VOLUME 112, ISSUE 104
Tuition has room to grow
$5,286 IN STATE, $22,890 OUT OF STATE
WOULDN’T HURT UNO’S ENROLLMENT
BY LINDSAY MICHEL
STAFF WRITER
University officials will begin their annu
al tuition discussions this year with a better
understanding of the effects cost increases
have on undergraduates.
A report released Thursday by the
higher education consulting firm Art &
Science Group LLC used a market-based
strategy to examine the effects of tuition
hikes at the University. It specifically aims
to provide insight into students’ interest
in merit-based aid as well as the ramifica
tions of such boosts.
According to the report, the University
could raise tuition for in-state undergradu
ates to as high as $5,286 without affecting
Letteri
to lead
public
works
Will take helm of
department Dec. 6
BY MEREDITH LEE MILLER
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
After a nine-month, nation
wide search, the Town of Chapel
Hill announced Friday that it has
hired anew director for its Public
Works Department.
William Letteri will begin his
new job Dec. 6.
The position was vacated in
January by Bruce Heflin, who is
now the assistant town manager.
“(The search) was very chal
lenging because we had such a
good group of candidates who
responded,” said Town Manager
Cal Horton.
Letteri said
he decided
to apply for
the position
because he has
received posi
tive feedback
about both the
town and the
University.
“Chapel Hill
is such a fine
community,” he
said. “I want to
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Soon-to-be
director
William Letteri
plans to work
with UNC.
establish a good relationship with
the community and UNC.”
The town’s Public Works
Department is its third largest
government group, employing
about 120 people.
The department takes respon
sibility for duties including trash
collection, maintaining traffic
signals and public buildings, and
street construction. Letteri brings
extensive experience with such
responsibilities to Chapel Hill.
He has held the position of
chief of administration and facil
ities management in the public
works department of another
college town Charlottesville,
Va. for the past 11 years.
A graduate of Cornell University,
Letteri also received a master’s
degree in business administration
from James Madison University in
Harrisonburg, Va.
Horton said Letteri’s strong
communication skills and his abil
ity to work with employees set him
apart from the rest of the candi
date pool.
He added that it usually takes the
town between six and 12 months to
fill a position such as this one.
Letteri said he was impressed
with the extensiveness of the inter
view process.
In one part of the search pro
cess, candidates were asked to sub
mit writing samples about public
works issues, Horton said.
Candidates also met in person
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undergraduate enrollment.
That figure represents the 25th percen
tile in a list of tuitions at UNC’s public peer
institutions.
The University also can meet, but not
exceed, the 75th percentile in a similar list
of out-of-state tuitions without negative
effects on enrollment.
That number 522,890 is the amount
now charged to nonresident students at the
University of Virginia.
Members of the Tuition Task Force, a
group of students and campus officials
charged with making a recommendation on
tuition to the Board of Trustees, said that
they did not know what to expect from the
study but that they were not too surprised
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Bruce Williams (left), Arthur Insko (center) and
Atwood Askew (right) help ring the bell outside
University Baptist Church on Sunday as part of the
church’s 150th anniversary celebration. Representatives
from each Sunday School class chipped in to ring the
CAVS END UNO’S
16-YEAR STREAK
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SENIOR WRITER
CARY Sound travels quickly
through the walls at SAS Soccer
Park, and the ecstatic squeals from
the Virginia locker room could be
heard clearly even as North Carolina
women’s soccer coach Anson
Dorrance tried
to explain what
went wrong
Sunday.
It was hard
to blame the
Cavaliers for
their excite
ment, as their
win clinched
the first ACC
Tournament
title in the pro
gram’s history.
Al-1 tie at die
end of two over
time periods led
to penalty kicks,
WOMEN'S
SOCCER
Virginia 1
UNC 1
UVAWINS 5-4 IN PK
Duke 2
UNC 4
INSIDE
Virginia gains
advantage from
practicing
penalty kicks
PAGE 7
and goalkeeper Christina de Vries
made the decisive save on UNC’s
sixth shot to seal the victory.
“Virginia is an unbelievable team,”
said midfielder Lori Chalupny. “It
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by its results.
