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4 Monday, February 14, 2000 The Winding Road to the BOG Vote Decreased state funding led to a year of debate about whether the UNC system should raise tuition. The debate capped off Friday when the Board of Governors passed significant tuition boosts for five of the 16 system schools. ASG Plans to Continue Fight By Kristina C.asto Staff Writer Hours after the Board of Governors decided to raise tuition at five UNC-sys tem schools, a UNC Association of Student Governments meeting con vened in the Great Hall of the Sludeni Union on Friday evening to formulate a new strategy for students. Several UNC-system student body presidents also attended the BOG meet ing earlier in the day to show opposition to increasing tuition. ASG delegates from across the system considered two responses to the BOG vote. The first was to continue fighting the proposed increase when it comes before the N.C. General Assembly this “We will show the legislature that we mean business, and we are watching them. ” Raj Mirchandani N.C. State Student Body President spring. The second option discussed was to recast students’ energy behind other issues, such as financial aid, faculty salaries and a possible bond referendum GO AWAY! And spend summer 2000 abroad in ■’* ~f ~ Applications are due by February 15, 2000 For further information please contact the UNC-CH Study Abroad Office in 12 Caldwell Hall (919) 962-7001 abroad@unc.edu http://study-abroad.unc.edu NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED Wmmi (JpA y YOUR CHOICE CB AA ONLY I W I 1 ) 14” CHEESE PIZZA X 3 ) 10 „ TWO TOPP | NG p, ZZA & ONE SODA 968-FA5T, 32731 4) 10 WINGS & ONE SODA V 5) 10 ” P0KEY ST,X & F,VE WINGS 6) lo ”cheese PIZZA & five wings ty fU\<krs of 7) 12” POKEY STIX & ONE SODA tU DTH 8) 10” CHEESE PIZZA & TWO PEPPERONI ROLLS {1997, 1998 & 1999 i 9 ) FIVE PEPPERONI ROLLS & ONE SODA FAST FREE OELfI/ERV? WWW.GUMBYSPIZZA.COM EMAIL: GUMBYSI@AOL.COM Board of Governors consultant Eva Klein submits a report indicating $6.9 billion in capital needs to repair and renovate dilapidated facilities across the UNC system. April 1999 aimed at funding capital improvements. All are issues the General Assembly might consider in the coming months. “We have not withdrawn our opposi tion to the tuition increase,” ASG President Jeff Nieman, who is also a BOG member, said. “But the reality is, we need to focus on what we can win.” The board earlier voted against an alternative proposal from Nieman. His plan would have decreased the magnitude of the increases and limited tuition boosts at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University. Nic Heinke, UNC-CH student body president, said the tuition increase proposal had caused finger pointing and in fighline among UNC-CH stu dents, faculty and administrators. Heinke said the internal disagreement at UNC-CH had distracted people from holding the leg islature responsible for funding the University. Some ASG members said they The BOG Tuition Vote The BOG submits a $5 billion bond proposal to the N.C. General Assembly. The Senate approves a $3 billion bond request, while the House only agrees to a $1 billion plan that would require a public referendum. The proposal never makes it out of a House-Senate conference committee before the summer session ends. Summer 1999 hoped to change that. “We need anew gelling of the University community to remind the legislature what their job is,” Heinke said. ASG leaders proposed to move for ward on two points. First, to bring together a ‘Ride to Raleigh,’ where students, teachers and administrators from universities across the state would be bused to Raleigh as a unified show of force. Nieman said he hoped a strong show of students, administrators and faculty in Raleigh would encourage the legisla ture to fund the University adequately. Raj Mirchandani, N.C. State student body president, said the ‘Ride to Raleigh’ would remind the legislature of its duty to the UNC system. “We will show the legislature that we mean busi ness, and we are watching them,” Mirchandani said. ASG leaders also outlined a plan to form a working committee of students, faculty, staff, administrators and BOG members from all Hi schools. The proposed committee would work to reunify the system behind other issues such as faculty salaries, financial aid and capital improvements. “We don’t have to give up on the tuition increase, but our prime focus is long-term,” said Heinke. “Leadership is focusing on the long-term.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. HALL TUTORING UPDATE Free tutoring began February 8 in Dey Hall. Tutoring will be available every Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6-9 pm on a drop-in basis. SOME CHANGES: Our BUSI 24 tutor has dropped out. There will be NO BUSINESS 24 TUTORING AVAILABLE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. For this week only (February 15): THERE WILL BE NO PHYSICS 24/25 TUTORING ON TUESDAY, FEB. 15 (Physics tutoring will be available on Wednesday) ALSO NOTE: This semester there are more Math, Physics, and Chemistry tutors on Wed. nights than on Tuesdays. There are more Business, Economics, and Statistics tutors on Tuesdays than on Wednesdays. You might want to plan your visits to tutoring in these subjects accordingly. If you have questions, call the Learning Center at 962-3782. If you’re a REGULAR visitor, you cao earn up to $l6O a month! h Participate in our life-saving & financially rtfcV . rewarding plasma donation program. COMPENSATION! I Donors Earn up to $165 per Month! \aR .A, New donors earn S2O for first visit I|l t" . 