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(Hhr latlg (Bar Med www.dailytarheel.com gpMfM !•* Chapel Hill News to shut down press * UNC seeks hydrogen research funds & Look for more stories online. Volume 110, Issue 154 BOG Might Take Stand In UM Case By Bobby Whisnant Jr. Staff Writer Members of the UNC-system Board of Governors likely will discuss Friday filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of affirma tive action, thus taking a stance in what will be a definitive ruling on race-based admissions. Debate about affirmative action resurfaced when the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases challenging race-based undergraduate and gradu ate admissions at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. BOG member Gladys Robinson said board members will discuss in committee meetings filing a brief at the board’s monthly meeting. “We will be discussing this in our meeting on Friday because several members have displayed concerns,” she said. “I do intend to enter it as an item to be talked about on the floor. “If it is decid ed to file a brief, I am confident that it will pass.” Robinson said she stands firmly behind affirmative action and expects her fel low board members to do Board of Governors Chairman Brad Wilson said it is not the group's responsibility to file a brief. the same. “Asa board that governs, we have to take a stand that will be supportive. If not, we won’t be supporting the diversity in our own 16 schools.” But BOG Chairman Brad Wilson said he doesn’t think board members have a responsibility to get involved in the matter by filing a brief. “It makes no difference one way or another how many briefs the Supreme Court gets,” he said. “There’s only a limited amount of arguments people can have - for and against.” Ben Ruffin, BOG member and for mer board chairman, said he thinks that the board should file a brief sup porting UM’s stance. “The relevance is that we are high er education,” he said. “If the Supreme Court can sustain the Michigan programs, then (the UNC system) won’t have to change any thing." Ruffin also said he thinks it is ben eficial for other educational groups to get involved and to show support. “The American Governing Board has taken a position of support, and I hope the brief being filed by the law school at Chapel Hill will help as well.” UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Law announcedjan. 21 that it would file a friend-of-the-court brief in favor of UM, arguing that achieving a diverse student body is in the best interest of a public law school. The American Council on Education, of which the UNC system is a member, also intends to file an amicus brief with the court support ing a state’s right to use affirmative See BOG, Page 4 VOTING GUIDE SBP Write in: BB George Leamon & Doug Melton Dan Picket Fifty percent of people won't vote, and SO percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same 50 percent Gore Vidal sf I m If! pi I j TEpPffi "Anything I have in my platform is a promise. This is something I'll fight for." Jl| I | ' V---1 sfH "I'm not just going to focus on policies. I'm there to listen, to be the student body president." EYES ON THE PRIZE 3 WEEKS OF CAMPAIGNING CULMINATE IN TODAY'S VOTE By Meredith Nicholson / Assistant university Editor As students head to the polls today, student body president can didates are wrapping up weeks of campaigning in which they dis tinguished themselves as individuals but set forth similar goals. In a campaign season shortened by new election reforms, candidates focused on making themselves visible around campus and on spreading word of their priorities to gamer the support necessary to win the election. Each of the candidates said he thinks creating a better relationship with students is the most important task for next year’s student body president. Candidates said most students are unaware of the work student officials do and SliiDl'Nj HOIW ' PRESIDENT Nathan Cherry Ben Pickett Sang Shin Matt Tepper Write-In: Dan Pickel are not inclined to reach out when they have concerns. Sang Shin said the student body president needs to be the voice of the students. “We need to open a line of communication between students and student government,” he said. Past administrations have been more focused on creating policies and less focused on reaching out to students, he said. “I’m not just going to focus on policies. I’m there to listen - to be the student body president.” Ben Pickett also said the most important issue of the campaign has