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®he laihj ®ar Meel Collegiate Drama Former cast members reunite in UNC's own soap opera. See Page 5 NCSU, Other Campuses to Consider Hikes Bv Elyse Ashburn Assistant State & National Editor N.C. State University officials announced plans to raise tuition Wednesday, and some UNC-system officials say other system schools could soon follow UNC-Chapel Hill’s lead. N.C. State’s announcement came only one day after UNC-CH’s Task Force on Tuition nailed down a one year, S4OO proposal for a campus-initi ated tuition increase. Tom Stafford, N.C. State University TPAC Seeks New Ideas For Funds Proposals include requiring a permit for night parking an campus and installing an employee transit fee. i\ Jamie Dougher taff Writer Officials at Wednesday’s Transportation and Parking Advisory Committee meeting delayed the elimi lation of resident student parking, leciding instead to focus on revenue ;eneration, including a proposed $303 >ermit for night parking. In October, committee members legan discussing the option of eliminat ng on-campus parking permits for stu lents living in residence halls. But committee members said they vill not institute the policy next year so hey can focus on the Department of Aiblic Safety’s budgetary concerns. Department officials have said they leed $2 million to balance their budget ind might have to pay another $700,000 if a ruling in a pending court case goes against UNC. Projected debt has prompted com mittee members to seek additional rev enue options, including a proposal to begin issuing night parking permits. Cheryl Stout, assistant director of parking services, drew up the proposal that details DPS’s night parking scenario, which she presented Wednesday. “This is only a model, and the committee can make recommendations,” she said. Under this plan, anyone with a day time parking permit would be permitted to park on campus at night in any lot, except in those designated for resident stu dent parking. “It doesn’t guarantee you a spot in the same lot, but you should be able to find one in another," Stout said. Those without daytime passes would not be able to park in permit-required lots on campus at night but could pur chase a permit for $363 per year. Four lots - SlO, SI 1, T and the Bell Tower lot - would remain free at night. Economics Professor Boone Turchi and a group of students on the commit tee met informally last week to develop a proposal to set priorities for parking related issues, including night parking. Emily Williamson, a member of Turchi’s group, said the main difference between their outline and Stout’s was the price of a night parking permit. “I am very concerned about price,” she said. “If the fee were lower, people would be more willing to pay that.” Group members said they were think ing of SSO to $ 100 for a night parking per mit because most people interested in the permit would be students. “1 don’t know any student who could afford ($363),” said Residence Hall Association President David Cooper, a member of TPAC. Another revenue option the committee discussed was implementing an employ ee transit fee. The department borrowed the concept of an employee transit fee from the University of Georgia, which See TPAC, Page 2 vice chancellor for student affairs, said N.C. State Chancellor Marye Anne Fox intends to present a proposal for a tuition increase at the N.C. State Board of Trustees’ meetings Feb. 21 and 22. “We have had discussions about this as you might imagine,” he said. “We will probably finalize (a proposal) within the next few weeks.” Stafford said N.C. State officials have been keeping tabs on the tuition discus sions at UNC-CH but will tailor a pro posal to fit their university’s needs and not merely follow UNC-CH’s example. DTH/KARA ARNDT Virginia Grantham (right) sings along with the music as she performs a line dance called "Shortnin' Bread." Grantham, a member of the advanced line dancing class, has been line dancing for five years. The class, which until recently met at the Arts Center, now meets at the Century Center in Carrboro. For the full story, visit www.dailytarheel.com. Qatar-UT Talks Not A Surprise for UNC By Addie Sluder Staff Writer UNC officials said Wednesday they were not surprised to hear that the Kenan-Flagler Business School is no longer the only school being courted to establish a satellite business campus in Qatar. Officials at the University of Texas at Austin confirmed Tuesday that repre sentatives of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development had approached them about establishing a business school in Qatar -a move that members of the UNC community said they found dis tressing but not unexpected. “I’m not incredibly surprised because I view (the foundation) as being very serious about the program,” said busi ness Professor Jennifer Conrad. A UT business school would be in lieu of a branch of UNC’s business school in Qatar. Student Body President Justin Young also said he was not shocked that the foundation has been speaking to other business programs. “It doesn’t really sur prise me that much that they’re shop ping around.” UNC has been considering the possi bility of creating a business school in Qatar since June 2001, but the Middle Eastern country first approached UT sev- If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. Napoleon I Serving the students and the University community since 1893 We Want You Pick up an application to work at the DTH in Union Suite 104. Applications due Jan. 25 “We’ve also had interest in (tuition increases) but have taken a different approach,” he said. Stafford would not disclose specifics of the tuition increase that N.C. State officials are considering. But he said administrators will keep tuition rates at other UNC-system schools in mind as they draft their proposal. “We wouldn’t want to be out of line,” Stafford said. He expressed some con cern that raising N.C. State’s tuition might further the image that the univer sity is attempting to cut ties with the UNC system - an accusation sometimes TWINKLE TOES IN A ROW eral weeks ago, according to UT officials. Though the news that Qatari officials have approached multiple business schools might introduce an element of competition, many involved in negotia tions said they are comfortable with Chancellorjames Moeser’s approach to the deal. “1 think the chancellor has taken a very