VOLUME 112, ISSUE 19
More officers to receive stipends
CONGRESS APPROVES ALLOWANCE FOR NINE STUDENT LEADERS
BY KELLI BORBET
AND BROOK R. CORWIN
STAFF WRITERS
Stipends lunded by student fees,
formerly bestowed upon only a few
student government officers, now
will be given to nine officials in the
three branches of student govern
ment.
Student Congress voted
Tuesday night to approve a bill
amending student government
Panel preps
lobbying law
for summer
Would require lobbyists
to register with the town
BY EMMA BURGIN
CITY EDITOR
The committee charged with studying a pro
posed ordinance that would require paid lobbyists
to register with the town will draw up concrete leg
islation before summer hits Chapel Hill.
The committee will continue to work with Town
Attorney Ralph Karpinos to create legislation that
would require documentation of all conversations
between Chapel Hill Town Council members and
paid lobbyists.
There is no strict schedule, Karpinos said, but he
will have something in writing before the Town
Council breaks for the summer.
The special committee comprising council
members Sally Greene, Cam Hill, Dorothy Verkerk
and Edith Wiggins was created in response to a
petition from the Coalition of Neighbors Near
Campus, who asked the council at its Jan. 12 meet
ing to recognize University officials as lobbyists and
to require them to register.
The coalition’s petition also called for an arrange
ment that paired council members with University
representatives for one-on-one meetings.
University officials are not considered paid lob
byists, but Greene said Wednesday that she will ask
Karpinos to research the legal hurdles there might
be requiring the disclosure of contacts by UNC lob
byists. “I hope we can come up with something in
a spirit of cooperation and collegiality and good cit
izenship that will serve this important interest,” she
said. “I would hope the University would volunteer
to cooperate with lobbying registration.”
Greene said she looked at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and the State University of New
York system for examples because both comply with
statewide municipal registration requirements.
The ordinance in Madison does not require gov
ernment officials to register, which means univer
sity officials are exempt from the legislation. But
university officials comply voluntarily.
The council heard public response to the lobby
ing ordinance Monday. Most citizens who spoke
were in favor of the legislation because of the town’s
dealings with Affiliated Computer Services.
SEE LOBBYING, PAGE 4
Golden service brought to light
Order played historic role at UNC
BYTORRYE JONES
STAFF WRITER
Key players responsible for
crafting several turning points in
the University’s history have kept
the society that has fueled much
of their action
out of the lime
light until
now.
After 100
years of secrecy,
The Order of the
Golden Fleece
has decided to
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reveal some of the mysteries
behind its involvement in shap
ing the University
Argonauts, as members are
called, have worked behind the
scenes to promote unity and
harmony in the University com
munity since the society was
established in the spring of
1904, said order member Nick
Herman, who is working on a
book to be published about the
history of the order.
“None of this has ever been
known to the public,” Herman
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funds to use for stipends for the
student body president, student
body vice president, student body
treasurer, student body secretary,
Congress speaker, Congress speak
er pro tem, student attorney gen
eral, student Honor Court chair
man and student honor outreach
coordinator.
The highest stipend is S3OO per
month for the student body presi
dent, with all the other positions
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Sixteen year old Ricky Maki of Chapel Hill
High School pulls a monster kick flip at
Ryan’s World Skate Park of Chapel Hill on
Wednesday afternoon. Maki has been skating for
three years but just returned to skating Ryan’s
said. “The Centennial Committee
decided three years ago to share
this because the history of the
fleece is an integral part of the
history of the University.”
The Golden Fleece has been
involved in addressing issues
such as hazing, the student
Honor Code, the Speaker Ban
Law of the 1960 sand race rela
tions.
“Things were going on all the
time,” Herman said. “The Golden
Fleece has tried to address every
important issue of the day.”
Hazing was one of the biggest
issues that the first members of
the society tackled in the early
1900s, eventually leading to the
foundation of student govern
ment.
The group proposed to the
officers of each class a set of reg
ulations regarding freshmen
conduct including respecting
upperclassmen, not acting like a
big shot on campus and keeping
behind the fence on the athletic
field so that students would no
longer be hazed, Herman said.
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receiving stipends of S2OO per
month or $125 per month.
The stipends will be given for
work during the upcoming school
year and during the summer, a
requirement of any position receiv
ing a stipend.
