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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 97, Issue 106
Friday, January 12, 1990
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By SARAH CAGLE
Assistant University Editor
The University has initiated across-the-board
restrictions on spending and
hiring in the wake of a $2.8 million cut
in state funds for this financial quarter.
The restrictions will be similar to
those of last spring, w hen a $3 million
cut in state funds forced a spending
freeze.
University officials learned early this
month from the state budget office that
for the third quarter they would receive
$13.2 million instead of the projected
$16 million. This follows a $600,000
cut from last quarter's funds.
The state's deficits are a result of
unexpected expenditures such as the
$20 million aid for victims of Hurri
cane Hugo and Iower-than-expected
revenue from the tax amnesty program.
"The fact of the matter is that the
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By CHRIS HELMS
Staff Writer
Freshman applications to UNC
dropped by almost 5 percent in 1989
after two years of record-setting highs,
according to Anthony Strickland, as
sistant director of undergraduate ad
missions. The decline is mainly the result of a
decrease in the number of high school
seniors nationwide, said Strickland.
"We are supposed to be about two
thirds of the way through a precipitous
decline in the number of high school
seniors."
The drop in applicants to UNC mir
rors a national trend, said Gillian Cell,
dean of the College of Arts and Sci
ences. Cell cited an article in the Chron
icle of Higher Education that reported
falling high school enrollment through
out the '80s and expectations that col
lege enrollment will fluctuate in the
early '90s before rising in 1995.
Strickland said he expected the cur
Downtown mosqjoe
By CAMERON TEW
Staff Writer
Muslims in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
are one step closer to having a perma
nent place of worship, since plans to
build a mosque and Islamic Center near
downtown Chapel Hill were approved
Tuesday.
The Chapel Hill Planning Board
voted 8-1 to approve the site plan for
the project. The plan comes under the
town's Site Plan Review and cannot be
sent to the Chapel Hill Town Council to
deal with opposition from neighboring
residents.
UNC's Student Muslim Association
will build the Islam Center, mosque
and a small house on a site off Stephens
Street, across from the Chapel Hill
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A reluctant mob of students slowly files through the doorway on a
balmy Thursday afternoon on their semi-annual pilgrimage to the
cut hits home at UNC
state's financial difficulties are reflected
in our difficulties," said Ben Tuchi,
vice chancellor for business and fi
nance. "The problem is a partially
cumulative effect (from both quarters)."
University budget officials told deans
and department chairmen in a meeting
Thursday that they would face a 12
percent cut in non-salary expenditures.
"It is indeed very serious," said Provost
Dennis O'Connor. "We have curtailed
spending, period."
Tuchi said areas most likely to be
immediately affected by this reduction
included travel expenditures and utili
ties usage. He said the merit-pay plan
for employees would not be affected
and officials were not contemplating
any layoffs.
"We'll cooperate as best we can,"
said Thomas Clegg, chairman of the
physics and astronomy department.
rent decline to continue before leveling
out in 1992.
Although the overall number of
applicants is down, the number of black
applicants rose 1 2 percent (from 1,236
in 1988 to 1,334 in 1989) while the
number of black applicants accepted
declined 7 percent (from 750 in 1988 to
646 in 1989). Cell said the decline in
the number of accepted black appli
cants was because of a decline in the
quality of the black applicant pool.
Despite the numbers for 1989, Cell
said minority admissions had increased
over recent years. Cell also said reten
tion of black students increased over
last year. Of the 77 freshmen declared
academically ineligible after the fall
semester in 1988, 39 were black stu
dents, while there were only 22 black
students among the 54 freshmen de
clared ineligible after last semester, Cell
said.
"We are continuing improving aca
demic support services to the students."
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Municipal Building. The Islam Center
will be used primarily by Muslim stu
dents attending the University.
Qasem Shehadeh, a member of
UNC's Muslim Student Association,
said a mosque in the Chapel Hill
Carrboro area would be more conven
ient for the town's Muslim population.
There are two mosques in Durham and
one in Raleigh where Muslims from the
Triangle area attend services.
The project is scheduled to be built
over the next 15 years in four phases,
said Runyon Woods, who is designing
the project. "We will try to finish the
architectural drawings in the next three
to four months and begin building by
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"The deans assured us they' 11 help out."
Clegg said he hadn't had time yet to
decide how his department would re
spond, but he doesn't foresee a great
impact for his department because cuts
were somewhat anticipated. "We've
made an effort to spend as intelligently
as possible. We could be in worse
shape."
Lawrence Gilbert, chairman of the
biology department, said his depart
ment would cooperate with the restric
tions. "Everyone just accepts it as a
fact," he said. "We don't like the freeze
obviously, but as it was explained to us,
the state really is in financial trouble."
Several department officials said they
were more prepared to cope with the
spending restrictions than they were
last spring.
See CUTS, page 13
The University has a number of
programs to promote minority enroll
ment, said Harold Wallace, vice chan
cellor for University Affairs. He said
UNC representatives visit as many
secondary schools as they can, promote
campus visits for prospective students
and hold workshops for guidance coun
selors. Although the University has no spe
cific quota for minority enrollment,
Wallace said that the unstated goal was
to bring University enrollment levels in
line with population percentages in
North Carolina. He said black enroll
ment in freshman classes had been more
than 10 percent throughout the last
decade and as high as 15 percent some
years.
