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Volume 100, Issue 38
Thursday, May 28, 1992
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
E E K I Y SUM
TOW,
Officer:
By Anna Griffin
Associate Editor
; Despite a last-minute attempt by a
University lawyer to have the case dis
missed, the grievance complaint of UNC
Police Officer Keith Edwards will goto
trial June 22 in Orange County Superior
Court in Hillsborough, five years after
it was filed.
. Edwards is seeking $250,000 in dam
ages and is charging seven present and
former UNC administrators with racial
and sexual discrimination.
At a May 22 pre-trial hearing, Supe
rior Court Judge Gordon Battle rejected
UNC lawyer Lars Nance's motion to
dismiss the case because of lack of
evidence. Battle also rejected Nance's
request to push the trial date back.
'The plaintiff has failed to prove that
there was a triable offense committed
against her," Nance said during the pro
ceedings. "There has been no proof
presented that constitutional depriva
tion occurred."
Nance said that the none of the defen
dants meant to harm Edwards or keep
her from getting a promotion she claims
was denied to her because of her gen
der. He also said that the chancellor
should not have been held responsible
for the actions of his subordinates.
Edwards, the first black female of
ficer hired at UNC, contends that dur
ing a June 1 987 police department reor
ganization, she and seven other officers
were denied promotions because of their
race, and that UNC administrators later
retaliated against her for speaking out.
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Low faculty compensation hurts UNC's academic standing
By Jennifer Friedman
Staff Writer
Because UNC offers comparatively
low salaries and benefits for its faculty,
hiring and retaining quality instructors
is becoming increasingly difficult, Uni
versity officials said this week.
"Carolina is becoming fair game as a
place to raid for good faculty and pro
fessional staff," said Ben Tuchi, outgo
ing vice chancellor for business and
finance.
In a study released this month by the
American Association of University
Professors, UNC ranked 35th among 53
top public and private institutions in the
amount of compensation including
annual salary and benefits given to
professors. UNC ranked 33rd for asso
ciate professors and 47th for assistant
professors.
General College to test peer advising program in fall
Administrators, student
By Dale Castle
Staff Writer
Imagine knowing the ins and outs of
Carolina your first semester on campus,
with an upper-class student providing
advice and helping you adjust to college
life.
For incoming freshmen, that image
may become a reality as the University
begins a new peer advising project.
Five volunteer General College ad
visers and 10 students, selected after a
thorough interview process, will work
together to advise students on both aca
demics and college life, said Assistant
General College Dean Kathleen
Benzaquin, who initially proposed the
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Edwards charges retaliation
UNC Police Officer Keith Edwards
said that a memorandum she received
upon returning to work after her recent
appearance in Orange County Supe
rior Court was an effort by the
University's new director of police
and public safety to punish her.
When Edwards returned to work
May 22, her supervisor, Capt. Paul
; Caldwell, gave heramemo from Alana
Enn'ts, the newly appointed police
chief, reminding her to turn in a leave
card the next time she needed a day
off. Edwards, whose five-year-old
grievance against the University goes
to trial June 22, said the memo was
meant to discourage her.
"You have to get vocal or written
permission to take aday off,"Edwards
said. "Captain Caldwell told mel could
have the day off. That's all that was
required,"
Edwards said that even though
Caldwell, her direct supervisor, gave
her vocal permission, she still had
planned to fill out the leave card. But
: when she went to get one, none were
available.
She alsocharges that Chancellor Paul
Hardin and his assistants took great
pains to settle grievances involving
white male officers, while she has re
ceived little attention.
Attorney Alan McSurely, acting on
behalf of Edwards, voluntarily dis
missed a motion that would have al-
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UNC ranks 1 9th among the 27 AAU
member public schools in professor sala
ries and benefits.
The average compensation for a pro
fessor at UNC was $77,300, while the
average among all 53 schools studied
was $86,889. UNC professors earn
$9,500 less than their counterparts at
the University of Virginia, while asso
ciate professors make $3,000 less and
assistant professors garner $5,300 less,
the report states.
"These statistics show we are not
doing too well against our competi
tion," said Tim Sanford, UNC director
of institutional research. "This is the
group we generally compete against for
faculty, so if we're in the lower half,
we're not as likely to get the people we
want."
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leaders hope to have
idea.
This fall's program will be a pilot
project, with all those involved working
toward the establishment of a full-time
program beginning in the spring.
"One of the best ways that I found
students get information is through
peers," Benzaquin said.
Student advisers will assist their peers
in filling out paperwork and will en
courage them to talk to faculty advisers.
Two years ago, Benzaquin estab
lished a student advisory committee
with representatives from the freshman,
sophomore and junior classes.
"We're looking at ways to enhance
the number of students that would make
use of the advising system," she said.
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to get on with it and get on out of here. N.C. Rep. Martin Nesbitt, D-Asheville
want is
"University officials are very upset s
with me because I did not settle out of
court," she said. "I expected a lot of :
things to happen to me before the
court date. But I didn't expect any
thing this soon."
