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'The Daily Tar Heel/Thursday, June 17, 1993
Hunt taps local for environmental post
By TJ Hemlinger
Staff Writer
A native North Carolinian is coming
home from Washington to work for the
state Department of Environment,
Health and Natural Resources.
Linda Rimer, who spent her forma
tive years on a farm “in the middle of
nowhere” near Ramseur, which is eight
miles east of Asheboro, has been ap
pointed assistant secretary for environ
ment by Gov. Jim Hunt.
She is leaving the Environmental
Protection Agency in Washington,
where she was a member of the Pollu
tion Prevention Policy staff for four
years.
“I look at environmental manage
ment through the lenses of pollution
prevention,” she said in a telephone
interview from Galveston, Texas, where
she gave a speech for the EPA Tuesday
afternoon. “North Carolina is a state
that really pioneered pollution preven
tion.”
Rimer, the wife of Chapel Hill Town
UNC campus to get anew wave - in bike racks
By Mary Lafferty
Staff Writer
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bike to class have encountered.
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there’s no room on the bike rack near
Dey Hail. Students end up having to
chain their bikes to the railing on the
handicap ramp or just leaving them
standing with the frame locked to the
wheel.
But the Department of Transporta
tion and Parking has a solution that
soon will go into effect.
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Council member Alan Rimer, will be
gin her new job early next month. Rimer
will serve under former Chapel Hill
Mayor Jonathan Howes, who is the sec
retary of the department.
“We have really encouraged indus
try to shift pollution from one medium
to another,” she said. “I’m concerned
with how you avoid creating pollution
in the first place.
“Raw materials leave the plant one
way or another, either as waste or as a
product,” Rimer said. ‘The more waste,
the less product.”
Rimer said she thought managing the
environment did not have to mean fight
ing industries and businesses.
“We need to work more coopera
tively,” she said. “We all share an inter
est in protecting the environment by
reducing waste before it becomes a prob
lem.”
The government’s relationship with
industry is an on-going one and, like
any other partnership, the more coop
erative it is, the more productive it can
be. Rimer said.
state, has begun to erect new bike racks
on campus. By the time fall semester
begins, between 200 and 230 wave
shaped bike racks will be added to 57
locations on campus.
Students say there is a definite need
for more racks.
“There have been several times I’ve
had to lock my tire to my frame and
hope that nobody will carry it off,” said
Keith Manecke, a junior from Counts,
Tenn.
The plan for new racks has been in
construction for about two years, said
DOT Transportation Director Ray
Magyar.
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“Suppose every regulated industry
in North Carolina came into 100 per
cent compliance,” Rimer says.
“We would still be damaging the
environment. We need to look at more
creative ways to keep the planet clean.”
As assistant secretary of the environ
ment, Rimer will supervise all of its
regulatory divisions: waste reduction,
solid waste management, environmen
tal management, radiation protection
and water, land and coastal resources.
She said she saw her first challenge
as “playing catch-up” to the rest of the
new administration.
“The position has been vacant since
the administration changed (in Janu
ary),” Rimer said.
She said the secretary and the deputy
secretary of the department were the
primary policy makers, soher job would
be to serve as a link between them, the
seven division directors and other
elected officials.
Rimer said she was eager to begin
working on waste reduction.
“I was surprised to notice when I was
“When I got here two years ago,
(bike rack overcrowding) was one of
the first things I noticed,” he said.
Magyar conducted studies and sur
veys to find where the most overcrowded
places on campus were, focusing on the
libraries and the Pit area.
The DOT requested and received
$50,000 from the state for the racks. But
the number of racks the DOT can erect
is uncertain, Magyar said. “We’re hop
ing somewhere around 230, but we don’t
know exactly.”
Magyar listed many reasons the DOT
wanted to put up new racks. One of the
greatest was the that state would grant
the DOT the money only for the wave
racks, he said. Wave racks last longer,
look better and are better for bikes.
Wave racks also allow bikes to be
placed with enough room between them
so a student can unlock his bike without
damaging a bike shoved next to it.
In addition, the new racks are coated
with vinyl, which protects bikes from
getting scratched.
Also unlike the pipe racks now on
campus, the new racks are anchored
into the ground.
But the new bike racks do not de-
Budget
the town could use the idea for this
year’s budget.
“I don’t personally think anything’s
too late,” Brown said. “We think there
are still ways in efficiency that could be
achieved.”
Mayor Ken Broun said he thought it
would be worthwhile to try to make
town departments more efficient.
“My suggestion is that as part of that,
we have staff assess the impact of those
changes,” he said.
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studying the organization that only one
division had an obligation of waste re
duction,” she said.
Public Affairs Director Debbie Crane
said it was difficult to fill Rimer’s new
position, which was the last senior staff
position to be filled.
“We were looking for a strong back
ground in waste reduction,” Crane said.
“It will be good to work with someone
who understands the problem.”
Crane said state officials were con
cerned about radon, which Rimer was
studying to earn her doctorate.
Rimer also is a former nurse, so she
is familiar with the health aspect of the
department.
“I don’t think we conceivably could
have found a better person,” Crane said.
Rimer has a nursing degree from
UNC-Greensboro and a master’s de
gree in respiratory nursing.
“I am really excited about not only
coming home but having an opportu
nity to work with some really fine
people,” Rimer said. “It’s an exciting
challenge.”
crease the likelihood of theft, Magyar
said.
“I wouldn’t say it makes a differ
ence, it’s really the lock the person
uses,” he said. “This is just more conve
nient to the kids.”
