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VOLUME 115, ISSUE 107 Task force gives tuition proposals Graduate students see largest spike BY ERIC JOHNSON SENIOR WRITER Without establishing a firm con sensus, the campus tuition and fee advisory task force decided Monday to recommend a range of potential tuition increases that could easily Town officials lobby as one Incumbents hope to retain all seats BY ALEX KOWALSKI STAFF WRITER With all four Chapel Hill Town Council incumbents who are due for re-election running to keep their positions, today’s election could keep the same people in the same seats. Sally Greene, Jim Ward, Bill Strom and Cam Hill all are run ning for re-election. They are opposed by three new candidates. The incumbents have said they hope to be re-elected together because they have proved they work well with one another and can accomplish difficult tasks as a team. “The current \X\2OO7 council members and myself have demonstrated a good job of being able to work together even when our perceptions on issues have separated us from one another,” Ward said. Fellow council member Hill also said he hopes the incumbents will all be re-elected. “That’s what I would prefer given the current people that are running,” he said. “We’ve worked well together.” Hill, Ward, Greene and Strom have served together on the Town Council since Greene and Hill were elected to their current seats in 2003. Meanwhile, challengers Penny Rich, Matt Czajkowski and Will Raymond each hope to take one of the open seats. Raymond said he feels the incumbents have banded together to help one another win. “This year, because of this con certed front by the incumbents, we SEE ELECTION, PAGE 5 Increasing University diversity 100 % [~ Although diversity at UNC has increased since black students were first admitted in 1951, the 80% Bgr- University did not compile a __ 71% comprehensive record of race statistics until 1986. , , ■ White r ■ Black 10%' ,U7 ° ■ Asian/Pacific Islander 8% —f 40% ~ ■ Hispanic ~ 6 * [ IJ* ■ American Indian 4% 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006 2007 SOURCE: http://WWW.OIRA.UNC.EDU DTH/REBECCA ROLFE AND ALUE WASSUM VOTE TODAY To find your polling site, visit www.co.orange.nc.us/elect Serving the students and the University community since 1893 01ir latlu oar Hrrl top last year’s hikes. The proposals, which will be forwarded to Chancellor James Moeser, call for tuition to rise anywhere from SBOO to $1,500 for both resident and nonresident graduate students. WOOLLEN’S WITNESS: TREE HELD DEAN EFFIGY J Bbß| , >, 2g| mm HE. ■' >. • ,*, ; i ; J tC v'' ' §§&£/ ' - , . . * - • - . mM,*#' i' “ *■ - • ' " l , ' 5 . DTH FILE/JULIE TURKEWITZ A backhoe sits beside the oak tree outside Woollen Gym. In 1965 former UNC men's basketball coach Dean Smith was hanged in effigy from the same tree, after a loss to Wake Forest. Steam pipes in place near the tree's roots could damage it. online I dailytarheel.com AN ERODING MIDDLE A conference on a decreasing middle class ended Monday. MOVING FORWARD A mother discusses her daughter's rape and suitide to sororities. WASTE TRANSFER Officials discuss changing a proposed waste-transfer site. www.dailytarheel.com Nonresident undergraduates are facing hikes of SI,OOO to $1,500. The proposal could bring in net revenue between $6.7 million and sll.B million, after the required allocation for financial aid is fac tored out. That money would be distributed between faculty salary increases and new advising pro grams. UNC diversity evolving for 60 years BY BRIAN AUSTIN STAFF WRITER For about three-quarters of UNC’s history, only whites were admitted. But hard-fought changes in the past 60 years have transformed the student body at UNC, which now has a 29 percent minority popu lation. Today numerous student groups promote multiculturalism, and die University has a multiyear plan for improving diversity. “We regard diversity as being an essential component of being a great university,” Chancellor James Moeser said Monday to a group of Hillside High School students. In his annual State of the University address earlier this The task force decided to rec ommend a range after members proved unable to reach agreement on specific numbers. Even with the compromise, stu dents on the task force made clear that they are unhappy with the final proposal, calling a $1,500 increase for nonresidents unacceptable. “That is not a moderate increase,” semester, Moeser praised the fresh man class as the most diverse class to ever attend UNC. In particular, the number of Hispanic undergraduates has more than doubled in the past five years. “One of the goals of the University is making sure the students are not just competitive in North Carolina, INSIDE A study updates the 1968 commission findings on race. PAGE 8 but globally competitive,” Carolina Hispanic Association President Pedro Carreno said. He said students who come from different backgrounds contribute sports | page 9 BOWL HOPES The UNC football team's (3-6) bowl bid dreams are still alive as it heads into the final three games of the season against ACC foes. said Mike Tarrant, student body vice president. “Our upper ech elon would be $1,250,” he said, cit ing the amount out-of-state tuition increased last year. Perhaps most surprising, given the discussion at the task force’s last meeting, is that graduate tuition increases up to $1,500 were included in the final proposal. BY POWELL LATIMER ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR The giant oak tree out side Woollen Gym is still standing proud, towering over the green construc tion fence that surrounds it. Its wide-stretching limbs look down at the recently re-covered ditch full of pipes dug dangerously close to its roots. While the Woollen tree is not the only one on campus in danger of destruction, it holds a certain place of infamy in North Carolina men’s basketball history. Jan. 6,1965... It had been a rough week for UNC basketball team. The Tar Heels had just lost their . fourth-straight game, a pounding at the hands of Wake Forest, 107-85. The fourth-year coach, a 34-year old Midwesterner by the name of Dean Smith, had put together what some supporters considered an impossible schedule for his young team. But when the team bus rolled up to Woollen Gym late that night, with none other than Daily Tar Heel reporter and future sports journal ism titan Peter Gammons aboard, something awaited them that no one expected. Hanging from the tree outside the gym was a small, white figurine, dangling on the end of a noose. Billy Cunningham, the future All- American and NBA champion coach, famously leapt off the bus and ripped down the effigy of his coach in anger. SEE DEAN TREE, PAGE 5 to the University’s general pool of knowledge. “They will be able to bring these perspectives and be able to share their knowledge not just with students but with faculty and staff” Carreno said. Although the number of minori ties has increased, a recent report that assesses UNC’s diversity found much to be done. Advancing diversity “I think that what you see now on this campus is an expectancy that we are multicultural,” said Archie Ervin, associate provost for diversity and multicultural affairs, this day in history NOV. 6,1992... UNC construction officials announce renovations on Old East and Old West will be delayed two months because of rotting wood and crumbling chimneys. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2007 Lauren Anderson, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, reacted with shock at the Oct. 22 task force meeting when members pro posed graduate increases up to SI,OOO. When members upped the amount to $1,500 Monday, SEE TUITION, PAGE 5 who has worked at UNC for several decades. To further that mission, Moeser in 2004 charged a 39-person task force with creating a plan to improve diversity at UNC. The following year the diversi ty task force released its finding., in a report that lauded UNC’s commitment to diversity but gave many recommendations for improvement. “Although most members of the University community say they fed comfortable in discussions, dialogue about diversity issues appears to be limited,” the report states. SEE RACE, PAGE 5 weather Showers MH|H6O,L32 index nolice log j calendar j sports c games 6 opinion jjj
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