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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2004
Registration efforts begin early
Leaders want increased participation
BY CLEVER. WOOTSON JR.
AND LAURA YOUNGS
SENIOR WRITERS
Student leaders across the state
and at UNC-Chapel Hill are gear
ing up their voter registration
efforts eight months in
advance.
The early efforts, they say, will
make it easier to get students
involved and focused on University
issues at the height of election sea
son in the fall.
Jonathan Ducote, president of
the UNC-system Association of
Student Governments, said the
group is trying to collaborate the
efforts of roughly 30 groups across
the state that encourage college
aged people to vote.
UNC-CH Student Body
President-elect Matt Calabria said
he and his administration have
already started focusing their
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efforts on ways to get next year’s
crop of students into the voting
booths.
Both Ducote and Calabria assert
that the more work they get done
now, the better off get-out-the
voter efforts will be when the reg
istration deadline rolls around in
early October.
“I think logistically, on our end,
the more we can do early, then the
less we have to do in the crunch,”
Calabria said.
“We have to have massive efforts
to get out the vote, to remind peo
ple to vote.”
Calabria said that, among other
things, he’s working with
University political groups and the
Campus Y to register as many stu
dents as possible.
He said he has several goals he
wants to accomplish before the
voter registration deadline.
buy in other stores.”
Smoker Jon Tirpak, a sophomore
French and women’s studies major,
expressed a similar view. ‘Although
I support the nonsmoking move
ment wholeheartedly, smokers on
campus should have options.”
Jones said he will not reverse
the decision unless someone in a
higher position asked him to
change his mind.
Major brands of cigarettes will
probably be gone in a couple weeks,
Wood said. Lower sellers should
disappear in about four weeks.
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Ultimately, Calabria said he
hopes to unify the districts that the
University is fragmented into.
Calabria also said he’s working
with the Residence Hall
Association to put a voter registra
tion form in the room of every stu
dent who lives on campus.
“They’ll... fill out a voter regis
tration form and be able to turn it
into the (nearest) RHA office,” he
said.
“It’s often tough for students to
take time out and get registration
forms out.”
Campus Y co-president Derwin
Dubose said that starting earlier
will help get a more diverse group
of voters to the polls, which is vital
to influencing policy.
Instead of commemorating the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with a
vigil, Dubose said that the group
is trying to coordinate voter regis
tration events in the week follow
ing the anniversary.
“If we register them two months
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After the final interviews are
complete, the committee will make
its final recommendation to
University administrators by early
May, Matson said. If approved by
Shelton and Moeser, the final can
didate could be in the position by
the beginning of fall semester.
Matson said it is important to
have the finalists chosen before the
end of the semester so the candi
dates have time to come to campus
before students leave for the sum
mer. He emphasized the need for
candidates to get a sense of the
campus and the community.
“Like any position, it’s a two-way
street,” he said. “ They’re looking at
us, and we’re looking at them.”
Harpster has been a vice presi
dent at Shippensburg since 1995.
He previously served as the director
of student life and the assistant vice
chancellor for student affairs at
UNC-Charlotte from 1983 to 1987
and was acting director of universi
ty housing at UNC-CH from 1982
to 1983. He received his doctorate
in adult and higher education from
UNC-CH in 1984.
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in advance, that is two months we
can use to educate them,” he said,
adding that it is important to help
voters learn more about the infor
mation out there and where they
can go to voice their opinion.
But Ducote emphasized that if
student leaders set up the mech
anisms to encourage student vot
ing now, then they would be in a
better position to encourage stu
dents to vote for candidates who
support issues affecting college
students.
“The traditional drive part,
where you actually put a voter reg
istration form in someone’s face,
that will take place in the tradi
tional time setting,” Ducote said,
adding that the student govern
ment umbrella organization that
he heads is “trying to make sure
that everyone gets where they want
to get.”
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Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Jablonski has served as the dean
of campus life at Brown University
since August 2001. Prior to that,
she served as the associate dean of
undergraduate education and stu
dent affairs at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology from 1994
to 1997- She received a masters of
education degree from the
University of Massachusetts-
Amherst in 1984
Spencer has been with Virginia
Tech since 1983 and was named
assistant vice president for student
affairs in 1996. He earned a bach
elor’s degree in psychology from
the University of Rochester in 1967
and received his doctorate in social
psychology from the University of
Delaware in 1981.
Ullom was previously the vice
president for student development
and the dean of students at
Hendrix College in Conway, Ark.,
from 1993 to 1998, before he took
his current position at UCF. He
received his doctoral degree in
adult and continuing education
from the University of Georgia in
1984.
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don’t want to hear why demolition
can’t be done,” Carter said. “We
want to hear how it can be done.”
BOT Chairman Richard “Stick”
Williams said the board might
meet next month to reconsider
plans for South Campus housing.
“What we’re thinking is: Should
we be thinking about something
different than renovations?” he
said. “We’ll probably meet some
time in April.”
Planned renovations to
Morrison include a large solar
power array, aesthetic upgrades
and the removal of built-in furni
ture. The renovations are based on
feedback from students who like
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will be sold in 2006, bringing the
open-space bond total to $2 mil
lion.
Town staff suggested that the
next largest chunk of bond money
5600,000 raised in 2004 be
used for sidewalk construction.
The suggestion also includes the
sale of $500,000 in bonds to raise
money for library facilities. That
amount is equal to the money
needed for the planning phase of
the library expansion.
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groups within our society.”
The Progressive Faculty
Network and a group of concerned
students also read letters at the con
ference. The letters expressed dis
appointment with UNC adminis
trators for not supporting Crystall,
whom the letters state was enforc
ing the University’s nondiscrimina
tion and anti-harassment policies
regarding sexual orientation when
she chastised the student.
“Instructors have both a right
and an obligation to set the terms
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Morrison and the community it
creates, Payne said.
Much of the motivation and
funding for solar panels in the plan
came from student government’s
Renewable Energy Special Projects
Committee.
The committee, which has com
mitted $185,000 of student fees to
help “green” Morrison, will have
wasted its funding if the residence
hall is tom down in several years.
“I don’t see how they could
make a financial argument for
tearing it down,” said Charlie
Anderson, chairman of the com
mittee. “If they do, I’ll probably flip
my lid.”
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The town approved $500,000
for energy efficiency projects, and
that entire amount will be sold by
the end of this year under the pro
posed schedule. Foy said the bond
projects will save money so that
the town will have more funds for
future energy efficiency bonds.
The next public forum on the
budget will be May 12. Residents
may speak to the council about the
bond projects or other matters
concerning the budget.
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for discussion in their classes and
to determine what constitutes rel
evant and appropriate content.”
Junior Sarah Carucci read a let
ter signed by almost 50 students
stating that the administration’s
response fails to provide all stu
dents with a safe learning envi
ronment. The letter was addressed
to Moeser and Shelton.
Carucci said the students are
drafting a petition to support the
letter and anticipate obtaining sev
eral hundred signatures.
“Professor Crystall and the rest
of the faculty have received no clear
message from the administration
on how they should handle com
ments attacking LGBTQ students,”
Carucci read. “To suggest that her
response was wrong without ever
having adequately explained what
an appropriate response might be,
is ineffectual at best.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.