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Marlon Barnes and Kirk Cash disassemble the
construction wall Monday afternoon after the
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By BLAKE DICKINSON
Staff Writer
After five years of delays and
controversy, the debate over Rose
mary Square ended Monday as
developers announced the project's
cancellation at the Chapel Hill Town
Council meeting.
"Our conclusion is that our project
cannot be built as a conventional
hotel in the allotted time, nor can it
be built as . a condominium project
in that time," said James Adams,
president of Algernon Blair Group
Inc. and executive officer of The
Rosemary Group Inc.
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Editor's Note: This is the first of
three articles examining the problem
of low faculty salaries and poor
benefits at UNC.
By WILL SPEARS
Staff Writer
UNC is in danger of losing its
reputation as one of the premier
institutions of higher education in the
nation.
Low faculty salaries and poor
benefits are drawing some of the top
teachers and researchers away from
the University, and the problem may
get worse, according to faculty
members.
"Our faculty salaries are not
competitive with other research
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"There is no sense in putting the
city, nor us, into a protracted ending."
The Rosemary Square agreement
between the town and the developers
of the controversial hotelcondomi
niumparking complex was referred
to Town Manager David Taylor for
final consideration.
The development would have been
constructed behind the Franklin
Street post office at the corner of
Rosemary and Henderson streets.
The brief presentation by Adams
to the town council ended the project
conceived in 1985 as a remedy to the
town's lack of parking.
Faculty in Flight
Tuesday: Defining the dilemma
Wednesday: 3 professors' stories
Thursday: Staying competitive
universities," said Harry Gooder,
chairman pro tern of the faculty
council. "Undoubtedly, we are having
trouble recruiting faculty of the
caliber that UNC has been able to
recruit in the past because of the
salary structure."
The problem has hit UNC's aca
demic departments hard, and some
department heads fear they will not
be able to retain quality faculty much
longer.
"1 am (able to keep faculty
members who get other offers) right
now, but I'm right on the edge," said
Richard Richardson, chairman of the
political science department. "1 may
be able to stop others (from leaving),
or I may not be. My feeling is that
I'm hanging on the edge."
UNC's reputation as a leading
research university is in jeopardy
because of low base pay for its faculty,
according to the Board of Visitors
Task Force Report on Compensation
at UNC-CH from June 1988. The
board is a 120-member service organ
ization created by the Board of
Trustees (BOT) to advise the chan
cellor and the BOT in University
affairs.
"Our university cannot continue to
rank in the 90th-plus percentile of
major research universities in the
country while being in the 60-79th
percentile in base pay," the report
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After five extensions of the closing
date deadline, the addition of two
development companies to the orig
inal project team and alterations in
the project's financial plan, the town
will have to re-examine plans for
downtown development and
revitalization.
"The question before the town
council is: 'How do they see their
downtown area?' " Adams said. "Do
they want office buildings? Do they
want retail? The city of Chapel Hill
has some tough decisions to make."
Adams, speaking for the Algernon
Blair Group, Airco Equity Interest
said.
The University's rank in base salary
as compared to its peer institutions
has been slipping since 1980, accord
ing to the report. In 1980, between
5 percent and 20 percent of UNC's
peer universities paid their faculty a
higher base salary. By 1986, between
20 and 40 percent paid a higher base
salary.
In 1980, UNC ranked between 10th
and 25th in base pay among peer"
institutions nationally. By 1986,
however, 69 of 172 comparable
institutions topped UNC's faculty
base pay, according to the report.
The average base salary for a UNC
faculty member professor, asso
ciate professor, assistant professor
and instructor for the 1986-87
academic year was $42,100, com
pared to $54,600 at the University of
California at Berkeley, $38,100 at
N.C. State University and $47,200 at
Duke University, the report said.
Correcting UNC's faculty pay
problems is in the hands of the N.C.
legislature, Gooder said. "Most of the
things that need doing cant be done
by the University. We need legislative
action."
There is no way to determine when
the legislature will reach a decision
concerning state salaries, Gooder
said. "They will make a decision
before they go home. But I have no
way of determining what, if anything,
they'll do about state salaries."
The legislature could reach a
decision as early as June, Gooder
said.
Gooder said the administration has
done all it can to make the legislature
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
By JASON KELLY
Staff Writer
Condom machines will be installed
in the bathrooms of all UNC resi
dence halls and the Student Union
by next fall, University officials
announced Monday.
