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Michael Harris
Michael Harris for student body
president. Student govern
ment led by Michael Harris
would generate the rebirth of basic
principles. If elected, Michael will
complete the ABCs of UNC.
"A” - Affordability, “B” - Being all
we can be and “C” —Cross-culturalism
Affordability:
UNC must
continue serving
as “the University
of the People.”
Michael will
lobby the General
Assembly to end
retroactive tuition
increases and
minimize the
ever-rising costs
of tuition and
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work to increase accessibility and user
friendliness of the Office of
Scholarships and Student Aid.
Being all we can be: It is essential
for UNC to rededicate itself to public
outreach. Michael will solicit financial
resources for Campus Y rebuilding
and renovations and work to make
University Day an opportunity for
community service.
Cross-culturalism: Interaction with
the myriad of people whose diverse
talents enrich this University is integral
to the UNC experience. Michael will
develop sharply focused recruiting
goals and techniques to be implement
ed through the Student Ambassador
Program and work to ensure that if you
art accepted at UNC, you will be able
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Student government should be cre
ating opportunities for you. It’s
that simple. We should be seeking
ways to help you achieve your goals,
recognize your passions and realize
your dreams. Here’s how:
It’s ynjir life. Here’s how we can give
you more outside the classroom: pur-
sue an equitable
agreement for
free transit for all
students on all
Chapel Hill
Transit buses;
extend Point-2-
Point van sendees
to all Greek hous
es and secure per
manent
University fund
ing of the P2P;
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provide free home Internet access to every
student; place more e-mail terminals
around campus (Lenoir Dining Hall,
class buildings, etc.); continue efforts to
fund and institutionalize the peer men
toring program for incoming freshmen
that I founded this year; improve light
ing at the law school and T lot; oppose
efforts to require night parking per
mits; hire more housekeepers; reform
C-TOPS; ensure that the Carolina
Computing Initiative isn’t a flop by
teaching teachers and students to use
technology; offer a test-out program for
those who already have adequate com
puter skills; allow students to make
Student Health Service appointments
via the Internet; place coin-operated
printers in Davis Library (they only
I believe in the power of student
government. With an accountable
and accessible student government,
we can create a space where the press
ing issues of our diverse student body
are addressed and not rmirginalized.
■ Making student government
accountable to students. Student gov-
ernment will
increase student
participation at all
levels of the deci
sion-making
process: ensure
that the student
body president
and the executive
branch are not
the only students
advocating for
students in
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Raleigh; create legislative liaisons to
the N.C. General Assembly; formalize
the relationship between our student
government and the Board of
Governors; establish a committee with
equal proportions of students, faculty,
staff and administrators with the pur
pose of reviewing University contracts;
and actively reach out to a diverse
applicant pool for appointments to var
ious University committees.
Student government will consistent
ly address and inform the student body
on pressing student issues: establish
student government outposts at various
sites around campus; and send out stu
dent government updates to resident
assistants; re-evaluate the structure and
efficiency of the executive branch of
to attend.
Guided by the ABC’s, Michael will
also work to achieve goals in other
areas of student life.
■ Student Stores. We must hold
Student Stores accountable. Institute a
textbook rental system -a common
sense change that allows you to save
money by renting your textbooks
instead of buying them. Reform the
Student Stores Advisory Committee -
it must review all the finances and poli
cies of Student Stores in addition to
advocating the student body’s interests.
Lobby the N.C. General Assembly for
tax-free textbooks.
■ UNC ONE Card. Work with
businesses to allow students to use the
ONE Card as payment. Work to
ensure that the University protects our
rights and privacy when studying the
Wachovia agreement.
