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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 87 _ .J i •’ ’ sports | page 11 RUNNING THE GAME Saturday's game against UConn. was the first time this season UNC was successful in establishing a consistent running game from the start. national | page r> ISSUE: FOREIGN POLICY See where Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama stand on issues related to international forces that affect the U.S. city | page < TICKET TO RIDE Talks are under way about the possibility of establishing on-campus hubs for a bike-sharing program. blogß.dailytarheel.com DEBATE UVEBLOG State & National Editor Ariel Zirulnick is live blogging the presidential debate. CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, Monday’s pg. 1 skybox incor rectly reported the last time UNC was ranked in the AP Top 25 poll. It was November 2001. Due to editing errors, Monday’s pg. 1 story, “Fan excitement grows,” has several errors. The story incorrectly refers to Sosei Nakasuji, a barista at Jack Sprat Cafe, as a “she.” Nakasuji is a man. The story also incorrectly states why ticket distribution for Saturday’s game against Notre Dame was implemented. Officials decided on a lottery before the season began. The Daily Tar Heel apolo gizes for the errors. this day in history OCT. 7,1987... Student Television debuts "General College," a soap opera set on campus that deals with love triangles, drugs and racial issues. Today’s weather Partly sunny H 74, L 52 Wednesday’s weather Showers H 74, L 63 index police log 2 calendar 2 nation/world 7 opinion 9 sports 11 crossword 11 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 ®he Hath} ®ar Urel UNC employees get a raise Full-time minimum salary goes up BY MATTHEW PRICE ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR The minimum salary for full time University employees will rise to $25,000 starting in November. About 290 employees making less than the new salary were sent a letter Monday from Chancellor Holden Thorp detailing the pay raise. “We are committed to doing all we can to keep your compensation competitive with salaries paid in Orange County and the surround ing Ttiangle area,” Thorp stated in the letter. “You deserve this raise, and it reflects the hard work you do for the University.” . STUDENTS ‘STICK IT’ TO CHANCELLOR Still have questions? The chancellor’s open house is 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Union. yw g j&d&M .< ® SSL Ifr K $ 1 '' aPi* ' ; Eate Matthews sticks a note on a poster of UNC- Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp on Monday in the Pit. Matthews wrote about the limits on chalking as a medium of free expression in the Pit. The event was sponsored by the student Eidvisory committee to Minton released on bond Attorney: Bailey suspect not flight risk BY SARAH FRIER SENIOR WRITER A Chapel Hill man who inves tigators say helped his son and friends cover up the shooting death of Joshua Bailey is out on bail. Gregory Lee Minton, 41, left jail Monday after a judge reduced his bond from $1 million to SIOO,OOO. Investigators say he provided his son, Brian Minton, with a U-Haul truck to transport the body to the site in Chatham County where police found it Sept 12. ,At Monday’s hearing, Gregory Minton’s attorney, John Fitzpatrick, argued the $1 million bond was higher than court guidelines rec ommend. As Minton’s wife and son are in jail, he’s not likely to flee the area, Fitzpatrick said. But District Attorney Jim Woodall said that by attempting to help the suspects get away with murder, Minton demonstrated a pattern of irresponsibility. www.dailytarheel.com | The state’s minimum annual salary rate for the University is $20,112. Some part-time employees will receive prorated increases based on the new minimum. Thorp stated in the letter that he will continue to advo cate for higher salaries and bet ter benefits to the N.C. General Assembly. Brenda Malone, associate vice chancellor for human resources, said the increase in salary resulted largely from a desire to be compet itive with other businesses. “We looked at the local mar ket, and we tried to come up “I think that demonstrates he would do whatever he needs to protect his son, and I believe that endangers the community,” Woodall said. Bailey, 20, was shot to death on July 29 after six of his friends kid napped him, according to search warrants. They have been charged with first-degree murder and first degree kidnapping in the case. Bailey’s friend from middle school, John Holt, wore a “Justice For Josh” shirt and skipped class Monday to attend the hearing along with Bailey’s family. He wasn’t pleased with the court’s decision. “When you’re involved in some thing like this, there’s no reason why you should be walking the streets and going to the grocery store like everybody else,” he said. Minton’s wife, Mishele Slade Minton, 37, is also charged with SEE BAILEY, PAGE 11 with a number that was driven by looking at local competitors,” Malone said. “A number that we could do with the funds we had available.” Money for the pay increase came from a central pool called the pay improvement fund, Malone said. Employees said the pay increase demonstrates a continued com