VOLUME 111, ISSUE 57
Cuts hit
graduate
students’
finances
Grad positions
drop with budget
BY BROOK R. CORWIN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Dan Herman thought he had a
good candidate to fill an open seat
in the Graduate and Professional
Student Federation.
The candidate was qualified,
would have been around all year
and had financial support from a
teaching assistant position.
Then he lost his TA funding for
the next semester, and his status as
a GPSF senator —and as a UNC
student was placed in jeopardy.
Hearing such tales of hardship
has become increasingly common
for Herman since he took office as
GPSF president last April.
Budget cuts have made the
number of on-campus jobs for
graduate students including
teaching assistant, research assis
tant and technical support posi
tions increasingly scarce.
“Positions are going down all
over campus,” Herman said.
“A lot of cuts were made in the
past that had been fairly invisible,
but now you’re seeing them.”
And many graduate students
are experiencing them.
For example, the closing of a
computer training center for fac
ulty and staff this summer elimi
nated several positions staffed by
graduate students.
Although the University is
bringing in a record number of
research awards from outside
sources, Herman said, many
departments in the College of Arts
and Sciences actually are cutting
back on available research assis
tant positions.
With state budget cuts amount
ing to more than SSO million dur
ing the past two years, departments
heavily reliant on state funds don’t
have enough money for new
research projects, Herman said.
For some graduate students, the
SEE GRAD STUDENTS, PAGE 7
UM to try
‘holistic’
race policy
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The
University of Michigan unveiled a
new undergraduate admissions
policy Thursday that gives the high
est priority to academic achieve
ment but also retains race as a fac
tor in an effort to comply with a
recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
“We continue to believe in gath
ering a group of students that are
very bright but different from one
another— students from all walks
of life and backgrounds,” UM
Provost Paul Courant said.
In a 6-3 ruling in June, the
Supreme Court struck down the
university’s race-conscious point
system for undergraduate admis
sions, which gave a 20-point boost
to minority applicants, greater
weight than it gave to some meas
ures of academic excellence.
The same day it issued that rul
ing, the high court also issued a 5-
4 ruling on UM’s Law School
admissions policy.
In that ruling, the court decided
that race can be a factor that col
leges use to select their students
provided that it is not the only fac
tor.
The lawsuits were filed by three
white UM applicants Jennifer
Grata and Patrick Hamacher, who
applied as undergraduates in 1995,
and Barbara Grutter, who applied
in 1997 to the Law School— who
SEE MICHIGAN, PAGE 7
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Rogerio Maldonado Rivera stands near the corner of Davie and Jones Ferry roads in Carrboro early Thursday morning. Along with
many other men, Rivera waits for contractors looking for workers for the day. Sometimes workers secure a spot as early as 6:30 a.m.
LABORERS MAY BE
FORCED TO MOVE
Immigrant workers provide labor, but some are criticized for loitering
BY EMILY VASQUEZ STAFF WRITER
At 6:15 a.m. there already are four men in line at The Pantry, a con
venience store located at the intersection of Jones Ferry and Davie
roads in Carrboro. Three additional men fill cups with steaming
coffee at the end of the counter.
The stores assistant manager estimates that these regulars account for
about 30 percent of the stores sales. But as soon as they step outside the
store, they are told not to loiter and to walk away quickly from the store
front to drink their coffee.
These are Carrboro’s day laborers. Most of them are Mexican immigrants
who wait each morning for contractors and landscaping companies to pull
up and offer a day’s work.
Recently their daily assembly has
become the source of a great deal of com
plaint from local businesses, customers and
residents.
“We probably answer at least two to
three calls for service each day in that gen
eral area,” said Carrboro Police Chief
Carolyn Hutchison. “Sometimes more.”
Alfred Avery, assistant manager at The
Pantry, verified Hutchison’s estimation.
“Customers complain of panhandling every
day; we call police,” he said.
Steady reports of loitering, suspicious
persons, public intoxication, harassment
and even drug deals have made this inter
section one of Carrboro’s “hot spots” —a
location requiring ever-increasing amounts
of police patrol.
The complaints have left day laborers
unwanted in the area.
As Fausto Ruiz Morina, a laborer, said in
Spanish, “We all end up paying for one.”
New apparel colors bring bucks to UNC
BY EMILY STEEL
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC is looking for a pot of gold at the
end of the rainbow.
After Student Stores was flooded with
pink regalia last spring, periwinkles,
tangerines and lime greens started trick
ling into the shop, mingling with the
classic Carolina blue.
UNC merchandise generated SIOO
million last year, making it one of the
top selling college apparels in the coun
try.
About 3.6 percent of that money
came from the colorful merchandise.
While UNC fans only have been able
to purchase the clothing on campus for
a couple of months, the nontraditional
line has been on the market for almost
two decades.
In fact, varied colors of UNC apparel
date back to the 1980s, said Rut Tufts,
the University's deputy director for aux
iliary services.