Ennis, who took office May 4, said
the reminder was part of the new
office leave policy and had nothing to
do with Edwards' grievance against
seven present and former UNC ad
ministrators. "Everybody has to turn in a leave
card," Ennis said. "That's something
that is very new here. It's departmen
tal policy."
Ennis said that despite Edwards
claims to the contrary, she had not
received instructions to retaliate
against her from either Carolyn
Elfland, an associate vice chancellor
for business who had served as in
terim chief, orChancellor Paul Hardin
"I view (the grievance) as some
thing that has gone on before I ar- .
rived," Ennis said. That's between ;
her and the University."
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lowed her to claim emotional damage in
addition to the $250,000 she already
has demanded. But Edwards still could
claim emotional distress as part of the
discrimination suit, McSurely said.
Edwards said that if the Superior
Court jury finds against her, she will
take her case to the U.S. Court of Ap
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full-time program established by next spring
Rashmi Airan, a rising senior, and
Kerri Prinsen, a rising sophomore, were
on the committee and helped compile
the proposal.
Prinsen, a native of Chicago, said she
didn't know much about UNC before
she came in her freshmen year and that
a peer adviser would have been helpful.
"I didn't always have an upper-class
friend that was in my major," she said.
Airan, who is from Miami, Fla., said
the new program would be an important
addition to the advising system. "There
are certain things students know better
than advisers," she said.
Donald Jicha, dean of the General
College, said he liked the idea of testing
a peer advising system, but remained
justice'
peals. If the appel
late court rules
against her,
Edwards said she
would go to the
Supreme Court.
"I've put my
faith in God," she
said Monday.
"God will be with
me June 22, he'll
be with me if we
Keith Edwards
go to the Court of
Appeals and he'll still be with me if we
have to go to the Supreme Court."
Last fall, UNC offered to settle the
case for $50,000. But even with the high
cost to both her and McS urely, Edwards
said she would not be satisfied until she
heard a final verdict.
"All we want is justice," she said.
"That's something money can't buy. I
will not be satisfied until I achieve jus
tice or the U.S. Supreme Court tells me
I'm wrong.I'm all loaned out. I cannot
obtain any more loans. But my faith is
strong. I'm not going to let something
like money hold me back."
McSurely said he would call 25 wit
nesses to the stand, including the seven
defendants: Hardin, outgoing Vice
Chancellor for Business and Finance
Ben Tuchi, former UNC Police Chief
Charles Mauer, former Associate Vice
Chancellor for Business Charles Antle
Jr., former interim Police Chief John
DeVitto, former public safety Director
Robert Sherman and former UNC per
sonnel department official Dan
Burleson.
SHS may
By Peter Wallsten
Editor
UNC officials should shut down the
Student Health Service in-patient care
program if use of the facility does not
increase after about one year, according
to a report from the University's inter
nal audit department.
"If the losses incurred by the in
patient servicecannot be overcome, then
the service should be discontinued and
the space used by other SHS sections,"
internal audit Director Edward Capel
wrote in a May 15 letter to UNC Vice
Chancellor for Business and Finance
Ben Tuchi.
SHS Director Judith Cowan said she
was confident the use of in-patient ser
vices, or services rendered to patients
who spend nights in the facility, would
increase if the state approved the licens
ing of 1 5 hospital beds at Student Health.
The new designation would benefit stu
dents and increase use because the pre
vious designation infirmary or special-use
beds limits reimbursements
from insurance companies, she said.
By increasing utilization, in-patient
care could become self-supporting and
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skeptical that it would succeed.
'A student that gives bad advice is
not held responsible, but an adviser that
gives bad advice is," he said.
Although the peer advising program
has been successful for pre-law and pre
health students who have yet to declare
their majors, the General College's large
size and broad scope may inhibit the
success of a peer advising program,
Jicha said.
But Benzaquin, who will oversee the
program, said she had total confidence
in the students.
"I believe through the interview pro
cess that we would be able to find stu
dents that would put the time in, would
show up, would be committed."
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UNC in
fee 6tug-of-war
By Peter Wallsten
Editor
Student programs at UNC are get
ting caught in the middle of a "politi
cal tug-of-war" as the Board of Gov
ernors tries to strike a balance be
tween tuition and student fee increases,
campus leaders said this week.
"It is not so much the financial
aspects, but it's political," Vice Chan
cellor for Student Affairs Donald
Boulton said. "What we're trying to
do is continue to run services that the
students want. But that's getting inter
fered with. . .. We just haven't gotten ;
the support we would like."
University leaders are frustrated
over the implications of a recently
approved student fee increase for an
athletic complex at UNC-Charlotte
after what some thought was an offi
cial fee moratorium imposed by UNC
system officials.
"I was really disturbed about UNC
Charlotte's ... proposals for basket
ball facilities and that the BOG would
consider increases not approved by
students in the face of increases that
were approved by students," Student
Congress Speaker Jennifer Lloyd said
this week.
In 1991, UNC-CH students ap
proved a 90-cent fee increase to sup
port the a.p.p.l.e.s. program, or "al
lowing people to plan learning experi
close in-patient unit
would not cost the approximately $4
every student pays in fees for the in
patient facility, Cowan said.
