Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / Sept. 27, 1994, edition 1 / Page 3
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
flailg (Bar Hrrl bHI Stmts from tilt University and Chaftl Hill Womea's Group Will Meet To Discuss Marketing On Oct. 5, the Women Business Own ers’ Roundtable discussion topic will be "Alternative Media Marketing.” The dis cussion will be held at the Chapel Hill Senior Center on Elliot Road. The discussion will be held from 7:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. Attendees will include representatives from Cable Adnet and WCHL Radio who will discuss using cable and radio advertising to increase business. Included in the sponsorship of the roundtable are the Orange County Com mission for Women, the Orange County Economic Development Commission and the Chapel Hill-Canboro ChamberofCom merce. Those who want more information on the roundtable, including registration, should call the Orange County Commis sion for Women at 732-8181,967-9251 or 227-2031, ext. 2250. Simulator Gives Drivers Chance to Test Abilities Those who would like to test their driv ing skills in various conditions will have the opportunity to do so from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Thursday. The UNC Highway Safety Research Center will give the public a chance to drive the Real Drive Advanced Technology Driving Simulator. The simulator, which is housed in a tractor-trailer, is used to give drivers an idea of their driving skills in various road and traffic conditions and under the influ ence of alcohol and fatigue. The simulator, which was developed by a joint effort be tween the United States and Australia, is used to try to reduce the rate of car acci dents involving young drivers in Australia. A Caiy corporation, Monterey Technolo gies Inc., was involved in the creation of the driving simulator. Animal Protection Society Celebrating Farm Animals The Animal Protection Society of Or ange County will be celebrating some of the fascinating facts about farm animals during Farm Animals Awareness Week, which runs through Saturday. During the week, APS hopes consumers will begin to appreciate farm animals and will then in sist that they be treated more humanely. To help people learn more about farm animals, APS humane educator Paul Kirschten will have a table set up on Franklin Street in front of the old post office from 10a.m. to4p.m. Friday provid ing handouts and other information. The public is invited to stop by. Latex Paint Exchange to Give Away 350 Gallons Saturday will be one of the final two days the Latex Paint Exchange will be open this year. The exchange will be open from 8:30 to noon Saturday. The exchange is located at the Orange Regional Landfill, one mile west of N.C. 86 on Eubanks Road. The final day will be Nov. 5. Unlike previous Saturdays, paint will not be collected; instead, Saturday will focus on giving away more than 350 gal lons of available paint. Many different col ors are in stocknow. Paint will be accepted again next spring during an opening planned for March. Citizens with unwanted but usable latex paint should keep the paint in an area where it will not freeze until the exchange opens again in the spring. For more information, call 968-2885. Brown to Speak at UNC Retired Faculty Meeting The UNC Retired Faculty Association will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Institute of Government’s auditorium, located in the Knapp Building. There will be a social half hour from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. followed by a talk by Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane Brown. Brown, a professor of journalism, will speak about “The Future of Faculty Gov ernance at UNC-CH.” The meeting, which is the association’s 37th quarterly gather ing, will last until 9 p.m. Green Vote Holds Campus Registration Day in Pit Campus Green Vote and the UNC Young Democrats will sponsor “Campus Registration Day” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Pit to register students to vote. Students also can register at tables set up outside Carroll and Hamilton halls. At 4:30 p.m., the day’s totals will be announced in the Pit and marked on a large tracking thermometer. From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., students will be able to register to vote in the lobbies of Morrison and Hinton James residence halls. The goal of Campus Green Vote is to register 5,000 students so that students can have a say in who represents them on issues that concern them. German Professor Named Department Chairman German professor Sidney Smith has been named chairman of UNC’s Depart ment of Germanic Languages. The Board of Trustees approved Smith’s five-year appointment Friday. Smith joined the fac ulty in 1966. He was chairman of the De partment of Germanic Languages from 1979t0 1989. He also founded the German House in Carmichael Residence Hall and has since served as its faculty adviser. ROM STAFF REPORTS Council Sets Numbers for Land-Use Committee BY CHARLEEN GRAHAM STAFF WRITER A joint committee, consisting of town, community and University members and charged with determining the futures of two land tracts, was the subject of discus sion again last night at the town hall. The Chapel Hill Town Council has been discussing die Horace Williams tract and the Mason Farm tract. The council de cided that the committee would be made up of no more than 19 members consisting of residents, environmentalists, members of some of Chapel Hill’s town boards and some Carrboro residents. An