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VOLUME ill, ISSUE 113 Out-of-state tuition may increase TRUSTEES’ DEBATE TO CENTER ON COST HIKES OF AS MUCH AS SB,OOO BY LAURA BOST AND JOHN FRANK STAFF WRITERS This morning, the University’s governing board will discuss eliminating any N.C. tax payer subsidy of out-of-state tuition, effec tively raising nonresident tuition by almost $2,000. No specific proposal for such an increase is on the Board of Trustees’ agenda, but multiple members said Wednesday that they are interested in addressing the issue. A few members even said they would support a hike of $6,000 to SB,OOO that would exceed the cost of educating nonres idents. UNC agrees to clean waste Cleanup needed for development BY EMILY STEEL ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR University officials signed an agreement Wednesday morning with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the voluntary cleanup of a chemical waste site near the Horace Williams Airport. Efforts to begin the remediation of the 0.2-acre site have been in the works for the past couple of years, and now the start of the cleanup makes way for the upcom ing developments of Carolina North. “We want to be good citizens and clean it up,” said Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chancellor for cam pus services. “Carolina North or no Carolina North, we want to take care of cleaning up the sites.” The waste is not an immediate human threat, but chemicals have leaked into nearby groundwater and will continue to spread at an extremely slow rate, said Pete Reinhardt, director of UNC’s Department of Environment, Health and Safety'. Officials estimate the cost of removing the chemical waste at $10.4 million. “We know the University need ed to do the cleanup at this site, so it is good timing,” he said. Elfland expressed concern last spring in an e-mail sent to Nancy Suttenfield, vice chancellor for finance and administration, that the chemical w'aste site would impose a barrier to the advance ment of Carolina North According to the correspon dence, UNC consultants said mix ing incompatible chemicals buried at the site could create toxic gases or cause explosions. “When we drilled the monitor ing wells, the people involved had to wear full chemical suit protec tion and self-contained breathing apparatus just in case toxic vapors came out of the drill holes,” the e mail states. “(Town) employees were so con cerned about their safety that to pacify them we had to do the work on Sunday mornings before the buses started running so no one was at any of the town facilities.” Between 1973 and 1979, UNC officials buried the chemical waste generated by campus laboratories and the former N.C. Memorial Hospital at the site using stan dards approved by DENR. “Now 30 years later, we know that wasn’t such a good idea, and we want to clean it up,” Elfland said. SEE WASTE, PAGE 4 INSIDE FROM THE CLOTH Retailers worry that restrictions on textile imports could cause consumer prices to rise PAGE 3 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Z[\? iathj ®ar litd Board members have discussed the idea privately in recent months, but the topic rose to the forefront during last week’s debate at the UNC-system level about increasing the nonresident enrollment cap. System and state leaders estimate that taxpayers subsidize about $1,500 to $2,000 of the funds needed to educate nonresi dents. “The recent 18 percent initiative has raised issues about out-of-state students to a level where we hear a lot about it,” said Trustee Rusty Carter at a BOT University Affairs Committee meeting. “There is an appetite in this state from taxpayers to have a discussion relative to k’ Minprif/r. / }: -f '•> .., t a aria Henderson, a professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure studies, ascends the JL climbing wall in Fetzer Gym on Wednesday night during a clinic conducted by students from a recreation programming class. The students held the clinic in place of the scheduled sth Annual Leading Edge Competition that Hill to swap land with UNC House exchange will let officials bu ild parking lot BY DAN SCHWIND STAFF WRITER The UNC Board of Trustees unanimously ratified a plan Wednesday to make a property swap with Chapel Hill Town Council member-elect Cam Hill. In the proposal, the University will turn over a house it owns at 412 E. Rosemary St. to Hill in exchange for ownership of his residence at 606 Cameron Ave. Asa result, University officials, who already own the four properties around Hill’s, now can go through with a plan to convert the five lots into a parking lot. The Cameron property is about 3,511 square feet and sits on a lot that is 0.19 acres. The Rosemary proper ty is about 1,716 square feet on a 0.276-acre lot. Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facil ities planning and construction, said the University' has been interested in the property for several years. He said the parking lot became necessary when two maintenance shops moved across the street from the property. Should the University ever obtain a transit corridor to Carolina North, he said, the lot is a good location for an intermodal transfer station. “Strategically, this was a very interesting proper ty to us,” Runberg said. However, the plan has sparked controversy. During his campaign for Town Council, Hill presented him self as a pro-town candidate, advocating neighbor hood protection in the face of UNC expansion. Some have accused Hill of hypocrisy, saying he was dealing secretly with the University during a cam paign in which he stood against it. Hill refutes these allegations. | www.daHytarheel.com | out-of-state tuition.” Board members don’t plan to take any formal action today but will start the process of drafting a proposal for their next meeting in January. The issue was brought up at two differ ent committee meetings Wednesday in dis cussions about increases in student fees and campus-based tuition. The University Affairs Committee delayed action on a proposal to raise tuition S3OO per year for three years until the full board meets. Similarly, the Finance Committee deferred action on a large student fee increase until the affairs committee makes a recommendation on tuition. Board members in both meetings hesi tated to approve any increases without SEE TUITION, PAGE 4 SCALING NEW HEIGHTS was postponed because of a lack of entrants. The competition was rescheduled for Jan. 21,2004. There will be eight competition levels in recreational and competitive divisions for men and women from the general public and UNC community. For more information, contact Climbing Coordinator Ashley Knight at aknight@email.unc.edu. I J J DTH FILE PHOTO/ALEX FINE Cam Hill will trade houses with the University in a plan approved Wednesday by the Board of Trustees. “I never made any secret of (the negotiations),” he said. “I talked about it on more than one occasion during the campaign.” Runberg expressed similar sentiments, saying he thinks Hill’s opinions of the University as a resident exist separately from his decisions as a homeowner. Hill initially fought the swap but eventually decid ed it was in his family’s best interest to make the move. “Who wants to live in the middle of a parking lot?” He also said negotiations with University officials for the swap began in the spring, well before his campaign kicked into full gear. “I would have done this six months ago. It’s the University that hasn’t wanted to get this done,” he said. “The University does not view this as currying my favor, and neither do I. If they did, they’d give me a lot more money and have gotten this done a SEE PROPERTY, PAGE 4 m SPORTS DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? Volleyball team travels to Disney World to face many tough teams in the ACC Tournament PAGE 2 1 jB : llSrasJlllS DTH/ANDREW SYNOWIEZ Michael Smith, dean of the School of Government, speaks Wednesday to the UNC Board of Trustees in Carroll Hall about proposed tuition increases for students. DTH/KRISTIN GOODE Colleges balk at federal policies BY BERNARD HOLLOWAY STAFF WRITER The higher education commu nity has sounded a chorus of alarm in recent weeks in response to several congressional proposals that could change radically the way colleges and universities do business. Proposals by Rep. Howard McKeon, R-Calif., along with Sens. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and John Edwards, D-N.C., all seek to alter the impact of college educa tion on students and families. Each of the proposals has unique goals. McKeon’s plan aims to curb unnecessary university expendi tures, while the Kennedy legisla tion would increase dramatically federally subsidized funding given to students each year. Edwards and Kennedy also have called for an end to the use of legacies and binding early decision contracts in the admis sions process. Poor economic times, dramat ic tuition increases on college campuses across the nation and the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act all have WEATHER TODAY Mostly sunny, H 64, L 41 FRIDAY Mostly sunny, H 69, L 46 SATURDAY Mostly sunny, H 71, L 42 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2003 Northside plans enter final stage Area’s character affected by change BY NICK EBERLEIN ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR As plans to protect Northside, Chapel Hill’s largest historically black and working-class commu nity, enter their final stages, pre liminary preservation measures unveiled Wednesday have earned mixed reviews from local officials and residents. The Northside Neighborhood Conservation District Advisory Committee, the town-appointed body charged with drafting protec tive zoning measures, will submit its proposal to the Chapel Hill Town Council on Monday. The area is the first in the town to be consid ered for conservation status, which would allow restrictive covenants and building codes to be enacted for the district’s development. Many longtime residents say the neighborhood has lost its char acter and affordability because investors buy in and cater solely to a transient market. Instead of building or renovating new homes for single families, crit ics say, developers construct large, expensive, dormitory-like houses that cater only to renters and dis courage young or lower-income families from settling in the area. SEE NORTHSIDE, PAGE 4 Accountability measures are so strict that they impede the progress they seek to create." BILL FRIDAY FORMER UNC-SYSTEM PRESIDENT spurred typically hands-off feder al policymakers to action. But experts such as Neal McCluskey, education policy ana lyst at the Cato Institute, think the actions taken by Congress might be all bluster. McCluskey said some politi cians have asserted that there is a crisis in higher education but added that he’d “call what were facing rising tuition instead of alarming tuition increases.” “And to be quite frank, I don’t think any of the proposals (on the table) will solve the problem.” University leaders across the nation have reacted in staunch opposition to McKeon’s proposal, SEE EDUCATION, PAGE 4 o
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