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Tuesday, February 8, 2000
Congress Split on Budget Plan
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - To a chorus of
Republican ridicule. President Clinton
sent Congress his budget finale on
Monday, a $1.84 trillion plan to expand
health care access,
shrink the national
debt and shower
Democratic con
stituencies with
election-year
largesse.
Blessed with a
budgetary bonan
za that past presi-
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dents could only dream about -a pro
jected $2.92 trillion in federal surpluses
over the next decade - Clinton used his
spending oudine to propose something
for almost everyone. He would cut taxes
for the sick, elderly, poor and college-
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of about 4,100 seniors, including those
enrolled in professional schools.
The School of Journalism and Mass
Communication sent a mass e-mail to
alert its students of the registration dead
line, and the Kenan-Flagler Business
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bound; spend more for the environ
ment, schools and gun-law enforcement;
and erase the $3.7 trillion publicly held
portion of the national debt by 2013.
The proposal is sure to be heavily
reworked by Congress, where defiant
Republicans dismissed it as a gambit to
bolster Vice President A1 Gore’s presi
dential bid and the Democratic drive to
capture Congress. They promised to fat
ten the plan’s tax cuts, trim its spending
boosts and ignore its tax increases.
“It has all things for everyone they
feel they’ll need to get A1 Gore elected
president,” said House Budget
Committee Chairman John Kasich, R-
Ohio, who called it “the president’s fan
tasy budget.”
“I look forward to working with the
president in putting together a serious
spending proposal,” said Senate Budget
Committee Chairman Pete Domenici,
its self-imposed Feb. 15 deadline.
Taylor said the Feb. 11 deadline was
flexible in some cases, but she stressed
that missing the deadline jeopardized a
student’s chance of participating in the
Commencement ceremonies.
Students will not receive their diplo
mas at this year’s ceremonies, but
instead they will take home a cover rep
resenting the diploma, Taylor said.
In February 1999, students voted on
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There was little denying presidential
politics at the White House, where offi
cials said at least a dozen Gore propos
als were latticed into the outline. But
beyond that, Clinton’s farewell spending
blueprint - for fiscal 2001, beginning
Oct. 1 - was an effort to choose the ter
rain of this year’s budget battle.
Clinton proposed $351 billion in tax
cuts through 2010 that he argues can
only be enlarged by eroding Social
Security’s trust funds, diluting efforts to
expand and strengthen Medicare, or
slashing other popular initiatives such as
hiring teachers or reducing the national
debt. “This budget, in short, makes real
ly strong and significant steps toward
achieving the great goals that I believe
America should pursue in this new cen
tury,” Clinton told reporters.
a referendum that called for majors and
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delaying the date when seniors would
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mitment the foundation made to the
alumni who funded the Smith Center,
said that because a growing waitlist for
tickets existed, there was no help for stu
dents left in the upper deck.
Doug Weatherspoon, an active con
tributor to the Educational Foundation
and a vocal supporter of the athletic pro
gram, said he agreed with Pruitt’s goals
but said the student leader needed to get
the facts first “We must find out who has
those seats,” he said. “Alumni would
probably agree to getting the students
closer to help the team improve the
atmosphere and recruiting.”
Heinke, who has contacted several
donors and lower-level ticket-holders,
said the next stage was to talk to the tick
et-holders for those seats and work
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ings across campus. Harris, however,
said he would visit every hallway in
every residence hall. “I’m not going to
wait for people to come to me,” Harris
said. “I’m going to go to them.”
He said he wanted students to feel com
fortable enough with his administration to
call his office when everyday problems,
such as a broken streetlight, arose.
“We need student government to ful
fill both ordinary, everyday needs and
big plans,” Harris said.
He also said he would like to have
weekly campus e-mail updates of stu
dent government happenings and the
text of his “State of the University”
speeches printed in The Daily Tar Heel.
Student body president candidate
Matt Martin said he wanted to treat stu
dent government as a “vehicle of com
munication.”
Martin said he aimed to hold a week
ly forum for students and faculty, to
form a human relations committee ded
icated to increasing communication
with students and to have a biweekly
column in the DTH.
Martin, a junior from Goldsboro, said
he wanted to spend most of his time lis
tening to students rather than becoming
wrapped up in the confines of Suite C.
He said the purpose of his Cabinet
was to free up his time for his own con
stant interaction with students.
