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VOLUME 111, ISSUE 84 ANALYSIS Session to kick off new group Talks begin for downtown growth BY RYAN C. TUCK ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR Years of discussion and specu lation finally will materialize today when the Chapel Hill Town Council and downtown officials discuss the possible creation of an independent economic develop ment commission for downtown. The council will hold a work session today to analyze the eco nomic feasibility of the new entity and to discuss the partnership among the town, the University and downtown officials. The council and Charles House, president of the Downtown Commission board of directors, scheduled the meeting as a kickoff for the body's implementation. This oversight body would be responsible for actively recruiting diverse and long-term businesses, monitoring downtown activity and working to ensure sustainability. An independent economic development body would tran scend the duties of the Downtown Commission, a financially limited organization that seeks to increase communication between potential tenants and lease holders. The commission showed a com mitment to the task forces recom mendations by eliminating the position of executive director, held by Robert Humphreys for 13 years, to free $32,000, Humphreys’ for mer salary. On Sept. 25, UNC Chancellor James Moeser pledged his commit ment to a partnership with a sum- SEE DOWNTOWN, PAGE 9 Arnold elected governor THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Californians banished Gov. Gray Davis just 11 months into his sec ond term and elected action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him Tuesday —a Hollywood ending to one of the most extraordi nary political melodramas in the nation’s history. Voters trad ed a career Democratic politician who became one of the state’s most despised chief executives for a moderate Republican 0 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Calif, governor Tuesday in the state recall. megastar who never before had run for office. Davis became the first California governor pried from office and only the second nationwide to be recalled. “Tonight, the voters did decide it’s time for someone else to serve, and I accept their judgment,” Davis said in conceding. He pledged to work for a smooth transition. To the victor goes a spoiled American paradise —a state mired in economic troubles, awash with deficits, now governed by a Republican chief executive with no political experience and a Democratic legislature. Early tallies showed the recall favored by 1,019,874 voters, or 57-5 percent, and opposed by 755,375, SEE VOTE, PAGE 9 Bb3 INSIDE SACRED CEREMONY Tibetan monks bring elaborate five-day mandala ceremony to Carrboro Arts Center PAGE 3 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 tTlir latlu ®ar ifol States fight to keep grads N.C. RESIDENTS RETAINED MORE OFTEN THAN OUT-OF-STATE GRADUATES ■ •'•a If m ? Ik, fe,*?; iitvf '-*-***■■ • -JL ■ ■ WBm .mb A 1.1 \ - m 1 iii&f jfc vjl mm lfe.- 1 pw* ftjif i||S m Jp M DTH/LEAH LATELLA Durham schoolteacher Erica Jensen attended UNC from Staten Island, N.Y. Unlike the majority of out-of-state graduates, Jensen chose to stay in North Carolina after receiving her bachelor's degree in May and took a job teaching Spanish to sixth-graders at Chewning Middle School. Cap affects few grad programs Graduate, professional schools set their own residency enrollment policies BY SUZANNE PRESTO STAEF WRITER While 82-to-18 is the established ratio of in-state to out-of-state under graduate students at UNC, there’s no such magic number for grad uate and professional students. The University’s primary mission at the undergraduate level is straightfor ward: educate the citizens of North Carolina. At the graduate level, that premise is balanced with the desire to entice professionals and scholars to share their expertise with the University and the state. The debate about the out-of-state enroll ment cap doesn’t involve graduate and profes sional schools because they set their own admissions policies rather than following those set by the UNC-system Board of Governors. Some supporters of change in the policy at the undergraduate level point to the diversity and quality of students at the graduate and professional levels to illustrate the benefits of a relaxed cap. Of the 26,359 students at UNC-Chapel Hill, about 10,000 are graduate and professional Prize winner s BY NICK PARKER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Pat Conroy first read Thomas Wolfe at age 15 when a high school English teacher gave him “Look Homeward, Angel.” “Thomas Wolfe found me in the nick of time in the middle of my childhood, and he gave me a way out,” Conroy said. “Thomas Wolfe hit me like a thunderclap. He came to me in my teenage years and changed my entire life.” Wolfe helped Conroy find his voice and ultimately pen best-sell ing novels “The Prince of Tides” and “The Lords of Discipline.” Conroy, recipient of the 2003 Thomas Wolfe Prize, concluded his deeply personal speech Tuesday night in Hill Hall Auditorium by paying homage to the man that put him on his literary path. The Thomas Wolfe Prize, estab lished in October 2000 by the Thomas Wolfe Society and UNC, honors writers who share the same ambition, talent and strength