The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, December 2, 19863
assel considers 2nd term
By JO FLEISCHER
Assistant University Editor
Student Body President Bryan
Hassel said Monday he had not yet
decided whether he will run for re
election as student body president
a job he called "all-consuming.
All elected student leaders, includ
ing the president, are eligible to run
for re-election, according to the
student constitution.
Hassel, the first sophomore
elected UNC student body president,
would also be the first to hold the
office twice if re-elected, according
to 44 A History of Student Govern
ment at UNC-CHby Albert Coates.
Hassel said he has thought of
running again, but added he had not
made a choice yet. "It's a big
responsibility," he said. "There are
still things 1 want to do, (as SBP)
but there are also other things
like spending some leisure time
playing the guitar, watching ball
games or w hatever it is people do."
One of the reasons Hassel said he
School board debates teacher file policy
By MICHELLE EFIRD
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro School
Board introduced a proposal Mon
day to change its policy allowing the
superintendent of schools certain
discretion over information con
tained in teachers' personnel files.
As it stands, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
superintendent has the right to
determine what complaints, sugges
tions or commendations from citi
zens are put into the teachers'
personnel files.
Superintendant Gerry House
introduced the legislation because
she said the policy did not comply
with the state attorney general's
interpretation of the personnel files
law.
The board first examined its policy
after a citizen suggested Chapel Hill's
interpretation of the law might not
agree with the state's interpretation.
Honor Court
he noticed similarities in the two
programs. Lattanzi then referred the
programs to Weiss, Gordon said.
Jeff Reichard, acting as defense
attorney, said Idol's and Fries'
programs were similar because both
students were in the same recitation
section and they both received help
from lab assistants in Phillips Hall.
Also, Reichard said Idol and Fries
had no motive to copy each other's
programs because both were doing
well in the class and they could drop
their lowest program's grade.
The four Honor Court members,
who along with Johnston would
decide the case, then heard Lattanzi's
testimony. While reading Fries'
program, Lattanzi said he began to
feel like he had seen it before. He
said he went back through the
programs and found Idol's.
"Each program solves the problem
in exactly the .same way," he said.
The approach to the problem, the
order of the statements and the
mistakes in the programs were the
same, he said. "The heart of the
programs are virtually identical."
Memorial service to be held Monday
for UNC professor of anthropology
A memorial service for Roy
Dickens Jr., a UNC professor of
anthropology and director of the
anthropology research labs who died
over the summer, will be held
Can you
afford to gamble
with the LS AC GMAT,
GRE,or MCAT?
Probably not. Great grades alone may
not be enough to impress the grad
school of your choice.
Scores play a part. And that's how
Stanley H. Kaplan can help.
The Kaplan course teaches test-taking
techniques, reviews course subjects, and
increases the odds that you'll do the best
you can do.
So if you've been out of school for a
while and need a refresher, or even if ,
you're fresh out of college, do what over 1
million students have done. Take Kaplan.
Why take a chance with your career?
CLASSES NOW FORMING
2634 Chapel Hill Boulevard, Suite 1 1 2 Durham, NC 27707
(919)489-8720 (919)489-2348
Mon.-Thurs. 9:30-9:00, Fri. 9:30-5:00, Sat. & Sun. 10-6
ran for president as a sophomore was
to give him the option of running
again. Other campus organizations
have had effective leaders who were
re-elected, he said. At that time he
thought it might be effective to
remain president for two years, he
said.
The year as student body president
has brought both successes and
problems, Hassel said. He cited a
proposed student credit union which
could be in operation by next fall,
a new student minority recruitment
program and the ouster of ARA
Food Services as successes.
The problems have been mostly
organizational being able to
delegate responsibilities to focus
fully on important issues is one
example, he said.
"Student empowerment" was the
major theme of H asset's campaign,
and problems still exist there, he said.
"It's hard to say 'Yes, students have
(power) now, because it's hard to
measure."
but House said she did not know
the circumstances under which the
question was raised.
The attorney general's office
interprets the law differently from
the school system. House said. It says
that a superintendant does not have
the right to decide what goes into
personnel files.
Instead, any and all comments
received concerning an employee
must be placed in the file, she said.
House said the Institute of
Government concurred with the
state attorney general's interpreta
tion, which was submitted to the
board shortly after the citizen's
inquiry.
Under state law and local policy,
the teacher involved has a right to
respond to remarks made and the
original filer has the right to see the
response.
When Gordon asked Lattanzi if
lab assistants could have given the
students enough information to
make the programs identical, Lat
tanzi replied, "Not to this level."
When Court justice Anne Patte
son asked how often individual
pieces from one program could be
substituted into another program, as
could be done with Fries' and Idol's
programs, Lattanzi said it was "close
to zero that you can do that."
Gordon also asked: "On a scale
of one to 10, what are the chances
that these programs could have been
written independently?"
Lattanzi replied, "I'd have to say
about a one. It's extremely unlikely."
