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CAMPUS BRIEFS
Two student groups host
candidate forums this week
The Black Student Movement
will host a forum for student body
president candidates today in
Chase Hall. The forum will be held
at 5:30 p.m.
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
TYansgender-Straight Alliance will
host a student body president can
didate forum Thursday to endorse
a candidate. The event will be held
at 7 p.m. in Dey Hall 305.
ESPN's Dick Vitale to sign
book today at Bull's Head
Famed college basketball per
sonality Dick Vitale will speak and
sign his new book at the Bull’s
Head Bookshop from 2 to 3:30
p.m. Wednesday.
The broadcaster is at UNC to
cover the basketball game between
the Tar Heels and N.C. State.
Vitale’s book, “Living a Dream:
Reflections on 25 Years Sitting in
the Best Seat in the House” was
released in September and chron
icles the irreverent sportscaster’s
25-year career at ESPN.
Student reports car theft
from Aycock Circle lot
A student called police upon
discovering that his car was stolen,
reports state. He was in his dorm
room with three friends when he
noticed that his car keys were
missing. According to reports, he
looked for his vehicle in Aycock
Circle, where he had parked it.
Officers said the black 1992 Nissan
Maxima is valued at $2,500.
About SI,OOO worth of
property stolen from car
According to reports, property
totaling $914 was stolen from a
vehicle parked overnight at
WXYC.
A disc jockey stopped on his
way from Greensboro to Raleigh
and spent the night at the office
with a friend.
When he returned to the vehi
cle, owned by his mother, the front
passenger side window was bro
ken, apparently by a large rock,
reports state. Among the stolen
items were a $430 camera, a
discman and a backpack. There
are no suspects, reports state.
ARTS BRIEFS
Famed saxophonist at Duke
for 3-day residency
World-renowned jazz saxo
phonist Branford Marsalis will
perform with the Duke Jazz
Ensemble at 8 p.m. Friday in
Duke University’s Baldwin
Auditorium as part of his three
day residency.
The Grammy award-winner
first will lead a saxophone work
shop Wednesday in Nelson Hall
and deliver a lecture about the
future of jazz Thursday in Baldwin
Auditorium. Both events begin at
5 p.m. and are free to the public.
Friday evening’s concert is $lO
for the general public. Tickets can
be purchased by calling 684-4444.
NATIONAL BRIEFS
Patriot Act has not abused
civil liberties, reports state
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
Justice Department has found no
incidents in which the anti-terror
ism USA PATRIOT Act has been
invoked to abuse civil rights or
civil liberties but has identified
instances of mistreatment of
Muslims and Arabs that did not
involve the act.
Tiesday’s report probably will
provide fodder for Bush adminis
tration efforts to persuade
Congress to renew the law, which
expires in 2005. The law, passed
shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks, faces a legion of critics
who contend that its expansion of
government surveillance powers
violates constitutional free speech
and privacy rights.
“It is clear that the government
has been thoroughly responsible in
its implementation of the act,” said
Justice Department spokesman
Mark Corallo. “As the president
has said, it is vital that Congress
reauthorize these provisions.”
But Rep. John Conyers, senior
Democrat on the House Judiciary
Committee, said the report failed
to identify “a single punishment or
sanction” imposed on a Justice
Department employee found to
have violated civil rights and civil
liberties.
CALENDAR
Tuesday
8 p.m. The Daily Tar Heel
will host a forum for student body
president candidates in 209
Manning Hall. The forum will be
open to the public.
For more information, contact
Editor Elyse Ashburn at eash
bum@email.unc.edu.
From staff and wire reports.
Tuition increase to bring in sl2-15M
Money to fund salaries, financial aid
BY CLAIRE DORRIER
STAFF WRITER
UNC-Chapel Hill officials esti
mate that the tuition increase
approved last week will generate
sl2 million to sls million in new
funds, with about half designated
for salaries and half for need-based
financial aid.
Last Wednesday the University’s
Board of Trustees recommended a
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DTH/ANDREW SYNOWIEZ
Eric Liu was trying his best to walk on ice when his feet slipped out from underneath him outside of Sitterson Hall on Tuesday afternoon.
UNC opens amid cancellations
Officials base decision on transit availability
BY ALICE DOLSON
STAFF WRITER
Despite class cancellations Tuesday by
most area schools, UNC-Chapel Hill officials
reopened the University on Tuesday, citing
an operational Chapel Hill TVansit Authority
and an end to the winter precipitation.
