, a move that prompted
them to hire a professional search firm
from Chicago.
Just about the only common theme
between past searches and the current
one is limited student representation:
all four times, the student body presi
dent has been the only student mem
ber of the committee.
“Each search committee is unique
based on the circumstances of its
time,” said BOT member Richard
Stevens, chairman of the current
Chancellor’s Search Committee.
Despite students clamoring for
greater representation on the committee
Dental School Remembers Researcher
Those who worked with
Fusayoshi Matsukawa
describe him as a dedicated
worker and friendly man.
By Aisha K. Thomas
Staff Writer
As the Dental Research Center
mourned the death of Fusayoshi
Matsukawa on Wednesday, his peers
described him as a devoted and outgo
ing man.
The UNC Dental Fellow died
Saturday from significant head injuries
after being hit by a car Thursday on
Manning Drive.
Nicknamed “Yoshi,” Matsukawa was
a dedicated professional who was
researching tooth formation at UNC,
said Professor Mitsuo Yamauchi of the
Dental Research Center, a good friend
of Matsukawa’s.
Matsukawa traveled from the
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett
Thursday, November 11, 1999
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delivered here,” she said.
But Fox said she agreed with students
at UNC-CH and former UNC-system
Presidents Bill Friday and C.D. Spangler
that using tuition to fund salaries went
against the mission of the UNC system
outlined in the N.C. Constitution.
More than TOO UNC-CH students
protested the BOT meeting where the
tuition proposal was passed, while
Spangler and Friday wrote a letter
opposing the increase. Several N.C.
State students also protested, fearing
domino effects throughout the system.
Fox said she was committed to secur
ing the $9 million that N.C. State need
ed for faculty salaries entirely from the
N.C. General Assembly. “I pledge that I
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Members of the Chancellor's Search Committee held an open forum in August to solicit feedback from students and faculty about what
qualties they wanted in UNC's chancellor. The composition of the board has changed with last three chancellor searches.
and news outlets who want more access,
officials say this formula will help them
find the right person to replace the late
Chancellor Michael Hooker.
The Student Voice
Students have always complained
because student representation on the
committees has been limited to the sit
ting student body president.
Their ire peaked during the process
that brought Hooker to UNC, partic
ularly after the 14-month search
spanned three student body presi
dents’ terms and split the student voice
Osakawa Dental University in Japan to
study as a UNC Dental Fellow in
January and planned to return tojapan
in late March, Yamauchi said.
“His work started to become more
fruitful, and he was very excited about
this,” Yamauchi said. “He was planning
to learn as many techniques here and
bring it back to Osakawa Dental
University in japan.”
Colleagues in the Dental Research
Center said they remembered his dedi
cation to his field.
“He used to come early,” said
Research Assistant Professor Wojciech
Grzesik. “He spent many hours and
after hours here. In some sense, he died
on a mission.”
Masashi Shiiba, a dental research
professor, said Matsukawa was a serious
person. “He studied very hard and had
many books in his apartment. He read
in English and injapanese.”
Yamauchi described Matsukawa as a
hard worker and a sincere person. “He
was very meticulous,” he said. “He tried
will go after the legislature to the best of
my ability to be sure that the faculty
salaries gap is closed,” she said.
Fox said the tuition money could
then be used to fund student services
such as advising, arts programs, increas
ing Internet education and scholarships
aimed at increasing diversity.
Despite the fact that students might
direcdy benefit from the N.C. State plan,
increasing tuition elicited, at best, luke
warm responses from students at the
meeting. “I appreciate the fact that it’s
not going towards faculty salaries,” said
junior Amanda Moser. “How much of it
goes to actually benefit students will
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among three men.
“When the search committee can
didates were announced, and only one
of the 36 people nominated to be on
the committee was a student, there
was a firestorm on campus,” said
Calvin Cunningham, 1995 student
body president. “The students felt
underrepresented.”
After Harris announced who was
on the search committee, students
formed the Student Coalition for an
Effective Chancellor to show their
anger at the lack of student represen
tation. Students protested meetings of
“He had friends from many
other foreign countries. He was
a very likeable person and
willing to help other people. ”
Mitsuo Yamauchi
Dental Research Center Professor
to accomplish specific goals he set step
by step.”
He said Matsukawa had many friends
at his temporary home in Chapel Hill.
“I was amazed at how many friends
he had here since January,” he said. “He
had friends from many other foreign
countries. He was a very likable person
and willing to help other people. He was
always smiling.”
Shiiba said Matsukawa loved his fam
ily and was enjoying his experiences in
the United States.
“He liked the American people and
wanted to talk with American people in
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N.C. State Chancellor Marye Anne Fox argues the case
for a tuition increase at N.C. State University.
the search committee, joining hands
and wearing red cloths over their
mouths as gags.
Cunningham, the third student
body president to sit on the committee
that selected Hooker, ran for office on
a platform that requested student input
on the traits potential candidates for
the chancellorship should possess.
“There was a clear consensus
among the students that I talked to
that they wanted a chancellor who
would be accessible on campus, who
would be involved in student activities
and who would be receptive to the stu-
English,” Shiiba said. “He studied
English very hard. He usually had many
dictionaries, and I would find him lis
tening to English (language) tapes.”
Matsukawa is survived by his wife,
Yumi, and their infant daughter, Kanna.
Yumi Matsukawa came to North
Carolina with Kanna in May to join her
husband. Fusayoshi Matsukawa will
miss celebrating his only child’s first
birthday Nov. 27
“They just took their baby to the
(N.C.) State Fair and had a good time,”
Yamauchi said. “They were also looking
forward to Christmas here, too.”
Matsukawa’s body will be cremated
and the family will hold a traditional
funeral service in Japan, Yamauchi said.
The Dental Research Center will
hold a memorial service for
Matsukawa’s family and friends at 11
a.m. Friday at the John B. Reeves All
Faith Chapel at UNC Hospitals.
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dents and actually be a part of the stu
dent community,” he said.
After current Student Body President
Nic Heinke heard he would be the only
student on the committee, he used his
Cabinet to actively seek student input
Student government officials went
door-to-door on campus and contact
ed various student groups to gather
and distribute information on what
students wanted in the next chancellor.
Members of the Student Advisory
Committee to the Chancellor also
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In preparation for the finale of The
Daily Tar Heel’s Destination 2000
project, the editors are seeking
nominations for the “Tar Heel of the
Decade.” Who has been the most
influential person at UNC or in Chapel
Hill during the past 10 years? To cast
your vote, e-mail DTH Editor Rob
Nelson at rnelson@email.unc.edu or
go to www.unc.edu/dth.
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