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Arts Carolina loses funding
BY NICK PARKER
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
SEPT. 3 The arts community
has never been a cohesive unit.
Each of the eclectic fields of the
fine arts dramatic, studio, musi
cal, performance, written has its
own lingo, its own advocates, its
own world.
Weaving together a song and
dance in front of a massive modem
mural is a logical step in creating a
mixed media production, but bring
ing it all together is another story.
“It is very difficult to bring a
bunch of different, ego-driven per
formance folks together collective
ly,” said Jim Ketch, chairman of the
UNC Department of Music.
“Everyone has their own goals and
own idea of what message they
want to tell.”
Art, no matter the form, is a
vehicle for expression. It is sacred
because it is so individual. Therein
lies the problem in bringing the
arts community together for a sin
gle, collective goal.
But for the past three years, Arts
Carolina an umbrella arts
organization established in
January 2000 has made such
collaboration possible. Arts
Tepper defeats Shin to lead student body
BY JENNY IMMEL
AND ROB LEICHNER
STAFF WRITERS
FEB. 18 Matt Tepper narrow
ly defeated Sang Shin on Tuesday
to win the student body president
race with 56.6 percent of the vote.
But from their embrace 30 min
utes after the announcement, it
was hard to tell if Matt Tepper or
Shin was the victor.
The look of nervousness on Matt
Tepper’s face instantly faded into
one of shock and amazement when
Board of Elections Chairman Brian
Fauver read the results in the
packed “Carolina Week” studio.
“It is an amazing feeling,” Matt
Tepper said. “It was a really hectic
campaign.”
After the announcement Matt
Tepper said that he planned to con
sider the other candidates’ plat
form ideas for incorporation in his
upcoming term.
“I’ll definitely have to sit down
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Carolina, or more specifically its
director, Amy Brannock, focused
voices, events, volunteers, ideas
and creations from across the cam
pus community on a central goal.
And it worked.
Arts Carolina consistently updat
ed a Web site promoting the arts,
printed a tabloid section every
semester highlighting almost every
campus arts event, established a
balanced working relationship with
town and University officials and
organized massive events of its own,
combining the skills and expertise
of various University departments.
“Arts Carolina and Amy really
pulled their weight,” Ketch said.
“She exceeded the initial hopes and
even the idea of the program.”
But a dream can’t last forever.
As of June 30, Arts Carolina is
no more. The nation k experienc
ing its worst budget crisis since
World War 11, and its effects can be
seen everywhere.
UNC alone lost $23.7 million in
funding this year, and cuts have
been felt all over campus. From
computer labs and class funds to
HEELS 4 Health and the First
Year Initiative, administrators
faced a series of tough decisions
and look at all of them and see
which points fit into my platform.”
His own platform is the first pri
ority, Matt Tepper said, especially
establishing his proposed student
wish list and setting up bike pumps
at the Student Union.
Although he said he does not yet
have any specific people in mind
for his administration, he wants to
follow Student Body President Jen
Daum’s lead and select a diverse
group.
“I want to make sure we pull
from a large group of people so we
have a diverse voice, representative
of the entire student body,” Matt
Tepper said.
Ending the campaign and tak
ing office will be a great relief, Matt
Tepper said. “Hopefully, I’! 1 , have
time to get some schoolwork done
... before I get to work on my plat
form,” he said.
Before he takes office in April,
Matt Tepper said, he plans to work
Year in Review
about what to nix.
Arts Carolina, with a $120,000
annual budget, was one of the
largest cuts. When it was estab
lished three years ago, it was a pilot
program funded by the College of
Arts and Sciences.
But in December 2002, Arts
Carolina received a glowing review
from a committee headed by
Darryl Gless, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, and officials
decided Arts Carolina should
beconle a permanent program.
Its funding was renewed tem
porarily for the spring 2003
semester while leaders searched
for permanent funding. The
money was never found.
“Between December and May,
clearly not enough efforts were
made to find new funding,”
Brannock said. “I was never allowed
to commission directly to the
administration and was never given
a satisfactory answer about the
money I asked about. Apparently,
other things took priority.”
Those other priorities, adminis
trators say, were exactly the moti
vation for the program’s elimina
tion.
Gless the same Gless who so
with the current administration
and to ask for advice on selecting
his administration and taking
office. “I’m sure I’ll be talking a lot
with the Jen Daum administration,
and they have a lot they can tell us,”
he said.
Most of Matt Tepper’s support
ers watched the announcement
from 111 Carroll Hall after arriving
too late to find a seat in the crowd
ed studio. Matt Tepper said his
campaign staff was instrumental in
helping him win the election.
Matt Tepper said his sister,
freshman Megan Tepper, lifted a
lot of the burden from his shoul
ders during the campaign. Her
support and campaigning in the
residence halls provided a great
help, he said.
