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Chapel Hill mayor files
for re election to post
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun offi
cially entered the mayoral race Tuesday
by filing for a spot on the Nov. 2 ballot.
So far, Broun is the only resident
who has entered the mayoral race.
Candidates for the Carrboro Board
of Aldermen, Carrboro mayor, Chapel
Hill Town Council, Chapel Hill mayor
and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School
Board can file with the Orange County
Board of Elections until norm, Aug. 6.
The board of elections is located in
Hillsborough.
Food Lion reopens after
being closed 10 months
The Eastgate Food Lion, which was
damaged in a September fire, reopened
as a bigger grocery store Wednesday
after about 10 months of reconstruc
tion.
Fire officials still have not deter
mined the cause of the fire, which blew
out the grocery store’s roof and back
wall. The fire was the third in a string of
blazes Sept. 20
Cameron's at University Mall re
ported a fire at 5:20 p.m., but the fire
was controlled by the store’s sprinkler
system.
The Intimate Bookshop on East
Franklin Street was gutted by a 6:50
p.m. blaze. Owner Wallace Kuralt said
he expects the store to reopen around
Oct. 15.
Fire officials were called to the Food
Lion fire at about 7:20 p.m.
Campus Pepsi machines
to offer Coke products
Students looking to campus vending
machines for a midnight caffeine fix
soon will have more than Pepsi prod
ucts to choose from.
Beginning this week, about 55 of the
130 soda and juice machines on campus
will carry Coca-Cola products along
with the usual Pepsi and Mountain Dew.
“Customers appear to have a demand
for Coke as well as Pepsi,” Carolina
Dining Services Director Chris Derby
said. CDS maintains the campus vend
ing machines.
“We, being the University dining
service, want to meet as many of the
customers’ needs as possible,” Derby
said.
Coke and Diet Coke have been avail
able,from fountain think machines in
Chase Hall, Lenoir Dining Hall as well
as the Union Station for about a year.
The change was not due to custom
ers’ complaints, Derby said.
“We received relatively few com
plaints,” he said.
“When we do focus groups, we get a
voice from students.”
CDS manages the campus meals ser
vices for Marriott Corp., which has a
national agreement with Pepsi, and so
all sodas sold by CDS are Pepsi prod
ucts.
But CDS has the right to offer prod
ucts from the rival company
“We have the ability to sell Coke
products based on customer preference,”
Derby said.
CDS to branch out into
espresso cart business
Carolina Dining Services plans to
expand its outdoor food cart business in
the fall by opening an espresso cart.
The CDS cart will compete with The
Daily Grind Espresso Cafe, located in
the Bull’s Head Bookshop across the
Pit from Lenoir Dining Hall.
“We have the intent to explore the
espresso market,” Derby said.
“It appears to be something students
are interested in. The market is doing
well.”
CDS tried out the outdoor cart busi
ness during the spring. Carts outside
Lenoir sold items from hot dogs to ice
cream.
“We experimented with some cart
business at the end of the semester,”
Derby said
“I would feel you would see some
thing similar to that in the fall.”
Espresso bars espresso machines
built into carts with running water and
electrical capacity—have become fash
ionable on the West Coast and now are
rising in popularity in other areas.
“It’s something that was started in
the Northwest. They appear to appeal to
this age group," Derbv said, referring to
college students.
The CDS cart would add to the grow
ing number of espresso bars on campus.
An espresso cart has been in the Osier
Snack Bar in Berry hill Hall since March.
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By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
A week after The News & Observer
Publishing Cos. of Raleigh announced
its plans to buy The Chapel Hill News,
the more than 40 News employees still
are unsure what their fate will be when
the deal goes into effect July 30.
“A lot of them are going to go through
the interviewing process (for the N&O),”
said Bob Parks, publisher of the News.
“I think a lot of them want to stay.”
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area children about recycling
By Bill Blocker
Slag Writer
Even during the summer, area chil
dren have been learning. Tuesday’s les
son was eco-friendliness.
1992 Homecoming Queen Tywanda
Ellison initiated her public service pro
gram at the Sewell Transition Enrich
ment Camp teaching children about the
importance of sorting and recycling
garbage for the good of the environ
ment.
“It’s a project used to let the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro area be more aware of the
need for recycling,” she said.
The program, Kids Engaged in Envi
ronmental Preservation, is geared pri
marily toward minority children.
“I think that within the minority com
munity we did not realize the need for
recycling,” Ellison said.
“We don’t have exposure to infor
mation letting us know recycling is a
must."
Ellison spent the spring semester pre
Site selected for new high school
By Jada Overton
Staff Writer
Although construction on anew lo
cal high school will not begin until next
summer, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
School Board already has selected its
future home.
The school will be located on a 72-
acre site close to a residential neighbor
hood on Weaver Dairy Road.