While most of the stipends were
approved with little debate,
Congress members did discuss the
purpose of stipends and why they
should be appropriated from the
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Students and faculty gather in protest of the Speaker Ban Law to hear
Frank Wilkinson speak at the edge of McCorkle Place on March 2,1963.
“Their goal to stop hazing was
politically difficult at the time,” he
said. “They convinced the upper
classmen to sign a pledge with these
particular regulations.”
The order proposed to establish a
formal student government to deal
with hazing, cheating and other stu
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“Stipends aren’t a statement of
how much work one does,”
Congress Speaker Will DuPont
said. “But a stipend provides an
issue of respect for their position
and a payment for that position.”
But Natalie Russell, chairwoman
of Congress’ Finance Committee,
said stipends should be given in
direct response to the time com
mitment the position requires.
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ramps after a monthlong hiatus during which he
focused on his talent at billiards. He will be com
peting in a tournament at the park April 24.
Ryan’s World is located inside Homestead Park.
Membership is $lO, and skating is $5 per day.
dent disciplinary problems. The
organization’s guidelines were also a
precursor for the Honor Code.
“Before, there was no trace of stu
dent self government,” Herman
said. “All the University had was a
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“The purpose of a stipend is not
given for how much work one does
but is there to provide compensa
tion for work they could have been
doing at another job,” she said.
Significant debate took place
regarding the stipend for the honor
outreach coordinator.
Several representatives ques
tioned the function of the job in
comparison with other members of
the judicial branch and whether it
deserves to receive money since the
position was formed only in the
last year.
ANALYSIS
Trustees contend ties
to UNC remain strong
BY JENNIFER IMMEL
SENIOR WRITER
Scattered throughout 10 differ
ent cities across two states, most
members of the UNC Board of
Trustees can’t even call Chancellor
James Moeser without dialing 1
and then the area code.
The geographical separation
between the trustees and the
University has led some students
to think that the people who
increase their tuition are not on
campus enough to be aware of stu
dents’ concerns.
“They are not students, and
most of them don’t work on cam
pus or near campus or with any
thing that has to do with campus,”
Student Body Vice President
Rebekah Burford said. “Students
don’t really know who their Board
of Trustees are.”
But trustees, as well as staff
members, student leaders and
administrators, say the BOT is more
connected to the University than
the typical student might think.
BOT Chairman Richard “Stick”
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Carolina Chavez, who was
approved by Congress at the meet
ing as student attorney general for
2004-05, argued in support of the
stipend, which will pay the position
$125 per month.
“The outreach coordinator is
taking on the position of being the
third leg of the judicial branch, and
it deserves the stipend,” Chavez
said.
Also debated was whether to
amend the Student Code to stipu-
SEE CONGRESS, PAGE 4
Locals
discuss
DOMA
petition
Recognition of gay
unions plan's goal
BY DAN SCHWIND
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Town residents spoke out on a
petition at Wednesday’s Chapel Hill
Town Council public forum that
would ask the N.C. General
Assembly to disregard portions of
the Defense of Marriage Act.
While same-sex couples would not
be allowed to marry within the state
if the measure passed, municipalities
would be allowed
to recognize any
couples married
legally elsewhere
in the country.
DOMA allows
states not to rec
ognize same-sex
marriages per
formed in other
states.
Several citizens
urged the council
to pass the petition
saying it is neces-
g
Council
member Mark
Kleinschmidt
presented
the petition.
sary to recognize all marriages equal
ly, regardless of sexual orientation.
Resident Stephanie Kilpatrick
said the issue of equality carried
more weight than the issue of moral
ity that has been brought up by
opponents of same-sex marriage.
“Non-discrimination is a moral,
too,” she said. “And one that tran
scends religion.”
Kilpatrick said that Chapel Hill has
a reputation of being progressive and
that the town should consider it a duty
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investment of time
and so forth to get
to know the
University”
STICK WILLIAMS, ROT CHAIRMAN
Williams said he drives from
Charlotte to Chapel Hill an average
of two or three times per week,
meeting with administrators, fac
ulty and students to discuss cam
pus issues and concerns.
“It’s been quite an investment of
time and so forth to get to know
the University,” he said. “It’s a very
narrow view to suggest that the
trustees are disconnected because
they don’t live in Chapel Hill.
“I would even be bold enough to
say that the trustees are more con
nected to the University than the
students.”
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