amended charge drafted by council member Joyce Brown stated that the com mittee should “develop a set of principles, including community interests, goals and objectives, to guide the council’s delibera Yard Art DTH/CHRIS GAYDOSH Allison Taylor receives instruction from Coleman Budd during her introduction to drawing class. Taylor and classmates drew negative images of flowers Monday afternoon in Coker Arboretum. Nov. Human Relations Summit To Address Campus Differences BY JULIE CORBIN STAFF WRITER In an effort to alleviate conflicts be tween different groups on UNC’s increas ingly diverse campus, student government will hold the first-ever Human Relations Summit Nov. 18to 19attheendofHuman Rights Week. Increasing campus dialogue on human relations issues and empowering students through networking and cooperation among student groups are the main goals of the summit, according to the report on the planning session that was held Sept. 7. Student leaders met Saturday to make plans for the November summit, for which invi tations are being mailed today. “There are some very serious problems with human relations on campus not only racism but homophobia and sexism as well,” Student Body President George Battle said. Sessions held during the summit will focus on topics such as diversity and stu dent representation. Tentative topics in clude ethnicity, gender, religious issues and sexual orientation. Political issues like the Housekeepers’ movement, the environment, Greek af fairs and the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center also will be discussed. Additional discussions will include social and aca demic issues like campus segregation, cur 4 Groups Still Await Congress Funding BYKATHRYN TAYLOR STAFF WRITER The four campus groups left without funding when the Sept. 14 Student Con gress meeting suddenly ended will have to wait until after Fall Break for their requests to be heard, despite congress members’ attempts to call a special meeting for that purpose. Company Carolina, the Elections Board, N.C. Student Legislature and UNIT AS were waiting to present congress with funding requests that totaled $14,165 when the meeting shut down. The meeting ended when four members of congress walked out, causing the num ber of remaining representatives to drop below quorum before a reconsideration vote could be taken on the Minority Re cruitment Bill. A majority of congress members must be present to have quorum. Without it, congress has no legal author ity. Rep. Jonathan Justice, Dist. 21, circu lated a petition among congress members to have a special meeting to hear the four groups’ funding requests. Justice said he was concerned that these groups had been overlooked unfairly because of the contro versy over the Minority Recruitment Bill. UNIVERSITY & CITY tions with UNC regarding the develop ment of the Horace Williams and Mason Farm tracts.” The charge further stated that the com mittee should “input to the University about these principles” and should advise the council about incorporating the develop ment process into the council’s ultimate zoning ordinances. The committee, once finalized, is also to inform the council on a monthly basis about work in progress. The Horace Williams property is home to the Horace Williams Airport and other University operations. The property con sists of almost 970 acres, most of which is undeveloped. The tract is located in north western Chapel Hill, just off Airport Road, two miles north of central campus. The Mason Farm tract is 1,336 acres southeast of the UNC campus near U.S. 15-501 Bypass. According to a town coun- “There are some very seroius problems with human relations on campus not only racism but homophobia and sexism as weU. ” GEORGE BATTLE Student body president riculum diversity and recruitment of mi nority students and faculty, according to student government’s report on the Hu man Relations Planning Summit held Sat urday. The Human Relations Summit was planned at leadership sessions held Sept. 17 and 24, Student Body Vice President Donyell Phillips said. Many of the groups invited to the summit were involved in the planning of the summit, she said. The Human Relations Committee, in cooperation with student groups that focus on human relations, finished planning for the summit on Saturday, Phillips said. U.S. Rep. Eva Clayton has been invited to speak at the opening session of the sum mit, she said. Clayton was the first African- American woman elected to Congress from North Carolina. “They got caught up in a big political party that they had absolutely nothing to do with, and I really feel for them,” he said. Travis Montgomery, business manager for Company Carolina, said the unexpected delay in funding had caused some prob lems. “We have a show in progress right now, and we have no money,” he said. “When you have to think about sets and props, outside concerns only make things worse. ’’ Under ordinary circumstances, the groups would have had to wait until the next congress meeting, on Oct. 5, to present their requests. Justice circulated a petition among Congress members to try to call an earlier meeting. “It was my best hope that we would have it before Fall Break,” he said. However, the new meeting which had been tentatively scheduled for tonight will be held after the break, only a day earlier than the one that had been previ ously scheduled. Justice said the meeting could not be held before the holiday be cause there was no available place on cam pus until Oct. 4. “I’m still not happy,” he said. “I wanted the meeting to be