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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 82 Out-of-state ceiling may buckle RAISING THE OUT-OF-STATE ENROLLMENT CAP PITS SERVICE AGAINST EXCELLENCE BOG to consider change on Friday BY JOHN FRANK SENIOR WRITER UNC-system officials in the next few months will re-examine the lifeblood of the university sys tem: the student body. At issue is the 18 percent cap on students from outside North Carolina, but the debate will encompass far more than the out-of-state to in-state ratio. The contro versy pits the system’s mis sion to serve the state against its RAISING Today: Deiwttaphlcs Tuesday: Braft| Or am desire to improve the student body. The UNC system’s Board of Governors will address at its Friday meeting a plan to allow sys tem campuses to admit as many as 4 percent more “academically superior” out-of-state students. Opponents argue that out-of state students shouldn’t take spots away irom North Carolinians. But UNC-system President Molly Broad said that wouldn’t be the case because of systemwide enrollment growth put in place in 1998 to allow for the growing num ber of N.C. high school graduates. But UNC-Chapel Hill is slated to grow only slightly during the next five years, so any nonresident increase could limit the number of spots available for in-state students. The cap has faced scrutiny since the BOG established it in 1986. Before the stringent policy was set, system universities enjoyed greater leeway in admitting stu dents from outside North Carolina. “This is not anew idea," said Jerry Lucido, director of under graduate admissions at UNC-CH. “It's been played with since the ’sos, and at one point or another there was a 15 percent cap but a very, very liberal interpretation of what the cap would conclude. “Some of the campuses conclud ed they were well over 20 percent at the 29 or 30 percent mark in the early ’6os,” he added. But now, the BOG policy states that any institution that exceeds the cap will have its state operating budget reduced. SEE ENROLLMENT, PAGE 4 ACADEMIC VARIATION AMONG THE 2003-04 FRESHMAN CLASS AT UNC-CH The percentage of in state and out-of-state students scoring within four ranges of SAT scores so Li 1111 10 mm II II O JU ■£ '■ below 1100 1100-1290 1300-1490 1500-1600 SOURCE: UNC OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS Town group lays down Carolina North tenets Sets 3 goals for land’s development BY RYAN C. TUCK ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR As UNC officials continue plan ning for the University’s future commercial and research facilities park, a local lobbying group has weighed in with a list of stipula tions necessary to maintain hos pitable town-gown relations. The Chapel Hill Town Council created the Horace Williams Citizens Committee last October and charged the 23-member group with establishing principles to help guide the University’s development of its Carolina North property. The council will discuss the committee’s final report and find ings Wednesday. Town Manager Cal Horton rec ommended that the council sched ule a public hearing on the report ONLINE Women face unique pressures at collegiate level System schools joined in development initiative Look for more stories on dailytarheel.com Serving the students and the University community since 1893 (flir lath} cTttr Merl HHI Mi' * XSHHx / w TmT‘ mm vIBHr Hk v - '■ fS * *\ DTH/BRIAN CASSELIA Junior Amorn Wongsarnpigoon, a Morehead Scholar from Chicago, is president of the Asian Students Association. Like many out-of-state students at UNC, Wongsarnipigoon is a minority and a campus leader. Eighteen percent of UNC students now are from states other than North Carolina. Residency factors into success BY JAMIE DOUGHER SENIOR WRITER Amorn Wongsarnpigoon is a typi cal out-of-state student. He’s academically strong, he's a minority and he’s involved on campus. Wongsarnpigoon, a junior Morehead Scholar from Chicago, is president of the Asian Students Association. He reflects the myriad disparities between in-state and out-of-state students, ranging from academics and socio-economic background to campus involvement factors that UNC-system officials will take into account as they discuss increasing the out-of-state enrollment cap. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser repeatedly has pointed The percentage of in-state and out-of-state students ranking near the top of their high school classes top tenth second tenth second fifth third fifth later this month. Council members look to vote on the guidelines before the end of the year. The committee consolidated its research into three overarching goals for the development of the property. The first goal is to adhere to established principles of sustain ability, which includes preserving the property's environmental, eco nomic and social integrity'. Secondly, the committee said, the University must develop the land with an understanding and consciousness of the property’s impact on surrounding areas. Finally, the report stated that the growth of the town and the University should be monitored SEE NORTH, PAGE 4 www.dailytarheeLcom to out-of-state students' academic accolades as validation for raising the 18 percent nonresident enrollment cap. Out-of-state students at UNC-CH on average ranked higher in their high school graduating classes and scored better on the SAT than in state students. For the 2003-04 freshmen class, the average SAT score for out-of state students who enrolled at the University was 1331; the average score for in-state students was 1272. “Last year we received nearly 11,000 applications for 630 nonres ident spaces," said Jerry Lucido, director of undergraduate admis sions. “In reviewing those applica tions. we turned away hundreds and Hln state ■ Out-of-state The type of high school, either public or private, attended by in-state students 87% immc i i ; ?