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Thursday, February 18, 1999
UNC Lends Legal Help
For Housing Conflicts
Student Legal Services can
help those students facing
landlord problems or even
a possible eviction notice.
By Asta Ytre
Staff Writer
Josh Gangway, a sophomore from
Fayetteville, and his roomates are one
noise complaint away from being evict
ed from their apartment.
Gangway said he and his roommates
had talked to their landlord several
times about neighbors’ complaints that
they ar/too loud.
“We have tried to keep it down,” he
said. “But even if we are just talking or
listening to music, we might get loud
enough that someone complains.”
Gangway fears that if his apartment
complex tries to kick him out, he will
have no choice but to leave.
But students have options when faced
with bad living situations, say officials in
the services designed to help them.
Some students go to UNC’s Student
Legal Services for help concerning
problems with landlords, said Dorothy
C. Bemholz, director of SLS.
“Many students that have problems
with their apartments come to legal ser
vices to get free legal help,” she said.
Most conflicts can be resolved before
the case progresses to the point of evic
tion, she said.
SLS helps negotiate problems
between students and landlords when
possible and takes the case to court if a
compromise cannot be reached.
Of the cases that go to small claims
court, about 90 percent are problems
with tenants not paying their rent, mag
istrate Lucius Cheshire said. “There are
very few cases of noisy tenants taken to
court,” he said.
Most of the cases that make it to court
involve landlords having problems with
tenants, but the tenants viice their opin
ions as well. In most cases, these prob
lems can be negotiated without going to
court, Bemholz said.
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“Common problems are loud neigh
bors and bad living conditions in the
apartment,” she said.
Scott Barnes, manager of Mill Creek
Condominiums, said that though the
majority of the people renting at Mill
Creek were students, there were few
serious problems.
“Thursday nights do get loud and
rowdy, but most conflicts get worked
out,” Barnes said. “We talk to them, and
they talk to us.”
If the conflict is not solved, a letter is
sent to the co-signer of the apartment,
usually the parents of the tenants.
The Village Apartments in Carrboro
called the parents of Gangway about the
noise problem.
Gangway moved off campus last fall,
and he and his two roommates have
already been moved from one town
house to another in the same complex.
“We were living in the middle of
three houses with college students,” he
said. “The landlord thought it would be
less noisy if we were split up.”
Gangway said he knew several of his
neighbors had received notices without
being really loud. He said the problem
with arose when people with different
schedules lived next to each other.
“After a big test, you just wanna
chill,” Gangway said.
“But your neighbors might need to
get up and go to work in the morning. It
would be better if everyone around us
were students.”
Even when there are problems, the
landlord cannot simply kick a tenant
out, Bemholz said.
The legal process leaves plenty of
time for the tenant to find anew place
if necessary, she said.
Bemholz also said no student had
ever been kicked out to the streets with
nowhere to go.
Despite these comforting words,
Gangway said if he got evicted, he
might have to withdraw from school.
“The Villages can basically control
my life.”
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Race Conference Focuses on South
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE - Despite the boom
ing economy, the gulf between whites
and blacks in America appears to be
widening, Bank of America Chairman
Hugh McColl told a conference on race
relations Wednesday.
“What’s going to happen when the
good times turn bad?” he asked rhetor
ically. “That scares me.”
Whites and blacks share responsibil
ity for the current situation, he said.
“And so, I will not say one side is
right and the other wrong,” McColl said.
“I will not choose a side. I am 63 years
old, I am tired of arguing and I don’t
want to fight another wax. I’m not inter
ested in fixing blame. I am interested in
fixing lives.”
Duke to Service Fearrington Village
Bv Jennifer Perkins
Staff Writer
Duke University Health Systems is
discussing the possibility of building a
continuing care facility at a local retire
ment community which has traditional
ly been served by the UNC Hospitals
System.
A medical facility in Fearrington
Village, where UNC currently has a
medical clinic as well, would be Duke’s
first establishment in Chatham County,
said John Stokes, director of external
affairs for UNC Hospitals Health Care
Systems.
“We’re disappointed we didn’t have
an opportunity to make a proposal,”
Campus Calendar
Thursday
11 a.m. to noon - Edward
Dachman of the Institute for Research
in Social Science will discuss
“Introduction to 1990 Census of
Population and Housing” in 15 Manning
Hall.
