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Volume 111, Issue 3
UMd. Case
May Ignite
Cost Debate
Tuition lawsuit could
spur similar legal battles
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
Senior Writer
Student leaders in North Carolina are closely
watching a lawsuit against the University of
Maryland system that challenges the university’s
power to raise tuition.
And while tuition conflicts in Maryland and
North Carolina are vastly different, some assert
that a lawsuit from Maryland system students
could spark similar litigation in North Carolina.
“The spark has already
occurred,” said former
Association of Student
Governments President
Andrew Payne. “The
spark’s there. It’s just a mat
ter of finding somebody
with the legal knowledge to
take it on.”
Payne said in-state stu
dents at UNC-system schools
have a definite argument
when it comes to suing about
tuition increases because of a
constitutional mandate that
says tuition should be “as free
as practicable." This, Payne
said, gives a lawsuit here
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AS6 President
Jonathan Ducote
said N.C. students
have a viable
complaint about
tuition increases.
more legitimacy than the one in Maryland.
Seven students from the Maryland system -
five graduate students, one law student and one
undergraduate - have sued the system for mid
semester tuition increases, which range from $75
to SSOO depending on a student’s class.
The students asked for the case to be a class
action lawsuit, meaning it would apply to all 130,000
students in the Maryland system, although not all
campuses were not affected by the tuition increase.
But the results of the case could be more far
reaching than that, as many states also are deal
ing with tough economic times by, among other
actions, raising tuition.
Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the
American Council on Education, said that
although he thinks the case for litigation against
universities for tuition increases has no merit,
there are bound to be more lawsuits against insti
tutions of higher learning.
Former UNC-system President Bill Friday said
lawsuits based on the Maryland case are likely to
happen. “The precedent for duplication lawsuits
is there,” he said. “Everything will depend on
what happens in the federal court.”
But Leslie Winner, UNC-system vice president
for legal affairs, said that if litigation was brought
against the state, it would not significandy affect
the system because officials notify students as far
in advance as possible about the potential cost of
tuition. Maryland students assert that the state’s
university system raised tuition widiout warning.
The N.C. legislature also has raised tuition
retroactively in the past. In the fall of 2001, it
enacted a retroactive tuition increase to deal with
state budget woes that hurt the system’s budget.
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Wes Tilqhman of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation addresses the
Chapel Hill Town Council on the subject of street fairs Tuesday.
Divided Appeal
Poll shows that N.C. residents are divided on
Sen. John Edwards' bid for the presidency.
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“Bill is unique in that he took over a program that was just a notch above a club team and through the years developed it
into one of the most respected programs in the country. ” - Dick Baddour, Athletics Director
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UNC wrestling coach Bill Lam is presented the Priceless Gem award at halftime of UNC's basketball game with N.C. State on Tuesday.
Below: Lam (far right) tends to heavyweight wrestler Ryan Adams during his match against N.C. State this month.
WRESTLING'S ARCHITECT
CLOSES BOOK ON UNC CAREER
By Daniel Blank
Staff Writer
When North Carolina wrestling coach Bill Lam
first stepped foot in Carmichael Auditorium 30
years ago, there was nothing.
There were no championship banners hanging
from the rafters, no budget, no scholarships, and
he could count the fans at the first match on one
hand. When he called his first team meeting, four
athletes (whose names he can recite at a moment’s
notice and include Charles Moose) attended.
And now, as Lam prepares to enter Carmichael
for the last time when the Tar Heels take on
Campbell at 7 p.m. today, 14 ACC Championship banners hang from the ceil
ing. Most players are on scholarship, the program is about a year from being
fully endowed, and more than 3,000 fans - including Dean Smith and almost
every head coach in the Department of Athletics - showed up for Lam’s last
conference home match, a 22-12 shellacking of archrival N.C. State on Feb. 11.
But in those early days it must have been hard for even Lam to imagine
the five NCAA champions and the 36 All-Americans he would produce or
the ACC-best 377 wins he would guide the Tar Heels to in his 30-year career.
Lam was presented with the Carolina Priceless Gem, the athletic depart
ment’s lifetime achievement award, at halftime of Tuesday’s basketball game.
“Bill is unique in that he took over a program that was just a notch above
a club team and through the years developed it into one of the most respect
ed programs in the country,” said UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour.
Lam inherited a squad that had gone 2-11 the previous season and had
n’t won more than two dual meets in any of the prior 10 years.
Lam, a two-time All-American at powerhouse Oklahoma, went to the oppo
site end of the national spectrum to start his coaching career. “At Oklahoma
we’d have over 10,000 people at every match, and I’ll never forget the first
Residents Sound Off on Street Fairs
By Jenni Norman
Staff Writer
Michelle Cotton Laws was not plan
ning on speaking Tuesday evening
when the Chapel Hill Street Fair
Review Committee held a public forum
to encourage input about Chapel Hill
street fairs’ uncertain future.
But Laws was inspired to speak after
some residents doubted the necessity
of popular town festivals such as Apple
Chill and Festifall.
In particular, Laws praised Apple
Chill, the town’s annual spring festival.
“I think it’s a wonderful event for our
town,” she said.
Laws added that the festivals bring
together members of the community
who would not ordinarily come together.
From small beginnings come great things.