held a lot sooner.” Montgomery said he was appreciative of Justice’s efforts to reschedule the meet- BROUN has set an Oct. 24 deadline for applications for the joint committee. cil memorandum, about 800 of those acres are most suit able for building. The future of the land has prompted the town and the University to dis cuss forming a com mittee to determine how best to use the land. The basic pro posal from Town Manager Cal Horton suggested that the committee be composed of council members, Plan ning Board and Transportation Board members, residents of the area, and other community representatives. Battle said Clayton would be an impor tant resource for people attending the sum mit. “Clayton has made her mark on Wash ington,” Battle said. “She’s on the cutting edge of human relations.” Organizations and individuals attend ing the summit will meet in small sessions targeting specific subjects. Afterwards, they will meet in general sessions to discuss the issues and draw up proposals that cover the needs ofthe campus community, said Eddie Hanes, co-secretary of the Human Rela tions Committee. Although the summit is open to all in terested members of the University com munity, only the delegates of the human relations organizations will be involved in the actual business of the summit. Phillips said groups with an interest in human relations, such as the Campus Y, the Black Student Movement, SEAC and the Women’s Issues Network, each will be mailed an invitation to the summit today. Phillips said the summit is unusual be cause it has a wider focus than race rela tions alone. Student government’s Human Relations Committee planned the summit to address the many differences within the student body, she said. “A wide range of groups will be in volved,” Battle said. “Ethnic groups, reli gious groups, political groups, what have you.” ing. “I’m really thankful that there are people that are willing to help us,” he said. Erin Lewis, chairwoman of the Elec tions Board, said she was upset that the board had been moved to the bottom of the docket and then tabled altogether when quorum could no longer be reached. “It didn’t make a lot of sense that we were moved to the end,” she said. “We would have been quick and easy, without a lot of debate. I didn’t enjoy sitting there for six hours and then going home empty handed.” Lewis said having to wait two extra weeks to get funding had caused the board unnecessary frustration as the special elec tions approach. “They have to give us money or we can’t run elections,” she said. “I have zero dollars. I can’t buy pens. I can’t even buy staples, and I have special elections com ing up. It is ridiculous.” Special elections will be held Oct. 11 to fill the vacant congress seats. Student Congress Speaker Monica Cloud said she was Sony the groups had been tabled and that every effort would be made to make up for it. “They will be heard, ” she said. “They will not be shafted in any way, shape or form.” The memorandum from Horton also states that some residents have suggested that the committee include representatives from the Energy Committee, the Parks and Recreation Commission, the University, and the N.C. Botanical Gardens, along with residents knowledgeable about the Horace Williams tract and residents knowl edgeable about Mason Farm. Sally Vilas, Chapel Hill resident and president of the Botanical Garden Foun dation, spoke before the council and said she was very concerned about the lands and what would happen to the Mason Farm property. The Botanical Gardens make up a lairge portion of the Mason Farm tract. The gardens are home to much research done by the Mason Farm Biological Re serve, Vilas said. She asked that the council “be generous in committee appointments. ” Towns Welcome Russian Visitors BY GRETCHEN HOFFMAN STAFF WRITER Visiting Russian officials are enjoying the full flavor of Chapel Hill life as they visit Swensen’s Ice Cream Factory and other local restaurants along with meeting their Chapel Hill counterparts through the Chapel Hill and Carrboro Sister Cities Program. Residents of Saratov, Russia, are spending two weeks with host families in the area while they observe the University, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Saratov and San Jorge, Nicaragua, are Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s two sister cities. “Saratov has between 900,000 and a million people, but it was picked to be a sister city because it’s also a university city,” said Chapel Hill Assistant Town Manager Sonna Loewenthal, who visited Saratov in May with the program. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun greeted the visitors Monday at the Chapel Hill Town Hall following their visit to the ice cream factory. “Having visited Saratov and having been the recipient of such a warm welcome there, I’m happy to be able to do the same here,” Broun said. Roza Bazyleva, a visiting professor of English at the University of Saratov, served as the translator for the welcome. An itinerary for the visitors has been established, including events for the group as a whole as well as individualized meetings according to each visitor’s area of specialization. Today, the group will take a tour of Davis Library and the rest of the UNC campus and will eat lunch at Lenoir Dining Hall. The Russians, whether they are professors or city officials, will be paired with a local counterpart in order to observe how their Chapel Hill counterpart functions. Three city officials, who will arrive this weekend, will visit Please See LOEWENTHAL, Page 5 