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®hr Daily ®ar BM In Remembrance A class commemorates Sept. 11 with a magazine. See Page 3 BOG Examines Tuition Policy, Plans for Future Increases By Alex Kaplun State & National Editor After a wide-ranging discussion Friday, the UNC-system Board of Governors created more concrete plans for future tuition increases - in both the short and long term. The BOG approved a resolution Friday call ing for a vote on campus-initiated tuition increase requests at its March meeting and requiring all 16 UNC-system schools to create five-year plans for tuition and fees, starting with the 2003-04 school year. The board also officially decide i to re-exam ine its tuition-setting policy. The BOG’s existing policy was first estab lished in 1998 and was modified by the N.C. General Assembly last summer. Several BOG members and student leaders Feingold to Focus On Civil Liberties During Wartime The Democratic senator from Wisconsin also will be speaking tonight on racial profiling and the elimination of the death penalty. By Jennifer Samuels Assistant State & National Editor U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., will speak on campus today about the United States’ domestic and international policies after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Feingold’s speech, which will take place at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall, is sponsored by UNC Young Democrats and is free and open to the public. His appearance was originally scheduled for Dec. 3. but was postponed because of a Senate vote on legislation designed to help the United States recover economically from the attacks. In an interview with The Daily Tar Heel on Friday, Feingold said he will discuss many of the same issues he planned to talk about prior to the attacks. He said he will also focus on the lessons that can be learned from the attacks. Feingold’s appearance at UNC is part of a national speak ing tour that includes the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Texas at Austin and the University of lowa. “I decided a few days after (Sept. 11) that it was even more important to do the tour,” he said. “I wanted to be one of the people who would go right away and discuss (issues).” Feingold said he plans to stress the importance of main taining basic civil liberties in light of increased security mea sures designed to prevent future attacks. “At the domestic level, we need to have the right balance of law enforcement powers instead of the need to focus on civil rights,” he said. Feingold was die only senator to vote against the USA PATRIOT Act, an anti-terrorism bill that passed the Senate 98- 1 on Oct. 25. He also said it is important that domestic issues return to the forefront of American politics. “The battle against terrorism is number one, but (we) have to start getting back to issues that were important prior to September 11,” he said. Feingold cited racial profiling, elimination of the death penalty and campaign finance reform as some of the most important issues facing Congress this year. Chris Brook, Young Democrats member and coordinator of Feingold’s appearance, said he expects the visit to elicit a positive response on campus. “He’s an incredible spokesman for progressives on cam pus," Brook said. “There’s going to be an incredibly positive reaction to him being on campus and his speech.” Brook added that he thinks national security issues, espe cially the ramifications of the USA PATRIOT Act, will be the most significant issues Feingold discusses. Feingold described his reasons for participating in a speak ing tour as an effort to encourage students to become involved in policy discussions. “The point is to say that really we desperately need young people to take a leadership role,” he said. Feingold said students are well-equipped with many impor tant skills, especially in the areas of language and technology. “I would say that the students of today ... are already in the process of doing something (my generation) didn’t do much of, and that’s try to truly understand other countries, lan guages and politics,” he said. “(Young people) can do tremendous service for our country if they are the generation that brings us in touch with world.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. John D. Rockefeller have repeatedly charged that the BOG was not following its own policy of granting tuition increases only in “exceptional situations.” The BOG has approved tuition increases at 11 UNC-system schools during the last two years. The state legislature approved a change to the policy this summer, allowing schools to request tuition increases without showing extra ordinary need. The BOG is responsible for setting tuition rates for UNC-system schools. About a half-dozen UNC-system schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill, are expected to bring tuition requests before the board this year. The BOG is also expected to vote on a 4.8 percent across-the-board tuition increase at its March meeting. Friday’s discussion on tuition - which was I i jJ ||Jp Jt * !fl f Maim m jm if # \ Officials Set to Request Funding for Enrollment UNC-system schools enrolled 1,600 more students than the anticipated number this year, creating a need for an extra $23 million in funding. By Alex Kaplun State & National Editor UNC-system officials said Friday that they will ask the N.C. General Assembly this summer for S7O million to fund enrollment gr owth across the system, despite the state’s fiscal problems. UNC-system President Molly Broad said secur ing enrollment funding will be the top legislative priority for the UNC system in the coming months. The N.C. General Assembly is scheduled to con vene its short session in late May. Part of the need for additional funding comes from the over-enrollment in the 2001-02 freshman class. The UNC system had already received S4O mil lion for enrollment growth for the academic year when the legislature approved the state budget last Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Deja Vu? Virginia lawmakers