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4 FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2008 Fee audit committee lays out approach for the year Aims to examine fee-funded groups BY DANIELLE ADAMS STAFF WRITER The student fee audit committee plans to look into the finances of campus groups receiving student fees, committee members said Thursday. The committee outlined what it hoped to accomplish this year at its first meeting Thursday. Financial inquiries play a big role in one of its main goals, a return to the committee’s original intent The committee formed in 1996 to audit the use of specific fees. Since that time it has taken on an advisory role, making recommen dations to the chancellor’s student fee advisory subcommittee. “UNC students have got the SFAC because it allows them to have some control as to what they are paying and what money goes where,” said Student Congress Speaker Tim Nichols. “It’s a great way to take an in-depth look as to whether student money is used wisely and efficiently.” The committee, headed by Student Body Treasurer Pedro Carreno, used Thursday’s meeting to discuss proposed fee increases in undergraduate student activi ties, education and technology and health services fees. If approved, Carreno said, the proposals will raise total fees by about 5 percent. Wired. Wireless. Welcome back students! Get 10% off with your college ID! gelato • espresso • panlnl • coffee • pastry • soup • liin The Streets at Souttipoint, near Macy’s. (919) 672-0300 lavitadolce Welcome back! ou missed me, didn’t you? 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I’m sure that the committee this year will focus a lot on that.” He added that how in-depth an audit can be varies from group to group. “When I think of an audit, I don’t think of an IRS audit,” Myers said. “It’s just going through the organization and seeing what’s going on and how they have developed. That could include something as meticulous as going through receipts or as simple as asking questions.” Carreno said that before the group can begin auditing, they must handle proposals. “Being the first meeting of the year for this committee, we wanted to focus on setting schedules and timelines for upcoming propos als,” Carreno said. “The first step in the process is to get student fees approved.” This year, undergraduate stu dents will pay $1,691 in fees. Graduate students pay $1,679. These fees pay for servic es including the Rams Head Recreation Center, Student Health Services and UNC athletics. The auditing process includes the SFAC going over fee proposals and then passing it to the student fee advisory subcommittee to the chancellor. If they approve the fee increase, it is then sent to the tuition and fee advisory task force then the Board of Thistees for approval. Carreno said the biggest chal lenge SFAC faces in looking into financial records will be the amount of research needed to be successful. “It will take a lot of time on our end,” Carreno said. “But we have an active committee made of a great group of students. I think this group is willing to put in the effort to do what is necessary.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. E-MAIL FROM PAGE 3 Some students would have access to it before others. Streck said the switch seems likely, barring any technical or con tractual problems. “We are looking at legal and tech nical issues surrounding (outsourc ing) right now and looking at how other universities are going about it,” he said, citing UNC-Greensboro as a school that recently adopted online e-mail service. “However, it is highly probable.” Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. www.heelshousing.com ’ I W braugtetoycutyTtePatyferHtd //the ~ c/lboia Till: AGORA \TGRA\AIU.i: TOWKRS I’niversity Square • .'>7<M;r99 www. i>ranvillelowers.cnm v v (f work at events I 3k such as homecoming concert and more jfll more than a building ■ Carolina union News ENTERTAINMENT FROM PAGE 3 McGurk said that after the series is finished, the town will evaluate the results of the event and decide whether or not to do it again next ■ summer. Live performances will begin along West Franklin Street tonight at 6 p.m. An open-air market and children’s activities will start at 7 p.m. at the Wallace Plaza at 150 E. Rosemary St. Dorozenski said the concept of Locally Grown is good because only local businesses are promoted, unlike Apple Chill, which brought in outside vendors. But Dorozenski said that some of the logistics of the event, such as the location, could be worked National and World News FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL McCain attacked over his wealth Washington, D.C. (MCT) Democrats Thursday ridiculed presumptive Republican presi dential nominee John McCain for saying he couldn’t recall how many homes he and his wife own. Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s cam paign launched an ad calling McCain out of touch. Four years ago, it was the Democratic candidate with a wealthy wife who owned a lot of houses and the Republicans ridiculing him as an out-of-touch elitist Lieberman will be speaking at RNC WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., will be a speaker opening night at the Republican National Convention, capping an extraor dinary political journey for a man who could have been 1 this year’s Democratic nominee for presi dent had history taken a different turn. Lieberman is a supporter of presumptive Republican presi dential candidate John McCain. He is often mentioned as a pos sible vice presidential running mate for McCain. out better. He said that because the plaza is located on a different street than the majority of downtown businesses, people have difficulty finding it. “It’s not really clear where the deck is and how to get back and forth from it,” he said, suggesting that large banners be placed down town. “People don’t know where to park or where the event is.” “You almost have to overdo it to direct people to these things.” The town will be looking to have more events at the plaza going for ward, Tilghman said. “The plaza is a park facility that we want to utilize more,” he said. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. Rice negotiates troop withdrawals with Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki BAGHDAD (MCT) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Thursday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in an effort ty bring to a close long, contentious negotiations with Iraq over an agreement that would gov ern the presence of U.S. forces here after the end of this year. American and Iraqi negotia tors have been saying for weeks that they are close to an agree ment, but that Maliki has held up the process over his concern that the agreement doesn’t give Iraq enough authority over U.S. troop (< .iduct Sandanista marks revolution event MANAGUA (MCT) - “You need to be more revolutionary,” Eden Pastora, 71, told an audi ence of high-school students as part of a week-long commemora tion of the assault on the National Palace. Pastora is Comandante Cero who took the entire legislature hostage and then forced dictator Anastasio Somoza to agree to a prisoner swap for jailed Sandinista rebels on Aug. 22,1978. On Friday, he will be among several surviving commandos from that operation who will be decorated in a medal ceremony at the palace. A fresh marketplace approach to all-inclusive dining The Non-Resident Meal Plan: 10 meals S7B 20 meals $155 50 meals..... $385 100 meals $765 Purchase a meal plan from now until Sept. sth and get an additional 5 meals free! You don’t have to live here to eat here. .. Come check out The Agora, Granville Towers ’ fabulous dining room! Qlljp Saily Bppl MILLION MEALS FROM PAGE 3 All of the food packed at the UNC site will be sent to the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, a violence-ravaged area where 35 percent to 45 percent of the population is estimated to be unemployed. “It’s like living in a garbage dump, basically,” said Tierza Watts, associate director of the Center for Student Leadership Ethics & Public Service, who is in charge of the N.C. State site. The event will also feature guest speakers to help motivate and inspire the volunteers. Contact the Features Editor atfeatures@unc.edu. The agreement foresees U.S. combat troops leaving Iraq by 2011, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has said. Other Iraqi officials have told McClatchy that the agreement also calls for U.S. forces to pull out of Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009. “I think it’s a chance for me to sit with the prime minister and really get a sense of what, if there is anything else, that we need to do from Washington to get to closure on the agreement,” Rice said to reporters traveling with her in Baghdad on Thursday. Russia prompts U.S. policy shift WASHINGTON, D.C (MCT) The Russian move into Georgia raises troubling questions for U.S. military thinkers, many of whom had hoped that tensions with Russia were a thing of the distant past The decision to sign a mis sile-defense treaty with Poland is one aspect of this new thinking. The deal, signed Wednesday in Warsaw by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, calls for 10 U.S. inter ceptor missiles 115 miles from Russia’s western frontier, along with a military base for support of short-range missiles.
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