Monday evening UNC-CH’s emergency
management group recommended resum
ing class at 11 a.m. after examining weather
and road conditions.
The group waited to see whether the pre
dicted second wave of bad weather would
bring freezing rain to Chapel Hill. After the
weather system largely bypassed Chapel Hill,
moving to the southeast instead, the man
agement team decided to hold classes, UNC
CH Public Safety Director Derek Poarch said.
“If the freezing rain had hit Chapel Hill,
Moeser declines
year-end bonus
BYCLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor
James Moeser said he has declined
his end-of-the-year bonus, electing
instead to “stand with the troops”
anfi receive no addenda to his
$250,000 annual salary.
“I just felt that with all of the
attention to low-wage workers on
this campus the fact that so many
people up and down the wage struc
ture, including my own vice chan
cellors, were not getting increases
that this was just the time to say,
No, thank you,” he said.
The bonuses, awarded to 11 of
12 eligible system chancellors, is
part reward, part attempt to keep
salaries competitive with other
universities, said Gretchen
Bataille, UNC-system vice presi
dent for academic affairs.
Moeser and the other eligible
chancellors have received no salary
increases other than a $625 pay
increase given to all state employ
ees in the 2000-01 school year.
Bataille said Moeser publicly
stated months ago that if he
received a bonus he would not
accept it because of the salary woes
many employees were facing. She
added that arguments that the
chancellor was obligated to defray
or not accept the money because of
the plight of low-income campus
workers were unwarranted.
“The chancellors have the same
issues as other employees,” she
said. “They have families, they have
kids in college, and while their
salaries might be on the higher
scale in North Carolina, they’re not
nearly as high as they should be.”
But Bataille said it is no secret
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proposal to increase tuition $1,500
for nonresidents and S3OO for res
ident students. The proposal will go
to the UNC-system Board of
Governors for approval next month.
The total amount of revenue
UNC-CH will get from tuition
increases cannot be determined
until enrollment for the fall 2004
semester is finalized. UNC-CH
Provost Robert Shelton said the best
we probably would have had to cancel class,”
he said.
The management team also considered
the fact that Chapel Hill Transit buses were
operational and major roadways to UNC -
CH and sidewalks on campus were being
cleared.
“I think we made the right decision about
Monday, and I think we made the right deci
sion about today,” Poarch said. “There’s no
way to make everyone 100 percent happy
about the decision.”
Duke University, N.C. State University
and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
decided to cancel class Tiesday.
“We made a decision based on our sense
of what the roads were going to be like, our
parking lots not being cleared, the larger
campus bus routes not running, and that we
that the system awards chancellor
bonuses to help chancellors resist
the lure of other job offers.
“We are concerned about reten
tion, we are concerned about com
petitiveness and we are concerned
about rewarding our chancellors
for doing a good job,” she said.
Denying the bonus was a good
move by the chancellor, said
Tommy Griffin, UNC-Chapel Hill
Employee Forum chairman.
Griffin said the chancellor’s deci
sion is indicative of a recent tide of
change and perhaps a softening of
the oft-conffontational relationship
between the people who run the
University from South Building and
the people who maintain it. “This is
a loud voice to say, ‘l’m not going to
take $25,000,’” Griffin said. “If I
stood up and said I wasn’t going to
take $250, nobody would listen.”
But David Brannigan, member
of the N.C. Public Service Workers
Union or UE Local 150, the union
that represents UNC employees,
said there was nothing spectacular
about Moeser not accepting the
bonus
“He’s trying to make a virtue of a
necessity because you know they’ve
been telling everyone about the pay
raise,” said Brannigan, who also
questioned the decision to give
bonuses when system campuses
are beset by problems such as mold
and a dearth of salary increases.
“Will (UNC-system President)
Molly Broad be offering any money
to the workers who worked for 12
hours in the cold to keep this uni
versity open?” he asked.
Contact the State & National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
estimate is about sl3 million.
Shelton said the BOT’s tuition
advisory task force has set aside
about 48 percent for faculty, staff
and graduate teacher assistant
salaries, and the remainder will go
to need-based financial aid and
graduate student tuition remissions.
Of the 48.5 percent of revenue
going toward salaries, 40 percent
will go to faculty salaries, 5 percent
for teaching assistant salaries and
3.5 percent for staff salaries.
If the increase is approved by
don’t like to cancel partial days,” Duke
Provost Peter Lange said.
NCSU Provost James Oblinger said the
major difference between UNC-CH and
NCSU’s conditions is that more of his sip
dents live further from campus, in neigh
borhoods that had not been plowed.
