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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 99, Issue 56
Monday, August 19, 1991
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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iegMatare raises toition
Tuition compromise reached in state budget accord
ByJoAnn Kodak
and Lauren Chesnut
Staff Writers
UNC-system students can expect to
pay 20 percent to 25 percent more in
tuition under a state budget accord
reached in July by a N.C. Senate and
House conference committee after
weeks of debate.
Tuition for in-state students will in
crease 20 percent at those universities
offering doctoral programs UNC
CH, N.C. State University and UNC
Greensboro from $645.50 per year
to $774.50. Out-of-state students will
pay an additional 25 percent, from
$5,313 to $6,641, per year.
Campuses offering only baccalaure
ate and master's degrees will have tu
Council rebuffs
South Loop plan
By Amber Nimocks
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council re
fused to add the South Loop Road to the
Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Thor
oughfare Plan at its last meeting of the
summer July 8.
Council member Julie Andresen
voted against the resolution, which
would have made the proposed road
eligible for state funding, citing a lack
of consideration of alternative routes
and inadequate traffic studies.
"Shouldn't we analyze the whole
(South Loop) plan before we put it on
the thoroughfare plan?" she asked dur
ing the meeting.
Council members Joyce Brown and
Joe Herzenberg also voted against the
resolution.
Brown said construction of South
Loop would destroy neighborhoods in
its path, creating an irrevocable loss to
the town and the University.
Mayor Jonathan Howes and council
members Roosevelt Wilkerson, Al
Rimer and Art Werner voted to add
South Loop to the thoroughfare plan.
According to council rules, regular
ordinances require five votes a ma
jority of the nine-member council to
be adopted. Council members Nancy
Preston and Jimmy Wallace did not
attend the meeting.
Since the council voted not to add
Summer Student Congress
resolves to end CGLA funding
ByJJ.Warlick
Staff Writer
At its first meeting of the summer,
the Summer Student Congress passed
a resolution May 21 to end student
funding of the Carolina Gay and Les
bian Association.
The resolution, which put the opin
ion of the summer congress on the
record, was meant to encourage the
full Student Congress to provide no
student fee money to the CGLA dur
ing spring budget hearings, said
Speaker Tim Moore, the bill's pri
mary sponsor. Last year the CGLA
received about $2,000.
The resolution passed 8-5 with one
abstention.
Moore said the CGLA advocated a
sexual lifestyle that is illegal under the
North Carolina "crimes against na
ture" law. The UNC Student Govern
Faculty Council reforms
By Matthew Elsley
Associate Editor
The Faculty Council considered abol
ishing the passfail grading system dur
ing a two-hour debate at its April 26
meeting before adopting a compromise
allowing students to take up to 1 1 class
hours on a passDF basis.
Students will be allowed to take one
academic course and one physical edu
ition hikes of 15 percent for in-state
students and 12.5 percent for out-of-state
students.
The tuition figures adopted were those
offered by the House, said Rep. Joe
Hackney, D-Orange, chairman of the
conferencecommittee. The increase will
generate $31 million for the state.
"Basically, the Senate came to the
House position, and the House (pro
posal) was adopted," he said.
The Senate proposed increases of 40
percent for in-state students and about
18 percent for out-of-state students.
UNC system vice president for pub
lic affairs and chief lobbyist Jay
Robinson said he was pleased that the
increase for in-state students amounted
to only 20 percent but said he was
disappointed at the 25 percent figure for
South Loop Road to the town road plan,
the University will not be granted state
Department of Transportation funds to
construct the road.
Ben Tuchi, UNC vice chancellor for
business and finance, said UNC would
find another way to finance South Loop.
"Over the next 15 months, we will
prepare an alternative approach," he
said. "It will probably be financed as a
capital project."
Some council members said they
were concerned about the lack of com
prehensive University studies on the
road's impact on traffic or on the natural
environment in the area.
Tuchi said these studies were unnec
essary at this point because the
University's Land Use Plan, which in
cludes the South Loop proposal, is a
general plan, and construction of South
Loop would not begin for at least five
years.
"It would be unwise to take these
expensive measures on a project that is
five to 10 years off," he said.
As it is proposed, the South Loop
Road will destroy seven to 1 1 units in
Odum Village, the University's mar
ried student housing complex, Tuchi
said.
An alternative must be found for
Odum Village to make room for devel
opment of the medical complex on South
See ODUM, page 11A
ment Code prohibits congress from
funding organizations that promote il
legal activity.
"I'm not trying to make a moral judg
ment," Moore said. "I'm simply trying
to adhere to the letter of the law."
Opponents of the resolution said con
gress should not assume the CGLA
promoted homosexual sex.
"This is not a group called the 'Anal
Intercourse Club,"'said Andrew Cohen,
Dist. 6 "An argument can be made that
this is a viable group on campus and that
it serves an educational purpose."
Several days after the meeting, con
gress members Cohen and Michael Kolb
filed a lawsuit against Moore question
ing the legality of his appointment of 1 1
people to summer congress.
Student Supreme Court Chief Jus
tice Mark Bibbs responded to the order
See CGLA, page 11A
cation activity course PDF in a given
semester if they are taking at least 9
academic hours for credit. The inclu
sion of the "D" grade was designed to
encourage students to perform at least
C-minus work.
The council also gave professors the
right to know how many students but
not which ones are taking their classes
PDF.
Dietrich Schroeer, chairman of the
out-of-state students.
"I'm not by any means advocating
that in-state should go up at the expense
of holding out-of-state down, but . . . we
need to be in a position to get the best
out-of-state students we can," he said.
"That's especially true in the gradu
ate schools. If you're going to have a
quality research university, you need to
recruit nationwide," Robinson added.
