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VOLUME 114, ISSUE 84 Task force explores options Discuss setting tuition for professional schools BY ERIN ZUREICK UNIVERSITY EDITOR With only one meeting left, the recommenda tions of the tuition and fee advisory task force are beginning to come into focus. Although the group is in agreement about most issues, members still must consent on several mat ters of importance. Three potential proposals gained favor at the task force’s Wednesday meeting, but more options might be explored at its Oct. 18 session. All of the proposals would cap undergraduate res ident tuition increases at $254. Nonresident under graduates proposals ranged from S6OO to SBOO. Last year in-state undergraduate tuition was increased by $250 and out-of-state undergraduates saw a raise of $l,lOO excluding student fees. Two developments allowed the task force to cre ate a dear plan. UNC-system President Erskine Bowles announced Monday his long-term tuition plan that would limit increases for resident undergraduates at 6.5 percent “This is what we expected for the most part,” said Provost Bernadette Gray-Little, co-chairwoman of the task force. SEE TUITION, PAGE 4 Tuition options During the tuition and fee advisory task force's meeting, three increase proposals met with favor. No decisions have been made yet Option 1: ► Undergraduate residents: $254 ► Undergraduate nonresidents: S6OO ► Graduate Students: S6OO ► Professional Students: S6OO Option 2: ► Undergraduate residents: $254 ► Undergraduate nonresidents: SBOO ► Graduate Students: SBSO ► Professional Students: To be determined by individual schools. Option 3: ► Undergraduate residents: $254 ► Undergraduate nonresidents: SBOO ► Graduate Students: SBOO ► Professional Students: To be determined by individual schools. Experts link shootings, behaviors Say more school violence a product of many factors BY BRENDAN BROWN STAFF WRITER Three U.S. school shootings in the past eight days have left eight dead. Experts say there are links between the week’s shootings, particularly between the two homicide suicides. On Monday, Charles Roberts IV took 10 girls hostage at an Amish school in Pennsylvania. Police said they believe he planned to molest the girls, but he wounded five and killed the other five before committing suicide. A similar event in Colorado might have embold ened Roberts to act on his plan, said Edwin Gerler, professor of counselor education at N.C. State University. On Sept. 27, at Platte Canyon High School, in Bailey, Colo., Duane Morrison sexually molested six girls after talcing them hostage inside their school. He then killed one girl and himself. Neither of the middle-aged men were affiliated with the school they targeted. Similarly, high school students often draw on SEE SHOOTINGS, PAGE 4 CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, the Sept 25 front page graphic with the story, “A risky pastime,” stated that Players, at 1591/2 E. Franklin St, had a charge of a sale to a minor. The sale to a minor actually occurred at 159 E. Franklin St. The Daily Ikr Heel apologizes for the error. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Stiff iailu ®ar Mccl School to outsource 19 jobs Employees lament dental school decision BY BLAIR BYRUM STAFF WRITER Nineteen dental school employees were notified Tuesday that their jobs will be terminated and replaced with outsourced labor. In an e-mail to faculty, staff and stu dents, John Williams, dean of the School of Dentistry, stated that after review, school officials determined that outsourc ing was the best use of fiscal resources. He states that the decision will help the BY ERIN FRANCE STATE a NATIONAL EDITOR North Carolina residents are finding ways to pump fuel in their own backyards and from the grease traps of restaurants. Biodiesel, made from waste vegetable oil, is an up-and-coming technology in the state, though it will be a long time before it replaces fossil fuels, said Douglas Crawford-Brown, the director of the Carolina Environmental Program at UNC. “The mom-and-pop operations work great for the specialized operations,” he said. “It’s something else entirely to replace the infrastructure of gas Colleges nationwide appointing diversity leaders BY EMILY LUGER STAFF WRITER When Cookie Newsom joined the Office of Minority Affairs in 2003, she was the third member on staff. Since then the department has grown RACE RELATIONS WEEK AT UNC ±•0, TIT' diversity officer is part of a growing trend on campuses nationwide. Institutions of higher learning are putting more of a premium on diver sity among students, faculty and staff, a value that most deem an important city I page 6 UP AND AWAY Actors visit Glenwood Elementary School to teach students about North Carolina's Wright brothers and the history of flight. www.dailytarheel.com school better fulfill its mission of teach ing, patient care, research and service. The e-mail also states that the employ ees will be out of work as of Nov. 27. The employees in danger of losing their jobs are technicians in the Dental Services Laboratories, said Barry Lee, a lab supervisor whose job is being out sourced. The workers craft oral appli ances used by dental students. They also serve as go-betweens for the school and lab and distribute prod- THE BASICS OF BIODIESEL Biodiesel fuel is an alternative to regular diesel fuel. It runs in any diesel engine with little or no modifications and can be made from any vegetable oil or recycled cooking oils and animal fat. Making your own biodiesel fuel: transesterification A container of lye, which is used in many cleaning supplies, 250 mL of methanol and a liter of oil are used to make biodiesel in the process below, but there are other very similar processes than can make more fuel at one time. * if using waste vegetable oil, the water would be removed by boiling first if Combine methanol and lye in a jar, then swirl the BS Combine oil and lye/methanol mixture. The oil liquid around until the lye is completely dissolved. ! ™ should be warm, at about 60°C. n & , Methanol I m i nj : I A Lye/methanol ••• * • The oil is thicker, Mk J| *i so it will be on the bottom. —jfl Note: Methanol is colorless H Screw the top on tight and shake vigorously for mm Set bottle down so it can settle into glycerin and 10 seconds. biodiesel fuel. Allow to settle for 12 to 24 hours, : then remove fuel for use. !