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Towns plan to expand routes by fall o f 1980
By BEVERLY SHEPARD
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Some substantial changes may be made in Chapel H ill and
Carrboro bus routes in fiscal year 1981, Chapel Hill's
assistant director of transportation Bill Callahan, said
Wednesday.
Proposals for the next fiscal year which begins in July,
include dividing Carrboro's crowded C-route into eastern
and western loops. The route may be split before University
students return for the fall semester.
Callahan said the eastern route would include the
University campus, Cameron Street, Merritt Mill Road, the
N. C. 54 Bypass, Jones Ferry Road, and Main Street in
Carrboro. This route would provide service for residents of
Old Well, Carolina, Royal Park and University Lake
apartments.
The western route would include South Columbia, West
Franklin, and Main streets, the N. C. 54 Bypass, and Weaver,
Davy and Fidelity streets. This loop would serve residents of
Fidelity Court, Berkshire Manor, Chateau and Tar Heel
Manor apartments.
"(The two routes) will solve some of (the overcrowding),
but it won't eliminate it completely," Callahan said. "Until
we get some new vehicles, we won't be able to put (the
necessary) service out there."
Callahan said Chapel Hill's Transportation Department is
Fares may rise
in Chapel Hill
By PAT FLANNERY
Ruff Writer
With hearings on Chapel Hill's fiscal
1981 budget just around the corner, the
Chapel Hill Town Council soon will
have to decide if a bus fare increase will
be needed.
Proposals for bus pass increases for
the upcoming fiscal year, which begins
in July, have been recommended by
both the Chapel Hill transportation
Department and the Transportation
Board.
Both the Transportation Department
and .the Transportation Board
recommended some increase by
approved by the Town Council to help
cover the rising costs of operating the
bus system, particularly fuel costs. The
town's goal is to have bus riders pay for
33 -percent of the system's operating
costs. Riders currently pay only 28
percent of the costs.
The Transportation Department and
Town Manager Gene Shipman have
recommended that prices be increased
by up to 64 percent, which would put
the price of a 12-month pass at $79 and
the price of a nine-month pass at $45.
The passes currently cost $48 and $40.
Student passes sold by the University
are slightly less.
But the town's Transportation Board
has recommended smaller increases,
expecting 1 6 new buses that were ordered in early 1979 at the
end of September. The town plans to put all the new buses in
service and to use the older ones as back-ups.
The F route, which runs from North Carrboro to the
,Eastgate area, also may be expanded, Callahan said.
Currently, the F buses only travel into Chapel Hill from
Carrboro in the morning and from Chapel Hill to Carrboro
in the evening. Callahan said the proposed expansion would
provide two-way service as far north as Barrington Hills in
Carrboro all day.
"We have discussed the rough ends of the (proposals) and
sent copies of the cost to both the University and Carrboro,"
Callahan said. "We have a long way to go before we develop
a complete picture of funding."
The service expansion and changes proposed by the town's
Transportation Department will be considered in Chapel
Hill's budget hearings in June. The proposals have to be
approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council. Callahan said
negotiations with the town of Carrboro and the University,
which help pay for the bus system, about services expansion
will begin in June.
Callahan said the town would reduce bus service for the
summer beginning May 6 on the C, F, L, N, and U routes.
There will be no S route service during the summer. Weekend
service on the U route will end May 4. May 4 also will be the
last day of Sunday shared ride service. The reduced schedule
will remain in effect until the University reopens in August.
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...route to split when town receives new buses
expecting increased naersnip next year
to help defray operation costs. The
board has proposed an increase to $67
for the 12-month pass and $58 for the
nine-month pass.
Town Council member Marilyn
Boulton said she hoped pass increases
could be kept to a minimum to
encourage bus ridership.
Most Town Council members said
that until the final budget is submitted
for approval, it will be hard to predict
which increase will be most beneficial to
the system. But most said that users of
the bus system will have to pay some
increase to help pay for the service.
"In general, the user of the bus system
ought to pay as large a portion of the
fare as is reasonable," Town Council
member James Wallace said.
Council member Jonathan Howes
said the increase will depend to a great
extent on what the forecasted ridership
will be and on how much of the town's
tax revenue will be devoted to the bus
system.
