SaiUj (Ear Mrri
TUITION
FROM PAGE 1
the minimum teaching assistant
stipend from $6,000 to $7,000.
The remainder of the tuition
revenue will go toward faculty
salaries.
The board’s final decision dif
fers slightly from the plan offered
by Chancellor James Moeser to the
board’s audit and finance commit
tee earlier in the afternoon.
Moeser suggested raising
undergraduate tuition $275 and
S9OO for resident and nonresident
undergraduates, respectively, and
SSOO for all graduate students.
His proposal would have raised
about $8.3 million more than
$4.9 million after a 40 percent
deduction for student aid.
The board opted to levy greater
hikes on nonresident students, cit
ing a preference not to price North
Carolinians out of a UNC-CH edu
cation.
The precedent for the move
lies in years of similar hikes by
the trustees. During their last two
tuition discussions, trustees voted
to raise nonresident tuition a total
of $2,500 while raising resident
tuition SSOO.
STD TESTING
FROM PAGE 1
all new STD cases occur among
youth ages 15 to 24.
Pregnancy Support Services, a
Christian organization, has been
offering free STD testing for women
for almost two years. Their closest
clinic, located at 431 W. Franklin
St., conducts free tests for chlamyd
ia, gonorrhea and HIV from 11:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.
“We’re hoping to expand that,”
says Mimi Every, executive direc
tor of Pregnancy Support Services.
She adds that they do not currently
offer STD testing to men due to the
lack of male medical volunteers.
STDs commonly are spread in
college because of sex with mul
tiple partners, she says, as well as
the phenomenon of serial monog
amy occurrences of faithful
intercourse from relationship to
relationship.
“Statistically, college students
are some of the most sexually
active people in America,” Every
says.
“That doesn’t mean that every
college student is sexually active
—but it’s a high-risk group for
STDs.”
When Pregnancy Support
Services first began offering STD
testing in addition to their regular
was®.
Eat in or take out only. No delivery. Valid at Franklin St. location only. Limit one
coupon per offer per person per visit. Coupons not valid with any other offer or special.
Now open til 3:3oam on Thursday, Friday & Saturday
[iuyone6”Steak]
j Combo get one Ii one Gyro or Chicken Pita i
[ffjje*FßEE!] [_ FREE! J
TlieMYtll: 1
All the good places to live are always taken.
Tile ReaiitY:
Cool Blue Rentals has some really GREAT places...
and you can reserve one NOW for 2006-07!
our nouses on our website, call to see
H HB 3 bedrms, 3 baths
JfrjjSjjl S:p£ ches '
300 Davie Rd
4 bedrms, 2 baths !jv
$1640/mo. Fantastic If
floor plan. Terrific 1 M
house w/nice yard in lH
great neighborhood!
www.COOLBLIiEPENT ALSxm
Our houses are conven
ient|y located near bus
f comfortable,' clean and
a fawell-maintained houses
Moeser said during the meet
ing that he was concerned with
how nonresidents would perceive
the SBSO difference between the
board’s hike proposals.
“I don’t want our nonresident
students to feel we see them as
cash cows,” Moeser said.
Trustee Karol Mason, chair
woman of the audit and finance
committee, countered and said
she thought tuition still was fair
to students.
“It’s still a good bargain,” Mason
said.
Nonresident students are drawn
to the University by its academic
excellence, she said. “And we’re
trying to preserve that quality of
education.”
The trend of hiking nonresident
tuition has not reduced the num
ber of applications that UNC-CH
receives, Provost Robert Shelton
said, but it has slightly reduced
the number of students who accept
UNC-CH’s enrollment offer.
Jerry Lucido, vice provost for
admissions and enrollment man
agement, provided a cautionary
note to trustees, saying that while
the current proposals might not
dissuade applicants, too large an
increase in the future might be
pregnancy testing services, Every
says they received an average of
eight to 10 visitors per month.
Since then the number of
women coming to get tested has
almost doubled, she says.
For college students, the most
prevalent STDs are chlamydia,
gonorrhea and the human papil
lomavirus* otherwise known as
HPV.
“Chlamydia and gonorrhea are
bacterial, and they’re treatable and
curable,” Every says.