The condom machines should be
available by fall semester, said Frank
Fearrington, director of purchases
and stores. "The plan is for the
machines to be installed by the time
students return in the fall. They
should be ready by August 15."
The University's AIDS Task Force
recommended condom machine
installation to the University admin
istration last December. Last week,
Student Congress also passed a
resolution to support the move, but
the final decision still remained the
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for first time alt UNC
By RHETA LOGAN
Staff Writer
Marriott Corp., UNC's food ser
vice company, has earned a profit at
the University for the first time since
it came here three years ago, Marriott
officials said Monday.
Marriott's UNC operation earned
a profit of $40,000 to $50,000 at UNC
in the fiscal year that ended in
December 1988, said William Dux,
Carolina Dining Services director.
This is only the third time in the
past 12 years that a UNC food service
has earned a profit, said Tom Shetley,
Auxiliary Services director.
Marriott has also recouped losses
. it experienced during its first year of
and the project's original develop
ment firm, Fraser Morrow Daniels,
said his firm would like to help the
town in considering alternative sites
for a downtown hotel, retail devel
opment and parking deck.
"We hope that y'all would want to
do more business with us," Adams
said.
The slow rate of sales of the
condominium-hotel units and the
$145,000 to $165,000 cost to investors
of hotel rooms caused the Rosemary
Group to rethink its commitment.
Facing a Sept. 30 closing deadline,
which the town council stipulated as
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administration's responsibility.
Frederic Schroeder, dean of stu
dents, said the availability of health
related materials was crucial for
disease prevention. "Any disease
prevention mechanism is only as
effective as it is available. The reason
we need these machines is that some
people are not as comfortable going
into the snack bar to purchase
condoms as they would be a rest
room."
Residence Hall Association Pres
ident Liz Jackson said the installation
of the machines was a good coop
erative effort between the administra
tion and the student body.
"I think it's a real positive step
forward. The decision speaks highly
of the respect the administration has
for students. I hope the machines
operation at UNC, Dux said. These
losses were one-time opening costs
Marriott had to pay when it came
to UNC in May 1986.
The profit is a result of increased
sales, Dux said. Marriott will earn
more than $5 million in sales this
fiscal year, whereas AR A food service
had reached only $3.2 million in sales
when Marriott replaced it in 1986.
. New food service features, such as
the Union Station in the Student
Union, may be part of the reason for
the sales increase, Dux said. "WeVe
tried to stay in tune with what the
customer is looking for."
Marriott had hoped to make a
profit here-during the second fiscal-
the termination date of the agreement
between the town and the developers
if not met, the developers opted to
abandon the project.
"You (the town council) have been
very kind to us," Adams said. "We
were not going to drag you out to
the end."
If the town council found it hard,
after the years of involvement, to
accept the development's demise,
Adams said, imagine how the devel
opers felt after spending more than
$250,000 on the project.
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won't be abused. People should
respect the intent with which they will
be installed."
Fearrington said the location of
condom machines would be a coop
erative decision. "The housing depart
ment and Vice Chancellor (Donald)
Boulton will determine where the
machines go with the help of student
government."
Wayne Kuncl, director of housing,
said the administration had asked his
staff for recommendations about
where to install the machines.
"The machines will be installed in
public bathrooms dispersed evenly
through the residence halls and the
Student Union. The condom
machines, like all other vending
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year, but the time needed to adapt
to sales fluctuations typical of a .
campus environment prevented that,
Dux said.
Dux said he did not know how the
. proposed consolidation of the food
services contract and the athletic
concessions contract, now held by
Ogden food services, would affect
Marriott's future profit-making
abilities.
"I don't know the terms of the new
contract, so I don't know what the
net effect of the two services will be,"
he said.
But Shetley said he thoughtthe
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Howes said. "But economics and time
passed us by until the project
wouldnt work."
The presence of a hotel would add
to the vitality of the downtown,
Adams said. But the cost and extent
of the Rosemary Group's project,'
along with the uncertainty of direc
tion by the town, had doomed Rose
mary Square.
Still, Adams said, shortcuts would
not have made the project a reality.
"Frankly, we didn't think that
cheapening the project was the thing
to do not that Chapel Hill did,
either."
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