3 $35 for the second visit within \ 7 days. Active donors (absent 30 days) earn $2 5 on return visit. 1 New donors call for appointment. Call Or Stop by. parking validated Sera-Teciiologica /js§h wwywcitysearch.com/RDU/SeraTec ''-"U*-"' 109 1/2 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill 942-0251, • M-TH 10-6; FlO-4 After UNC-CH drops from third to fifth in national rankings, a UNC-CH committee of faculty and two student leaders begins discussing tuition increases as a way to raise dwindling faculty salaries at the University. August 1999 j - ■BBBB ' V; DTH/MILLER PEARSALL Jeff Nieman, a nonvoting member of the Board of Governors, argues for an amendment to the tuition increase at the BOG meeting Friday. After several weeks of debate, a University committee submits a recommendation to the Board of Trustees combining a $1,500 tuition increase for in-state students with legislative funding to boost the salaries of UNC professors. LEGISLATORS From Page 1 “To ignore that is to ignore the reality in which we are having to raise tuition.” Garwood said the concessions for stu dent aid provided within every tuition increase and the relatively low tuition already offered made his decision some what easier. ITie BOG approved a S6OO tuition increase, to be implemented over two years, at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. “Six hundred dollars may seem like a lot of money, but they’re going to bal ance that with financial aid,” Garwood said. “Relatively speaking, I think we’re still offering a bargain.” But student leaders opposed to the ■ (Sopti Gvrdrcr HP ] \ Uf your UNC ONE cjtrd at til locstlont Minting services —NationalColi©i|- In observance of National Condom Week. Center for Healthy Student Behaviors, tC.A.R.E.S. present: Dr oven's DAILY Declarations If you have questions about f your sexual health, you can “ASK DRAVEN” anonymously. I’m your on-line sexuality advisor. Simply “ASK DRAVEN” on-line at www.shs.unc.edu/ilrciveii j jjJ hJUJihjsJ ii) slZitt y/sJjjj yum The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and The Daily Tar Heel host forums for students, faculty and administrators to voice their opinions concerning the proposed tuition increase before the Board of Trustee's vote. October 1999 STUDENT PROTEST From Page 1 “They are spitting on access to edu cation,” said Ali Fischer, a 1999 UNC graduate and vice president of the United States Students Association. Nieman praised the efforts of The Coalition for Educational Access, com paring the student fight against the tuition increase to protests of the Civil Rights era. “It’s not over, this decision is going to be made in Raleigh.” Coalition member Sandi Chapman said student presence held BOG mem bers accountable to the population they sewed. “If there was nobody there, they would w'alk over us,” she said. Student Body President Nic Heinke said the protest influenced the board’s decision. “I don’t thinkjeffs substitute amendment would have gotten the 17- 11 vote if the students weren’t there.” Student opposition to tuition increas es during the last five months sparked a large display of campus activism. More than 400 students led a protest at an October 1999 Board of Trustees meeting. About 100 students came to a November 1999 BOG meeting where the board lauded the student fight. Although Friday’s turnout was lower than the earlier meetings, coalition member Matt Smith said it was com mendable. “I think when we’re looking at 9:1.5 a.m. on a Friday morning, the number of people who turned out from all different schools was phenomenal.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. plan remained hopeful Fridas that they still had a chance to get their message across to legislators. Jeff Nieman, a UNC-Chapel Hill student and nonvot ing BOG member, made a motion at Friday’s meeting to adopt UNC-system President Molly Broad’s plan for a one year, S2OO tuition increase at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. The board defeated the motion 17- 11, a narrow margin by BOG standards. Nieman said he hoped the 11 dis senting votes would carry weight with legislators. “While the board should be respected as a whole, when we take this to the General Assembly, we can say that we have at least some support.” The State & National Editor can be reached atstntdesk@unc.edu. (Lift Hath} (Tar Heel Despite student protests, the University’s Board of Trustees approves a five-year plan to raise faculty salaries that would eventually raise each in-state undergraduate tuition by $1,500 during the next five years.
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