“The price per acre was reasonable
for the Chapel Hill area,” said Ken
Touw, a member of the school board.
“It was not the most expensive piece of
property we were looking at.”
Touw said the board considered the
site’s accessibility to public transporta
tion during the selection process. “The
current high school is not on abusroute,
but the new one will be,” he said.
Ken Redfoot, project architect with
Hakan, Corley and Associates, the firm
contracted to build the new school, said
it was a lengthy process to determine
the best site. “We started with 30 sites
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Jones & Cos. Inc. that currently owns the
News, announced the plan at a press
conference Thursday. Ottaway Presi
dent Richard Meyers would not dis
close the price of the sale.
When the two companies close the
deal at the end of the month, all News
employees will be laid off, and the N&O
will hire the ones it wishes to keep. The
N&O has begun interviewing News staff
members and will continue to do so for
the next two weeks, Parks said.
“We’re hoping they’ll hire as many
paring the program, which consists of
an environmental song written by the
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, a recy
cling game and watching a video. KEEP
probably will continue once a week
throughout the summer and once a
month during the year.
“Alpha Kappa Alpha, which is my
sorority, is going to continue the pro
gram for the year,” she said. “I had to
gear my information toward this age
group.”
Reaching children is a good way to
communicate the recycling message to
the entire community. “A lot of times
when you can get through to kids you
can get to parents,” Ellison said.
Each child received a packet con
taining a letter to parents, directions to
local recycling sites, a how-to recycling
packet and a coloring book.
The UNC recycling program donated
the recycling bins and the coloring books
and the town of Chapel Hill donated the
video.
“(Students) will each receive a par
and then narrowed it to four,” he said.
Redfoot said the N.C. Division of
School Planning had a list of criteria for
selecting a school site. Topography,
location and access were among the six
most important factors in choosing the
school location.
“There is a checklist that is followed
when purchasing a school site,” Redfoot
said. “The site has good access to road
ways, public transportation, sidewalks
and bikeways.”
Touw said the total cost of building
the new school would be close to $2
million. The school will be funded with
money from a $52 million bond refer
endum that passed in November.
He added that the site would have to
be approved by the Chapel Hill Town
Council before construction could be
gin next year.
The school board has not yet agreed
on a name for the new high school, but
it is likely that even Chapel Hill High
School’s name might be changed
slightly, Touw said.
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employees as possible,” he said.
Ottaway will offer severance pack
ages or openings at other Ottaway or
Dow Jones papers to those who aren’t
hired by the N&O, Parks said. The
N&O also may offer employees jobs at
other N&O bureaus.
Meanwhile, the mood is somber in
the News office at 505 W. Franklin St.,
and the buyout is the talk of the office.
“There’s a great deal of fear, and
there’s a great deal of pessimism,” said
Paulßrown, a 1978 UNC graduate who
has been the paper’s news editor for the
ticipation certificate” Ellison added.
“Maybe parents will 'get interested in
the KEEP prdgram.”
Several parents who attended the af
ternoon program praised the idea of
including children in teaching environ
mental responsibility.
“I think this is great,” said parent
Dawn Minton. “I think it’s really good
that they’re teaching about recycling at
a young age.”
LaVonda Burnette, who is running
for a spot on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
School Board, and her daughter Brit
tany agreed that the program was useful
and fun.
“I think exposing kids to these expe
riences at a young age will prepare them
for later on,” LaVonda Burnette said.
Brittany said she learned to “separate
the trash and throw it away.”
KEEP also received rave reviews
from several other participants.
“1 learned to put the right trash in the
right baskets,” said Terence Foushee. “I
loved the class.”
“We may have an East and West
Chapel Hill High School,” he said. “This
way they will both start off equal.”
The school will be built to accommo
date 1,000 students with the capacity
for an increased enrollment of about
1,500. CHHS currently houses between
1,500 and 1,600, which exceeds the
building’s capacity.
The number of students who will be
attending the new school has raised
some concern in the community about
increased traffic and parking.
Touw said the school board planned
to meet with the area’s residents to get
feedback about the best way to handle
the influx of students and faculty.
“A lot of students do drive to school,”
said Cathie Brubaker, a resident of the
Chesley development, which is located
near the school site. “But I think there’s
enough land to accommodate student
parking.
“I think it will be a well-done design,
and my kids will be able to benefit from
it.”
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past five years. “The uncertainty just
kills you.”
Brown said the staff felt a sense of
failure because Ottaway had failed to
turn the newspaper around.
“The newsroom poured itself into
this product. This was their heart. This
was their soul,” he said. “And all that
seems to be for naught.
“That’s what hurt so bad Thursday.
That’s what hurt so bad Friday when we
came into the office. That’s why it still
hurts.”
