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2 Wednesday, May 1, 2002 TA Meal Canceled Due to Poor Planning By Joelle Ruben Staff Writer An annual barbecue held in appreci ation of teaching assistants will not be held this year because of poor planning efforts by student government. The annual TA Appreciation Barbecue, first held in 1998, gives grad uate students and the University com munity the chance to gather and unwind over food and festivities in Polk Place. But Branson Page, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, sent a message to the GPSF listserv Monday after hearing from for mer Student Body President Justin Young that the event would not take place. The e-mail included a message from Young that stated, “I apologize to those For the Record In the April 29 article “Officials Urge Faculty to Fight Cuts," it was incorrect ly reported that a 4 percent to 5 per cent state budget cut would cost UNC- Chapel Hill $l2O million to $240 mil lion. A 4 percent to 5 percent cut to UNC-CH would cost the University S2O million to $25 million. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error. tllir lathi Sar Urrl P.O. Box 3257, Chapel Hill. NC 27515 Katie Hunter, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News. Features. Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2002 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved leminq Less than 5 minutes from campus! | £ I Customers jtf ScltfM | M ® I Only * | * | fill " IFRE£TfI?r obf -sssis** <6* For Existing T? - . Customers 3L I |_ _968-3377_ ♦ _| W# J 39 Rams Plaza Shopping Center Oub 4 Books! Friday Monday May May 5 MIS Book Buyback Hours Fri-Sat, May 3-4 7:3oam - 9:oopm Sunday, May 5 1:00pm - 9:oopm Mon-Sat, May 6-11 7:3oam - 9:oopm Sunday, May 13 1:00pm - 9:oopm Monday, May 13 7:3oam - s:oopm Student Stor# our earnings go to scholarships TAs that will be disappointed by this, but this in no way reflects a lack of appreciation for our TAs but a problem of poor planning. Sorry." Page said he was surprised to hear the event was canceled. He said that when he ran for his position, he thought the GSPF organized the barbecue. But after learning that undergraduate stu dent body officers were in charge of planning and funding, Page said he assumed things were taken care of. He added that GPSF had set aside funds to offer financial support. “I’m certain we would’ve done what we could to help them out." Page said he has received several e mails from disappointed TAs over the GPSF listserv’. One of these replies was sent by Thomas Pegelow, a sth-year graduate student and teaching assistant in the history department. Pegelow, who is a vegetarian, said he has enjoyed attending the barbecue the past few years for the social element rather than the free food. But he said he most appreciated the event as an end-of-the-year thank you go to dailytarheel.com ■ Local School Officials Fight Overcrowding Issues ■ By Adrienne Clark ■ New Study Abroad Policy Aims to Improve International Experience ■ By Jessica Sleep < ~Wl\ai do Q frhou about %e?... Q kkou (/he day 9'ft uaM to sta/d a fixkity... but 'hot yet. • Birth Control • Pregnancy Testing • Abortion • IV Sedation (optional) djjjj • STD Testing & Treatment from the students he helped in the class room. “TAs certainly tend to get the short end of the stick in many ways," Pegelow said. “The barbecue, at least on a sym bolic level, shows appreciation from our students. It’s a nice thing for them to do." Although Pegelow said most teaching assistants do not care that the event was canceled, there is concern for what he called “the continuing trend for TAs to be stuck in the background.” “The real issue is not the barbecue,” Local Governments Consider Budget Cutbacks By Jennifer Johnson Staff Writer Faces of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and Orange County offi cials were grim as each delegation pre sented its budget for the coming year at Monday night’s Assembly of Governments meeting. Local officials trying to pound out a budget put frustration aside and worked on ways to minimize budget cutbacks, including increasing taxes and delaying county contributions to capital projects and affordable housing initiatives. Orange County Manager John Link presented the county’s budget proposal and gave the prediction that during the 2002-03 fiscal year, Orange County will have to deal with a $750,000 increase in the cost of Medicaid, a $1.5 million increase in education spending and a $ 1.2 million increase to retain employees. County property taxes could increase by 4.5 cents because of a growing tax © morningstcir f mini-storage PRESERVE YOUR STUFF js On the corner of Jones Ferry Road and Highway 54. ph0ne.919.929.0046 fctefef' ■ ■ News Pegelow said. “The real issue is how the adminis tration treats us, why we aren’t consid ered real workers so we can get benefits and a living wage.” Learning from this year’s cancella tion, Page said he will work with Student Body President Jen Daum to help rein state the TA barbecue in 2003. “I’ll assure you that we make sure it happens next year.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. base. The amount of funds the county has available for appropriation has fall en by $1,141,596. Sales tax revenue is unknown because officials cannot pre dict the rate of economic recovery in the coming year. Orange County Commissioner Alice Gordon said the county planned its budget around receiving state reimbursements and without them, taxes could go up another 3 cents. “But we’re not “(The state) is avoiding the political consequences of raising taxes and putting it on us. It’s a very politically cynical move. ” Jacquelyn Gist Carrboro Alderman trying to raise taxes,” Gordon said. “Taxes will only increase if we don’t get the reimburse ments." If the county does not get the $3.1 million in reimbursements, officials plan to withhold payments to the county’s affordable housing initiative. 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But even if payments are withheld, the affordable housing program would still have $1.3 million set aside for pro jects next year. The county would sim ply not make its usual yearly contribu tion to the fund. The county’s municipalities also are expecting to raise taxes to deal with budget prob lems. Carrboro is pre dicting a 7-cent tax increase, Chapel Hill is predicting a 6.6-cent tax increase and Hillsborough is predicting a 6-cent increase. The towns, unlike the county, did not incorporate state reimburse ments into their budgets. The state withheld $1.4 million in reimbursements from Chapel Hill this year and $300,000 from Carrboro. ulljr Bailg (Bar Urrl Officials at the meeting Monday night also had their fingers crossed that the state would not yank a promised city-town util ity franchise and beer-wine taxes from municipalities as it did last year. But Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, warned of possible cuts in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services that could cut home and com munity care block grants by $1.5 million and would have a direct impact on the elderly, who depend on in-home services. Other potential cuts are in areas of mental health and enforcement of child support payments, Insko said. Carrboro Alderman Jacquelyn Gist criticized the state for considering the cuts, when municipalities are being forced to raise taxes. “(The state) is avoid ing the political consequences of raising taxes and putting it on us,” Gist said. “It’s a very politically cynical move.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu.
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