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2 The Daily Tar Heel Thursday. October 17. 1985 Beard as By LISA BRANTLEY Sun Wnt ft 1 he Chapel Hill planning board voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend that the Town Council approve the site plan for Europa Office Center, a proposed live-story office building and three-level parking deck at the corner of Europa Drive and i.egion Road. The office building, which would consist of two connected wings, is scheduled for construction in two phases. The eastern wing nearest Europa Drive and 215 spaces of the 680-space parking deck will go under construction no later than April 1986. .' Discussion on the project by board members centered mainly on improvement of the 15-501 Europa Drive Erwin Road intersection and its probable cost to Europa Office Center's developer, Fraser Morrow and Company of Research Triangle Park. According to developer Whit Morrow, intersection improvement necessary to accommodate additional traffic flow created by the office building would cost SI approximately $50,000. By comparison, the cost of completely restructuring the intersection, which traffic engineers predict eventually might be necessary, would be approximately $150,000. Board member Alan Rimer said he approved of additional funding coming from the state or other sources in addition to the developer. "I don't see how it's one project's responsibility to restructure a state road," he said. Board member Don Francisco said he thought that local commuters probably contributed to traffic flow problems at the Erwin Road 15-501 intersection, especially drivers who lived in Durham and commuted regularly to the university because of high Chapel Hill housing costs. "We caused it (traffic congestion at the intersection), and 1 don't see why we shouldn't pay for it," he said. In other action, the planning board voted unanim ously to- recommend that the Town Council deny a zoning amendment that would have allowed the Orange County Women's Center to use the Hill house at 210-212 Henderson St. for its offices. Usura The house, which was purchased for the Women's Center, is currently zoned residential-3 and would require an office and institutional zoning to allow offices there. An alternate proposal suggested at the board's Sept. 17 meeting was for the center to apply for an amendment to the uses allowed under residential-3 that would include a non-profit community service agency designation. The Women's Center would fall under this category because it is a nonprofit organization offering programs and counseling for women. After denying the rezoning application, the planning board discussed making a request to the Town Council for a zoning atlas revision in its advisory capacity, but decided not to take action. Some board members said that they felt the Women's Center should make a direct application for a textual amendment to the zoning atlas and bypass the planning board. UI think the initiative should come from the people who want the change," said Bill Rohe, board member. By ROBERT KEEFE Staff Writer A good background in liberal arts and an ability to communicate well are the most helpful items in establishing a successful career in personnel man agement, according to a panel discus sion sponsored by the University Career Planning and Placement Service Tues day night in Hanes Hall. The panel was composed of Hector McEachern, senior vice president with the personnel department of Wachovia Bank; Betty Whitehead, director of the personnel department of Orange " American Heart Association WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE County government in Hillsboro; and Norma Laughton, director of the human resources department with CBS (WRAL TV radio) in Raleigh. "You need good communication skills," said Whitehead. "You have to have the ability to write clearly so that other people can understand you. "You must also be able to articulate so that people hearing you will listen to you and will understand what you are saying." Whitehead said the need for good communication skills stemmed from the responsibilities associated with the personnel department. "What comes out of personnel is considered gospel, so it has got to be correct," she said. Laughton said no matter what depart ment a person was going into, it was good to know all you can about that r3S bARllvlG TRY WEARING our loops, hoops, ana swiris 0 University Square .Chapel Hill 967-8935 FALL SEMESTER MEMBERSHIP J V z II V li ) I "is mmm? 111 $9900 Membership Good thru 121585 Si"! fl 503 C West Main St Carrboro, NC 933-9249 Hilton's Choose a suit or sportcoat select anotherget both at r.iltons Special 2-fer-prices. 