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Bowles proposes unpaid furloughs Some faculty would have to take mandatory vacations without pay to help the budget Alex Vaughn Staff Writer
UNC School System President Erskine Bowles plans to discuss using unpaid furloughs for University employees as a tool to help balance the budget with the UNC Board of Governors Feb. 13. Greg Dawes, professor of foreign languages and literatures, said a lot of people don’t like the idea. “[Bowles] just f loated that idea without a whole lot of explanation,� Dawes said. “That may be part of the problem. But I know that a lot of people are upset about it.� Despite the proposal, Jim Martin, chemistry professor and Faculty
Senate chair, said the University is a long way from actually being able to impose furloughs on faculty and staff, and there is not yet any understanding of how the furloughs would be implemented. “There are a lot of questions that need to be resolved before one could apply this tool,� Martin said. “It needs to be looked at extremely carefully and it should really be a last resort.� Martin said between a quarter and a third of the opinions he has heard from faculty and staff members were in support of using furloughs as a component of the budgeting process, but the remainder were opposed. “There are very, very strong opinions on both sides of the furlough issue,� he said. Among faculty and staff members who support the idea of furloughs, some think it will temporarily buy
time in order to examine the budget more strategically, while others say they would rather take a pay cut than have some employees lose their jobs entirely, Martin said. Helena Price, a senior in communication, said the proposal could function if implemented properly. “It could be a workable alternative to laying off employees,� she said. So far, however, the proposals have not been specific, and could be implemented in a couple different ways. For example, a furlough in the private sector means shutting down operations entirely, Martin said. “They are really talking about a pay reduction, not a furlough,� he said. “Because if we were going to have a furlough what we would do? Shut down the University for a week and have all the students go home and shut down all the research labs?� Roughly a third of faculty mem-
bers are on nine month contracts, Martin said, and nine month employees who run year-round research projects are in many respects furloughed for three months of the year already. “Research does not stop just because the academic year stops,� he said. Price said she thought it was unfortunate that employees have been left to speculate on what furloughs would mean to the University and how they would be implemented. Dawes said he was “surprised and taken aback� when the issue of furloughs came up. “It would be devastating if furloughs went through in terms of morale,� Dawes said. “It would be another way of undermining our position as tenure-track and tenured faculty members, and of course [lecturers] are in a much more tenuous
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position than we are.� There is “no magic bullet or least painful way� to deal with permanent budget cuts, Martin said, which could be as high as seven percent for the next academic year. “It would suck for the teachers,� Andrew Dooly, a senior in agricultural business management, said.
Lincoln’s 200th birthday, panel in Caldwell Lounge Courtney Bolin Staff Writer
Students rush the court for the first time since Feb. 3, 2007 after beating Wake Forest.
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tudents rushed the court of the RBC Center Wednesday night after a 82-76 Wolfpack win against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Although students are usually not allowed to rush the court due to safety restrictions, Facilities did not stop students from rushing Wednesday night. The last time Wolfpack fans rushed the court was in the Feb. 3, 2007 win against UNC.
Former president Abraham Lincoln turns 200 years old today. The University will be celebrating by having a commemorative panel in Caldwell Lounge at 4 p.m. The event will feature four professors from both the Department of History and the Department of Political Science speaking about various aspects of “honest Abe’s� life.
Lincoln was known for his success in leading the country through the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate. 4063$& %&1"35.&/54 0' 10-*5*$"- 4$*&/$& "/% )*4503:
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Tuition increase override a possibility The legislative branch of N.C. may override the Board of Governors in setting tuition increases
cent increase in tuition generates $8 million per year, representing a tuition increase of $19.30 per year for students. Greg Doucette, president of the UNC Association of Student Allie Landry Governments, says he hopes the Staff Writer BOG will retain its authority over tuition increases. The North Carolina General “The most ominous concern Assembly released a fiscal brief we face as students in the nearoutlining three options for gen- term future is the state legislaerating revenue from students. ture deciding to override the The NCGA hopes to offset this UNC Board of Governors in year’s six percent budget cut that setting tuition and deciding to Governor Bev handle the issue Purdue manitself,� Doucette dated, as well as said. future budget Doucette said cuts, according the NCGA has to the press repreviously inlease. creased tuition Since 1999, by as much as 20 the UNC Board percent during of Governors times of receshas t y pica lly sion. The BOG, been responsimeanwhile, ble for decisions has adopted a Greg Doucette, Student regarding tu6.5 percent cap Senate president ition increases. on tuition inHowever, the creases. economic recession has promptThe university community ed the NCGA to step forward on also discusses tuition increases the issue. that the BOG proposed before The first option proposed in the chancellor can approve them. the brief is to implement either a “I don’t want tuition to become temporary or permanent legisla- a political issue where they’re tive tuition increase. Every 1-per- raising rates to balance the bud-
“They can take tuition money from NCSU and direct it to UNC-Chapel Hill.�
get, and not to make what the campus needs,� Doucette said. Revenue that NCGA tuition increases generate is considered state-generated revenue. Money can be allocated as the state sees fit, according to Doucette. “Students are paying more money, but the University doesn’t necessarily have it to increase quality. It comes down to who has greater political inf luence downtown,� Doucette said. “They can take tuition money from NCSU and direct it to UNC-Chapel Hill.� An alternative option that the NCGA proposed to generate revenue is to reduce the amount of tuition exemptions. Tuition waivers account for a loss of about $18 million per year at this University. The majority are given to non-resident graduate students, as well as people in active duty, faculty, staff and nonresident teachers. Decreasing tuition waivers may make N.C. State less competitive in attracting top students like Richard Pridgen, a junior in chemical engineering. Pridgen said he would have gone out of state had he not received a tuition grant for being a graduate of the N.C. School of Science and Math. “N.C. State is a great engi-
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FOR MORE INFORMATION The General Assembly posted the memo explaining three points about its propositions. For more information visit http://www.ncleg.net/ fiscalresearch/frd_reports/ frd_reports_pdfs/fiscal_briefs/ TuitionFiscalBriefFinal2009- 0128.pdf
neering school, but there are other competitive schools out there,� Pridgen said. “I didn’t consider them because I knew I was financially set at State.� A third option that the NCGA discussed is to increase tuition surcharges to generate more revenue and encourage faster degree completion. A 25-percent tuition surcharge is imposed on students now who take more than 140 degree credit hours to complete a four-year undergraduate degree. The NCGA stated that it hopes implementing alternatives such as increasing tuition surcharges and decreasing tuition exemptions would lessen the tuition increase, according to the fiscal brief.
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r He didn’t drink alcohol, smoke
tobacco, or use profanity.
r He was a great public speaker. r He wrestled. r He was humane and hated to
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r He was very cautious. r He was the first president to have
a beard, which he originally grew because Grace Bedell wrote to him encouraging him to.
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women because they had no romantic interest in him.
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life to friends and family.
r He was the first president to be
assassinated.
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William Harris, a professor of history 1. I would give him a Lincoln five dollar bill, so that he could see that he had some monetary value. 2. I would ask him about his relationship with Ann Rutledge. 3. The Emancipation Proclamation. Pattie Hofland, a sophomore in textiles 1. A new hat, because you can never have to many hats. He liked them apparently. Maybe, a body guard if I could afford one. 2. How tall were your parents? 3. He was against slavery. Nicole Machado, a sophomore in textiles 1. A trip to the White House. 2. What made you so liberal in perception of slaves? 3. The Emancipation Proclamation. Brian Sain, a sophomore in nutrition science 1. An electric shaver. 2. Why did you make the Gettysburg Address so short? 3. It was that he so selflessly gave up his life to restore our nation
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