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LOQUACIOUS LAUREATES: Prize winners to speak CAMPUS, page 5 EIGHT ISN'T ENOUGH: Field Hockey wins ACC again .......SPORTS, page 10 ON CAMPUS Veterans Day observance at 4 p.m. in Polk Place at the flag. Veterans from each war this century will speak. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 C 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 112 Monday, November 11, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NonSporWArtl 962-024) BuslncM Advertising 962-1163 WEATHER TODAY: Partly sunny; high mid-50s TUESDAY: Sunny; high near 60 University SAT iest in ByBethBroodno Staff Writer UNC-CH freshmen had the h ighest average SAT score this year of all freshmen at system schools, accord ing to a report released Friday by the Board of Governors. PmtthmMi at IJNCPH nvpmtxvl 1,120 out of a possible 1 ,600 on the Town may increase role in approval of UNC developments By Kelly Ryan Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council will seek a larger role in reviewing town development proposals in accordance with rules established by the state. Council members hope such an ac tion, which will be voted on Wednes day night, will allow them to comment on all proposed projects to state offi cials, who must approve proposals based on regulations listed in -the-Environmental Policy Act. The issue of acquiring greater con trol was first raised in July when council member Joyce Brown requested infor mation on the state policies. Part of the importance of the request was the im pact state environmental policies had on University developments. Town Manager Cal Horton said that although the council would not have the leverage to veto a proposal approved by Heat seekers 4 .?as"?s t3 A In Freshmen Eric Thomas and Robert "Fuzzy" Lee try to beat the rainy, cold weather by warming their hands during Saturday night's football game against Clemson. Feds crack By Susanne Borchert Staff Writer After Chancellor Paul Hardin threw a cocktail party honoring UNC-CH's new vice chancellor for business and finance in 1989, the University sent the federal government the bill. UNC-CH billed government research projects for several receptions in 1989 and 1990. The overcharges of other universities such as Stanford and Duke were even higher. Last year the U.S. House of Repre sentatives formed a subcommittee to investigate overhead abuses to find out why federal research funding had risen while the number of grants declined. After John Dingell, D-Mich., chair man of the Subcommittee on Oversight Investigations, announced the investi gations, UNC-CH administrators re viewed expenditures for the last four years. Administrators find mischarges Wayne Jones, associate vice chan cellor for finance, said University offi cials found $ 1 1 ,500 in questionable costs system Scholastic Aptitude Test. This repre sented an increase of 65 points for the University since 1981. The N.C, School of the Arts fol lowed UNC-CH with an average score of 1,054. Winston-Salem State Uni versity ranked the lowest of the sys tem schools with an average freshman See SAT, page 4 the state, it would have the chance to comment to the State Clearing House on environmental effects. "The council would not have any veto power," Horton said. "It would have the opportunity to make comments and suggestions." Council member Joe Herzenberg said that there probably would be University officials who would resent the council's increased influence but that the town council did not want to control Univer sity projects. - "The town does not want the right to say 'yes' or 'no,'" he said. "We want to know what's going on. That's impor tant leverage." Herzenberg said that a concrete re view system of University projects was necessary because it would keep the lines of communication open between the town and University planners. See ENVIRONMENT, page 4 on J DTHKathy Michel 0) I down on research overcharges SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT related to research, or three-tenths per cent of UNC-CH's $34.6 million over head costs reimbursement. Meanwhile, Duke University has agreed to repay more than $81,000 in mischarges money that was meant for research expenses but was actually spent for wine, flowers and entertain ment. Indirect or overhead costs are the expenses of running a business. For universities they include costs such as utilities, library services, student ser vices and maintenance of laboratory buildings and offices. Overhead costs are refundable by the federal govern ment when they are related to federally sponsored research. Every year the University's Office of Business and Finance and the Depart ment of Health and Human Services, the federal agency that oversees the hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can. jranei! Educators suggest waiting By Ashley Fogle Assistant University Editor UNC-system schools should concen trate on maintaining undergraduate ex cellence rather than expanding their graduate offerings, a panel of educa tional consultants told the UNC Board of Governors Friday. The panel, composed of two univer sity presidents and two past presidents, formulated their 92-page report after it Seeing the light The UNC jazz Lab Band jams to the tunes, A Train," Thursday night in the Union Cabaret. The band, led by music department Women may occupy renovated dorm By Jennifer Talhelm Staff Writer Old East and Old West are tradition ally men's residence halls, but that tra dition may change in 1993. Female students might have the chance to move into one of the two dorm itories for the first time when reno vations are completed and the buildings reopen in 1993. "The question is, if we're going to spend $4.2 million on renovations, why should we reopen them both as men's halls?" Housing Director Wayne Kuncl said. Both residence halls now are under going renovations and will reopen as part of the University's Bicentennial Celebration. Old East is the University's oldest building and has been declared a historical landmark. Construction of Old University's research accounts, negoti ate the overhead reimbursement rate. The University's indirect cost receipts for the past fiscal year, which ended on June 30, totalled $34,586,186. This was a reimbursement rate of 44.5 percent, which means the Univer sity billed about an additional $44,500 for every $100,000 in federal research funding. The investigations of the House sub committee first uncovered mischarges at Stanford University, where the re