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Dr. Orville
Levander of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Beltsville Human
Nutrition Research in Maryland Center
will discuss “Development of Human
Dietary Recommendations For
Selenium” in 2217 McGavran-
Greenberg Hall.
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McColl was joined by business and
higher education leaders at the all-day
conference.
The North Carolina Initiative on
Race also featured private workshops
between the participants.
Also attending were Gov. Jim Hunt,
UNC-system President Molly Broad,
and N.C. Central University Chancellor
Julius Chambers.
In his keynote address to a racially
mixed audience of about 300 people,
McColl spoke frankly about a subject he
said too many Americans shun - race
relations.
“Asa Southerner who has witnessed
racial hatred and distrust firsthand, I’ve
been saddened in the way we talk to
each other about race,” McColl said.
“And as a citizen of a country that will
Stokes said.
Negotiations between Duke and
Fearrington Village have progressed to
the point that UNC Hospitals does not
have the opportunity to make a similar
proposal for the community, he said.
Nancy Jensen, spokeswoman for
Duke University Health Systems, said
Duke was working with Drucker & Falk,
and Cooperative Retirement Services of
America in a feasibility study of the
community. She declined to comment
on what might be included in the pro
posed continuing care retirement com
munity and in the wellness center.
“We would like to restrict our com
ments to our official statement because
this is an ongoing study,” Jensen said.
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An interest session will be held in 104
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only become more diverse in the centu
ry that is upon us, I know that one way
or another, we will come together, or we
will fall apart.”
As chairman of the largest bank in the
nation, McColl said he was concerned
the New South’s much-touted prosperi
ty was not being shared by all people.
“When we ask, ‘Why does black
poverty persist in the South?’ the
answers we’ve been coming up with
have gotten decidedly less friendly over
the past several years,” McColl said.
“And in all honesty, this is a part of my
speech I would just as soon skip over
and not deal with.”
McColl believes a lot of the problem
comes from a breakdown in communi
cations between whites and blacks.
“Indeed, white people and groups
Lovick Miller, president of the
Fearrington Homeowners Association,
said Duke’s proposal would include cot
tages and apartments for people to live
in with on-site continuing medical atten
tion.
The wellness center would emphasize
the prevention of disabilities and would
most likely have a swimming pool, exer
cise facility and nutritional seminars,
Miller said.
Barbara Wilson, another homeown
ers association member, said a fitness
center would be staffed with trained per
sonnel.
R. B. Fitch, owner and developer of
Fearrington Village, did not return
phone calls Wednesday.
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not only precious ecosystems but also
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the Chicano Farmers.
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Student Environmental Action
Coalition.
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. - Wendy
Brown, professor of women’s and legal
studies at the University of California-
Santa Cruz, will discuss “Specters and
Angles: Historical Consciousness After
Progress” in the Toy Lounge in Dey
Hall.
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representing them around the country
can be heard expressing disdain for
minorities that would have been com
pletely taboo in mainstream society not
many years ago.
“At the same time,” McColl said,
“many in the black community seem
more ready than ever to paint their
white neighbors with a broad brush
stroke of racism.”
McColl said he senses that America is”
slipping back into bad habits after a peri
od of significant progress toward racial
equality.
“When I see whites pointing their fin
gers at blacks, and blacks pointing their
fingers at whites, most of all I m sad
dened,” he said. “And I can’t help think
ing what any fair-minded moderate
would think.”
Duke University Health Systems is*
currently involved with a merger with;
United Methodist Retirement Homes of
Durham to take over five homes for
continuing care.
“We have a long history of serving
people not only at Fearrington Village
but also in Siler City and Pittsboro,”
Stokes said. “We provide most of the ,
emergency services for this end of,
Chatham County.
“We have a longstanding relationship,
with the people of Chatham County so
we are not particularly threatened by a;
Duke outpost.”
The City Editor can be reached at
citydesk@unc.edu.
Wind Ensemble with Brooks de Wetter-
Smith, music professor and flute soloist,
in “Concerto for Flute and Wind
Ensemble” in the Hill Hall Auditorium.
For the Record
Due to incorrect information
provided by Orange County officials
and out-of-date information on a
county government Web site,
Wednesday’s article “Local Eateries Tote
High Sanitation Grades," contained
incorrect information about the health
inspection grade of the Silk Road Tea
House. The Tea House’s most recent
grade is an “A.” ;
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.