VOLUME 115, ISSUE 5
Campus to lobby state for more pay
Officials hesitant on tuition cap drop
BY ERIN ZUREICK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
University officials say that cer
tain omissions from Gov. Mike
Easley’s 2007-09 budget proposal
could spell trouble for UNC-Chapel
Hill down the road.
The budget, which calls for a
higher-than-expected 11.3 percent
increase to UNC-system funding,
still falls short of what officials
hope to garner for faculty salaries
Experience
led student
to the cause
BY ABBEY CALDWELL
STAFF WRITER
Perfectionism is not
uncommon in UNC students.
It was certainly familiar to
sophomore Katy Dow, whose
desire for control helped
usher her into the gripping
hold of more than one pain
ful eating disorder.
Dow is now co-president
and will be the 2007-08 pres
ident of Students Helping to
Achieve Positive Esteem,
which promotes healthy body
images and eating disorder
awareness.
The group is hosting sev
eral events this week in rec
ognition of National Eating
Disorders Awareness Week
including an information
al session at 6:30 p.m. today
in Teague Residence Hall to
discuss signs and symptoms
of eating disorders.
It was Dow’s personal expe-
UNC jazz festival
to hit stage today
BY MARGARET HAIR
SENIOR WRITER
Reading the names off the
program for the 30th annual
Carolina Jazz Festival is like
walking through a hall of
fame for the genre.
Sonny Rollins. Kenny
Garrett Slide Hampton. McCoy
Tyner all in bold colors.
The event founded by UNC
jazz bands director James
Ketch, started Wednesday and
will feature concerts, jam ses
sions and educational opportu
nities throughout the weekend.
Ketch said the festival, which
started in 1978, has grown from
a music department event to a
campuswide celebration.
“It’s become a University
cultural event rather than
Schedule of events
Today, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Student Union
N.C. Regional Essentially Ellington
High School Jazz Festival
Today, 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall
Kansas City Swing and Jammin'
at the Reno
Today, 10:30 p.m.
Talullas
Jazz After Hours
Friday, 4 p.m.
Hill Hall 107
Jazz for a Friday Afternoon
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and research efforts, said Kevin
Fitz Gerald, special assistant to the
chancellor.
“There are some great things in
it, and there are some areas that
are not funded,” Fitz Gerald said.
The governor’s proposal still
must be hashed out by the N.C.
House and Senate, which could take
several months.
The proposal calls for a 2.5 per
cent increase to faculty salaries —a
M
SHAPE Co
president
Katy pow
said her
disorder
made her
help others.
rience that drove her to become
involved with the group.
At the end of her senior year
at a Hillsborough high school,
she said she was under signifi
cant pressure, making college
decisions and quarrelling with
her then-boyfriend.
“My fife was spinning out of
control in other ways.”
Dow said she turned to
anorexia when she gained “a
little weight” after decreasing
the number of hours she spent
in her competitive cheerlead
ing gym.
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just a department of music
jazz festival, and that’s given
us a chance to create a longer
event,” he said.
While the available resourc
es and length of the festival
have grown, Ketch said, the
artists always have been on
the fresh side of the jazz crop.
In its first year, the headlin
ing performer and artist-in
residence was saxophonist
Jamey Aebersold, a leading
jazz educator.
That festival was a Friday
night concert and a Saturday
high school jazz clinic, where
Aebersold was the lead clini
cian. These days, the event
spans four days and includes
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Friday, 8 p.m.
Memorial Hall
Battle of the Bands
Friday, 11 p.m.
Top of the Hill
Jazz After Hours
Saturday, 4 p.m.
Memorial Hall
UNC Jazz Band Concert
Saturday, 10 p.m.
West End Wine Bar
Jazz After Hours
Visit www.unc.edu/music/jazzfest
for more information about each
event.
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University and community arts
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back through writing, theater
and artwork.
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far cry from the 6 percent increase
legislators approved last summer.
Faculty salaries are one of the
top priorities for the University, as
administrators push to close the
gap between UNC-CH and its peer
institutions.
Provost Bernadette Gray-Little
said that state funds are an impor
tant part of faculty salaries, along
with tuition and private donations
and that the proposal probably
won’t be enough to meet need.
