VOLUME 111, ISSUE 138 Professional hikes pass quietly Trustees OK tuition increases for 7 schools BY BROOK R. CORWIN UNIVERSITY EDITOR It took the University 1 s governing body several hours of often heated debate Wednesday night to approve tuition increases of $1,500 for nonresidents and S3OO for residents. But several comparable hikes for UNC’s professional schools cleared the Board of Trustees with relative ease Thursday morning. In about an horn-, the board voted 12-1 to increase tuition at seven of UNC’s profes sional schools. The proposals ranged from a one-year, SSOO increase for resident stu dents in the School of Law to a $9,000 three-year increase for resident students in Officials stumped by illness BY MICHELLE JARBOE FEATURES EDITOR Officials still have no insight into the source of the mystery illness that struck campus Wednesday, though more than 60 students have visited or called the Student Health Service to report nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Student Health, UNC and Orange County Health Department officials met at the healch department’s Hillsborough office Thursday after noon to discuss the investigation and to formulate a weekend action plan. “We are still investigating,” said health department educator Donna King. “No source has been identified.” More than 50 students flooded Student Health on Wednesday, alarm ing officials and sparking a search for the source of the shared symptoms. In response, health department officials developed a questionnaire to pinpoint a common cause. Possible catalysts include water, food, improper hand washing and the use of common utensils, said SHS Director Robert Wirag. “There’s noth ing out of bounds that’s not being con sidered at this point,” he said. Students continue to be surveyed about gatherings, meals and other pos sible generators of viral or food-borne illness. “The plan that was agreed upon was to continue collecting and analyzing data, for the epidemiologists to continue their work in positively identifying the source,” Wirag said. State lab analysis of patients’ fluid samples remains incomplete, as do evaluations of food samples taken from Carolina Dining Services on Wednesday. Aramark spokesman Doug Warner said CDS is cooperating with die inves tigation. The dining halls regularly col lect food samples and keep them for 72 hours, and temperature logs are kept for the various foods served. “Obviously, we are continuing to maintain the best practices we know how to,” said CDS Director Ira Simon. “In other words, we’re following all the procedures we need to.” No common thread has been found: Students stricken and surveyed did not all eat at the dining halls, and they do not all live on campus, said SHS Associate Director Mary Covington. As investigations progress, students, including suitemates Dave Johnson and Matt Miglarese, have begun to recover. Johnson, a sophomore who did not visit Student Health, spent Tuesday night and Wednesday morning vomit ing. Two of his suitemates, including sophomore Miglarese, simultaneously fell ill. Miglarese said he received a call Thursday from the health department and was queried as to what he’d eaten and where he’d been. Feeling better, he was able to attend a class and to spend the day reading. “I usually don’t get sick like that, so it was a surprise,” he said. Residence hall staff monitored and notified students Wednesday night, advising those on the mend to report to Student Health if they had not already, Covington said. Housekeeping staff reported no unusual activity Thursday, said Peter Reinhardt, direc tor of UNC’s Department of Environment, Health and Safety. SEE ILLNESS, PAGE 5 ONLINE Council members support red light cameras Log on to http://www.dailytarheel.com for up-to-date coverage of the New Hampshire primary. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ©hr Satht sar Mcrl the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Also approved were increases for grad uate students in the School of Government, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the School of Social Work, the School of Dentistry, the School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy. Exempted from the increases are pro fessional students already paying tuition in excess of $16,661, the campus’s base tuition for nonresidents following Wednesday’s $1,500 increase. Because the professional schools craft ed the proposals several months ago, when it appeared that tuition would be raised only S3OO for all students, the approved proposals allow each school to ■•-Mmt 4/kJggBSMF JsLi iSL t j* jm /y| • yjUAjm Mp’ Kendra Miles, manager of Chapel Hill Florist, puts together a rose bowl arrangement with a variety of colorful, blooming flowers Thursday afternoon. The piece is. made up of star fighter lilies, heather, tulips, statice and acacia. BOG set to OK jump in tuition BY TRISTAN SHOOK STAFF WRITER Members of the UNC-system Board of Governors expressed their support for a nonresident tuition increase passed by the UNC- Chapel HUI Board of Trustees on Wednesday night, citing the rising cost of maintaining a premier pub lic university as a central reason. Despite opposition from stu dents and faculty, trustees approved a $1,500 tuition increase for out-of-state students and a S3OO hike for N.C. residents. “It seems to me to be a logical and appropriate thing for the uni versities in North Carolina to increase out-of-state tuition when facing diminishing state appropri ations because of budget prob lems,” said Jim Phillips, chairman of the BOG Budget and Finance Committee. The committee has to approve tuition increases before they are sent to the entire board. Phillips said tuition should be determined by market rates as long as increases do not hurt the qudity of the classes at UNC-CH. Budget and Finance Committee member Steve Bowden said he sup ports the proposal because it is nec essary to provide a good education. “We are for high quality education and high quality institutions,” he said. “Unfortunately, the cost of education is increasing. It is not unreasonable to increase tuition.” COMING SOON NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY The DTH is travelling north for the first Democratic primary. www.dailytarheel.com lessen the size of its increase. Only the School of Social Work, which is implementing its first school-based increase, likely wfll consider such a reduc tion, Provost Robert Shelton said after the meeting. The sizes and priorities of the increas es vary, Shelton told the BOT, but all set aside some money for faculty salaries and generate revenues solely for the schools themselves. “These funds go directly to the schools’ deans dollar for dollar,” Shelton said. Discussion on the increases centered on allocations of revenues for