VOLUME 112, ISSUE 105
Broad sees no systemwide hikes
SYSTEM PRESIDENTS RECOMMENDS
NO ACROSS-THE-BOARD INCREASES
BY ERIC JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
The proposed budget being reviewed this
week by the UNC system’s governing body
will not include any systemwide tuition
increases.
UNC-system President Molly
Broad decided to recommend a
0 percent increase after reviewing conflict
ing proposals from a systemwide tuition
task force.
The task force, which includes adminis
trators and student representatives from all
16 system schools, could not reach a consen
Troops
launch
assault
in Iraq
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq
U.S. troops backed by thun
derous air and artillery barrages
launched a ground offensive
Monday to seize key insurgent
strongholds inside Fallujah, the
city that became Iraq’s major
sanctuary for Islamic extremists
who fought Marines to a stand
still last April.
A military spokesman esti
mated 42 insurgents were killed
across the city in bombardment
and skirmishes before the main
assault began.
Hours after starting the offen
sive, U.S. tanks and Humvees
from the Ist Infantry Division
entered the
northeastern
Askari neigh
borhood, the
first ground
assault into an
insurgent bas
tion.
INSIDE
UNC students
face wide range
of experiences
as soldiers
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In the northwestern area of
the city, U.S. troops advanced
slowly after dusk on the Jolan
neighborhood, a warren of alley
ways where Sunni militants have
dug in. Artillery, tanks and war
planes pounded the district’s
northern edge, softening the
defenses and trying to set off any
bombs or booby traps planted by
the militants.
Marines were visible on roof
tops in Jolan. This reporter, locat
ed at a U.S. camp near the city,
saw orange explosions lighting up
the district’s palm trees, minarets
and dusty roofs, and a fire burn
ing on the city’s edge.
Masked insurgents roamed
Fallujah streets throughout the
day. One group of four fighters,
two of them draped with belts
of ammunition, moved through
narrow passageways, firing on
U.S. forces with small arms and
mortars. Mosque loudspeak
ers blared, "God is great, God is
great.”
Just outside the Jolan and
Askari neighborhoods, Iraqi
troops deployed with U.S. forces
took over a train station after the
Americans fired on it to drive off
fighters.
The top U.S. commander in
Iraq, Gen. George Casey, pre
dicted a “major confrontation” in
the operation he said was called
“al-Fajr,” Arabic for “dawn.” He
told reporters in Washington
that 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. troops
along with a smaller number of
Iraqi forces were encircling the
city.
The offensive is considered the
most important military effort to
re-establish government control
over Sunni strongholds west
of Baghdad before elections in
January.
"One part of the country can
not remain under the rule of
assassins ... and the remnants
of Saddam Hussein’s regime,”
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sus before presenting its recommendations
to Broad’s office.
“What they do is try to arrive collabora
tively at a recommendation,” said Jeff Davies,
UNC-system vice president for finance.
“They did not do that again this year.”
Last year, the system’s Board of Governors
decided not to increase tuition after receiv
ing dual proposals from the task force, one
advising a 2 percent increase and another
suggesting no change.
This year, the group suggested that the
system raise tuition by either 0 percent or
2.2 percent.
Eamikazi Dance Team performs Monday dur
ing “Night of the Divas” in the Great Hall of the
Student Union. The benefit show for the Orange
County Rape Crisis Center was sponsored by Advocates for
Sexual Assault Prevention, which organizes two shows a
Pundits already place bets on 2008
BY INDIA AUTRY
STAFF WRITER
The day after last week’s elections, pundits
already were making projections about who
will run for national and state office ift 2008.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is the most
likely Democratic presidential nominee next
time around, but some say she might have to
beat out a couple of Tar Heels to get there.
Former vice presidential candidate Sen.
John Edwards, D-N.C., might compete for the
White House again, but his failure to carry his
home state or the South indicates he probably
doesn’t have a chance, said Don Carrington,
vice president of the John Locke Foundation.
“I think it’s going to be hard to overcome the
Edwards likely to regroup with presidential aspirations
BY MARK PUENTE
STAFF WRITER
Only one week after Election Day, specu
lation has begun to fly regarding the next
presidential race —and pundits already are
wondering what it would take for the son
of a mill worker to capture the Democratic
nomination in 2008.
“John Edwards is going to spend the
next four years running for president,” said
William Cunion, professor of political sci
ence at Mount Union College. “I think he is
going to make a good run at it.”
A self-made millionaire-tumed-senator,
the North Carolina Democrat went from
first-term lawmaker to vice presidential
nominee after only six years on Capitol Hill,
getting tapped as Sen. John Kerry’s running
mate in Kerry’s bid for the White House.
Now, Edwards faces unemployment in
January after vacating his Senate seat. But he
might have taken the first steps toward renew
ing his career during his forward-looking
introduction of Kerry’s concession speech.
“We didn’t stop fighting for you when this
campaign began, and we won’t stop fighting
for you when this campaign ends,” Edwards
said, striking a tone quite different from that
of Kerry’s conciliatory speech.
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“The folks on the zero side didn’t budge,
and the folks on the 2.2 side didn’t budge,”
Davies said. “I think more of the commit
tee members were interested in a 0 percent
increase.”
