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®lip Sailu (Tar Mppl www.dailytarheel.com BOC study commission lacks progress • Air Force ROTC helps war veterans & Look for more stories online. Volume 110, Issue 158 Mm • : M WL ■ m DTH/MEUSSA UN UNC-system President Molly Broad speaks Friday at the Board of Governors meeting. Charges Against APS Head Not New Arkansas shelter was under investigation By Jack Kimball Assistant City Editor The executive director of Orange County’s chapter of the Animal Protection Society, who has been under scrutiny for her management of the facility, has faced similar accusations in a previous job. Before arriving in Chapel Hill, Laura Walters - the APS shelter’s executive director - managed the South Sebastian County Humane Society ani mal shelter in Greenwood, Ark., from its founding in November 1999 until March 2001. A report by Ann Clark, South Sebastian County deputy sheriff and animal warden, concluded that “the condition of the shelter while super- See APS, Page 5 Shin, Tepper To Meet in Last Forum Staff Report The Daily Tar Heel is hosting a runoff debate tonight between student body president candidates Sang Shin and Matt Tepper. The debate, to be held at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Film Auditorium, is open to the general public. Each candidate will have two min utes to give an opening statement, after which the DTH will ask Shin and Tepper both general questions and questions specific to their platforms. Answers will be limited to two minutes. Shin and Tepper then will have an opportunity to ask each other five ques tions about their platforms or cam paigns. The next 20 minutes will be allotted for audience questions directed at either candidate. The debate will be moderated by Managing Editor Alex Kaplun, who has no affiliation with the DTH Editorial Board. The DTH will not endorse a candidate based on the forum. The DTH Editorial Board will endorse a candidate Tuesday based on endorsement interviews held before last Tuesday’s original election. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn't change. Kin Hubbard Classes Canceled All classes are canceled until noon, and University officials will decide by 10 a.m. whether to cancel classes for the rest of the day. BOG Approves Tuition, Fee Policy Abandons mandate that state fund enrollment growth By Emma Burgin Assistant State & National Editor The UNC-system Board of Governors approved Friday anew tuition and fee policy, one that omits a controversial stipulation that would have prevented the board from funding enrollment growth and financial aid through systemwide tuition increases. BOG member John Cecil, chairman of the ad hoc Committee on Tuition and Fees, presented the com mittee’s final recommendation to the board Friday. f Aft**** ' DTH/JOANIE TOBIN Parking attendant David Stone braves the cold for the UNC women's basketball game against Clemson on Sunday afternoon. The ice storm brought freezing temperatures and sleet to the Triangle area, making transportation treacherous. CLASSES CANCELED AS TRIANGLE GETS ICED By Billy Corriher Assistant City Editor A fierce wind and hard, packed sleet combined for a stinging win try mix that kept most area residents cooped up inside as the Triangle braced for its second ice storm of the season. UNC officials announced late Sunday night that classes before noon on Monday are canceled. By 10 a.m. they will re-evaluate whether to cancel all classes. Although power companies are not expecting widespread power outages like those experienced in December, Gov. Mike Easley declared a state of emergency for Sunday’s storm. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm warning Sunday night. About one-third of an inch of sleet had been reported in Chapel Hill as of Sunday afternoon, with as much as one-fourth of an inch more possible Sunday night. The sleet actually was a relief to power company and transporta tion officials, who were anticipating freezing rain similar to that from the Dec. 4 ice storm, which knocked out power in most of the Triangle. But the freezing precipitation still caused problems, making roadways difficult to navigate and causing scattered power outages in the area. Duke Power spokesman Tim Pettit said that as of Sunday afternoon, Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Monday, February 17, 2003 After heated debate, the full board approved the policy with the omission. Addison Bell, a BOG member who sat on the committee, said the policy will enable the board to allocate needed funds to enrollment growth. “The board has used tuition to fund enrollment growth in the past," he said. “To (disallow) that in a policy deters the flexibility that this board will need in the future.” But BOG member Ray Farris, who also was on the committee and voted against the altered poli cy, said it is not the BOG’s responsibility to fund enrollment growth. the company’s number of power outages peaked at 7,500. Duke Power’s outages have been spread evenly throughout its service area, Pettit said. But