been SENIOR CLASS OFFICE Liz Manekin & Doug Sue Zack Mansfield & Dan Walker Serving the students and the University community since 1893 /oteTODAY@ http://studentcentral.unc.edu from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. ELECTION DAY WATCH LIVE COVERAGE OF ELECTION RESULTS STARTING AT 9:30 P.M. ON CHANNEL 2 (ON-CAMPUS) AND CHANNEL 4 (OFF-CAMPUS) Write w: rm £ 1 Jordan Campbell & Lauren Cook Kimberly Turner & Jordan Hardy Tuesday, February 11, 2003 * ■PH *I , } - connecting with students. Pickett pointed out that communication with stu dents made it into every student body president platform this year, includ- ing his own, which features the Informed Students Initiative. Pickett said this focus is indicative of a lack of com munication between students and their representatives. “There hasn’t been a true link between students and the executive branch,” he said. Nathan Cherry said the need for improved communica tion extends beyond the student body into town. Cherry’s commitment to strengthening student relationships with town officials is a central tenet of his platform, which calls for the creation of a Cabinet-level official who will act as liai son to the town government Cherry said he hopes that through increased voter registration on campus and improved relations with town government Chapel Hill someday will elect a UNC student to its Town Council. “Carolina exists within a larger community,” Cherry said. “We need to be good neighbors and make sure we don’t get pushed around.” See SBP, Page 4 Write in: ■ ~-~'x 'H H sß^.i Haroun Habib & Rachini Opatha Kristin Conte DTO PHOTOS/BRIAN CASSELLA RHA PRESIDENT IB Colin Scott Sherrell McMillan Weather Today: Partly Cloudy; H 49, L 33 Wednesday: Mostly Sunny; H 52, L 23 Thursday: Mostly Sunny; H 48, L 28 Congress Foresees No Code Breaches By Billy Ball Staff Writer Student Congress leaders do not expect to run into any problems with Student Code violations of residence rules for new members after today’s election. Speaker Carey Richter said there probably will be no new trouble with Student Code violations, as all dis- BEN PICKETT 'l'm someone who’s going to do the right thing for this community, both short term and long term.” m members who violate the Student Code will be investigated by the Ethics Committee if they do not fol low standard Congress notification rules. “If they notify the speaker, they won’t have to be investigated,” Richter said. This comes on the heels of the dis covery that three members of Congress have been violating the Student Code by living outside the districts they were elected to repre sent Congress members voted Tuesday to overturn a recommendation from the Ethics Committee that they cen sure Finance Committee Chairwoman Natalie Russell for liv ing in Hinton James North Residence Hall while representing Craige and Morrison residence halls. The Ethics Committee voted unanimously Thursday to investigate See CONGRESS, Page 4 "I'm running for all the right reasons, and I have a pretty clear vision of what should happen at Carolina.” UNC Reports It Has Funds To Clean Up Tract Waste By Jonathan M. Carl Staff Writer The ramifications of University nuclear waste management have traveled beyond the boundaries of campus and landed 2 miles north, where a delay in the proposed devel opment of the Horace Williams tract has caused problems with town offi cials as well as with residents. Chancellor James Moeser responded to those concerns in a let ter he wrote last week to Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy. In the letter, datedjan. 27, Moeser said the University’s Budget Committee finally had established a plan to fund cleanup of an area that was once a landfill where nuclear waste was deposited. See HORACE WILLIAMS, Page 4 MORI . Flit i ll IflC si i itisim . •Candidates Make Final Campaign Push on Monday •Results Could Buck Trend of Out-of-State SBPs •Endorsements Help Campaigns, Not Predict Outcome See Paqe 9 CAA PRESIDENT GPSF PRESIDENT Write in: Betsy Fisher On www.dailytarheel.com tricts now are finalized and in place with no additional residence halls. She said REFERENDUMS •tease student activity lee from $11.50 a semester for undergrad uate students and 19.50 a semes ter for graduate students to J 19.50 a semester for all students •Create a S4 per semester renew able energy fee to support retvew able energy projects on campus •Amending tie student code to make tetaences to officers of the student tody gender-neutral Dan Herman
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