■■■ — Glycerin, which is used in soaps Why biodiesel? increasing usage: ► lower carbon dioxide emissions (estimate in millions of gallons of biodiesel sold in U.S.) ► more lubricating, increasing engine life 1999 ! 0 5 ► biodegradable, nontoxic 2000 I 2 ► burns up to 75 percent cleaner than petroleum 2002 diesel fuel 2004 HMM2S 2005 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■7s SOURCES: JOURNEY TO FOREVER, WIKIPEDIA FUELING THE FUTURE element to a well-rounded education. “Carolina has been ahead of the curve in that,” said Newsom, director of diver sity education and research, referring to the reorganization of diversity offices that is happening across the nation. to seven staff mem bers. It’s headed by Archie Ervin, asso ciate provost for diversity and mul ticultural affairs, whose job as chief INSIDE Race Relations Week includes a showbyCHiPs andEROT. PAGE 15 of the game of understanding that if you are actually going to take diver sity management seriously, then it has to have the same positioning as other positions on campus,” she said. ucts and address concerns, Lee said. Cliff Thmer, of the Office of Human Resources, fielded questions about the dean’s announcement, Lee said. Lee also said "Rimer told the employees they can apply for similar jobs and receive priority hiring in the UNC system. But Lee said this will not help much because of job availability. “(The employees) have a highly spe cialized skill set, and the problem is that there are no similar jobs in the state system.” If state employees are forced to take jobs with private companies, they will structure.” But there are hundreds of biofuel operations across the state producing alternative fuel and more are created every year, Crawford-Brown said. Dave Anderson, a biology professor at Wake Forest University, said he and three other profes sors started making their own biodiesel as a way to power their cars without polluting the earth. Now, the group has grown to almost 20 mem bers, including a few interested undergraduates. Anderson said the project has helped raise awareness in his community of types of alternative ■ As part of that reorganization, Newsom’s office was renamed the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs in 2005. “We were ahead Ervin’s goal is to provide as many opportunities as possible, he said. “It’s been my job to lead that process on the campus so that we can monitor our progress to achieve the goals in diversity that we set for ourselves,” he said. Through programs such as the Diversity Incentive Fund, he has made resources available to anyone interested in providing diversity education. dive I page 7 BANDING TOGETHER? Are bands the gateway to a solo career? Diversions examines whether or not bands are here to stay and offers reviews of movies and music. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2006 fuels, while allowing him and his fellow scientists to experiment with the process. The greasy magic is made inside an old tobacco farm with equipment donated or converted to fit a need. The one thing that’s not hard to find is the raw material. “We get most of our oil in one blast from the Dixie Classic Fair,” Anderson said. The second-largest fair in the state provides most of the grease for a year’s worth of biodiesel, he said. SEE BIODIESEL, PAGE 4 Associate provost for diversity and multicultural affairs Archie Ervin said his role is to monitor UNC’s progress. this day in history OCT. 5,1988... The Black Student Movement passes a unanimous resolution requesting that UNC administrators approve a permanent location for the Black Cultural Center. lose benefits that they have been work ing toward for years, he said. “There are a lot of people here with a lot of time invested.” Collins Clarkson —one of the employ ees in jeopardy said he has worked for the dental school for 27 years and was scheduled to retire in January. If he loses his job, he said he also will lose 15 percent of his retirement income. The UNC Employee Forum addressed the endangered employees’ immediate concerns at a meeting Wednesday. SEE LAYOFFS, PAGE 4 INFOGRAPHIC BY LINDSAY DUBOIS “Part of what we’re trying to do now is get a handle on the extent to which we are a national leader in this arena,” he said. “We don’t want to just do well, we want to be among the national lead ers.” The 2006 freshman class is 28.2 percent nonwhite, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, compared to the 2005 freshman class, which was 25.3 percent nonwhite. These numbers do not include the 1 percent to 2 percent of students who did not report their race. Steve Michael, vice provost for diver sity and academic initiatives at Kent State University, is part of a national SEE DIVERSITY, PAGE 4 weather jjfr T-Storms H 83, L 57 index police log 2 calendar 2 games 15 sports 17 opinion 18
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