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Thursday, July 26, 2001
TUITION
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Chapel Hill tuition and fees would total
$3,219, still the lowest among the 17 uni
versities classified as its peer institutions.
But students are still concerned about
the possibility of tuition costs rising.
Student Body President Justin Young
said he has been lobbying state legisla
tors to minimize the increase. He also
sent an e-mail to the entire student body
to inform them of the proposals and sug
gest they call their representatives.
“Everybody’s doing comparison,
especially in terms of rate of increase,”
Young said. “A lot of schools across the
nation are increasing their tuition into
the double-digit percent rate. But ulti
mately, the state of North Carolina has
prided itself on affordable access to edu
cation.
“We are the leaders of that, and I
don’t think that’s something we should
sacrifice. It’s important to be a little bit
more creative in dealing with the budget
situation.”
Young said he feels it is important to
prevent a further tuition increase.
“We’re trying to take as much of an
active role in the tuition fight as we can,”
he said.
Shelton said he hopes the legislature
will recognize the importance of low
tuition to UNC’s continued position as
a superior institution.
“Traditionally, North Carolinians
LOANS
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about the benefits of consolidation.
Some people may be waiting to con
solidate. “The application for loan con
solidation is a time-consuming process,”
Hube said. “And we did not start send
ing out information on consolidation
yet.”
The foundation holds about 90 per
cent of all Stafford loans at the
University, estimated Vince Amoroso,
deputy director of the Office of
Scholarships and Student Aid.
Hube said CFNC made 5,420 new
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versities - look at the bond issue last
November,” Shelton said. “You would
hope the legislators would reflect that
level of support and that priority.
“We wouldn’t want to see that end
because of a temporary budget crisis.”
Amy Fulk, a spokeswoman for N.C.
Senate President Pro Tempore Marc
Basnight, said legislators understand the
importance of affordable quality higher
education.
“We’re doing everything we can to
keep education affordable,” Fulk said.
“Of course it is a very tight budget,
and there are some tough decisions
ahead.”
Shelton said another problem with
the proposals is that they could go into
effect as soon as this fall, handing stu
dents higher bills than they might be
expecting.
“The suddenness of the proposed
increase really doesn’t allow students
and parents to plan,” Shelton said. “So
even if one were to argue that the over
all number is still reasonable, the short
notice is a serious factor.”
Young urged legislators to look for
alternative measures for dealing with the
tight budget.
“What is being proposed is very dam
aging to higher education in the state,”
Young said. “It closes doors to what the
state could become.”
Geoff Wessel can be reached
at vrooom@email.unc.edu.
Stafford loans to UNC-Chapel Hill stu
dents last school year.
Amoroso said CFNC’s figure is a good
estimate for how many students have an
outstanding Stafford loan at Carolina.
Staffords, along with PLUS loans for
parents, are eligible for consolidation.
Still, the lower interest rate may not
always mean less payments over the life
time of a loan.
Said Amoroso, “A lot of students
choose to consolidate because it is the
only way to make their monthly pay
ments affordable.”
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at demetrius@unc.edu.
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passed a July 19 bill to look
at emphasis on test scores
in UNC-system admissions.
By Emma Merritt
Staff Writer
High school students may soon be
rejoicing at the possibility of not having
to take the SAT if state legislators get
their way.
The N.C. General Assembly passed a
bill July 19 requiring the UNC system to
not only study the admission tests but
also to consider other means of gauging
student performance than standardized
tests.
Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, said the
bill passed easily.
ISRAEL
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safe. “I never felt I was in danger that
could cost my life,” he said. “I always lived
in very safe areas, in residential places.”
But the situation just 20 miles away in
the Palestinian village of Beit Jala is
much more dangerous.
