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2 Friday, January 14, 2(XM) State Schools Earn High Marks in Study North Carolina's mentoring program for beginning teachers impressed editors of Education Weekly. By Taena Kim Staff Writer North Carolina’s public education system received high marks fron. Education Weekly for improving teacher quality. In its annual study released Tuesday, Quality Counts 2000, ihe state's K 12 education system outranked many other states in overall excellence, research associate Greg Orlofskv said. “Our special focus was to see how Campus Calendar Today 4 p.m. - Dr. Ludwig Deßraeckeleer of f he Duke University physics depart ment will present “Neutrino Mass and Mixing” in 277 Phillips Hall. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 962- 7166. 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - The University of Chicago's Berthold Hoeckner will present “Schoenberg’s Eyes and the Moment of German Music” in 103 Hill Hall. A reception will follow. FEES From Page 1 In addition to the education and tech nology fee, the athletic fee was raised $5 to support Olympic sports programs, to maintain outdoor facilities and athletic fields and to allow students the oppor tunity to attend all regular season ath letic events. The health service fee was increased for the first time in five years by $8 to cover personnel costs. 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Quality Counts 2000 was also impressed with North Carolina’s men toring program for beginning teachers. “(The mentoring program) is some thing we think is very important,” he said. “(North Carolina) ik one of the 10 states that do that.” He said the outlook for North Carolina seemed favorable overall due to many policies that had already been implemented, particularly the ABCs of Public Education which emphasizes school accountability for student acade mic performance. Tuesday 8 p.m. - Pianist Sean Gallagher will join (he Carolina Wind Quintet in Person Recital Hall. The event is free. For more information, call 962-1039. Wednesday 12:30 p.m. - There will be an a.p.p.l.e.s. summer internship infer mation session in Union 208. 4:30 p.m. - An information session on the Class of ’3B Summer Fellowship Abroad will be held in South Gallery. Applications for the fel lowship are available at the International Center, located in Union 116. P2P Xpress buses. The Student Facilities Debt Service fee rose by $37.50 to pay for Student Union renovations, which were approved by a student referendum in February 1998. Patterson said the general fee increas es would be 3.9 percent or less. Patterson said he found the feat impres sive because this was the first year with out a state-imposed 5 percent cap on increases. “It speaks highly of us that we still kept it this low even though there was no cap in place.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. State & National Besides improving teacher quality, states were graded on student standards and accountability, as well as school cli mate, on a scale of A to F. In standards and accountability, grades were based on the academic per formance of students in core subjects such as math, science, English and social science in each state. North Carolina, which regularly scores high in this cate gory, was one of six states to receive the highest marks in this category. “We are quite pleased w ith the area of improvements we have made,” said Cecil Banks, associate education advisor to Cov. Jim Hunt, who has made edu cation a high priority during his tenure. But the study did find some flaws in the state’s education system. For the past four years, North Gates Names New Microsoft CEO Associated Press REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday pro moted longtime friend and company President Steve Ballmer to chief execu tive officer of the software giant Cates founded. Cates said he was giving up the CEO title so he could return “to what I love most, focusing on technologies for the future.” Cates, who has turned over much of the day-to-day operations of Microsoft to Ballmer in the past year and a half, will remain chairman and will also take on the title of chief software architect. Thursday’s announcement does not necessarily mean he is giving up any power in the company he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. Microsoft has made Cates the wealth iest private individual in the world, with a fortune estimated at more than SBO MARCH From Page 1 students suspended or dropping out of school as problems facing society. Ruby Sinreich, a former Town Council candidate who helped organize the celebration, said the rally would stress the continuing need to address Sure you’re buying a jjame ji jSP We help. - § refl©ct.conn | It’s the image of you u ’ f Carolina has failed to improve in school climate, which consisted of class size, student involvement, parental involve ment and school enrollment. “Obviously, we’re not pleased with (the grade),” Banks said. “But only 15 states are ahead of us.” He said student and parent involve ment were soft categories because they were based on principals’ perspec tives.instead of data But North Carolina was not the only state with a small amount of participa tion from parents. Orlofsky said 1996 and 1998 studies showed principals’ per ceptions on parent involvement had decreased nationwide. But local parents disagreed with the findings. Kim Fahs, membership chair woman of the Parent, Teacher and billion. Gates said he planned to dedicate his time to fashioning and promoting the “next generation” of Microsoft’s flagship product, the Windows 2000 operating system. He said he especially wanted to develop software services that will be hosted on the Internet and made part of future versions of Windows. Microsoft is working to make its pop ular software, especially its Office suite of business programs, available over the Internet, in addition to the traditional way of loading it onto individual per sonal computers. “Steve’s promotion will allow me to dedicate myself full time to my passion - building great software and strategiz ing on