The Court then heard testimony
from Weiss, who said the programs
were identical line for line.
"I'm not so interested that every
thing is done on the straight and
narrow," Weiss said. "1 want them
to learn what's going on."
"Doing well on exams is a good
indication of people who know what
they're doing," Weiss said. Both
students said they did well on the
Monday, Dec. 8.
The service, sponsored by the
research laboratory, will be in
Gerrard Hall at 3 p.m.
nn
LIU
STANIEY H. K APIAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER LTD.
DON'T COMPETE WITH
A KAPLAN STUDENT-BE ONE
Empowerment issues, like divest
ment, haven't been fully successful,
but he said inroads have been made.
Last year's replacement of ARA as
the on-campus food service showed
how students could effect changes
through advocacy and by combining
the resources of student organiza
tions, Hassel said.
"It's a long process, and we build
on the past," he said. "Now, the next
time the food service contract comes
up, students' power is going to be
affecting them like we haven't before.
In the future the administration is
going to be more careful to include
students."
If a prospective candidate asked
Hassel for advice about running for
student body president, he said he
would tell them to do it. "They
should contemplate it, because it's
a great experience, but the warning
I'd give the caveat is that it's
all-consuming of both your time and
mental energy," Hassel said.
An incumbent has some advan-
Personnel files are only open to
the superintendant of the school
system, the personnel officer, the
employee and the principal of the
school at which the teacher works.
The main motivation for introduc
ing the legislation was not because
teachers in the school system had
received many complaints but to
make sure local policy adhered to
state policy, House said.
She said the school system did
have one case concerning a personnel
issue where the citizen had a clear
intent of pursuing the case outside
the school system, but declined to
comment further.
Although the vote was unani
mous, the board had mixed opinions
of the proposal. "It could create an
overload in the personnel depart
ment," chairperson Sue Baker said.
"It's bad for teachers that a letter
first exam in the class.
While Honor Court members
flipped back and forth between the
students' rough drafts and their
original final programs the
professor had returned photocopies
to Idol and Fries Reichard
pointed out what he said were similar
errors. The errors in the final
programs were not contained in the
rough drafts, so the two must have
collaborated, he said.
Idol and Fries maintained that the
differences between their rough
drafts and final programs were the
result of using the rough draft as a
blueprint to do the program, not as
a final copy in itself.
"When youVe got the program on
the screen and that's what you are
going to turn in, it'd just be useless
to go back and add (the corrections)
to the rough draft," Fries said. v-
The two countered charges that
the wording of some parts of the
programs were similar, saying logic
and the limitations of the computer
would dictate using different
wording.
In her defense statement, Fries
said she could see how the programs
were similar, but countered that they
had not worked together. The
programs were similar, she said, but
Our Chopped Sirloin is more than
a 1A pounder. More than ground
beef. Here's real Sirloin. Lean
and cut fresh from the finest
grain-fed Western beef. Aged,
seasoned, and made daily.
Served with hot bread, baked
potato or French fries.
324 W. Rosemary
V"- i
V ,
I J
o
, " . .. - vf
II
Bryan Hassel
tage in winning the race, but Hassel
said he feels that he had the advan
tage last year. "I'm open to attacks
on my record," he said. "Last year
I was a sophomore, and no one knew
who I was, but now they'll think of
all the things IVe done wrong."
has to be put in personnel files that's
unfair," she said.
House said that, if applicable, she
could attach a note to the comments
saying she had no reason to believe
the allegations were valid.
In other business, the board
adopted a resolution calling for
Orange County legislative members
to consider legislation that would
exempt public school systems from
paying sales tax.
The school system ought to be
entitled to the same sales tax exemp
tion policies of counties and munic
ipal governments and the same tax
refund policies of charitable institu
tions and private schools, board
members said.
Some money paid in sales tax does
come back to the school system, but
what it can be spent on is very heavily
stipulated, Baker said.
from page 1
only because the two had the same
thought processes nurtured by the
same computer lab assistants, the
same teaching assistants, and the
same worksheets.
Idol said the charges against them
were "purely circumstantial and
coincidental. Clearly, I (neither) gave
nor received unauthorized aid on this
exam."
When Idol and Fries, along with
defense attorney Reichard, gave the
rest of their defense, they first
centered on the differences in the
programs. Since so much of the
programs were different word
choice for example they couldn't
have copied, they said.
Idol pointed to a typographical
mistake. "This further pushes the
point that I did it on my own because
I made a dumb mistake," she said.
"I wouldn't have made that mistake
if I had copied.r
The similar structure of the pro
grams came simply from both of
them piecing together the most
logical way from worksheets, books,
and advice from the professor, lab
and teaching assistants, they said.
The limitations of the computer
language, Pascal, also contributed to
the apparent similarites of the
programs.
On Special
Tuesday and
Wednesday
1 1 am-4 pm
Only
$J99
Includes Our
Soft Serve
Dessert And
Topping Bar
St.
