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4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 BOE FROM PAGE 1 ulated when Democrat Britt Cobb conceded to Republican Steve Troxler. Only then was Troxler able to perch himself upon a trac tor last Tuesday to take the reins of the agriculture department. The delays in the race began when electronic voting machines in coastal Carteret County lost 4,438 ballots. The state does not have a means to produce paper trails when electronic votes are lost. The N.C. State Board of Elections was set to rule on the case again before Cobb conceded. The board had previously ordered another statewide election, but a judge overturned the ruling, deeming it too costly. Troxler attempted to have residents in Carteret County sign sworn affidavits affirming their votes for him. But Cobb decided to forgo his appeals to prevent those affidavits from being used and set ting what he said would be a dan gerous precedent. “I firmly believe that affidavits should not be in the electoral pro cess,” he said. “The problem needs to be addressed and solved.” Cobb criticized the partisan Board of Elections for not deciding the race sooner and for dragging it out for three months. “The partisanship got into it,” he said. “The two Republicans would not vote to do what the law says.” But the nature of politics can not be ignored in these cases, said PLATFORMS FROM PAGE 1 in town politics. “A single voting precinct has the largest potential for gain,” Dearmin said. The candidates’ platforms were established after talking to people in the campus community and ana lyzing which issues they deemed important. 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In dispute is the validi ty of 11,310 provisional ballots that were cast in the wrong precincts, which is against state law. The state Supreme Court on Feb. 4 ruled that those voters were allowed to vote improperly and sent the case back to a Wake County judge to determine how to fix the vote total. Republican Bill Fletcher trails Democrat June Atkinson by about 8,500 votes out of about 3 million cast. If, after the dis puted ballots are thrown out, Atkinson’s lead shrinks to less than 4,438 —the number of bal lots lost in Carteret County —a new statewide election might be necessary. Democrats have grumbled that the Supreme Court justices who whose members interviewed stu dents and faculty about specific issues. Dearmin said his staff brain stormed ideas after meeting with students to get a feel for what problems topped students’ lists of concerns. Yet some question the relevance of the nontraditional platform promises. “Candidates seem to be looking to garner support from specific groups, like they are just out to get From Page One ruled on the case, all Republicans, were playing partisan politics. But their ruling states that it is impera tive that the court follow state law and not party lines. “The overriding issue that has been thrust upon this court in the present case, and the con cern of this court, is not the ulti mate outcome of the two elec tions involved,” stated a ruling by Republican Justice George Wainwright. “Rather, the sole issue and con cern for this court in this matter is whether these two elections were conducted in accord with the will of the people of North Carolina, as expressed by them in their con stitution and in their statutes as enacted by their representatives.” Democratic legislators led by Sen. Dan Clodfelter of Mecklenburg County and their Senate leader, Tony Rand have filed a bill opposing the court’s rul ing. The proposal would set up a procedure to decide disputed contests and would make the law retroactive to 2004 to include the superintendent’s race. The complexities of state law are to blame for the delay in the race as much as partisan politics, Fleer said. “There should be some efforts to try to clarify the situation. There were two reasonable interpreta tions of the law and the (state) constitution.” Fleer added that the court would be justified in dismissing the votes because that is what the law dictates. votes,” said Lindsey Ford, a junior from Lincolnton. The hopefuls offer a combi nation of unusual promises and more traditional stances, but the candidates believe that a balance between the two is important. “We don’t only need to look at ourselves,” Dearmin said, “but we need to look out for future Tar Heels down the road.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. “With a mobile society, peo ple should know where to vote,” he said. “The law has to be fol lowed.” But the latest twist in the dis puted race is undemocratic to one pundit. Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC’s Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life, said throwing away ballots should outrage voters. “I find it a very distressing development,” he said. “This ought to concern people.” Guillory said the court had to follow the written law. But the N.C. General Assembly’s clear intent was to make sure all North Carolinians’ votes were counted when using provisional ballots, he said. The N.C. Republican Party applauded the court’s ruling. “The state’s highest court has met its responsibility to say what the law is, and North Carolina’s law does not permit out-of-pre cinct provisional ballots to be counted,” stated Ferrell Blount, party chairman, in a press release. Johnson, for his part, said that people voted in good faith at the direction of election officials and that the votes should count. “They were told it’s OK to vote,” he said. “There is nothing under handed going on here. It is a dark day for democracy in North Carolina.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. BOG FROM PAGE 1 concerned about it, because as we pointed out (to the board), a legis lative increase does not necessarily get rebated to the campuses.” Should the General Assembly impose a tuition hike, which would affect all students, the additional revenue could be appropriated to any program in the state budget. “Education is the largest recipient of funding from the general fund, by far,” said Sen. Richard Stevens, R- Wake, a member of the appropria tions committee on higher education. “Any increase in revenue is going to go substantially to education.” UNC-CH would be unlikely to see much of that increased funding, Farris said, because the legislature tends to focus appropriations on enrollment growth, favoring fast growing schools over the larger research institutions. “I certainly hope the legislature does not raise tuition,” he said. “If it does anything, the nongrowth institutions will get none of it.” Legislators in both chambers say it is far too early to predict the final budget outlook. “We don’t yet know what the bot tom line is,” said Sen. A.B. Swindell, D-Nash. “One place where I am not willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel is playing with the education of our students in North Carolina.