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VOLUME 112, ISSUE 41 Legislature kicks off summer session & a M DTH/GILUAN BOLSOVER N.C. Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand speaks with colleagues Tuesday. The budget was the main issue under discussion in the new session. Reed steps up to VCIT Faculty member fills vacated post BY BRIAN HUDSON UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC officials announced : Monday that Daniel Reed has been appointed to fill the positions of chief information officer and vice chancellor for information technologies. The new appointment will take effect June 1. The announcement comes after an almost two year search that included consideration of several can didates recom mended by a Specialist Daniel Reed will lend his knowledge to the VCIT post. search committee. Reed first came to UNC in January after he received the $3 million Kenan Eminent Professorship late last year the first of 10 to be awarded. An expert in high-speed com puting, Reed is a member of President Bush’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, and he co-created the Institute for Renaissance Computing, which gathers scientists and researchers to investigate and spur technolog ical advances under Reed’s direc tion. As the new vice chancellor, Reed will be the University’s most senior leader in technology and he will organize the delivery of administrative and academic information technology support to the campus community. Reed’s position of vice chancel lor will yield him a $325,000 annual salary, composed largely of state funds but also augmented by a stipend from private funds as well as from the endowed profes sorship. The process of selecting the next vice chancellor was delayed and initially was expected to occur during an 8 to 12 month period, said Provost Robert Shelton. He said the process was delayed when the University rejected three initial finalists after campus officials could not come to a consensus. “They were all superb,” Shelton said. “And for whatever reasons we couldn’t settle on one of those three.” The process was difficult because the position is broad, allowing for a wide-ranging field of candidates, Shelton said. The process was also delayed by competition between different SEE VCIT, PAGE 6 ONLINE UNC's tennis teams adapt face tough competition Tough softball squad looks to Seminole onslaught Look for more stories online Serving the students and the University community since 1893 01ir lattu ®ar Reel / Ib y ■ m s . 161l 61 [j> wF "?< rfmf V # t -tW. Vi# I I . m f sI^BBhL gf * jjflj DTH/GIUIAN BOLSOVER Senior crew team members Katie Sorensen (left) and Mary Miller enjoy the revelry of the graduation cememony in Kenan Stadium Sunday. Around 4,500 undergraduate, graduate and professional students attended the class of 2004's send-off. GRADS BASK IN TARHEEL BLUE BY BRIAN HUDSON UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC’s 2004 Commencement cer emony, honoring the graduation of about 4,500 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, began under gray skies Sunday morn ing. But the intimidating clouds dissolved away early in the event to reveal a powder blue sky that matched the color of many grad uates’ caps and gowns. Chancellor James Moeser noted that the graduates of Duke University, which was celebrating its commencement that same WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE www.dailytarheel.com LEGISLATORS TO FOCUS ON ALLOCATING S3OOM SURPLUS BY CHRIS COLETTA STATE NATIONAL EDITOR RALEIGH Members of the N.C. General Assembly returned to work Monday with an extra S3OO million in their pockets, and groups across the state now are seeking their share. Increased tax revenues and roughly SIOO million in unspent cash have given the state its first budget surplus in four years. That surplus now will leave legislators to decide how best to use the money in their summer “short session,” which leaders hope to finish by early July to give lawmakers time COMMENCEMENT 2004 morning, would look up to see a sky of Carolina Blue. While his comment elicited cheers from the graduating stu dents, Moeser continued to talk about the connection he felt to both the University and this par ticular graduating class. “I entered with this class in the fall of 2000, (and) I felt the magic of Carolina for the first time,” he said. “I still do, and I hope you do, too.” He encouraged graduates to continue to explore their rela tionships with UNC and ensured SEE COMMENCEMENT, PAGE 6 to campaign for re-election before the July 20 primary. “Everyone seems to be focused on the budget and on early adjournment,” said Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, who like all state lawmakers is serving a term that expires in November. “Those two things have really dominated all the talk around here.” The appropriations process could prove difficult, as legislators must try to balance the needs of their constituents, lobbyists’ wish lists and the desires of groups ranging from tobacco suppliers to teacher advocacy organizations. i ifr S. 