/' 12% Hag} * Pubk >choo' Other Festifall draws eclectic assembly JP .*j \mk mm J f ypk m w *3 Mj V It V | jP : JkL flfefe’ 40%; 1^ DTH/GABITRAPENBERG Barbara Sequera (left), Taina Riera and the group Danza Venezuela perform Sunday outside Patio Loco during Festifall on Franklin Street. The group wore the colors of the Venezuelan flag while performing. SPORTS OVERTHROWN The Tar Heel men's soccer team defeats No. 1 Maryland PAGE 10 hundreds and hundreds of students who were simply outstanding.” Out-of-state students also are rep resented disproportionately in the Honors Program, with nonresidents constituting 55 percent of the pro gram’s 2003 freshman class. “That would intuitively be some thing I would expect, that coming in with very' high qualifications they would become involved in the Honors Program." said Dean Bresciani, inter im vice chancellor for student affairs. But many of the differences that distinguish in-state and out-of-state freshmen academically dissipate over time. At graduation, there are fewer discernable differences between the SEE STUDENTS, PAGE 4 The type of high school, either public or private, attended by out-of-state students. 68% 28% ■ Public school '■wKßmmL Pnvate school Other DTH/LINDSAY BETH ELLISON INSIDE ACT ONE Student work is featured in all aspects of the 10th annual One Act Festival PAGE 6 o “ Out-of-state students come (to UNC) with exceptionally high qualities” DEAN BRESCIANI, unc BY MEGHAN GAMBLING STAFF WRITER Area residents and visitors used the Franklin Street asphalt for dancing, mingling and shopping during Sunday’s 31st annual Festifall street fair in downtown Chapel Hill. Attendees at Festifall, which stretched along West Franklin Street between its intersections with Mallette and Roberson streets, included performers, ven dors, craftsmen and political activists from all over the TViangle. Stages were situated at each end of the festival and featured a wide range of dance and musical performers. At the children’s stage, the Bouncing Bulldogs demon strated their double Dutch skills, and Signsations accompanied pop ular tunes with sign language. Event organizers estimated that about 15,000 TViangle residents flooded the streets to attend this WEATHER TODAY Mostly cloudy, H 74, L 48 TUESDAY Partly cloudy, H 70, L 47 WEDNESDAY Partly cloudy, H 72, L 46 MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2003 BOG panel OKs change BY ELLIOTT DUBE ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR A UNC-system Board of Governors committee voted 7-2 Friday to approve an exemption to the current 18 percent out-of-state enrollment cap. Under the proposal, as much as an additional 4 percent of spots in a UNC-system school’s freshman class could be used for “academi cally superior” nonresident stu dents. Those students would include National Merit Scholars, National Achievement Scholars, National Hispanic Scholars and “other sim ilarly qualified students,” the def inition of which ultimately would be determined by UNC-system officials and the 16 system schools. The majority of the Educational Planning, Policies and Programs Committee sup ported the exemption. But a couple of dissenters voiced their concern that by effectively raising the nonresi dent limit, the board would alienate members of the N.C. General Assembly, which ulti mately controls funding for the system. The new version includes lan guage that might assuage con cerned state lawmakers. For example, it authorizes the UNC-system president to suspend the exemption for any campus that doesn’t meet its BOG approved enrollment target for North Carolinians. “It is (an addition) that I think puts teeth in enforcement,” board member Charles Mercer told the committee. In addition, the committee moved to make a last-minute revi sion to the approved plan that w ould require the system’s presi dent to document all applicants “by their residency status, includ ing identifiable reasons for nonac ceptance.” On the minority side of the vote, BOG member Addison Bell told the committee via telephone, “I believe there’s overwhelmingly negative support for raising the cap.” He added that approving the exemption now would be unwise, because in doing so the board SEE PANEL VOTE, PAGE 4 year’s fair. “We just like to come and walk around," said Kim Shaw, who was accompanied by her young son. “We try to buy things to support the local artists.” Marty Cauly ran a booth advo cating his plan to start anew United Methodist church in Chapel Hill. He said he hoped to reach “the rainbow of Chapel Hill’s personalities.” Issam Diek, a Christian-born Palestinian, sold artwork made by his family, which lives on the West Bank, to raise money and promote discussion about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Other political activists includ ed candidates running for Chapel Hill Town Council seats as well as representatives from NARAL Pro- Choice North Carolina, an organ ization that promotes reproduc tive rights for women. SEE FESTIFALL, PAGE 4
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