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THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2006
BOG will name new leader
Tuition group could present updates
BY STEPHEN MOORE
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The first item on the docket for
the UNC-system Board of Governors
on Thursday will be replacing cur
rent Chairman Brad Wilson.
Wilson will be stepping down
after four years at the post
“My guess is (BOG member)
Jim Phillips is going to be the next
chair,’ said emeritus BOG member
Benjamin Ruffin.
“Jim will follow Brad’s work and
will do an excellent job.”
Wilson said that Phillips is the
only person he knew of vying for
the position, noting that he would
be a good fit to lead the board*
“He’s well prepared for this ser
vice,” Wilson said. “He will bring
a lot of energy and vision to the
board leadership.”
Phillips, who has served on the
board since 1997, including two
terms as chairman of the budget
and finance committee, and who
Newly annexed residents pen worries
BY TOM HARTWELL
STAFF WRITER
Some of Carrboro’s newest
residents, many of whom are still
sore about being annexed into the
town, have been given a chance to
sound off.
A town advisory board is tallying
the results of a survey asking resi
dents of neighborhoods annexed
in January what issues are most
important to them.
“We’re hoping to have the results
before the next meeting,” said
Peggy Vincent, a member of the
New Horizons Thsk Force the
group that issued the survey and
distributed it door to door to about
300 new residents.
The one-page surveys ask resi
dents to rank issues such as bus
service, road maintenance and
school overcrowding. They will be
presented to the Board of Aldermen
after the task force reviews them.
The deadline to return the sur
vey, which is also posted on the
town Web site, is today.
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previously served as UNC-Chapel
Hill student body president, said
he was excited about the opportu
nities and challenges he could face
as chairman.
“We have the challenge of try
ing to make the (system) more
relevant or as relevant as it can
be in the lives of every North
Carolinian,” he said.
“Focusing on how to do that
with each school, which has dif
ferent strengths and serves dif
ferent constituencies in the state,
is something that we desperately
need to focus on.”
Jonathan Ducote, president of the
Association of Student Governments
from 2002 to 2004, said that with
the shift in leadership could come a
basic shift in system policy.
“With the new president and
with the new board chairman,
there are going to be new ideas
that are put on the table,” he said.
“I imagine that there could be a
lives in the annexed Fox Meadow
neighborhood. He said his two
biggest concerns were new devel
opment and a bike path connect
ing his neighborhood to downtown
Carrboro to make for an easier
commute to the University.
Goldberg said that his taxes are
more than SI,OOO higher now that
he is a Carrboro resident but that
the only service he has received is
trash pickup. On Tuesday, he said
that he hadn’t filled out his survey
but that he planned to.
Laura Van Sant, a member of the
task force, shared Goldberg’s senti
ments about property development
“There’s a lot of vacant tracts of
land near the annexed areas that
people are looking at for possible
development and I think people are
concerned about that” she said.
Alderman Randee Haven-
O’Donnell, who came up with the
idea for the group and is one of its
two liaisons to the town, said the
surveys were important to fostering
trust between the town and its new
est residents.
“I think it’s very important for
the health of the community,” she
few fundamental changes.”
Among those changes could be
a comprehensive tuition policy,
Ducote said.
“I think there might be discus
sions to find value in a low cost
education,” he said.
The board’s tuition task force
has been examining that issue
since they released an initial report
last February suggesting a cam
pus-based tuition increase format
that would look to peer institutes
for economic guidance.
New information could come
forward during the upcoming
board meeting, said committee
Chairwoman Hannah Gage.
“We hope to update the board
on where the president is with
his tuition proposal at this week’s
meeting,” Gage said.
“I think that (UNC-system
President Erskine Bowles) has
been working hard on that, but at
the same time he has had a whole
lot of other things on his plate.
“I think that we will get some idea
from him this week about what a
said. “I certainly hope they got
some good responses.”
Van Sant said that she delivered
about 50 surveys around her neigh
borhood and that many people were
still upset about being annexed.
Katrina Ryan, an outspoken
opponent of annexation who ran
for the Board of Aldermen last year,
said she was not confident that the
town would listen to the concerns
identified by the survey.
“Do I think the concerns of newly
Black’s position could be up for grabs in fall
BY STEPHEN MOORE
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
As North Carolina legislators
struggle to finalize the budget,
a single question hovers above
them, lingering in the not-so-dis
tant future.
Allegations against House
Speaker Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg,
and a few of his aides pertaining to
campaign ethics have left open the
possibility for a change in the lead
ership in the House.
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reasonable timeline is for us to draw
the committee’s work to a dose.”
But Jeff Davies, Bowles’ chief
of staff, said he did not anticipate
such an update.
