VOLUME 115, ISSUE 118
Davis, UNC agree to pay raise
New, higher salary draws criticisms
BY JESSE BAUMGARTNER
SPORTS EDITOR
With a narrow 20-14 win against
rival Duke on Saturday, new head
coach Butch Davis finished his inau
gural season in Chapel Hill with a
4-8 record — highlighted with six
losses by a touchdown or less.
Although the saying goes that
close counts only in horseshoes
A biweekly analysis of Chancellor Moesers term
CHANCELLOR 2002
HISTORY 5
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The Employee Forum passes a
resolution asking for gg
representation on the Board of 1 (1
Trustees. Moeser supports
allowing the forum's chairman 200)
to speak before the board's ■
audit and finance committee.
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The Chancellor's Task Force for
a Better Workplace is formed to | JJ
evaluate employee concerns. 5
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MARCH 2004 9 ■
Moeser decides to use the ®
$25,000 bonus he declined in 2004
January of that year to go gg
toward initiatives to improve ■
employee relations. 2
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Moeser appoints two members ■
of the newly created ®
ombudsman's office to help
mediate employee grievances. ■
SEPTEMBER 2006 O
Moeser warns the Employee
Forum not to overstep its 2006
authority by attempting to
directly influence the legislature
on collective bargaining. ■
OCTOBER 2006 O
UNC announces that it will lay
off 15 dental technicians. —a
Protests about the decision to ' Cl
outsource the jobs ensue.
MAY 2007 O 2007
Two dental technicians affected ■
by the outsourcing file a
lawsuit against the University,
claiming age discrimination n
was a factor in their dismissals, r —CJ
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The University Gazette refuses gg
to publish an Employee Forum ■
article advocating collective ®
bargaining.
SEPTEMBER 2007 O-
Moeser declines to get involved
in the dispute between the
Employee Forum and the
University Gazette.
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No Black Friday on Franklin
All shops don’t see holiday sales boost
BY SARA HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
Stores across the country opened
in the earliest hours oFßlack Friday”
the day after Thanksgiving that
ushers in the holiday shopping sea
son and gives most businesses an
extra revenue boost that sustains
them year-round.
But for many downtown Chapel
Hill businesses, Black Friday and
the rest of the holiday season aren’t
the biggest money makers.
For most Franklin Street busi
nesses, sales ebb and flow with when
University classes are in session.
While the season is an impor
tant one for companies reporting
fourth quarter sales, Liz Parham,
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LOCALLY GROWN FOOD
Two University students have led
a movement to create events at
UNC in support of local and
sustainable agriculture for
Sustainable Food Week.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
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and hand grenades, it apparently
counts in dollars for Davis.
The University agreed in prin
ciple to a one-year contract exten
sion through 2014 and a $291,000
annual raise for the head football
coach Wednesday, pending approv
al of the UNC Board of Trustees
this week.
“Progress has been demonstrat
Employee relations not always smooth
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Protesters gathered outside South Building, where Chancellor James Moeser's office is, in November of last year to decry the administration's
decision to lay off 15 employees in the School of Dentistry in 2006. They presented a petition signed by about 1,000 community members.
Moeser is sometimes an advocate, employees say
BY KELLY GIEDRAITIS
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
As the presiding officer of the faculty,
Chancellor James Moeser meets with faculty
representatives on a monthly basis. He also
said he eats dinner with the executive commit
tee of the Faculty Council two to three times a
semester.
To touch base with students, Moeser sits
down with the student advisory committee to
the chancellor every month and has an open
door policy for the student body president
But Moeser’s interactions with staff and
employees are less regular, consisting of occa
sional meetings with the Employee Forum
chairman and day-to-day interactions with
groundskeepers and secretaries. He chooses
instead to delegate the tasks to administrators
executive director of the Chapel
Hill Downtown Partnership, said
Franklin Street has more destina
tion shopping, restaurants and
student-focused vendors that don’t
necessarily rely on holiday sales.
“Students certainly make up a
large share of the market down
town,” she said.
Parham said business stays stron
gest from the beginning of school
through football season, rather than
booming for the holidays.
Some businesses, including Top of
the Hill, even take a hiatus when the
students go home for the holidays.
“During the holiday season Top
of the Hill has recessions around
UNC exam time and then a major
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SPEAKING OUT FOR AIDS
Several University groups are
banding together to plan campus
events in honor of World AIDS
Week, and they hope to both
educate and unite students.
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UNC football
coach Butch
Davis could
receive a
$291,000
annual raise
through 2014.
ed by the hard work of the players
on and off the field, the competitive
games Carolina has played against
one of the nation’s most difficult
who are more connected with staff concerns.
Still, Moeser has been a part of many decisions
that have had a great impact on the University
resulting in both progress and controversy.
Answering employee concerns
“He came to the University with the idea of
co-governance, and he stuck with it,” said Tommy
Griffin, chairman of UNC’s district of the State
Employees Association of North Carolina and
former Employee Forum chairman.
“He’s been very good about listening to every
body. ... He’s not always able to do things, but
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elevation around graduation,
which is the keynote of the season
for us,” said Rebecca Workman, an
employee of Top of the Hill.
