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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2004
PETITION
FROM PAGE 1
“\Ve don’t see it as a lobbying
effort,” said Jonathan Howes, spe
cial assistant to Chancellor James
Moeser. “This was just a way to try
and get to know the council better
and improve our relationship.”
The coalition thinks otherwise.
Chapel Hill resident Elaine
Barney, who presented the petition
at Monday’s meeting, said she
thinks this is a case of lobbying on
the part of the University.
“We just felt like it was some
thing that needed to be brought to
the council’s attention,” Barney
said. “We felt that this was their
way of getting around open meet
ing laws.”
In the petition, the coalition
asks the council to take three steps
to end the policy.
First, it asks the council to rec
ognize the efforts by University
officials as lobbying.
It then asks the council to put
an end to the meetings until a pol
icy regarding lobbying efforts out
side the public process can be
established.
Finally, it asks the council to
pass lobbying regulations similar
to those of Madison, Wis., which
require registration of lobbyists
and disclosure of their activities.
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be-all of ordinances,” Barney said.
“But it’s something.”
She said that although the
meetings technically are legal, she
believes they should not be held in
private because important com
munity issues, such as the imple
mentation of Carolina North,
might be addressed in the meet
ings.
“We’re not asking to restrict
communication,” she said. “We just
want it to be an open process. ...
We thought it was important to
include the public in all this.”
Howes, a former mayor of
Chapel Hill, said concerns that the
meetings are a way around the
N.C. Open Meetings Law have no
substance.
The law states that any meeting
of the majority of an elected body
taking place for the purpose of
conducting hearings, participating
in deliberations or voting upon
public business within its jurisdic
tion must be open to the public.
“The University is working hard
to make sure that citizens know
what this is all about,” Howes said.
“One-on-one meetings aren’t the
place where any action is going to
be taking place.”
Former council member Joe
Capowski also said he doesn’t
think the policy serves as a way
around the open meetings law and
pointed out that there is nothing
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illegal about the policy.
“Any citizen of Chapel Hill is
allowed access to their elected offi
cials,” he said. “And Nancy
Suttenfield is a Chapel Hill resi
dent.”
Suttenfield, vice chancellor for
finance and administration, is one
of UNC’s council liaisons and met
Tuesday with new council member
Sally Greene.
Capowski also said he does not
JOURNALS
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noting that it has been a budgetary
concern in the past.
“We have been accommodating
this automatic inflation growth in
Elsevier over the course of our past
contract,” he said.
“We just can’t sustain that any
more because our budget increas
es aren’t automatic.”
Hewitt was concerned that such
an agreement would inhibit
libraries’ ability to accumulate
other texts.
“It really hurts other publishers,
and it hurts other disciplines that
that publisher doesn’t publish in,”
he said.
Provost Robert Shelton, who
was an editor of an Elsevier publi
cation, the Journal of Physics and
Chemistry of Solids, said that
although he still has friends at the
company, Elsevier is being unrea
sonable about its demands.
“The problem is their pricing
structure,” he said. “They have had
enormously aggressive price
increases.”
Shelton said Elsevier officials
told him they are committed to
single-percentage rate increases.
But he contends that inflation is
only 2 percent.
He also takes issue with
Elsevier’s persistence in requiring
bundle subscriptions.
“They have insisted that we buy
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believe the system puts a damper
on input from the community
regarding its interests and that it
actually helps town-gown rela
tions.
“Public input in Chapel Hill is
legendary,” he said. “I don’t see
how (the policy) discourages
input.”
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“We ... cant sustain
(Journal payments)
anymore. ... Our
budget increases
aren’t automatic.”
JOE HEWITT, associate provost
a lot of journals we don’t want,” he
said. “So they are protecting their
weak journals.”
In response, Nanette Hennessy,
a customer relations official in
Elsevier’s Orlando office, said that
the price increases are simply a
result of inflation and that the
journals are expensive because of
their high quality.