Jamal Saba, a Palestinian Christian, has
lived in Beit Jala all his life. He said this is
the worst conflict since he has lived there,
much worse than a 1987 Palestinian upris
ing, called the Intifadah, which saw over
1,400 deaths. Saba said there has been
constant fighting between Beit Jala and
Gilo, a nearby Jewish setdement
“I was shot at and my house was
bombed,” Saba said. “It was on the 15th
of November. My house was on fire, so
we went to extinguish it and then the
Israelis started to shoot at us.”
Although Saba’s family was not hurt,
eight Palestinians were killed and
dozens others wounded in the batde.
Saba said life has been difficult in Beit
PINK HOUSE
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works out location and cinematography
issues before actors arrive, Williams only
voiced his opinions when necessary and
left the technical crew space to work.
At nearly every stop during the scout
ing trip, Williams took a minute to enter
tain himself, sitting by a laptop in the pro
duction office off Franklin Street, singing
“Jessie’s Girl” or “Bette Davis Eyes” soft
ly to himself as the rest of the crew pre
pared for the tech scout. Williams snuck
off to play the piano at the Alpha Chi
Omega house. At the Chi Psi Fraternity,
Williams’ fraternity and the location of
much of the film’s shooting, he’d stop to
chat with the house’s current residents.
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“I don’t know of any opposition,”
Insko said. “1 think that the Board of
Governors would consider it anyway.”
She said the bill reflects a nationwide
questioning of the SAT’s effectiveness.
“There is so much national discussion
on whether the SAT is the best predictor
of success in college and how much
weight should be given to SATs as
opposed to other measures,” Insko said.
But UNC-Chapel Hill Director of
Undergraduate Admissions Jerry Lucido
said that while a study will be performed
to evaluate admissions measures, he is in
favor of keeping the SAT a part of the
University’s admissions process.
“I don’t anticipate that we’ll stop
using the SAT in our decisions,” he said.
“I don’t know of any good admissions
office that would not rather use the SAT
instead of not using it.”
Provost Robert Shelton said the
Jala. “People do not have jobs. Frustration,
hatred and anger are dominating the
atmosphere,” he said. “People have been
living in fear for the past nine months now.
Basically, there is no freedom.”
Violence has escalated in the past
several weeks, climaxing in June when
21 people were killed and 120 wounded
in a devastating terrorist attack that tar
geted a Tel Aviv disco. Many believe the
attack was led by Hamas or Jihad, mili
tant Islamic terrorist groups.
“Terror is very successful,” said Eric
Zakim, an assistant professor of Israeli
culture at Duke University. “It only
takes one crazy person to go kill a bunch
of people. As long as they can find sui
cide bombers willing to blow themselves
up, the violence will not stop.
“It’s a cycle of violence (hat can’t be
broken,” he said. “There is a desperation
on both, where violence is the last gasp.”
But Zakim said most in Israel are
hopeful for peace, despite the repeated
violent actions of few.
“The actors in the violent conflict are
a minority,” Zakim said. “A vast major
The film’s story is based on two
chance occurrences in 1997, when
Williams was living in the North Street
house. An elderly couple who lived in
the pink house in the 1950s visited
Williams and his roommates, only to
find the house untouched by time. A
week or so later, a rumor of a then-infa
mous pink house party prompted
Williams and his roommates to lock the
house and flee from the chaos that
would ensue.
While Williams was putting up signs
telling the prospective party guests to go
home, the inspiration for “The Pink
House” was bom and he wrote the first
draft of the film in three weeks in 1999. “I
kind of have to go with what’s to be writ
ten in a way; it finds it own personality and
it finds into your brain, and if you don’t do
SAT’s effectiveness should be examined,
but he said SAT scores are already not
the only measures UNC uses.
“We’ve always used more than just
SAT scores,” Shelton said. “Even with the
huge number of applications, it’s a very
personal experience here at Carolina.”
Lucido said he wants to continue
using the SAT because it is a valuable
measure of a student’s reasoning skill.
“The SAT is a good exam because it
goes beyond curriculum,” he said.