■ Carolina Dining Services: More
times and more options! Chase Hall
should be open longer for the students
of South Campus. Not everyone is on
the same schedule; CDS must work to
serve students in the “non-traditional
hours” - especially late nights! Bring
back the meal equivalency plan. Block
plans and Flex Dollars should carry
over to the next semester. We’ve paid
for them; how can CDS take them
away? There should be a student-led
review of the procedures and policies
of Carolina Dining Services
■ Parking and safety: Students with
PR and P parking permits should have
free bus passes for rides to and from
those lots. There should be off-campus
take UNC ONE Cards now); put coin
operated washers and dryers in every
campus laundry facility; ensure the
campus computer lab printing remains
free; allow students to print in comput
er labs using their own paper; provide
access to an online listing of Chapel
Hill and Carrboro apartments; and
fight for landlord accountability and
off-campus housing options.
It’s your money. Here’s how we can
make Carolina more responsive to
your financial needs: press for a really
good reason why it costs more to eat
dinner at Lenoir than on Franklin
Street; oppose unreasonable tuition
increases and seek other funding for
faculty salary increases; bring back the
meal equivalency plan so we can use
meals to buy food in more campus
locations, not just Lenoir and Chase
Hall; explore ways to make the finan
cial aid office more student friendly;
improve Chase and South Campus
Mini-Mart hours; work to reduce the
Student Health after-hours fee; exam
ine the University endowment and find
better ways to use the money; organize
a fund-raising drive to help defray the
costs of the Student Union expansion
and keep student fees lower; stop wast
ing our money: Recommend student
fee changes to eliminate inefficient
spending.
It’s your education. Here’s how we
can create even more opportunities in
academics: increase student input in
faculty tenure decisions; offer a Rape
Aggression Defense class for physical
education credit; institute a life-skills
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student government; continue efforts
already established to make student
government activities more accessible;
continue residence hall-to-residence
hall Cabinet meetings; hold the State
of the University Address and other
University ceremonies in the Pit as
well as in other various on-campus
locations using different media tech
niques; and make student government
laws more understandable.
■ Keeping the University of North
Carolina affordable. Fight all tuition
increases that arise due to situations
other than inflation; ensure adequate
financial aid for all students; lobby to
increase need-based financial aid such
as the Pell, LEAP and SIOG grants;
establish state and federal aid watch
dogs to track financial aid legislation;
work to increase graduate students’
stipends and tuition remissions, collab
orating with the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation;
address the possible impact of the
Carolina Computing Initiative.
■ Working to improve the everyday
lives of students. Student government
will promote the active civic participa
tion of students: publicize open seats in
various bodies of local government;
continue work to establish a one-stop
voting site on campus; form a coalition
of campus groups to organize a mas
sive voter registration drive for the
year 2000 elections; support active
membership in the United States
Student Association.
Work to make changes for students
within the local community: establish
Student Body President Candidate Platforms
emergency call boxes. We need more
lighting in off-campus areas (i.e.
Rosemary and Cameron streets).
Students must feel safe at night and
when crossing the street.
■ Student Health Service: Student
Health Service needs reform. Why the
after-hours charge for emergencies?
Why should you pay S4O for them to
tell you that you aren’t sick? This sim
ply doesn’t make sense!
■ Student recreation. Work with the
CAA to get students close to the court
in the Smith Center. Students do yell
louder than money! The Student
Recreation Center and Woollen Gym
should be open longer on weekends.
■ Residence Halls. Residence halls
should be open during short breaks
(Fall Break and Thanksgiving) and they
should be open at least until 9 p.m. on
the last day of exams.
■ University growth. The Master
Plan of UNC’s future shows a large
increase in enrollment and construc
tion in the next few years. These dras
tic changes cannot affect the quality of
student life and our overall learning
experience. I pledge to ensure that we,
the current students, are not sacrificed
for national rankings.
■ Graduate/professional students.
