Satty ®ar Mwl BUSH From Page 1 to criticize the conservative nature of the cabinet if it were not so diverse. Also, many feel that Bush has bene fited from low expectations when he entered office. “He has not said any thing stupid, and he has not done any thing stupid, and that’s what most peo ple expected to happen,” Munger said. But Jones said the notion that most people initially had low expectations of Bush was invalid and is the product of a liberal bias of some in the media. Jones instead credited Bush’s high popularity to his sticking to the cam paign promise of reducing taxes, his han dling of the Chinese spy-plane incident and the perception that he is trustworthy. “From day one, he has been upfront with the American people,” he said. An Unproductive Start? Munger noted that, unlike other pres idencies, the Bush administration had not proposed a great deal of new legis lation in its first 100 days. “We often base our perception of the president on the amount of legislation in the first 100 days,” Munger said. For this reason, analysts of all politi cal stripes say the 100-day benchmark, a tradition set in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave himself 100 HOUSING WOES From Page 1 probably continue during next year’s registration because of the closings of Alexander, Connor and Winston resi dence halls for renovation, Payne said. The opening of the four new South Campus communities in fall 2002 will offset these closings, however. “I think the challenge (next year) will be for returning students to choose where they want to live,” Payne said. He added that a survey will be circulat ed in the coming weeks so students will have a say in how rooms in the new communities are assigned. But some rising sophomores refuse to accept the explanations. Jonathan Gurkin, a freshman from Smithville who unsuccessfully tried to move from Ehringhaus Residence Hall to Alexander Residence Hall for next year, said he is upset that freshmen will be living on North Campus while he is on South Campus again. “Currently they’re tearing up the road to E-Haus,” Gurkin said. “It can’t get much worse than this.” But Leslie Bone, a freshman from Roanoke Rapids, said she sometimes regrets living on North Campus. She was assigned to Cobb Residence Hall this year but will be living in Teague Residence Hall next year as part of the Academic Enhancement Program. “I feel like being on North Campus misses out on the South Campus expe- NOW OPEN IN CHAPEL HILL @ Eastgate Shopping Center Birkenstock Comfortable Soles (near a Southern Season) I I 54 Copies Must present cxiupon. ju Good on plain white B'/2 x 11 autofeed copies. Expires May 12,2001 C.O. COPIES 169 E. Franklin St. Near the Post Office Open Late 7 Days a Week 933-W9 days to push the New Deal through Congress, is unfair and misleading. “My view is that gauging the success of the president in the first 100 days is ludi crous,” said John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, a Raleigh based conservative think tank. “It is biased in favor of presidents who want to create new programs.” Grappling With Gridlock Munger said there were two major reasons for the lack of legislative activi ty from Bush’s White House. First, Munger said, the delay in announcing the winner of the election caused Bush to have two fewer months to assemble a transition team and pre pare for his presidency. The second factor Munger suggested was the even-party split in the Senate. Munger said Senate Republicans had weak party loyalty - citing the Senate’s trimming of Bush’s proposed $ 1.6 trillion tax cut by a half-trillion dollars with the help of Republican Senators. To compensate for this, Bush recendy has taken his show on the road, appealing direcdy to the American people, in hopes of gaining enough public support for the tax cut to put pressure on members of Congress to pass it. “I think he has proven he has a good ability to take his message to the people, which is why the Democrats end up getting a larger tax reduction than they wanted,” said Mickey Edwards, a rience,” she said. Jesse Springer, a freshman currendy living in Hinton James Residence Hall who did not attempt to switch regions, said he thinks that all freshmen should automatically be placed on South Campus, thus giving them a better chance to move off as they gain seniori ty He said keeping sophomores on South Campus who don’t want to remain there is unfair. “It’s not fair for us to pay the same and get less,” he said. “We’re paying for an apartment, and we’re getting the ghetto.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. j $5 OFF j 12 Sessions or More I 942-7177 I hr I Jf Wfytovt ■mlbSty'Cdc I mm „ - EXP. 5/14/01- | i Must have coupon! i 3 Miles from Campus • 15-501 S. & Smith Level Road ' OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK A i—~i —v" c—>f=- jfoCILI 71iAN(,1.1'51 r^j=? - i - i—i c— z±r=3