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Gray-Little tapped for A&S dean
LONGTIME ADMINISTRATOR WILL
TAKE UP POST AT END OF MARCH
BY EMILY STEEL
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Top-ranking universities across the
nation have attempted to lure
Executive Associate Provost Bernadette
Gray-Little away from UNC for years.
But officials secured her ties to the
University on Thursday as they
announced their decision to recom
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Family and friends of the more than 4,000 members of the 30th Heavy Separate Brigade of the N.C. Army National Guard wave miniature U.S. flags at a
deployment ceremony for the departing troops Thursday at Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville. Richard Myers (below), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, attended.
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N.C. National Guard deployment biggest since WWII
BY LAURA YOUNGS
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
FAYETTEVILLE - Holding
hands and waving miniature U.S.
flags, more than 8,000 family
members and friends said
goodbye Thursday to the 4,000-
plus members of the 30th Heavy
Separate Brigade of the N.C.
Amy National Guard.
Spilling into the aisles at Crown
Coliseum with John Phillips Sousa
playing in the background, the
dense mass of people sporting U.S.
flag T-shirts braved the rainy
weather and poured into the gray
concrete dome to wish a safe
BOG settles in for
long tuition debate
BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
DURHAM - The UNC-sys
tem Board of Governors has more
questions than answers about
proposed tuition increases.
They also have a month to
decide whether higher education
has eroded enough in North
Carolina to warrant the triple
digit tuition hikes all 16 system
schools are requesting.
In the back of their minds is a
letter from Gov. Mike Easley stat
ing his opposition to campus-ini
tiated tuition increases and his
potential willingness to include
more university funding in his
budget proposal to the N.C.
General Assembly.
But the issues surrounding the
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mend Gray-Little for dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Gray-Little has worked at the
University for more than two decades,
previously serving as a senior associate
dean in Arts and Sciences among other
posts. She said she is looking forward
to the new challenge.
“I am excited and a little bit intimi-
deployment to the brigade partic
ipating in Operation Iraqi
Freedom, including members
from North Carolina, New York,
Ohio and West Virginia.
The ceremony, which marked
the largest single call-up of N.C.
National Guard soldiers since
World War 11, also was attended
by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Gen. Richard Myers, N.C.
Gov. Mike Easley and several
members of the state’s congres
sional delegation.
“It is my honor to be here
today,” Easley said, standing in
front of the fatigue-clad soldiers.
16 campuses’ tuition increases
still stand. In a meeting at N.C.
Central University on Thursday,
Budget and Finance Committee
members said they were con
cerned with atrophying quality
and dropping retention rates,
especially at the system’s largest
universities.
In an impromptu presentation
to the committee, UNC-Chapel
Hill Provost Robert Shelton said
the University’s biggest concern
was keeping faculty.
Shelton, who read the names
of key faculty members who left
for other schools, said the
University was fighting offers
from Ivy League schools and
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dated,” Gray-Little said. “It is a very
important position and a very big and
complex position. I am excited and
pleased and a little bit humbled.”
With the approval of the Board of
Thistees, Gray-Little will step into the
position at the end of March.
BOT Chairman Richard “Stick”
Williams said he is pleased with the
recommendation. “I think that most of
the members of the board know her
and hold her in high regard,” he said. “I
expect that the members would be
pleased by this selection.”
“You make us all proud to be
Americans.”
Easley went on to commend
the brigade, known as “Old
Hickory,” and its extensive past,
including involvement in both
world wars. “There are few, if any,
that can claim the history of the
30th.”
Brigade members are doing a
great service to their country,
Easley said, extending thanks
from himself and his wife. “Asa
state, we are indebted to you,” he
said. “You have my sincere appre-
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SBP hopefuls head into final stretch
BY LAURA BOST
STAFF WRITER
Heading into the last five days
of the campaign season, everything
besides securing votes has taken a
back seat for
student body
president
candidates
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Matt Calabria and Lily West.