“This is well below the level we
need to keep our current level with
CAMPUS Y TO OPEN DOORS
Group to celebrate 100 years of service
BY JORDAN LAWRENCE
STAFF WRITER
When the Campus Y moves back
into its original building after a $4.4
million, nearly two-year-long renova
tion, members will have more to cel
ebrate than just the reopening.
Today they also will commemo
rate the 100-year anniversary of the
Campus Y building.
After a two-year hiatus from their
home, group members will step into
the newly renovated structure adja
cent to South Building.
“Actually having a physical location
to get together at the same location is
really important to the organization,”
said Kheang Lim, co-president of the
Campus Y.
Tar Heels looking to toughen up
BY DANIEL MALLOY
SENIOR WRITER
Today the calendar turns to March,
the most anticipated month in college
basketball. The one where dreams are
made and shattered in an instant.
North Carolina begins the month
by facing Georgia Tech tonight (9 p.m.
Raycom/LF) in Atlanta, the same city
in which it hopes to be playing at the
end of March in the Final Four.
But getting from Alexander
Memorial Coliseum to the Georgia
Dome, as talented as the Tar Heels
are, is a tall order given UNC’s incon
sistent play.
Most of the Tar Heels —and head
coach Roy Williams have traced that
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Provost
Bernadette
Gray-Little
said a 2.5
percent jump in
faculty salaries
isn't enough.
our peers,” Gray-Little said. “I think
with a 2.5 percent increase... we’re
not going to close that gap at all.”
The average University profes
sor makes an average $115,300,
compared to an average $121,720
The space will be much more than
that available in the three-room
Student Union suite Campus Y has
occupied during the construction.
The building now will contain a
sidewalk cafe and a coffee shop, new
seminar rooms and space on its top
floor to house other University orga
nizations. The first office resident
of the top floor will be Emil Kang,
executive director for the arts.
There will be an open house
today to celebrate the reopening of
the building and its centennial. The
event, scheduled for 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.,
will feature displays from Campus Y
committees and a performance by
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inconsistency to a lack of toughness in
tight games. It showed up in Sunday’s
loss at Maryland, where UNC was
dominated on the boards and played
porous defense down the stretch.
“It concerns me,” senior Wes Miller
said.
“It’s one thing to make a mistake
or miss a shot, but to look back at
a game and say we weren’t tough
enough, it’s really discouraging.”
Finding those intangibles is diffi
cult, especially when the most impor
tant month of the year already has
arrived for the young Tar Heels.
The game against Georgia Tech
marks UNC’s last road test of the sea
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SHOT IN THE ARM
Outfielder Reid Frank ends
UNC's Wednesday afternoon
game against Coastal Carolina
in dramatic fashion getting
hit by a pitch in the 10th inning.
at the University’s 15 peer insti
tutions. Similar disparities exist
between UNC-CH’s associate and
assistant professors and those at
peer institutions.
This shortfall in salaries could
be compounded if the governor’s
11.3 percent increase, which is ear
marked to areas other than sala
ries, goes through.
According to the systemwide
tuition policy implemented in the
fall, an increase of that amount would
lower a 6.5 percent cap on in-state
undergraduate tuition, effectively lim
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come —and figures to play an impor
tant role in the ACC race. The Tar Heels
are tied with Virginia and Virginia
Tech, who play tonight, at 10-4.
“I’m just feeling like I’m repeating
myself,” sophomore Marcus Ginyard
said.
“It should have been a wake-up call
against Gonzaga. N.C. State should
have been a wake-up call. Virginia
Tech should have been a wake-up
call. Virginia Tech should have been a
wake-up call again. And if this doesn’t
wake us up and make us see, then this
could be now or never.”
Senior Reyshawn Terry doesn’t see
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iting possible hikes to 1.2 percent
This could significantly impact
the University’s ability to use tuition
to fund faculty salary increases
since it would limit revenue.
“If there is a very low limit... it
means that the increase in cost that
we experience each year just
because of inflation there would
be no way to address that,” Gray-
Little said.
Members of the UNC-CH Board
of TVustees passed tuition increases
SEE BUDGET, PAGE 9
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Coach Roy Williams rips his jacket
off in frustration during UNC's
Feb. 13 loss to Va. Tech. He wants
his players play tougher today.
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