2 Thursday, November 2, 2000 Campus Calendar Today 6 p.m. - Hie Carolina Academic Team will be having a practice in 321 Greenlaw Hall. Anyone interested in quiz bowl, Jeopardy or Who Wants to Bea Millionaire is invited to attend. No experience is necessary. For more info, check out www.unc.edu/ - eholmes. 7 p.m. - UEISO-A: Tlie N.C. Graduate Employee and Adjunct TODAY! Student Rush Tickets Available. ! the CAROLINA UNION PERFORMING ARTS SERIES san/rancisco T\ I OPERA II l' J. STRAUSS JR.'S s Die (Mermans THEATER Sung in English Thursday, November 2 Bpm, Memorial Hall, unc-ch Genera! public - $36, $32, S2B UNC-CH student S2O, $ 18, $i 6 CAROLINA UNjQN BOX OFFICE: (919) 962 1449 2000 OFFICIAL BALLOT FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA NOVEMBER 7, 2000 U.S. PRESIDENT, MEMBER OF CONGRESS, STATE, DISTRICT AND COUNTY OFFICES READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE VOTING - MARK ONLY WITH PEN PROVIDED BY THE OFFICIAL FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER \ * PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT®^ ' ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE W STRAIGHT PARTY TICKET THEY MUST BE VOTED ON SEPARATELY FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT ' There are other OF THE UNITED STATES ’■'">■■■> "”>/ ter orv- party- ' DEMOCRATIC pro-environment, AL GORE joelieberman pro - ed ucation, REPUBLICAN 1 ‘ GEORGE W. BUSH DICK CHENEY Cdiididdl/6S on the ballot LIBERTARIAN HARRY BROWNE VVIIO Will WOrk f OV ART OLIVIER REFORM • r r “ nA ,„ campaign finance reform. E2OLA FOSTER ppm | EXCLUDED FORM THE STRAIGHT TICKET THE < MUST BE &■KhS VOTED UPON SEPARATELY KM. VJ 16TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT (You may vote for TWO) ELUE KINNAIRD DEM HOWARD N. LEE DEM %/ BILL BOYD REP VICKIE HARGROVE REP And don’t forget the University and Community College bonds ... ... to pay the cost of renovating laboratories, classrooms, academic buildings, and worker training facilities and providing other capital improvements ... Paid for by the Kinnaird and Lee for Senate campaigns Faculty Union will be having a gener al body meeting in 301 Greenlaw Hall. All those interested are invited to attend. 7 p.m. - Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, North Chapter, invites the entire campus community to come to Union 224 for its meeting. 7 p.m. - “INSIDE THE NUM BERS: A look at the Economic Policies of the Presidential Candidates.” Come to 08 Gardner Hall to hear UNC economics professors discuss the issues and the numbers that concern you and your future, and have University the chance to ask your own questions. Friday noon - The Black Student Movement will be kicking off BSM Month in the Pit. The BSM invites all to see some of its subgroups perform. tTlir Saily ear Her! Thursday, November 2,2000 Volume 108, Issue 106 PO. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Matt Dees, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features. Sports. 962-0245 FORUM From Page 1 building costs. Insko, who voted for the current state budget that, in effect, approved the S6OO tuition increase at UNC, said University costs are a responsibility of the state, not the stu dents, and therefore does not support a large tuition increase. But Towne said tuition should keep up with the economy. UNC-system leaders do raise tuition incrementally to TUITION From Page 1 get ahead of others, and some institu tions felt the need to catch up by using campus-initiated tuition increases. J.B. Milliken, UNC-system vice presi dent of public affairs, said he was not yet aware of any official campus tuition ragr; ij f Jiii fit Jpj * m The University and Towns In Brief Broad, Hunt to Speak For Bond Today in Pit Gov. Jim Hunt and UNC-system President Molly Broad will come to the Pit on Thursday afternoon to promote the $3.1 billion higher education bond referendum. With this coupon or "C I [t HW UNC Student ID, get jlf | SJJ $1 OFF Dinner Buffet! , I r Come try the largest Chinese Buffet in the Triangle! g QUpim J|j S\ Dine-in Buffet Only 968-3488 U _ University Square (f( j | ))| HEALTHY FOOD V * § big.cheap.late.great various menu items $2 old school veggie burrito 2 veggie burrito deluxe 4 chicken burrit0...................... 5 chicken quesadilla 4 ...and more plus... all mexican beers $2 9 coincide with inflation rates. A possible solution would be to raise out-of-state tuition, Boyd said. But Kinnaird said doing so would drive away valuable stu dents. When asked how they would make the University more competitive, most of the candidates said more money was needed to improve faculty salaries. Insko said low salaries are a factor in dri ving many faculty members away. Lee said the University’s laboratories also need improving. Doing so, he said, would bring in more research money. requests but would not be surprised if sys tem administrators received additional campuses’ tuition requests this year. Payne said he had heard that admin istrators at Western Carolina University and UNC-Greensboro also are consid ering similar increases. But Shaffer said ASU’s tuition, which is $2,100 a year, is lower than most peer institutions. “For the university to From 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Hunt and Broad will speak on the merits of the bond referendum. “This is sort of a last rallying effort to encourage people to support the bond referendum,” said Nancy Davis, associate vice chancellor for University relations. There also will be rallies Thursday on the campuses of Central Piedmont Community College and N.C. Agricultural & Technical University. Hunt and Broad will be joined by Martin Lancaster, president of the N.C. Community College System, and Ben Ruffin, chairman of the Board of Governors. Dr. Herman Porter, chair man of the State Board of Community Colleges, also will speak, and Student Body President Brad Matthews will introduce the speakers. The UNC Pep Band will play at the rally. Sip omly (Ear Boyd, who said he had already voted for the bond, added that it is important to borrow the money now and make the necessary improvements because wait ing would only create more expenses. But Bauman questioned where the money for all the improvements would come from. Towne and Hargrove said the University should seek private contri butions to help pay for improvements. The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. remain competitive, we’re looking at raising expenses.” Ryan Bolick, president of ASU stu dent government, said he has not taken an official stance because of the tenta tive nature of the proposal. “We want whatever we do to be reflective of the interests of the student body,” he said. Bolick said the student govemmeht formed a committee to explore the prb posed increase. “Overall, students don’t seem to be direedy opposed to the idea of a tuition increase,” Bolick said. But he added that most students weje not yet educated about the increase. - Last year, many student leaders strong ly opposed tuition increase proposals. Payne said he plans to fight this increase and any others coming down the pipe. “They are truly outrageous,” he said. “They hit students in the pockets.” \ The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. HALLOWEEN From Page 1 exempt from citations either. The Artists Escape Cafe at 137 E. Franklifi St. got one violation for selling alcohol to minors, and Players at 159-1/2 E- Franklin St. received a written warning for an employee who was drinking. There were also 10 violent alterca tions reported. Police reports state that one person reported being hit in the head with a beer botde and anothgr reported being hit in the face and kicked. Two police officers also were injured. One ALE agent reported that a pumpkin was thrown at him, and an Orange County deputy sheriff said he was elbowed in the eye. Despite these incidences, Jarvies said the crowd posed relatively few prob lems for police. “There was less alcohol being brought into the area, so that helped keep the crowd under control ” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu.

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