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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2003
COVENANT
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behind (UNC), but we’ll catch up.
This is a good competition it
benefits students.”
Students qualify for Carolina
Covenant if they receive federal stu
dent aid and come from a family
with an income at or less than 150
percent of the federal poverty level.
The program will start next fall with
the incoming class 0f2004.
After Moeser’s address, Shirley
Ort, UNC’s director of scholarships
and student aid, said she heard
from several universities interested
in the Carolina Covenant.
She said she had been in contact
with officials from Georgia,
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service, which proposes a fee
increase of $3.40 per student,
would allow students to receive
computer help online.
The online chat service also
would have the ability' for technical
support staff to fix directly a stu
dent’s computer problem through
a remote desktop control.
Committee members deferred
the issue until its next meeting
Thursday.
The committee also passed a
proposal for an online student cal
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Kentucky, Maine, Michigan,
Missouri, Nebraska, New York,
Washington, Wisconsin and the
University of California system.
“I don’t think (UVa.) will be the
only one we’ll see,” Ort said. “All
my friends in the business were
calling me because they had their
heads down crunching numbers.
Their bosses wanted to see if this
would work for their universities.”
Hubbard said she appreciated
the fact that UNC started the
national dialogue about need-based
financial aid. “I think this is the
path you’ll see a lot of universities
go down in the next couple of years.”
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endar. The calendar will result in a
fee increase of $7.15 per student.
The calendar should be up and
running on CCI computers for next
year’s incoming freshman class.
Committee members should
pass their recommendations to the
chancellor by mid-October for
review. With the chancellor’s
approval, the recommendations
will go to the UNC-Chapel Hill
Board of Trustees and, if passed,
on to the UNC-system Board of
Governors for approval.
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workers to organize their labor
force and work to combat infringe
ments of their rights.
“The director of the center can
be a facilitator by giving resources
that will empower clients to be
self-sufficient,” he said.
Lyles said the center also would
benefit employers. For example,
the center could facilitate an agree
ment among the workers that any
one who arrives intoxicated would
not be allowed to work.
Hector Perez, director of El
Centro Latino, was present at the
fact-finding meeting. He said he
was surprised by the bold ideas
Lyles presented and is looking for
a simpler fix.
“We’re thinking about immedi
ate, thoughtful, education-bound
solutions,” Perez said. To him, Lyles
seemed to present “a big wish list.”
Perez said Lyles’ scheme would
take two years and several hundred
thousand dollars to complete.
Perez also worried about the
risks a program as ambitious as
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Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, an organization that pro
vides legal advice and support to
military personnel affected by the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” rule, said the
policy resembles previous gay bans.
“It is virtually impossible for an
openly gay person to serve in the
military, and the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ policy does not make that any
easier,” Ralls said.
He said about 3 to 5 percent of
the military population is homosex
ual, and the Pentagon discharges
those who reveal themselves at a
rate of three to four people per day.
“Countless thousands of others
choose to serve in silence,” he said.
Natalie Harry graduated from
UNC in May and was discharged
from the ROTC because of her sex
ual orientation. “I was in a serious
relationship, and having to sacri
fice my personal life just wasn’t
worth it,” she said.
Like Klemens, she also wrote a
letter that disclosed her sexuality,
and sent an explanatory e-mail to
her battalion. “I got some very sup
portive e-mails back,” Harry said.
Harry said she also found the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy inva
sive. “Saying includes doing, too,”
she said. “That’s an admission of
sexuality.” She said if someone
becomes suspicious, the military
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Lyles’ would entail.
“What happens if someone
comes to the center then goes to
work ... and machinery is hurt or
damaged who pays?” he asked.
“What happens if employer and
laborer get into a tussle? Those are
high risk issues.”
Perez said he hopes to see more
emphasis on education in the new
program. He would like to offer
ESL and computer classes to work
ers who have not been picked up
by a given hour, possibly through
El Centro Latino.
Elias Loza, one of the day
laborers who will be most affect
ed by the decision, said his biggest
concern is ensuring that employ
ers will know about the new loca
tion and that he will be accessible
to employers who come later in
the day, whether he’s in classes or
not.
Talks will continue next week
among members of the fact-find
ing group when Lyles presents fur
ther research specific to Carrboro.
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may launch an investigation.
In January, Giencke, Harry,
Klemens and two other girls
founded Operation FREEDOM, or
the Foundation for Rights and
Equality An End to
Discrimination and Oppression in
the Military. This organization will
provide support and raise money
for former military personnel seek
ing higher education.
Operation FREEDOM members
represented the group at an N.C.
unity conference and a pride
demonstration in Durham.
The women have been distribut
ing applications for volunteers and
gauging donor interest. Giencke
said she hopes that people are
motivated by their efforts.
Despite recent rulings by the U.S.
Supreme Court overturning anti
sodomy laws, Klemens said the mil
itary is “very, very far behind what
happens in society.”
Ralls said homosexuals soon
might have an easier time in the
military. “Given the conflict in
Afghanistan and the war in Iraq,
there is a growing willingness to
question the rationale of the (‘Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell’) policy,” Ralls said.
For now, all Klemens, Harry and
Giencke can do is keep fighting.
“I think it will get better,” Giencke
said, “but not any time soon.”
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Most of those students were
well qualified and almost half had
SAT scores of 1400 or higher.
Accepted students’ top two rea
sons for not enrolling at UNC-CH:
it’s too much like their high school,
and they didn’t get a financial aid
package like other schools offered
to lure in top students.