“The reason why I have a supporting
cast is because one person can’t do
everything,” Martin said.
Taking Heinke’s door-to-door pro
gram even further, Martin said he
planned to have someone from his
administration visit each on-campus stu
dent’s home - twice.
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toward a plausible solution.
“Some alumni have agreed to a one
game switch to get the team winning
again,” he said. “This is not the long
term answer, but it may get us closer to
the final solution.”
Although Pruitt has support from
many alumni, there are others who
called the situation bleak.
Mick Mixon, a color analyst for the Tar
Heel Sports Network, said this was a tough
issue because the problem had been cre
ated when the Smith Center was built
“When the Smith Center was built,
donors got to come in and pick out their
own seats,” he said. “The best interest of
the team is served by moving the stu
dents closer to the court, but I feel with
equal conviction, the University should
honor its commitment to the alumni."
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going to go to them,” Martin said.
Junior Brad Matthews, former senior
adviser to Heinke, said his administra
tion would be building on Heinke’s suc
cesses. “We’re going to continue to do
the same things, but do them better,” he
said.
Matthews, who came up with the
idea and pushed for Heinke’s weekly
door-to-door chat with students, said he
wanted to expand personal contact
efforts. He said he would like adminis
trators and other students to accompany
him on meet-and-greets with students.
“There is no substitute for face-to-face
interaction with people who don’t nec
essarily know what student government
does or is,” Matthews said.
Also, Matthews said he would
require his Cabinet to attend the meet
ings of other campus groups.
Matthews even has plans for “dinner
and a bitch session,” in which he would
take randomly selected undergraduate
and graduate students out for pizza, ask
ing them about their concerns.
“It’s basically a focus group with atti
tude," Matthews said.
Student body president candidate
Joshua Ray said he wanted to increase
communication between student
groups. If elected, Ray is planning to
hold monthly meetings of campus lead
ers and to be a participant in the meet
ings of other organizations.
Traditional efforts to unite the cam
pus are not fulfilling their potential, he
said. “A basketball game or fraternity
party isn’t going to get people talking
together,” he said.
Ray has already formed a coalition
with Corey Bell, candidate for Carolina
Athletic Association president, and
Gaffney Gunter, candidate for
Residence Hall Association president.
“We are working together when we
speak together so that after the election
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said. “We want the NRC to expedite it
so legitimate questions can be raised so
that ffie safety issues are out.”
Sen. Elbe Kinnaird, D-Orange,
agreed, saying the earlier public hear
ings had not been effective.
“The NRC said, ‘lt was nice for the
public; they like to be heard,’” she said.
Edwards voiced his concern to mem
bers of the press about the need for safe
ty in nuclear power plants.
“(Nuclear power has) obviously been
an important power source for North
Carolina, but it needs to be handled
safely,” he said. “I think this is an issue
that matters to a lot of people.”
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we can go ahead and start working,”
Ray said.
Sophomore Erica Smiley said stu
dent government accessibility did not
just include access to information and
the politicians.
“We are students, not arrogant junior
administrators building our resumes,”
Smiley said. “We are public servants.”
As chairwoman of Student Congress’
Rules and Judiciary Committee this
year, Smiley said she had worked to
create an environment of accessibility.
Planning to set up student govern
ment outposts around campus and in
the community where legislation would
be posted, Smiley said her campaign
was about “hard-core active outreach.”
She said her potential administration
would consist of mostly open-door
meetings, outreach to a diverse popula
tion in appointments and plenty of pub
lic forums. “1 definitely want to form a
live communication structure,” Smiley
said.
Meanwhile, junior Preston Smith, a
student body president candidate who
wears orange on a daily basis to ensure
his familiarity with students, wants to
narrow the accessibility gap with a
weekly online chat, weekly Student
Television and WXYC radio shows and
monthly meetings in the Pit.
Smith said he would add his own
orange tint to the campus Web site, but
was more concerned with spreading the
URL to students.
Of the Heinke administration’s well
done but little-visited site, Smith said,
“It’s like putting on a really cool cos
tume for Halloween and then staying in
your house.”
Unlike other candidates, Smith is not
targeting campus organizations to
spread his message.
“The most important group I need to
communicate with is students - in gen
eral, not a specific clique,” Smith said.
Smith, who said he was “not planing
on hanging out in Suite C,” is running
a public-minded campaign. His cam
paign headquarters is located atjimmy
john’s on Franklin Street.
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