VOLUME 113, ISSUE 56
PRIVATE FUNDS FUEL PROGRESS
CAROLINA FIRST SEEN AS IDEAL FUNDRAISING MODEL
BY BRIAN HUDSON
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The Carolina First campaign, UNC’s multi
billion dollar fundraising effort, is bounding
toward its ultimate goal and in doing so has
lighted the way for the eventual change in the
campus’s funding scheme.
Started in 1999, the campaign boldly estab
lished a goal of generating $l.B billion by the
end of the 2006-07 fiscal year.
To date, the program is a mere S3OO million
shy of that same goal, with the majority of it
having come from private funds.
“One of the biggest challenges for us has
been a public university seeking private funds,”
said Matt Kupec, vice chancellor for University
advancement, the campaign’s public advocate.
The success of the campaign’s private fund
Storm’s
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NEW ORLEANS -
Announcing itself with shrieking,
145-mph winds, Hurricane Katrina
slammed into the Gulf Coast just
outside New Orleans on Monday,
submerging entire neighbor
hoods up to their roofs, swamping
Mississippi’s beachfront casinos
and blowing out windows in hos
pitals, hotels and high-rises.
For New Orleans —a danger
ously vulnerable city because it sits
mostly below sea level in a bowl
shaped depression it was not
the apocalyptic storm forecasters
had feared.
But it was plenty bad, in New
Orleans and elsewhere along the
coast, where scores people had
to be rescued from rooftops and
attics as the floodwaters rose
around them.
At least five deaths were blamed
on Katrina three people killed
by falling trees in Mississippi and
two killed in a traffic accident in
Alabama. And an untold number
of other people were feared dead
in flooded neighborhoods, many
of which could not be reached by
rescuers because of high water.
“Some of them, it was their last
night on Earth,” Terry Ebbert,
chief of homeland security for
New Orleans, said of people who
ignored orders to evacuate the
city 0f480,000 over the weekend.
“That’s a hard way to learn a les
son.”
“We pray that the loss of life is
very limited, but we fear that is not
the case,” Louisiana Gov. Kathleen
Blanco said.
Katrina knocked out power
to more than a million people
from Louisiana to the Florida
Panhandle, and authorities said it
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Editor: It’s your paper, make your voice heard
Many of you can relate to this experi
ence. You work on something tirelessly and
selflessly for months, sleeping, eating and
breathing your work and then someone
asks you, “So what’s going on with you?”
Where do you begin?
It’s a little like explaining all the changes
going on over here in our little hole in the
old Student Union. Some of them you see
reflected on our pages (like the snappier,
spaced-out promotions bar on our front
page); some of them are reflected today
on our Web site (like the 12 blogs we have
launched with the site in an attempt to
engage people in all types of media); and
some of them are a little more subtle (a
online I dailytarheel.com
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new county build-up closely, PAGE 18
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awaits Dell's Oct. 5 opening, PAGE 25
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remain constant through ages, PAGE 31
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raising has drawn administrators’ eyes to the
future source for University income: partner
ships with private revenue sources.
Campus leaders hope that private compa
nies will begin to exert an increasingly impor
tant role in the University’s funding structure
in the coming years.
Administrators have warned that the
amount of revenue coming from federal grant
sources, such as the National Institutes of
Health, will begin to decrease at institutions
of higher learning, especially those in the lower
quartiles of research innovation.
“We’re going to have these new relationships
on the corporate side, recognizing that the fed
eral engine for research support is really slow
ing down ...” Chancellor James Moeser said.
Twenty percent of the University’s total reve
T I ’ • imothy B. Tyson, author of this year's summer
reading program selection, “Blood Done Sign
JsL My Name,” reveals Carolina blue under his
Duke University regalia Sunday at the New Student
Convocation at the Smith Center. Tyson’s address chal
Researchers battle HIV/AIDS
UNC trailblazes
clinical research
BY JENNY RUBY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Nearly 40 million people are liv
ing with HIV or AIDS worldwide,
and the rate of new infections
exceeds 13,000 per day, accord
ing to the Joint United Nations
Program on HIV/AIDS.
For years, the UNC Center for
Infectious Diseases has worked
with the state health department,
man named Elliott
Dube hopefully will be
talking with each of you
over the course of the
year as part of his duties
as Public Editor).
The bottom line and
the thing you most
need to know about all
our summer changes
is: We want this to be
YOUR paper. We want to be the paper you
can’t go a day without. We want to be the
paper that sparks dinner conversation and
watercooler buzz. We want to be a paper
you value and a paper you are proud to call
city I page 2
LIFE SKILLS 101
New Orange County Schools
initiative provides voca
tional training for select few
students at Durham Technical
Community College.
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nue now comes from grants, investment and pri
vate gifts like those solicited in the campaign.
“Campaign or not, the need for private sup
port is going to continue on,” Kupec said.
