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VOLUME 116, ISSUE 97 Dive Party ¥ I diversions | page 7 PARTY TIME AGAIN Diversions is proud to host its fifth Dive party THIS SATURDAY at the Local 506. Don't miss it. national | page 15 ON THE ISSUES See where the candidates for N.C. governor, Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue and Charlotte Mayor Rat McCrory, line up on health care. [TO national | page 3 GET OUT THE VOTE Students stage a 'march to the polls" from the Pit to the voting site at Morehead Planetarium to encourage early voting. online | dailytarheel.com FEMALE LEADERS of campus groups discuss hov they can collaborate. WANDERING FELINES are causing problems for somi Carrboro residents. this day in history OCT. 23,1994... A fire occurs on the fifth floor of Hinton James after a toaster oven overheats and ignites a bag of groceries. £ feu* J7f ELECTION COUNTDOWN 9 days left of early and one-stop voting. For Orange County locations and times visit co.orange.nc.us/elect/ onestop.asp#locations. ELECTION DAY: NOV. 4 Today’s weather * Sunny H61.L44 Friday’s weather Sunny H 68, L 59 a index police log 2 calendar 2 nation/world 13 crossword 15 opinion 16 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 (The Daily ®ar Meet Exhibit draws heated response BY MEERA JAGANNATHAN STAFF WRITER William and Jeanette Schultz stood beside 18-foot panels adorned with grisly images of dead human fetuses Wednesday, talking to students who passed by the graphic display. “We see the young girls who are being lied to and pushed into the abortion centers by their fathers,” Jeanette Schultz said. “We’re here because we want to save anyone else from that.” The Schultzes, married for more than 40 years, give sidewalk counseling outside abortion clinics in Raleigh. They came to UNC to take part in an anti-abortion dem onstration in Polk Place sponsored by Carolina Students for Life. The group obtained $5,000 from Student Congress in September to bring the exhibit, created by Kansas based anti-abortion group Justice for All, to campus. Built 10 years ago, the exhibit has been to more than 75 campus es, including N.C. State University earlier this week. The reaction among UNC stu dents was overwhelmingly negative. Many questioned the display’s effec tiveness in sparking dialogue. First-year Jaime Willett said she thought the demonstration foiled to address the “gray area” of the issue. “I believe in free speech and all of that, but I feel like this is all ill informed propaganda,” she said. Members of abortion-rights groups also appeared at the exhibi- SEE ANTI-ABORTION, PAGE 13 Grad students fear for safely BY ELIZA KERN STAFF WRITER Two years ago, Derek Smith stayed late on campus one night to work on his thesis an aver age evening for the fifth-year classics Ph.D. candidate. But Smith’s night took a down ward turn when he left the build ing and entered the pouring rain to find his bike stolen and the lock cable cut. “It was a very sucky night,” he said. Because graduate students are particularly prone to work late hours and live off campus, many don’t feel safe as they traverse deserted parking lots and toil in libraries through the night. In response, administrators and the Board of TYustees have called for a committee to inves tigate safety issues specific to graduate students. The committee hopes to final ize a report to present at the Nov. 19 Board of TYustees meeting. Student Body Vice President Todd Dalrymple said the com mittee which will begin meet ing in the next few weeks will include trustees, graduate school administrators and students. Its investigation will first focus on getting a representative sense of graduate students’ opinions on campus security. “We don’t have any specific examples,” said Steve Matson, dean of the Graduate School. “It’s not motivated by an incident. It’s Parents put less away for college BY GREG SMITH STAFF WRITER # Facing increased financial dif ficulties across the board, some parents are choosing to curb or suspend saving for their children’s college education. “We’re going to reflect the state of the economy no matter what If people are having trouble saving, they won’t be saving as much,” said Ben Kittner, a spokesman for College Foundation of North Carolina. A recent study showed a 16 percent increase since 2007 in the number of parents not saving any money for children’s college education 43 percent of the 800 families surveyed. “We’re entering into a col lege financing crisis,” said Peter Mazareas, vice chairman of the College Savings Foundation, www.dailytarheel.com Jp x* LI&fMTTr KS Vi At - v . HAHnnnLI *■ BAgy •• w&'Wm IjAHi MKi ike. SSSk, BAfap " L Jr -JS&m p I LTjW'' an