as the now deceased N.C. author. The annual gift is designed to honor the memory of Wolfe, a 1920 UNC alumnus, and to encourage continued excellence in fiction. www.dailytarheel.com students. While at least four professional school pro grams have a cap on out-of-state students, about 60 percent of first-year students in the Graduate School are from outside North Carolina. A majority of these graduate students stay in state after they’ve earned their advanced degrees, said Linda Dykstra, dean of the Graduate School. Residency quotas differ The Graduate School’s wide range of pro grams 64 doctoral degrees and 91 master's 7 learnedfrom ... Thomas Wolfe: A book can change your life and change it forever PAT CONROY, AUTHOR Past winners have been Tom Wolfe (“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”), Larry Brown (“Billy Ray’s Farm”) and Elizabeth Spencer (“No Place for an Angel”). Conroy, the fourth recipient, not only epito mizes the spirit of the award but also has personal ties to Wolfe. Both grew up in households where fear and abuse ruled. Both saw love and affection smothered by violence. Both responded through their written works, rooted in pain but ending in triumph. “Thomas Wolfe had taken this great pain and turned it into good art,” Conroy said. From the moment he read Wolfe, Conroy knew he would be a writer. He since has tried to emulate Wolfe by capturing anger, love, hatred and redemption in his writing. degrees would make an out-of-state cap problematic. “In order to attract a quorum of students with specialized interests —a particular strength in chemistry, perhaps you're really going to have to draw nationally,” Dykstra said. Almost 12,000 hopefuls applied to the Graduate School for the fall 2003 semester. Only 1,775 were accepted. About 58 percent of those students are from outside the state. North Carolinians constitute at least 34 percent of first-year graduate stu dents. Because the Graduate School does not have a residency quota, the school does not have residency data for 8 percent of admitted stu dents. According to the 2003 Graduate School application, only one department under the Graduate School’s auspices mandates that 75 percent of the class be N.C. residents. The Department of Allied Health Sciences SEE GRADUATE, PAGE 9 speech looks inward jjk ' y&dfc; * m DTH/LEAH LATELLA Author Pat Conroy delivers a lecture Tuesday night after receiving the 2003 Thomas Wolfe Prize in Hill Hall Auditorium. UNC alumnus Ben M. Jones and Thomas Wolfe Scholar Hannah Poston presented the medal. “This is what I learned from reading Thomas Wolfe: A book can change your life and change it forever,” he said. Conroy’s works, like Wolfe’s, pull heavily from characters and experiences within his family, an act mirrored in his speech. SPORTS TAKING A LEAD Junior outside hitter Molly Pyles led North Carolina to a 3-0 win over the Virginia Cavaliers PAGE 6 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2003 “If I didn’t have such a wild family, I don’t know what I would write about,” Conroy said. “With my family I shall never go hungry.” But in the end, it wasn’t about pain or triumph. Conroy was honored to receive an award in the name of a man he so greatly WEATHER TODAY T-storms, H 70, L 55 THURSDAY Rain, H 71, L 50 FRIDAY T-storms, H 74, L 51 BY JOE RAUCH STAFF WRITER Some North Carolinians view out-of-state students as interlopers who receive an education at the expense of resident appli cants and then head home after graduation, never to contribute to North Carolina’s economy. But that perception fails to explain UNC-Chapel Hill alumni such as Erica Jensen. Originally from Staten Island, N.Y., Jensen was one of the few students from outside the state to gain admission to UNC-CH. After graduating in May with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish, she stayed in North Carolina and got a job teach ing Spanish at Chewning Middle School in Durham. Jensen is the RAISING Monday; ' - Today: Brakt* • nti on 7hU roalik type of graduate often mentioned as a reason for enrolling more stu dents from outside North Carolina, and according to at least one major study, she’s not atypical. A national study conducted in 2001 by the Southern Technology Council, a North Carolina-based group focused on technology pol icy issues, found that states on average retain about 43 percent of out-of-state students. Still, North Carolinians who remain in the state for college have a higher retention rate. The study found that these graduates are four times as likely SEE RETENTION, PAGE 9 KEEPING STUDENTS IN STATE On average, 76 percent of in-state student: remain in the state where they completed their undergraduate studies while only 43 percent of out-of-state students stay. Percentage of in-state and out-of-state UNC-CH students in the class of 2001 who stayed in North Carolina after graduation: ■ In-state ■ Out-of-state Stayed Stayed Stayed after 1 year after 2 years after 3 years SOURCE: UNC OFFICE OF DTH/SNOW INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & ELLISON respects. “I will have no finer night on earth than this night. If I put this in a novel, it will be such melodrama such silliness you would not read the book.” Contact the A&E Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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