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atrr Soily (Ear Mrrl Congress allots CAA tickets Gives group 86 tickets instead of 90 BY STEPHANIE NEWTON STAFF WRITER Student Congress voted to limit the number of men’s basketball ticket allotted to the Carolina Athletic Association during its meeting Tuesday night. Athletic association members only will have 86 tickets reserved per home game next year, compared to 138 reserved seats last season and the 90 the group was aiming to obtain for the coming season. Yet the allotment was great er than many in the CAA and Congress had anticipated. The Rules and Judiciary Committee approved Sunday night an amendment to the Student Code that would allot 50 tickets to the athletic association. Congress voted unanimously Tuesday to attach an addendum to the bill that increased the ticket APPOINTMENTS FROM PAGE 3 race relations on campus. “I don’t think there is necessar ily enough sharing of cultures,” he said. “This is the time in their lives when students are supposed to be learning about people other than themselves, and if you don’t do it now, you’re not going to do it for the rest of your life.” Johnston said Congress was looking for high-caliber individuals from different organizations, and he believes the body found them. “Amazing people apply for these positions,” he said. “I’m really excit ed about the great work they’re going to do in the next year.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. DEDC FROM PAGE 3 Relief for Foy might come soon, as the board now is interviewing final ists for a permanent executive direc tor post viewed from the begin ning as key to the group’s efforts. With a permanent executive director, the role of the corporation might change to allow less promi nent representatives to serve com fortably on the board. Question: What to do with your textbooks? Option: A WtmMHM |BH Kgl It doesn’t matter where you bought your textbooks, the best place to sell them is: -a Rmn Book & Supply |=JfiSH| ■ m ■ ifeggl Kj ■ 306 W. Franklin St. Phone Fax (919) 969 8996 i I Plus, get an extra 10% in Ram Bucks ■ (redeemable toward next semester’s textbooks) After you sell your books, we'll have a slice of hot pizza waiting for you! allotment to 86. Congress chose the number because it would afford the 43 CAA cabinet members with two tickets each next year. CAA officials initially requested that Congress limit the ticket num ber to 90. CAA President Justin Johnson said the additional four tickets would have benefited the organization. If membership in the group increases in future years, CAA leaders would be forced to return to Congress to seek more tickets, Johnson said. “In the long run, my people wouldn’t have had to come back.” Four extra tickets also would have provided the CAA with room for recruitment, Johnson said. Johnson defended athletic asso ciation members’ request for seat ing at games by stressing that CAA FELLOWS FROM PAGE 3 “I hope to have it operative by fiscal year 2006. It will probably take that long.” The bill proposes $6,500 schol arships for each fellow, though Price said funding will be deter mined by the number of states that pick up the program. He said the bill authorizes S2OO million to the program for high school seniors and undergraduate freshmen and SIOO million for the community college program. But actual appropriations would be determined by Congress every year, Price said. He added that he would work with the U.S. Department of Education to deter mine the funding for the program, if it passes. Duties of the executive direc tor will include the development of strategies for growth, as well as following the board’s directives, the job description states. The group expects to hire a director by the end of its first full year. Didow said he hopes to guide the group as it makes reappoint ments for the future. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. From Page Three members who are organizing ticket distribution cannot obtain tickets in the manner that other students do. The legislation also assures that Congress’ decision won’t affect the number of tickets given to members of Carolina Fever currently 200. The decision to regulate CAA’s ticket distribution follows yearlong scrutiny of the organization by stu dent government and the student body. Most recently, CAA officials were accused of dipping too deeply into the till and reserving inordinate amount of tickets for themselves. The debate peaked when a Congress representative took CAA leaders to the Student Supreme Court over the ticket cap. Tuesday, representatives of the University’s athletic community appeared before Congress to defend CAA claiming that much has been done of late to remove the tarnish from the organization’s name. “I think there has been a lot of “I’m hopeful it will pass,” he said. “The challenge will be to get the (education department) to act on the bill and get funding for it.” But Melinda Anderson, spokes woman for the National Education Association, said education is mostly funded by the state, rath er than the federal government. Teacher retention should be addressed at the local level, she said, as the money to fund men toring programs will come from the local level. While this bill won’t solve the teaching shortage, Machtinger said it’s a step in the right direction. “The fact that North Carolina has had a successful program makes the case strong,” Price said. Contact the State £s? National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. HOKE FROM PAGE 3 doesn’t tend to align so much with the University.” And she said her job scope has grown along with the district. “I thought things operated at a fast pace when I came to the district,” she said. “Every year, I thought it couldn’t get any faster, but it did.” Hoke said the job’s rapid pace is control that has been reeled in that was not there the past year,” said Clint Gwaltney, assistant athletic director for the Smith Center and ticket operations. Gwaltney, with whom student officials have been working to dis cuss the overall ticket distribution method and a separate plan for students with spouses, supported the CAAs claim