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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 97 Task force weighs range of hikes Nonresident tuition may rise SBOO to $1,500 BY ERIC JOHNSON SENIOR WRITER Campus officials laid out a range of poten tial tuition increases Monday but will wait two weeks before making a formal recom mendation to the chancellor. When the campus tuition and fee advi sory task force convenes again Nov. 5, mem bers will consider increases between S3OO and SI,OOO for all graduate students, and somewhere between SBOO and $1,500 for WATER LIMITS TIGHTEN wUr Bgr lr %Jl jam* H M I S|. ./.&* DTHAIULIE TURKEWITZ Senior Morgan Hargrove sits at a table at Top of the Hill. New drought restrictions recommend that restaurants wait to serve water until customers request it. “We're more strict on that now,” said Top of the Hill manager Steve Torchio. Stage two water shortage restrictions have been put into place throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro to conserve water. BY ALEX KOWALSKI STAFF WRITER As area reservoirs approach less than 50 percent capacity, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority has declared new water-use restrictions in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The restrictions, effective Friday, were implement ed under a newly designated stage two water shortage and are intended to reduce the current water demand in the area by at least 15 percent —a difference of 1.3 million gallons per day. Residents and businesses in the community are subject to regulations that restrict activities requir RTP growth spills into area BY ANDREW DUNN SENIOR WRITER It wasn’t long ago that Apex had just a Hardee’s and a Scott’s Galaxy Foods to its name and Cary was a tiny railroad and tobacco town. Many of the formerly rural communities surrounding Raleigh have seen triple-digit population growth during the past few decades and commercial expansions to match. A reaction to that growth was evident in this month’s Wake County municipal elections, as several incumbents, including Cary’s mayor, were booted out of office in favor of candidates taking a tougher stance toward growth. Chapel Hill and Carrboro have also experienced a high level of Days Ml until ont-stop voting ondt. Visit www.co.orange.nc.us/elect She Sailu (Far UnT nonresident undergraduates. In keeping with a directive from UNC system president Erskine Bowles, no increases for resident undergraduates were considered. Task force members have no specific tar get for the amount of money they would like to raise. The proposals put forward Monday could yield anywhere from about $4.9 mil lion to almost sl3 million. Provost Bernadette Gray-Little, co-chair- ing water and limit water consumption levels. “I would have rather seen it earlier,” said Cliff Baffin, a Chapel Hill resident. “The drought is quite severe.” His family has been taking shorter showers to limit their water use. Ed Kerwin, executive director of OWASA, said the restrictions mostly will affect people who water their lawns with home irrigation systems. If the police or CJWASA receive a report of someone in violation of any of the restrictions, OWASA will issue a fine. SEE WATER, PAGE 9 growth with controversies to match, including Carolina North, the Chapel Hill Greenbridge development and Carrboro’s Alberta condominiums. But professors and politicians say differences between Wake and Orange counties will likely prevent such a sea change from occurring in the Nov. 6 municipal elections. “The electorate in Chapel Hill moved here because of spe cial characteristics,” said Ferrel Guillory, director of the UNC Program on Public Life. “Chapel Hill’s self-image is of a university town, a village.” He said because of that percep tion, both Chapel Hill and Carrboro SEE GROWTH, PAGE 9 nation | pap m IN THE ARMY NOW Women increasingly are enrolling in the military acad emy at West Point, a trend that also seems to be happening at UNC. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 www.dailytarheel.com BY COUN CAMPBELL STAFF WRITER The word “midterm' has a dif ferent meaning for Student Body President Eve Carson and her admin istration this week. While most students are concerned about mid-semester exams, Carson has reached the middle of her term and will release the October Report today, touting her administration's progress. While many of the initiatives described in the report traditionally are part of the student body presi dent's campaign platform, the admin istrations usually include other issues that arise after die election. *1 think some of the biggest things that we've achieved this year have been ones we hadn't anticipated in the platform,' Carson said. And there are many platform woman of the group, said the University can use whatever extra revenue is available to improve instructional quality. “Any increase we’re going to have is not going to meet the needs we have,” she said. “But we have to decide where we’re going to be and how much of that revenue is going to go toward each priority.” Faculty salaries remain at the top of that priority list The state legislature provided millions in extra funding this year for faculty salaries, on top of an overall 4 percent salary increase. Faculty retention stands at its highest level Orange Water