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Monday, April 17, 2000
Moeser Eyes Condition of Music Library
The recent chancellor-elect,
already known for a musical
past, expressed an interest
in the music library.
By Robin Clemow
Arts & Entertainment Editor
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to be saved from fire-hazard classrooms
in its cramped, crumbling building.
Although music faculty members
said they did not expect the chancellor
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Anne Cates, chairwoman of UNC's Board of Trustees, chats
with Chancellor-Elect James Moeser at a press conference.
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elect to play favorites, they were excited
to have a sympathizer in their midst.
“Obviously, the fact that he’s a musi
cian means a lot to us, and we’re proud
to have our discipline represented at the
very top of the administration,” depart
ment Chairman John Nadas said.
James Moeser, who will soon step up
to the University’s helm, has been an
organ professor and the dean of fine arts
at Kansas University and studied music
at the University of Texas and the
University of Michigan.
His wife is currently a professor in the
music department at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
In an informal conversation Saturday
with UNC associate music Professor
Brooks Smith, the chancellor-elect
showed interest in the music depart
ment’s needs. He asked specifically
about the music library -a collection
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“He was quite interested in (the
music library) and wanted to
know how it compared to music
libraries across the country. ”
Brooks Smith
Music Department Associate Chairman
now crammed onto old shelves in the
flood-prone basement of Hill Hall.
“He was quite interested in it and
wanted to know how it compared to
music libraries across the country,"
Smith said. “The issue of the library is
on his mind."
However, Smith said he did not
believe Moeser’s interest resulted from
his background but from a motivation to
improve the university as a whole.
“He will support the music depart
ment’s major needs because they are
major needs, not because he is a musi
cian,” Smith said.
UNC music Professor Thomas
Warburton, who was a colleague of
Moeser’s during graduate school, said
he did not think Moeser would embrace
any particular interest but would under
stand the music department’s problems.
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The list also included Carol Christ,
provost and executive vice chancellor at
the University of California-Berkeley
and Andrew Sorensen, president of the
University of Alabama.
Houpt and Christ immediately with
drew their names from the running.
Stevens said the December leaks had
hindered the search, prompting specula
tion that the committee had to broaden
its list of top picks for the chancellorship.
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“The performing facilities on this
campus, including Memorial Hall, are
in terrible shape,” Warburton said. “I sat
in Hill Hall auditorium during the rain
one day, and there was water dripping
on the floor.”
UNC Orchestra Conductor Tonu
Kalam, who conducts concerts in the
auditorium, said he would celebrate the
Moeser’s arrival.
“We’re going to have somebody at
the top who is sympathetic to what
we’re trying to do and knows the issues
we’re dealing with,” he said.
If he can find the resources to revive
Hill Hall’s organ from its three-year rest
due to need of repair, Kalam hopes to
use the organ in a concert this fall to
honor the new leader.
Nadas said hopes for the department
included the desire for a performing arts
complex, but the crumbling library
holds first priority as the department has
been working for years toward anew
home for its books and rare music.
“(Electing a chancellor) is the last
piece in the puzzle to build the new
library,” he said. “The fact that he’s
already taken notice is a good sign.”
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Sorensen and Floyd remained coy on
their candidacies, never removing their
names from the list, while vowing to
remain dedicated to their current work.
It was several months before
Sorensen officially dropped out of the
search on March 6, prompting specula
tion that the search was nearing its end.
That same week, rumors circulated
across campus that U.S. Secretary of
Health and Human Services Donna
Shalala would take UNC’s helm. But
Shalala herself dispelled the rumors and
said she had turned the search commit
tee down three months before her name
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The UNC Music Library is housed in the basement of Hill Hall, where
students must duck under pipes and avoid occasional puddles.
had surfaced in the media.
Some began to question whether the
committee would find anew leader by
the fall semester when Stevens slated
committee meetings through May 25,
four days beyond Broad’s May
Commencement deadline.
The possibility of Moeser’s candida
cy filtered into campus conversations
after he emerged as one of six finalists in
the University of Florida president
search, an open process because of the
state’s Sunshine Law. Floyd also
appeared on the UF list.
A week later, the announcement of a
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new chancellor became imminent when
the BOT called an emergency meeting
Thursday to vote for its picks.
Whispers began circulating around
campus that Floyd, a seemingly natur
al choice for the post since Hooker died,
would become the next chancellor.
But by Thursday evening, officials at
both the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and UNC confirmed that Moeser would
inherit South Building’s top post
The board officially forwarded two
recommendations to Broad on
Thursday, but Cates said Friday the
trustees had unanimously recommend
ed Moeser for the job.
The Board of Governors’ unanimous
approval of Moeser’s appointment
came after Broad officially recom
mended him Friday morning.
Stevens said the Florida announce
ment was not related to Moeser’s
appointment and that he had been
under consideration for several months.
“At the end of the day, the most
important thing is that we got the best.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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raising),” he said. “Maybe it’s the No. 1
priority for the next administration.”
But before he can set sights on boost
ing UNC’s bank account, Moeser must
shape his Cabinet. He said he would
immediately launch an intensive search
for his second-in-command -a provost
to succeed Dick Richardson, who will
retire in June.
“I will pledge my full energy to start
ing immediately,” he said. “We will start
tomorrow.”
But before Moeser became entangled
in his priority list, he received plaudits
from both UNC and system officials,
who called him a seasoned administra
tor and remarkable fund-raiser.
“James Moeser brings to the
University a passionate commitment to
academic excellence and diversity,;
proven strategic planning skills and a
deep understanding of the ties that bind
all great universities to the citizens that
support them,” said UNC-system
President Molly Broad.
Former Student Body President Nic
Heinke, the sole student on the search
committee, said that firm commitment
to making UNC students citizens of the
state was Moeser’s biggest selling point
in his eyes.
“He’s not the one of these people
who wants to see a public university
become private,” he said.
Interim Chancellor Bill McCoy, who
received a standing ovation for his year
long stint at the South Building post,
said Moeser’s appointment would allow
UNC to thrust forward in its quest to
become the top public institution in the
country.
“Hearing him speak underscores that
he is going to be an excellent person for
this campus,” he said.
After a formal lunch with BOG
members and UNC’s academic deans,
Moeser and his wife, Susan, were
whisked across campus Friday after
noon to a public reception at the
Morehead Building to meet members of
UNC’s largest constituency - its stu
dents.
Following a brief speech, Moeser cir
culated the room easily, shaking hands
with students and faculty members who
came to gamer first impressions of their
new leader.
Moeser, who served as provost at the
University of South Carolina before he
took the Nebraska helm, joked about
his changing perceptions of the term
‘Carolina.’
“I’ve had a conversion, anew theol
ogy of what Carolina means.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.