If the University’s drive toward increased
research innovation is to be successful, with
major projects such as Carolina North, the
funding cannot slow down.
Private donations from University alumni
account for the largest bulk of the campaign
donations about $577 million thus far. Last
year alone there were 110,000 individual gifts,
Kupec said.
Courting alumni sources requires promoting
the physical benefits of donations.
Most donors like their money to go toward
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ADDRESSING COLOR
battling the worldwide epidemic.
Now, key advances both financial
ly and scientifically mean they could
be making important headway.
“It shows our dedication to not
only basic research but also the
concrete issues,” said Tony Waldrop,
vice chancellor for research and
economic development.
Waldrop added that the research
connects the University to both
state and international efforts as
many top investigators collaborate
with others around the globe.
As part of Chancellor James
Moeser’s vision of UNC emerging
m
RYAN C. TUCK
EDITOR IN CHIEF
chances and not be afraid to fall down.
Here’s the first batch of ideas for you all
to try.
First, I hope I don’t get through my
senior year without having spoken with
campus | page 4
FREE FOOD, FUN
Students, both new and
old, partied, danced and in
general partied into the wee
Monday morning hours at the
annual Fall Fest.
lenged students to break down barriers by “leaning into”
racial dialogue. He encouraged students not to be embar
rassed to address racial inequality. During the event stu
dents recited the honor pledge, sang the alma mater and
were welcomed by Chancellor James Moeser.
as the premier public institution,
research is increasingly important
for recruiting and retaining top fac
ulty and students.
“When you’ve got people of that
caliber ... it helps the University
be an engine for the state,” Moeser
said. “These are some of the most
important research questions we
can ask.”
Moeser noted that the endeavors
of HIV and AIDS research have
placed UNC on the cutting edge
of both developing a vaccine and
SEE HIV PAGE 8
all of you. That’s right, every single one of
you. No small goal, eh? Well, I’m hoping
my Friday office hours in the Pit (from 12
p.m. to 1 p.m.) and general office hours
(on Tuesday and Thursday from 1 p.m. to
2 p.m.) will be a touching-off point. Come
suggest story ideas, tell me about things
we’ve done right or wrong. Come yell at
me for putting my column on the front
page. No matter your opinions of me or the
paper, I want to hear from you and to try to
keep you within our readership.
Along with Don Luse and the Union
directors, I’m putting together a group of
SEE CHANGES, PAGE 8
your own.
So, how do we get
there?
The path of a worth
while trek is never an
easy one. There are lots
of failures and successes
that lie ahead of us all.
Trying to stick to the
latter will be the goal,
but we have to take
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Carolina First funding sources
To date the Carolina First campaign has raised more than $1.5 billion, which is
84 percent of the final goal. The drive is scheduled to end in June 2007.
■ Alumni —— .
38 percent
■ Corporations
13 percent /-U-.' ,
* Foundations l|
25 percent , • ‘
■ Other Friends i'll
17 percent
■ Other Organizations -i —-SSB
7 percent
SOURCE: OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT
DTH/ISAAC SANDLIN
“We need to
make novel
discoveries
that will lead
to rational
development
of a vaccine.”
MYRON COHEN,
DIRECTOR OF UNC CENTER
FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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BULLDOZERS ABOUND
UNC-system schools across
the state are engaging in
construction plans to spruce
up their respective campuses
and advance their missions.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2005
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Higher
tuition
waived
for few
Award recipients,
programs benefit
BY KAVITA PILLAI
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Enrollment of out-of-state stu
dents could rise at UNC-system
schools next year, despite fierce
opposition in 2003 to changing
the 18 percent nonresident enroll
ment cap.
A provision in the state budget
will allow out-of-state students
receiving full scholarships to be
considered in-
state students
by the UNC
system. Each
school’s board
of trustees
must decide
whether to
implement the
policy.
Although
the cap on
out-of-state
enrollment
will remain the
same, UNC-
Chapel Hill
H
Jerry Lucido
said UNC must
admit more
nonresidents or
gain funding.
vice provost for admissions and
enrollment management Jerry
Lucido said full scholarship stu
dents would not count toward the
18 percent.
And because the budget provi
sion calls for the universities to
maintain the number of native
North Carolinians enrolled, non
resident full scholarship students
could be considered a third group
of students, increasing overall
enrollment growth, he added.
Still, the provision is vague
enough to be interpreted by indi
vidual campuses, he said. “The
actual impact will be determined
campus to campus.”
Senate Majority Leader Tony
Rand, D-Cumberland, said the
policy will improve the educa
tional atmosphere at UNC-CH
and aid scholarship foundations
recognized by the universities.
The Morehead Foundation,
for example, will pay less to the
University for out-of-state stu
dents, freeing up more scholar
ship funds.
“We think this is a very reason
able and a good way of taking care
of the problems of the Morehead
Foundation,” Rand said.
He also pointed out that the
wording requires there to be no
fiscal impact on the participating
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