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Volume 110, Issue 129
Budget Includes SSOM in Cuts for System
By Elyse Ashblrn
State & National Editor
SEPT. 20 - After months of struggling
to craft a budget while contending with
one of the worst fiscal situations in the
state’s history, legislators approved a $14.3
billion budget Sept. 20 that Democratic
leaders hailed as a victory for education.
“We were able to get a budget passed
that is one of the best state budgets
around,” said House Speaker Jim Black,
D-Mecklenburg. “it’s a budget I’m very
proud of. We’ve made some moves for
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Chancellor James Moeser and Student Body President Jen Daum address members of the press Aug. 19 after leading freshmen in a
discussion session on the hotly debated summer reading book, "Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations," by Michael Sells.
Reading Puts UNC in National Spotlight
Judge upholds court ruling,
allows program to proceed
By Meredith Nicholson
and Daniel Thigpen
Senior Writers
AUG. 20 - Inside Room 302 of Bingham Hall on
Aug. 19, Chancellor James Moeser waited anxiously,
preparing for the summer reading discussion group he
was about to lead.
The room was small and quiet, and as students
Deal With Ehringhaus
A Mistake, Moeser Says
By Elyse Ashburn
and Daniel Thigpen
Senior Writers
DEC. 3- After weeks of defending
a controversial pay agreement for out
going Vice Chancellor and General
Counsel Susan Ehringhaus,
Chancellor James Moeser on Dec. 2
called his decision a mistake that can
not be renegotiated.
“The arrangement in my view was
an error in judgement on my part,”
Moeser said in a meeting with
reporters. “I have to accept that
responsibility.”
In October, Moeser and
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ward in education.”
Under the budget plan, the UNC sys
tem was hit with a 2.9 percent across-the
board cut - totaling about SSO million.
Lawmakers provided $66 million to
fully fund system enrollment growth and
slated $4.5 million for need-based finan
cial aid - intended to counter sys
temwide tuition increases.
UNC-system President Molly Broad
said that given the state’s financial
predicament, she is pleased with the sys
tem’s appropriations. “Considering the
fiscal situation, the budget is fair,” Broad
trickled into the classroom, their expressions were
inquisitive, their steps soft and timid.
Perhaps it was because on their journeys across
campus they were bombarded with television crews,
reporters from across the nation and demonstrators
yelling from the Pit -and when they finally got to
class, they were greeted by a press corps and the
University police chief.
During calm, collected discussion groups about this
year’s summer reading choice, “Approaching the
Qur’an: The Early Revelations,” it would have been
hard to tell what all the controversy was about
In fact, some students were wondering that them
selves before they went to the discussions.
Ehringhaus agreed on a salary deal
that will provide her with almost
$320,000 for eight months of unrelat
ed work in Washington, D.C., begin
ningjan. 1, and a year of teaching at
the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law
from September 2003 to August 2004.
In the end, Moeser said that in for
mulating the agreement with
Ehringhaus, he failed to recognize the
larger impact it would have on both the
UNC-CH community and the state.
Moeser’s decision has resulted in
harsh criticism and backlash from
UNC-CH workers and state legisla-
See SALARY, Page 5
Monday, January 6, 2003
said. “There is strong evidence that in
every step of the delegating process leg
islators moved with concern and con
sideration for the universities.
“This has been a very difficult session,
and we have had many champions in the
General Assembly. The support for the
universities has been deepened in both
houses and on both sides of the aisle.”
House Majority Leader Phil Baddour,
D-Wayne, agreed that lawmakers avoid
ed making deep cuts in system funding.
“I think (universities) came out well
given the pressure we were under,” he
“I think it’s kind of been taken out of hand,” said
Heba Abdelbaky, a freshman from Boston. “I wasn’t
expecting reporters and cameras.”
While the media frenzy was erupting on campus, a
judge in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Richmond upheld a ruling Aug. 19 stating that UNC’s
summer reading program does not violate the sepa
ration of church and state.
The action came just days after a federal district
court judge refused to order an injunction blocking
the discussion sections. Judge N. Carlton Tilley said
Aug. 15 that he did not see a correlation between
See QURAN, Page 5
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Chancellor James Moeser
announces the campaign's start.
said. “They were our first priority.”
Higher education was made a top pri
ority because colleges and universities will
aid North Carolina in recovering from the
recession, said Sen. Walter Dalton, D-
Rutherford. “(The state will have) a broad
er-based economy if we continue to invest
in the universities,” said Dalton, chairman
of the Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee on Education.
