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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 96 ANALYSIS Tuition task force to meet Nonresident tuition is a top issue BY ERIC JOHNSON SENIOR WRITER By 2 p.m. today, campus admin istrators and student officials hope to have their tuition and fee rec ommendations wrapped up and ready for review by the Board of Trustees. But given how drastically the W f \ '■■dm Mft A f m ip i / ,Jk 1 kJF k ml a ijt '■ fa ■Br ifi t M / JHMI RR| Hp Jim 9 rp^ I|uik §fc- HHH Selina McDaniel, a fourth-grader at Rashkis Elementary, stretches on Wednesday after Girls on the Run, an after-school healthy living program designed to empower young girls. “I think it’s a great booster for them,” said Sheri Branson, a Girls on the Run coach and How much do they pay you? The faculty salaries at UNC-Chapel Hill tend to be smaller than those at similar top-ranking universities, which can be an issue with faculty retention. 1 50,000 1 B UNC-Chapel Hill B Du ke University 120,000 -Hr m University of Michigan, Ann Arbor B University of Virginia "11 h i ■.. “ ,00 ° I Ini i I *1 I H II 1 I 51 Professor Associate Assistant SOURCE: OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT DTH/REBECCA ROLFE Days left until one-stop voting ends. Early voting starts today. Visit www.co.orange.nc.us/elect. ®lre Uatlu Star HM tuition landscape has changed in the past three weeks, the tuition and fee advisory task force will have to cover a lot of ground to create a consensus proposal. All of the models reviewed at the task force’s last meeting called for increases in resident tuition. But that option was essentially GETTING FIT AND PROUD OF IT university | page 5 BUSTED Several hundred UNC students have been caught this semester illegally downloading music, as the Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America are increasing monitoring efforts. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailylarheelxom ATTEND IHfc MEETOKt Ifee Noon to 2 p.m. today lacatiKC 120 Vance Hall taken off the table when UNC-sys tem officials revealed Oct. 12 that resident undergraduate increases would be capped at or near 0 per cent. That means today’s meeting almost certainly will center on a member of the exercise and sport science faculty at UNC. The program, which includes coaching in physical, social, spiritual and emotional wellness, began in Charlotte in 1996 and has since expanded to serve almost 20 locations. For the full story on the Girls on the Run program, see pg. 7. Impending retirements drive faculty hiring BY KEVIN KILEY STAFF WRITER Nature is not a vacuum: When something leaves, something else must take its place. UNC is not a vacuum either, and as a gen eration of faculty prepare to leave campus in the next decade, the University must find and recruit anew crop of educators. In his State of the University address, Chancellor James Moeser brought to light the fact that UNC is on the verge of an unprecedented retirement by its faculty. “This is something we’re facing that could cripple a lesser institution,” said Elizabeth Dunn, senior associate vice chancellor for development. In a faculty report, Bob Lowman, associ wl' Mwit jo increases in nonresident tuition. “I think our biggest priority going into this is to discuss out-of state tuition,” said Mike Tarrant, student body vice president. What makes that discussion so challenging is that the University has yet to establish any guidelines for nonresident increases. The UNC system recently began SEE TUITION, PAGE 6 DTH/JULIE TURKEWITZ ate vice chancellor for research and economic development, said the University is expecting to lose at leastsoo of the almost I,4ootenured faculty to retirement in the next decade. In addition to those retiring, the University also will lose faculty who receive offers at other institutions and have to hire new faculty to adjust for expansion. In total, the University will have to hire about 2,000 new faculty in the next eight years the same as replacing five out of every eight professors. The trend is attributed to the aging baby boomer generation which is expected to age out of the workforce in the next two decades SEE FACULTY, PAGE 6 announcement GET B-BALL TICKETS Registration for 2007-08 basketball tickets begins today. Students can register for all the games in the month of November at tarheelblue.com. Officials want end of county’s homelessness Several programs tackling the issue BY DAVIS WILLINGHAM STAFF WRITER Standing outside Chapel Hill’s Community House, Cameron talked philosophically about past efforts to solve homelessness. “1 want to learn how to fish, not just be given fish to eat,” said Cameron, who declined to give his full name. Local government officials say they hope the efforts of the 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, which kicked off in September, will be a major step toward empower ing those homeless in Orange County to get back on their feet. A resident of the men’s shelter run by the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, Cameron said he sees solutions to homelessness like a math equation. “Make ‘X’ the variable for the different types of homelessness, and have Y stand for the ways the government has tried to tackle the problem,” Cameron said. “No mat ter how you work it, the answer is never going to be good, as long as Band celebrates storied tradition BY ALEXANDER TROWBRIDGE ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR DURHAM Crowds of alum ni, community members and par ents filled lawn chairs and porch stoops along Fayetteville Road on Sunday in anticipation of Hillside High School’s famous Marching Hornets. The thunder of the bass drums preceded the band, sending rip ples of excitement through the awaiting spectators. As the band approached, spinning and high-stepping down the road in uni son, onlook ers called out the names of familiar per formers and danced on the For a video on the Marching Hornets in action visit dailytarheel.com. sidewalks. Children ran to keep up with the blue and white uniforms. The reception at the school’s homecoming parade was a testa ment to the band’s role within the tightly knit west Durham commu nity that surrounds Hillside High. “It’s a community where we all have a connection to Hillside,” said Margaret Collins, who lives down the street from the high school. “Either you went to Hillside, or DTH/COLLEEN VASU Professor Christopher Lee lectures about Apartheid in his modern South Africa history class Oct. 11. this day in history OCT. 21,2001 ... Anew basketball ticket distribution system begins in which students must swipe their One Cards to get a numbered bracelet for the lottery. MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2007 a person’s pride remains the con stant. People have to want help.” Homeless in Orange County The plan is unique because it combines the efforts of Orange County with those of the towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. “Very few of the other 10-year plans nationwide are joint city county efforts,” said Sally Greene, chair woman of the executive team of the *v •v :t >s T THURSDAYOCT. 25 What's next Latino Homelessness Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness and a Chapel Hill Town Council member. “We can be proud that the four jurisdictions have made this collective commit ment. It undoubtedly makes tack ling the problem easier.” The Orange County Community Initiative to End Homelessness found that 224 homeless persons live in the county. SEE HOMELESSNESS, PAGE 6 “People recognize us everywhere. Anywhere we go, were Hillside High School.” ALEXIS TYLER, junior drum major your cousin went to Hillside or your mother... everyone.” Even as the school has come under fire in recent years for low test scores and poor academic performance, notable alumni and community leaders have taken sol ace in the band’s proud legacy. The history of the Marching Hornets includes a long list of state and national awards rang ing back to 1969. The band has performed on Oprah, before U.S. presidents and for the International Special Olympics. Today Hillside is the only one of Durham’s seven high schools to fall short of academic expectations set by the state Department of Public Instruction. But members of the band say their recognition in the city lies beyond the classroom. “People recognize us every where,” said Alexis Tyler, a junior SEE DRUMLINE, PAGE 6 weather >"V Mostly , cloudy index H 81L 63 police log 2 calendar 2 opinion 9 games 11 sports 12
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