It appears likely that this year, the BOG
will react favorably to the 0 percent recom
mendation.
“I think that will be very well received,”
said board member Brent Barringer. “I cer
tainly haven’t heard anyone arguing in favor
of an across-the-board increase.”
Officials at N.C. State University, where
administrators pushed for a 2.2 percent
increase during the task force’s delibera
tions, said the N.C. General Assembly might
be inclined to raise tuition if the BOG fails
to offer its own increase.
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organization that promotes awareness and prevention of
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“I imagine (Gov. Mike Easley would) he kind of
surprised to know his name was on the list.”
TRAD BEYLE, UNC POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR
Hillary machine,” he said.
Voters put Gov. Mike Easley back in office
last Tuesday for his second and last term,
and there are nationwide whispers that the
Democrat might soon head for the White
House. The N.C. Democratic Party said that’s
a definite possibility.
Easley’s ability to carry a Republican state
has proved him a winner, said Schorr Johnson,
the party’s communications director.
will be on hold while his wife, Elizabeth,
confronts breast cancer. She decided to
delay treatment until after the election.
But ultimately, if he wants to run for pres
ident, he must get back on the campaign
trail —a job for which being unemployed
might bode well in the coming years.
One pundit said it is crucial for Edwards to
hit the “rubber chicken circuit” and get heav
ily involved with local party activists, speaking
and grassroots organizing.
“Anybody who is going to be serious in 2008
is going to start having conversations after the
Ist of the year,” said Edward Sidlow, profes
sor of political science at Eastern Michigan
University. “Within 18 months, they have to
start exploratory committees.”
During the primary season in 2004,
Edwards’ bid for the presidency took him
to lowa’s 99 counties before many of his
challengers.
When he bowed out of the race after
Super Tuesday, he did not sit idle on the
sidelines, instead developing an aggressive
fund-raising and speaking strategy that led
to being selected for the national ticket.
Being a member of a losing ticket shouldn’t
hurt Edwards’ chances for a comeback, said
SEE EDWARDS, PAGE 5
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A FEW GOOD MEN
UNC students who double as soldiers speak about the
time they have spent in the hot deserts of Iraq PAGE 2
“Our concern is that if they don’t recom
mend a very small increase, the General
Assembly will decide to place an even
larger one on all of the campuses,” said
Tom Stafford, vice chancellor for student
affairs.
The attitude of the state legislature toward
tuition increases will depend heavily on the
state’s budget outlook, Stafford added.
No matter what the budget situation,
Barringer pointed out that the General
Assembly is constitutionally obligated to
keep tuition affordable.
“The first source of funds for the uni
versity should always be taxpayer dollars
instead of parent or student dollars,” he
SEE TUITION, PAGE 5
If Easley chooses to pursue the presidency,
he could make the cut, Johnson said. “He
would have a lot to offer. He would be a very
viable candidate.”
Thad Beyle, a professor of political science
at UNC, said he doubts that Easley has aspi
rations for the highest office in the country. “I
imagine he’d be kind of surprised to know his
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A likely presidential candidate for 2008, N.C. Sen. John Edwards is joined on stage by his son,
Jack; wife, Elizabeth; and daughter Emma Claire during a campaign stop in Raleigh last month.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004
Road
plans
finally
OK’d
■
Cameron Avenue
to see alterations
BYERENTATARAGASI
STAFF WRITER
After months of discussion and
debate about parking and bike
lanes on Cameron Avenue, the
Chapel Hill Town Council finally
came to a resolution Monday.
The council unanimously decid
ed on Resolution B, which will cre
ate 5-foot bike lanes on both sides
of Cameron Avenue, 10-foot park
ing lanes with meters on the north
side of the street and a 12-foot
travel lane in each direction.
Town Manager Cal Horton said
in his recommendation, which
the council did not accept, that
the current situation on Cameron
Avenue was adequate but that
parking meters should be added
to existing parking spots.
According to town documents,
the new meters could generate
between $49,000 and $65,000
in annual revenue for the town.
Horton’s recommendation did
not include plans to restripe bike
lanes or widen current spaces.
Loren Hintz, a resident and
former chairman of the town’s
transportation advisory board,
said he thought the resolution
would help the town. “I believe
the reinstallation of bike lanes
will be beneficial.”
Hintz was originally in favor of
Resolution C, which would pro
hibit any parking on Cameron
Avenue between the hours of 7
a.m. and 7 p.m., but saw resolu
tion B as the only compromise.
Kumar Nepalli, the town’s
traffic engineer, said that while
he favored the manager’s recom
mendation, Resolution B was
feasible.
Nepalli said the approved
changes could take as long as
three months to implement.
According to town documents,
current hours of parking on the
north and south sides of Cameron
Avenue will no longer be effective
as of Feb. 15,2005.
At that time, the newly approved
parking meters will take effect,
although all existing no-parking
zones will remain in place.
Currently, on-street parking is
prohibited on the south side of
Cameron Avenue between 7 a.m.
and 9:45 a.m. and on the north
side between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
During the hours when park-
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