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Copyright 1987 The Daily Tar Heel
Volume 95, Issue 2
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Student Union worker Leo Wagoner uses his
car keys to scrape ice from his windshields
University advisers slide
By DEBBIE RZASA
Staff Writer
The inclement weather forced
administrators and advisers to leave
campus early Monday, causing many
lone secretaries to assume control in
University offices.
ln my office I'm the only one
here," said Lois E. McKoy, secretary
for the vice chancellor of student
affairs. "Five people have already left
and four did not come at all."
Two assistant deans of students
never reported for work Monday
because they feared the bad weather,
McKoy said.
UNC-system President CD.
Spangler also left work early at the
Report identifies financial aid problems in federal
By JUSTIN McGUIRE
Staff Writer
The federal government must
make higher education more acces
sible to students, according to a
report on federal financial aid com
piled by the University of North
Carolina Association of Student
Governments.
The report, released Monday by
UNC's Student Government, will be
the basis of a trip to Washington by
UNCASG representatives later this
week, out-going Student Body Pres
ident Bryan Hassel said Monday.
The report identifies four "prob
lem areas" in .federal . government
which keep higher education from
Tuesday, February
wishing he had
the trunk of the
General Administration Building,
and by 4 p.m. no one was answering
the phones in his office.
However, some administrators
braved the elements. Howard Henry,
Carolina Union director, said only
one of the Union employees left early.
Gloria Thomas, a clerk typist in
the department of University Hous
ing, said 12 staff members reported
Monday morning, but all but four
had gone home by 1 : 15 p.m. She said
she hoped to leave soon.
The scarcity of advisers in Steele
Building caused minor problems for
some students who waited until the
last minute to drop classes or declare
them pass fail. The deadline to make
being accessible to students and
offers solutions to them, Hassel said.
Representatives from at least eight
schools in the UNC system will meet
individually with North Carolina
congressional representatives and
senators this week . to present the
report, Hassel said. The students will
meet with Sen. Terry Sanford, and
they may also meet with Sen. Jesse
Helms, Hassel said.
The purpose of the trip is to urge
the federal budget committee to allot
more funds for educational spending,
Hassel said. , The message, as specif
ically outlined in the report, is the
importance of making education
accessible, he said. :
Chapel Hill,
DTH Charlotte Cannon
removed his ice scraper from
car before it froze shut.
out early
such changes is Tuesday.
As a result, long lines formed in
the offices of the few advisers left in
the building. In most of the empty
offices, signs were posted telling
students to go to another adviser if
their advisers had left because of the
weather".
Donald C. Jicha, associate dean
of the General College, said he was
one of the few people available at
3:30 p.m. to grant requests to drop
a class.
IVe been very busy today," Jicha
said. "1 expect to be here very late.
1 started around 9:30 this morning
See ADVISERS page 4
The trip could have some impact
on legislators, Hassel said. "Students
don't come to speak with them
(Congressmen) too much, so I think
Neither sleet
If you trudged through the snow
and ice for an early morning class
today, you went without a Daily
Tar Heel clutched within your
frozen fingers.
Because of the weather, the
paper showed up late today. The
Chapel Hill Newspaper which
prints the DTH was unable to
print the paper until 7:30 this
17, 1987
North Carolina
Maurtiie
ffecraesus imm.
UNC-systtem
By JO FLEISCHER
Assistant University Editor
The budget Gov. Jim Martin
presented to the N.C. General
Assembly Monday falls short of the
requests made by the Board of
Governors for the UNC system's 16
universities. But CD. Spangler,
UNC-system president, told the
board Friday that he is confident the
governor's request will provide an
"excellent point of departure" for the
legislature to work with during the
budget process.
- Martin reduced the board's bien
nial request for an operations
increase of $168 million to $37
million. A $252 million increase for
capital improvements at UNC
system universities was. cut to $62
million.
Jay Robinson, who represents the
UNC-system in the state legislature
as vice president of public affairs, said
the governor's recommendation was
"substantially lower" than the board
had requested. Although the system's
budget isn't being cut, it is being
increased less than the system would
like, he said.
Also, what the General Assembly
actually appropriates for the UNC
system during its 1987 session may
be much higher than what the
governor recommended, Robinson
said.
"We hope the General Assembly
can do more than (Martin) recom
mended," Robinson said. "It's a
reasonable point to start from, and
we will be trying to get as near as
possible to what we requested."
At the meeting Friday, Spangler
told the board its request for a 5
percent salary increase for all
employees under the State Personnel
Act was cut to 4.5 percent. A similar
this will really catch their eyes," he
said.
Four issues are examined in the
report:
nor ice can freeze the DTH
morning, and the DTH couldn't
be delivered until after 10:30 a.m.
And you're reading a four-page
paper with no ads because of other
weather-related complications. We
reduced the number of papers
printed since we knew delivery
would be difficult. To be fair to
our advertisers, we , couldn't run
paid ads with such low circulation.
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slashes
increase for University employees
who are exempt from the act was not
met at all, he said.
Last year, North Carolina teachers
and community college employees
received a 4.5 percent pay hike plus
a "longevity increase" for those in
tenured positions an additional
hike of up to 4.5 percent, Robinson
said.
If the General Assembly doesn't
appropriate funds in addition to the
4.5 percent hike this year for univer
sity employees not covered by the
Personnel Act, they will be losing
ground on the pay scale compared
to other state employees, he said.
However, Spangler made it clear
to the board that he favors Martin's
increased attention to the public
schools, and he wants the system's
universities to get their funding
without hurting the public schools.
"The schools and the universities
are partners bound together by
common interests and common
responsibilities," Spangler told the
board. "We will be a participant in
the common effort to strengthen the
schools."
Robinson said only three of the
10 requests to increase funding for
new university programs were
granted. For 19871988 the board
requested $81 million for new pro
grams, but Martin recommended $16
million.
Gov. Martin did approve more
funding for operations costs caused
by enrollment increases and a system
wide program to strengthen liberal
arts instruction, Spangler said.
But Robinson said among the
. seven new items not recommended
were funding requests for new corn
See BUDGET page 2
government
B President Reagan's proposed edu
cation budget, which would cut
See REPORT page 2
As the snow and ice fell harder
and harder, student hopes that
classes would be canceled Tuesday
rose higher and higher.
Alas, Chancellor Christopher
Fordham gave the final word at
8:30 Monday night that classes
were on for today. Sorry, but you
didn't find out until it was too late
anyway. Right?