But the colorful line didn’t catch the
eye of John Jones, campus merchandis-
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Hutchison acknowledged that not all the
laborers are responsible for the distur
bances and that only a small group of men
are repeatedly the source of trouble. These
men often don’t find work and instead
remain along the roadside all day, usually
consuming alcohol.
Concerned that the area could deterio
rate, Hutchison recently resolved to seek a
solution.
“We want to provide a safer, more rea
sonable spot to wait for work,” she said.
Hutchison asked Carrboro’s Board of
Aldermen on Tuesday for permission to
begin an active review of the troubled inter
section, which likely would lead to the
establishment of anew and more accept
able pickup spot for the laborers.
Hutchison’s proposal includes an ordi
nance that would bring an end to loitering
at the location.
Alderman John Herrera said he would
like to establish a place with trash cans, a
“It has nothing to do with athletics. It has
to do with fash ion. ” john jones , CAMPUS MERCHANDISING DIRECTOR
ing director, until April.
While attending a national meeting of
college bookstores at the University of
Oregon, Jones saw articles of clothing in
shades other than the host school's tra
ditional green and yellow.
He said he spoke with managers from
college stores across the country and
learned that college apparel in colorful
shades is selling well, especially at
schools in California.
When Jones returned to UNC, he
asked buyers to add Carolina-imprinted
clothing to the store in nontraditional
colors.
Although traditional Carolina blue
remains the overwhelming favorite color
of students, Jones said, periwinkle, pink
and graphite also have sold well.
“We know the base of our market is
Carolina blue, but just for that person
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Carrboro has a large group of day laborers
who have no steady job and who depend
on contractors for employment.
shelter to protect the day laborers from
adverse weather and possibly even a
portable toilet.
Alderman Jacquelyn Gist suggested
Tuesday that the parking lot behind the
Carrboro Farmers’ Market might be a suit
able spot for the relocation. It is unoccu
pied weekday mornings and is within walk
ing distance from The Pantry.
But the problem solving has just begun.
“There is a lot of liability attached to
finding anew location. Asa community, we
need to brainstorm for the best solution,”
said Herrera.
Hutchison also acknowledged that she
will need to consult with the laborers and
their employers regarding the hours during
which individuals would be permitted to
wait at any new location. She originally
suggested that the pickup zone should be
open between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and
SEE LOITERING, PAGE 7
who wants something different, who
wants to make a fashion statement, we
added some new colors,” Jones said.
Customers have bought about 400
pieces of the colorful Tar Heel regalia
since the clothing arrived at Student
Stores this summer, he said.
While he said he recognizes that dif
ferent people have different tastes,
Sherrell McMillan, president of the
Carolina Athletic Association, said he
doesn’t expect fans to wear nontradi
tional colors while supporting the Tar
Heels.
“I don’t see Carolina pink being very
strong at football games,” he said.
But Ttifts said that not only UNC stu
dents buy the merchandise.
“It has nothing to do with athletics,”
SEE COLORS, PAGE 7
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2003
Report
critical
of APS
shelter
BY NICK EBERLEIN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
After months under a micro
scope, the local chapter of the
Animal Protection Society was
served sobering news Thursday:
Its control over Orange County’s
animal shelter might come to an
end within months.
The Humane Society of the
United States released its sensitive
report on the shelter’s operations
after the Orange County Board of
Commissioners work session
adjourned late Thursday night.
“We look at this report as a tool
to improve and not use as a
weapon.... To do that is detrimen
tal to the entire community,” said
Kate Pullen, the Humane Society’s
consultation services director.
“The situation here in Orange
County is a lot of people who are
looking to this report for validation
of their own feelings,” she said.
The release of the evaluation
was preceded by a round-table dis
cussion among the commission
ers, the Orange County Board of
Health and the APS.
County officials asked the
Humane Society in September for
an assessment of the animal shel
ter in response to public criticism
of its administration.
The outcry reached its zenith in
February when area animal rights
activists Judith Reitman and Elliot
Cramer filed suit against the shel
ter’s director, Laura Walters, and
the APS board of directors.
Cramer and Reitman accused
Walters and the APS board of
financial mismanagement and ani
mal cruelty, among other charges.
The parties are scheduled to meet
with a court-appointed mediator
within a month.
Gwen Harvey, assistant county
manager, said the role that the
APS will play in the shelter’s oper
ations is “to be determined.” If the
county assumes control of the
shelter, which all indications sug
gest, the APS will lose all its
administrative powers.
Harvey presented a preliminary
staff report to the commissioners
that outlined measures the county
might take if it assumes control of
the shelter. APS renews its contract
to run the shelter on a yearly basis,
but starting Tuesday it will be sub
ject to monthly renewals.
Pullen repeatedly urged her
audience to avoid overreacting to
the Humane Society’s findings.
“The preliminary report had
nothing positive to say about APS,
that’s true,” she said. “But when the
recommendations are taken out of
context they can be damaging and
hinder progress.”
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Sophomore psychology major Kim Pastwick tries on
one of the newly available colors of UNC garments
at Student Stores on Wednesday afternoon.
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