"Many people in North Carolina don't
seem to understand and appreciate that."
Vice chancellor for business and fi
nance Ben Tuchi said he did not think
the out-of-state increase would cause
the UNC-CH student to become less
diverse geographically.
"I think tuition may be, at least at
these levels, price inelastic, and so I
don't think it will affect the enrollment
Pop-a-doodle-doo!
One of the 5,000-plus UNC gradautes celebrates her achievement by uncorking a bottle
of champagne as she marches into Kenan Stadium for the Class of 1 991 commencement
Tim Moore
passfail with PDF, 11
council'sEducationPolicyCommittee,
told the council that the passfail system
needed amending because it was being
routinely abused.
On the committee's recommenda
tion, the council decided not to adopt a
"target grade" system, whereby students
could aim for a certain letter grade and
receive it if they earned it, or else simply
get a pass or fail grade.
Also on the committee's recommen
They're ba-ack.
from out-of-state. Secondly, I think,
compared with other states, we are not
high.
'The problem may be that the out-of-state
students, as well as the in-state,
had enough advance warning to know
that a tuition change was going to come
but wouldn't know exactly what it was
until they received their supplemental
bills, so there may be some difficulty in
ability to pay the bill when due," Tuchi
said.
The money raised will be disbursed
to the campuses according to enroll
ment increases. Because UNC-CH has
a voluntary enrollment cap. University
officials have criticized this plan be
cause the University may not benefit
See TUITION, page 11A
6 UNC administrators to leave
By Amber Nimocks
Staff Writer
A number of vacancies in UNC's
administration will keep search com
mittees hard at work in the coming
months, finding permanent replace
ments for administrators who have
traded their University positions for re
tirement, jobs in the private sector or
positions at other institutions.
Dennis O'Connor, provost
O'Connor, UNC's provost and vice
chancellor for academic affairs, will
resign Sept. 1 to become president of
the University of Pittsburgh.
O'Connor called becoming president
of the University of Pittsburgh the op
portunity of a lifetime, but said leaving
UNC would be a bittersweet experi
ence. Budget difficulties facing the Uni
versity were not a factor in his decision
to accept the University of Pittsburgh's
offer, O'Connor said. He said he would
have taken the job even if UNC was not
having problems with funding.
William Little, a University distin
dation, the council decided against ex
tending the PDF option to summer
school and agreed not to tamper further
with the PDF system for three years,
by which time enough data on the new
system's effectiveness should have been
compiled to allow re-evaluation.
Chancellor Paul Hardin said, "It
would seem to me, without an extensive
study of the subject, that the faculty
made some good decisions."
'Poltergeist'
20-25 B
I Flexibility pi
ByJJ.Warlick
Staff Writer
The N.C. General Assembly passed
a bill in July designed to allow the
University more flexible management
of its budget.
The legislature will grant General
Fund appropriations in a single sum to
designated schools in the UNC system.
The campuses would then spend their
quarterly allotments on budget sections
as they see fit.
Jay Robinson, the UNC-system vice
president for public affairs and chief
lobbyist, said, "It will be a tremendous
change, and it is a great victory for the
University system."
With spending flexibility, chancel
lors will have more power to allocate
ceremony. An estimated 35,000 family
graduation exercises.
guished professor of chemistry, was
appointed interim provost by Chancel
lor Paul Hardin.
Paul Rizzo, business school dean
Rizzo, dean of the business school
since September 1987, will retire at the
end of the next academic year.
Rizzo had planned to leave at the end
of this year, but will remain to finish his
five-year term as dean and to continue
his work on the construction of the
Kenan-Flagler School of Business.
O'Connor said a nationwide search
for Rizzo's replacement will soon be
underway.
John Sanders,
Institute of Government director
Sanders will remain on the faculty of
the Institute of Government but will
retire from the director position July 1,
1992.
Sanders, who has held the director
ship since 1979, is a history specialist
and helped guide the restoration of the
capitol building. He also served as
UNC's vice president forplanning from
1973-78 and was a professor of public
-hour option
The previous passfail system allowed
students to take up to seven hours in a
semester on a passfail basis, and lim
ited to 24 the total passfail hours stu
dents could count toward graduation.
The Education Policy Committee,
dubbed the "passfail committee" by
some, spent the school year evaluating
the passfail system and developing rec-
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money to areas they feel need it most,
Robinson said.
The fiscal accountability and flex
ibility section of the budget will allow
the UNC Board of Governors to desig
nate one or more institutions in the 16
campus system to receive the special
spending power. The bill does not limit
the number of campuses that can be
chosen.
UNC and General Assembly staffers
have predicted UNC-CH and N.C. State
University will request and receive the
spending authority since they are the
two largest schools in the system and
are mo. e research-oriented than the oth
ers.
Ben Tuchi, UNC-CH vice chancel
See FLEXIBLE, page 11A
members and friends attended I
law and government at the Institute.
O'Connor said the search for Sander's
replacement would be statewide be
cause the institute is a unique North
Carolina institution.
John Turner, social work school
dean
Turner will retire from hisposition as
Dean of the School of Social Work in
See STAFF, page 11A
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CAMPUS
Business school receives $10 million
donation for new building 2A
Controvesia I Davis Library statues moved
to less conspicuous place 3A
ARTS
Layton Croft takes a look at Ice-T's new
est album 5A
Ian Williams reviewed a plethora of
movies this summer 7A
OPINION
Student Congress resolution toend CGLA
funding sparks debate 1 3A
SPORTS
UNC Lacrosse defeats Syracuse for
NCAA title 14A
Classified 10A
Comics 11A
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