State officials should determine by
the end of June whether SHS needs the
new bed designation, Cowan said, add
ing that the change could occur by the
end of the summer.
But according to the report, the re
designation might not affect utilization
of in-patient care.
"We have discussed this issue with
(UNC Hospitals) officials and are not
fully convinced the in-patient care unit
operation is feasible," the report states.
The report recommends that if SHS
cannot operate the in-patient facility on
a self-supporting basis for one year af
ter re-designation of the beds, UNC
officials be allowed to transfer manage
ment of the unit, possibly to UNC Hos
pitals, or to discontinue the in-patient
service and use the space for other op
erations. Capel said the year-long trial period
would indicate to UNC officials the fate
of SHS's in-patient program.
"The fact that right now the whole
thing is just a projection of the number
of patients," Capel said. "That's why
Programs may get help
meeting campaign goals
By Anna Griffin
Associate editor
Although the Bicentennial Cam
paign is two-thirds of the way toward
meeting its goal of $320 million. Uni
versity leaders are concerned about
helping those departments and pro
grams that alumni tend to overlook.
According to a semiannual Bicen
tennial Campaign report, released at
the May 22 Board of Trustees meet
ing, the University had, as of May 1 2,
received commitments for more than
$204.5 million. But support for cer
tain programs, including the Univer
sity libraries, staff development and
computer and information, has lagged
behind programs such as the
chancellor's endowment, curriculum
support and campus life.
"This just means we have to con
centrate on those departments that
haven'tdoneaswell,"ChancellorPaul
Hardin said this week. "The first part
of the campaign, the large donation
part, tends to focus on where the do
nors want to send the money."
Now that the University is begin
ning the Bicentennial Campaign'ssec
ond phase of regional recruitment, the
University Development Office will
concentrate on working with depart
ments that have not received as much
support, Hardin said.
"We'll get the job done, it will just
take some work," he said. "We'll now
begin to concentrate on those depart
ments that haven't done as well. The
development staff will talk to those
student
ences in service," which allows par
ticipants to volunteer in the commu
nity for class credit. But the Board of
Governors threw the fee out last sum
mer after UNC-sy stem President CD.
Spangler issued a fee moratorium.
System officials rejected the
a.p.p.l.e.s. feeagain in December 1991.
At its May 8 meeting, the BOG
approved increasing a $40 UNC-C
student activity fee to as much as $ 130
this decade to fund a new $26.3 mil
lion athletic complex, UNC Associa
tion of Student Governments Presi
dent Mark B ibbs and otherBOG mem
bers criticized UNC-C administrators
for not seeking more student input on
the complex, which would include a
9,500-seat basketball arena.
The vote came one year after the
BOG rejected student-supported fee
increases for UNC-CH.
"I feel very upset," Boulton said.
"We bring no fees unless they have
been thoroughly discussed with stu
dents and student leaders. I'm dis
turbed by the fact that we are not
recognized for that."
But, in aMay 8 interview that UNC
CH officials said seemed to contradict
reports from last summer, Spangler
denied that an official moratorium ex
isted.
"There has never been a formal
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we want to give them a year. Right now
we're just basing it on projections.
Instead of receiving treatment at Stu
dent Health, some students now go to
UNC Hospitals for in-patient care to
receive adequate insurance reimburse
ment. The new bed designation would
allow students to seek affordable treat- (
ment at SHS and get the proper insur
ance reimbursement guaranteed at the
hospital. Cowan said.
In addition, in-patient service at SHS
is less expensive for students who hold
a special insurance policy designed to
supplement services offered at Student
Health. If subscribers seek in-patient
care at UNC Hospitals, they must pay a
deductible and other insurance charges,
whereas such payments are not required
at SHS.
Although the special insurance
policy, underwritten by Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of North Carolina, is of
fered to all UNC students, only 3,500
students subscribe. More than 80 per
cent of the subscribers are graduate
students, Cowan said.
"If we are able to maintain our in-
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areas and help focus alumni in those
areas."
The list of departments that have
received less than 15 percent of their
BicentennialCampaigngoals includes:
the graduate school, which has re
ceived only $68,204, 2 percent of its
goal; the Health-Sciences Library,
which has $6,475, less than 1 percent
of its goal; Morehead Planetarium,
with 6 percent of its goal; and the
School of Information and Library
Science, which has received 1 1 per
cent of its goal. ;
"If we're going to meet our goal,
it's going to take some increased co
operation with campus-wide organi
zations," said Carol Jenkins, director
of the Health-Sciences Library. "That
includes the University Development
Office and the chancellor. We're hop
ing they'll help us target potential do
nators." As a whole, the libraries have re
ceived 32 percent of their $14.5 mil
lion goal, a low total that can be blamed
in part on the fact that libraries, unlike
individual departments and schools,
have no set constituency, Hardin said.
Also, the University has not begun
the faculty recruitment phase of the
campaign. Faculty members are the
strongest supporters of the Health-Sciences
Library, Jenkins said.
Jenkins agreed with Barbara Moran,
dean of the school of information and
library science, who said that a late
start had hurt campaign efforts. De-
See BICENTENNIAL, page 2