Top of the Hfll shuts down from
Dec. 19 to Dec. 27 to give employ
ees an opportunity to travel and be
with family, Workman said.
“We do get business, but it’s so
slow during that time that it is the
easiest time to shut down,” she said.
Retail shops usually see the most
business during the holiday season.
In the past, Franklin Street’s queue
has been more retail-heavy, but now
it is dominated by restaurants.
“It was a more traditional down
town 30 years ago,” Parham said.
But business stays strong
through Christmas for many of the
SEE SHOPPING, PAGE 4
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schedules, the excitement each
week at Kenan,” athletic direc
tor Dick Baddour said in a press
release Wednesday.
Davis signed a seven-year
contract with the University last
November with a base salary of
$286,000 a year. The University
also agreed to pay him supple
mental income worth $1 million
in 2007 to $1.3 million in 2013.
With additional income from
Nike and Learfield Communications
he tries.”
But some employees said that by spending
much of his time off campus, Moeser has dis
tanced himself from staff members.
“He’s by and large been an absentee land
lord,” Employee Forum Vice Chairman David
Brannigan said. “He makes all this time running
around the state and around the globe raising
money, and here on campus his minions are left
to run the University.”
Other employees echoed Brannigan, citing
trends that demand the head of the institution
act as a businessman.
Camilla Crampton, a medical lab technolo
gist who works in Campus Health Services,
SEE EMPLOYEES, PAGE 4
DTH/EUSE HARWOOD
Dana McMahan, owner of The
Laughing Turtle on Franklin Street,
hangs ornaments Tuesday to add
holiday decor for the season.
City | page 3
'TISTHE SEASON
Mayor Pro Tern Bill Strom lit
Franklin Street's 22-foot Christmas
tree Sunday as part of the town's
holiday kickoff, complete with
snowflake lights and carols.
contracts, Davis’ package averaged
$1.86 million a year, and his raise
will bump that average up to more
than $2 million a season though
still less than head basketball coach
Roy Williams, who makes around
$2.1 million, plus his contract with
Nike, which is not available to the
public.
Davis brought in an impressive
first recruiting class and, with a
SEE PAY INCREASE, PAGE 4
Local farmer’s tree
hits the big leagues
BY SARAH FRIER
STAFF WRITER
Joe Freeman said he planted
his first Christmas tree seeds
amid the Blue Ridge Mountains
in 1988 so he could help families
bring beauty into their homes.
This year, one of Freeman’s
trees will bring beauty to the
White House, after a Fraser fir
was selected for the president’s
annual Christmas display. He is
presenting the tree today to First
lady Laura Bush.
He’s reached the Super Bowl of
tree farming.
“That’s the ultimate achieve
ment as far as a Christmas tree
grower is concerned,” Freeman
this day in history
NOV. 26,2007...
UNC alumnus Mike Haley created
the Doug Clark "Thanks for the
Memories" scholarship in honor
of Clark's fraternity-favorite band,
Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2007
Convict
could
get 2nd
chance
Forensics faulty,
professor says
BY MEGHAN COOKE
STAFF WRITER
A UNC law professor who has
taken up the case of a convicted
murderer is using evidence that
a debunked FBI lab technique
has unfairly sentenced his client
and hundreds of others nation
wide for the past 40 years.
An investigation by The
Washington Post and “60
Minutes” revealed that many of
those convicted remain unaware
that the forensic technique, which
examines a bullet’s composition,
was discredited in 2005.
Professor Richard Rosen’s
case is that
of Lee Wayne
Hunt, a 48-
year-old for
mer mari
juana dealer
convicted of
double mur
der in 1986
now serving a
life sentence
in North
Carolina.
Rosen
said the case
against Hunt
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UNC professor
Richard Rosen
questions the
use of forensics
in Hunt's case.
is based not on physical evi
dence but on testimony from
“paid witnesses” — a colleague
and a prison informant whose
cooperation earned them legal
reprieve.
“No hair, no fingerprints, no
blood — nothing connected him
to the killings,” Rosen said.
But the FBI’s erroneous bul
let lead analysis testimony had
a devastating impact on Hunt’s
defense, Rosen said.
Performed when a fired bullet
was too damaged for comparison
or when the weapon was lost, bul
let lead analysis found bullets’ lev
els of trace elements. The results
then were compared to bullets
connected to a suspect.
In Hunt’s case, the testimony
and the outdated evidence were
enough to convince the jury.
Almost 2,500 cases involved
bullet lead examination between
the early 1980s and 2004, though
test results were presented at trial
in less than 20 percent of them,
according to an FBI statement
In 2002, The National
Research Council of the National
SEE FORENSICS, PAGE 4
said.
The tree that will stand in the
White House this year is part
of the first group Freeman ever
planted and comes from a seed
that is 24 years old.
His 130-acre Mistletoe
Meadows farm in Laurel Springs
is home to more than 100,000
Christmas trees.
Freeman said his trees’ stron
ger limbs and greater durability
help set them apart.
An official Christmas presen
tation has been a staple since
Benjamin Harrison’s administra
tion in 1889.
SEE N.C. TREE, PAGE 4
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