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Thursday, June 16, 1988
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By SUSAN HOLDSCLAW
Staff Writer
Some UNC students may be sur
prised to learn that on-campus fall
semester room rents are due today,
because many students say they did
not receive the bills until a week
before the deadline.
Students say they received their
bills June 8 or 9, almost a week after
a representative of the University
cashier's office said they were mailed.
The Department of University
Housing sent room assignment no
tices to students at the end of May,
but the words, This is not a bill,"
were printed at the bottom of the
letter. On June 3, the University
cashier's office mailed the official bill
for the fall room rent, said Collin
Rustin, associate director of Univer
sity housing.
Rustin said giving students one-and-a-half
to two weeks to pay the
rent was standard procedure.
The room assignment notice said
failure to pay the amount indicated
by June 16 would result in a can
cellation of the student's housing
contract. Students who paid a $75
deposit in February before the lottery
lose $25 of that as a forfeiture charge
if the department cancels their con
tract, Rustin said. Students who used
deferment cards to pay the deposit
will be charged $25 for the cancel
lation, he said.
Catherine Womble, teller-clerk
supervisor in the University cashier's
office, confirmed that the bills were
mailed June 3.
Anna Campbell, a rising junior
from Sherrills Ford, said she received
her bill June 8. Although she had no
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"We try to get the bills out as soon as possible, and
hopefully, students will have two weeks to pay them,
(but) when you're dealing with 7,000 students, there are
some that get lost in the processing. "
Wayne Kuncl, UNC housing director
problems making the payment, one
week may not be enough time for
other students, she said.
Many students may be on vacation
or must have their mail forwarded
to them because they are not living
at home this summer, so paying the
rent on time may be a real problem
for them, she said.
Actually, Rustin said, students may
have some leeway on the June 16
deadline. He does not receive a list
of delinquent accounts from the
cashier's office until June 22, so
students have an extra two to four
days to pay the bill before the cashier
compiles the list, he said.
After receiving the list of students
who have not paid their rent, Rustin
said the housing department waits to
cancel their housing contracts. Hous
ing department officials first send
letters to students notifying them that
their.rent is past due, he said.
The housing department will allow
"at least one week and more often
two" weeks for a reply before it
cancels a student's contract and
assigns another student to that room,
Rustin said.
He added that he would deal with
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rather are sizing the carpet for a room in the
basement of Peabody.
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individual situations when students
miss the deadline.
Only a small number of excep
tional situations exist, he said. "One
situation makes you feel like the
process isn't working when in fact,
it works very well."
Housing director Wayne Kuncl
emphasized that the housing depart
ment mailed only the room assign
ments. The billing process is the
responsibility of the University cash
ier, he said.
When asked why the bills could not
be enclosed with students' room
assignment notices, Kuncl replied
that the housing department "works
closely with the cashier's office and
looks for ways to improve the
process."
Consolidating the billing and room
assignment procedures is not as easy
as it might seem, said Rustin. "Com
bining the two is logistically impos
sible," he said.
Because the cashier is the Univer
sity's billing agent, it is necessary to
separate billing and room assign
ments to keep the process accurate
with University fiscal management,
he said.
Hearing
for police officers
By MARK EVANS
Staff Writer
A hearing scheduled for June 8 to
resolve the grievances of 14 Univer
sity police officers has been post
poned until July 7, despite the
complaints of the officers' lawyer.
The officers claimed the University
police department did not give them
the opportunity to apply for 12
promotions when it reorganized in
June 1987. Several officers accused
Chief Charles Mauer and Robert
Sherman, director of the public safety
department, of favoritism and racism
in hiring practices.
The officers asked the University
to reverse the reassignments. A three
member committee would have heard
the officers' complaints before mak
ing a recommendation to the
chancellor.
The officers' lawyer, G. Nicholas
Herman, charged last week that UNC
had not told him of the delay in the
hearing. But University Personnel
problem
"We try to get the bills out as soon
as possible, and hopefully, students
will have two weeks to pay them,"
Kuncl said. As for students who are
left with only a week to pay the rent,
he said, "When you're dealing with
7,000 students, there are some that
get lost in the processing."
Scott Residence College Governor
Brian Sipe, a rising senior from
Hickory, said he also received his bill
on June 8. He normally receives mail
from Chapel Hill in one day, he said.
Because he is one of the 67 men
from Teague Residence Hall who was
reassigned to a different hall for the
upcoming academic year, he said his
room rent is not due until July 1.
Although he also received a letter
informing him of the reassignment at
the end of May, the housing depart
ment is giving all former Teague
residents some extra time to decide
if they want to accept the new room
assignments, he said.
Sipe said he thought the housing
department should have sent the bills
out in May, but he understood what
housing officials were trying to
accomplish by mailing the bills later,
leaving some students only one week
delayed
Director Jack Gunnells said Herman
was told of the delay on June 3. UNC
had received paperwork from Her
man only five days before the hearing,
leaving the University short on
preparation time, he said.
At a June 8 press conference,
Herman said he had heard nothing
until June 7 about the hearing being
postponed.
William Campbell, chairman of the
Staff Grievance Committee, released
a statement later that day noting that
he had been out of the state because
of a death in the family and he had
not had an opportunity to prepare
for the hearing. He added that if he
had been in town, he would have
postponed the hearing on his own
initiative. Because he had not been
able to review the case, he said he
needed to study the issues and the
notebook of materials provided by
Herman.
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for some
to pay.
"(The housing department) is
concerned with students using the
system to pay two against one," he
said. Many students who are success
ful in the lottery are also looking for
apartments to see which option is the
better deal, he said, so the housing
department is trying to force these
students to decide where they are
going to live. The sooner the depart
ment knows who is going to cancel
University housing contracts, the
sooner it can begin to place students
on the waiting list in those rooms,
he said.
The system helps to process the
waiting list faster and to filter out
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In This Issue
Freshman housing
news page 3
Cat's Cradle
to move page 4
Town
council page 4
Business page 6
"Bull Durham"
review page 8
Joe Bob pages 9, 10
Movies page 12
Music page 13
Crosswords,
comics
pages 15, 18, 19