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Advocates aim to end apathy
New group to focus on honor, ethics
BY MEGAN SEROW
STAFF WRITER
Honor and Integrity Week
ended Friday, but anew group of
students hopes to keep the issues
at the forefront of student life
throughout the year.
Carolina Advocates for Honor is
anew organization formed to
reverse apathy toward the Honor
Code.
It aims to inform students, fac
ulty and staff about the new
changes in the Honor Code and
raise awareness concerning ethics
and honor.
The group has about 15 mem
bers but is looking to expand to
about 100.
The advocates were all asked to
join because of their interest in or
connection with the Honor Court,
but advocate leaders are looking
for a diverse section of students
outside the Honor Court.
Advocates participated in many
events during Honor and Integrity
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Week last week.
The group’s plan for the semes
ter involves talking to groups or
classes who request them, said
Student Attorney General
Jonathan Slain.
“We want to inform everyone
about changes in the organization
of the honor system,” Slain said.
He pointed out that some stu
dents mistakenly view the Honor
Code only as a way to get students
in trouble. But rather than focus
on what students can’t do, advo
cates are working to create more
trust between professors and stu
dents.
“We’ve been working with facul
ty on issues like these," said Mela
Kirkpatrick, a senior advocate who
also is chairwoman of the UNC
Undergraduate Honor Court.
“We’re all under the Honor Code at
all times.”
She and Slain said that the
Honor Code should work both
ways and that it is one of the goals
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Student Attorney General Jonathan Slain (left) and Chairwoman of the
Honor Court Mela Kirkpatrick (right) lead "dorm storming" Wednesday.
of Carolina Advocates for Honor.
Though some of the events last
week created awareness for the
advocates, others, such as “Storm
the Dorm” on Wednesday night,
were not as successful.
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strong turnout, but few students
participated. Students in Hinton
James Residence Hall were pulled
from the lobby couches and as
they waited for elevators in order
to participate in the discussion.
With Honor Carolina —a year
long initiative to promote honor
and integrity on campus still
underway, Slain and Marc
Hennes, outreach coordinator for
Honor Carolina, hope to keep stu
dents and faculty aware of the
honor system throughout cam
pus.
Advocate leaders said they want
to pair the current members who
are experienced with the UNC
honor system with average stu
dents to gain a wider opinion.
Hennes said, “We re looking for
people wbo are interested in the
issues and who have a passion for
ethics and honor.”
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 200 3
Officials address local
school overcrowding
BY SARA LEWKOWICZ
CITY WRITER
Enrollment in Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City schools has
increased by almost 300 students
in the past year, with 196 of the
new students enrolled in the area's
two high schools.
System enrollment has risen to
10,653 students, 297 more than
last year.
Chapel Hill High School is 17
percent over capacity, and East
Chapel Hill High School is 5 per
cent over.
To offset overcrowding, each
high school has added four mobile
classrooms. Four more mobile
classrooms will be added to each
school by January.
The units are expected to
increase each school’s capacity by
more than 200 students, said Neil
Pedersen, CHCCS superintendent.
Plans for adding a third high
school to the district have been
approved recently by the Orange
County Board of Commissioners.
Pedersen said the new high
school likely will be able to handle
growth in high school enrollment
through the end of the decade.
Solutions to the overcrowding
problem seem easier to define than
causes for the increase. Officials
disagree as to why almost 70 per
cent of the system's growth
occurred at the high school level.
Pedersen said he believes that
the difference in enrollment levels
follow demographics. Several years
ago. he said, there was a large influx
of elementary 7 school students.
But Steve Scroggs, CHCCS
assistant superintendent for sup
port services, said the burgeoning
high school enrollment is attrib
uted more aptly to housing costs
rather than a carry-over from a
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“That’s where (Pedersen) and I
disagree,” Scroggs said. “The aver
age price of a house in Chapel Hill is
$320,000. If I’m a 28-year-old with
a 5-year-old kid, can I afford to buy
a house in Chapel Hill?”
City schools are not the only
ones dealing with overcrowding.
Enrollment in Orange County
Schools has increased from 6,255
last year to 6,506.
Most of the overcrowding in the
county system has occurred in its
middle schools, said Anne
D'Annunzio, spokeswoman for the
county school district. She said pro
ponents of a merger between the
two area systems have used these
facts to bolster their argument.
“Some of the talk was, if we were
to merge, our high schools could
help with their high school over
crowding, and vice-versa,”
D'Annunzio said.
Pro-merger activists say consol
idation between the two systems
w ould create less of a financial bur
den than building new schools.
But while a merger might delay
new school construction for a few
years, enrollment will continue to
increase, and eventually new
schools would be necessary,
Scroggs said.
He asserted that, with the
exception of the Robeson County
consolidation of five years ago,
school system mergers in the state
have been fiscal failures.
“No school system in the history
of North Carolina that has merged
has saved money,” Scroggs said.
“Anyone who says ‘we need to
merge to save money’ is barking up
the wrong tree."
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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