Making Tough Decisions: Subjective Ethics
After a video filmed in UNC laboratories by a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was released April 18, viewers were confronted with that question.
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After a video filmed in UNC laboratories by a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was released April 18, viewers were confronted with that question.
As students go about their daily business, many UNC faculty and staff conduct cutting-edge medical research -- with the help of mice, dogs and other mammals.
Common ways of solving that problem include taking part-time jobs, selling CDs back to secondhand music stores and the ever-popular calling home for money.
Dan Herman, chairman of Student Congress' Ethics Committee, said the chairmen of all Congress committees, Student Body President Jen Daum, Student Body Vice President Aaron Hiller and Congress Speaker Tony Larson will get together briefly before the full Congress meeting to address some concerns in the relationship between student government members.
After the UNC Board of Trustees rejected a DPS budget proposal that would have raised $566,650 from a system of night parking permits and extended hours at visitor lots, the administration was charged with crafting a budget that did not include a night parking system.
University Police Chief Derek Poarch said that although the e-mail is not completely accurate, students should watch out for the man described.
Daum named chairmen and vice chairmen for nine committees, a communications director and several executive assistants after an extensive selection process.
The election was intended to fill empty seats in Student Congress and to allow students to vote on a referendum to increase student fees by $5 for undergraduates and $7 for graduate students.
At Thursday's meeting of the UNC Board of Trustees, Trustee Paul Fulton said the seven-year, $1.5 billion fund-raising campaign, which already has earned more than $760 million, will now begin its public phase a year after it was originally scheduled.
After more than an hour of discussion focusing on reservations about a night parking proposal, Trustee Richard Stevens moved to send the parking plan back to the chancellor and vice chancellors who had created the proposal March 19.
After more than an hour of debate, the UNC Board of Trustees voted to approve sale of the 62-acre Horace Williams satellite tract to Winmore Land Management LLC, for use as part of a mixed-use development in Carrboro.
Trustee Richard Stevens and Student Body President Justin Young, who sits on the BOT, offered vehement objections to the part of the proposal that would create a night parking permit system.
Members of the Master Plan team discussed the final details of the plan, including specifics on future building projects, transportation components and the project's environmental impact.
University police Chief Derek Poarch said the 18-year-old student was returning from Franklin Street at about 2:30 a.m. when she was forced to the ground near Alumni Hall.
Student Body President-elect Jen Daum announced her nominations for officers Friday, naming junior Aaron Hiller as student body vice president, junior Rebecca Williford as student body secretary, junior Michael Vollmer as student body treasurer and sophomore Rebekah Burford as chief of staff.
Gene Nichol, dean of the UNC School of Law, said Thomas will meet with students and faculty members at the law school throughout the day, culminating in a speech to law students at 4:30 p.m.
Vacant seats left after last Tuesday's general student body elections will be filled by a special election, which has to be called by the student body president.
On March 6, the BOG will hear a $400, one-year increase plan passed by the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees.
Christopher Scott McMillan, 37, of 603 Fairfield Road in Durham pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to one count of attempting to damage a building by either fire or explosive. The charges were related to an incident involving a device that exploded at the Sprint regional office in Franklin County on Aug. 28.
Chancellor James Moeser said Friday that he met last week with representatives from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, which first approached UNC in June.