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Students get down with art
Hundreds have
work on display
BY LAURA OLENIACZ
STAFF WRITER -
The long, sterile hallways of a
local administrative building now
echo with the creativity of area
pupils whose brightly colored
masks, paintings, weavings and
collages were unveiled to the com
munity at a reception Monday.
The display is part of the annu
al Visions Art Show at the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ central
office, the Lincoln Center.
The center will host an open
house at 5:30 p.m. today.
“Visions Show is an opportunity
for the community to have an eye
into students and how they work
with theme and medium and the
level of craftsmanship they put into
their work,” said Peggy McGill, an
East Chapel Hill High School art
teacher.
McGill said she selected senior
Kathryn Pegg’s unique painting for
the show because her depiction of a
man awash in blue and held down
by a chain to the vibrant, green
Earth was particularly striking in
its conceptual underpinnings and
in its imagery.
“Life can hold you down or you
can be inspired by life,” Pegg said,
describing the theme behind her
painting.
She said she was inspired by a
biology class project she did about
depression.
“I decided to change the colors
all around because people associate
depression with different shades of
blue,” Pegg said.
She said she hopes her painting
and its colors illustrate the disor-
Court to mull unpaid loan penalty
BY VICTORIA WILSON
STAFF WRITER
The Supreme Court will clarify
soon whether the federal govern
ment can dock Social Security
benefits from delinquent student
borrowers, but experts say existing
measures have lowered default rates
successfully on student loans.
The court will resolve two con
flicting Circuit Court rulings about
whether the government can gar
nish Social Security benefits to
repay overdue student loans.
The confusion stems from a
series of conflicting federal debt
collection laws.
Regardless of the court’s ulti
mate decision, lenders still will
have many options to collect
overdue loans.
Wayne Johnson, director of
guaranty agency services for the
N.C. State Education Assistance
Authority, said North Carolina rare
ly has to deal with the problem of
collecting defaulted loans. He said
the state boasts a 1.6 percent default
rate the lowest in the country.
But NCSEAA and other guaran
tors, in extreme cases, can take dras
tic measures to ensure that lenders
and the government are repaid.
Bob Murray, manager of corpo
rate communications for United
Student Aid Funds, said that a
borrower will default on a federal
Stafford Loan after 270 days, or
about nine months, if the loan goes
unpaid.
After the grace period, the con
sequences are severe.
“Collection costs are added to your
(entire) costs,” Murray said. “You
may be denied professional licenses.
In some cases your wages can be gar
nished and you can be sued.”
Federal payments, such as tax
refunds, also can be withheld,
Johnson said.
Martha Holler, spokeswoman
for Sallie Mae, said buying cars and
houses could be difficult.
“Guarantors report repayment
information to credit bureaus,”
she said. “That’s going to hurt an
individual’s credit score.”
But experts say that, in North
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The annual Visions Art Show is on display at Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools' central office, the Lincoln Center, at 750 S. Merritt Mill Road.
der so others can identify with her
ideas and feelings on the issue.
The art display features hun
dreds of other works from students
in the district, depicting every
thing from cats, stars and moons
to harps on mountains.
“I think it’s pretty cool, and at
least it brightens up the hall,” said
Denise Buckley, a budget analyst
for city schools who works in the
office.
The artwork is beneficial for
both adults and children, some
say, as it provides a learning
opportunity for the students and
helps enliven the office’s general
atmosphere.
“Really, to the people who work
here, it provides that center for
why we’re here,” said Josephine
Harris, the district’s director of
special programing.
“We’re here for the children.”
Parent Eva Monteongo was
impressed by the imagination
exhibited in the show, which
Carolina and nationwide, it has
become more difficult for borrow
ers to default on their loans.
New measures were put in place
after the national student loan
default rate reached a record high
of 22.4 percent in 1990.
Borrowers are required to
complete counseling about their
loans, and guarantors, lenders and
schools contact borrowers to offer
assistance to those individuals in
financial difficulty.
“It takes quite a bit for a bor
rower to default,” Johnson said.
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included a work created by her
daughter, as she browsed the
halls of the Lincoln Center on
Wednesday.
“She was so excited because she
was chosen to be in the Visions
Show,” she said.
“I think it’s very good, because it
improves the children to get their
artwork in this kind of event.”
Harris said this year marks the
first time that all the district’s work
could fit into one exhibit since its
conception about 15 years ago.
About 200 to 300 people flock
to the open houses of the show
every year, she added, prompting
this year’s decision to hold two
receptions.
“We have so much support for
the arts in the community,” she
said.
The display will remain up until
May 23.
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
The national default rate
declined to 5.2 percent in the
2002-03 fiscal year.
There is no pattern of the type
of borrower who defaults, but
Murray said individuals who keep
up with finances and complete
their degrees are more likely to
repay loans on time.
“If a borrower is paying atten
tion, they’re not going to have any
problems.”
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Hunting district to be debated
OWASA, WRC
to discuss rules
BY JENNIFER FAIR
STAFF WRITER
Orange County residents who
enjoy the thrill of the hunt might
soon have a chance to pursue their
hobby in anew location.
At tonight’s board meeting,
the Orange Water and Sewage
Authority will discuss allowing lim
ited hunting on a “mitigation tract”
it bought in the early 1980s to make
up for lost wildlife habitat.
The 500-acre site lies on the
northern part of the Cane Creek
watershed, to the west of Buckhom
Road, in the western part of the
county.
The N.C. Wildlife Resources
Commission proposed that both the
mitigation tract and the Cane Creek
Reservoir be open for hunting.
But OWASA does not want
to allow hunting at the reservoir
because board members perceive
the group’s primary goal as protect
ing water in its service area, board
member Mac Clarke said.
Vice Chairman Milton Heath
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added, “We cannot allow hunting
on the reservoir because it’s just too
complicated and expensive.”
Instead, OWASA staff recom
mends that some hunting be
allowed only on the mitigation site
and that the land be enrolled in the
commission’s Gamelands Program
to help monitor hunting activity.
“We’re hoping (tonight) to reach
a determination as to what the
board will support,” Clarke said.-
The board will meet at 7 p m. in
the Chapel Hill Town Hall.
Clarke said the board was under
the impression that a compromise
had been reached with the WRC
that would allow limited hunting
on the mitigation land and not the
reservoir.
“They are talking about expand
ing what we had talked about,”
Heath said.
Clarke said this is the first time
OWASA has dealt with the issue
because it does not own any land
that allows hunting.
When OWASA purchased the
tract, one of the provisions in the
agreement stated that it would allow
hunters to use the land.
Clarke said the situation at the
time of the land’s purchase was dif
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people lived in that area,” he said.
OWASA hosted a public meet
ing in early March to gamer citizen
comments, and several residents
came to express their concerns
about the proposal.
“I just want to make sure safety
issues are brought forth,” resident
Ted Hart said Wednesday.
He added that while he is glad
OWASA is considering public opin
ion, he does not think the WRC is
putting forth the same effort.
“They seem to want a win-lose
situation which puts me and my
horses and my family at risk,” he said.
“I never intended to live next to an
area where hunting was allowed.”
County Commissioner Barry
Jacobs, a former OWASA chairman,
said officials must find a balance
between allowing and not allowing
hunting and must determine when
and where it should be legal.
“I’m not a hunter myself, but I
think that it’s legal and it’s tradi
tional, and in some cases it helps
prevent overcrowding that helps
other animals survive.”
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