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Volume 96, Issue 44
Monday, September 19, 1988
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Mary White, a junior political science major from
Winston-Salem, demonstrates a routine to
prospective junior varsity cheerleaders in front of
Fetzer Gym on Sunday.
By AMY WAJDA
Staff Writer
The late-night L Route, which runs
from F-Lot on Manning Drive to
Boundary Street from 7 p.m. to
midnight, will be fare-free until the
end of the semester, UNC and Chapel
Hill Transit officials said Friday.
The 25-cent fare charged since the
beginning of the semester was due to
miscommunication between Student
Government and the Department of
Transportation and Parking Services,
officials said.
. "The whole idea of the route was
that it would run until "two in the
morning and that it would be fare
free," said Kevin Martin, student
body president. Student Government
and the Residence Hall Association
(RHA) offered to help finance the
service for one year until the Univer
sity could fit the entire cost into its
budget.
, Transportation officials, however,
said they were not aware that the
service was meant to be fare-free. "We
were under the impression that all
parties involved knew that fares
would be charged," said John
Gardner, transportation planner. "It
was never set up to be a fare-free
service."
Gardner also said that the only
hours discussed were 7 p.m. to
midnight, not 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Martin said he first learned about
the fares and reduced hours on Sept.
9 in a flier distributed in residence
halls. Martin said he told Donald
Boulton, vice chancellor of student
affairs, about the situation the next
day.
Boulton said he didn't know about
the fares. I assumed that when I got
a bill (for the route) that it was
working," he said. "I wouldn't have
gone after the money (from Student
Government) if I knew they would
charge for it."
The transportation department
said Sept. 16 that it would accept
Student Government's $2,000, allo
cated by the Student Congress this
summer, as "pre-payment" for the
fares this semester. The government
has put a hold oh that money,
however, until conflicts over fares and
hours are resolved. .
Despite the hold, fare-free services
until midnight will begin Monday,
according to Bob Godding, Chapel
Hill Transit director of
transportation.
Boulton said that Mary Clayton,
director of transportation, Wayne
Kuncl, housing director, and Chapel
Hill Transit officials are discussing
the feasibility of a fare-free late-night
L Route.
See TRANSIT page 6
FtoDliooini mike may cme
over florae, Harato
say
By JENNY CLONINGER
Assistant University Editor
The tuition increase proposed by
Chancellor Paul Hardin can be
implemented only if there is a change
in the N.C. General Assembly's
appropriations system, Hardin said"
Sunday..
Hardin met Friday with Student
Body President Kevin Martin to
discuss the proposal, but Hardin said
he will, issue no formal proposal
unless the system can be changed. He
said he thinks the legislature may be
receptive to the idea. -
"It's certainly possible," he said.
"Whether, it's likely, I dont know. It
will probably be a long-term propo
sition. I doubt whether students
presently enrolled will see any signif
icant tuition increase."
A major drawback to the tuition
increase is the possibility that state
funding would decrease accordingly,
Martin said "We need to change the
system," he said. "Right now we
wouldn't receive anything from just
raising tuition."
-Tuition is a relatively small percen
tage of UNC'S total expenditures, said
Dennis O'Connor, acting-provost,
but the proposed extra tuition "could
be made into extremely flexible
funds" if the system allowed. Under
the present system, unspent money
is returned to the legislature's general
fund, and tuition is considered
general revenue, he said;
. But changes still require a lot of
planning, O'Connor said. "I think we
have to realize that we haven't had
the kind of sound analysis that will
push this proposal forward."
More budget flexibility could
provide extra funds for UNC only if
the present system were changed,
O'Connor said.
"More flexibility with the money
we have would be very useful," he
said. "If we had more flexibility, we
could plan better budgets."
' Several administrators agreed that
the UNC system's low tuitions area
benefit to students and their parents.
"This has to be one of the best deals
in the country," O'Connor said.
Frederic Schroeder, dean of stu
dents, said, "I think the University
has always had the benefit of a very ,
low tuition that's a very positive
thing. Compared to many other
universities around us, we are very
low in tuitiom It may be a good idea
to look at that. It needs to be looked
at carefully, and I know it will be."
Schroeder said hardship to stu
dents as a result of increased tuition
See TUITION page 8
fydeot leaders work to stop sophomoire parkiiiiiig toim
By JAMES BENTON
Staff Writer
Student leaders are using a decision
to postpone a vote on parking
policies, one of which was a ban on
sophomore parking, to develop
counterproposals to be made later
this month.
. The counterproposals will be made
Sept. 30 when the Traffic and Parking
Advisory Committee meets to discuss
parking and traffic concerns.
Students have also scheduled three
forums this week to get student
. reaction to the proposals.
The student committee members
Student legislature to seod
met twice with student leaders last
week and discussed student concerns.
They are now in the process of
drafting a counterproposal.
