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4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2005 PRECINCT FROM PAGE 1 em Orange County would have had problems if the superprecincts had been implemented. “Each place needed to be handi cap accessible, have a real-time com puter and be available for a week,” she said. “There was no way we could have done it this November.” The Internet was included in superprecinct voting so that election officials could check an online database to prevent voting fraud. Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, said superprecincts are advantageous in an urban setting like Chapel Hill but would hurt voter turnout in SPEAKER FROM PAGE 1 coming from arts and humani ties, may not know her, ... but I think they’ll be very glad to hear from her.” Pisano said she was invited early this summer to speak at Fall Commencement on Dec. 18 in the Smith Center. “Of course I was very honored, pleased, and flattered that the committee thought that I was an appropriate choice to speak at graduation,” she said. Whisnant said the committee is still working to select a speaker for Spring Commencement, but he declined to provide further details. Last year, the speaker commit tee revealed its choice for Spring Commencement Harvard University professor and chap lain Peter Gomes just days after making its choice for Fall Commencement public. Pisano said she is thinking about speaking about the balance between family and work an issue that she believes is of inter est to graduates. “I have four children,” she said. “I’m very active in the community and I have my work, so that’s very important for me.” George Lensing, an English pro fessor and director of the Office of Distinguished Scholarships, gave the fall address last year. 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Kinnaird said students often are confused and frustrated by the current voting precincts. “They came to me and said they still didn’t know where their pre cincts were,” she said. Student Body Vice President Adrian Johnston said he is disap pointed the measure won’t come uate degree in philosophy from Dartmouth College and attended medical school at Duke University. She completed her medical resi dency at Harvard University. “I was inspired to go into wom en’s health research because of the death of my own mother,” she said. “She died when I was in high school, so I wanted to do some thing to help other families who face those same difficulties.” Pisano has been a member of the UNC faculty for 16 years. “I love being at a public univer sity,” she said. “The fact that we teach students from all over the state, take care of patients from all over the state, the fact that we serve the state that’s very impor tant.” Pisano also said the accessibility to education is an element of the University that she loves. “If you can apply and be accept ed, you can study here, whether or not you can pay,” Pisano said. She has heard a number of commencement and special event speakers, she said, and she hopes she will be able to leave a lasting impression on her audience. “If anything, I just want to say something that means something to the graduates and their fami lies,” Pisano said. “I don’t want to be meaningless or forgotten, which I’ve seen happen to speakers many times.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. From Page One to fruition. “It’s a good thing all around,” he said. “It’s a good thing for students of all political colors.” Seth Dearmin, student body president, said voter identifica tion became a sticking point for Republicans while the bill was discussed. “It became a partisan issue in the House,” he said. “It throws a huge wrench in the plans.” Dearmin said he plans on fol lowing up on the superprecinct issue by talking to the members of the board of elections and Kinnaird to find a compromise. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. TUITION FROM PAGE 1 able increase for UNC-Chapel Hill next fiscal year would be $465.05, based on a comparison to increases at other public universities. Under the same calculation, N.C. State University officials could ask for a hike of up to $437.65. “Planned increases in North Carolina that would be consistent with peer increases nationwide would be less erratic and would keep North Carolina’s schools in approximately the same relative position to our peers over time,” said the proposal prepared for Friday’s meeting, the first sched uled for the task force. During the past five years, UNC system tuition hikes have fluctuat ed between 2.5 and 16.5 percent of tuition costs, while national peer schools have stayed between 6.5 and 11.2 percent during the past four years. The program— which Gage said is one of several ideas ftp for debate aims to keep tuition for system schools within the bottom 25 percent of comparable schools. The new policy would be designed to give each campus a measure of predictability when making requests to the board. “If campuses adhere to the guide lines and the policy... the campuses can, in good faith, anticipate approv al,” the proposal states. “Are they comfortable with us finding a range of operation, TASK FORCE FROM PAGE 1 should go. Members