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TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006
HOOPS LEAGUE
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New to Chapel Hill and eager to
join the league, Beever volunteered
as a captain and put together his
team.
“I thought it would be a great
chance to meet people,” he said.
Although Beever joined the
league as a free agent, most
returning teams are made up
of members who have worked
together.
“Consistent teams tend to come
from specific departments,” Van
Sloten said.
Although the games are com-
REGISTRATION
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Before a merit-based system
can be put in place, Cathcart
said his committee is working
on extending the advising period
from one week to two weeks, fur
ther spreading registration times
between seniors and the rest of
undergraduates.
Other proposed changes on the
survey included slotting students
randomly into registration times
and slotting students according to
total credit hours. But both were
unpopular, Cathcart said.
A conditional add/drop option
which would allow students to
SBP RACE
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often in an attempt to reach
more potential voters early on in
the campaign.
UNC law student Matt Liles,
a former student body president
candidate, said the petition pro
cess allowed him to meet many
voters.
“I got a majority of signatures
myself, and it really helped me,”
Liles said.
The number of signatures a
candidate collects can also be an
indication of their success in the
general election.
Matt Calabria, who beat out
seven competitors to become stu
dent body president in 2004, gath
ered 1,438 names more than any
of the other candidates.
The ability to garner a substan
tial number of signatures also can
be a not-so-subtle way at revealing
the size of a campaign staff, said
Tom Jensen, who ran for student
body president last year.
He said candidates with more
signatures often translates into
more successful campaigns.
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“Usually employees have a strong desire
to play.”
DUSTIN VAN SLOTEN, DIRECTOR OF INTRAMURAL AND RECREATIONAL SPORTS
petitive, players have varying
levels of experience. Beever said
no one on his team played in col
lege.
The games consist of two 20-
minute halves and are officiated
by student referees.
In order to officiate, students
must participate in a training
program.
The faculty league has existed
for about 10 years, Pomerantz
waitlist an excess of courses and
drop classes accordingly once a full
schedule is attained —and a book
bag approach, similar to a “shop
ping cart” found at online retailers,
were other ideas floated by Poehls
and student government.
“These ideas are all kind of
lofty and not happening this year,”
Cathcart said.
The current system is decades
old and will only allow 100 stu
dents on the server at a time when
there may be as many as 2,000
students attempting to log on, he
said.
The mainframe limits the
amount of students capable of log
ging on, and there currently is no
Holloway said members of his
campaign each have pledged to
collect a set number of signatures,
and he expects the total number
will be much more than 800.
“It’s a sign of strength, and we’re
actively working to get as many as
possible,” Holloway said.
But Allred, who also expects to
go beyond 800 signatures, said he
thinks there is not always a rela
tionship between number of signa
tures and success on election day.
“That correlation is not neces
sarily true,” Allred said, adding
that factors which can’t so easily
be counted often come into play.
As the campaign season swings
into high gear at 5 p.m. today in
the Class of 2000 Lounge with
the Campus Vs candidates forum,
numbers also will play a role for
the two candidates as they com
pete for endorsements from vari
ous campus groups.
Endorsements can be a sign of
a candidate’s ability to reach to a
broad demographic of students
although the person with the most
endorsements doesn’t necessarily
win the election.
Jensen garnered the most
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said.
Despite Van Sloten’s insis
tence on the intensity of the
games, busy schedules and time
constraints sometimes can pose
problems.
“I volunteered to be the cap
tain,” Beever said, “and I just hope
everybody shows up.”
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way to correct it, she said.
“This is more complicated than
a server issue,” said Poehls, who is
serving her first year as University
registrar.
She served as registrar at the
University of Illinois-Urbana-
Champaign for six years before
being tapped for the post.
Both Poehls and Cathcart said
they will continue investigating
possible improvements —but
nothing major is in the works.
“Right now, the next best thing
is the current system,” Cathcart
said.
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endorsements last year six from
politically active groups such as the
Black Student Movement, Young
Democrats, College Republicans
yet he finished a distant third
in the election.
“I don’t think it helps much,” he
said.
But Holloway said he saw the
endorsement process as a way
to demonstrate the popularity of
one’s platform. “Endorsements
reflect bases of support.”
Allred said he also is looking to
the forums as an effective way to
broadcast his message.
“It’s a great way to reach many
students at once,” he said.
Allred said he has been involved
with numerous campus organiza
tions and believes his platform is
likely to reflect the positions of
Young Democrats, which may help
him in their forum.
Holloway said he hopes to
receive endorsements from the
Campus Y and the Black Student
Movement, both groups with
which he is involved.
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DISTANCE
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ence to people who could never
take time off to return to campus,”
she said.
Spieler said overall online
enrollment grew nationwide by
more than 18 percent to 2.35 mil
lion students in 2004.
“The distance education pro
gram is thriving at UNC,” said
Linda Carl, the head of the office of
education and e-leaming policy in
the William and Ida Friday Center
at UNC-CH.
In addition to offering online
courses that students can take
from their homes, UNC-CH’s dis
tance education program offers
on-site courses in which professors
travel to meet with students at an
off-campus site, Carl said.
This adds the element of face
to-face communication that is
often missing from distance edu
cation programs.
But a lack of personal interac
tion, typical of distance education
programs, has not inhibited their
statewide growth.