“Sleep is definitely a sacrifice,”
Calabria said. “I slept for six and a
half hours last night the longest
I had in weeks —and it was great.”
West also said that campaigning
is her No. 1 priority.“ Classes just
kind of fade into the background. If
you can make it, good. If not, well,
that’s just tough,” she said.
Both candidates said that the
student body is already familiar
with their platforms and issues, so
their efforts now are focused on
one final rally to reach students
Gray-Little has been a finalist for
similar positions at the College of
William and Mary, Emory University
and the University of New Hampshire.
The announcement marks the end
of an internal search that reviewed
more than 50 candidates and lasted six
months, beginning soon after Risa
Palm vacated the post July 1.
Williams noted the importance of
searching within the University to find
the new dean.
“What I do believe is important is
that we recognize that there’s extreme
jam —*r —
before Tuesday’s runoff election.
“Obviously, we did something
right because we’re in the runoff,”
said Calabria. “Now we want to be
as inclusive as possible. There’s not
much strategy involved.”
Calabria said that he spoke with
other student body president can
didates about incorporating some
of their ideas into his platform.
Former candidate Ashley
Castevens decided to give Calabria
her endorsement for that very rea
son. Castevens garnered 2.9 per
cent of the vote in the general elec
tion Tuesday.
She cited Calabria’s knowledge
of issues regarding University
administration, the town of Chapel
Hill and the N.C. General Assembly
as reason for her endorsement.
Former candidate John Walker,
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talent on this campus, and that we,
whenever possible, try to take advan
tage of this home-grown talent.”
A 22-member committee chaired by
Jack Richman, dean of the School of
Social Work, boiled down the list of
candidates to six finalists.
“We just got phenomenal finalists,”
Provost Robert Shelton said. “It turned
out exactly as we hoped.”
The other finalists were English
Professor William Andrews; Darryl
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Candidates
fined for
violations
Offenses include illegal
use of incentives, e-mail
BY GREG PARKER
STAFF WRITER
Several candidates vying for elected student
office have been fined for minor campaign viola
tions.
Candidates cited simple oversight, vague rules
and miscommunication between their campaign
staffs and the Board of Elections as the root of the
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campaign team for passing out koozies, or drink
insulators, as part of his campaign.
The board determined that Keith’s campaign
violated an election law that states that candidates
cannot distribute incentives, Elections Board
Chairwoman Melissa Anderson said.
Keith said he was not aware that the koozies are
considered an incentive. The law’s wording is very
vague, he said.
“The verbiage says that the determination of
incentives is up to the Board of Elections,” he said.
“There is no verbiage on what is and is not an
incentive.”
Because distributing the koozies was a violation
of election law, Keith will not be reimbursed for the
$155.40 cost of having the koozies made.
Anderson said handing out merchandise always
has been considered a violation.
“I don’t think that should have been confusing,”
she said. “If it was, he should have come to us
beforehand.”
Student body president candidate Matt
Calabria, who is now seeking a win in the runoff
election, was fined $5 twice for campaign viola
tions.
The elections board has not fined his opponent,
Lily West, for any violations.
One of Calabria’s violations is for illegal dorm
storming; the other is for an improperly formatted
e-mail written by one of his staffers.
Calabria’s staff did not adhere to the Residence
Hall Association’s 24-hour advance-notice policy
for dorm storming.
Calabria said the violation resulted from con
tradictory e-mails that his staff received from the
board. The e-mails differed in their instructions
about who is allowed to dorm storm, Calabria said.
The confusion caused his staff’s failure to obtain
the permission slips necessary for dorm storming.
Anderson said Calabria’s violation was not for
the number of dorm stormers but rather for the
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Matt Calabria greets residents of Hinton James Residence Hall on
Tuesday as part of last push campaign efforts before the runoff election.
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Administrator
Bernadette
Gray-Little
is happy with
her new post.
violations.
The largest fine, $lO, was
handed to William Keith’s
Carolina Athletic Association
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