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Monday, January 8, 2001
MOESER
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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 uni
versity become private,” he said.
After a formal lunch with BOG mem
bers and UNC’s academic deans,
Moeser and his wife, Susan, were
whisked across campus Friday afternoon
PRESIDENT
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Texas, Gore’s home state of Tennessee,
Arkansas, Alaska, Arizona, Nevada,
Colorado, West Virginia, Missouri,
Utah, Idaho, Montana and New
Hampshire. CNN also estimated that he
took Ohio, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska,
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to a public reception at the Morehead
Building to meet members of UNC’s
largest constituency - its students.
Following a brief speech, Moeser cir
culated the room easily, shaking hands
with students and faculty members who
came to gamer first impressions of him.
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, a
new theology of what Carolina means.”
North Dakota, South Dakota and
Wyoming - the home state of his vice
presidential running mate, former
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney.
Along with California, Gore won the
coveted swing states of Pennsylvania,
Minnesota and Michigan, as well as
Washington, Hawaii, New Mexico, New
York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Illinois,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland,
Maine, Connecticut and the District of
Columbia.
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SNOW
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roads of North Carolina in bad shape,
but highways across the state were also
in poor and undrivable condition.
Greg Whitehouse, a spokesman for
the N.C. Highway Patrol, said
Wednesday there had been 200 to 300
accidents on the highways outside the
Raleigh-Durham area.
Although icy conditions continued
Wednesday night, Highway Patrol dis
patchers said Thursday that accident sta
tistics for the state were not yet available.
Although there were no fatalities or
serious injuries due to weather-related
crashes, Whitehouse said the roads were
unpredictable. “There’s not that many
people on the roads, but we’re having
wrecks,” he said. “Luckily it’s mostly
property damage and not personal
injury. For the most part cars are sliding
off the roads and landing in ditches.”
N.C. Highway Patrol Dispatcher
BOND
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in this vote is that North Carolinians are
willing to take on those complex deci
sions when they think it is important for
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Janet Farrol said the storm closed por
tions of Interstate 40 on Wednesday.
But Farrol said 1-40 was completely
restored Thursday. Whitehouse said
crews would continue to plow, salt and
sand the roads until they were free of
ice. “We’re equipped to do a lot more
today than we were (Tuesday),” he said.
“But it’s an around-the-clock battle.”
The highway patrol was not the only
company to have complications during
the storm.
CP&L spokesman Mike Hughes said
the storm caused nearly 200,000 cus
tomers to lose power, but by Thursday
afternoon, about 43,500 were still in the
dark. But he said CP&L crews hoped to
have all power restored by today.
“We’re making a lot of progress, and
obviously our goal is to get to all cus
tomers as soon as possible,” Hughes
said. “But the road conditions are mak
ing it hard on us.”
Hughes said the hardest hit area was
Moore County, which had 20,000 of the
company’s power outages.
Board Chairman Herman Porter and
Campaign Coordinator Leslie Bavacqua
all gave brief speeches thanking each
other and campaign volunteers for their
efforts to get the bond passed.
Lancaster said the campaign also
forged anew relationship between the uni
versity and community college systems -
a relationship he said would continue in
the future. “We have found so many ways
to cooperate,” he said. “And these are
ways we are going to build upon.”
Duke Power spokesman Paul Mason
said 51,000 customers were out of power
as of Wednesday afternoon.
Travelers were not necessarily any
better off than those stranded at home.
The National Weather Service reported
that Raleigh-Durham International
Airport accumulated 20.3 inches of
snow within 24 hours, canceling flights
and effectively stranding hundreds of in
transit travelers at the airport.
RDU re-opened at 5 p.m. Thursday,
but only one runway was operational.
Many flights are expected to remain
canceled or delayed today, with Delta,
U.S. Airways and American airlines
refusing to re-open flight schedules until
conditions are more secure.
RDU spokeswoman Mary Persson
said the airport’s clean-up efforts were
running behind schedule. “It’s taking
longer than anticipated,” Persson said.
“We have to determine that it’s safe for
airplanes to fly in and out. The sun is
probably doing more of the work than
we are.”
The 16-campus UNC system will
receive $2.5 billion of the bond money
The rest will fund capital improvements
at the state’s community colleges.
Gov. Jim Hunt made an appearance
at the gathering early in the evening
before moving on to Democratic
Headquarters at the North Raleigh
Hilton. But even before a substantial
portion of the votes had been counted,
Hunt was confident that voters would
endorse the bond proposal.
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TUITION
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Jeff Nieman, a UNC-CH senior and
nonvoting BOG member, caused a rift
among board members when he pro
posed an amendment to the committee
proposal, limiting the increase at UNC
CH and N.C. State to S2OO and exclud
ed the other three schools.
Nieman’s proposal, which mirrored
the recommendation that UNC-system
President Molly Broad released in
January, failed, but not without gamer
ing 11 votes from board members.
John Sanders, a board member who
voted for Nieman’s proposal, said it was
unusual for the BOG to remain divid
ed on an issue by the time it reached the
frill BOG.
“I was disappointed that (Nieman’s)
push did not prevail,” he said. “I was
surprised and pleased that we got 11
votes for it. That was the longest discus
sion 1 recall on any subject in the last
year I’ve been on the board.”
In a speech to the board before the
vote on his proposal, Nieman cited two
main flaws in the committee’s plan.
The committee proposal mandates
tuition increases for two years at all five
schools. Nieman said handcuffing the
board to two years of increases violated
a section of the N.C. constitution requir
ing that public higher education remain
“as free as practicable.”
Nieman also said he opposed
increasing tuition at ECU, UNC-C and
UNC-W.
He said the board’s policy on setting
tuition, adopted in 1998, dictated that
tuition requests from individual cam
puses should only be considered under
extraordinary circumstances.
In his opinion, needs outlined in
requests from the trustees at the three
schools did not qualify as extraordinary.
In his plea to board members,
Nieman stressed the historic importance
of the BOG vote, encouraging mem
bers to avoid setting a dangerous prece
dent by voting for die committee’s pro
posal.
“I urge you, when you cast your vote
today, to remember that the way you
vote will not be forgotten.”
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