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2The Daily Tar HeelThursday. December 6. 1984
N
assif concerned with traffic, parking problems
By RICHARD BO YCK
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill Mayor Joe Nassif said
he saw the most important issues
currently facing the town and the
University, to be traffic and parking
problems, the Rosemary Square project
to be built downtown, and conflicts on
the Chapel Hill Town Council.
In an interview
yesterday, Nassif
said traffic prob
lems downtown
already were bad
and the Universi
ty's admitting
more students and
adding more on
campus parking
areas only made
the problem
Joe Nassif
worse.
If the University makes parking
readily available then it would be a
nightmare," Nassif said.
He said the University should desig
nate areas outside Chapel Hill where
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Porto dedicated to a more unified
By RICHARD BOYCE
Staff Writer
Not many people have both flown
helicopters and read Aristotle avidly;
even fewer have attended each of the
major universities in the Triangle area
UNC and N.C. State and Duke
Universities. Carrboro Mayor Jim
Porto has done all of these things.
Forto, 38, is a
lieutenant colonel
in the U.S. Marine
Corps Reserve
who flies choppers
around Norfolk,
V a . , twice a
month. He has
been in the
Marines since
1968, when he
went to Vietnam
for a year, and Jim Porto
said he hoped his dedication to the
Marines will pay off with the command
of a combat-ready unit in the near
future.
Porto is a 1968 graduate of Duke
where he earned a bachelor's degree in
psychology with a minor in philosophy.
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students could park and then ride buses
to campus.
But if the University made a more
rigid policy limiting the number of
vehicles on campus, more people
probably would begin using the town
bus svstem. thus increasine the cost of
riding the buses, he said.
Adding a new dorm for only 500
students will have a tremendous effect
on traffic and parking in Chapel Hill,
Nassif said, because the town itself has
only built 200 or 300 new housing units
each year.
"The onlv thing that generates tr-HV
downtown is irom the University," he
said, because townspeople usually
prefer to drive out to Kroger Plaza or
University Mall to shop.
Nassif said Rosemary Square, which
will contain condominiums, a hotel, a
parking deck and an office complex on
Rosemary Street beside NCNB Plaza
would help the downtown area by
bringing in people other than students
to live there.
"(Downtown) has to have a better
After traveling around the world in the
Marine Corps for five years, he returned
to the Triangle to attend N.C. State for
his master's in Public Administration,
and UNC to earn a minor in adminis
trative law. "I guess IVe covered the
area," he said.
Porto said the goal of education
should not be simply to cut out people
for certain vocations after they grad
uated. "If we get people who can think
on broader areas then they will con
tribute to our society," Porto said.
Until recently, Porto said he often
had three or four different books on
philosophy that he was trying to read.
"Tne latest thing that IVe read has been
a commentary on Aristotle's Politics."
Porto, a native of Columbia, S.C.,
first ran for mayor of Carrboro seven
years ago as an independent candidate.
He lost but volunteered for a position
on the town's appearance commission,
of which he eventually became chair
man. Last fall he ran for mayor again
and was elected.
Porto said he had not wanted to get
involved in either of Carrboro's two
local political factions, the Association
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mix of people," Nassif said. "Bringing
people downtown to live will bring other
people downtown too."
Nassif. who is in the middle of his
third term as mayor, said he also was
concerned about problems that arise in
working with the town council. He said
conflicts among council members
hinder the councils work. "It's non
sense; we track the same ruts over and
over and over," he said. "When new
people come on the board we reinvent
the wheel again. Meeting time is for
action, not for endless debate."
He said the lack of decisions being
made caused problems, adding he
wished more motions could just be put
forth and disposed of.
Nassif said he enjoyed being mayor
but "that he did not like the way
government seemed to move slowly.
Tm trying to understand if it has to
move so slow or if we could move it
along."
Nassif said Chapel Hill was an alive,
active community and that townspeople
for a Better Carrboro and the Carrboro
Community Coalition. "I wanted to see
if I couldn't get the community united,"
he said.
"I think we are not as polarized as
we once were. Twenty-five percent of
the people voted one year ago. Seventy
five percent of voters voted this year."
As mayor, Porto worked this fall to
try to get the town to build the Franklin
Street Extension to alleviate traffic
problems in Carrboro and revitalize
downtown businesses. The proposal did
not pass, but Porto said that in the
coming year he still wanted to work to
help downtown Carrboro remain a
viable, vital community.
"Carrboro is the last place where
moderate-priced housing is available,"
he said, because so many higher income
families have been moving into Chapel
Hill.
"Chapel Hill is becoming a exclusive
community," Porto said. "We must
move to balance the (Carrboro)
community."
At Carrboro Board of Aldermen
meetings, Porto often seems to be
leaning back relaxed in his chair with
Stress
It also is important for students to
maintain communication at home,
Ranc said. "Parents can put too much
pressure on students. Sometimes breaks
between semesters are good times for
students to sit down aruj talkwitjkthem.
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they want to do.
To combat "pre-exam jitters," Lowe
said, students should make a flexible
master schedule of when and what to
study, find a quiet place to study, get
organized, reward themselves and set
realistic goals.
Students can reduce test anxiety by
thinking through potential questions.
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did a good job keeping any part of it
from becoming run-down. "Lots of
people in the state think this is the weird
capital of the world, but you can look
and see people care about it."
Nassif said he also was striving to
help solve the town's recurring water
shortages. Next year a cofferdam will
be built at Cane Creek, he said, because
it will bring 200 to 300 million gallons
of water to Chapel Hill.