Improve the relationship between stu
dent government and the graduate and
professional schools. The needs of
graduate and professional students will
be a high priority in my administra
tion. Fight to give graduate and profes
sional students more autonomy over
their student fees.
seminar (We all need to know how to
prepare our own taxes, save for retire
ment and mortgage a house); simplify
graduation requirements; put a clock in
every classroom on campus; create
more opportunities in the Carolina
Leadership Development Office for
students who are currently excluded;
improve the online degree audit pro
gram; institute a major in computer sci
ence; institute a Native American stud
ies minor; ensure that library access is
not harmed by the Undergraduate
Library renovation; and push for the
increased recruitment of a diverse fac
ulty; ensure that all teachers are given
the basic resources to' feacTi.' TSorhe
teaching assistants and professors have
to pay for their own copies for class -
that is unacceptable.)
It’s year opportunity. We can
improve communication with some
very simple, realistic changes that will
help you take advantage of everything
Carolina has to offer. Here’s how:
secure funding and coordination for a
campuswide calendar that will be a
one-stop resource that lists almost
every event on campus (With one
glance, you can know about every
event on any given day); offer every
student organization access to a voice
mail box and a campus mail box at the
Union; continue to take Cabinet door
to-door and to hold meetings in differ
ent locations; push for a student vote
on the Board of Governors; and con
tinue the fight to allow students to vote
at a central campus location in local,
state and national elections.
off-campus emergency callboxes;
improve lighting on streets with high
student traffic; collaborate with Chapel
Hill to add a late-night bus route.
Student government will improve
on-campus life: bring back meal plan
equivalency; extend the hours of
Chase Hall; develop affordable on
campus childcare; support the efforts
of campus queer student organizations
in establishing a resource center;
address gender issues with programs in
conjunction with the Women’s Center
and other campus allies; improve
pedestrian and biker safety by imple
menting changes such as all-stop stop
lights and specified bike lanes; support
efforts to establish an Asian Resource
Center; advocate improved working
conditions for graduate and profession
al students; continue to support the
establishment of a freestanding Black
Cultural Center.
■ Building a sense of campus com
munity. Mainstream the issues of his
torically underrepresented students:
ensure that student government
addresses the needs and concerns of
nontraditional students; facilitate the
strengthening and expansion of pro
grams for the retention of minority and
first-generation students; create a body
that focuses on the shared political
interests of students of color within the
University; illuminate the history of
the University and make clear the
aspects of our history that have been
covered up; include sexual orientation
in the all of the University’s official
nondiscrimination clauses.
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Vision - Only a president with
vision can lead this University
through its first full year in the
new millennium. I envision a student
government that is accessible to all stu
dent concerns, that works diligently to
unify the various groups on campus
and that meets challenges with innova
tive ideas. My
platform is built
on improving the
lives and futures
of students. The
following list is a
beginning to what
I want to accom
plish as student
body president:
■ Fighting the
tuition increase:
use connections
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in the N.C. General Assembly to fight
both the $1,500 tuition increase pro
posal and the $475 tuition increase
proposal; revamp the legislative liaison
programs to more effectively lobby the
General Assembly on behalf of the stu
dents; include students who are not a
part of student government (represen
tatives from student groups, concerned
students, etc.) in lobbying efforts; and
set up a task force to investigate poten
tial sources of revenue to increase fac
ulty salaries.
■ Lobbying for more student park
ing: provide adequate parking for all
resident assistants; ensure that the cam
pus Master Plan includes a large park
ing area on campus exclusively for stu
dents; provide student parking on foot-
Hands Across Carolina Program
- To increase cooperation and
contact between student orga
nizations and among the entire student
body (monthly student organization
leader meetings with an open forum
for students; weekly visits by the stu
dent body president, Carolina Athletic
Association presi
dent, and
Residence Hall
Association presi
dent to organiza
tion meetings to
promote inter
organizational
'involvement; a
campus-wide
organizational
insert in The
Daily Tar Heel
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dedicated solely for up-coming events
and awareness).
■ Increased Technology -
Computer access in every residence
hall. Odom Village Ethernet access,
off-campus dial-in network access and
a Microsoft software deal that would
allow students to buy all Microsoft pro
grams for $5.
■ Rental Book System - Allow stu
dents to rent their books instead of
purchasing them outright. This pro
gram will eliminate the money that stu
dents lose on books that they do not
plan on keeping and on books that the
University does not buy back.