But overall, students aren’t
coming because they don’t feel
UNC-CH is the best school.
“Surveys overwhelmingly show
that students go to the school that
is academically superior,” said Steve
Farmer, senior associate director in
the Office of Undergraduate
Admissions. “That means we’re
running in a fast league.”
The UNC system’s governing
body is considering a plan that
could bring in more highly qualified
out-of-state students, which some
argue would help entice the bright
est in-staters to stay in the state.
The plan under review by the
Board of Governors would allow a
4 percent increase, from 18 to 22
percent, in the nonresident cap.
Essentially, it would allow those
with national academic distinc
tion, such as Merit Scholars,
Achievement Scholars and
Hispanic Scholars, to be admitted
under the new cap.
N.C. suffers 'brain drain'
Losing the state’s brightest stu
dents is of particular concern to
UNC-CH and is one of the reasons
most often cited by Chancellor
James Moeser for loosening the
current policy.
He argues that letting in more
students from the pool of highly
competitive out-of-state appli
cants often turned away with
grade point averages higher than
4.0 and SAT scores higher than
1300 would make the student
body both more geographically
diverse and more intelligent.
But a majority of North
Carolinians who turn down an
offer from UNC-CH will enroll in
another university in the state.
Fifty-four percent attend univer
sities such as N.C. State University,
Duke University and Wake Forest
University, according to surveys
conducted by the UNC-CH under
graduate admissions office.
The most popular out-of-state
destination for those who were
accepted was the University of
Georgia, the survey showed.
Still UGa. accounted for just 1.8
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percent of those who left, placing it
behind six other universities all
of which are in North Carolina.
But the credentials of those
leaving the state and those
remaining differ greatly, said Jerry
Lucido, director of UNC-CH’s
undergraduate admissions.
The average SAT score of in
staters who enrolled as UNC-CH
freshmen this year was 1272, while
the average score of students lost
to other states was 1376, he said.
Officials’ fear is that these high
ly qualified students might put
down roots in other states after
school and never return to North
Carolina —a possibility that par
ticularly stings as the state begins
to view intellectual capital as the
replacement for the state’s falter
ing manufacturing base.
Students who leave their home
state for college are less likely to
move back, according to a Southern
Technology Council report often
cited by proponents of the change.
“Of the North Carolina students
admitted to Carolina who decline
our offer, between 43 percent and
51 percent of them leave our state,"
said Moeser, citing the study in his
recent State of the University
address.
This trend shows how states can
lose top-notch students who will
become the future’s work force.
“I definitely don’t want to have
to go back to Charlotte unless I
absolutely have to,” said Nandi
Cohen, a senior at the University
of Michigan-Ann Arbor. “I don’t
see that many job opportunities in
North Carolina.”
Cohen, who graduated Bth out
of a class of about 150 at
Northwest School of the Arts
High School in Charlotte, accept
ed admission offers to both UNC
CH and Michigan, only to with
draw from UNC at the last minute.
'l3th year of high school'
Another reason Cohen didn’t
select UNC-CH was the fact that it
was too similar to her high school.
One trip to the Ann Arbor cam
pus and she was sold on the
diverse makeup of that university’s
student body.
Admission officers said this is a
typical argument from in-state
students. “They don’t want us to be
a 13th year of high school with all
the kids from their high school,”
Lucido said.
Letting in more out-of-state
students, he said, will increase the
geographical diversity of the stu
dent body and help reduce that
concern for in-state students.
“It is also about providing North
Carolinians with an environment
that brings them into contact with
folks from other places with a great
deal of talent,” he said.
Admissions officials spend
about 80 percent of their recruit
ing efforts in North Carolina,
going to college fairs and high
schools to try to retain the best and
brightest in-state students.
Some high schools that present a
particular challenge are Providence
High School in Charlotte, Charlotte
Country Day School and
Broughton High School in Raleigh.
“It’s the schools where the stu
dents have more financial ability
and can pay that out-of-state
tuition,” Lucido said.
Money lures in-staters
While financial ability helps in
state students pay tuition at
schools outside the state, financial
aid packages offered by those col
leges also help alleviate the costs.
The lack of financial assistance
from the University is the second
most cited reason accepted in
state students don’t enroll.
“I do think (lack of financial aid
for in-state students) is a factor in
the brain-drain issue,” said Shirley
Ort, director of the office of schol
arships and financial aid.
“Especially now because of what’s
happening with the economy.”
Money was at the crux of fresh
man Nedra McLaughlin’s decision
to enroll at Princeton University.
McLaughlin graduated from the
N.C. School of Science and Math
with a 5.25 grade point average on
a 6-point scale.
“It wasn’t a slap to Carolina,"
she said. “Princeton and Duke
actually offered me more money
than Carolina.”
Private schools and out-of-state
public schools create aid packages
that make their tuition competi
tive with in-state rates.
Ort said that UNC-CH can’t
compete with these incentives
because of its need-based aid focus.
“We don’t have as much merit
based money as some of the other
institutions,” she said.
UNC is working on sources to
fund more scholarship money
through the Carolina First cam
paign, but Ort said it’s harder to
solicit merit-based aid.
“We favor an increase in both
kinds of financial aid,” she said.
“We need to make sure we are bal
ancing equity and excellence.”
Staff Writer John Frank
contributed to this story.
Contact the Projects Team
atjbfrank@email.unc.edu.