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Friday, February 11, 2000
REACTION
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for a S6OO tuition increase at UNC-
Chapel Hill and \'.C. State University
during the next two years.
Students said the plan delivered a
dangerous message to legislators that the
system was willing to dish out dollars
without seeking state funds first. “1 think
this sends the wrong signal that we’re
willing to pay for this,” said UNC-CH
Student Body President Nic Heinke.
Students said they would convey
their concerns about the S6OO increase
with a planned silent protest during the
meeting and a press conference imme
diately following the board’s vote.
Student opposition to a tuition boost
has remained strong since a UNC-CH
committee first proposed an increase
more than five months ago.
More than 100 students gathered at a
November BOG meeting, where board
members applauded the student fight.
A large-scale protest also brought
more than 400 students to the October
Board of Trustees meeting, an unprece
dented display of campus acfivism.
The BOG plan strongly resembles
the BOT’s October proposal calling for
a $1,500 increase over five years.
It also contrasts with UNC-system
president Molly Broad’s proposal call
ing for a one-time S2OO tuition increase
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to fund faculty salaries. “In one day it’s
gone from S2OO to $600,” said coalition
member Michal Osterweil.
Earlier this week, student BOG mem
ber Jeff Nieman drafted an altemadve
proposal on behalf of system students
that conceded to Broad’s one-time
tuition iuncrease recommendation, as
long as students were guaranteed ade
quate financial aid.
Heinke said Nieman’s proposal
demonatrated that students were willing
to compromise on tuition. “Students
were ready to suck up that one-year pro
posal. We were going to do it for a year.”
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Lee Conner said it
was unfair to ask students to bear the
brunt of the two-year plan after they had
made efforts to compromise.
The possibility of a heightened
tuition increase seemed to overshadow
the board’s announcement Thursday
that it would put on hold a first-ever
increase in fees for capital improve
ments. The fee would have asked stu
dents in all 16 system schools to pay
$275 in the next three years for campus
capital improvements. “Obviously, we
are very happy about the elimination
of the capital fee,” Conner said. “That’s
a good change.”
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would only serve as a credible deterrent.
“1 don’t think it will ever be used.”
A lower average GPA has possible
long-term risks such as lower admissions
into graduate schools and lower job
placement, but members of the com
mittee said the University could safe
guard against these risks.
Crawford-Brown said the University
must publicize its stringent standards in
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crepancies in tuition rates at system
schools of the same academic category.
He adamantly opposed the commit
tee’s inclusion of tuition proposals from
schools besides UNC-CH and N.C.
State. He said UNC-C and UNC-W
should not be granted tuition increase,
partly because the schools had not
demonstrated an extraordinary need for
such measures.
He also said he was disappointed the
committee voted to raise tuition more
than Broad recommended.
Nieman, who continually opposed
tuition increases at system schools, set
forth his own proposal Tuesday, in
which he agreed to a one-time S2OO
tuition increase to fiind faculty salaries at
UNC-CH and N.C. State.
He said the committee’s plan would
unnecessarily handcuff the BOG to two
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relation to those of competing universi
ties. “People need to know that a 2.6
from Chapel Hill would be equal to a
3.5 from somewhere else,” he said.
Some committee members said
today’s meeting was strictly to gauge fac
ulty response.
Crawford-Brown said the Faculty
Council wanted to hear the student
voice before making any decisions.
“Students don’t want to sit idly by
and let us make these changes.”
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years of tuition increases.
Brad Wilson, chairman of the Budget
and Finance Committee, said he pro
posed a two-year plan to buy more time
than Broad’s plan allotted for legislators
to work out budget problems and to
allow students ample fime to prepare for
the increases. “The economic reality is
there will be no money this (year) and
very little next (year),” he said. “Going
ahead and making increases for two
years also makes planning-sense.”
Nieman also said he was fundamen
tally opposed to increasing tuition at
ECU because students there were still
recovering from the damaging floods
Hurricane Floyd caused in September.
Nieman said he hoped the full board
would refrain from raising tuition.
“The overall tone of the full board is
definitely more sympathetic to our posi
tion.”
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to work with them,” he said. “You have
to keep everyone involved.”
Harris said the argument against the
increase was rooted in North Carolina’s
dedication to higher education.
He said he would encourage all facets
of the student population to join his cam
paign against the increase. “The next stu
dent body president is going to be cru
cial in this,” he said. “We are making
sure we work with everyone. It’s not just
activists in this. This has got to be a thing
that normal students get involved in.”
