VOLUME 115, ISSUE 82
Chancellor search begins
BY WHITNEY KISUNG
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The first steps in the search for
UNC’s next chancellor began Thursday
with the announcement of 19 search
committee members and their October
meeting schedule.
At the UNC Board of Trustees
meeting, Chairman Roger Perry
revealed that Nelson Schwab will
serve as the search committee’s chair
man and that Perry and fellow trustee
Karol Mason will be vice chairmen.
“It was a natural decision,” Perry
said of Schwab, who has served on
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Chancellor James Moeser listens at the Board of Trustees meeting Thursday morning. After Moeser announced Wednesday that he will step down from
his position as chancellor June 30, the board named on Thursday trustee Nelson Schwab to lead the committee in charge of finding a replacement.
LEAVING HIS MARK
Moeser’s impact framed by past leaders
BY WHITNEY KISUNG
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
What defines an era at the
University is more than a name.
It’s a man, his accomplishments and
his failures that mold a tenure.
Chancellor James Moeser now is
in his final year. But the eight years
he will have spent at the top of the
Advising set to
receive overhaul
BY BRIAN AUSTIN
STAFF WRITER
Academic advising is turning the
tables, receiving some words of wis
dom instead of dispensing them.
At the Board of Trustees’
University affairs committee meet
ing Wednesday, Holden Thorp,
dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, presented an advising
report on behalf of the academic
advising committee.
The plan calls for a number of
changes to advising, including the
elimination of academic advising
teams in favor of a primary adviser
for each student.
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other types of search committees in
recent years.
At Wednesday’s State of the
University address, Chancellor James
Moeser announced his decision to
step down June 30, along with the
goal of having his successor in place
by July 1.
The search committee responsible
for finding his replacement will first
meet Oct. 12, when the University
celebrates its 214th birthday.
At the initial committee meeting,
Schwab said UNC-system President
Erskine Bowles officially will give the
University will be noted with projects
that focus on accessibility, binding
and physical change.
“He’s been aggressive and progres
sive, as well,” said Jack Boger, dean of
the School of Law.
Moeser is the ninth chancellor to set
foot in South Building and one of the
longest-serving chancellors at UNC.
“/ encourage stu
dents to get enor
mously involved in
this. ...This is a huge
issue"
RUSTY CARTER, committee chairman
“We did a self-study about advis
ing. The report said we’re doing a
fine job with freshmen and sopho
mores, but we’re less effective for
SEE ADVISING, PAGE 11
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committee its charge, relaying the
details of open meetings laws.
“Our process will be an open and
transparent one,” Schwab said;
At the search committee’s second
meeting, set for Oct. 16, members
aim to select a search firm to help
them recruit applicants.
The executive search firm Heidrick
& Struggles helped the search com
mittee that selected Moeser about
eight years ago.
That committee was led by Richard
SEE COMMITTEE, PAGE 11
Those who came before him have
shaped the University and its history
through the projects they embraced
and the stances they took on contro
versial campus subjects.
As each chancellor settled into his
role, common threads weaved him
together with his predecessors.
One of the battles that every chan
cellor seems to meet is matching a
SEE CHANCELLOR, PAGE 11
Varsity sticks to art through the ages
Anti-plex’ vision
appeals to town
BY BENNETT CAMPBELL
ASSISTANT ARTS EDITOR
When Bruce Stone acquired
the Varsity Theater seven years
ago, he brought along a vision that
he hoped would allow the venue
to avoid the fate of other theaters
that had come and gone from
downtown Chapel Hill.
“(The Varsity) had slipped into
a state of disrepair, in every way
imaginable,” he said. “The seats
were falling apart; there were no
curtains.... It was pretty shabby.”
So Stone got to work.