need-based financial aid, which was included in vary ing amounts in all the proposals. TVustee Philip Carson cast the only dis senting vote on the proposals, referring the board to comments he made PRETTY IN PINK Miles spent the day preparing arrangements for upcoming weddings which bring a high volume of business. Chapel Hill Florist relocated this year from University Square, their home for the previ ous decade, to West Franklin Street. “The taxpayers of (North Carolina) are the ones building these institutions” STEVE BOWDEN. BOG MEMBER Charles Norwood, a member of the Educational Planning, Programs and Policies Committee, said that a tuition hike is needed to meet the University’s demands, pri marily in retaining faculty and staff. Though the proposal had the almost unanimous approval of the trustees and an indication of sup port from some BOG members, it has raised the ire of many students. But Bowden said nonresident students wouldn’t be bearing the financial burden unfairly. “The tax payers of the state are the ones building these institutions.” Budget and Finance Committee member Hannah Gage also said an increase in out-of-state tuition is fair. “I recognize the value that out of-state students bring, but my pri ority will always be with the stu dents in North Carolina,” she said. Committee member Edward Broadwell said retaining top facul ty members would benefit the SEE BOG, PAGE 5 Wednesday opposing tuition increases for resident students. Carson was one of two trustees to vote against the S3OO tuition increase for non residents Wednesday, citing a state man date to keep tuition as accessible as pos sible for North Carolinians. “It’s not being true to the spirit of the mandate,” he said Wednesday. “I cannot vote for an increase on North Carolina residents.” The board also unanimously approved a sl2l increase in student fees previous ly recommended by the BOT’s Finance Committee. Allocation plans for the $7.2 million discretionary funds generated by Wednesday’s tuition increase will be SEE TUITION, PAGE 5 Union opening postponed BY JOSEPH R. SCHWARTZ ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR At the back entrance to the new Student Union a sign depicts construction workers throwing their hats skyward and reads, “Hats Off, The Entire Union Opens at the End of January.” But officials central to the old Union building’s renovation said workers won’t be able to remove their construction hats until Feb. 10 at the earliest. Don Luse, director of the Union, said plans to have a grand reopening next week have been postponed due to a variety of minor remaining tasks. “Mostly it’s things that we could have taken and said, ‘Do it later,’ but it’s much easier to go ahead and get it done and get it done right,” he said. Everything that needs to be completed is written on a punch list, a sheet commonly used in construction to detail the finishing touches of a proj ect. “It’s a lot of things like clean up,“ he said. “There’s not one thing necessarily that you could point to.” He was careful to mention that UNC officials are delight ed with the contractor charged with completing the job and that the project will still finish ahead of schedule. Joe Fenton, projects archi tect with Clearscapes, is the representative working on the SPORTS LET DOWN The Tar Heels blow a 24-point lead and lose in overtime to Florida State PAGE 4 FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2004 Health system CEO to be picked BOG to make choice in early session today BYWILLAREY AND LAURA BOST STAFF WRITERS A special session of the UNC-system Board of Governors will convene this morning to appoint anew chief executive officer for the UNC Health Care System. Members of the BOG will decide between two candidates for the highly esteemed position at today’s special meet ing, said Michelle Williams, a communica tions specialist in the office of the UNC-sys tem president. State Sen. Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, who served on the search committee, said he thinks one finalist is William Roper, the current dean of UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health. Rand said the committee, which has been meeting since November, attempted to find the best person for the job. “We wanted somebody who would be a distinguished leader of a major school in the university and the North Carolina health care system,” Rand said. “It’s a com plex job and a large job.” Fellow committee member David Lee, professor and chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, also noted the significance of the position. “No other appointment, besides that of the chancellor, is so sensitive,” Lee said. The post is a high-profile, three-tiered job. The CEO of UNC Health Care System will serve concurrently as dean of the School of Medicine and vice chancellor for medical affairs at UNC-CH. Roper was a finalist for the UNC-CH provost position in 2000 and also has been considered for the presidency of the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He also served as the head of the feder al Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Attempts to contact Roper were unsuc cessfiil and his office declined to comment on his purported candidacy. Charles Sanders, chairman of the search . committee and former chairman and CEO of Glaxo Inc., did not return calls Thursday. SEE HEALTH CARE, PAGE 5 DTH/SARA ABRONS fWSBWIWMiIS 1 m mmms* & B a Ml ,■ ■*. - BUT J m v< a-■ \:' \ v,\ w m m \ I*■ \Vi ' v I' ; vfj. £ ’V . H fM ifl DTH/JOHN DUDLEY Construction delays have pushed back the reopening of the renovated Student Union from next week until at least Feb. 10. project. His company drew the plans and set a timeline for completion. He neglected to give a firm completion date because of sev eral unforeseen conditions such as leaks in duct work and faulty electrical wiring. “The final date, to be honest, if it were adjusted would be sometime in March,” he said. “But we never put that in paper because (the project) went so smoothly.” However, Fenton attributed the delay to conflicts in inspec tors’ schedules and said prob lems such as Luse mentioned are common in projects of this WEATHER TODAY Sunny, H 40, L 23 SATURDAY Mostly sunny, H 53, L 39 SUNDAY Wintry mix, H 40, L 32 size. He said the inspections will take longer than originally thought. “We thought we were on track for a real smooth landing,” Fenton said. “We haven’t hit any show stoppers except for (inspectors’) sign off and it’s just the physical time of doing it.” Fenton worked on several other UNC construction proj ects, namely the Kenan-Flagler Business School and Memorial Hall, and praised the contrac tors involved in this endeavor. “This job has been a model,” SEE UNION, PAGE 5 a

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