■ Carolina Dining Service
Improvement - Bring back the equiva
lency program so that students can use
Platform 2000: Preston Smith for
student body president. Main
focuses and goals: 1.
Accountability; 2. Creating a more
community oriented student body ; and
3. Empowerment of the student body
Means of accomplishing these goals:
■ Eliminate Suite C. Student govern-
ment should not
hide in offices.
We should be eas
ily accessible and
also accountable
to the student
body. For exam
ple, cun endy our
campaign center
is Jimmy John’s
on Franklin
Street. This is
easily accessible
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from campus and our meetings are
open to the public. If elected, I would
like to conduct a weekly radio show on
WXYC, a weekly show on Student
Television, a monthly meeting at lunch
in the Pit, and an Internet site open to
students. I would also like to create
weekly chat or instant-messenger ses
sions online where we can directly
interact and communicate with one
another. Students should be informed
of what their elected officers are doing,
thinking and planning ... it is your
University!
■ UNC students receive a great deal
of state subsidization and we should be
willing to give back to our state and
community. I would work to create a
service class, which includes communi
ball and basketball game days; change
residence hall parking hours from 7:30
a.m. to 9 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.;
and fight the nighttime parking permit
proposal.
Bridging the gap between faculty
and students: work with the Residence
Hall Association to create specific aca
demic theme halls and assign faculty
from the specific academic disciplines
to be closely bed to the halls; expand
the First-Year Initiabve program; spon
sor department picnics where faculty
and students from academic disciplines
come together.
Making student government matter
to you: work with Academic
Technology & Networks to - provide
free dial-up Internet access for off-cam
pus students; expand computer lab
hours; work for dial-up lines for busi
ness and professional school students
to access their own intra-school net
works; and link an electronic discus
sion forum to Student Central where
students can electronically voice their
opinions.
Serving everyday needs of students:
fight for handicapped access in every
campus building; advocate a textbook
rental system through Student Stores;
work with RHA to arrange for out-of
state students to be able to remain in
residence halls over Fall Break; use
Greek Affairs coordinators to work
with all Greek governing bodies to
improve Greek-campus relations and
to alleviate negative stereotypes; spon
sor a Greek Service Day; make
Woollen Gym weight rooms more
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their meal plan to buy food at other on
campus establishments such as the
Student Union or Chick-fil-A,
increased hours for the dining halls so
that students with different schedules
can still eat on campus, Employee
Appreciabon Day to show the CDS
employees that we are thankful for the
work that they do.
■ Reverse Point-2-Point Xpress
shuttle - A reverse P2P Xpress, like
the reverse U bus, will allow students
to maximize their time. Pabence is a
virtue, but time is of the essence.
■ Statewide Support and Unity -
Working together with our fellow uni
, versifies arid their student le'aders will
. strengthen the voice of the student
body both at the University level and
the state level. With this needed coop
eration across the state, we will be able
to fight such issues as tuition increases.
■ Middle School and High School
Outreach Program- Increase interest
at both the middle school and high
school levels. This plan involves both
student representatives and faculty that
will go out into all 100 counbes to pro
vide students with information about
entrance requirements, financial aid
opportunities and University issues of
importance. (The goal of this program
is to increase racial and gender equali
ty among incoming admission appli
cants.)
■ Culture Awareness Program
- should learn about the many
different cultures that are represented
at their University. This plan, along
with the Hands Across Carolina
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ty service from all students. The ser
vice would be focused in the area of
the student’s major or with other ser
vice groups like Habitat for Humanity,
Heels on Wheels, etc. By focusing our
volunteer service in the area of our
majors we will receive valuable hands
on experience, three credit hours, valu
able volunteer experience, interact
with the professors in our field and
benefit our community of UNC and
Chapel Hill.
I would attempt to move the UNC-
Duke basketball game to Carmichael
Auditorium. UNC students, especially
seniors, deserve to see this type of
game in this type of environment.