and Sewer Authority Stage two water shortage restrictions Goal: To reduce the community's current water demand by 15 percent Restrictions: > No spray irrigation. > Individually metered water use is limited to an average of 800 OCTOBER REPORT: Annual student government document to be released today planks that will need more work before Carson's term ends in April. ‘I want all of my committees to take the rest of the semester to really focus on what in the platform needs to be accomplished,' Chief of Staff Katie Sue Zellner said. (ll Chancellor search: The admin istration is finding TO members to serve on the students' chancellor search advisory committee, which will convey student opinion to the official chancellor search committee The search process will have a goal of identifying values that are impor tant to the University, Carson said. 'i think our discussions on the Carolina way are going to be very fruitful for the campus,’ she said. Ohiition: While Chancellor James university | page 4 A PIECE OF HISTORY Anew exhibit featuring artifacts and the history of Sir Walter Raleigh has opened in Wilson Library. A reception was held Monday. in years. But UNC salaries still lag behind those of comparable schools, and task force members said the University risks losing ground with out additional dollars from tuition. Evelyne Huber, chairwoman of the Department of Political Science, said tuition revenue has been vital in improving the University’s competitiveness in recent years. “In terms of faculty morale and propen sity to look elsewhere, it’s like night and SEE TUITION, PAGE 9 gallons per day. ► No car washing except in cer tain commercial establishments. ► No cleaning of exterior building surfaces. ► Restaurants can serve water to customers only upon request. ► Clothes- and dishwashers can only be operated at full capacity. Moeser has recommended no increase for in-state tuition, Carson said she is concerned out-of-state tuition will increase as a result 'That's foremost on my mind right now,' she said. The tuition and fee advisory task force has suggested an out-of-state undergraduate hike of between SBOO and $1,500. Carson's platform proposes the Board ofTrustees give an ‘expense report'of how tuition is spent □ Big Ideas: In her platform, Carson proposed three major initiatives: an annual music festival, a junior schol arship for achievement and an endow ment for a big-name speaker series. . While committees have been estab lished to research the programs, no major progress has been reported. programs: The Carson this day in history OCT. 23.1956... Student Body President Bob Young encourages student participation in United Nations Day —a President Eisenhower initiative to make people more aware of the U.N. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2007 Voters start to cast ballots New voting poll sees first results BY SARA HARRIS STAFF WRITER The One-Stop No Excuse Voting attracted voters to the polls Monday the first day of early voting in Chapel Hill —with anew location at the Franklin Street Post Office. Although turn out for the first day was comparable to past municipal elections, many voters said the new location, which was open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., encouraged them to vote. The early-voting system allows voters who missed the registra tion deadline or who will not be able to get out to the polls on Election Day to cast their votes. Orange County Board of Elections director Barry Gamer said the day went smoothly with no technological difficulties. Thirty-two Chapel Hill resi dents, out of the 80 who voted in Orange County on Monday, cast their ballots at the post office.. “It was a very good day,” Gamer said. Garner said 64 of Orange County’s Monday voters were in the 45 and above age group. Only two college-age people, defined as between 18 and 22 years old, cast early ballots. In the 2005 municipal election, 28 residents voted on the first day of early voting at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center. The polling station was moved to the post office this year after the planetarium on UNC’s campus became unavailable. The new location was praised by voters Richard Lee Dodgin and Bill Massengale who cast ballots early Monday. “I think that the post office location is great,” he said. It was the location that caused Dodgin and Massengale to participate in early voting. Massengale, an attorney in the Chapel Hill area, said he voted after coming out of court, which SEE EARLY VOTING, PAGE 9 administration has organized two events that took place this semester. Sophomore Reorientation provided students access to University progams and resources. Mix-it-up Day gave students a chance to eat dinner with people outside their social circles. . ; . .> M Student input on smoking ban: The student advisory committee to the chancellor gathered students' opinions about the ban on Smoking within 100 feet of campus buildings. 'I think they had a huge influ ence,’ Zellner said. 'The biggest input definitely came from the blogs that were set up.' Moeser announced Monday the smoking ban will begin Jan. 1. Contact the University Editor atudesk@xmc.edu. weather Mostly cloudy index HBJL “ police log 2 calendar 2 sports 11 games g opinion 12
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