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Leaders select Liles
as solicitor general
BY BRIAN HUDSON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
June 3 Matt Liles, former
speaker pro tem of Student Congress
and former student body president
candidate, will continue his role as a
student leader this year in his recent
ly appointed positions of UNC-
Chapel Hill’s solicitor general and
vice president for legislative affairs
for the UNC-system Association of
Student Governments.
Liles’ appointment to solicitor
general came from his knowl
edge of student government and
the University’s Student Code,
said UNC-CH Student Body Vice
President Alexa Kleysteuber.
“He’s so interested in all the
aspects of student government, so
this was the perfect place to put
him,” she said.
As solicitor general, Liles will be
responsible for the interpreting the
numerous aspects of the code.
“I feel great about it,” he said. “I
think we can do a lot of things ...
I want to make sure it’s a position
of value and worth to the way that
student government operates.”
Liles said he wants to make cer
tain that his interest lies not with
members of student government,
but rather in ensuring that the
code is as fair as possible.
“I really feel that my duty is to
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the code and to students,” he said.
Liles also is heading an inde
pendent committee that will
review the Student Code during
the summer and make recom
mendations for revision to Student
Congress during the fall. Both he
and Kleysteuber said this task will
help him become more knowledge
able of the Student Code some
thing with which he is already very
familiar, Kleysteuber said.
“I think it’s a very valuable
thing,” Liles said. “I’ll see exactly
how it functions.” By reviewing the
code, he explained, he will become
more acquainted with the clauses
of the code that cause the most
problems and are the most vague
and ambiguous.
Student Body President
Matt Calabria, who approved
Kleysteuber’s recommendation, said
he is confident in Liles’ ability.
“Matt Liles is one of the
University’s best experts on the
Student Code. He has a really
great working knowledge of the
Student Code and its strengths
and weakness,” Calabria said. “He
has a proven ability to work well
with Student Congress and the
executive branch —and he is also
very hard working.”
Liles also was recently appoint
ed as the ASG’s vice president of
Welcome Beck
Former SBP
candidate
Matt Liles
was appointed
this summer as
UNC's solicitor
general.
legislative affairs, making him
responsible for the coordination of
federal and state lobbying efforts
among UNC-system schools.
“We at Carolina, as a flagship
institution ... can both lead and
be helped by the ASG,” he said.
“They deal with things that small
er schools need because (those
schools) don’t have a great stu
dents affairs division like we d0...
but one place that we all need help
is with the legislature.
“I’d like to take it to another
level, helping and advocating for
other schools.”
Liles said in his position he also
will be involved in the ongoing
efforts of the ASG, including “help
ing students lobby better, helping
students vote better.
“This year we look to take it
to our federal officials more and
more, too.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
ASG’s unity to face test
under UNC-CH official
Group looks to patch up past quarrels
BY CHRIS COLETTA
MANAGING EDITOR
June 10 ln the past, the rela
tionship between UNC-Chapel Hill
and the UNC-system Association
of Student Governments has been
anything but cordial.
Two years ago, former Student
Body President Jen Daum didn’t
send delegates to ASG meetings,
citing what she said was the group’s
ineffectiveness. And last year, ani
mosity ran high as student leaders
from smaller universities lambast
ed Matt Tepper, then the UNC-CH
student body president, after he got
off the line in a conference call.
Now, however, leaders from both
UNC-CH and the ASG say those
problems are in the past, and they
can point to a number of occur
rences to prove their case.
Foremost among those is the
appointment of UNC-CH solici
tor general Matt Liles as the ASG’s
vice president for legislative affairs
an appointment that propels the
Tar Heel to one of the association’s
top spots.
“We’re trying very hard to have a
much better relationship with the
ASG than we’ve had sometimes in
the past,” said Matt Calabria, UNC
CH student body president.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2004
In his new position, Liles will be
responsible for leading the ASG’s
efforts to lobby UNC-system offi
cials, in addition to state legislators
and congressmen. It’s the job ASG
President Amanda Devore held
before she was elected, and it’s also
the job Calabria and Liles said is
most appropriate for a UNC-CH
student.
“The position I’m appointed t 0...
is the area where I can see Carolina
gain the most from its association
with ASG,” Liles said. He added
that almost all system students
want the same things from the
N.C. General Assembly and the
UNC-system Board of Governors,
namely reductions in tuition hikes
and adequate classroom experi
ences.
By contrast, he said, the ASG
also takes time to deal with devel
oping the resources of the system’s
smaller campuses. Calabria said
such work does not always trans
late well to the University, which
already has many resources in
place.
“UNC-CH’s interests aren’t
always aligned with those of the
system,” Calabria said.
“But making sure we can col-
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interests are aligned is going to be
helpful.”
But some ASG members dis
agree.
For example, one of the main
complaints in last year’s confer
ence call was that UNC-CH dele
gates are often aloof and unwilling
to work with the association on all
issues. And Devore said she dis
agrees with the idea that UNC-CH
and the ASG aren’t intertwined.
But she added that if spats occur
only because of policy issues, things
are going well.
“Any rifts that may or may not
have occurred in the past, I don’t
really believe exist anymore,” said
Devore, who appointed Liles to his
position. She added that keeping
open the lines of communication
will help assuage any problems
that existed before.
It is that communication and
unity that will be vital if the ASG is
to improve on what it deems recent
successes.
And that is a fact, Liles said, that
he recognizes.
“I’m a Tar Heel first, but I’m
going to have to help lead the
charge for all 16 campuses.”
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