to 90 tickets. Congress also passed Tuesday legislation granting the organiza tion $4,000 for programming. While some Congress members debated the possibility of limiting the $4,000 to booking fee purpos es for the Homecoming concert, the bill passed with no attach ments of this nature. “If we had to pull all that money toward a booking fee, we’d have to look for a lot more money from other groups,” Johnson said. Contact the University Editor @ udesk@email.unc.edu. COLLINS FROM PAGE 3 2001 to 2003. Before concluding with his poem “Japan,” Collins told the audience that he recently received a check in the mail for $25 from the magazine Modern Haiku. He joked that he won the “Cool Haiku of the Month” award and then said the check broke down into $1.47 a syllable, “which is actually an extremely high rate of pay for any writer.” Scott Dill, a high school English teacher, said he enjoyed the read ing. “It was great; it was exactly what I expected,” Dill said. “I’m a fan of his work, and it’s great to see a personality behind that.” Contact the A&E Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. one of the aspects of her daily rou tine that she will miss the most. “There’s never a dull moment, and there’s always 10 things wait ing to be done,” she said. “The expectations will be a big differ ence. “Part of that will be good, but part of that I’m going to miss.” Hoke said she plans to do some contract work in communications after she leaves the district. She also wants to spend more time jGI ORDER OF OMEGA HONORING GREEK LEADERS SINCE 1959 Spring 2005 Initiates Sean Alford Kit Mac Lean Jennifer Balva Mary-Hunter Morris Jacqueline Brill David Murray LaDonna Brown Crystal Myers Ashley Marie Castevens Hillary Pace Anup A. Dashputre Jessica Pruette Derwin Dubose Molly Purgason Lauren Godwin Alicia F. Quesinberry Allison Hager Cody Rifkin Jessica Hart Meredith Sharp Mary Grace Hicks Emily Webster Lauren Hubbell Tammy Yahner Applications for Fall 2005 are currently being accepted. For more information or to complete an application, please visit: http://greeks.unc.edu/join/honor/omega/index.html. The application deadline is Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5:00 PM. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005 State could replicate shift in N.Y. Medicaid BY SETH PEAVEY STAFF WRITER North Carolina and New York are the only two states that force counties to pay a fixed percentage of all state Medicaid costs. This year, North Carolina coun ties had to allot a total of $440 million for Medicaid costs in their budgets an increase of 67 per cent from 2000. New York counties, which have seen their Medicaid costs double in the last seven years, also have been hurt. But New York eased the burden by approving abudget April 19 that will cap the growth of county Medicaid costs at 3.5 percent for 2006. By 2008, this figure will be reduced to 3 percent, and the state government will begin paying the full administrative costs of the pro gram after 2008. “It was critically important for counties to have the ability to rein in the local share of Medicaid so they can cap the growth and not have to raise taxes,” said Mark LaVigne, spokesman for the New York Association of Counties. North Carolina now is consider ing whether to follow suit. Several proposals have been brought before the N.C. General Assembly, including a recommenda tion by the bipartisan Blue Ribbon Medicaid Commission to cap spend ing at 2004-05 levels and to phase out county spending on Medicaid during the next five years. Medicaid costs for N.C. coun ties have increased by 10 percent or more in each of the last several years, said Rebecca Troutman, director of research and public technology for the N.C. Association of County Commissioners. But revenue from property taxes, the primary means by which coun doing activities she enjoys, such as reading and gardening. Looking back, Hoke said she is most proud of the roles she played in helping to pass voter-approved bonds for schools, starting a free after-school program and set ting up the district’s public school foundation. “I continue to be amazed at the number of accomplishments and level of achievement in this district,” Hoke said. “I’m not sure ties pay for Medicaid, is increasing by less than 8 percent annually. Medicaid costs are troublesome for poor, rural counties where eligi ble recipients make up 20 percent or 30 percent of the population. “All new tax revenue is being funneled to Medicaid,” Troutman said. Medicaid is a federal entitle ment program that pays medical costs for qualified individuals and low-income families. The federal government deter mines who will receive Medicaid benefits, but individual states have flexibility regarding certain ben efits. North Carolina provides its residents with 28 of the 34 optional benefits. For the 2005 fiscal year, the General Assembly has allocated $2.16 billion, or 15.9 percent of the state budget, to Medicaid. This is compared to the 11.8 percent allo cated to the UNC system. N.C. counties, which are respon sible for 15 percent of the state’s share, will pay $440 million on top of the legislature’s $2.16 billion. “Half of our counties are paying more on Medicaid than on school construction and renovation and other costs associated with educa tion,” Troutman said. The fate of the proposals to lift the burden placed on counties is uncertain, as the state faces pain ful spending cuts in Medicaid and other budget areas. “I can understand the perspec tive of both the state and the coun ties,” said Gary Kugler, social ser vices administrator for the N.C. Division of Medical Assistance. “Neither the state or the counties have the money.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. all these things ever really make it into the public awareness.” Despite her pride in the district, she said it is time for her to move on. “Spending 23 years in one place and one position is incredible,” she said. “When I came here, if anyone said I would still be here in 2005,1 would have been astounded.” Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. 5
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