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. The Institute of African American Research and the Bull's Head Bookshop present: reading from his book: THE STORT OF VIRGIL RICHARDSON, A TUSKEGEE AIRMAN IN MEXICO >• (Cj I (Palgrave Macmillan) Tuesday, February 15th at 3:30 p.m. in the Bull's Head Bookshop t %Bk ■ W call 962-5060^^^^for more info I I ■ 1 , I 1 LAW FROM PAGE 1 men are both working part time.” “Mr. Jeff Foushee and Mr. Bill McCauley, they were the success ful black men because they had been chosen,” said Valerie Foushee, a county commissioner and Jeff Foushee’s granddaughter-in-law. “They said they sent people looking for good, decent black men (when they were integrating the police). “I don’t know if they went to find two, or if they only found two.” Stan Foushee, Carrboro’s fire marshal and Jeff Foushee’s grand son, said his grandfather’s repu tation still lives on in the area. “People I work with now of the older generation knew him.” By 1954, two more black men joined the force, which rarely exceed ed 14 in total size at the time. One of those men was David Caldwell. “He used to tell us about work ing at the station,” David Caldwell Jr. said. “He and others had to clean the cells every day before work.” David Caldwell Jr., now a lieu tenant in the Orange County Sheriff’s Department with Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass, who worked with his father, said his father kept him and his three brothers out of most of the problems of the era. “You go home, and you go to school. That’s how it was,” David Caldwell Jr. said. David Caldwell Jr. said his father stayed with the department for about 15 years before he took anew job. His father had a lot of pride in his work, he added. Interviewed in a 1956 Chapel Hill Weekly profile of the depart ment’s officers, David Caldwell said he was content with his position. “They’re a fine bunch of fellows to work with down here,” he said. “They never doubt your word or anything, from the chief on down." Stan Foushee said that his grandfather retired before the mid 1960s but that the job had already taken its toll on his body. “Something happened at work one day, and he had a stroke,” Stan Foushee said. “Working during that time, it’s not surprising,” he added. David Caldwell Jr. said he and his brothers used to find bloody bandag es in the garbage can and assumed that their father had been involved UNC FROM PAGE 1 are advocating for the Board of Governors to consider campus based increases on a case-by-case basis. They say the scope and quality of UNC-CH programs merit more fimding. “We have 16 universities in the system, and obviously they are not all equal and even,” Schwab said. “Each one is very different, so I think it certainly has merit to look at that and consider that in the future.” Among its many strengths, UNC CH must maintain its competitive status as a top research university to continue to serve the state, said Chancellor James Moeser during Friday’s Faculty Council meeting. Ufy? iatly (Ear MM in something the night before. “People looked up to them,” Stan Foushee said of the black police officers. “But to my brothers and I, (Jeff Foushee) was just Poppa.” At the time of Jeff Foushee’s retirement, there were at least two black police officers on the force. Paul Minor and David Caldwell were with the department during 1963 and 1964 when, even in Chapel Hill, racial unrest escalated. From August 1963 until July 1964, there were more than 500 arrests, according to a February 1964 bulletin in The Daily Tar Heel. But even with the constant activity, Chapel Hill never saw as much violence as other areas. “Police Chief (William Blake) got credit for protests not becom ing as bad as places like Alabama,” Jarvies said. Blake served as chief from 1958 to 1976. Common arresting offenses included resisting arrest, trespass ing and obstructing the sidewalk. Bail typically was set at $175, which now would be about SI,OOO, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s inflation calculator. During the trial of several dem onstrators arrested for trespassing in 1964, District Solicitor Thomas Cooper commended Blake and the police department for the way they handled the demonstrations. “Arresting them was just nec essary to get them to go home,” Valerie Foushee said. Students at Lincoln High School, the area’s black high school, orches trated much of the activity. In a 1964 executive committee report from the students, the work of the police was recognized. “We appreciate the cooperation of Chief Blake,” the report states. Aside from its efforts at integra tion, the police put in more than 400 overtime hours between December 1963 and February 1964, Chief Blake told The Chapel Hill Weekly. David Caldwell Jr. said that even though it must have been hard for black officers to be on the arresting end during the civil rights move ment, the department’s integration was an enduring symbol of the era. “People talked about the (men) who had been lifted,” Valerie Foushee said. “But they just went about doing the business that they did.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. To do this, he said, further fund ing is critical. Without revenue from resident tuition hikes, the University is faced with searching for other sources of funding to fill the gap. The Carolina First campaign has garnered more than $1.4 billion in its effort to secure stable support for the University through private funds. But without more money, the University must consider corporate donations for research funds that have been labeled “dirty money” in the past, Moeser said. The shift in funding sources would mark a significant change for the University, which long has stood against corporate support. Before making such decisions, trustees, along with other UNC-CH administrators, are on a campaign to reach out to North Carolinians and to make a case for the University. A series of columns are appear ing in newspapers throughout the state, justifying tuition increases as well as the University’s mission. “At Carolina, we are committed to quality as well as accessibility and affordability,” wrote Williams in Friday’s edition of The Charlotte Observer. “Those traditions have characterized North Carolina’s approach to public higher educa tion from the university’s begin nings. Continuing those traditions will produce the leaders our state needs in the future.” While the series of opinion piec es might not sway the system’s gov erning board before their March meeting, many said the pieces illustrate the University’s need and set the tone for future decisions. “This is about protecting our most valuable resource,” Moeser said. “And who benefits having a University such as this but the people of North Carolina.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. 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