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By Joy Thompson
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Historic District
Commission in a meeting'Thursday,
July 11, discussed plans for setting
up a subcommittee to inspect the
conditions of Greek houses in the
Historic District.
Commission Chairman Arthur
Marks said he would get a subcom
mittee of two or three Commission
members "to walk around town" and
look at the appearance of the houses.
Marks said he received the idea for
the subcommittee last week from
Donald Boulton, vice-chancellor and
dean of Student Affairs at the
University. . s
"It turns out there was a special
committee of board of trustees that
was going to have a meeting in
August to address the question of j
getting all the houses up to snuff,"
Marks said.
"Boulton felt that it would be
appropriate to look at all of the
houses," Marks said.
Marks said the Commission was
going to write a letter to the com
mittee "applauding the efforts of the
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board of trustees."
Marks had already compiled a list
of all the sorority and fraternity
houses in the District, and that night
he and the Commission members
studied a map to find out exactly
where each house was located.
"My sense is that the sororities are
in reasonable shape," Marks said, but
he expressed doubts about the
fraternities.
Several of the other items on the
agenda were concerned with the
approval of modifications for Greek
houses in the Historic District.
The Commission voted to approve
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the erection of a new wall sign on
the front of the Kappa Alpha Theta
Sorority house located at 227 E.
Rosemary Street.
The new sign will have 10-inch
brass letters that would replace the
18-inch wooden letters on the old
sign, said Majorie Christiansen,
chairman of the house corporation
that owns the house.
The Commission also voted to
allow the Delta Delta Delta Sorority
to repair a garage on their house
located at 407 E. Franklin Street.
Commission member Louise
Oldenburg said the sorority will close
one of the two garage bays and make
it into a storage room. "We would
also like to add a skylight," Olden
burg said.
The Commission voted to post
pone a discussion of the special use .
permit requirements of the Alpha Chi
Omega Sorority house so members
of the sorority could be present at
the next meeting. Commission
members wanted to address ques
tions to them concerning the condi
tion of the boxwood trees on their
property.
The Commission also welcomed
new member Allen Irvine to the
Commission and said goodbye to
Oldenburg, who is retiring.
A II A merica loves ice cream
Kevin Meredith
'News Editor
Fortunately for America, ice
cream, every bit as traditional as
Coca-Cola, is not in the hands of a
single corporation. If it were, ice
cream lovers (roughly 100 percent of
the population in most regions)
would exist at the whim of a few
yuppie fast-buck artists, who think
nothing of tampering with an Amer
ican institution, or even doing away
with it, when that nebulous oracle
they worship, "market research,"
indicates such a move might turn a
profit.
No, the formula for ice cream isn't
secret. Ice cream can be bought in
more places than a fast food ham
burger, and can even be made at
home by anyone strong enough to
turn the crank.
Within walking distance of the
University campus, no less than four
bastions of American comfort and
stability stand to dispense civiliza
tion's coldest pleasure, ice cream.
Donna Chambers, who works at
Haagen Dazs, a half block east of
campus, believes that for some
people, ice cream can be a spirtual
experience.
: "Ice cream makes me happy," she
says, adding that it makes her a better
person too.
Donna, who attends UNC
Greensboro during the school year
and is a sophomore there, says that
when she needs to get away from the
dorm and her studies, she goes for
ice cream.
Donna is also working at a grocery
store in Chapel Hill this summer, but
says she enjoys her work at Haagen
Dazs more. "When people come into
a market, they're not happy about
spending the money T" but at Haagen
Dazs, that doesn't seem to bother
them, she said. -
Donna considers Haagen Dazs ice
cream the best, because it "doesn't
have a lot of yucky stuff." Her
favorite flavor is Swiss- almond
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chocolate.
Joe Girardim, who owns and
manages Haagen Dazs, says, "For
some reason, under duress (sic),
students eat ice cream," noting that
ice cream sales go up 30 percent
during final exams at the University.
"Maybe it's for relaxation," he
suggests.
Mrs. Berkowitz (if you know her
well enough, you can call her Mrs.
B) owns and runs Baskin Robbins
with her husband. The store stands
on Franklin St., across from campus,
and has seen "a lot of traffic," she
says.
Mrs. Berkowitz describes ice
cream as an inexpensive date" for
college students because they dont
have to drive a long distance for it,
and ice cream is comparatively
cheap.
She believes ice cream plays "a big
nart in a ctuHnt'c lifo KrancP it
is for the young, and "nobody's
younger in spirit than the college
. person."
- Chocolate ice cream, in particula'r,
Mrs. Berkowitz believes, "lifts the
spirits." This fall, Baskin Robbins
will be lifting spirits with four or five
new cnocoiate navors, sne says.
Jeanne Stockert, who works at
Baskin Robbins and will be a sopho
more at UNC-Chapel Hill this fall,
says ice cream, although cold, is not
limited to any season. Jeanne, who
attended Grinnell in Iowa, said
people in the north eat more ice
cream in the winter. l adore ipe
Gelato d'Oro (which means
"golden ice cream" if you say it in
Sicily), on Franklin-Street opposite
the University campus, is Chapel
Hill's only source of Italian ice cream.
Alicia Burchfield manages the store
this summer, and will be a junior
communications major at UNC
Chapel Hill in the fall. To sell ice
cream, she says, you have to be
"friendly and open."
Ice cream is America's most pop
ular dessert, Alicia says, describing
it as "a universal food."
The ice cream at Gelato d'Oro is
made on the store premises, and is
frozen at 40 degree below zero for
24 hours before it can be sold.
Eddie Masters makes the Histinr-
tive cone, called a pizelle, at Gelato
d'Oro, and does the art for the store's
advertising campaigns. "We have
wonderful colors," he says.
"We have creamy lemon to die,"
he adds cryptically.
Leon Todd, a graduate of UNC
Chapel Hill who owns and operates
Swensen's in his retirement, says "Ice
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