“She rallied the freshman class,
and it was good to have some
familial support through this
whole thing.”
Megan Tepper said that
vehemently praised Arts Carolina in
December had to make cuts
within his college, and he chose to
presei ve as many classes as possible.
“There was just no money this
year for extra programs,” Gless
said. “I drafted that (December)
report myself, but my responsibili
ty is to protect, first, programs that
serve an educational purpose.”
Brannock said that she under
stands and accepts the cuts but
that she is frustrated by what she
views as the sudden and cruel
nature of the process.
“I have been disappointed in the
way that I was treated,” Brannock
said. “I was given no severance
package, only a two-month notice
that Arts Carolina would be elimi
nated, and no preferential treat
ment in finding another job in the
University. The job ended, and I
was left on my own.”
But since the University is, first
and foremost, about academics,
administrators said they believe
the core curriculum not
extracurricular must be its pri
mary focus.
Contact theA&E Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
although she does not plan to get
into campus politics, her brother’s
campaign will be beneficial to the
school.
“I think he has some really great
ideas that are really new and will
help the school a lot,” Megan
Tepper said. “It was hard to* keep
motivated through some of it, but
it was a lot of fun.”
Shin sat by as the results were
read, clasping hands with his sup
porters gathered around him, who
had been waiting more than an
hour. “I’m not going to lie,” he said
after the results were read. “I am
very disappointed. We were above
qualified for the job.”
Shin said that he congratulates
Matt Tepper on a hard-fought
campaign and that there is a
chance he will work with him next
year.
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at udesk@unc.edu.
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BOG calls for
out-of-state
tuition raise
BY BROOK R. CORWIN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
NOV. 20 The University’s
governing board delayed a vote to
raise tuition and student fees
Thursday, directing campus offi
cials to draft a more long-term
proposal that emphasizes an out
of-state tuition increase.
The move sends the University’s
Tuition Task Force back to the
drawing board just three months
before the UNC-system Board of
Governors plans to vote on campus
tuition increases.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of
Trustees was expected to vote on a
proposal, crafted by the task force
last month, to raise tuition across
the board by S3OO each year for
three years.
But trustees strongly objected to
such an increase, advocating
instead a percentage-based increase
that would raise tuition by a greater
amount for out-of-state students.
Talk of raising out-of-state stu
dent tuition by at least $1,500 has
surfaced during debate on whether
the UNC system’s nonresident
enrollment cap should be raised
from 18 percent to 22 percent.
The BOG has tabled the cap
issue, but UNC-CH Chancellor
James Moeser has said he will con
tinue to push for the increase.
Given the University’s stance on
the out-of-state enrollment cap,
trustees advocated an increase that
demonstrates concern for North
Carolinians.
“This (proposal) sends absolute
ly the wrong message,” said Nelson
Schwab, chairman of the BOT’s
Finance Committee. “It’s not what
we tried to convey with the 82-18
discussions.”
Trustees said many members of
the public got the impression that
UNC-CH wasn’t prioritizing the
education of North Carolinians
during that discussion, something
the board has the opportunity to
reverse with a tuition proposal
favoring in-state students.
“We could be doing the out-of
state community a favor by. raising
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tuition,” said Trustee Robert
Winston. “That could ultimately be
one of the things that gets us to the
ultimate goal of raising the cap.”
Matt Tepper, student body pres
ident and ex officio member of the
BOT, expressed concern that the
BOG or the N.C. General Assembly
could tack on tuition increases that
would burden out-of-state stu
dents further.
“We could be setting ourselves
out of the market for out-of-state
students,” Tepper said.
“Unfortunately, there are a lot of
these factors beyond our control.”
Moeser said a sharp increase in
nonresident tuition could make
athletic and merit-based scholar
ships too expensive to fund fully.
“Unless we can hold harmless the
costs for these programs, we will
wreak havoc on the athletic depart
ment and cripple merit scholarship
programs,” Moeser said.
The trustees also had been
scheduled to vote on several
increase proposals for graduate
and professional schools and an 11
percent increase in student fees.
Both votes were delayed so they
can be taken in the context of the
University’s undergraduate tuition
increase. Despite a request by the
BOG for at least preliminary fig
ures for a campus-based tuition
increase, the BOT decided to com
mission anew proposal for consid
eration at its January meeting. The
BOG then would vote on the pro
posal in February.
“The task force should come
back with new proposals,” said
Rusty Carter, chairman of the BOT
University Affairs Committee.
The extra time is needed,
trustees said, so the task force can
craft a long-range plan that imple
ments a major increase gradually.
“This needs to be long-term,”
Trustee Paul Fulton said. “We’re
talking about a fundamental shift
in the way we charge out-of-state
students.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
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