A cofferdam is a temporary earth
dam to be built on Cane Creek until
a permanent dam can be built in the
next two to four years. University Lake
now provides the town with about six
million gallons of water a day.
Nassif graduated from Notre Dame
University in structural engineering and
later attended N.C. State University to
get a degree in architectural design. He
runs his own architectural firm and has
just bought the Little Professor Book
store at University Square in Chapel
Hill, renaming it Page One.
He and his wife have four children.
Carrboro
his hands locked behind his head. He
grins .a lot. But he said there was a
problem with being mayor, though: "I
like the job so much I'd like to be doing
it full time," he said. jf
Since the mayor in Carrboro does not
vote on the Board of Aldermen except
to break a tie and cannot veto bills or
make appointments, Porto said he saw
his role as mayor to be acting as a focal
point for the affairs of the town.
"The mayor is primarily a represen
tative for the town," he said, "He takes
stands and performs leadership roles."
Porto also works as a management
consultant with Manangement Appli
cations Information, a business he and
two friends started three years ago.
Porto, who is originally from Colum
bia, S.C., and his wife Camille, have
two children, Trey, 16, who is in the
1 1th grade at Chapel Hill High School,
and Rachel, 14, who attends Phillips
Junior High.
Porto said he might consider seeking
another political office a few years from
now, but for now he enjoys being mayor
of Carrboro. He will finish his first term
at the end of next year.
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taking a few deep breaths before going
to an exam, not panicking on "impos
sible" questions, carefully reading
directions and questions, and answering
all parts of questions, Peel said.
"If you find ""you're getting over
whelmed: da talk to an RA," Lowe said.
"WeVe been trained and have a lot to
share,
here."
That's the whole reason we're
Lowe said she referred students with
severe problems to the Student Devel
opment Counseling Service at Nash
Hall for stress management and study
skills programs or to the Student
Mental Health Service.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia - Labor leaders
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Bolivia's 1,500 percent annual
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The 150 national delegates of the
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yesterday. In return, the government
agreed to control food supplies and
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Charges made against CIA
WASHINGTON Citing affi
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they have witnessed abuses by U.S.
backed rebels, a civil liberties group
is charging that the CIA's covert war
and its controversial rebel manual
have led to "wholesale violations" of
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WASHINGTON The Reagan
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Thursday
Noon University Managers Associ
ation lecture: "Supplemental
Retirement Income Plan of
N.C. "by N.C. Representative
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12:30 p.m. Lecture: "Indoor Air and
Human Health: Lessons from
South Asia" by Dr. Kirk
Smith of University of Hawaii
in Rosenau Hall Auditorium.
3:30 p.m. Undergraduate Geography
Association last fall meeting
in 3rd floor lounge of
Saunders.
CSF Steering & Members at
large meeting in CSF Office.
This is the last meeting.
4 p.m. Institute of Nutrition and
School of Dentistry 8th
Annual Thomas Robert Mal
thus Lecture in 1 1 1 Beard.
6:30 p.m. Model UN Club meeting and
elections in 470 Hamilton.
7 p.m. Comic Book Club meeting in
the Union
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to exert political and moral pressure"
on the Soviet bloc to improve its
"generally poor record" on human
rights.
In a biannual report to Congress
on Soviet bloc compliance with the
1975 Helsinki accords, the adminis
tration said "Soviet performance in
the field of human rights continued
a deplorable decline" during 1984
and that, with some exceptions, the
situation was also bad in Czechos
lovkia, Bulgaria and other
communist-ruled East European
countries.
The document, released Tuesday
by the State Department, covered
last April through September and
concentrated on compliance with the
humanitarian accords reached at
Helsinki and at the 1980-83 follow
up conference at Madrid.
NATO spending upped
BRUSSELS, Belgium NATO
defense ministers agreed yesterday to
increase conventional defense spend
ing by 40 percent to counter an
imbalance in Europe favoring the
Soviet bloc.
U.S. Defense Secretary Casper
Weinberger, citing the threat of
"Soviet hordes," and other defense
ministers said the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization would spend
$7.85 billion in the next six years.
The money will primarily go to
upgrade equipment and facilities for
U.S. reinforcement troops that
would come to Europe in time of
war.
Christmas large group meet
ing in the Union.
7:30 p.m. Riding Club meeting and
dinner at Darryl's.
STAND meeting in the Y
Lounge.
8:30 p.m. Fellowship of Christian Ath
letes meeting with Steve Esten
camper of Athletes-in-Action
in 208 Union.
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House at 204 Glenburnie St.
7 p.m. CCF .Christmas Party at CCF
House at 204 Glenburnie St.
North Chapter IVCF Christ
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Chapel of the Cross.
STAND Peace Vigil at Frank
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Saturday
9:30 a.m. Anglican Student Fellowship
Saturday breakfast at Chapel
of the Cross.
7 p.m. FOCUS (Graduate IVCF)
Open "Messiah" Sing at 214
Pittsboro St.
Sunday
11 a.m. CCF Worship Service in the
Union.
7 p.m. Chimera Cantina Rehearsal
in Great Hall.
7:30 p.m. Wesley Foundation Lovefeast
in the Moravian Tradition at
214 Pittsboro St.
For the record
Pascal and Associates has not yet
filed suit against UNC Student Stores
as reported in the article "Computer
firm files suit"(7Y, Dec. 3). The DTH
regrets the error.
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