Proverb
Nail-Biter
Tar Heels can't withstand
'Pack's persistence.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2003
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was only a one-time state champ (in Pennsylvania), but he still had faith in me,"
Sola said. “There were only a few colleges looking at me, and out of those few,
he was probably the most serious about wanting me down here on his team.”
It was another low-profile recruit out of Pennsylvania who helped elevate
the program to a level of national prestige. The same man. Assistant Coach
C.D. Mock, will take over as head coach next year.
“For the second time in my life, he took a gamble,” Mock said. “How can
you not feel a sincerely strong bond to someone who has taken a tremendous
gamble on you, twice? One time, it panned out very well for both of us.”
In 1982, Mock became the first Tar Heel to capture an NCAA
Championship, leading UNC to a fifth-place finish at nationals - the high
est finish ever for the program. That same year, Lam won the National
Coach of the Year award.
His tireless effort finally brought UNC into the national spotlight and also
was capturing the attention of top talent.
Lenny Bernstein, an All-American at UNC in 1987 and now the coach at the
See LAM, Page 8
She also said that as the United
States faces a looming war with Iraq
and economic uncertainty, events such
as the street fairs are vital in bringing
the community together.
Parrish Anderson, a representative
from Chapel Hill Parks and
Recreation, said the fairs are designed
to strengthen community ties that
weaken as towns grow and expand out
ward.
Anderson said the committee is
looking at how the community has
changed over the years and is explor
ing ways to change the street fairs - or
eliminate them - after gathering public
input.
The committee has been asked to
consider whether the costs of the festi
vals outweigh their benefits.
match (at UNC) - there were like five people there.
There was a janitor, my wife and two parents,” Lam
said. “And I thought, ‘My God, what have I done?’”
In 1974, Lam’s first season as coach, playing the
same schedule as the previous season, the Tar
Heels posted an 11-2 record. The transformation
had begun.
Lam built up the program and continues to
have success by spotting wrestlers and taking
chances on them before they peak.
This was the case with sophomore Evan Sola,
who is ranked 18th in the nation at 133 pounds
and has never lost a regular-season ACC match.
“Not many people were looking at me because I
Residents such as Eunice Brock
expressed uncertainty about the neces
sity of the street fairs. “It seems we
could be doing more with our money
than a five-hour entertainment event,"
Brock said of Apple Chill.
“Nothing has been decided or
planned at this point,” said Pam
Hemminger, a committee representative.
Aaron Nelson, executive director of
the Chapel HiU-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce, said the chamber is sup
portive of the fairs.
“It’s good to know vendors are local
but unfortunate that more outsiders
aren’t coming to spend money," he said.
The street fairs have been criticized
in the past for not generating signifi-
See STREET FAIRS, Page 8
Weather
Today: Wintry Mix; H 36, L 30
Thursday: Rain; H 41, L 31
Friday: Mostly Cloudy; H 50, L 31
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Town Tries
To Preserve
Northside
Integrity
By Ryan C. Tuck
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council
passed a proposal Monday that could
limit the amount of affordable housing
in the Northside neighborhood, an area
that has been changed by an influx of
students in recent years.
A Neighborhood Conservation
District was proposed in response to the
many conversions in Northside of sin
gle-family homes into duplexes.
“We hope that it will encourage people
to not develop their single-family homes
into duplexes,” said Northside resident
Estelle Mabry. “We want to remain more
of a single-family-home neighborhood.”
The newly passed Land-Use
Management Ordinance enables resi
dents to establish NCDs to preserve the
integrity of older neighborhoods and
control housing costs by establishing
individualized zoning rules.
By allowing neighborhoods to have
more input in their zoning rules, they will
be able to control their own develop
ment, said council member Bill Strom.
“We want them to be able to put
motions in place to preserve the social,
economic and environmental viabilities
of the neighborhood,” he said.
NCDs will try to solve the problem of
rental housing in primarily single-family
residential areas that the duplex ban
passed last fall started to fix, said Strom.
The duplex ban prevents the con
struction of new duplexes in much of
Chapel Hill until late June and grew out
of a response to the disruption of single-
See CONSERVATION, Page 8
Duke Reviews
Transplant
Guidelines
Communication key
link in Santillan case
By Gillian Bolsover
Staff Writer
Seventeen-year-old Jesica Santillan’s
death Saturday as a result of a heart and
lung transplant of the wrong blood type
has prompted Duke University Medical
Center to review its communication
procedures.
The medical center completed its ini
tial phase of review of the Santillan inci
dent Friday, which concluded that
“human error occurred at several points
in the organ placement process.”
After the first operation, anew
checks and balances program was
implemented for Santillan’s second
operation and subsequent transplant
procedures. Three people now are
required to check for organ compatibil
ity before an operation takes place.
But the changes were too late for
Santillan, who died two days after a sec
ond heart and lung transplant.
Joel Newman, assistant director of
communications for the United
Network for Organ Sharing, said
Duke’s new policies could be successful
at reducing mistakes. “It will certainly
help reduce the probability that this will
occur again," Newman said.
The complexity of the organ trans
plant process sometimes leads to prob
lems in information transfer, Newman
continued. “Communications were part
of the focus of this particular error.”
See DUKE, Page 8
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