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Friday, September 27, 2002
Fayetteville State Students Lobby to Keep Name
By Stephanie Poole
Staff Writer
Loyal supporters of Fayetteville State
University successfully rallied Thursday
to oppose a potential university name
change, winning the necessary votes to
stop its consideration.
About 200 students, along with some
faculty and alumni, mobilized for the
event, said Arkeem Fleming,
Fayetteville State Student Senate presi
dent pro tern.
Fleming said the Fayetteville State
student government sponsored the rally
to express concerns over a proposed bill
UNC-G Faculty Pool Donations
To Assist University Employees
By Laura Youngs
Staff Writer
After state budget cuts slashed pay
raises for staff members at public uni
versities, the faculty at UNC-
Greenshoro decided to take action.
Faculty members have put together a
plan for raising $250,000 to assist staff
members in a time of economic stress.
“(Staff members) were totally speech
less but overwhelmingly happy," said
Karen Patrick, administrative officer for
the UNC-G College of Arts and
Science.
Faculty members include professors
and teaching assistants, while staff mem
bers include maintenance workers and
food service personnel. The state budget
approved by the legislature last week
allows for no pay raises for either group.
Campus-initiated tuition increases
this year are being used to fund raises
for faculty, but university staff are not
eligible for such measures.
To compensate for this, faculty mem
bers at UNC-G are turning to their co
workers for one-time gifts to make the
burden of budget cuts easier for staff
members to bear.
The program was announced in
August at Convocation, but plans were
not confirmed until after the state bud
get was set.
“The primary reason (for the pro
gram) ... is to give relief and show soli
darity," said Ben Ramsey, president of
the UNC-G Faculty Senate.
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in the N.C. House.
The House proposal calls for a study
to examine the feasibility and possible
benefits of changing the name of
Fayetteville State to the University of
North Carolina at Fayetteville.
Rep. Bill Hurley, D-Cumberland,
proposed the bill in June. He said the
idea to change the university’s name had
been discussed for years in the county.
“If there is any way the school could
benefit, it is certainly a good idea,” he said.
Fleming said students were upset that
the name change was proposed without
any campus consultation.
“We, as a student body, find it offen
About 100 faculty members have
committed to the program so far. Those
involved hope to have the money for
staff by December, Ramsey said.
The UNC-G Faculty Senate plans to
allocate the money from a central gift
trust fund that is separate from the uni-
versity’s budget.
A move like this
is unprecedented
at UNC-G and
ideally will bring
the campus togeth
er, Ramsey said.
He said he
thinks some indi
viduals see a line
drawn between
faculty and staff.
“The primary reason
(for the program) ... is
to give relief and
show solidarity. ”
Ben Ramsey
President of the UNC-G Faculty Senate
“I think that there is that perception,”
Ramsey said. “We’ll get people to real
ize that the division is not as strong as
they think.”
The program has drawn praise from
faculty leaders outside of UNC-G as
well. “It’s a wonderful move, and it’s
hard to argue with the desire to give
raises to the staff,” said Dan Noland, a
UNC-Wilmington English professor
and president of the UNC-system
Faculty Senate.
Ramsey said that although the move
was altruistic, he does not want employ
ees at other schools to feel obligated to
do the same thing.
Faculty leaders at other UNC-system
universities are trying to create alterna
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sive that (the N.C. General Assembly)
didn’t include us at all,” Fleming said.
“We have been educating students since
August on the issue.”
A Fayetteville State student govern
ment-sponsored advertisement on the
university’s Web site encouraged stu
dents to come to the rally and discour
age the Board of Tmstees and the
General Assembly from considering the
name change.
Fleming said there was no legitimate
reason to change the university’s name.
He said that Fayetteville State’s name
has been changed in the past but that
previous changes were the results of
fives for their employees, but most
schools do not have definite plans
because budget cuts were not finalized
Sept. 20.
Budget cuts, combined with rising
medical insurance costs and parking
permit fees, have resulted in less dispos-
able income for
staff and faculty,
said Sue Estroff,
chairwoman of the
UNC-Chapel Hill
Faculty Council.
Rick Niswander,
vice chairman of
faculty at East
Carolina
University, said the
university has had
to implement certain measures - such as
restricting hiring - to absorb budget cuts.
But faculty jobs have generally been
kept intact, despite hiring freezes.
Noland also said public schools do
not have the money to bring in new pro
fessors, which makes it harder to main
tain a superior staff. He said some staff
and part-time faculty at UNC-W had to
be laid off because of cuts.
But Gates said most faculty and staff
members are maintaining a positive atti
tude, despite financial hardships.
“We’re certainly concerned and sen
sitive to the problem,” Gates said.
