The Daily Tar HeelMonday, October 2, 19893
City amid "Campus
Daoce to
By CATHY APGAR
find HEATHER SMITH
Staff Writers
- The UNC Fall Germans Dance will
return in its second revival year Friday
in Woollen Gym.
The history of the dance dates to the
1 940s, said Erica Riefenberg, secretary
of the Order of the Bell Tower, one of
the groups sponsoring the event. It was
an exclusive formal dance that was
very elegant and traditional, she said.
The Germans Club, which consisted
of members of fraternities and sorori
ties, .originally sponsored the invitation-only
dance. The dance's name
derives from a rough translation of the
word "German," meaning "gentleman."
The dance was open only to select
members of fraternities and sororities,
said OBT President Jeff Luttrell. Be
cause the dance became so exclusive, it
was stopped, he said.
But since the revival of the dance last
year, it has become a semi-formal oc
Council work session to address housing
By JESSICA LANNING
City Editor
:The Chapel Hill Town Council
Monday will review a proposal to bring
more affordable housing to Chapel Hill
for low- to middle-income families.
:The Culbreth Park Community
Development Corporation will present
its proposal to create a new subdivison
for low-income housing. The group
consists of interested citizens who ini
tiated and developed the subdivision.
The group has proposed to design
and build decent, affordable houses for
people who cannot pay housing prices
in the Chapel Hill market and to ensure
that these homes remain affordable
through a series of owners.
Two community forums to introduce town council candidates
By CHRISTINE THOMAS
Staff Writer
With the Nov. 7 election date near
ing, community forums and organiza
tional endorsements are beginning to
surface in Chapel Hill. Two election
forums featuring the Chapel Hill Town
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Porto criticizes administration, outlines platform
By CAMERON TEW
Staff Writer
. Carrboro's administration has not
formed a clear policy for the directions
the town should take, and it has not
weighed the cost and benefits of issues
concerning the town over the past two
years, Jim Porto, a Carrboro mayoral
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Town Meetings
Monday, Oct. 2
Chapel Hill Town Council
7:30 p.m. Municipal Building, 306 N. Columbia St.
Included on the agenda: Work sessions on the Culbreth Park project on affordable
housing and the service level for roads and intersections.
Orange County Board of Commissioners
7:30 p.m. Old County Courthouse in Hillsborough
Included on the agenda: Public hearings on a special use permit request from The Old
Place and the county budget priorities.
Tuesday, Oct. 3
Chapel Hill Town Council Candidate Forum
Sponsored by PHOBUS, the Retired Professional and Businessmen's Club
1 1 a.m., Fellowship Hall of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, 1712 Willow Dr.
Parking Committee
4 p.m. Town Council Meeting Room, Municipal Building, 306 N. Columbia St.
Chapel Hill Town Candidate Forum '
Sponsored by the Alliance of Neighborhoods
7:30 p.m. Grey Culbreth Junior High School, 225 Culbreth Road
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casion open to everyone. Students,
faculty members, staff, alumni and
residents of Chapel Hill are invited to
the dance. Members of the Senior
Class receive personal invitations since
this is their final chance to attend the
dance as students, said Tom Krebs,
senior marshal and OBT member.
The Fall Germans reached the height
of its popularity in the '40s and '50s,
when big bands like Woody Herman,
Stan Kenton, and Duke Ellington pro
vided music, said Karen Wertman,
advertising director for the UNC Gen
eral Alumni Association, which also
sponsors the dance.
"It was the event of the year. We are
trying to bring back some of that tradi
tion, especially since Carolina is a
school of tradition," Luttrell said.
Dress for the dance is semi-formal,
black tie optional, said Laurie Norman,
assistant director for alumni activities
for the GAA. Riefenberg said attire
will range from tuxedos to khakis and
The group bought 25 acres of land on
Culbreth School Road and plans to
create 52 small, single-family homes
available for rent or purchase. The
project will provide 10 public housing
rental units, 30 low-income homeown
ership opportunities and 12 market
rate homes for purchase.
According to a report issued by the
town manager, the scattering of public
housing units throughout the subdivi
sion and the mix of different types of
housing will be an innovative concept.
The report states it could be a national
model for integrating public housing
into a community.
The town's adopted Comprehensive
Plan defines "low-income" families for
Council candidates will be held Tues
day. The Retired Professional and
Businessmen's Club (PROBUS) will
sponsor the first forum at 1 1 a.m. on
Oct. 3 in the fellowship hall of the Olin
T. Binkley Baptist Church. The second
candidate, said.
Porto said he thought that during the
past two years the Board of Aldermen
has not found solutions to town prob
lems. In an issue paper Porto released to
Carrboro residents, he detailed his view
of major decisions the council has made
ties for men and from Sunday dresses to
semi-formal and formal dresses for
women.
