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Monday, April 17, 2000
BOG Hosts Fund-Raising Workshop
The Board of Governors will
focus on private donations
as the key to the financial
future of the UNC system.
By Alex Kaplun
Staff Writer
Beyond the election of UNC’s next
chancellor and chief fundraiser, the
Board of Governors held the first of sev
eral workshops to come about increas
ing private contributions to the UNC
system.
The BOG held the workshop to dis
cuss ways of generating additional fund
ing for the state’s schools at its Friday
meeting at the Carolina Inn.
The board recently increased tuition
to fund faculty salaries at five system
Weekend Protests Fail to Halt IMF Meetings
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leaders from meeting Sunday, but
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Now it is looking to focus on private
donations to further boost the system’s
revenue base, which has been seriously
threatened because of recent events such
as Hurricane Floyd.
BOG member Addison Bell, who led
the meeting, said private donations were
key for the continued success of the
state’s public universities.
“Endowments are critical and impor
tant for research at our universities,” Bell
said.
In 1998, private contributions for all
organizations in America totaled
$174.52 billion. “Americans are very
generous in private philanthropies," said
BOG member Priscilla Taylor.
But Taylor said that while the major
ity of charitable donations came from
individuals, only 14 percent went to edu
cation.
eyes watering, skin irritated,” said John
Hamilton, one of the victims.
But unlike the protests that over
whelmed police and smashed windows
in rainy Seattle at trade meetings late
last year, the weekend demonstrations
were largely nonviolent -and the sun
beamed on them Sunday.
“I’ve seen a whole lot less property
damage than after a Bulls game in
Chicago,” said Han Shan, protest orga
nizer from the San Francisco-based
group Ruckus.
More protests were set Monday,
when the resumption of the weekday
rash hour threatened horrendous traffic
problems.
Police in America’s security-savvy
capital sent buses under the cover of
early morning darkness Sunday to pick
up world finance ministers at their
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“We can, certainly in the education
arena, get a bigger piece of the philan
thropic dollars," Taylor said.
James Milliken, UNC vice president
for public affairs and university
advancement, said UNC institutions
needed to find ways to secure more
donations from individuals, specifically
alumni.
Milliken said alumni donated more to
private institutions, while corporations
typically gave more to public ones.
But he said public institutions still
needed to receive private donations to
remain competitive.
“There is a growing importance in
the use of private dollars in public uni
versities,” Milliken said.
Private doctoral institutions received
donations from 23.2 percent of their
alumni, while 16.2 percent of public uni
versity alumni donated money in 1998.
turns to get them to work.
But some VIPs were stranded: The
finance ministers of France, Brazil,
Portugal and Thailand were thwarted by
the crowds and sat at the Watergate
Hotel six hours after the meetings start
ed, wondering what to do. They even
tually made it to the spring meeting of
the International Monetary Fund.
“I think there is a great misunder
standing,” French Finance Minister
Laurent Fabius said.
Police, who estimated as many as
10,000 protesters were on the streets,
blocked off a downtown area as large as
90 square blocks and let demonstrators
largely have their way outside the zone.
“Today we had a victory party in the
streets,” said Beka Economopoulos,
member of Mobilization for Global
Justice. “We have every right to tout this
as a victory. I think we were up against
incredible, impossible, odds.”
Protest leaders estimated their crowds
at more than 30,000.
Shan credited police with being rela
tively restrained, if suffocating in the size
of their force. “Overall, they maintained
their composure quite a bit,” he said.
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In 1998, UNC-CH received $57.5
million from alumni donations, placing
it 10th among all universities and second
among public universities.
Harvard University received the
largest amount of alumni donations, an
amount exceeding S2OO million.
UNC-system President Molly Broad
also addressed the fund-raising issue
during both the workshop and her pres
ident’s report at the BOG meeting.
Broad said system schools needed to
tap into the country’s economic boom
and said each chancellor in the system
would be encouraged to increase the
amount of private contributions.
“Fund raising is and will continue to
be an important part of the lives of our
chancellors.”