'Bp* f - S’ DTH/CILLIAN BOLSOVER Pictured with provost Robert Shelton (left), Julius Chambers, a Civil Rights lawyer, delivered the day's address. INSIDE BEACH BALLS NOT INCLUDED Don your mortarboard and experience the sights of the sweltering Commencement weekend. PAGE 5 The UNC system also has much at stake. The legislature must greenlight proposed tuition increases at all 16 campuses, including hikes of $250 for in-state students and SISOO for out-of-state students at UNC- Chapel Hill. In addition, it also must decide on providing about $65 million for enrollment growth and whether it will give pay raises to faculty and employees. Gov. Mike Easley gave his take on the process Monday, releasing his recommended changes to the 2003-05 budget passed last year by the General Assembly. The proposal includes 2 percent raises and one-time $250 bonuses for most state workers, including system faculty and staff. Community college teachers are Searchers find body of student Mao, UNC junior, had been missing since May 4 BY BRIAN HUDSON UNIVERSITY EDITOR The search for a missing UNC-Chapel Hill student ended Sunday afternoon after his body was discov ered near Jordan Lake. Junior Ziyun “Tim” Mao, 19, had been missing since the morning of May 4. His death is being treated as a suicide, and no foul play is sus pected, said Randy Young, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety. He said University Police are still waiting for a report from the medical examiner’s office to confirm the cause of death. Officials don’t know what led to Mao’s death, Young said. Mao had last been seen by his roommate at 11 a.m. on May 4. Mao’s father had arranged to meet him that afternoon to move out of his room in Carmichael Residence Hall, but when Mao did not arrive his father called the police. Campus police interviewed friends, family mem bers and students for information. Officials released a statement late Saturday requesting help in the search from the public. The statement included a description and photo of Mao. Recent attempts by The Daily Tar Heel to reach the Mao family for comment were unsuccessful. UNC-CH has experienced an increase in student suicide as four students killed themselves last school year. The increased trend has caused the University and its mental health services to come under scruti- SEE MAO, PAGE 6 UNC student takes own life on campus BY BRIAN HUDSON UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC freshman Simon Carlyle Sitterson IV died late last month, the result of an apparent suicide. His body was found by a University employee at about 7 a.m. April 23 in a gravel parking lot outside Forest Theatre, according to police reports. Randy Young, spokesman for UNC’s Department of Public Safety, said officials are treating the matter as a suicide, and they do not suspect foul play. The cause of his death was a gunshot wound to the head, according to the state medical examiner’s office. Young said because Sitterson, 18, was not report ed as a missing person, campus police are not aware of the conditions that led to his death. Sitterson, known as Si, was a freshman and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He was born in Charlotte and he graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Woodberry Forest, Va. in 2003, where he was a member of the football and lacrosse teams. Attempts to contact Sitterson’s family were unsuc cessful. Sitterson was a relative of the late Joseph Carlyle SEE SITTERSON, PAGE 6 WEATHER TODAY Partly cloudy, High 86, Low 64 FRIDAY Sunny, High 86, Low 63 ** SATURDAY Partly cloudy, High 88, Low 62 THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004 called on to receive the bonus as well as a 4 percent increase. Easley’s plan also recommends funding enrollment growth fully, nixing proposed tuition increases and cutting some schools’ budgets by 1.7 percent. Sen. Richard Stevens, R-Wake, and a former member of the UNC CH Board of TYustees, said the plan is a mixed bag. “While (the University) is gain ing through enrollment increases, it’s losing through the budget cuts,” he said. Not included in the governor’s budget are S3OO million in funds for a quartet of research centers at system schools: UNC-CH, East Carolina University, UNC SEE NCGA, PAGE 6 The body of Ziyun Mao, a junior, was identified on Sunday.
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