The new racks will be placed all over
campus including areas where pipe racks
already are located.
Magyar said racks would be erected
near the Pit to discourage people from
blocking the Pit’s handicap ramp with
locked bikes.
“I am not eliminating the pipe rail
racks we already have,” he said.
“Some places we’ll be relocating
them. Most of the new racks will be put
where there are already racks now.”
The new racks are similar to the wave
rack between Greenlaw Hall and the
Undergraduate Library. That rack was
put up about four years ago as an experi
ment to see which type students pre
ferred.
But, said Magyar, the rack was im
mediately filled with the overflow from
other racks. It was impossible to tell
whether students chose the rack be
cause of preference or necessity, Magyar
said.
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gested that the town give each depart
ment a certain percentage of its savings
to encourage efficiency. Horton said
the town currently was studying a simi
lar incentive plan.
Council member Julie Andresen said
she thought the council should use the
idea next year so departments had
enough time to make responsible deci
sions about cutting programs. “Curi
ously enough, we didn’t, but we could
have asked the manager to come in with
no tax increase.”
Apple Chill craft fair,
bicentennial to clutter
town’s April calendar
By Rochelle Klaskin
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council
unanimously voted Monday to sched
ule next year’s Apple Chill street fair
one week earlier than planned even
though it then would coincide with the
town’s bicentennial celebration.
Apple Chill will be held April 10
instead of its original date April 17.
Even though no bicentennial activi
ties were scheduled for April 10 or 17,
the Bicentennial Committee asked the
council to change the date because
members thought a busy town sched
ule would discourage residents from
attending events for the town’s cel
ebration, said committee Co-chair
woman Betty Caldwell.
“Since last August we have negoti
ated with the people at the Parks and
Recreation Commission and the Town
of Chapel Hill to try and get Apple
Chill postponed or canceled for next
year,” Caldwell said.
After the committee requested the
date change, Town Manager Cal
Horton conducted a mail survey of
176 of the fair’s merchants. Only 11
arts and crafts vendors responded
Horton’s explained that the ven
dors’ major concern was that sales
could decrease since students would
have returned home because the
University’s spring semester would
have ended.
Ed Weintraub, a vendor who re
sponded to the survey, said in a letter
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plan to be the one adopted.”
The Senate in May proposed a 5-
percent tuition increase for the UNC
system schools and a S2OO surcharge
for students at UNC-CH and N.C. State
University. In-state UNC students cur
rently pay $822, and out-of-state stu
dents pay $7,604.
The House recently voted to elimi
nate the surcharge from the proposal
and raise tuition for in-state students 3
percent and out-of 5 percent for out-of
state students in the 1993-94 school
year.
The surcharge has become the sub
ject of controversy both at the Univer
sity and the General Assembly.
Senators proposed the surcharge to
help heal serious financial problems at
UNC-CH and NCSU. Fifty percent of
the surcharge would go to faculty sala
ries. The rest would go to financial aid
and the libraries.
UNC officials say the problems the
surcharge addresses are issues that must
be dealt with— if not by the surcharge,
then by reappropriating tax money.
“My position has been that if that’s
the only way or the best way, then I
support the surcharge,” Chancellor Paul
Hardin said.
University officials and student gov
ernment officials at the two schools say
they are concerned the surcharge would
place an undue burden on students.
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to the council that his livelihood de
pended on Apple Chill remaining un
changed. “Apple Chill must take place
in April in its present form to remain
a viable and vital craft fair,” the letter
states. Weintraubcouldnotbe reached
for comment Tuesday.
Despite the bicentennial, council
members were not convinced that the
date should be changed.
“I’m not convinced by all the argu
ments that we should move Apple
Chill to June,” said council member
Art Wemer. “Apple Chill has always
been a Chapel HUI spring tradition.”
In a telephone interview Tuesday,
council member Joe Herzenberg said
he thought Apple Chill was an incred
ibly successftil street fair.
“To try and move it around for any
reason is a mistake,” he said. ‘1 don’t
think Apple Chill will impinge on die
bicentennial.”
But Herzenberg added that he was
sympathetic to the Bicentennial
Committee’s concerns about atten
dance to its events.
After a short discussion about vary
ing dates, the council decided that
April 10 did not interfere with any
specific event. The council also ap
proved a rain date for April 17.
Caldwell said that the committee
was disappointed in the council’s de
cision. “We thought we had worked
out an amicable solution to have in it
in May or June for just this one year,”
she said. “April will now be the most
congested month.”
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“We don’t think that it’s a good idea
to tax the students at this time during a
recession,” UNC-sy stem President C.D.
Spangler said.
But Lee said the surcharge was the
only way he could see to meet the needs
of UNC-CH and NCSU.
“I like the idea because I think we
must do something very soon to gener
ate revenue to enhance faculty salaries
and enhance the libraries and simulta
neously find revenues for financial aid,”
Lee said.
“UNC-Chapel Hill, compared to
other institutions, still has one of the
lowest tuitions,” he said. “I don’t think
it’s anywhere near too much to ask.”
School frompage 3
schools and better use scarce educa
tional funds to support teachers’ work.
“The future of our community de
pends on the education of all of our
children, not just one segment of our
community,” she said.
Burnette serves as vice-president of
the local National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People and is
a member of the blue-ribbon task force.
The race for seats on the Carrboro-
Chapel Hill school board is non-parti
san. Candidates can file with the Or
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tween July 2 and Aug. 6.