VOLUME 114, ISSUE 30
Bowles budgets initiatives across board
TODAY’S INAUGURATION MARKS END OF BUSY FOUR MONTHS
BY KAVITA PILLAI
STATE NATIONAL EDITOR
GREENSBORO - Though UNC
system President Erskine Bowles’
inauguration will take place today,
the impact of his first four months
in office already can be felt.
Bowles said his inaugural address
will focus on initiatives to improve
K-12 education in the state.
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WILL CONTINUE
BY ERIN FRANCE
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
DURHAM Durham District Attorney
Mike Nifong said Tuesday in a forum at N.C.
Central University that the rape case against
three Duke University men’s lacrosse players
will not be dropped.
He added that further investigations will be
conducted before any criminal prosecution is
pursued. No charges have been filed yet.
“We are still waiting for the results of some
DNA tests that have not been done,” he said to
Free product Web sites pop up
Alumni creators see legal troubles
BY TONY KIM
STAFF WRITER
Everyone’s seen the online ads.
The multicolored pop-up ones
that promise Web surfers free
prizes such as iPods, laptops or
designer handbags.
Which Web sites are legitimate
is more difficult to recognize.
One of the most well-known
and profitable free product Web
sites on the Internet was started
by two UNC alumni.
Gratis Internet, which runs a net
work of 15 free product sites under
the Free Pay name, was founded by
Peter Martin and Rob Jewell, who
graduated from the Kenan-Flagler
Business School in 1999-
Even though Martin and Jewell
have received praise from users
and other critics, their business is
facing allegations that it has sold
private consumer information to
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“It’s going to be 90 percent of
what I talk about,” he said.
Bowles’ budget request to the
N.C. General Assembly, which was
approved by the system Board of
Governors on Tuesday, includes
s2l million for programs to
increase the state’s production and
retention of teachers and encour
age students to enter the science
a group of about 500.
A black female student at NCCU reported
to police that she was hired as an exotic danc
er for a March 13 party at the home of three
lacrosse team captains. She said she was raped
by three men at the parly.
Defense attorneys for the players say pre
liminary DNA results released Monday show
no match between the victim and their cli
ents.
Nifong emphasized that the medical exami
nation of the accuser was conducted properly.
outside marketing companies.
On March 23, New York
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
sued Gratis Internet for what
might be the largest deliberate
breach of user privacy in Internet
history, according to a press
release from Spitzer’s office.
He accused Gratis Internet of
breaking its confidentiality agree
ment with millions of users by
selling personal information to
independent e-mail marketers.
Martin declined to comment on
the allegations, instead referring
to the company statement.
“Gratis at no time in its his
tory ever sold its list to anyone or
allowed a company to purchase
consumer data, nor has it ever
considered doing so, nor will it
ever in the future,” the statement
reads.
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and math fields.
“You know President Bowles has
taken on teacher supply and quality
of hallmarks of his, shall I say, reign,”
BOG member Priscilla Taylor said.
Bowles said he wants to fill the
teacher production pipeline through
initiatives designed to draw high
school students into the industry.
He also pushed the creation of
“My conviction that a sexual assault took place
is based on that examination.”
Nifong, who is up for re-election this year,
said there should be sufficient evidence to take
the case before a grand jury.
Besides addressing specific questions about
the case at the forum, a five-person panel,
including representatives from Duke and
NCCU, responded to general concerns about
sexual assault in Durham.
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Jewell first decided they’d try
their hands at Internet-based
business with their first Web site,
FreeCondoms.com, after they saw
the potential and success of other
online businesses.
“The incentive, rather than iPods,
were condoms and merchandise
and T-shirts,” Martin said.
In 2004, the team expanded its
free product business to include
the iPod, one of the most popular
consumer items of the year.
Users have to sign up for a free
trial or low-cost offer through one
of the many site advertisers, and if
they get five others to do the same,
they receive their prize.
In return for the user referrals,
Free Pay receives fees from adver
tisers part of which goes to pay
for the users’ free product.
