VOLUME 112, ISSUE 128
In-state tuition likely won’t budge
SCHOOLS COULD BE LIMITED
TO NONRESIDENT INCREASES
BY EMMA BURGIN
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Members of the UNC system’s
governing body admitted Thursday
that they simply will be going
through the motions when receiv
ing proposals for campus-initiated
tuition increases.
And Jim Phillips, chairman of
the board’s Budget and Finance
Committee, made it clear that any
requests to raise in-state tuition
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Student candidates and campaign workers pick up information and drop off their declarations of candidacy for the upcoming student elections
after a mandatory meeting in 116 Murphey Hall on Thursday night. Almost 40 students declared their candidacy for the various student offices.
CANDIDATES TAKE IST STEP
BY KRISTLE SPELLMAN
STAFF WRITER
Several UNC students will flood
campus today with clipboards in
hand, soliciting signatures of sup
port and officially kicking off the
first round of the election season.
Almost 40 students began
their journey to holding student
government positions Thursday
evening during a mandatory can
didates’ meeting in which hope
fuls declared their candidacy for
the elections.
After learning the rules and
regulations of the election season,
four candidates committed to par
ticipating in the race for student
body president. Three students
are vying for Carolina Athletic
System officials
mull issue of cap
BY EMMA BURGIN
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The nonresident enrollment
cap will come under scrutiny
again this month as the UNC
system’s governing body investi
gates the possibility of deviating
from the 18 percent limit.
A committee of the Board of
Governors decided Thursday to
investigate the deviation, which
would have to be “within the spir
it of the 18 percent.” The change
might only apply to smaller sys
tem schools.
One such school was the cause
for the re-emergence of talks
about the cap.
UNC-Asheville overshot non
resident enrollment for two
consecutive years, so the Budget
and Finance Committee voted
Thursday to reduce the school’s
1004-05 budget. The university
enrolled 13 students over the cap
this past fall and will lose $97,570.
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likely will be struck down.
“It is my reading of the board
that we are unlikely to approve
them,” he said. “But if we’re going
to consider them, it seems that we
ought to truly look at them.”
While the board opposes tuition
increases for in-state students, it
left the door open for hikes in non
resident tuition.
Requests must be turned in to
the system’s finance department
Association president, and two
pairs are campaigning for top
positions as senior class officers.
While 25 students have declared
intentions to run for positions
in Student
Congress,
candidates
for both the
Graduate and
Professional
Student
Federation
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president and Residence Hall
Association president will run
unopposed.
Many students recall last year’s
turbulent election process, but
Heather Sidden, chairwoman of
the Board of Elections, said this
The board first heard a propos
al in fall 2003, spearheaded by
UNC Chancellor James Moeser,
to raise the 18 percent cap on
nonresident admissions by 4
percent.
Board member Ed Broadwell
was prepared Thursday to waive
the policy for UNC-A and allow
time to look into the possibility of
a deviation.
Jeff Davies, system vice presi
dent for finance, said the board
waived the policy for Elizabeth
City State University for enrolling
more than the 18 percent nonresi
dent students allowed in both the
2001-02 and 2002-03 academic
years. The board did not fur
ther reduce the school’s budget
because it already was experienc
ing a serious reduction.
Board member Cary Owen said
UNC-A is one of the most under-
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by Jan. 31, and the Budget and
Finance Committee will discuss
the proposals at its February meet
ing in Wilmington.
The full Board of Governors is
expected to vote on proposals in
Chapel Hill on March 18.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of
Trustees is expected to finalize
its tuition increase proposal Jan.
26. Members are looking at three
options, all of which increase both
resident and nonresident tuition.
Phillips asked that campuses
seeking approval for an increase
have the appropriate personnel
attend those meetings.
year’s race has gotten off to a
smooth start.
“We made changes over the
summer to address specific prob
lems that we had last year and to
try and answer them.”
Each candidate is required to
obtain a certain number of signed
petitions from different students
stating their support for that spe
cific candidate.
Signing more than one candi
date’s petition is an Honor Code
violation, and members of the
elections board are taking extra
steps to ensure that there are no
overlapping or duplicate names.
This year, candidates are
required to submit a spreadsheet
with the names and PID numbers
“ You’re only as good as your last kick. If you miss one, you suck. If you make
one, you re hack in with everybody, jeff reed, former unc kicker on the pressures of kicking in the nfl
Former Tar Heels discover success in NFL
BY JACOB KARABELL
SENIOR WRITER
The Pittsburgh Steelers fin
ished the NFL regular season an
astounding 15-1, tops in the league
and just the fourth team in the 16-
game era to accomplish that feat.
Much of the national atten
tion around the team has cen
tered on rookie quarterback Ben
Roethlisberger, whose precision
and poise seemingly have been
praised on every airing of ESPN’s
“Sports Center” since his first start
in late September.
But on a gloomy January after
noon in Buffalo, Roethlisberger
wasn’t the star of the Steelers’ 29-
24 defeat of the Bills, assuring the
rare one-loss final mark.
Instead, two North Carolina
alumni garnered the notoriety.
