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DPS Uses Cuts to Craft New Plan for 2002-03 Budget
By Lizzie Breyer
University Editor
Department of Public Safety officials have
come up with anew solution to the depart
ment’s budgetary woes after six months of
debate about how to fill a $2 million shortfall.
After the UNC Board of Trustees rejected a
DPS budget proposal that would have raised
$566,650 from a system of night parking per
mits and extended hours at visitor lots, the
administration was charged with crafting a bud
get that did not include a night parking system.
Under the new plan, the $566,650 will
come from three sources: a cut in the price the
University pays for Chapel Hill Transit ser
vices, the elimination of the EU bus route and
internal cuts in the DPS departmental budget.
The rest of the $2 million would be raised
through measures that include increasing the
price of day parking permits and gating some
lots. “I think you will see in doing this we
Groups Ask Students to Sign Away Guts in Pit
Organizers used musical groups and local
celebrities to draw students to their tables
and sign cards agreeing to be organ donors.
By Jamie Dougher
Staff Writer
Students were encouraged to sign away {heir organs and tis
sue in the Pit on Wednesday as an Olympic medal winner who
received a liver transplant as an adult offered his perspective.
“Life Takes Guts,” an event organized by UNC-Chapel Hill
students, promoted organ and tissue donation as musical groups
like The Scooby Duo belted popular songs to lure passers-by.
The Kenan-Flagler Business School, Carolina Donor
Services and the APPLES Service-Learning Program hosted
the program and invited Chris Klug, who won the bronze
medal in the Salt Lake City Olympics for snowboarding in the
parallel giant slalom, to speak. Klug was diagnosed with a
potentially fatal liver disease about nine years ago.
He was competing on the World Cup snowboarding circuit
when the disease was discovered, but he fully recovered after
receiving a transplant injuly 2000. “I was very lucky,” he said.
“Organ donation saves lives, and I’m living proof of that.”
The organizers of “Life Takes Guts" said they held the event
to convince people to sign donor cards and to dispel any mis
conceptions people have about organ and tissue donation.
To be officially considered organ donors, people must have
documentation other than a driver’s license - such as a donor
card signed by two witnesses -and they must notify their fam
ilies of the decision, organizers said.
“A lot of people don’t realize a driver’s license isn’t a legal
document,” said Laura Gallo, a senior business major and vol
unteer at the event. “There’s too many myths out there, and
that’s part of what we’re trying to do today.”
Almost 80,000 people in the country are on a waiting list
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System Enrollment;
Rejections on Rise
By Alex Kaplun
State & National Editor
As enrollment in the UNC system
continues to surge, admissions officers
from across the system say they are
receiving more applications and turning
away more students than ever before.
Last year, enrollment in the UNC
system increased by 7,000 students -
1,600 more than what UNC-system offi
cials were anticipating. Ten of the 16
UNC-system schools enrolled more stu
dents than their target goal.
This year, UNC-system schools are
aiming for an additional influx of 3,500
students, bringing the UNC system’s
total enrollment to more than 173,000
for the 2002-03 academic year.
But as UNC-system schools continue
to admit more and more students, some
campuses are having to send out more
rejection letters than ever before.
At UNC-CH, officials admitted 502
fewer students despite receiving 748
more applications than last year.
Admissions officials at N.C. State
University are aiming for a freshman
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were able to make up for the night parking
proposal without impacting faculty, staff or
students in a negative way or without cutting
out the services we provide,” Poarch said.
An ad hoc committee of students, faculty and
staff met Monday to evaluate the proposal, and
UNC vice chancellors heard the plan Tuesday.
The BOT Audit, Business and Finance
Committee is scheduled to hear the proposal via
teleconference April 25, and following its deci
sion, the full BOT will vote by mail April 26.
Under the new plan, the bulk of the money
- $369,582 - will come from cost-saving
measures implemented by Chapel Hill
Transit. Poarch said University officials were
told April 3 that Chapel Hill Transit was will
ing to reduce the price it charges UNC for ser
vices by about $lO per hour.
“My hat is off to Chapel Hill Transit and their
management staff for the work they did looking
into their operations and efficiency,” he said.
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class that will be about 180 students
smaller than this year’s, despite receiv
ing about 500 more applications.
At UNC-Charlotte, admissions offi
cials will limit the number of transfer
students to the University for the first
time ever.
“It was a little tight around here this
year in terms of academic space,” said
Craig Fulton, UNC-C director of under
graduate admissions. “We have taken
some steps (this year) to limit the
growth.
“We will not grow the amount that
we could have.”
In some cases, the limits on enroll
ment mean officials have to turn away
students that would have been admitted
in previous years.
“Turning away students is part of any
selective admissions office,” said George
Dixon, N.C. State vice provost for
enrollment management. “Admissions is
driven by supply and demand.
“We are having to unfortunately dis
appoint more students than ever that
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will be saved by cutting the EU bus route,
which runs along Ridge Road to serve the
School of Government and the School of Law.
Poarch said Chapel Hill Transit’s study
showed that only three or four riders use the
EU route per hour on average, which he said
is the lowest of any of the University routes.