sponsible federal agency found over head charges for donated silverware, expenses associated with a 72-foot yacht, a grand piano and an antique toilet. Stanford's overhead reimbursement rate had been 70 percent one of the highest before the federal govern ment cut it to 53 percent because of overbillings for expenses not related to research. "Vague" federal guidelines The federal government has guide lines for excluding items in the calcula tion, such as fund raising, public rela reviewing the mission statements of the 16-system schools. The financial problems of expanding graduate offerings could hurt under graduate work, the panel members stated in their report. "For that reason we are urging that the programmatic scope of the institu tion, particularly at the graduate level, not be expanded at the expense of its high quality work in the humanistic, social sciences and health-related disci 4 o 1 o including Duke Ellington's classic "Take the West was completed in 1822. Kuncl said Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for student affairs, first men tioned the idea to him last week. "He asked me to determine the opin ion of my staff, RHA (the Residence Hall Association) and the Housing Ad visory Board," Kuncl said. "He asked us to find out what our desire is and what the general consensus is on cam pus." Officials haven't arrived at a deci sion yet, Kuncl said. "It was purely a question posed at that time." Christy Pons, RHA co-president, said she had mixed feelings about the idea. "Part of me says women should be made a part of it and part of a new tradition," Pons said. "The other part of me says it is tradition, and they should remain all men's halls." Pons said she and RHA Co-president tions, investment management and en tertainment. "In many instances the definitions for cost exclusions are vague, leading to disagreements concerning what is 'ap propriate' versus what is 'illegal,'" wrote Ben Tuchi, the University's vice chan . cellor for business and finance, in a memorandum to deans, directors and department heads in September. Critics, however, question whether administrators need someone to tell them that donated silverware or expenses re lated to a university-owned shopping center, such as in Stanford'scase, should not be on an overhead receipt bill. UNC-CH maintains separate ac counts for costs that ought to be ex cluded from its bill to the federal gov ernment. "However, no such system is failsafe," Tuchi stated in the memo. With 500,000 transactions a year, a few that should be excluded wind up in the bill, he wrote, adding that some legiti mately refundable costs are erroneously excluded in the calculation. See OVERHEAD, page 5 ndergradls first to expand grad programs plines," the report states. The proposal will beevaluated by the BOG planning committee before it is considered by the entire board. Charles Evans, BOG member and planning committee chairman, said the proposal was not meant to be detrimen tal to graduate programs. "I understand it to say that before we build and pursue new doctoral programs we have to be sure undergraduate teach ing should be as excellent as possible," o lecturer Keith Jackson, played a variety of jazz numbers, ranging from big band swing to new funk, and the performance allowed various soloists to take the spotlight. Scott Peeler discussed the idea with Boulton, Chancellor Paul Hardin and Student Body President Matt Heyd. "They didn't pose an opinion," she said. "(Hardin) just mentioned you have to make the bathrooms suited for what ever sex you have living in the hall. That 's not a problem right now. They're making things very neutral." Nick Fitzsimons, a former Old East resident and a sophomore from Char lotte, said it would be a good idea to open one of the dormitories to women. "It's a perfect spot on campus," he said. "It's kind of chauvinistic to have all guys living there." Kuncl said Old East and Old West were part of the Spencer Triad resi dence area, and dormitory government members there opposed the conversion of one of the buildings to a women's hall. "They felt they wanted them to main tain men's halls." Price calls for health care system 'overhaul' due to exorbitant costs By Eric Lusk Assistant State and National Editor America's burdened health care system demands a complete overhaul because of its increasing failure to provide the nation with adequate ser vices at reasonable costs, U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C. said Saturday. Skyrocketing medical fees, decreas ing efficiency in distribution and ris ing insurance rates have fueled discus sion for a national health care system. Price told approximately 120 people at the Olin T. Binkley Memorial Bap tist Church in Chapel Hill. In the past year. Congress has de bated a number of proposals which would place health care responsibili ties ultimately in the hands of the gov- Dwight D. Eisenhower he said. "The consultants have reacted against doctoral programs in several institu tions because they do not think those programs are cost wise or would be effective at this time," he said. The panel reviewed requests for 300 new degree programs at the 16 system schools, 20 of which were from UNC CH. The group recommended that 1 3 of See BOG, page 3 W V DTHAndrewCline Pons said the change would make the Spencer Triad area predominantly fe male and could cause problems for the area government. "It's hard to get people to come to programs when it'snotamixed group," she said. Jenny Sunday, a Mclver resident and area social chairwoman, said she wanted the two halls to remain men's halls. "I think they should stay all guys because they have always been male and because we have no guy dorms in our area," she said. Seema Khatri, a Mclver resident and Spencer Triad area lieutenant governor, said she could see advantages to both sides. "I would like for (men) to be in our area, especially because there are no men in our area right now," she said. "(But) I think it would be great for them to be one women's and one men's dorm. It'll be a change from tradition. ernment. Price said. "Incremental changes are in sufficient given the staggering magnitude of the problem, and I believe anything less than an over haul of the health David Price care system will fall short of the mark," Price said. Although America leads the world in medical research and technology, the nation lacks adequate procedures to distribute services to needy citizens See PRICE, page 3
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