Kicker Jeff Reed went 5 for 5 on
field goals and 2 for 2 on extra
points, while Willie Parker took 19
carries for 102 yards.
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BOG head
Brad Wilson
spearheaded
a movement
against in-state
tuition hikes
for the 2005-06
school year.
“I expect them to have done sub
stantial work on why they need the
money and what they’ve done to
ensure access,” he said.
The committee’s sentiment is in
line with that of BOG Chairman
Brad Wilson, who spoke out last
month against tuition increases
of each student who signed their
petition. Several BOE members
said they think this will make it
easier to detect foul play.
Student body president and CAA
president candidates are required
to turn in 800 signatures.
Candidates for senior class
president and vice president, as
well as the RHA president, must
turn in 350 signatures.
The GPSF presidential candi
date must provide 100 signatures,
and students running for Student
Congress are required to have 20
signatures.
Candidates for all offices must
turn in the spreadsheet and
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Normally, few football fans
would think twice about former
Tar Heels having success in the
NFL Julius Peppers and William
Henderson qualified for this year’s
Pro Bowl, for example. But you can
forgive even a die-hard UNC fan
who might have been a little sur
prised at Parker and Reed’s profes
sional accomplishments.
Neither player was drafted, and
few scouts forecasted that either
of the two would stay afloat in the
cutthroat world of professional
football.
Instead, both players have over
come their challenges and have
contributed to the Steelers’ drive to
the Super Bowl, which continues
late Saturday afternoon in their
divisional playoff game against the
New York Jets.
“It’s a blast,” Reed said of this
season, which came after the team
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for in-state students.
Wilson also alluded last month
to the possibility of using tuition
certainty as a model to provide
stability to students entering the
UNC system.
Under this plan, now used with
in the University of Illinois sys
tem, undergraduates pay the same
tuition rate for all four years.
Phillips said Thursday that he is
going to ask the finance department
to bring in an Illinois representative
to speak to the board about tuition
certainty. “I expect they’ll tell us the
good and the bad,” he said.
Former BOG Chairman Ben
Town plans
big MLK Day
Renaming debate will color festivities
BY JENNIFER FAIR
STAFF WRITER
As the first city to designate a
paid holiday in honor of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., Chapel Hill has
always celebrated the civil rights
activist.
And with fallout from the debate
over renaming Airport Road to
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
still lingering, this year will be no
exception.
“We feel (the debate) is going
to be a tremendous boost,” said
Bishop L. Gene Hatley of Barbee’s
Chapel Baptist Church. “I think
our participation will be greater.
The inspiration and motivation are
much greater now that something
has been done locally.”
Honoring a national civil rights
leader locally is the first step in
honoring local activists, he said.
Fred Battle, president of the local
chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, said he hopes the entire cel
ebration will be magnified because
of the renaming discussion.
“I think people will come
together on that day and celebrate
the legacy of King,” Battle said.
Mayor Pro Tern Edith Wiggins
said the holiday will have particular
meaning for the NAACP because it
was the group’s petition that initi
ated the renaming debate.
In honor of King, the NAACP
is organizing a rally at 9:30 a.m.
Monday in front of the Franklin
Street post office. The rally will be
followed by a march down Franklin
Street at 10:15 a.m.
The march will end at 11 a.m. at
First Baptist Church for the annual
Martin Luther King Jr. service. The
keynote speaker at the event is the
Rev. William J. Barber 11.
“He’s been leading the fight
for equality in education in the
Goldsboro education district,”
Hatley said. “He’s very active in
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Ruffin said he doesn’t want the
state legislature to receive any
encouragement from the board to
hike in-state tuition. “We need to
be clear that we need the General
Assembly to walk, arms locked,
with us to generate revenue.
“It’s very important to have
some sentiment from the board ...
so the schools don’t do an inordi
nate amount of work on some pro
posal with stipulations that justify
to the General Assembly (the need
for increases).”
During the meeting, the budget
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civil rights struggles.”
Barber served as the execu
tive director of the N.C. Human
Relations Commission for many
years and formed a commu
nity development corporation in
Goldsboro that, among other things,
works to revitalize the inner city.
Hatley will also speak at the ser-
vice, and numer
ous choirs from
local churches
will attend. But
Monday is not
the only day
a resident of
Chapel Hill can
celebrate King.
“The week
end will be filled
with programs
geared toward
Martin Luther
King’s celebra
’ tion,” Battle said.
Former Mayor
Howard Lee
will speak at
one of the
day's festivities.
The town will host its 7th annual
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day at
11:30 a.m. today in town facilities
at 1099 Airport Road. Newly elect
ed County Commissioner Valerie
Foushee will speak at the event
A Martin Luther King Jr. com
munity memorial commemoration
will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday at
the Duke Chapel.
And the University will host its
annual University-Community
Martin Luther King Jr. Banquet at 7
p.m. Sunday at the Friday Center.
“It’s always a large festivity
where University people and peo
ple from the town come together,”
Battle said.
Howard Lee, chairman of the
N.C. Board of Education and former
Chapel Hill mayor, will be speaking
at the banquet
Wiggins said she plans to attend
Sunday’s banquet. “I think the
majority of citizens in Chapel Hill
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