Pettit said the continuing precipitation throughout the night has the potential for more outages. “We’re prepared for it to get worse, if it does get worse,” he said. Officials at Duke Power and Progress Energy began preparing for the storm late last week and brought in more crews from neighboring states as early as Friday evening. Progress Energy spokesman Garrick Francis said his crews were on standby all weekend. “We haven’t seen any significant damage yet,” Francis said. Transportation officials reported similar early preparations. NCDOT and town public works crews were spreading salt to make high ways and local roads passable, but most still were covered with slush Sunday evening as temperatures dipped and the sleet began to freeze. Chapel Hill Transit Authority buses stopped running at 7 p.m. Sunday, and officials said they will re-examine the road conditions at 6 am. today. Anticipating the overnight weather to get worse, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools canceled classes today. For more information about the University’s adverse weather opera tion schedule, visit UNCs homepage or call the hotline at 843-1234. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Just Short Tigers dominate on the glass in 2nd half to edge UNC. See Page 10 “The Board of Governors is charged with administering the affairs of the university,” he said. “The (board) never recommends tuition increases. ... I think it’s the legislature’s responsibility.” Farris said the final draft of the policy does not provide the board with appropriate regulations if tuition must go toward enrollment growth. Farris’ main concern is that the N.C. General Assembly might take money from one system school’s tuition increase and dole it out to others to fund overenrollment. But Farris admits defeat. “It has become policy. ... In the future, it will just stand mute,” he said. “They wanted the option to have the opportunity.” BOG member Gladys Robinson said the policy ■f f/m Twin Weather Today: Cloudy; H 40, L 29 Tuesday: Partly Cloudy; H 52, L 31 Wednesday: Cloudy; H 57, L 35 System Starts Crafting Rules For Severance By Matt Hanson Assistant State & National Editor In a move spurred by recent controversy over a hand some severance package awarded by UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser, UNC-system President Molly Broad presented Thursday a proposal to regulate faculty severance packages and rights of retreat Broad drafted the proposal at the request of the UNC system Board of Governors’ Personnel and Tenure Committee, which was concerned with the November controversy over former UNC-CH General Counsel Susan Ehringhaus’ nearly $320,000 leave package. “In the aftermath of the BOG review of severance, they asked me to put together a report,” Broad said. The committee unanimously approved Broad’s pro posal at its monthly meeting Thursday. “The president’s office did research on all the univer sities in North Carolina and on universities around the country," said committee member Angela Bryant. “Based on that, we made our decision.” Broad said, “We did a fair amount of homework.” From this research, the president devised a plan to reg ulate leave packages while giving individual campuses the right to enforce the regulations. Broad asked that universities come up with individual plans on how to deal with the issue. See SEVERANCE, Page 5 Opinions Clash At Anti-war Rally By Gillian Bolsover Staff Writer RALEIGH - Across the concrete expanse of South Salisbury Street, two rival groups faced off Saturday, sep arated by a line of police. On the west side of the street, 40 demonstrators cheered their support for U.S. troops and President Bush. On the N.C. State Capitol grounds, about 6,000 pro testers stood displaying their opposition to the country’s preparation for war. “This is what democracy looks like. That is what hypocrisy looks like,” chanted the east bank. “Go hate America somewhere else,” countered the west The Raleigh anti-war rally, which was organized by the 53 groups that form the N.C. Coalition for Peace and Justice, commenced with supportive speeches and music. See PROTEST, Page 5 HI aßgrrg& J| JH aagp* www.dailytarheel.com will allow more students to enroll in system schools. “I feel very strongly that if we say we will institute a policy that we will fund not enrollment growth, then we will deny access to students who cannot afford to go,” she said. “We must keep that open." Shirley Ort, director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Office of Scholarships and Student Aid, said she is concerned the BOG might raise tuition and distrib ute the money across the system. “Many of us feel that it’s the state’s responsibility, not the students’." Ort said that UNC-CH has more private donors and that its average accumulated indebtedness is $ 12,000 - lower than that at most other system See BOG, Page 5 DTH/GABITRAPENBERG Protesters line the police barricade on South Salisbury Street in opposition of war Saturday.
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