“We want to make sure that as
the president makes his recommen
dations to the task force that it has
the collective will of the president
and the chancellors,” Davies said.
“I think that by the time the
August meeting comes around we
will see ... that the task force has
completed its work and will report
to the board.”
Also prior to the full board
meeting Friday, presenters from
both East Carolina University and
UNC-Greensboro will explain
their work with online education
courses.
“President Bowles is having a
workshop on Friday morning,”
Wilson said. “He is very interested
in accelerating our long distance
education.”
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annexed residents will be taken into
consideration and influence their
decisions on these issues? No.”
Ryan said she did not fill out a
survey.
The annexation task force
will hold its next meeting at 7
p.m. Monday at the Homestead
Community Center. The meeting is
open to the public.
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Just how likely such a shift could
be remains uncertain.
“Each year when we start anew
session, it actually starts anew
ballgame as far as who the players
may be,” said House Majority Whip
Larry Bell, D-Sampson. “(Speaker
Black) would not automatically go
into the speaker position.”
Bell noted that the Democratic
party must win a majority in the
November elections to maintain
the ability to choose the speak
er.
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County schools
shuffle students
BY GRAY CALDWELL
CITY EDITOR
There have been mixed reac
tions from parents regarding news
of Gravelly Hill Middle School’s
delayed opening.
But from the few responses
Orange County Schools has received,
it seems most parents accept the
Board of Education’s plan.
“It’s one of those things that was
not foreseen,” said board chairman
Randy Copeland. “Most parents
have been understanding.”
Gravelly Hill, the district’s third
middle school, will open more
than a month later than expected,
forcing students assigned to the
school to attend C. W. Stanford
Middle School until Gravelly Hill
is completed.
Stanford principal Richard
Kozak said many of the students
zoned for Gravelly Hill currently
attend Stanford, so they will sim
ply remain there until the new
middle school is ready.
Forty students will move from
the A.L. Stanback Middle School
district to Stanford for the first
part of the school year before mov
ing on to Gravelly Hill.
Gayane Chambless, president of
the Stanback PTSA, said she might
have preferred a different plan but
added that she hasn’t heard much
reaction from other parents.
Chambless said one parent
wondered why students couldn’t
stay at Stanback until Gravelly
Hill opened.
“She didn’t understand why the
kids would have to be moved twice,”
she said. “I have talked to one other
daily announced their candidacies,
several names have been floating
around, including that of House
Majority Leader Joe Hackney, D-
Orange.
When asked if he was actively
seeking the speakership, Hackney
declined to comment.
Yet support for Black still exists
within the House, and with his
declaration last month that he
indeed would run again for the
post, a changing of the guards
might not come to pass.
“I like what Speaker Black has
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parent, and that child actually
wanted to go ahead and move with
her friends over to Stanford.
“We do what we have to do to
make our kids comfortable in a
school setting, and you kind of
move forward.”
Kozak said the 40-student
enrollment increase at Stanford
will be very manageable for the
school and administration.
“It won’t really be a major
impact on us,” he said.
The 40 students will be ris
ing sixth- and seventh-graders.
Eighth-graders will be allowed to
stay at Stanback.
Gravelly Hill’s delay is caused by
an issue with water and sewer instal
lation, but the school board hopes
Gravelly Hill students will only attend
Stanford for 25 school days.
“The contractors are telling
us that their deadline is Aug. 1,”
Copeland said. “Hopefully we can
get in a little sooner.”
School board member Libbie
Hough said Gravelly Hill students
at Stanford will have separate bus
ses, teachers and rooms from other
students so that they can be in the
same classes when they move to
the new middle school.
“The only difference is going to be
on day 26, ideally, they’ll be doing
everything they’ve been doing at
Stanford at Gravelly Hill,” she said.
“This is not something that we
wanted to have happen, but I’m
not sure that we have really anoth
er option before us.”
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done,” said Rep. Joe Tolson, D-
Edgecombe. “He has been a strong
supporter of the eastern part of the
state. I can’t turn my back on some
body that has been that supportive
of me.”
In a meeting held before the leg
islative session started this summer,
the House Democratic Caucus also
decided to stick with Black, at least
for the remainder of the session.
In order to remove Black from
office, the N.C. House would need
to impeach him upon grounds of
maladministration, corruption or
unconstitutional acts.
The Senate would then be
required to try the impeachment,
and if two-thirds of senators pres
ent voted for conviction, Black
could be removed from his posi
tion, as well as from office.
Rep. Ray Rapp, D-Haywood, said
that, as with every year, he expects a
battle over the speaker position.
However, \yith the proposal for
the House budget slated to emerge
from committee next week, Rapp
said such worries seem too distant
for concern.
“That seems light-years away
given what we’ve got on our plate
right now.”
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