But House Minority Leader Leo
Daughtry, R-Johnston, said the budget
damages education and threatens the
classroom with vague cuts. “It hurts edu
Carolina First Aims for $l.B Billion
By Lance Johnson
Staff Writer
OCT. 14 - The Carolina First cam
paign went public Oct. 11 with an
announcement stating the project’s mis
sion of “transformation” and declaring an
official fund-raising goal of $l.B billion.
Several UNC officials, including
Chancellor James Moeser, spoke to a
crowd of faculty, students, alumni and
Carolina First committee members in
the Carolina Inn’s Hill Ballroom.
“This is the moment that so many of
us have been working toward - to make
this campaign public," Moeser said.
He said the mission of the campaign
was transformation -a goal for the
University to transform the state, the
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cation - particularly universities.”
Daughtry said leaving s4l million in
cuts - pegged as management flexibility -
to Easley’s discretion might further harm
higher education and other key services.
Even if fundamental programs are
not damaged by the cuts Easley makes,
it is poor form for the legislature to pass
its responsibility on to the executive,
Daughtry said. “To say, ‘We can’t fix it.
‘Maybe the governor can do it’ is bad
policy.”
Daughtry said that he had innumer
able reasons for opposing the budget but
Dole Snags Seat
In U.S. Senate
Defeats Erskine Bowles to replace Helms
By Elyse Ashblrn, Rachel
Leonard and Jennifer Samlels
Senior Writers
NOV. 6 - Republican Elizabeth
Dole cruised to victory with unexpected
ease Tuesday, defeating Democrat
Erskine Bowles to become the first
woman to represent North Carolina in
the U.S. Senate.
Elizabeth Dole defeated Bowles with
53 percent of the vote, capturing the
hotly contested Senate seat soon to be
vacated by Sen. Jesse Helms. Bowles
garnered 45 percent of the vote with 98
percent of precincts reporting. About
1.2 million people cast votes for
Elizabeth Dole, with Bowles receiving
slighdy less than 1 million votes.
The race was the nation’s costliest,
with about s2l million spent in the fwo
campaigns.
Dole’s victory was one of several
Republican triumphs on Election Day
that allowed the GOP to take control of
both chambers of Congress. It was the
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Sen.-elect Elizabeth Dole celebrates among supporters in Salisbury
on Nov. 6 her victory over Erskine Bowles in tne U.S. Senate race.
nation and the world.
Carolina First is an eight-year fund
raising campaign aimed at making
UNC the leading public university in
the nation by increasing the University’s
endowment through private donations.
The goal is to secure $l.B billion in
private donations to be spent in five
areas of interest - faculty, students,
strategic initiatives, research, and cam
pus renovation and expansion.
To date, $866 million in private dona
tions has been raised through the cam
paign’s silent phase, which began July
1999.
The University already is on its way to
meeting its goal of creating 200 new
endowed professorships and 1,000 new
undergraduate scholarships. Moeser said.
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that he ultimately did so because the bud
get does not reflect his constituents’
needs. “There’s lots of reasons for me to
not support the conference report,” he
said. “But the overriding reason is it does
n’t serve the people of North Carolina.”
Republican leaders also criticized the
budget, claiming Democratic budget
writers had inappropriately cowed to
Easley’s demands to fund his pet pro
grams - namely by providing $26 mil
lion to reduce class size in early grades.
See BUDGET, Page 5
first time in recent history that the pres
ident’s party picked up seats in a
midterm election.
Elizabeth Dole’s victory speech was
interrupted by spontaneous cheers from
the hundreds of supporters packed into
Salisbury’s train depot She addressed the
crowd about 10:30 p.m. after receiving a
concession phone call from Bowles.
“We made history - Elizabeth Dole
will be the first woman to serv e the peo
ple of North Carolina in the U.S.
Senate,” she said.
Elizabeth Dole praised Bowles’ effort
and stressed that she will do her best to
represent North Carolina in Washington,
D.C. “I want to ask those who voted for
Erskine Bowles to please give me a
chance because I intend to be a senator
for all of North Carolina,” she said.
The mood was more somber at the
Hilton North Raleigh, where a crowd of
several hundred gathered about 10:30
p.m. to witness Bowles concede the elec-
See DOLE, Page 5
Since the beginnings of the cam
paign, donors have established 92
endowed professorships and 267 schol
arships and fellowships.
The attitude at the announcement was
professional yet relaxed. Speakers joked
about the silent phase of the campaign
being “the worst-kept secret” and made
light of recent University issues such as
the summer reading controversy.
The announcement even included a
visit from a costumed representation of
Gen. William Richardson Davie, consid
ered to be the father of the University.
English Professor Christopher Armitage,
dressed up as Davie, discussed the histo
ry of the University and joked about the
See CAMPAIGN, Page 5