consider a higher education bond package. See Page 4 the first time the full board discussed tuition at length during the 2001-02 academic year - was prompted by a tuition workshop hosted by the BOG Budget and Finance Committee on Friday morning and also by committee Chairman Addison Bell’s proposal for the five year tuition plans. Bell said the plans aim to provide more pre dictability for students but will simply serve as guidelines, not as binding documents. “Every year we are putting out a fire,” Bell said. “Every year we run down to the wire with out providing the chancellors with any kind of guidance for the future.” Bell’s plan also calls for all the UNC-system schools to work together in generating their tuition plans to ensure that there are no wide See TUITION, Page 4 NORTH CAROLINA, BORN AND RAISED DTH'KATF, MELLNIK Allen Williams, center, a member of the popular male a cappella group the Clef Hangers, puts his heart and soul into performing a version of "Raise Up" by Petey Pablo on Friday night at the Benefit Concert for the Red Cross. The benefit concert was organized by Mu Beta Psi, a music fraternity. Just Out of Reach Tar Heels unable to finish upset against No. 7 Cavaliers. See Page 10 Volume 109, Issue 136 September. But because the 16 UNC-system campuses enrolled 7,000 additional students - 1,600 more than the anticipated 5,400 - they needed an addi tional $23 million in funding. The UNC system’s enrollment funding is deter mined by a formula developed by UNC-system administrators. “(The legislature) actually funded the full amount while we overshot because the demand was just greater than we anticipated,” Broad said. Broad also said UNC-system administrators expect enrollment to increase by 3,500 students for the 2002-03 academic year, requiring at least $43 million in additional funding. The S7O million would be used both to offset the impact of over-enrollment in the 2001-02 freshman class and also to prepare for future enrollment growth. During Friday’s UNC-system Board of Governors meeting, several board members said that despite the state’s current economic problems, it is the responsibility of the UNC system to con tinue increasing enrollment, especially in the wake See ENROLLMENT, Page 4 9 *j .♦V yjH fIM; / /JB? j DTH/KARA ARNDT BOG Budget and Finance Committee Chairman Addison Bell addresses the BOG on Friday morning. Author Admits Plagiarism; Professors Reconsider Texts By Jenny McLendon Staff Writer Plagiarism charges levied against a prominent historian have at least one UNC professor reconsidering his course reading fists. Author Stephen Ambrose, who has written more than 30 nonfiction history books, admitted last Monday that pas sages in his new book “The Wild Biue” were taken from Thomas Childers’ 1995 book, “The Wings of Morning.” Although Ambrose uses footnotes refer encing Childers in the passages, he fails to give direct attribution. In a statement issued by his publish er, Simon & Schuster, Ambrose apolo gized for plagiarizing the passages, vow ing to correct them in future editions of his book. A representative from the publisher declined to comment on the case during a phone interview Friday. But an apology might not be enough to keep other Ambrose books in UNC classrooms. Three UNC courses - History 69, Army 31 and History 73 - Weather Today: Partly Cloudy; H 59, L 39 Tuesday: Sunny; H 57, L 31 Wednesday: Sunny; H 52, L 27 Officials: UNC Must Up Salaries Tuition could be raised to increase faculty salaries as a third of UNC's faculty head toward retirement. By Philissa Cramer Staff Writer University officials say a tuition increase is necessary for UNC-Chapel Hill to offer competitive faculty salaries, even though an increase passed in 1999 has somewhat raised the average salary. Despite two years of salary increases funded by a tuition increase that passed in February 2000, UNC-CH remains just as far behind its peers in terms of salaries as it was two years ago. According to data compiled by the American Association of University Professors, UNC-CH paid full professors on average $104,700 in salary and ben efits in 1998-99 and $117,900 in 2000-01. But between 1998-99 and 2000-01, the gap between salary and benefit packages offered full professors at UNC-CH and the salary and benefits offered full pro fessors at UNC-CH’s peer institutions remained relatively unchanged. UNC CH administrators have often named the University of Virginia, University of Califomia-Berkeley, University of Cafifomia-Los Angeles and University of Michigan as UNC-CH’s peer schools. Professor James Jorgenson, a member of the University’s Task Force on Tuition and chairman of the Department of Chemistry, said the two salary increases that resulted from the 1999 tuition increase were critical to faculty members. “Along with the state increase, (the tuition money) provided real relief,” he said. But UNC still does not offer competi tive salaries to its faculty, Jorgenson said. “We’re in about the bottom when they compare peer institutions,” he said. The task force plans to craft tuition recommendations that will go before the UNC-CH Board of Trustees at its Jan. 24 meeting. In October 1999, the UNC-CH BOT recommended a five-year plan for tuition increases to fund faculty salaries, a time scale that was later cut to two years by the UNC-system Board of Governors. Richard Stevens, a trustee who also sits on the tuition task force this year, said an additional tuition increase is nec essary because state funding for the See FACULTY SALARIES, Page 4 Ambrose in Class Three UNC courses require books authored by Stephen Ambrose. At least one UNC professor is 1 reconsidering using Ambrose's work. • “Band of Brothers" History 73 "D-Day: June 6,1944" Arniy 31 . -4*§sl a “Eisenhower; Soldier and President" History 69 tetfJUPS are slated to include readings from Ambrose’s books this semester. History professor Richard Kohn, who uses Ambrose’s book “Eisenhower: Soldier and President” in his History 69 class, said he is considering removing See AMBROSE, Page 4
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