the future and nurturing and col laborating with the core team helping Steve run the company,” Gates said. Ballmer will retain his title of presi dent. He also will be given a seal on civil rights issues. “The point of Martin Luther King (Jr.) Day is to remember his message,” she said. “We don’t need to just be nice to everyone - we need to make changes on a systemic level as well.” A1 McSurely, a member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition, said the rally would also address the pro posed tuition increase at UNC as a Student Association at Chapel Hill High School, said membership had increased over the past two years. She said the PTSA sent out letters to ever)' parent, offering them opportuni ties to volunteer at Chapel Hill High. The FrSA was also working with the Student Governance Committee to address students’ needs. Also, a petition to end class rankings <had been a hotly debated subject at Chapel Hill High School recently, and the PTSA had been working to involve more parents. “PTSA is working with SCC to hold night meetings to hear par ents’ opinions,” Fahs said. “Parents are discovering better ways to get involved.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. Microsoft’s board of directors. “Fm certainly honored and very, very excited about the opportunity,” Ballmer said. Ballmer, like Gates, has already staked out a position against breaking up the company, a possible remedy which might be sought by the federal govern ment and 19 states that are suing Microsoft due to alleged antitrust viola lions. “1 think it would be absolutely reck less and irresponsible for anyone to try to break up this company,” Ballmer said. “I think it w ould be unprecedented and I think it would be the single greal est disservice that anybody could do to consumers in this count!)'... 1 just think it would be reckless beyond belief.” Ballmer, 42, was appointed president of Microsoft in July 1998, giving him direct responsibility for improving the performance of all of the company’s divisions and customer satisfaction. threat to the availability of education. The UNC system is currently consid ering a plan that could boost tuition at UNC by $475 in a three-year period. “We see the tuition increase as a direct attack on minorities and lower income people in general,” he said. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. (Tljr Daily (Ear Mrrl ELLIOTT From Page 1 other changes were submitted until sum mer officers were named in June 1999. But Student Body Treasurer Ryan Schlitt said he had worked with Elliott last spring at Student Congress’ annual budget hearings when Schlitt served.as finance committee chairman. “I do know he came and posed as (BSM) treasurer during budget and con gressional hearings,” Schlitt said. Although Rodgers was named BSM treasurer in October, Schlitt said he did not w ork with Rodgers last year. “My contacts were with (former BSM President) Tamara Bailey and Brian Elliott,” he said. Faison said Elliott had a role in the budget hearings because of his experi ence. “Officially he wasn’t the treasur er according to the records, but he was still assisting,” Faison said. “Honestly, had anyone known he wasn’t a student he wouldn’t have been up there repre senting our organization.” CAA officials first became aware that Elliott was not a student after his actions as chief of staff came into question in December. In a letter submitted to Student Attorney General Drew Haywood on Dec. 10, CAA Treasurer Patrick Frye raised concerns that Elliott might have intentionally made long-distance phone calls using another member’s code to disguise personal calls. After reviewing the phone bills from May through October, Free said CAA officials’ attention was drawn to 39 calls to Milton, N.C. by CAA member Casey Privette, among other things. One of the Milton numbers is regis tered under Daphne Elliott of 121 Jordan Lane. The same phone number and address were listed in (he UNC 1997-98 directory as Brian Elliott’s home number and address. Pruitt said questionable calls had been made under Elliott’s personal identifica tion number and the personal identifica tion numbers of three other CAA mem bers. As chief of staff, Elliott handled the numbers for all Cabinet members. “He’s the one who got (UNC Telecommunications) to assign PIN numbers - it all went through him,” Frye said. Frye said Elliott offered to pay for personal calls he had made. Elliott was terminated as CAA chief of staff Dec. 9, Pruitt said. On Dec. 10, Frye submitted CAA concerns and evi deuce in a letter to Haywood, turning the matter over to the Flonor Court. YV hile Haywood could not speak op the specifics of any Honor Court cases because of the Family Education and Rights to Privacy Act, he said the mis use of University property could fall under several instruments of the Code of Student Conduct. Although Elliott has not been enrolled since summer 1998, he can still be treated as a student under the Code of Student Conduct because he has not officially withdrawn, according to Section 1.A.2. The code slates, “Jurisdiction under the Code of Student Conduct may be exercised at any time between the stu dent’s initial enrollment and the granti ng of his degree or other termination of enrollment.” If a student is not enrolled at the time of the violations, the Honor Court can take that information into consideration when deciding sanctions. Haywood said. “ The members can say that the stu dent cannot enroll for the next semester and at the student’s return (he or she) will be on probation,” he said. Haywood said he could not remem ber any previous incident involving a person who held a student officer posi tion without being enrolled as a UNC student. “I can’t think of any situation," he said. “But I think that there might be certainly some reason to consider that an Honor Code offense.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. Yogurt is our menu! vSprj Downtown Chapel Hill • 942 PUMP 10613LJ. Franklin St, ’Nento He s Not We. North Durham • 286 7868 Northgate Mall (Next to Carousel) MorvSat 11 30arn-l I:3opm. Sun 12pm-11:30pm •
