VOLUME 112, ISSUE 16
BOG
finalizes
tuition
increase
General Assembly
to vote on proposal
BY CHRIS COLETTA
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The UNC-system Board of
Governors approved increases in
tuition and fees for the system’s 16
schools at its Friday meeting, includ
ing hikes of $366.50 for in-state stu
dents and a historic increase of
$1,616.50 for out-of-state students at
UNC-Chapel Hill.
Surrounded by student protesters
from across the state, the board
greenlighted tuition increases of
$250 for in-state students at N.C.
State University and UNC-CH, as
well as jumps of
$225 at 13 other
schools and $450
at the N.C. School
of the Arts.
Combined with
fee increases, the
numbers repre-
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More than 100
students rally
to oppose the
tuition hikes.
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sent hikes ranging from 7 percent at
N.C. State to 17 percent at the School
of the Arts.
“I think it’s a responsible and
respectable outcome,” UNC-system
President Molly Broad said.
The board’s recommendations,
which still must be passed by the
N.C. General Assembly this summer,
came amid a large turnout of stu
dents decrying the increases.
Hailing from universities as close
as N.C. State and UNC-CH and as
far away as UNC-Wilmington, they
lined up on either side of board
members waving signs that made
clear their opposition.
Still, the proposals passed with
relatively little debate.
“We simply have to live up to our
responsibility,” said BOG member
John Davis, echoing an oft-repeated
statement by many board members
that the hikes are necessary to stem
an erosion of quality that has come
with an economic downturn and
decreased state appropriations.
To underscore this point, the BOG’s
proposal includes a mandate that
campuses use most of their increased
revenue “to enhance the quality of the
academic experience for students.”
Reduced class sizes, more sections
SEE BOG, PAGE 5
Panel taps
Jarboe for
DTH editor
BY BROOK R. CORWIN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
As applications were distributed
last spring for various leadership
positions, Michelle Jarboe’s future
involvement at The Daily Tar Heel
was still very much up in the air.
“I knew I want
ed a leadership
position in some
capacity,” Jarboe
said. “But I had no
idea about
becoming editor.”
One year later,
after a rapid
ascent to Features
Desk editor and a
pivotal role in
guiding the
paper’s coverage,
Jarboe was select
ed as the 138th
Junior Michelle
Jarboe was
chosen as
the 138th DTH
editor Saturday.
DTH editor Saturday.
“I’m confident she’ll do an excellent
job,” Editor Elyse Ashbum said. “I put
a lot of faith in her when I hired her as
features editor, and she’s definitely
performed well in a leadership role.”
Jarboe, a junior journalism and
studio art major from Clarkston,
Mich., was chosen by an 11-person
SEE JARBOE, PAGE 5
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North Carolina coach Roy Williams (left) and his players react as the final seconds wind down in their 78-75 loss to Texas.
DOWN AND OUT:
TEXAS EDGES UNC
Longhorns' depth, size eliminates Tar Heels in second round
BY JAMIE AGIN SENIOR WRITER DENVER
In the end, perhaps it was fitting that a North
Carolina team whose flaws were depth, size
and the ability to finish games was finished off
by a squad whose fortes were all of the above.
Texas threw ice water on UNC’s smoldering title
aspirations Saturday, handing the Tar Heels a 78-
75 defeat in the second round of the NCAA
Tournament and creating an emotional conclusion
to Roy Williams’ first year in charge.
“I am proud to be the North Carolina coach,” said
Williams, teary-eyed. “I couldn’t be any more
proud. I could be happier, but I could not be more
proud.”
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North Carolina guard Melvin Scott (left) hides his head under his game
jersey while Byron Sanders comforts a team manager after the loss.
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During Saturday’s first half, though, the defen
sive struggles of the sixth-seeded Ihr Heels were as
plain for the sellout crowd of 19,405 to see as they
have been all season.
Ten different Longhorns combined to shoot 60
percent in the first 20 minutes, and despite 15 first
half points from UNC’s Rashad McCants, third
seeded Texas led 44-39 at the break.