But he said the RU bus route would be
changed to accommodate EU riders. He said
the only difference is that the time between
RU buses will shift from 12 to 15 minutes.
Branson Page, Graduate and Professional
Student Federation president and a member
of the committee that met Monday to evalu
ate the plan, said he is glad for the compro
mise in routes. “I’m glad we’ve already taken
care of how to provide for (the EU route) -
law students will need it, even if it’s just three
or four per hour,” he said.
The final piece of the budget equation -
$41,674 - will be raised from internal DPS
cuts, which might include personnel reduc
Honor Court Sees More Drug Cases
Officials attribute the
increase to more cases
being reported to the court,
not more student drug use.
By Meredith Nicholson
Staff Writer
A dramatic rise in the number of
drug-related cases heard by the Honor
Court this year can be attributed to
stricter enforcement and more accurate
reporting, officials said Wednesday.
Drug-related cases brought to the
Honor Court’s attention are up 311 per
cent from last year. There were nine
drug cases during the 2000-01 academ
ic year and 37 cases so far this academ
ic year.
Of the cases reported so far this year,
20 students have been charged by the
Honor Court.
David Gilbert, assistant dean of stu
dents, said the Honor Court does not
press charges when officials decide that
the case is outside their jurisdiction or
when there is insufficient evidence.
Officials said they think that there
was about the same amount of drug use
by students both years but that more
incidents are being reported this year to
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tions or construction delays, Poarch said.
He said all other elements of the budget,
including permit prices and departmental
transit taxes, will remain the same. Poarch also
said DPS will be able to fund service to two
new park-and-ride lots and improved bus ser
vice to the PR Lot on Eubanks Road.
Poarch said he is satisfied with the plan,
although he said a night parking system might
be a possibility in the future.
Although she echoed Poarch’s gratitude for
finding a workable plan, Student Body
President Jen Daum said she hopes to see dif
ferent priorities used in future budget process
es. “We are very grateful we were able to find
half a million dollars for this year,” she said.
“However, in the future, we need to look at
ways we can cut the budget before we get so
attached to the idea of raising revenue.”
The University Editor can be reached at
udesk@unc.edu.
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the Honor Court.
“I think that is not necessarily a spike
in use but an improvement in the
reporting process,” Gilbert said.
Gilbert said officials are working to
foster close relationships with Chapel
Hill, Carrboro and University police
departments to ensure that all incidents
involving UNC students are reported to
the Honor Court.
Dean of Students Melissa Exum said
that communication with area police
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Budget Solutions
The Board of Trustees charged UNC officials to formulate anew budget
proposal for the Department of Public Safety after rejecting the last one,
whkh included a night parking plan. The plan will go to the BOT on Thursday.
Without the revenue that night parking would
generate, there is a $566,650 budget shortfall
A night parking To compensate, DPS
plan would have has looked toward the
generated following areas
$307,358 from $369,582 less in contributions
extended hours to Chapel Hill Transit
at Morehead and $155,394 from the elimination
Swain lots of the EU route (The RU bus will
$259, 292 from now cover the route)
night parking permits $41,674 would be made up
internally by DPS
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departments has increased this year and
that she believes it will continue to
improve in the future.
Exum said that University officials
meet with police regularly and that police
send summaries of all arrests and inci
dents involving University students to the
Honor Court as quickly as possible.
The Student Attorney General’s
Office has the jurisdiction to charge stu-
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E-mail Sent
To Warn
Students
While police dispute some
of the e-mail, they do say
that people should look out
for the man mentioned in it.
By Lizzie Breyer
University Editor
An e-mail circulating through cam
pus is warning students about a man
charged with simple assault and stalking
after a March incident on campus.
University Police Chief Derek
Poarch said that although the e-mail is
not completely accurate, students
should watch out for the man described.
Samuel Ferebee, 62, of 130 E-8 S.
Estes Drive, was arrested on campus
March 27 and charged with two counts of
assault on a female and one count of mis
demeanor stalking, police reports state.
According to
N.C. records,
Ferebee also was
convicted of misde
meanor stalking
and misdemeanor
assault on a female
in 1993; misde
meanor breaking
and entering in
1991; and felony
breaking and enter
ing, misdemeanor
assault with a dead
ly weapon and
felony attempted
first-degree rape in
1990.
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University Police Chief
Derek Poarch
says Samuel Ferebee
will be arrested
if he is seen
on campus.
“For those that know him or know of
him, if they see him on campus, they
should look out,” Poarch said.
Poarch said March 27 that Ferebee
allegedly put his hands on a Duke
University student’s shoulders and
back. He said the acts constituted sim
ple assault, which is defined as any
unwanted touching. Poarch said
Ferebee then allegedly invited the stu
dent to walk down the hall with him,
resulting in the stalking charges.
Ferebee is scheduled to appear in
Orange County District Court in
Hillsborough on April 29.
Before the incident, Ferebee had a tres
pass order against him that allowed him to
attend only public events on campus.
After the March 27 arrest, he was
ordered not to come onto any campus
area except roadways.
Poarch said he does not know of any
instances in which Ferebee has violated
that order, but he urges students to call
police if they see him.
“If he’s on campus, we’re going to
arrest him.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.