“We found the results really interest
ing, but we were a little surprised that
the market was more flexible than at
least I had thought,” said Student Body
President Matt Calabria, co-chairman of
the task force.
Provost Robert Shelton, the group’s other
co-chairman, said that the report seems reli
able but that it will not be the only factor in
the task force’s final decision.
“I think it’s important that we consider
that these results aren’t the only factor to
consider for tuition increases,” he said.
Calabria said it is important to note that
the study does not investigate the effects
of tuition increases on the entire student
body.
“One of the limits of this study is that it
doesn’t cover graduate students,” he said.
“We’ll be talking about graduate and
professional tuition the same way this
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Virginia's Sarah Huffman (10), the co-MVP of the
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year, but the undergraduate discussion
will be much more informed because of
the study.”
The report also provides insight into the
decisions of top in-state students who turn
down UNC to attend institutions outside
the state.
“(The study) answered, “Why do we lose
so many of our coveted in-state students to
out-of-state schools?’” Shelton said. “I think
we could affect that positively with merit
based scholarships.”
Steve Farmer, director of undergradu
ate admissions, said these students would
be more likely to come to UNC if they were
offered a scholarship.
Students seem to think of scholarships
as signs of the University’s commitment, he
added.
“There’s national research that show if
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bell 15 times, once for each decade of the church’s his
tory. The celebration brought together family and friends
from around the state. The congregation enjoyed speak
ers, songs, food, a sermon, and festivities in honor of the
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URNAMENT
UNC TOPS TERPS,
GRABS ACC TITLE
BY GABRIELLE DE ROSA
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
WINSTON-SALEM - When
North Carolina field hockey coach
Karen Shelton recruited senior
forward Kelsey Keeran, Shelton
promised Keeran a national
championship.
FIELD
HOCKEY
Maryland 1
UNC 3
Wake Forest 1
UNC 2
FINAL OT
INSIDE
Endurance of
Rachel Dawson
key in ACC
championship
PAGE 8
Despite the two-goal lead in
Sunday’s game, the match against
the second-seeded Terrapins (15-5)
was close until the last six minutes.
“We had to keep playing smart
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SPOUTS
JUST SHORT
Tar Heels nearly pull off two consecutive
wins for first time since 2001 PAGE 12
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2004
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Four years
later, Shelton is
one step closer
to making good
on her promise,
as UNC won the
ACC title for the
first time since
1997.
Top-seeded
UNC defeated
Maryland 3-
1 in Sunday’s
final after edg
ing Wake Forest
2-1 in the over
time semifinal
Friday.
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after a goal as the Tar Heels defeat Maryland 3-1 to
capture their first conference title since 1997.
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Group
favors
name
change
15 members vote
in favor ofMLK
BY JENNIFER FAIR
AND ADAM W. RHEW
STAFF WRITERS
On the heels of 11 months of con
troversy and as two days of meetings
drew to a close, 18 local residents
seemed ready Saturday afternoon
to make a decision.
By a 15-3 vote, members of the
Special Committee to Consider
Renaming Airport Road approved
a recommendation that the town
change the name of Airport Road to
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The commit
tee also voted
to include sepa
rate street signs
denoting the
road as “Historic
Airport Road.”
Members
INSIDE
Committee sees
larger issues
in debate on
renaming
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Stephen Largent, Bruce Johnson
and Catherine Holland, who all
own businesses and live on Airport
Road, opposed the change.
The committee’s recommenda
tion, which officially will be made
in December, urges the Chapel Hill
Town Council to implement these
changes six months from the date of
council approval or by July 4,2005.
“This recommendation from this
committee explored a lot more than
had been explored prior to this,”
said Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy.
Though renaming the road was
at the center of the group’s discus
sion, the committee’s recommen
dations will tackle other topics.
Members recommended a plan to
provide support, potentially includ
ing funds, for residents and business
owners on the renamed road to help
them adjust to the changes.
Other recommendations include
new ways of honoring King and
methods for supporting dialogue
on race relations in the future.
But at least one area business
owner was angry with the group’s
decisions.
Charles Carver, an accountant
who has an office on Airport Road,
called the process “deceitful.”
“Council made up their minds,
and they have done exactly what
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