Since its inception, the Free Pay
network has given away more
than sl4 million in incentives and
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new mentoring services to improve
retention.
His most controversial pro
posal, however, is a pilot program
to improve teacher quality in rural
school districts originally involved in
the Leandro court case about equita
ble education funding in the state.
The program— a $2.1 million
request in the 2006-07 budget
Rabb remembered as
great coach, confidant
Led UNC baseball
to 540 victories
BY BRANDON STATON
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The telephone won’t ring quite as
much in the Walter Rabb Press Box
at Boshamer Stadium anymore.
The room’s namesake and a
cornerstone of the North Carolina
baseball program died last Tuesday
at the age of 91.
Box regulars will tell you that
“the Old Leaguer” never hesitated
to give the spbrts information
department a call during many
of the Tar Heels’ games just to
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EQUINE MEDICINE
The Horsepower Therapeutic
Learning Center in Colfax
combines horse riding with
a warm atmosphere to offer
therapy to patients.
proposal would offer differen
tial pay to up to 90 math teachers,
whose sala
ries might not
be enough to
retain them,
“ We have
discussed (the
idea) with lead
ership in the
(N.C.) House
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up various
other items at
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and Senate, and it has support,”
Bowles said.
A few parting
shots from a
faculty veteran
This is my last column as my
three-year stint as chairwoman of
the faculty comes to a close. I’ve
enjoyed the chance to share my
observations with Daily Tar Heel
readers. The musings that follow
look backward, but forward, too.
■ Academic programs. We
stand at the brink of anew era,
with an imaginative new general
education curriculum and re
imagined classes greeting entering
students this fall.
Faculty in the College of Arts
and Sciences deserve great praise
for “making connections,” par
ticularly when budgets are so con
strained. May this creative work
of building bridges between disci
plines and ideas prove energizing
for all concerned.
I hope, too, that we’ll continue
to link the classroom with enrich
ment opportunities, such as those
provided by the program for the
performing arts.
■ Students. Our students are
exceptional, from those who enter
to those who graduate with doctor
ate and Juris Doctor degrees. All
keep their teachers on their toes.
I tip my hat to elected leaders,
as well as unsung heroes and hero
ines, who organize vigils and speak
to a friend in need.
I’m delighted that our graduate
students have a higher profile and
are increasingly supported by the
Board of Trustees.
We need to continue our efforts
to enhance academic advising and
psychological counseling and sup
port our teams while giving aca
demics the priority deserved.
■ Educational costs. Tuition
and fees have escalated to supple
ment scarce state funding, with
nonresidents and graduate stu
dents too often bearing the brunt
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“I don’t know if it will be suc
cessful, but I think the university
needs to be a leader in this.”
Brad Wilson, BOG chairman,
said the needs of the state are appar
ent. Lobbying for the programs’
funding will be a high priority.
“Teaching and nursing are our
legislative priorities,” he said.
“We’ve just got to have the money.
We need to close the deal now.”
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of increases such as these.
It’s critical that we maintain
our long-standing commitment to
need-based aid while also increas
ing merit-based awards as we’ve
done through revamping the use
of University logo receipts.
■ Assess
ment. Our fac
ulty and admin
istration has
devoted increas
ing attention to
issues of assess
ment. We need
to know how
our students
learn and how
well our institu
tion meets goals
we’ve set.
We’ve worked
intensively to
prepare for the
reaccredita
tion review that
is going on as
write.
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GUEST
COLUMNIST
Judith Wegner
is chairwoman
of the UNC
faculty.
Next week:
I John Sanders
We have excellent plans for quali
ty enhancement with innovative pro
grams such as the new “Maymester,”
as well as innovative ways to connect
undergraduates with research and
the world abroad.
■ Campus climate. We appreci
ate core values of honor, integrity
and mutual respect that are embod
ied in our Honor Code. Because
society is now deeply divided along
political, ideological and religious
lines, we need more consciously to
bolster our ability and willingness
to engage in “difficult dialogues.”
I promise to do my part and
hope you will, too.
■ Campus infrastructure. We’re
in a period of construction, and
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