“We’re making real progress in
meeting the distance education
needs of people in North Carolina,”
said James Sadler, associate vice
president for academic planning
in the UNC system.
North Carolina offers 234
distance learning programs in
83 content areas, Sadler said.
Online degree programs also have
TUITION
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before it goes to the UNC-system
Board of Governors..
Dearmin said he and student
leaders at other system schools
realized that money from the state
is declining slowly, and that tuition
increases are needed to maintain
qualify.
Most campuses have voted on
this year’s recommendations and
have approved increases within the
cap set by the BOG last semester.
Calabria said he supported judi
cious increases and working with
the administration, instead of vot
ing against them.
“I think we set the model
for other student governments
because we took on an collab
orative approach,” Calabria said.
“It’s very difficult to get your way
through by strong arming.”
Bradley Ballou, student body
president at UNC-Wilmington,
said he voted for the tuition
increase this year.
“I’m sending a more power
ful message by voting for it,” he
said. “You should not look to the
UNC system as somewhere to cut
money.”
The UNC-W tuition task force
included seven student members
out of 14.
The group approved a $322
increase in tuition and fees for
students. But, with extra fees such
as one parking on campus, stu
dents could expect prices to reach
SBO3.
He said that while he understood
that the increases would be going
toward worthwhile causes such as
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increased from six in 2000 to 89 in
2006.
But this growth might not be as
much as other states are experi
encing, Carl said.
Sadler explained the gap in
growth as a reflection of other
states’ need to accommodate larger
populations.
“A state like Texas that has a lot
more people might have a lot more
programs,” he said.
UNC-system President Erskine
Bowles has said expanding dis
tance learning initiatives state
wide would be a university pri
ority to educate as many North
Carolinians as possible and keep
the state competitive.
But there are also some down
sides to distance education, includ
ing the longer preparation time
required of professors and high
costs, Carl said.
In addition, professors fre
quently are not given any special
incentives to take on the extra
work load.
“Funding is an issue because it
takes a lot of money to get funding
established for an online course,”
Carl said. “For quality, it almost
always takes a lot of money up
front.”
Paul B. Mohr, director of spe
cial programs for the Alabama
Commission on Higher Education,
said the Southern Regional
Education Board, a 16-state orga
nization of which North Carolina
is a member, is undergoing a col
retaining professors at the campus,
he lamented the increases for stu
dents across the system campuses.
“We’ve gone from second to 18th
in affordability,” he said.
Ballou said that while N.C.
higher education is becoming
more expensive, he is encouraged
by the high level of involvement
from the student presidents.
“I think they were involved in
the process more this year than in
years past,” he said.
He said he expects that Erskine
Bowles, the new UNC-system
president, will bring a practical
outlook to the tuition increases
and will attempt to cut costs for
students, noting efforts to create a
textbook rental policy.
A few student presidents still
found the tuition increases unac
ceptable and voted against them at
BOT meetings.
The students at Appalachian
State University are facing the
largest tuition increases in the
UNC system, a $1,053 increase for
on-campus students and a $740
increase for off-campus students.
Jud Watkins, ASU student body
president, said his student govern
ment created an internal taskforce
to monitor the tuition debate and
organized a “speak-out” for stu
dents to voice opposition to the
proposed increases.
When these tactics did not work,
Watkins made a personal plea to
the board, said Susie Greene, dean
of students and associate vice chan
cellor for student development.
“He made a plea to the Board of
Trustees that there are other places
to find funds,” she said. “It was still
passed by the board.”
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laborative effort to minimize these
costs.
“We make available courses and
programs through the electronic
campus,” Mohr said.
“That increases accessibility and
affordability for our constituen
cies.”
Bill Gentry, director of the
Community Preparedness and
Disaster Management Program
at UNC-CH, said it can be stress
ful not having the luxury of adding
material during his lectures. He
has to ensure that the information
students download is correct and
complete the first time.
But he added that teaching such
courses also offers its rewards.
For instance, his students are
more willing to express them
selves in writing than participate
in normal face-to-face class dis
cussions.
“I enjoy it because you really can
get more unabashed opinions,” he
said.
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Watkins said there were sev
eral factors leading to the large
increase, including a lack of ade
quate state funding and alumni
who were not able to financially
donate as much as other schools.
“Historically, we’re a teaching
school,” he said. “It’s not the most
affluent group.”
Watkins said that ASU is current
ly 15th in the UNC system for state
binding, and that he anticipates they
will drop to 16th this year.
“The only solution is putting it
on the backs of the students,” he
said.
Whil Piavis, of N.C. State
University, is another student
body president who voted against
tuition increases.
NCSU students organized a
“Chained by Tuition” protest at a
BOT meeting, presenting a paper
chain protesting the recommend
ed increases.
“It was the result of a lot of hard
work for our students,” said Tom
Stafford, vice chancellor for student
affairs at NCSU. But, he added, the
action seems to have been in vain.
“It had no impact on the
Board of Trustees,” he said. “They
had pretty much made up their
minds.”
Piavis said the students did make
an impact on the meeting because
more money is now going to finan
cial aid. He said he encourages all
UNC-system students to speak out
if they disagree with hikes.
“The students need to do all
that they can do to express their
discontent with tuition increases.”
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