"Obviously, the . bus system's is
afflicted with radically increasing
prices," he said. "My inclination will be
to favor lower rates of increase."
Most council members agreed that
the lower rate increase would be
favorable, but would not predict how
the council will vote until the full budget
is reviewed. A public hearing will be
held on the proposed increases May 8.
By KERRY DEROCHI
Staff Writer
Morrison Governor Terry Home has
proposed to Vice Chancellor for Business,
and Finance John Temple several zoning
alterations which would allow Morrison
residents to park closer to their dorm.
Horne, with Student Government
Parking and Transportation coordinator
Lee Carr, has proposed that the two S I
parking lots, which now are used only by
hospital workers, be changed partially to
S4 lots. Students then would be-able to
park in the lots.
"It's very frustrating to have to run to
your dorms for a few minutes and have to
park in Craige or Ramshead (lots),"
Home said. .. f
The SI lot had been zoned originally
for student parking but was changed to
accommodate hospital workers. It was
then changed for both student adn
hospital parking, but over the summer it
was rezoned again totally for hospital
workers.
Carr said that now that the parking
deck was finished, hospital employees
should be able to park in the new spaces.
He proposed that by moving some of the
hospital people to the deck, several rows
of parking would be made available to the
students.
"It would be unrealistic for students to
get all of the lot," Carr said. "We have a
good chance of succeeding; it depends on
what Temple can come up with."
Although Carr has already notified
Temple about the proposal, the Morrison
Executive Council has not yet compiled
the parking survey results it plans to
submit to him. Those results will be
submitted after exams.
Home said the survey, taken over a
period of five work days, showed that the
hospital employees " alone were not
utilizing the space fully.
"There were a number of spaces in the
lots that were empty and stayed that way
during the day," Horne said. "We also
surveyed the deck and found hundreds of
spaces open throughout the day. One day
there were over 600 empty spaces.
-"I don't think what we are asking for is
a lot considering what we found in the
surveys of the parking lots. I hope our
request will be seriously considered,"
Horne said.
He said that he would be drafting a
letter and making an appointment with
Temple to discuss the proposal after final
exams. '
Temple said he had received the first
letter from Horne and Carr and had
handed it to the traffice office. Traffic
office members would discuss the
proposal and then meet with him again,
he said.
"If we can assign spaces to the students,
we plan to do it," Temple said. The
traffic office needs to get back to me on it.
If we can respond right away to what they
are asking for, I don't see any need for
further meetings."
Few express views at director forum
By STEPHANIE BIRCHER
SUff Writer
Ten students attended a forum Wednesday to express their
views on the Student Health Service director's post and voice
expectations about the person hired to fill it.
Present SHS Director Dr. James Taylor is resigning from the
postion effective July 1. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Donald Boulton, who organized the search committee, said he
hoped the position would be filled by July 1.
"That, of course, is not always possible," Boulton said. "We
are going as thoroughly and as rapidly as possible."
Boulton added that the committee was conducting a national,
search, that applications were being accepted from the present
SHS staff, and that the new SHS director would be a practicing
physician. -
Several of the students who attended the forum said they
would prefer that the committee consider candidates who had
experience in public health service administration as well as in
practical medicine.
John Thomas, president of Need for Equal Education for
Disabled Students, asked the committee to consider a candidate
who was aware of the needs of disabled students and willing to
act in their behalf.
Graduate student Brad Lamb said the director should have
good communication techniques and innovative financing
abilities.
Student Government President Bob Saunders and University
Services Chairman Scott Simpson gave the committee members
copies of an April 17 D 77 editorial on the selection of the SHS
director.
"We feel the editorial pinpoints our view on the
selection,"Saunders said.
The editorial said the new director should reassess the services
provided by SHS and acknowledge that the problems facing the
service concerned management rather than medicine.
Boulton stressed that the search committee was seeking advice
from as many students, administrators and student organization
spokespersons as possible.
Boulton blamed the lack of advance publicity in the DTH for
the low turnout at the forum.
"It is very important to me that (the activities of the committee)
are well known," Boulton said. "The door is open, not just today.