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A well-rounded degree in liberal arts will give someone a little knowledge about everything, the panelists agreed. But more important than a college degree is background experience. "When I'm looking for people (to fill positions within the human resources department), I'm not so concerned with degrees or so forth as much as with what you have done in the past," , said Laughton. Whitehead agreed that past expe rience such as internships and other part-time experience was more impor tant than the type of degree, or the amount of classroom work a prospec tive employee has done. Whitehead started out as a personnel technician with Orange County. After working two and a half years, an opening for the directorship opened up, and Whitehead applied. Contrary to what she thought, she got the position. "What youVe got to sell in order to be successful is your integrity," she said. "You also need to know about your organization, and you need to be flexible." Whitehead said the starting salary for a personnel technician in the public sector was about $16,000 to $17,000 a year. Analyists average around $ 1 9,000 to $24,000 per year, while the average pay for directors was around $25,000 to $48,000 per year, depending on the size and complexity of the organization. McEachern said the average starting . salary for trainees with Wachovia was around $ 1 8,000 to $22,000 per year. McEachern summed it up for the panelists by saying: "To be good in personnel, you have to be good in analytical skills, communication skills and negotiation skills. "We sell our product just like the salespeople, it's just that our good is good human relations." At THE FAMILY DOCTOR There's No Such Thing As "A Little Cold!" WE TAKE YOUR HEALTH SERIOUSLY Open Mon-Sat 8 to 8; Sun 1 to 8 No Appointment Necessary 10 student Discount With I.D. 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The body was put aboard an Alitalia plane bound for Rome, where U.S. officials and Italian authorities will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death. U.S. Embassy spokesman John Burgess said that although there were two . bullet wounds in the corpse, there had been no autopsy to determine the cause of death. He stressed that Klinghoffer could have died before he was shot. The four Palestinians who hijacked the ship have been charged by Italian officials with murdering the partially paralyzed Klinghoffer, but judicial sources reported that they had denied the charge. news in one Storm kills 71 in dormitory DHAKA, Bangladesh A storm roared inland from the Bay of Bengal Tuesday night, lashing Bangladesh and southwest India with winds of up to 93 mph and sending the roof of a dormitory at Dhaka University crashing down on about 500 students. Hospital sources said Wednesday that at least 71 people died and rescuers expected that number to increase. Newspapers reported that the death toll at the University could be more than 100, with many still buried beneath the rubble. The students were in a dormitory auditorium watching television about 9 p.m. Tuesday when the accident occurred. The building was undergoing repairs and one student said the outer coating of the roof had been removed earlier in the day. Promotion efSosHs studied By MARK POWELL Business Editor" Chapel Hill and Carrboro are form ing an entity that will organize com munity efforts to promote the towns, as a result of a conference in Lexington, Ky., held last week. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce and the Lexington Chamber of Commerce met in a Public Private Partnership Conference to discuss combining commerce, commun ity and political factions of the towns to maximize development of the community. Three resolutions came out of the conference, according to Leonard P. Van Ness, executive vice president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce. The first is to form a steering committee to organize a body that will represent all segments of the community in an effort to control Chapel Hill's growth. The organization will be patterned after Lexington's Lexington United, which markets the area to developers. The group also oversees growth and development in the area. The second resolution is to support the Chapel Hill Newspaper, Joe Nassif (Mayor of Chapel Hill) and Jim Porto (Mayor of Carrboro) in their efforts to study the effects of a Chapel Hill Carrboro merger. The final resolution is to form an action group to build affordable housing in Chapel Hill. Builders at the conference said Chapel Hill is a hostile environment for developers, Van Ness said. "There needs to be some give and take with devel opers," he added. Robert N. Anderson, a Chapel Hill architect who attended the conference, said, "We need constructive leadership. "The no growth approach is going to chase away the good developers. There is no way to legislate design. "The interstate is a fact, we're going to have a great deal of growth, no matter what," he said. Farris Womack, vice chancellor at UNC for business and finance, said the University is not the main reason for the increased development in the area. "The area is the cause," Womack said. Van Ness pointed to the construction of a Duke Power substation near the U.S. 501 by-pass outside Chapel Hill as an example of non-controlled growth. "That project went up without a hitch, but Duke Power was conscien tious enough that they paid attention to the athestic value that Chapel Hill values," Van Ness said. Van Ness supports a merger of planning boards for Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County. The combined boards would be better able to oversee development of the Chapel Hill area, Van Ness said. 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