Wallace said the way to increase
enrollment was to reach students early
enough to convince them to take college-track
courses. "If I had my great
est wish, it would be to do more for the
seventh- and eighth-graders."
nveoi so-ahead
the summer.
Some neighboring residents argued
that the project would add noise prob
lems to the neighborhood through the
calls for prayer proceeding each of the
five daily worship services at the
mosque, and the project could cause
traffic and parking problems on
Stephens Street and Airport Road.
Two residents requested that the
planning board table the project and
turn it over to the town council for final
review, but the board refused to do so.
The complex qualifies as a church
under the town building ordinances and
meets all of the stipulations in the town's
zoning ordinances, according to town
planner J.B. Culpepper. The Planning
Board may only consider whether plans
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attended the festivities. See story, page 7.
Expenses, low revenue
By WENDY BOUNDS
Staff Writer
Gov.' Jim Martin faces a $170 mil
lion budget revenue shortage as the
new decade rolls in.
Unexpected expenses, dwindling tax
revenues and fickle consumer spend
ing have forced North Carolina to join
the ranks of other states experiencing
budget problems this fiscal year.
The state will be $170 million short
of its total allotment for the 1990-9!
budget, said Jeff Merritt, press secre
tary for the governor.
'The state's General Fund is short
this amount for its $12.6 billion annual
budget."
The General Fund comprises all
income and sales taxes received by the
state and covers all budget expenses
except for highways, which are sup
ported by a separate fund.
Wallace said he would like to get
young students to "think of college f rst
and Carolina second."
Freshman SAT scores rose to 1 109
(up from 1 101 in 1988), continuing a
five-year trend, Cell said. Although
N.C. SAT scores are the worst in the
nation, UNC students made a strong
showing among high SAT scorers. Of
the 878 students with a SAT score
higher than 1200,641 weie fiom North
Carolina.
Cell said that while the good SAT
scores show there is a strong applicant
pool in the state, the national statistics
about SAT scores are misleading. She
said that in other states, fewer students
take the SAT, and those who do take it
are likely to be college-bound.
In other areas, applications from N.C.
men decreased by 197 from 1988 and
by 50 from N.C. women.
Out-of-state applications dropped by
4.55 percent.
comply with zoning ordinances.
Woods said he expected the decision
the planning board made. "I wanted to
look out for my clients' interests, and
the planning board did the correct thing
in approving the site. I am pleased with
the outcome."
Jerry Edwards, a junior from Chapel
Hill, said he was in favor of the project.
"The main problem I think that the
community could have is that it is a
'foreign' religion to the majority of
people in Chapel Hill. If it was a well
known religion like Baptist there would
not be much opposition to it."
The domed mosque will include a
sanctuary and a prayer tower. The Is
lam Center will include a library and
meeting room.
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The unexpected cost of Hurricane
Hugo drained this fund, Merritt said.
Lower Christmas sales tax revenues
and a decrease in gasoline purchases
put a strain on the state as well.
The decline in new car sales due to a
recent car tax hike may have also added
to this revenue shortage, according to
David Prather, Martin's deputy direc
tor of communications.
Whatever the cause of the revenue
shortage, its effects are already taking
their toll.
State agencies usually return to the
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Georgia Tech's Theresa Gernatt
Kennedy. See story, page 9.
Education school's
dean resa
By TOM PARKS
Business Editor
Frank Brow n, dean of the School of
Education since 1983, announced his
resignation over the holiday break.
Brown tendered his resignation Dec.
1 8, but will not resign his position until
June 30, when he will return to full
time teaching and research at the Uni
versity. Brown said Thursday that he wanted
to move on to research, and when he got
the opportunity he decided to move on.
"I'm pleased with the things we have
been able to accomplish during my
administration extremely pleased."
Brown received an offer for a re
search grant from the Carnegie Corp.
of New York late last year. Brown
talked with UNC Provost Dennis
O'Connor about the offer. After decid
ing to accept, he tendered his resigna
tion. "I took some time to consider the
offer, and I decided to take it."
Before Brown became dean seven
years ago, the School of Education fnd
gone through five deans and interim
deans in 10 years.
O'Connor said Thursday that the
members of a search committee for the
next dean of the School of Education
would probably be announced some
time next week.
Chancellor Paul Hardin will appoint
the new dean in consultation with the
committee and the provost.
While the committee will work to
find a new dean by July I, O'Connor
said it might not be realistic to expect
the new dean be appointed by then.
create crisis
government unused funds totalling $ 170
million to $ 1 75 million each fiscal year,
lliey will not be able to do so this year.
Because of the unexpected expenses
and other economic burdens, the state
government reduced third-quarter allo
cations to state agencies by $26 mil
lion, said Marvin Dorman, state deputy
budget director.
'This average 2.5 percent decrease
in allotments per agency is in addition
to the normal allotment reductions we
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"That's optimistic, but we'll certainly
work toward that," he said.
O'Connor said that while he had not
been expecting Brown to resign, Brown
had told him that he wanted to return to
other academic pursuits.
"He and I had a number of conversa
tions in which he indicated a serious
desire to get back to teaching and re
search," O'Connor said.
Brown will take advantage of a two
year grant from the Carnegie Corp. to
study the effectiveness of federally-
See BROWN, page 13
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