■ The student body is currendy at a
huge disadvantage on campus. We are
unable to control our own desbnies or
future within this University and in
addition are completely dependent
upon the administration.
My solution would be to create
financial independence from the
University.
I would work to create an Internet
based site that would allow students to
sell their textbooks to other students
and purchase other textbooks, thus
eliminating the middleman (Student
Stores) and the inappropriate monopo
* listic pricing.
I would focus on other means of
financial income for the student body
by exploring opportunibes for possibly
creabng a rival Student Stores on the
Internet or even a rival debit/UNC
ONE Card.
Students are currently sponsoring
Monday, February 7, 2000
accessible to students; improve lighting
on walkways between South and North
campuses; create a committee to evalu
ate the effeebveness of the advising
system changes of recent years; and
improve the relabonship between stu
dent government and The Daily Tar
Heel.
Making Government Accessible:
form a committee whose job is to
inform students of programs and ser
vices that the University provides; hold
a weekly, one-hour forum where the
student body president is in attendance
to discuss student and faculty concerns
about any issue; work with die DTH
Editor and editorial staff to reserve
space for a bi-weekly letter from the
student body president that would
inform students of issues the execubve
branch is considering; conbnue month
ly State of the University Address; use
Student Television to publicize student
government funebons and forums; and
complete two comprehensive door-to
door surveys to rate the effeebveness of
student government and become
aware of student concerns.
Graduate Studies: collaborate with
the UNC ONE Card office to get
ONE Card scanners in the School of
Medicine cafeteria so students can use
their expense accounts; and invesbgate
possibilihes for an automated teller
machine more accessible to the med
ical school.
Student safety concerns: increase
Point-2-Point service during prime
hours such as Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Program will provide forums and
events that will both provide the need
ed cultural information to students and
allow those students to interact with
other students of differing cultural
backgrounds.
■ Safety Increase Program- A plan
that will provide interest meehngs for
students who do not feel safe on cam
pus (late-night walking to street walk
ing safety). This plan will also attempt
to add more manpower to the “cart
transportation plan” currently in
action.
■ Increased Communication
Between Alumni and the Student Body
- Allow pasC rriernbers’bfttmCarofina
student body to interact with present
members of the student body with the
goal of increasing University efficiency.
In addition, alumni will be able to
work with groups such as Carolina
Athlebc Associabon, Residence Hall
Association and the Black Student
Movement to provide their support
and cooperabon to programs.
Furthermore, alumni will gain interest
with increased levels of campus
involvement and will further support
such ideas as “Swapping Places at
Basketball Games.”
■ Building Renovabon Program
- plan is focused around the
improvement of the physical buildings
on campus. The eliminabon of broken
seats in classrooms, painbng of class
room walls, refinishing of building
floors and central air systems will allow
the University to strengthen educahon
al foundabons and study atmosphere.
the proposed faculty raises through a
tuibon increase. Therefore, students
should be acbvely involved in deciding
which faculty members receive a raise
from our money. In addibon, the stu
dents should have a say in which
teachers are hired and fired.
Students before athlebcs. We love
varsity athletics; however, students
should be the main priority' on this
campus. Problems include the elimina
tion of intramural fields for another
varsity fields and the proposed parbal
eliminabon of Raleigh Road for new
varsity softball fields.
Wliat about the creation of more
student parking or replacing the lost
intramural fields?
We also plan on focusing on short
term goals like the meal equivalency
program, the Morrison Residence Hall
fires and the current debate regarding
parking permits at night. These issues
are also very important to our
University community.
It is time for the student body of
UNC to recapture our voice and
strength on this campus, while also
proving that we are valuable members
of this state, community and
University. Together we cannot only
become a unified student body, but we
can become a powerful force within
the community of Chapel Hill and the
University. If anyone has any com
ments, suggesbons or ideas please con
tact me.
Preston Smith for student body pres
ident. Thank you for your vote and
support.
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