He also said Wolfline, the NCSU-operat
ed bus system, was not running.
Poarch said the management group did
not consider NCSU or Duke when making
their decision.
“There are any number of variables in the
decision-making process,” he said. “We don’t
compare ourselves to other campuses.”
Many professors cancelled class today
because they were unable to make it to cam
pus, and the UNC-CH School of Law can
celled all classes.
Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology,
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New virus floods UNC network
BY ALLISON PARKER
STAFF WRITER
The latest e-mail virus hit the
UNC community Monday, causing
more than 1,000 students to be
blocked from the campus network.
The virus, bearing the file name
W32.novarg, is spread via attach
ment and, once opened, is sent
automatically to everyone in the
user’s address book.
“The virus basically works as a
spam relay, with the number of
people affected increasing expo
nentially,” said Bruce Egan, associ
ate director of Academic
Technology & Networks.
Virus complaints flooded the
ATN computer lab in the
Undergraduate Library on
Tuesday morning. “We’ve had
about two- to three hundred peo
ple in here today,” he said.
Among the students waiting for
help was sophomore Kelsey
Brickham, who said she has had
trouble keeping up with class
because of the virus.
“I can’t get on the Internet,
which is important especially with
professors posting assignments.”
Computers with the virus were
kicked off the campus network
immediately in order to isolate the
problem. Outbound e-mail from
residence halls is being blocked
temporarily until the problem is
under control, according to
reports on http://help.unc.edu.
“We are blocking these systems
from the network in order to keep
the virus from spreading else
where,” Egan said.
ATN officials said the depart
ment staff worked through
Monday night writing a CD that
could solve the problem.
The CD, which contains a patch
to remove the virus, is extremely
effective, said Jeanne Smythe,
director of information technolo-
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2004
the BOG and then the N.C.
General Assembly, salaries will be
distributed next year to schools
throughout the University.
Shelton said that the distribu
tion of salaries most likely will be
conducted as it has been in the
past: Each college in the University
will come up with a group of peer
schools at other Universities and
will calculate average salaries
across the board. A gap will be
determined, and each department
will get a specified amount to min
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ATN employee Kelly Gallagher (right) and sophomore Adam Pruitt help
sophomore Erica Griesedieck fix her computer at the ATN computer lab.
gy services computing policy.
Egan said it only takes about five
minutes to ten minutes to operate.
“We’re being successful because
the ATN technical staff got tools
ready for us that we needed to help
students,” he said. “We’re able to do
this because ATN worked all
through the night.”
To avoid the virus students
should not open e-mail attach
imize any salary shortages consis
tently through each college.
After each department gets an
amount of the revenue, the dean of
each college determines by merit
who will see money, Shelton said.
“(The tuition increases) won’t
take care of everything, but it is a
good step,” he said, “It will signifi
cantly help dig our way out.”
Richard Soloway, interim dean
of UNC-CH’s College of Arts and
SEE FUNDS, PAGE 5
Vote to
resolve
camera
issue
Council to decide
Safe Lights fate
BY SARAH HANCOX
STAFF WRITER
The controversy over the
Safe Light program in Chapel Hill
will come to a head when the
Town Council votes on the issue at
tonight’s business meeting.
The vote comes after council
member Mark Kleinschmidt sub
mitted a petition asking for the ter
mination of the Safe Light program
during the Jan. 12 council meeting.
The program has generated
questions on many different issues.
The use of a private company to
catch red light violations instead of
traditional law enforcement has
produced the most opposition.
Kleinschmidt believes this pri
vatization takes away from due
process and is the focus of his
opposition. Other issues raised in
the petition include the increase in
rear-end collisions at monitored
intersections and the small per
centage of citations issued com
pared to recorded violations.
In anticipation of the upcoming
vote, a forum was hosted Saturday
by council member Dorothy
Verkerk.
Among those present was Joe
Clark, chief operating officer of
Affiliated Computer Services, who
made a presentation demonstrat
ing how the company’s traffic cam
eras worked and how the company
works with the community to
monitor the system.
Also present was Ann Sweet
from the National Campaign to
Stop Red Light Running who
spoke about how her daughter,
SEE RED LIGHT, PAGE 5
ments from unknown sources,
according to http://help.unc.edu.
Smythe cautioned students to
take extra care with e-mail. “To
protect your computer, you should
have anti-virus software up all the
time, check files that come in and
get updates on a regular basis.”
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
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