The bill also suggests that UNC-system
schools “review incorporating the State’s
testing program into admissions” using
state End of Grade tests for admissions.
But Lucido said the EOGs are inap
propriate for this kind of use.
“(EOGs) are intended to determine
minimal competence,” he said. “I don’t
anticipate using End of Grade exams for
admissions, at least any time soon.
ity on both sides are interested in solv
ing the problem and achieving peace.”
A Peaceful Resolution?
Last summer, Palestinian Authority
President Yasser Arafat and then-Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak met at Camp
David with President Bill Clinton.
Although both sides left without coming
to a formal agreement, it appeared as
though the peace process was improving.
But now the Camp David discussions
are in the distant past and the peace
process seems to have taken several steps
back. “It’s going to get worse before it
gets better,” Zakim said. “There’s a vast
amount of hatred in the region.”
A joint survey done by Israeli and
Palestinian researchers found pessimism
on both sides, with 59 percent of the
Palestinians and 46 percent of the
Israelis expecting conflict to continue for
five to 10 more years. But the study also
found that 73 percent on both sides sup
port a process of reconciliation.
“We should be hopeful for a solution
for the problem,” Pinto said. “There are
it, you’re kind of killing it in a way, you’re
robbing it of its chance to live,” Williams
said. “I wouldn’t have written it any other
time and that was it, I had to do it and I
just barreled through it”
While the initial writing for the film
was swift, Williams had deliberate goals
in mind. “There were two things I want
ed to do with (the script): one was to kind
of write an ode to my generation and the
way I saw it, and an ode to the South in
a way I felt it was unfairly portrayed,”
Williams said. “I wanted a movie that
was smart about our generation, and a
movie that’s set in the South that was lull
of people who weren’t ignorant or stu
pid.”
In addition, Williams wanted “The
Pink House” to show off the University’s
talent pool. “I have a fierce loyalty to die
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“They are not in shape to determine
college admissions.”
Lucido added that the bill is unneces
sary, in his opinion, because his office
constantly strives to meet its own stan
dard of quality.
“We don’t need the legislature to ensure
that our practices are good ones,” he said.
But Shelton said the bill could be help
ful. “This bill doesn’t say we will make a
change,” he said. “It says we’ll study it”
Although Lucido does not anticipate
the study resulting in any major
changes, he said the bill reflects a well
meaning legislature.
“I’m not sure we need it, but the leg
islators who passed it were interested in
all students being able to go to school,
and we agree with that,” he said.
Emma Merritt can be reached
at ecmerrit@email.unc.edu.
too many people being in pain on both
sides. We already learned that the vio
lence isn't leading anywhere.”
Bringing It Home
Or Mars, executive director of,N. C.
Hillel, lived in Israel for four and a half
years, returning to Chapel Hill last year.
“Everybody is for peace,” Mars said.
“The question is at what cost. And
everyone has a different price tag.”
Mars said both sides need to reach an
agreement and control the violence. “I
remember the days that I thought peace
was right around the comer,” he said. “I
would love to have that feeling of
euphoria again.”
But despite the violence in the region,
Mars said he still has faith that peace will
be attainable. “I have to believe there is
still hope. To say there is no hope is to
give in to violence,” Mars said.
“Nonetheless, I’m realistic that it’s only
a faint glimpse of hope.”
Matt Viser can be reached
at viser@email.unc.edu.
school; well, not the school but people
who went to it I just don’t trust anyone
who didn’t, in a way -1 say itjokingiy, but
it’s true,” he said.
“We have 23 years of Carolina grad
uates involved in some way.”
Williams will not see the end credits on
screen for probably a year because the
post-production process is lengthy and he
and the film’s producers will not release
the film to the festival circuit until the tim
ing’s right As the chaotic, wondrous world
of “The Pink House” production is just
beginning, Williams already has an idea of
where the first showing will be located.
“It was always my dream to premiere
at the Varsity.”
Russ Lane can be reached at
wlane@email.unc.edu.
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