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While the numbers of protesters
Sunday were far smaller, the security
measures were not unlike those of the
giant anti-war demonstrations of the
1960 sand 19705.
President Nixon’s White House was
once ringed by city buses parked as a
barricade against protesters; during the
1968 riots that followed the assassina
tion of Martin Luther Kingjr., troops set
up machine-gun encampments on the
steps of the Capitol.
The atmosphere was less tense than
on Saturday, when police raided and
closed the protest headquarters during
the day and arrested more than 600
people in the evening. About 20 people
were arrested Sunday, police said.
The protesters chanted, beat on plas
tic buckets and wore papier-mache pup
pet heads cast in the likeness of the lead
ers they hold in contempt.
It was all meant to disrupt the World
Bank and IMF meetings held Sunday
and Monday.
Protesters accused the World Bank
and IMF of burdening poor countries
with crushing debt payments, unsafe
food and environmental destruction.
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25 Years Ago:
■ This week in 1975, women in the area were disappointed by the N.C.
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■ This week in 1990, "overwhelmingly negative” student reaction stopped a
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Town Council Mulls
Video Traffic Codes
Rep. Joe Hackney criticized
the use of traffic cameras,
claiming they penalize car
owners, not traffic violators.
By Kellie Dixon
Assistant City Editor
In between bites of muffins and fruit,
the Chapel Hill Town Council and a
state legislative delegation brought traf
fic violations to the forefront of discus
sion at the annual state breakfast meet
ing at the Carolina Inn.
The council had few suggestions for
the delegation at the Friday morning
meeting but rehashed local ideas regard
ing video traffic codes, which concerns
the use of cameras to catch and penalize
traffic violators at traffic signals.
Council member Kevin Foy said
council members needed to discuss the
idea among themselves before present
ing a final idea to the state legislature.
“The council has not agreed that we
want to have video cameras at intersec
tions,” he said.
“Before the government can tell peo
ple they are going to pay fines, they
need stronger evidence than the license
plate.”
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange, said
the legislator’s role was to introduce the
council’s proposals at the next level. She
also added that she would be willing to
pass along the video camera idea to the
state.
“Last year at the same breakfast they
expressed interest because the other
cities were doing it,” she said. “(Rep.)
Joe Hackney (D-Orange), objected.
However, today I thought he was a little
more open (to the idea).”
Kinnaird said she was in favor of the
legislation, admitting that even she had
sped through a yellow light but thought
later about how she put herself and oth
ers in danger.
“(The idea) would definitely be a
behavior modifier," she said. “We will
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introduce it if the council is unanimous
in their desire to do it.”
Should the council decide in favor of
the initiative, it can send Kinnaird a
written letter, and the bill drafting will
be drawn up for the next session of the
N.C. General Assembly.
Hackney appeared hesitant about the
idea, claiming it was not foolproof, as it
could impose penalties on the owner of
the car, regardless of who was driving.
“Your government ought not to be
able to convict you of something you
did not do,” he said.
George Small, Chapel Hill director of
engineering, promoted the idea as a sup
plement to the police force.
He also added that the project would
fund itself, working from the dollars it
earned from the violators.
The council also talked to the dele
gation about ticketing on private prop
erty.
Because of an N.C. General Statute,
the town can give the police the power
to regulate parking on private property.
Presently, this only applies to private
property owners and not to landlords.
The council did not send a decision
along with the delegation but listened as
the issue of allowing landlords the abil
ity to have parking regulated was
addressed.
Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, asked
the council how the town would prevent
ticketing people who were parked, but
without violating the private property
owner’s ordinance.
One proposed suggestion to curb this
parking violation included putting signs
up designating time and spaces for ille
gal parking.
Kinnaird said the delegation could
not pass anything along at session until
the council reached a decision.
“It’s strictly up to the Town Council,"
she said.
The Town Council has not yet estab
lished a date to discuss these issues.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
6 p.m. - Hunger and
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Items of Interest
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the UNC Department of Dramatic Art,
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Elizabeth Price Kenan Theater in the
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