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Volume 110, Issue 145
On Eve of Vote, Daughtry Drops Speaker Bid
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GOP caucus nominates Holmes for top post
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
Senior Writer
Adding a last-minute twist to the soap
opera-esque drama in the N.C. House, out
going Minority Leader Leo Daughtry, R-
Johnston, announced Tuesday diat he would
not seek the position of speaker.
Instead, Daughtry endorsed Yadkin
County Rep. George Holmes, a 14-term
Republican legislator who served as co
Rep.
George Holmes
was endorsed by
Rep. Leo Daughtry.
Dean Palm
Finalist for
LSU Post
By Nikki Werking
Assistant University Editor
Louisiana State University officials
announced Tuesday that a UNC admin
istrator is one of the school’s finalists for
its position of provost and executive
vice chancellor.
Risa Palm, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, has been selected as
one of five candidates for the position,
which has been vacant since July 1.
Palm is scheduled to visit LSU on
Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 for interviews with
the university’s search committee and
other LSU officials. She also will partic
ipate in a public forum where students,
staff and faculty can ask questions.
In an e-mail sent Tuesday night, Palm
said that she was nominated for the
position and that she knows little about
the other four candidates.
“(I) have visited Baton Rouge just
once," she said. “I don’t really know
about other candidates, nor have I
made up my mind to leave UNC.”
A search committee was formed by
LSU Chancellor Mark Emmert last
February to begin the search for anew
provost and executive vice chancellor.
Daniel Fogel, former provost and
executive vice chancellor at LSU, left
the post July 1 to be president at the
University of Vermont. Laura Lindsay,
a professor at LSU’s Manship School of
Mass Communication, has served as the
interim provost since July.
The University Editor can be reached
atudesk@unc.edu.
Town Focuses
On Duplexes,
Northside
By Billy Corriher
Assistant City Editor
Following the passage of the Land-
Use Management Ordinance on
Monday, the Chapel Hill Town Council
will examine the duplex problem in the
town’s Northside neighborhood and
revisit the duplex development ban it
passed last October.
The ban was imposed by the council
in response to concerns from Northside
residents about property owners buying
neighborhood homes and converting
them into duplexes for student renters.
In addition to studying the duplex
issue, the council hopes to begin estab
lishing the development ordinance’s first
Neighborhood Conservation District in
Northside to protect the neighborhood.
The NCD provision allows landown
ers to establish land-use rules to preserve
the character of neighborhoods, provid-
See ORDINANCE, Page 8
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In a whirlwind of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our resolve is firm and our union is strong.
' George W. Bush
Under Way
As the legislative session gets into gear, the state's
legislators must tackle a spate of tough issues.
See Page 5
chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee when Republicans controlled
the House from 1995-99.
Daughtry, who announced his withdraw
al Tuesday night at a party meeting in
Raleigh, has been at the epicenter of
Republican turmoil over the position that
has been held by Jim Black, D-
Mecklenburg, for the last four years.
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Janet Pruitt (left), N.C. Senate principal clerk, explains the organization of the Senate floor to Dorothy Sabow on Tuesday.
The state legislature will convene its 2003 session as it meets for the first time today.
BUDGET WOES LOOM AS
LEGISLATURE KICKS OFF
By Matt Hanson
Assistant State & National Editor
This year, an N.C. General Assembly sharply divid
ed along party lines looks to patch holes in one of the
worst budget situations facing the state in decades.
Gov. Mike Easley will submit a budget proposal to
the legislature in the next few weeks, expressing to
lawmakers how he thinks the state should try to
account for a projected $2 billion revenue shortfall.
“The starting gun for all this stuff is when the gov
ernor sends over his proposal,” said Danny Lineberry,
press secretary for Rep. Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg.
From there, it will be up to the legislature to decide
the specifics of the budget, which experts already have
predicted will face serious economic constraints.
“We have a structural problem in our budget,” said a
senior official from the N.C. Office of State Budget and
Management. “Our tax structures and revenue struc-
See BUDGET, Page 5
Candidates Launch Open Campaign Season
By Joseph Saunders
Staff Writer
Tuesday marked the first day that candi
dates for student elections could distribute and
display campaign mate-
November,
voted to approve the
Larson-Daum Campaign Reform Act of
2002, which prohibits candidates from pass
ing out fliers, posters, pins or any other kind
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mittee chairmen and has control over which
legislation is debated on the House floor.
On Friday, Forsyth County Rep. Michael
Decker said he didn’t want Daughtry to have
the position - so much so that he switched
his registration to the Democratic Party.
Decker’s move prompted the ire of state
Republican leaders, some of whom picketed
outside Decker’s Forsyth office Monday,
demanding his resignation and asserting that
Black had promised Decker the speaker pro
tern position behind closed doors.