“HPV is viral, and it’s not cur
able it’s treatable.”
And a lack of symptoms is not a
good reason to avoid STD testing.
According to the Center for
Healthy Student Behaviors Web
site, 75 percent of women and 50
percent of men infected with chla
mydia experience no symptoms.
In addition, 50 percent of those
infected with gonorrhea might also
experience no symptoms.
If left untreated, chlamydia and
gonorrhea can cause permanent
damage to reproductive organs.
In addition, untreated, symptom
free strains of HPV might lead to
cervical cancer.
Emily Adams, director of edu
cation and training at Planned
Parenthood of Central North
Carolina, encourages people to get
tested with their partners, adding
“It’s not binding in and of itself, but it
sets us out down the road.”
SETH DEARMIN, SBP, ON TUITION PREDICTABILITY
harmful.
Concerned that unforeseen
tuition increases will drive some
students away from UNC-CH,
Student Body President Seth
Dearmin, an ex-officio trustee,
proposed a resolution calling for
more predictability.
The resolution, which was
unanimously approved, amends
the trustee’s tuition philosophy to
consider predictability to be “over
the short and long term a core ele
ment.”
It also mandates that adminis
trators generate multiyear tuition
plans in the future although
such plans will not lock trustees
into action.
“It’s not binding in and of itself,
but it sets us out down the road,”
Dearmin said.
During last year’s campaign
Dearmin said he would push for a
locked-in tuition plan so students
and parents would have better
foresight of campus-based tuition
increases.
that Planned Parenthood is avail
able for STD testing.
“I think people like to come (to
Planned Parenthood) because of
the non-judgmental atmosphere
and because it’s very patient-cen
tered and patient-friendly,” Adams
says.
Many STD-testing clinics also
offer preventative counseling.
“We do talk to (young women)
about various methods of preven
tion but we only talk about that
in terms of the risk factor,” Every
says.
“There is no such thing as safe
sex except for abstinence.”
The Center for Healthy Student
|( A PI an) TEST PREP AND
r LHny ADMISSIONS
Get 2 free hours
of LSAT tutoring!
Enhance your LSAT preparation with
2 free hours of private tutoring when you
enroll in an LSAT course before January 31st.
LSAT Extreme Class starts February 4th!
108 hours of instruction / 30 class sessions.
Only Kaplan offers complete prep for the LSAT.
Call to enroll today!
Higher LSAT score guaranteed or your money back.'
1-800-KAP-TEST | kaptest.com
•LSAT . trademark of To Is* Softool Admauan Course! Inc. -Wal ervryt beNraon as'us/y 12006 and January 31 2006
Cannot t cantonsd wer any oOh* oßr. istst* **a*rt or prometon Oltf aortas prvy *c LSAT <5 2Jo*3sboj
&*•" CuurM* and Or*na Cow** * part>c**>g cwwrs. (To o**"** ♦ newest p*ac*bn **** Crnm sal t-800*AP-TEST oryvuloc* unda.j
Tuwrino hours must c* usm Dy 4/1.06. TCcwMioni and rettneSons apply Tor comoto* guvsnlM W>oiWty r*v>mws. wait kapteu com-twg
Th* Ntfwr Soon fiuarsnta* sppfet only to Kaplan foum* UUn and compahw irthtn th* Un*M Slavs anc Cwvtfa
PLANET BEACH „
•■asaha
chapel hill
I 1 I —1
3eDee ■ 1 1 FREE >
35! U 1
I I | On* Mystic Tan Session |
I PUf€T I I PtANET BEACH . j
i ONE PER CUSTOMER. | | may I
j FIRST TIME GUESTS ONLY. J ONE PER CUSTOMER. J
rssisOFF|
j Spring Tanning j
i Packages j
i Como in for details! j
| PLANET BEACH . j
|
919-929-2998
1201-D Raleigh Road
Located in Glen Lennox Shopping Center
www.planetbeach.com
News
Several trustees were appre
hensive about making long-term
tuition plans binding, saying they
didn’t want to paint die University
into a comer should a need for rev
enue arise.
“We can’t obligate a future
board,” said trustee chairman
Nelson Schwab after the meeting.