942-1816
Chapel Hill plunges
into insurance pool
By DAN MORRISON
Staff Writer
Although no claims have been
settled yet, one Chapel Hill official
said he is pleased with a "pooled"
insurance option adopted Oct. I and
with the money it is saving the town.
Chapel Hill has become part of
a growing national trend the
pooling of insurance premiums
among municipalities. The city
joined the Interlocal Risk Financing
Fund of North Carolina (IRFFNC)
Oct. 1 in the face of soaring premi
ums with private companies for
workers compensation, police and
public official liability and auto
liability.
"We had two motives for going
with IRFFNC," Chapel Hill Finance
Director Jim Baker said Monday.
"One was that it was the only
program we could go with that
wasn't exorbitantly priced like the
private companies. The second was
that we know, from having dealt with
the IRFFNC with our auto insu
rance in the past, that our involve
ment will be successful over the next
five years."
IRFFNC links together 165
municipalities in North Carolina.
Each chips in premiums to cover
common insurance costs in a com
prehensive policy, thereby lowering
the individual cost for each
municipality.
The North Carolina League of
Municipalities organized IRFFNC
in 1985 to give cities an alternative
to high-priced coverage from private
insurers.
"I know that one town in North
Carolina paid a $250,000 premium
for $500,000 worth of coverage this
year. That's just out of the question
for Chapel Hill," he said.
In early September, when Chapel
Hill needed to renew its policies, a
debate centered on whether the town
RHA
Housing on student needs and
concerns, we shouldn't be getting
advice from whom we're supposed
to advise," Jones said.
In looking for a replacement, he
said RHA wanted someone who
would recognize the necessity of
RHA's independence from the
Housing Department.
However, he said, "We didn't look
for anyone that was sympathetic to
our philosophy or to Housing's.
"(Chamberlin is) someone who's
interested in students, and appre
ciates student initiative," he said.
Chamberlin said as adviser he
mainly provided RHA with the
needed authorization to maintain
University recognition. "At this
point it's more of a title than
anything else," he said.
"(RHA) did not ask him to
commit to anything much," Jones
Open Every Day Mon.-Sat. 8-8, Sun. 1-8
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY
Immediate and confidential treatment for:
Injuries and Illnesses "Routine Gynecological Care
Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
151 Rams Plaza, Chapel Hill, NC 968-1985
(10 Student Discount With This Ad)
r
AvcescMmoJsSiop
147 E. Franklin
15 OFF
Any Stuffed Toy
(with this coupon)
Offer Expires: Dec. 3, 1986
i .
All ABC
Permits
Dell
Sandwiches
Burgers
J6IL-
RESTAURANT
Free Order of
Fries w Purchase
of Sandwich
Please present coupon when ordering.
One coupon per customer.
310 W. Franklin St.
933-3767
should contract with a private or a
public company.
Based on Chapel Hill's small size
and the high premium rates of
private companies, it decided to go
with the IRFFNC
The municipal pool pays out the
money themselves in case of a claim.
Baker said. Chapel Hill hasn't settled
any claims over the last two months,
but some are pending, Baker said.
Pooling of insurance premiums is
not confined to small towns, he
added.
"Even some of the largest cities
in North Carolina, like Raleigh,
Winston-Salem and Fayetteville, are
participating," Baker said. "It's a
national 'phenomenon due to the
insurance market price hike."
UNC business professor Finley
Lee also cited the increased costs of
coverage over the last decade.
"For automobile liability, high
premiums are a function of the
increase in the number of automobile
accidents as well as the increase in
the cost of auto parts," he said. "For
workers compensation, it is the cost
of hospital benefits and prices that
drives premiums up.
"Basic inflation comes into play
as well," he said.
But some major cities in North
Carolina have found it better to
become self-insured rather than deal
with group insurance policies, which
can't tailor to the types of coverage
provided to each town's
specifications.
Greg Bethey, assistant town man
ager of Durham, said Monday,
"Durham decided to become self
insured in 1985 because it offered
greater control over our liabilities.
"We (Durham) had talked about
joining the IRFFNC early on, but
we felt a self-insured policy was the
best thing for us."
from page 1
said, "because we don't need much
in the way of an adviser."
Since Chamberlin became faculty
adviser, Kuncl, who was RHA's
adviser for a year, said his direct
exposure to RHA has been limited
to regular meetings with Jones.
He said he was unable to tell how
the adviser replacement affected his
overall relationship with RHA.
Jones said there has been little
change in the relationship between
Housing and RHA. "We have the
same amount of inroads to Housing
as we had before," he said.
j
RHA still has the same input from
Housing as last year, Jones said, i
As adviser, Kuncl had the oppor
tunity to give RHA reports on the
department during meetings; as
director of housing, he retains that
privilege, Jones said. -
Glenn A. Withrow, M.D.
Jerry W. Withrow, M.D.
Susan Petay, P.A.
I
929-9584
i
i
i
I
Eat In
Take Out
Appetizers J
I
I
I
I
I
I
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
i
i