J W* JjpBHIt WmM DTH/ALEXANDRA CAGAN Students gather around the 18-foot-tall anti-abortion exhibit in Polk Place. Carolina Students for Life coordinated the exhibition with Justice for All, a Kansas-based organization. Many students engaged in heated discussion with demonstrators on Wednesday. The exhibit will be back today. DTH PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW DYE Many graduate students work and research late in buildings and labs such as Caudill Labs (pictured). A committee assembled by the Board of Trustees and UNC administrators is investigating graduate safety. motivated by the chancellor stat ing he thinks this needs to be a safe campus.” He said graduate students have safety considerations apart from the larger undergraduate student body. Some have been unnerved by homeless people sleeping in labs and libraries, said Theresa Mcßeynolds, which led the study. Mazareas said the economic downturn, rising unemployment, the loan industry’s collapse and escalating college tuition costs are setting the conditions for an “almost perfect storm.” College tuition is increasing ly expensive and is sometimes unpredictable, making it even more difficult for families to know how much to save when they can. “Colleges and universities have been hit in their endowments and operating budgets as well,” Mazareas said. The amount of money invested in state 52 9 plans investment plans composed of stock portfo lios that allow families to save for college without paying taxes on SEE SAVINGS, PAGE 13 graduate student representative of the student advisory committee to the chancellor. She said she has spoken with several students who have reported incidents of suspicious activity while they were working late on campus. “When they’re there late at night, anyone can come in,” she said. “Those are the kinds of issues DE Wilson’s seen his fair share of hits, too BY MIKE EHRLICH SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR After North Carolina’s foot ball season took a serious hit last week at Virginia, it was junior defensive end E. J. Wilson who was rallying his teammates, helping them try to recov er and bounce back. SPORTSATURDAY: Read more about the defense and UNC’s prevent game plans. After all, Wilson has come back from worse. By the time he was a 12-year old growing up in Emporia, Va., he had become a regular customer at the local emer gency room. He’s been belted in the forehead by a baseball bat; SEE WILSON, PAGE 13 we’re going to be addressing.” Anyone can use Davis Library until it closes. The Undergraduate Library is open 24 hours on week days, though patrons need a One Card between midnight and 7 a.m. Even though they check One Cards, it’s impossible to complete- SEE SAFETY, PAGE 13 A A&fl DTH FILE/DAVID ENARSON Defensive end E.J. Wilson has seen plenty of off-field injuries he doesn't have too many cat lives left, anyway. "Probably two," he said. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008 Hikes could impact school Students: Not all get tuition help BY ASHLEY BENNETT STAFF WRITER Graduate students say tuition hikes will have negative reper cussions on the Graduate School even though administrators have said raising their tuition wouldn’t squeeze student budgets. A hike could decrease the money departments allocate to graduate students, and incoming students could be priced out of UNC. v; Some graduate students ar concerned about affordabil ity after the tuition advisory force proposed several tuition increase options during its meet ing Monday. The proposals call for increases of up to SSOO for both resident and nonresident graduate tuition. Last year, resident graduate student tuition increased by S4OO and non resident tuition by SBOO. Some members of the commit tee said the tuition increases will have little effect on graduate stu dents, since many receive tuition reimbursement. But Steve Matson, dean of the Graduate School, disagreed. Matson said only research assis tants, teaching assistants and predoctoral fellows are eligible for tuition remission reimburse ment for tuition costs. Eligible students in master’s pro grams are allotted four semesters for tuition remission, and doctoral stu dents are allowed up to 10 semes ters. After the allotted period, stu dents must pay their own tuition. ■ Srinath Jayaram, a Ph.D. caa didate in the communication studi ies department, said he is worried because his 10 semesters will bit completed after this year. . 2 “If you start your master’s pro gram that takes two years, and thtA you have just three years for your Ph.D., which is really not he said. “So I’ll have to start payrttg SEE TUITION, PAGE 13
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