Harris said he wanted to take aggres
sive action to address tuition and finan
cial aid, two of his top three platform
items. “Our challenge is to put our
money where our mouth is. This is
where we’re going to show what we
mean,” he said.
Candidate Josh Ray said he also rec
ognized the importance of mobilizing
students and said he would spearhead a
coalition of student organizations.
“Our student body needs a stronger
voice, a louder voice,” Ray said. “I want
to see increased cooperation between all
student groups.”
This image of unified student forces
was inspiration for Ray’s proposed
“Hands Across Carolina” program, an
effort to bridge the gaps between differ
ent student groups. “When we go (to
protest against tuition increases), we’re
all students, and it’s our money,” he
said. “It’s not a one-man army.”
Ray said he would encourage any
public display of student opinion, like
Sankofa’s October concert against the
tuition increase. “We’ll get busing to the
legislature. We’ll take as many buses as
we need,” he said. “We can’t give up.
Everybody get down and let’s march.”
Ray said lie joined efforts with candi
dates from other positions to strengthen
the potential of Suite C to lobby for or
against issues of concern once elected.
Candidate Matt Martin said his plan
of attack included targeting the source
feeding the problem - faculty salaries.
“I don’t believe in tapping into stu
dents’ pockets to raise revenue for rais
ing teachers’ salaries,” he said.
He said he would investigate other
sources of revenue to increase faculty
salaries by creating a special task force.
Martin also said the UNO’s large
endowment and successful fund-raising
opportunities could provide alternate
sources of money. “The University’s
concerns are legifimate concerns, but die
pressing need is to keep costs dow n.”
He said the state should be held
accountable for funding UNC after cov
ering the costs of Hurricane Floyd’s
damage. “(Higher education should be)
somewhere dose to the top, so we don’t
end up fighting for scraps in the end.”
He said the tuition increase was
included in his platform priorities. “It’s
definitely something I’m going to act on.
“I don’t want the composition of the
University to change, the way I think it
would if this proposal goes through.”
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Candidate Brad Matthews also
shared Martin’s vision of shaving funds
from other sources. “The University
resorted too quickly to raising tuition to
solve our problems,” he said. Matthews
also cited UNC’s endowment as anoth
er viable option for needed funds.
“We’re growing that money for a
rainy day. Well, it seems like it is raining.
That’s what that money is there to do.”
Matthews’ platform concentrates on
keeping UNC available to all students.
“We need to make sure students have
access to not only higher education, but.
the best, and we are the best.”
He said he would lobby the halls of
the state legislature this summer, as well
as C-TOPS orientation sessions.
“We have to utilize the context and
materials we have. We have to be cre
ative as students because we don’t have
a lot of money to throw at politicians.
“We need to start looking for a long
term solution to a long-term problem.” •
Candidate Erica Smiley said her.
experience in fighting the tuition
increase in the fall set her apart from the
other candidates. “I’ve been there.
When it hit the fan at 3 a.m., I was there
in Suite C trying to get things together.
“The other candidates all say the
same things, and it sounds nice. It seems
like the right thing to say, but I haven’t
seen them there.”
Smiley is involved in the Coalition
for Educational Access, a student group
that shared the spotlight in last fall’s fight
against the proposed increases in tuition.
She said tuition topped her priority
list falling under her campaign of
accountability, accessibility and action.
“Student government should go to
the students first in times of crisis. (They)
should be prepared to act immediately.”
Smiley criticized this year’s adminis
tration for failing to be accountable to
the students. “It took this year’s govern
ment too long to call in students to the
office to see what we thought.”
She said student presence at today’s
meeting was imperative to remind offi
cials of the issue’s continued timeliness.
“We’re still watching what they’re
doing,” she said.
Candidate Preston Smith said his
campaign centered around what he con
sidered a more realistic philosophy.
He said that while his administrafion
would continue to fight the increase, it
would also prepare for what he consid
ered an inevitable increase. “It’s going
to happen. We need to be watchdogs of
our money. We pay so much, we should
see where our money goes.”
Smith plans to organize a student
committee that would decide which pro-,
fessors deserved a salary increase.
“It’s like the Boston Tea Party. They
wanted representation, we want repre
sentation. Once again we’re not repre
sented when it comes to our money.
“I’m going to give you my best effort,
and il we can’t put it down I’m going to •
make damned sure our money is going
to go to the right thing.”
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