thoughtful and measured approach,” said business Professor Bob Adler. Moeser has set stringent guidelines in his negotiations with Qatar, including sticking to the implementation of UNC General College requirements -a strat egy that might have displeased mem bers of the Qatar Foundation but one that UNC officials say they support. “I think the way the chancellor has approached this has been absolutely the right way,” said Provost Robert Shelton. “He has set forth some principles con sistent with what we feel is a Carolina education and stuck to them.” Officials said UNC should not com promise the integrity of its degree, even with the news that the foundation might make a deal with another business school instead. “There are some fundamental things that you shouldn’t sacrifice,” Young said. “We should be coming to the table with things that are important to us.” Shelton also said he believes UNC See QATAR, Page 2 Time After Time Men's basketball drops fourth in a row in 81-71 loss to FSU. See Page 9 levelled against UNC-CH as well. Stafford said the UNC-system Board of Governors will have the final say in any campus-initiated tuition increases, which the board is set to consider at its March meeting. He said he thinks the sys tem’s two flagship universities - UNC CH and N.C. State - will receive equal treatment from the BOG. The BOG approved identical two-year tuition increases - totaling S6OO - for UNC-CH and N.C. State in February 2000. “I don’t think the BOG will do one thing for (N.C.) State and another for Cabinet to Focus on Tuition Protest Students collaborated on a list of demands concerning student involvement in the tuition increase process. By Jordan Bartel Staff Writer Student Body President Justin Young said Wednesday his Cabinet has decid ed not to form an alternate tuition pro posal in response to the Task Force on Tuition’s recommendation to raise tuition by S4OO next year. Young announced Monday that stu dent government would prepare its own tuition proposal but said Wednesday he had reconsidered. “We are going to have a presentation of issues rather than proposes because it is representative of the fact that as stu dents we do not have a detailed plan because facts aren’t out there, so we can’t make an informed proposal,” he said. Instead student government repre sentatives said they will focus their ener gy on amassing a large student presence at the Jan. 24 UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees meeting, where the board plans to act on tuition. They also have formulated a “list of demands” concerning student involve ment in campus-based tuition practices. On Wednesday, about 15 students who attended the second of three meet ings planned by student government con tinued talks about how they thought the I jL ft k Carolina,” Stafford said. But Addison Bell, BOG Budget and Finance Committee chairman, said the board will judge each campus proposal on the basis of merit. “While I think that Chapel Hill does set a trend for some schools, I am con fident the BOG will examine the pro posals on an individual basis,” Bell said. He said he thinks N.C. State would def initely follow UNC-CH’s lead and that other UNC-system schools might as well. See TUITION, Page 2 iv DTH JOSHUA GREF.R Student Body President Justin Young discusses suggestions Wednesday for a student response to the proposed tuition increase. recommended tuition increase is unjusti fied before agreeing on a list of about 15 demands focusing on increased student involvement on any tuition issues. Students who attended the meeting said they hope officials will commit to a straightforward, publicized communica tion of issues related to tuition plans. “We hope to convey to officials that we want the cycle of tuition increases to stop,” said junior Fred Hashagen. “We should articulate clearly that we are against the way the tuition proposal was created.” The group intends to present its demands to the BOT, the UNC-system Weather Today: Partly Cloudy; H 60, L 40 Friday: Showers; H 53, L 32 Saturday: Partly Cloudy; H 48, L 32 BOT Action On Tuition Uncertain UNC officials are not sure how the Board of Trustees will respond to a proposal from the tuition task force. By Brook Corwin Staff Writer University officials said Wednesday they do not expect the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees to use previous deci sions as a precedent when evaluating a new tuition proposal, although the BOT has reduced similar proposals in the past The Task Force on Tuition -a com mittee made up of UNC-CH students, faculty and administrators - made a rec ommendation Tuesday for a one-year, S4OO tuition increase. The BOT plans to act on the recommendationjan. 24. But members said the BOT can choose to modify the size and stipula tions of an increase proposal - or even eliminate the proposal entirely - before casting a vote on a recommendation. A proposal would then have to go before the UNC-system Board of Governors for approval in March before it could be implemented. “The board really has three options,” said BOT Chairman Tim Burnett. “It can vote for no tuition increase at all, it can accept the recommended proposal, or it can ask the committee for more information on their research.” The BOT last voted on a tuition pro posal in October 1999, when it revised a recommendation from the Chancellor’s Committee on Faculty Salaries and Benefits that would have increased tuition by $375 or SSOO per year - depending on whether a student was in-state or out-of state - over a four-year period. The BOT ended up voting in favor of a S3OO per year increase for all students during a five-year period. Anne Cates, who served as BOT chair woman during the 1999 vote, said the board considered long-term implications when it revised the proposal recom mended two years ago. “We were trying See BOT. Page 2 Board of Governors and the N.C. General Assembly as a way to gamer student sup port and make the BOT and BOG con sider student voices on the tuition issue. Young said tuition has far-reaching importance because the entire UNC system will be affected by tuition deci sions at UNC-CH. “You better believe that all eyes are on us as a representative for other state schools," he said. “Because what happens here with tuition will probably happen there.” Young said student representatives See STUDENT PROPOSAL, Page 2 &
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