VOLUME 112, ISSUE 136
BOT MEMBERS PONDER TUITION INCREASES,
SET UNC-CHAPEL HILL APART FROM SYSTEM
BY EMILY STEEL
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Matt Calabria has ventured into a territory from
which few student body presidents have returned
successfully.
As the University’s governing board reconvenes
this morning, Calabria continues to wage a last
minute protest to convince the Board of Thistees
to strike a balance between the University’s needs
and reasonable increases in nonresident tuition.
It has been five years since then-Student Body
President Nic Heinke successfully persuaded the
board to reduce campus-based tuition increases,
and today’s events will determine whether or not
Calabria can live up to those standards.
The board’s Audit and Finance Committee
responded to his efforts Wednesday, approving a
proposal to increase campus-based tuition $250
for in-state students and SI,OOO for out-of-state
students.
Several committee members walked into the
meeting favoring an increase of $250 for N.C. resi
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Renan Snowden, a senior from Washington, D.C., presented her concerns about the effect rising tuition has on out-of-state students to members of the Board
of Trustees' Audit and Finance Committee on Wednesday. Further tuition increases could present a problem for families that do not qualify for need-based aid.
Nonresidents want place at table
BY LINDSAY MICHEL ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
A gentle force, Renan Snowden might have swayed
some members of the University’s governing board
Wednesday.
. Snowden, a senior from Washington, D.C., presented
her perspective on the effects of successive tuition hikes on out
of-state students and the middle class.
“When I look at the daunting disparity between the proposed
increases for residents and nonresidents, I’m relieved that I
don’t have to worry about affording another year at Carolina,”
she told members of the Board of Trustees’ Audit and Finance
Jensen grabs BSM support
BY KATIE HOFFMANN
STAFF WRITER
Student body president candidate Tom
Jensen nabbed his second major endorsement
in three days Wednesday.
After much deliberation, members of the
Black Student Movement endorsed Jensen for
the office at their candidates forum.
“The major echo in the room was that Tom
had already established his name in a diverse
array of people,” said BSM Treasurer Conitras
Houston. “He’s well-rounded in his establish
ment.”
The endorsement was the second in a series
of forums designed to expose the candidates
to the student body. Jensen won the Young
Democrats’ endorsement Monday.
“We’re looking for a balance,” said BSM
Vice President Brandon Hodges. “We had to
choose a candidate who realized that we are
minorities, but we’re also students who care
about every other issue on this campus.”
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dents and $1,200 for nonresident students —one of
the three options recommended by the Tuition Task
Force and the proposal supported by Chancellor
James Moeser.
But after listening to students testify about the
detrimental message such an increase might send
to the out-of-state student population, committee
members downshifted their figures.
“It was a very big step,” Calabria said. “The board
recognized these significant concerns.”
When crafting tuition policy, officials are trying
to meet the needs of four top priorities identified
by the Tuition Task Force. These include funding
need-based aid, faculty salaries, teaching assistant
salaries and new faculty positions.
“These are the big four, but the fifth priority is
keeping out-of-state tuition reasonable,” Calabria
said, noting that he will continue his efforts today to
reduce the increase in nonresident tuition to SBOO.
As the committee debated which tuition option
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Student Body President Matt Calabria and members of the University's governing board discuss
tuition increases Wednesday. The BOT committee shaved S2OO from its proposal for nonresidents.
Committee.
Though Snowden receives a grant tailored to
Washington, D.C., residents attending public institu
tions, the overall cost of her tuition remains higher
than the $3,205 in-state students paid in 2004-05.
Her concerns have been echoed by out-of-state
students looking at a potential increase of $1,200
for the coming year on top of the $16,303 they
already pay.
And it appears that their worries haven’t fallen
on deaf ears. During today’s meeting, the committee
approved a recommendation for a SI,OOO increase for
nonresidents —a hike brought down by S2OO after
members heard Snowden’s testimony.
The full board will vote today on the proposal,
Black snags 4th term as speaker
BY EMMA BURGIN
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
RALEIGH - The rep
resentatives seated in the
rear of the N.C. House on
Wednesday were deter
mined to be heard.
Twenty Republicans
l4 of them seated in the
back row of the chamber
voted against Jim Black,
D-Mecklenburg, as sole
speaker of the House.
Black still garnered
enough votes lOO in
all to assume the role
for a record-tying fourth
time during the first day
of the N.C. General Assembly, ending a two
year power-share between Democrats and
•Republicans.
After the 2004 elections, the Democrats
hold a six-vote majority in the chamber, 63-
57-
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RENAN SNOWDEN
which includes a $250 tuition increase for in-state
students.
“I don’t feel we are going to do any significant
damage to the qualify of the incoming class,” TVustee
Paul Fulton said.
But successive tuition hikes that have hit nonres
idents particularly hard leave out-of-state students
wondering about the University’s commitment to
them. Out-of-state students have begun to refer to
themselves as commodities, cash cows and tuition
targets, said Charlie Anderson, speaker of Student
Congress and an N.C. resident.
With job losses and pay cuts plaguing the mid-
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Jim Black
won the support
of 100 members
of the House in
his bid to be the
chamber's
sole speaker.
Former Speaker
Richard
Morgan
will wield power
in the form
of chairman
assignments.
—speaker pro tern.
The slot, in the past, almost always has
been given to a high-ranking majority mem
ber.
“This 2005 session brings anew twist in the
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the House elected two
co-speakers, Black and
Rep. Richard Morgan, R-
Moore.
“The relationship they
built up ... has given both
of them some confidence
that they can make (a coali
tion government) work,”
said Ferrel Guillory, direc
tor of UNC’s Program on
Southern Politics, Media
and Public Life.
The first step to creating
this coalition government
was the historic move of
giving Morgan the sec
ond-in-command position
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