“We got new seats, anew
The chancellor
search committee
Chairman: Nelson Schwab, trustee
Vice chairwoman and -man:
Karol Mason, trustee, and Roger Perry,
chairman of the Board of Trustees
► Three other full-member trustees
► Two students
► five professors
► Two employees
► Four alumni
UNC chancellors from
the past 30 years
2000-present: James Moeser
1999-2000: William McCoy
1995-99: Michael Hooker
1988-95: Paul Hardin
1980-88: Christopher Fordham
SOURCE: unc.edu/chan
screen, and we updated the equip
ment,” he said.
But the work Stone did was
more than just aesthetic.
His goal was not just to main
tain, but to enhance, the theater’s
independent, artistic essence,
something that Stone suggested
previous theaters had lacked.
Stuart Hoyle, who has worked
as a projectionist for the Varsity
and other theaters for decades,
explained that before Stone came
before “Siiperbad” and before
“Snakes on a Plane” venues like
the Ram and Carolina theaters
were also options for local movie
goers.
Stone owned the Carolina
not to be confused with Durham’s
SEE CINEMA, PAGE 11
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A MERE MORTAL
First-time director junior Abby
Manekin is at the helm of Lab!
Theatre's first production of the
year, “Mere Mortals." The play
debuts today.
ANALYSIS
Tuition
cap still
unknown
Tuition task force to meet
before systems final quote
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
The University’s tuition and fee advisory task
force will be heading into uncharted territory when
it meets for the first time this year on Monday, and
task force members are still waiting for a map.
The UNC system is imposing a variable limit on
tuition hikes, part of a revised policy designed to tie
tuition rates more closely to state appropriations.
The policy caps campus tuition hikes for resident
undergraduates, and task force members will have
to center their tuition and fee discussions on meet
ing that limit.
Trouble is, system administrators are still calcu
lating what this year’s limit will be.
Jeff Davies, chief of staff to UNC-system President
Erskine Bowles, said he’s not sure the final numbers
will be ready in time for the Monday meeting.
That has some task force members wondering
what they’ll be discussing Monday.
“This whole process is the cart before the horse,”
said Lauren Anderson, president of the UNC-
Chapel Hill Graduate and Professional Student
Federation.
If task force members begin tuition discussions
without knowing the system-imposed cap, they face
the possibility of having to go back and start over
when the limit is finally calculated.
The reason for the delay, system officials say, is that
setting the variable cap is enormously complicated.
“It’s the initial year, and it’s important to ensure
that we’ve examined all the calculations carefully,”
Davies said. “We want to make sure we get it right.”
The cap, which is set at a baseline level of 6.5
percent, is designed to shrink, in years that state
funding'expands faster than its historic average of
9 percent.
The idea is that campuses won’t need as much
tuition revenue in years that the legislature is espe
cially generous to the university system.
This year, the legislature increased system fund
ing by an impressive 10.6 percent, meaning that
there should be a tighter cap on tuition.
Unfortunately, figuring out just how tight isn’t as
easy as looking at overall system funding.
“It will vary from campus to campus,” said Rob
Nelson, UNC-system vice president for finance.
“It depends on the percentage change in campus
appropriations.”
And because each of the system’s 17 campuses
draw state funding from a host of different sources,
finding out how much additional money went to
each school is a painstaking process.
UNC-CH Student Body Vice President Mike
Tarrant said he hopes the task force can make some
headway, even if final targets aren’t known.
“I’m hoping we get brought up to speed,” he said. “I
want to ask pointed questions to make sure adminis
trators and trustees are being held accountable.”
But for now, accountability will have to wait for
accounting. System officials said they hope to have
the final numbers ready sometime in early October.
Assistant University Editor Kelly Giedraitis
contributed reporting.
Contact the State £2 National Editor
at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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Stewart Hoyle, an employee at Varsity Theater since 1981, takes a reel
off the rewind machine in the original back room of the theater.
this day in history
SEPT. 28,1950...
Marianne Poliak, editor of the
Austrian newspaper "Die Frau,"
meaning “The Woman," addresses
UNC women on a 30-day tour to
observe women in public affairs.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
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