It was open yesterday and it will be open tomorrow." Students
can write, call or visit any of the committee members if they
would like to express their views, he said.
The group will meet weekly to discuss prospective candidates
for the SHS directorship. The committee will review applications
sent in by candidates and will make a recommendation to
Boulton, who then will pick a director.
No applications have come in yet, Elliot said, since the
advertisement for candidates only recently went out.
"We are not in the position financially to attract the kind of
people we want," Boulton said. "They better love Chapel Hill a
whole lot."
New rebate plan for triples proposed
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Donald Boulton has approved a proposal
to give rebates to students tripled in dorm
rooms beginning the first day they are in
rooms until they receive notice that they
can move.
In the past, students did not receive
Morgan proposes income ceilings on student loans
By KERRY DEROCHI
Staff Writer
As a part of a revision of the Higher
Education Act which expires this year,
Sen. Robert Morgan, D-N. C, has
proposed that income ceilings on federal
loans to students be reinstated.
The ceilings, lifted by the Middle
Income Assistant Act of 1978, would
restrict the number of students eligible for
federally funded financial aid. Tom
Polgar, legislative assistant for Morgan,
said the senator's proposal resulted, in
part, from reports that students were
misusing funds.-
"There have been streams of
complaints of kids from families with
annual incomes of $60,000 and $70,000
who . are getting loans from the
government and then taking the money
and reinvesting it," Polgar said. "It's the
case of people writing in on their friends.
The letters have been coming in from
parents about the lawyer down the street
whose kids are getting financial aid.
"There have been 15 or 20 dispersed
complaints, though the bulk of them have
come from Chapel Hill and Duke
(University), where the higher income
students go to school," Polgar said.
Student Aid Director Will Geer,
however, said UNC-CH students have
among the highest repayment rate in the
country.
"Our students are very responsible,"
Geer said. "We lend money each year to
3,500 and we do it gladly with no doubts
that the students will repay. We're in
the business of lending money to young
people who have need for financial
assistance and who have hopes of
continuing their education."
Polgar said that as a part of the Higher
Education Act, the financial aid program
was being evaluated by both the U. S.
Senate and the House. Senator Claiborne
Pell, D-R.I., who controls revisions of the
student assistance programs, is
considering several proposals concerning
the revisions. One of these proposals
requires students receiving financial aid
to provide at least $700 from their own
resources to further their education.
Morgan said he supported this
proposal because "it reinforces the
principle that meeting the cost of higher
education is primarily the responsibility
of the student and his family."
In order to cut the total cost of the
financial aid program, several other
proposals will be discussed by a full'
congressional committee within the next
two weeks.
One of these proposals calls for the
total revision of the financial aid program
and the institution of a new loan agency
that would regulate money available to
students.
A spokesman involved with the
proposal said the program could create
five times as much money for the
students. She said the new loan agency
would borrow money from the Federal
Reserve Board at low rates and then
. redistribute the money to college
campuses. These loans would be based
totally on need.
Although Polgar did not say whether
Morgan supported the proposal, he said
Morgan wanted to cut the total cost of the
loan program or at least keep it at the
present level. He said, allowing for the
inflation ratc.this would limit the amount
of money available to the students.
"In general the Senate wants a cost
reduction, and the House wants an
increase in the funds available," Polgar
said. "It's a big controversy."
rebates until they had been tripled for 30
days. Boulton said it was appropriate that
the rebate corresponded to the actual
dates of overcrowded occupancy.
He said he felt that the rebate of 20
percent, which goes now to each of the
occupants in a tripled room, was
appropriate and fair.
Director of Housing James Condie
agreed that the 20 percent rebate was a
fair percentage.
Because the University wants to find
rooms for tripled students as soon as
possible, it will allow students who want
to cancel their housing contracts to do so
with the minimum financial penalty, he
said. The University released in January
more than 100 students from their
housing contracts in order to make room
for tripled students.
"We thought we were making people
happy on both ends in that the people
who wanted to get out could get out and
others could be released from triples," he
said. - .
Residence Hall Association President
Peggy Leight said she is glad students will
start receiving their rebates on the first
day they are tripled because studies have
found that crowded liv ing conditions are
detrimental to students.
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