“We can’t do that.”
The tuition philosophy that
trustees established two years ago
has served as somewhat of a guide
line for the board during its recent
decisions.
Trustees solidified a stance that
resident tuition would remain in
the bottom quartile when com
pared to peer institutions’ tuition.
Nonresident tuition would
remain within the bottom three
quartiles compared to those
schools.
Staff writer Whitney Kisling
contributed to this article.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
Behaviors offers STD counseling
and HIV/AIDS testing by appoint
ment at 966-6586.
Adams suggests general sex
safety tips, such as learning to use
a condom safely and properly, and
adds that it is important to de
stigmatize STD screening so that
is becomes a part of preventative
health care.
“It’s really important that people
know their status,” Adams says.
“That encourages people to
make responsible decisions about
their personal lives, too.”
Contact the Features Editor
atfeatures@unc.edu.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2006
STICKER PRICE
FROM PAGE 1
upperclassmen applied for aid on
time; 78 percent applied on time
last year, Ort said.
This is partly because the Office
of Scholarships and Student Aid is
making an extra effort to encour
age students to turn in their finan
cial aid applications before the
deadline, she said.
“It can make thousands of dol
lars worth of difference.”
Fifty-nine percent of under
graduates received aid through the
Office of Scholarships and Student
Aid in 2004-05, and 49 percent of
graduate students received aid to
complement scholarships offered
by the graduate school.
In addition to financial aid, grad
uate students must consider tuition
remissions and teaching assistant
salaries when comparing prices.
Mike Brady, president of
the Graduate and Professional
Student Federation, said “I think
what graduate students are most
interested in is the total financial
package that they’re offered.”
Graduate students are looking for
a university that shows commitment
to its graduate students and a place
where they will have the easiest time
making ends meet, he said.
These students can find it difficult
to live off teaching assistant salaries,
Brady said, especially because they
often must pay for their education
without the help of their families.
“In general, though, UNC is
behind some of our peer institu
tions in terms of the total financial
package that’s offered,” he said.
Brady had expressed hope that
the Board of Trustees would con
sider all aspects of the graduate
student financing picture in set
ting this year’s tuition rates.
The Trustees authorized a series
of hikes Wednesday.
But even with tuition on the rise,
l KRAMC * CAA \
I present
\ md Annual \
l\ ..Get-ftwr HWJ, l
W\ o***** ******
( svmaity ■*t
Where is God In the
midst of tragedy?
“The Problem of Evil*
David Nelson
Senior Associate Dean & Associate
Professor of Theology at Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary
TONIGHT, Thursday January 36
Oerrard Hall 7i3opm
Do you have specific questions?
Come by the pit tables today, write them down,
and hear them addressed tonight
student debt continues to decrease.
In the 1999-2000 school year,
students were graduating with a
cumulative debt of $13,687. That
amount dropped to $11,751 in
2003-04.
UNC meets the full financial
need of any on-time applicant,
in-state or out-of-state, with the
majority of that aid coming in the
form of grants, Ort said.
Every year that tuition increas
es, the board gives Ort’s budget
enough extra money to continue to
meet the needs of students. Tuition
increases sometimes can push mid
dle-income students into categories
that qualify them for aid, she said.
But not all students find it easy
to completely overlook the sticker
price of tuition.
Jackson, who said she cannot
imagine herself anywhere else now,
chose to attend UNC because she
was unsure of future financial aid
and was intimidated by Duke’s high
tuition.
“It was definitely the deciding
factor,” she said.
Jim Belvin, director of financial
aid at Duke, said Duke’s financial
aid program “is as solid as any you
would find in the country.”
Like UNC, Duke meets 100
percent of a student’s need, and
the university continues to meet a
student’s need for the entire time
of his or her enrollment, he said.
Belvin said he is confident that
Duke’s financial programs are good
enough to stay competitive with
cheaper public schools in the area
and to prevent students from being
scared away by high tuition.
“I think it’s always a concern,” he
said. “But we’re hopefully admitting
thoughtful and wise young people
who know that the only number that
matters is the one they have to pay,
not the one the institution charges.”
Contact the State £sf National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
11