Chapel Hill Considers Uniform Committee on Development By Combining Existing Boards BY SARAH CORBITT STAFF WRITER Growth and preservation are on the minds of Chapel Hill Town Council mem bers. The council met Wednesday night to discuss how growth and development pro posals will be handled in the future. The town council called the meeting to review suggestions given by the Design Review Board and the Alliance of Neigh borhoods that would change the process new development proposals must go through. Right now the process involves holding a public information session and submis sion of the proposal to committees that can include the Transportation Board, the Plan ning Board, the Greenways Commission and the Appearance Commission. Later, recommendations to the council are made with a public hearing. The development proposal may then be approved by the council. According to statements made by the Design Review Board in a report on Chapel Hill’s development review process, this process is too lengthy, with approvals made an average of six months after the initial proposals have been filed. In this report, the board suggests elimi nating three existing bodies—the Appear ance Commission, the Design Review Board and the Planning Board. Two new commissions, the Planning Commission and the Design Commission, would be charged with handling long- range planning and site-specific project reviews, respectively. The Design Commission would meet three times throughout the review process but would make recommendations to the council only about the approval of projects, according to the report. Michael Hining, the chairman of the Design Review Board who would become a member ofthe Design Commission upon its implementation, said the Design Com mission would have relatively limited pow ers because the town council would retain power of approval. The board would also eliminate a cat egory of development proposals that are presently approved by the Planning Board. Approval would fall on the town council. Both the Planning Board and the Alli ance of Neighborhoods object to requiring that members of the Review Board be de sign professionals. A report by the Planning Board states that it sees the design professional require ment as stifling diversity. Hining said that having design profes sionals on the Design Commission was necessary. “If you have people driving design, you need people who know what they’re do ing,” Hining said. At the June 20 meeting, the Planning Tuesday, September 27,1994 Other council members agreed that there should be two or three Carrboro represen tatives on the committee. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said that in a meeting with the Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird, Kinnaird bad suggested that about three members of a joint committee should be from Carrboro. Broun said Kinnaird did not think it was necessary for Carrboro to have a separate committee. Council member Mark Chilton mo tioned that the council set a number of members on the committee and suggest an outline of proportionate representatives but wait until later to set specific representative requirements. The motion passed, and Broun set an Oct. 24 deadline for applications for the committee. By Oct. 15, he will set up a screening committee that will review all applications received by that date. “If you have people driving design, you needpeople who know what they 're doing... Right now, there is not much public input before the council vote. We want public input in three different phases before the vote. ” MICHAEL MINING Design Review Board chairman Board opposed having the Design Review Board meet three times, arguing this would not streamline the review process. Hining said the current review process was “very fragmented.” He also said the Design Review Board’s plan created more opportunities for public input. “Right now, there is not much public input before the council vote. We want public input in three different phases before the vote.” Hining said that a second problem with the current system is the lack of long-range planning, a problem he said would end with the creation of the Planning Commis sion. The Alliance of Neighborhoods dis agrees with the Design Review Board re port and has now filed its own proposal which the alliance hopes will improve the design review process. In this report, the alliance position on the process is stated as “Refine, Not Rede sign.” The Alliance is most concerned with preserving public input and the quality of the development proposal. The plan outlined in the Alliance’s re port makes only minor changes, combin ing committee meetings to lower the num ber of reviews a development proposal undergoes. The Alliance proposal would change the membership of the Design Review Board from a six-person board to a seven member board made up of three design professionals and four residents. The majority of resident speakers at the June 20 meeting, at which the Design Re view Board introduced its proposal, were concerned with the need for more public input earlier in the review process, accord ing to a summary of the meeting. Of the 36 people whospoke, ninepeople argued for adding design professionals to the Design Review Board, and five op posed. Hining said the original proposal by the Design Review Board was misunderstood. "Ninety percent of what was discussed (by the residents) we agreed with com pletely,” he said. 3
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 27, 1994, edition 1
3
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75