“We charge a higher rate for
hospitals because several doctors
are sharing the journals,” she said.
“The money for the journals
pays for author submissions and
the printing of the journals and all
the research.”
Nonetheless, UNC-CH library
officials believe Elsevier was
unreasonable in its negotiations.
“It’s not a good solution,”
Shelton said. “We need them, and
we’d like to think they need us, but
I have to tell you that their behav
ior over the last few years doesn’t
show that.”
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EORIiECTION
A raised quote in Tuesday’s
paper incorrectly identified a
teacher at Mary Scrpggs
Elementary School as Lutashia
Grove. Her name is Lutashia Dove.
To report corrections, contact Managing’ Editor
Daniel Thigpen at dthigpen@email.unc.edu.
TEACH-IN
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value of the TXiition Task Force’s
across-the-board S3OO proposal,
which the Board of Trustees dis
missed in November.
“Every student reaps some ben
efits,” she said. “So a campus-based
tuition increase should go to each
individual student.”
Burford said the recommenda
tion reflected the perspective of the
entire University community stu
dents, faculty, administrators and
trustees —and not just trustees.
Revenues generated from the
larger increase now under consid
eration would cover need-, merit
and talent-based student aid.
Graduate tuition remissions, salary
support for teaching assistants, fac
ulty salaries, new faculty positions
and staff salaries also are identified
as targets for tuition revenues.
But Dan Herman, president of
the Graduate and Professional
Student Federation, said the “stick
er-shock” effect undoubtedly will
hinder the University’s mission.
Graduate students teach 50 per
cent of all undergraduate instruc
tion hours, he said. “Obviously, the
quality of your education as an
PIT
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She said she asked the Union to
cancel the appointments candi
dates such as Calabria made and
not to schedule more campaigning
opportunities in the Pit.
Calabria said this would not
hinder his campaigning, as he
now will use other mediums when
seeking student votes, including
using tables that the BOE
requested be set up outside the
Pit in front of the old Student
Union.
Anderson said it is necessary for
the BOE to make impromptu
amendments to the code during
elections.
“The code says a lot, but it does
n’t say everything, so the board has
to make rulings to make (elections)
fair,” she said.
Anderson said she will be in
close contact with the candidates if
a future situation calls for the BOE
to make a ruling.
“What we’re going to do is have
a listserv for all the races because
we need to get all the information
out to them,” she said.
Anderson also addressed the
rules concerning student Web sites
and “dorm storming.”
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undergraduate depends on the
quality of graduate students at this
University.”
John Sanders, a longtime
University leader who also served
on the UNC-system Board of
Governors, said after the teach-in
that the proposal is far too large and
represents an idea that students are
the University’s bill payers.
“I assume Carolina can recruit
enough out-of-state freshmen,” he
said. “But the question is, are they
the best quality students that
Carolina can get just because their
daddies can pay the bill?”
Speakers encouraged all students
to mobilize against the increase by
attending the BOT’s meeting next
Wednesday and e-mailing or calling
the University’s policy-makers.
Several students said after the
meeting that they will urge officials
to to take a more gradual approach
to tuition increases.
Rob Hilton, a freshman from
New York, said he will e-mail at
least two people and encourage his
friends to do the same. “It is very
important because I am going to
be here for the next three years.”
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“The (elections)
code... doesn’t say
everything, so the
board has to make
rulings.”
MELISSA ANDERSON, boe
She said students only can use
student organization Web sites to
present their platforms and other
information, and they cannot use
interactive software, such as dis
cussion boards.
Anderson explained that candi
dates only can dorm storm the
term for campaigning inside resi
dence halls between 7 and 9
p.m., and then only with the per
mission of the director of the resi
dence hall.
Candidate Ashley Castevens
said it is legitimate for the BOE to
make decisions in order to keep
elections fair.
“It wouldn’t be fair to some can
didates, really,” she said. “If Melissa
feels it would affect the campaign
ing, that’s perfectly acceptable.”
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