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For the Record
In the Sept. 25 article “Carrboro Votes
to Annex 2 Tracts,” Carrboro resident
Donald McDonnell was incorrectly
identified as Donald McDonald.
In the Sept. 26 article “ACT Members
Meet to Discuss 5-Year Transportation
Plan,” it was incorrectly reported that
Derek Poarch.ACT chairman and direc
tor of the Department of Public Safety,
proposed implementing a night parking
plan to balance potential debt in the
future.
Poarch suggested that committee
members discuss the feasibility of keep
ing pay operations lots that close at 5
p.m. open later into the night.
In the Sept. 26 article “How to
Improvise a Punchline," UNC senior Bill
Cochran was incorrectly identified as
Ben Cochran.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors.
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“I find it personally offensive that the
name change alone would make us more
prestigious,” Fleming said. “I feel as if I
am being told that I am not as good at
FSU as I would be at UNC-Fayetteville.”
But Hurley -a UNC-Chapel Hill
alumnus - said the UNC name would
bring clout to the entire area because of
the reputation it brings with it.
“UNC has a magic connotation in
education circles across the country,”
Hurley said.
It is possible that a name change
could bring tangible benefits, such as an
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Wildlife Center to Close, Reorganize
By Laura Hinson
Staff Writer
The Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in
Mebane will close to reorganize its vet
erinary services after weeks of criticism
directed toward management by its
employees.
On Sept. 3, employees of the Wildlife
Center, which is run by the Animal
Protection Society of Orange County,
approached the Orange County
Commissioners to voice their concerns
about management problems within
APS.
Stacy Hughes, a wildlife assistant at
the rehabilitation center, made several
complaints about management prob
lems in her statement to the commis
sioners.
“Over the last few months, the qual
ity of care provided by the APS has
steeply degraded,” she said in her state
ment. “We are greatly concerned that
there has been mismanagement of
infectious disease.”
Hughes also said there is documen-
increase in funds, he said.
Hurley added that since UNC-
Pembroke changed its name to include
the UNC title four years ago, there has
been a 40 percent enrollment increase.
But Lauren Wyke, Fayetteville State
director of public relations, said the uni
versity has been experiencing enroll
ment growth on its own - citing a 9.5
percent increase in 2001 in on-campus
enrollment and another 8.4 percent on
campus increase in 2002.
Fleming added that when UNC-P
changed its name, it lost a significant
number of minorities. UNC-P’s popula
tion used to be comprised primarily of
tation of how management has not
adhered to a consistent policy to guide
employees in protecting healtby animals
and in controlling the spread of disease.
Two monthsJsefore the commission
ers’ meeting, APS had come under crit
icism when recently hired Executive
Director Laura Walters fired wildlife vet
erinarian Bobby Schopler.
The center was then left with no vet
erinarian to care for the injured wildlife
brought there.
Employees and volunteers rallied
behind Schopler, citing Walters’ actions
as unfair and ungrounded, said Christy
Dixon, a former volunteer at the center.
Dixon said that the remaining
employees at the center were trained in
some areas of wildlife care but that they
were not trained veterinarians.
“The care went down immediately
after Dr. Schopler left,” she said.
Walters said she will be searching for
someone with the right expertise and
background to take over the clinic when
it is reinstated.
The APS will lease the facility for an
undetermined amount of time to a pri
vate veterinarian who will oversee and
provide care for the APS animals and
wildlife, but the center will not accept
more animals for treatment until the
practice is established.
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Native Americans, but now that group
represents less than 20 percent of the
student body, he said.
Board of Trustees members, who
were at the rally, later voted not to con
duct research into a name change. They,
also approved a second motion to keep
the Fayetteville State name.
Wyke said the rally was key in deci
sion-making. “It showed there’s a lot of
alumni and student sentiment,” she said.
“The Board of Trustees responded to
that in choosing to keep the FSU name.”
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bilitator, said she is concerned about
what is going to happen to the animals.
“I really worry about it because there
aren’t many people left who (rehabili
tate) at home,” she said.
Rogers said she is concerned with the
fact that Walters would fire a veterinar
ian with wildlife training and eliminate
all the trained employees.
Walters refutes the rumor from
employees and local news affiliates that
she is firing all the employees from the
center.
She said APS is transferring the
responsibility of the center to the inde
pendent veterinarian, who will use his
discretion to decide whether to keep the
employees.
She also said that although some peo
ple seem to think the animals at the clin
ic will be abandoned, this rumor is not
true.
“We are taking care of the animals
that we have,” she said. “They will be
placed out when the time is right.”
Walters said the reorganization will
help the APS better serve all the ani
mals.
“This is a good opportunity to make
some changes and do what is best for
the animals.”
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