VOLUME 112, ISSUE 76
Student officials debate tuition
ASG COUNCIL TO FOCUS ON
CURBING SYSTEMWIDE HIKE
By ERIC JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
BOONE Tuition increases
emerged as a key issue this weekend
for leaders at the monthly meeting
of the UNC-system Association of
Student Governments.
At the second meeting of the
association’s Council of Student
Body Presidents, leaders discussed
the direction of a tuition advisory
committee charged with determin
ing what kind of systemwide tuition
increase it will recommend to the
UNC-system Board of Governors.
At the meeting, some of the
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Music programs
may hit campus
UNC to choose from list of providers
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
STAFF WRITER
Student Body President Matt
Calabria says that whenever he steps
into the Pit, he is bombarded with
questions about when music file
sharing services will come to UNC.
Now he has a response —one for
students like sophomore Geoffrey
Staton, who enjoys relaxing in the
Student Union with an iPod in
hand, and junior Alexis ZiavTas, for
whom portable music is addictive.
“We have begun communication
with the (UNC-system) Office of
the President for a potential plan
to provide free music file-sharing
for all students on campus for the
spring semester,” Calabria said.
The tentative time table for such
a program stretches to next fall.
Before the end of this semes
ter, five or six music downloading
companies will collaborate with
UNC to conduct a trial study to
letermine which program works
>est on campus, Calabria said.
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system’s student body presidents
many of whom serve on the
tuition committee with campus
administrators debated whether
it would be prudent to recommend
a systemwide hike.
Student representatives on the
committee often are the most
vocal advocates of curbing tuition
growth, and many seemed opti
mistic about the possibility of
holding off an increase.
“All of the student body presi
dents seem to be leaning toward
a 0 percent increase,” said Miriam
Makhyoun, student body president
After a company is chosen, the
Office of the President will pay for
all on-campus students’ use of the
program in the spring. Students
would begin to pay at the begin
ning of the 2005-06 school year.
Calabria, who advocated legal
music downloading during his
election campaign, said he is
pleased that the concerns and
interests of music-loving students
have been heard by the Office of the
President and UNC’s Information
Technology Services.
Once the program kicks in, an
“opt-in” system will charge a small
fee to those students who chose to
use the service, instead of having
every on-campus student pay for
the program through student fees.
“I’m sure we’d negotiate a bet
ter price than advertised,” said
John-Scott Smith, co-chairman
of the Business and Technology
Committee for Calabria’s Cabinet.
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Tony Caravano, student body
president of N.C. State University,
said the committee’s student
voice has a good chance of being
heard.
“It’s so different this year,”
Caravano said. “I see that there’s
more momentum toward zero
than there was last year.”
Caravano said schools might be
willing to recommend a 0 percent
systemwide hike to protect cam
pus-based increases.
Campus-based initiatives are
proposed by the boards of trustees
of each system school. Universities
have greater discretion in spend
ing the revenue raised from such
tuition hikes, since the burden is
limited to their own students.
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Facilitator pick delays renaming talks
BY TANNER SLAYDEN
STAFF WRITER
With plans still in the air for a
committee facilitator, a starting
date for the Special Committee to
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continues to be unfixed.
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and UNC employees Erin Marcinowski (middle left) and Iris Greene.
Support for systemwide tuition
increases often is seen as a way
for universities to gain funding
leverage with state legislators.
But many ASG leaders believe
that an improved budget outlook
for the state should allow the N.C.
General Assembly to pick up the
tab this year.
“I think we’re more confident
that we have the support in the
legislature already, and we don’t
need to make concessions,” said
Zach Wynne, student body presi
dent of UNC-Wilmington.
But not everyone is convinced
that a 0 percent increase would be
best. Administrators at N.C State
University have recommended a
2.2 percent systemwide increase,
and a number of other schools are
started until after a facilitator has
been selected,” Town Manager Cal
Horton said Friday.
Horton was supposed to make
a report about the facilitator at
tonight’s council meeting, coun
cil member Sally Greene said last
Monday. But the report was taken
off the agenda Friday.
“All I know is what is on the agen
da,” said Greene, who is on the com
mittee and Is working with Mayor
Kevin Foy and council member
Edith Wiggins to find a facilitator.
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still considering support for simi
lar recommendations.
“Speaking on ASU, some of the
administrators feel that if we ask
for nothing, then we will allow
faculty and certain academic pro
grams to suffer if we don’t get this
money,” Makhyoun said. “I can see
a split between the administrators
and the students on many of the
campuses.”
A conference call is scheduled
for October, after which the sys
temwide tuition advisory com
mittee will make its proposal to
the BOG.
Last year, the committee made
dual recommendations of 2 per
cent and 0 percent. The BOG ulti-
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“We are charged with selecting
the facilitator, and the manager
will negotiate the contract with
whom we select,” Greene said. “I
hope the committee will start up
soon and stay pretty much on track
with the mayor’s set timeline”
The committee is responsible
for deciding whether Airport Road
will be renamed Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard. The council
decided at its Sept. 13 meeting
that a facilitator was necessary to
aid the town in settling what has
Employees inaugurate
laptop loan program
BY SARAH SCHWARZ
STAFF WRITER
There wasn’t a snowflake or
greeting card in sight, but for two
University employees, the holiday
season began early.
Thanks to Chancellor James
Moeser’s generosity, a committee’s
hard work and relentless assistance
from campus technological sup
port, 10 brand-new laptops will
be available for UNC employees
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Panel
OKs
hikes
in fees
Questions remain
regarding tech fee
BY LINDSAY MICHEL
STAFF WRITER
A committee on student fees
concluded its Friday morning
meeting with a positive outlook
after tackling the sue least contro
versial proposals for changes of
student fees.
Members of the Chancellor’s
Committee on Student Fees
said they expect to continue
on schedule and to review all
21 of the proposals in time for
the November meeting of the
UNC Board of Trustees, which
is responsible for approving the
potential increases.
“We’ve really been doing our
homework before we get here,”
said Student Body President Matt
Calabria, co-chairman of the
committee. “It allows the student
representatives to be very strong
advocates for the issues.”
Among the increases approved
by the committee, which advises
Chancellor James Moeser on stu
dent fee issues, were:
■ a $1 increase in the fees for
student government;
■ a $1 increase for the language
proficiency exam;
■ a $2 increase to the fee for
athletics which provides fund
ing for all varsity sports except
men’s basketball and football;
■ a $5 increase for orientation
for first-year masters of business
administration students;
■ a $5 increase for orientation
for first-year graduate and profes
sional students.
The committee also approved
the proposed decrease for the
UNC ONE Card, which will allow
students to purchase a replace
ment card for $lO instead of
S2O.
Representatives of the organi
zations requesting fee increases
backed their proposals at Friday’s
meeting.
Dick Baddour, director of ath
letics, advocated that the com
mittee approve the athletics fee
increase.
“We’re really stretched with
what we’re doing,” he said. “Our
goal is to maintain the program
we have.”
Calabria said that he is happy
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become a controversial issue.
But council members wanted
more than one option for the facil
itator, which Fo/s initial proposal
did not include. His proposal also
listed Sept. 23 as the starting date
for the committee.
Foy, Wiggins and Greene will
meet Wednesday to look at propos
als from potential facilitators.
“I wanted us to have a choice
and some competition for the job,”
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to check out, free of charge, for six
months.
“I think it’s just wonderful; it’s
like Christmas,” Iris Greene said
as she waited for her laptop Friday
afternoon. Greene works in the
University Cashier’s Office and is
one of the first two employees to
receive a loaned laptop through the
program.
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