spent a large part of the meeting debating how the money should be distributed to University needs. Shelton encouraged this approach, because the numerical details of a tuition proposal prob ably will be revised before they go through the stages of approval. “Because whatever comes out of this group I can guarantee will not be put into effect,” he said. “I don’t say this in any critical sort of way. There are too many layers of governance.... They bring their own perspective.” whether it’s looking at the bottom quartile or bottom third of public institutions?” Gage said. “I think that’s what we want to hear from the committee members.” UNC Association of Student Governments President Zack Wynne, who is serving on the task force, said he has concerns about the examination of hard tuition figures so early in the process. “If it starts going in that direction, I might raise a flag or two,” he said. But Gage said any numbers to be examined are not set in stone and should be considered merely as an early-stage proposal. “We’ve got some ideas we’re going to throw out to get it started, just to give it some form,” she said. “We’re not starting this meeting with a par ticular destination in mind.” The task force was formed after a legislative battle this summer in the N.C. General Assembly spotlighted the possibility of tuition autonomy for UNC-CH and NCSU. Though full tuition autonomy for the system’s flagship schools failed to gain enough support, board members pledged to exam ine new tuition policies to meet their unique needs. Steve Bowden, a member of the task force, said the group will work toward making a decision on tuition policy relatively soon. “We’d like to do this by Christmas,” he said. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu. During the task force’s final meeting, set for Oct. 10, the group will finalize plans for a recommen dation to Moeser. From there, the proposal is set to go before the University Board of Trustees in November and on to the UNC-system Board of Governors in early 2006. Although the task force has largely avoided solidifying any plans, members overwhelmingly supported putting tuition revenue toward increasing the minimum teaching assistant stipend. Most agreed that the money should raise the minimum teaching assistant salary SI,OOO, to $7,000. Increasing the campus’s mini mum TA salary would require almost sl.l million in tuition rev enue, according to information presented to the task force at the meeting. The University must put resources to improving gradu ate students’ benefits, task force members say, or it risks losing top EDWARDS FROM PAGE 1 sible for everyone. He is working on a program in North Carolina to make that a reality. “We’re working to put a model program in place here in North Carolina so kids who are willing to work during college can go their first year tuition free,” he said. “These are all ideas to try to give kids from families that have been in the cycle of poverty a real chance —a chance to do better.” During the election season Edwards often spoke of two Americas the haves and the have-nots —and has since contin ued to work at closing the gap. He met with victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana on Sept. 12 to get a sense of who was hit the hard est by the storm and to assess the situation, he said. “In the centers where the evacu ees were located, it was almost all black,” he said. “I think it’s just a typical example of what I did talk about with the two Americas.” Edwards said that his efforts to end and raise awareness of poverty across the country such as his trip to the Gulf Coast and the college tour are separate from his work at UNC. He said he will be working with everyone at the center to find out what is causing poverty in the coun- AVEDA aveda environmental lifestyle store. now open Sunday from n to 5 Other Store hours: . Saturday B,:isam-6pfti ; '. O ?oo W. 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The forum will be at 8 p.m. tonight in Murphy 116. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. ON THE AGENDA is working to provide aid to low-income state students Is launching nationwide tour to raise awareness of poverty Is co-chairman of the U.S.- Russian relations task force try and to develop creative ideas about how to end it. “Our job here is to focus on the causes of poverty and to come up with serious solu tions about how to eliminate pov erty in this country,” he said. He stressed the importance of having community members and students as well as faculty and staff at the University involved in the center and its activities. He and his family are moving to Chapel Hill when their house is finished this spring, he said. His children already are in school in Chapel Hill at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School. At 52 years old, Edwards still has time to return to his career as a politician. But he said he does not plan to run for office at this time. “I have a campaign now it’s to do something about poverty in the country,” he said. “And that’s where I’m going to stay focused right now.” Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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