But some argue that Daughtry, who
refused comment Tuesday, has even more
Budget vs. Deficit
The N.C. General Assembly passed a budget for the 2002-03 fiscal year totaling more than $14.3
billion, but the still-stumbling economy makes it unlikely that legislators will be able to sustain
such spending. With a nearly $2 billion shortfall for 2003-04 fiscal year, the House and Senate
will have to agree to trim appropriations for key areas, such as higher education, or raise taxes.
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of campaign materials until exacdy two weeks
before the election, which will be Feb. 11.
Many candidates began the day early,
posting and passing out fliers all over campus
and setting up in the Pit. Although bulletin
boards in many academic buildings now are
plastered with fliers, many students did not
express much knowledge of this year’s elec
tion or the candidates.
Sophomore chemistry major Kendra Van
Kirk said she feels less informed because of the
shortened campaign period. “Last year, I was
a lot more informed,” she said. “(This year) I
don’t know much about the candidates.”
Student body president candidate Matt
Tepper said the shorter campaign period will
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Back on Track
Tar Heels aim to end
losing streak.
See Page 11
political baggage. Several legislators have
said they would not vote for Daughtry, while
another, Rep. Richard Morgan, R-Moore,
made a concerted effort to block Daughtry’s
bid for the speakership.
“The first political rule is to know how to
count, and it had grown clear that the
Republican caucus was going to be divided
and there was no incentive for any
Democrats to come to the other side,” said
Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC’s Program
on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life.
Holmes said Daughtry made a sacrifice
for the good of the N.C. Republican Party. “I
force his campaign to be more focused. “We
will have to be a lot more efficient in what we’re
putting out so that the most people will see it”
Some students said they don’t think the
presence of campaign materials on campus
will affect their choices in the general elec
tions. “I associate my vote with a face (rather)
than a flier,” said Katie Gamache, a sopho
more international studies major.
Student body president candidate Sang
Shin said speaking to students direcdy will be
an integral part of his campaign. “(I plan to)
meet people, talk to people,” he said.
Other students, like freshman Diana Leon,
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think it was very honorable of him to say to
the caucus, ‘I do not have the votes to win.’”
Holmes beat out Reps. Connie Wilson of
Mecklenburg, Robert Grady of Onslow and
Morgan for support of Republican House
members. The Associated Press reported
that the final vote came down to Wilson and
Holmes and that Holmes won 36-17 with
seven members not voting.
Morgan, who said he plans to speak with
Holmes before today’s vote, reportedly said he
would not rule out a run for the speaker post
See SPEAKER, Page 8
Bush Pledges
To Use Full
Force' on Iraq
State of the Union address also
touched on domestic issues
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Building a case for war against Iraq,
President Bush said Tuesday night that he has fresh evidence
that Saddam Hussein seeks to “dominate, intimidate or attack”
with weapons of mass destruction that he could share with ter
rorist allies. He pledged to “fight with the full force and might
of the United States military,” if necessary, to disarm Iraq.
“A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at
all,” Bush said in a State of the Union
address delivered before Congress and
broadcast live around the world.
For the first time since the Sept. 11
attacks transformed him into a wartime
president, Bush faced the nation amid
serious questions about his leadership.
Most Americans don’t approve of his
handling of the economy, polls indicate,
and only a bare majority support his
policies on Iraq - an area where the
president enjoyed support of more than
80 percent a year ago.
The first half of Bush's hourlong
address was devoted to domestic policy,
a reflection of his desire not to let Iraq
overshadow a presidential agenda
geared toward the 2004 re-election cam
paign. The heart of Bush’s package is his
$674 billion plan to revive the economy
and a S4OO billion, 10-year proposal to
overhaul Medicare, sprinkled with initiatives to combat AIDS,
produce energy-efficient cars and give religious groups access
to federal community service money.
After an address interrupted 77 times by applause,
Democrats challenged Bush’s efforts both at home and abroad.
“Tonight, the president used all the right rhetoric, but he still
has all the wrong policies,” said Senate Minority Leader Tom
Daschle, D-S.D.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said he would introduce a
resolution requiring Bush to present “convincing evidence of an
imminent threat” before sending troops to fight Iraq. “Instead
of rushing down the path to wir with Iraq, the American peo
ple deserve a full debate,” he stated in a written statement
Bush offered no new evidence to support his charges. He
said Secretary of State Colin Powell will go to the U.N. Security
Council next Wednesday to present the U.S. case.
“We will consult, but let there be no misunderstanding: If
Saddam Hussein does not fully disarm for the safety of our
See SPEECH, Page 8
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but he
still has
all the wrong
policies. ”
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