By halftime, the Longhorns, who have four regu
lars 6-foot-8 or taller and 235 pounds or heavier,
managed 22 points in the paint.
Still, Texas had to contend with UNC center Sean
SEE MEN'S HOOPS, PAGE 11
BY AARON Fin
SENIOR WRITER
DENVER lt was 9:12 p.m. 11:12 back in
North Carolina, where deadlines loomed —and
the two men dressed in black NCAA vests were
beside themselves.
NCAA Tournament rules require a losing team
to open its locker room for reporters no more than
15 minutes after the team leaves the court, but
North Carolina had been cloistered up for 21 min
utes since the end of its second-round loss to Texas
on Saturday.
“It’s got to be open. It’s got to be open,” said one
of the NCAA officials, shaking his head and pac
ing outside the locker room.
Finally, at 9:16, the man responsible for the
delay Tar Heels coach Roy Williams —and
three of his players emerged from the UNC sanc
tuary on their way to the interview room.
SEE LOCKER ROOM, PAGE 11
SPORTS
RAIDED
Middle Tennessee State eliminates UNC in the first
round of the women's NCAA Tournament PAGE 12
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2004
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Cassandra Clementine Greene-
Hines (left) and Ronnie A. Tyson
were arrested Friday in
connection with several UNC
fraud cases totaling $303,000.
Records
reveal
pattern
of fraud
BY JOHN FRANK
PROJECTS TEAM EDITOR
Following last week’s disclosure
that UNC School of Medicine
employees misspent more than
$300,000, University officials
stressed it was an isolated incident
But in several cases last year,
University employees misused
tens of thousands of dollars or
paid equally large amounts for
services never received, according
to internal audit reports from
2003.
The three largest examples pale
in dollar comparison to the
$303,000 that the Department of
Radiology employees overcharged
and double-billed UNC during a
four-year period ending in
September.
It is the most expensive
University fraud case in recent
memory, trumping the $157,000
in improper expenses by the man
ager of a clinical scholars program
in 2000, Internal Audit Director
Phyllis Petree said.
As expected, two former radiol
ogy department employees were
arrested Friday in connection with
their alleged roles in the scam.
Cassandra Clementine Greene-
Hines, 54, of 522 E. Geer St. in
Durham, was charged Friday
morning with two felony counts of
embezzlement, according to UNC
police reports. She was released on
a written promise to appear today
in Orange County District Court in
Hillsborough.
Ronnie A. Tyson, 37, of 427
Rosser Road in Bear Creek, was
charged Friday afternoon with two
misdemeanor counts of a public
employee benefitting from a pub
lic contract, UNC police said. He
will appear in court April 26.
Greene-Hines and Tyson did
not return calls for comment.
As reported in Friday’s edition
of The Daily Tar Heel, an exten
sive, six-month investigation by
UNC’s internal auditors found
that in the last four years Tyson, a
facilities maintenance coordina
tor, channeled $198,061 to his
company ot those of his relatives.
Department employees
bypassed the normal approval
steps and bidding processes, offi
cials said.
In one example, he arranged for
the radiology department to pay
“four related parties” about
$105,500 for moving services that
would have cost only $1,250 if
done by University employees, the
audit stated.
In a separate incident during
the audit, Tyson’s supervisor,
Greene-Hines, allegedly used
department purchasing cards to
buy $179 in software for personal
use and received $3,100 in kick
backs from a company she provid
ed with University contracts,
records show.
Greene-Hines and the depart
ment’s top business manager,
James L. Foster, were aware of a
family relationship between Tyson
and principals of the moving com
pany but did nothing to stop the
arrangement, auditors said.
Foster, whose salary was
$95,625 per year, and Greene-
Hines were fired Jan. 29, and
Tyson was dismissed Feb. 12.
A fourth radiology employee,
Wesley Hall, an administrative
manager, was allowed to resign
rather than being fired Jan. 29,
SEE FRAUD, PAGE 5
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