Ottaway bought the News in January
Board of Trustees
to have last word
on grade appeals
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
Students appealing grades no longer
will be allowed to take their cases to the
UNC Board of Governors.
The BOG voted Friday to make the
boards of trustees at each of the 16 UNC
campuses have the last say when it
comes to student grade appeals, confer
ring of degrees and admission.
“This is a responsibility that should
be handled on each individual campus,”
said Joseph Thomas, chairman of the
BOG’s Committee on University Gov
ernance .which recommeded the change
in policy.
Thomas said the BOG had received
only one or two appeals from the 16
campuses in the last three months, but
the reasons for the appeals did not war
rant them being heard by the board.
“We think they have a sufficient ap
peals process on each campus,” he said.
Chancellor Paul Hardin said the
BOG’s decision made sense.
“That’s very sound,” Hardin said.
“There are several levels of appeals on
each of the 16 campuses, and the Board
of Governors does not need to deal with
that.”
Jim Copland, student body president
and a voting ex-officio member of the
Board of Trustees, said he dign’t see a.
probleMwi&jlhe policy change.
“As Itftfg'as stffaents can appeal up to
the trustees level, I don't have a real
problem with it,” he said. “There’S got
School board leader
to vie for re-election
By Kelly Ryan
Associate Editor
Six-year Chapel Hill-Carrboro
School Board veteran Mary Bushnell
announced this week that she planned
to seek re-election to see through
projects that could benefit from her
experience.
“I think I’ve worked very hard to
establish relationships with people in
the district and in the community, and I
would hope some of that work that has
gone on before would make it possible
to cooperate,” she said.
“I’ve worked hard to try to bring
people together to understand different
issues facing the district.”
Three school board seats are open.
Bushnell, two-year chairwoman of the
board, is the only incumbent who has
entered the race. Doug Breeden and
Ted Parrish already announced their
plans to sit out of the election.
Grainger Barrett and LaVonda
Burnette, both parents of children en
rolled in the schools, are the only candi
dates officially registered with the Or
ange County Board of Elections for the
Nov. 2 election. Bushnell plans to file
later this week or next week.
Bushnell said the school system’s
curriculum should be revamped to bet
ter prepare all students for the world of
work beyond high school. For example,
she said, lesson plans at elementary
levels do not cater to individual stu
dents’ needs.
“What really happens is children
reach fourth grade with wildly different
levels of skills and interests,” she said.
“We need to develop our curriculum so
that it’s challenging to every individual
student I mean every student.”
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“The newsroom did what it was sup
posed to do. We beat the Durham and
Raleigh papers (on stories) as much as
they beat us,” Brown said. “(But) it’s
like we failed. Now they own us.
“It’s almost as bad as being absorbed
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to be some delegation of decision-mak
ing.”
Copland said decisions on student
appeals often were difficult, especially
for the BOG, which is far removed from
the actual situations.
“Theoretically, it gives students one
less appeal, but I don’t think it matters
in practice,” he said. “I’m not sure how
many students actually appeal (to the
BOG).”
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said student grade ap
peals at the University usually were
handled by faculty members without
ever going to the BOT.
“As far as I know, all our grade
appeals have been handled in-house,”
Boulton said. “In my 21 years (at UNC),
I cannot remember a single appeal go
ing to the trustees.”
Appeals cases usually are reviewed
and resolved by a faculty appeals com
mittee between semesters, Boulton said.
Students usually are granted grade
appeals if they experience extenuating
circumstances, such as serious illness
or a death in the family.
“Some people get very creative in
what happened,” he said.
Because grade appeals do not reach
the BOT or the BOG, the policy change
does not affect the University, Boulton
by the faculty,” he said''
Students still can appeal Honor Court)
decisions to the BOT. ““
In addition to
better serving all
students, includ
ing minority stu
dents, Bushnell
said she hoped
the system could
improve its social
services to help
students and
families.
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“I’m really interested in this effort,
under the umbrella of communities in
the schools, of integration of services
for families and students,” she said.
“Wouldn’tit be more efficient and more
cost-efficient for one social worker to
work with a family?”
She said one of her primary concerns
was to ensure that existing buildings
and the new high school, which will be
constructed on Weaver Dairy Road be
ginning next summer, are energy-effi
cient. “We need to make costs as low as
we can so we can put our resources in
other places.”
Bushnell first became a member of
the school board when she filled the
remaining two years of an unexpired
term. She was elected to her first four
year term in 1989.
Bushnell said that if she were re
elected she would not be able to serve as
chairwoman again because board policy
prohibited a member from being hold
ing the seat for more than two consecu
tive years.
A 21-year resident of Chapel Hill,
Bushnell works as a referral counselor
and office administrator for the Child
Care Network in Care Mill Mall.
Candidates can file for the municipal
election until noon Aug. 6 with the
Board of Elections in Hillsborough.
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