mitment from Thorp to advocate on their behalf. “All I can say for the chancellor is ‘Hip, hip, hooray,’” said Brenda Denzler, vice chairwoman of the Employee Forum. “The man just keeps doing great things, so let’s hope he keeps this up.” Alan Moran, chairman of the forum’s compensation and wages the chancellor. Members of student government encour aged passing students to write comments and questions for Thorp on Post-its and attach them to the photo. Almost 70 notes covered the giant Thorp photo by the event’s con clusion at 1:30 p.m. See pg. 4 for the full story. DTH/JENN ZENG Gregory Lee Minton was released on reduced bond Monday. Minton is charged with accessory to murder in the death of Joshua Bailey. committee, said the pay increase couldn’t come at a better time for employees making the smallest salaries groundskeepers, house keepers and mail services workers, among others. “The real significance of this is that we can see an economic crunch coming,” Moran said. “Our lowest paid employees incur a higher percent of the cost for food and fuel.” Moran said the pay increase relates to a long-time discussion of the forum regarding employee salaries. , “This is a great step forward,” he said. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. DTH/SARAH ACUFF Election board’s closing of fine meeting was illegal BY ANDREW DUNN UNIVERSITY EDITOR The Board of Elections vio lated state law by shutting The Daily Tar Heel out of a meet ing on campaign fines, several open meetings law experts said Monday. After closing Sunday’s meet ing, the board decided to charge juniors Ashley Klein and Matt Wohlford S4O each for holding on-campus interest meetings and speaking with The Daily Tar Heel in preparation for student body president campaigns. But in shutting the public out without citing a statutory reason, board members broke N.C. Open Meetings Law, which governs every public body. Student government groups were declared public bodies by the N.C. Court of Appeals in 1998. Board Chairman Ryan Morgan said his decision to dose the meet ing was valid because the Student Code allows him to dose meetings. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008 ENROLLMENT GROWTH Politics a factor in UNC growth BOT, legislators not totally aligned BY BRENDAN BROWN PROJECTS CO-EDITOR University leaders are positioned for a potential conflict in coming years with state legislators about how much to grow enrollment. The possibility that UNC- Chapel Hill might one day tighten admissions to maintain academic excellence, despite a state popula tion boom, did not get a warm wel come from legislators in charge of appropriating state dollars for the UNC system. While recognizing the need to maintain academic excellence, leg islators want to get the most out of the huge investment taxpayers have made in UNC-CH. For many of the legislative leaders interviewed, that means having as many open seats as possible for qualified in-state applicants to the University. Rep. Mickey Michaux, the Durham Democrat who leads the state House appropriations com mittee, chuckled at the idea that the Chapel Hill campus might one day resist taking more students. “I don’t think that’s going to hap pen,” he said. “If the state grows, the universities are going to grow. There’s no stopping growth.” If UNC-CH tries in coming years to opt out of increasing enrollment, Michaux said, “The answer would be: You don’t want to grow? Fine. Your budget’s not going to grow. We’ll shift the resources to other schools that do want to grow.’” The UNC system is expected to absorb 80,000 new students by 2017, and the state’s flagship school will have to take a portion of the burden. UNC-CH has set a target for growth from 28,000 to 33,000 students in 10 years. But trust ees have voiced doubts about the desirability of that goal after hear ing a recent presentation showing the damage growth could inflict on the quality of the applicant pool. Administrators and trustees will navigate between keeping the school small enough to preserve quality and convincing legislators that it is responding to the state’s needs. “I’m cautiously optimistic we can do both,” Board of Trustees Chairman Roger Perry said. “If we get to that friction point, then we’ll come to the conclusion you can’t sacrifice quality.” University leaders are aware of the political sensitivities and have several tools to help make the case SEE ENROLLMENT, PAGE 11 p—. DTH ONLINE: view state statues related to public access to meeti/igs. “It looks like we were justified in closing the meeting,” he said. “We’re assuming that everything in the Student Code is legal.” The Student Code lays out! the framework for student government at UNC. In a section about elec tions law, it states that the board has the ability to close meetings. The open meetings statute lays out nine specific instances in which public meetings may be closed and mandates that officials cite their reason before shutting the meeting. On Sunday, Board of Elections members cited only the Student Code provision that allows them to close meetings. But the state law says just the nine instances can legally be used as a justification. SEE BOE, PAGE 11
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