After a request from Student
Government, the committee voted
Sept. 8 to delay action on seven
parking proposals. The proposals
include the following:
a a $25 increase in student fees to
pay for additional bus service,-
B a $2 charge on parking in "stra
' tegic areas" between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Monday through Thursday, and
B elimination of resident sopho
more parking, to take effect at the
beginning of the 1989-90 academic
year. Under this proposal, sopho
mores would be eligible for commuter
parking in fringe lots only. If neces
sary, the committee would also
recommend . that restrictions on
parking be extended to resident
juniors.
The proposals are opposed by
student leaders and committee
members, who said Sunday that
eliminating sophomore parking will
not help solve the problem because
sophomores hold so few spaces. They
also said the proposals are worded
so as to take away junior resident
parking.
Student Body President Kevin
Martin said the group was working
to ensure student participation and
to "develop some long-term policies
and solutions to the problem." He
said prohibiting sophomore parking
would not solve or even alleviate the
parking problem.
"Even with the elimination of
sophomore parking, gains by faculty
on North and mid-campus, where
they want to ' park, is minimal,"
Martin said. The number of sopho
mores parking on North Campus
went from zero on Aug.. 5 to 20 on
On-Campus Student Parking
as of 91388
Freshmen
Sophomores
Juniors
Seniors
NorthMid-Campus
0
21
129.
193
South Campus
22
315
426
300
Sept. 13 "and those were probably committee why students need to be
hardship and 'buyback' permits allowed to park. The students are
(permits that were unclaimed)." developing examples of those stu-
Martin said students are working v . .
on presenting different reasons to the See PARKING page 4
coimdom oroposau to state
By WILL SPEARS
Staff Writer
The North Carolina Student Legis
; lature (NCSL), a model of the N.C.
; General Assembly, discussed the
; installation of condom machines in
; residence halls, among other issues,
;last weekend at its first meeting of
; the year.
The group debated issues on
campus, state and national levels at
its meeting at the Institute of
Government.
Members approved a resolution
'calling for the installation of coin
! operated condom vending machines
lin all residence halls on all the
'. campuses in the UNC system.
! Debate on the machines lasted, all
' day, and the resolution was approved
by majority vote.
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NCSL members draw up resolu
tions about political and social issues
and present them to the group
legislature, said Marne Bunzey,
resolutions chairwoman. Members
discuss both sides of the issue, and
a simple majority vote determines
whether the resolution passes, she
said.
If members approve the resolution,
it is sent to the General Assembly and
to other state leaders for
consideration.
The group will send the resolutions
approved last weekend on to the
General Assembly.
Government officials usually
respond, Bunzey said. More than 40
percent of the NCSL's resolutions are
eventually passed by state or national
legislatures, she said.
In other business, the group
approved a resolution that would
allow the Pledge of Allegiance and
its meaning to be taught in public
schools. Members also approved a
resolution calling for the sale of
highway bonds to fund work on roads
in North Carolina.
NCSL, established in 1937, was the
first student lawmaking body in the
United States, Bunzey said. The
group has 80 chartered schools and
nearly 180 members, she said.
A non-profit, non-partisan educa
tional corporation, the group meets
monthly, September through April,
for an "Interim Council." At these
monthly meetings, members debate
and vote on resolutions, Bunzey said.
See LEGISLATURE page 7
Cairrboro festival celebrates
opening of new businesses
By CHARLES BRITTAIN
Staff Writer
The wet weather may have put
a damper on some people's week
end plans, but Sunday's cloudy
skies couldn't drown the festive
spirit of the Celebrate Carrboro
outdoor festival.
Originally scheduled for Satur
day, the rain postponed the festival
until Sunday. Yet the delay didn't
prevent a large crowd from enjoy
ing the event's free food samples,
music, face painting and displays.
Co-sponsored by The Independ
ent and the ArtsCenter, the festival
at Carr Mill Mall celebrated . the
grand- opening of two new
businesses.
Balloons, jugglers and folk music
added to the festive atmosphere
surrounding the official opening of
the Weaver Street Market and
Townsend Bertram and Company.
Carrboro Mayor Eleanor. Kin
naird used the opportunity to
promote Carrboro as "the place to
be" and to discuss plans for the
development of a town commons
near the Carrboro City Hall, which
will include an area for outdoor
concerts and a park.
"Carrboro's cookin'!" Kinnaird
said.
, The openings of Weaver Street
Market and Townsend Bertram
and Co. are part of Carrboro's
efforts, to attract shoppers of all
interests with a unique set of stores,
she said.
General Manager Ruffin Slater
described the Weaver Street
Market as a "community-owned
grocery" with customers and
employees owning shares of stock
and deciding store policy.
Customers who own shares also
receive a 5 percent discount on
most items in the store, while
employees receive a share of the
annual profits.
Slater said he believed the
Weaver Street Market is unique
because it offers products that are
difficult to find in an average
grocery store, including a wide
. variety of all-natural foods and
cosmetics.
Weaver Street Market also sup
ports local farmers and food
producers who refuse to use arti-
See FESTIVAL page 9
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