Norman said: "It's an opportunity
for students, alumni, faculty and staff
to come together for a nice evening of
dancing and socializing. We realize
that the dance may compete with frater
nities and sororities but hope that the
Fall Germans Dance will be considered
a special tradition."
The 17-piece Casablanca Orchestra,
whose sounds include jazz, big band,
beach and top 40, will provide this
year's music. The band is known for its
authentic representation of swing-era
hits and has an enthusiastic following
across North Carolina, Wertman said.
"Last year' s dance was a wonderful
mix of students, seniors as well as oth
ers, and alumni, some of whom had
participated in the Fall Germans Dance
when they attended Carolina," Douglas
Dibbert, executive director of the GAA,
the project. A low-income family makes
50 percent to 80 percent of the median
of a four-person family income in the
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area.
The low-income range is $20,150 to
$32,250 based on a median income of
$40,300 in the area.
The group will seek aid for the proj
ect from the town of Chapel Hill in two
ways. One is to provide $420,000 in
deferred second mortgages of $14,000
each on 30 homes. The other request is
for the city to ensure the houses remain
affordable and low-income families
continue to to occupy the houses.
In an interview last January, Runyan
Woods, who founded the Affordable
Housing Project, said he did not have
forum, also on Oct. 3, is sponsored by
the Alliance of Neighborhoods and will
begin at 7:30 p.m. at Grey Culbreth
Junior High School.
Roland Giduz, program director of
PROBUS, said the purpose of the fo
rum was for voters to learn more about
urday's Homecoming parade. The band marched with 70 other
units despite overcast skies and cool temperatures.
in the past two years, and he outlined
plans he will enact if re-elected mayor.
'The town's leadership has not been
strong or listened to the concerns of its
residents," he said. "The town needs a
clear sense of direction."
Porto said the aldermen's lack of
support for the proposed watershed plan
and the Traffic Advisory Board's (TAB)
traffic plan are examples of the council
not meeting the needs and concerns of
the town.
The traffic problem in Carrboro is an
issue the aldermen have not handled
effectively, Porto said. The lack of an
orderly circulation pattern and the
town's increased traffic are major con
cerns which need to be addressed.
Porto proposed in his paper that the
aldermen set new guidelines to define
Carrboro's traffic problem and to re
view these criteria. If the town has a
traffic problem, the board needs to
reconsider the TAB 's recommendations
it voted down in September, Porto said.
"A plan needs to be adopted despite
opposition."
Tax increases in Carrboro will be
hard to avoid, as will a budget crisis,
and the town's present administration
has shown very little knowledge of
fiscal realities, Porto said in his paper.
The present mayor, Eleanor Kinnaird,
has proposed a very expensive public
transportation alternative to the traffic
plan, which would add another tax
increase, he said.
Another major issue Porto plans to
at UNC
said.
"We hope that this will be an experi
ence that will build in years ahead and
that will bring together alumni and
tomorrow's alumni."
More than 400 people, half of whom
were students, attended last year's
dance, Norman said.
Jason Beckert, treasurer of the OBT,
said the dance was "one of the best
dance functions of the year, especially
if you are non-Greek. If there's a spe
cial person you've been wanting to ask
out, this is the perfect opportunity."
Tickets cost $5 per person for stu
dents and $10 per nonstudent and are
available through the Alumni Office, at
the Carolina Union, in the Pit and at the
door. Refreshments are included in the
price.
Together with the OBT and GAA,
the Senior Class and the Carolina
Parent's Association will sponsor the
event.
profit-making intentions but wanted to
make a small profit so similar projects
can be developed in the future.
Woods said he has designed and
built many houses and restaurants in
the area and has been frustrated with
the increase in housing costs over the
past several years.
"We (AHP) do not like the way the
makeup of the town is changing, and
we want to get it back to the way it
was," Woods said. "We're just fooling
around with the market place and doing
something that is socially redeeming at
the same time."
The meeting is a work session rather
than a regular council meeting.
community issues in the upcoming
election.
"This is not a forum created just out
of a special interest, like some later
forums by other organizations may be,"
Giduz said. "It is just a forum of general
interest sponsored by this group."
DTHKathy Michel
address is the proposed historic district
in Carrboro. "Most residents do not
support a historical district but a minor
ity of people want to impose their wills
on a majority," he said.
If elected mayor, Porto said he would
send a questionnaire to the residents in
the proposed historical zone and said
he would need a positive response from
two-thirds of the people about the dis
trict, or he would attempt to repeal the
ordinance.
"There are no incentives to people
right now to have a historical district,"
Porto said. "The district would be ex
pensive to many residents and impose
too strict controls."
Porto said residents should not have
to get permission to fix a broken screen
door, and this is the type of red tape they
would encounter with a historical dis
trict. If the majority of residents do not
want a historical district, a compromise
still could be met, Porto said. He sug
gested establishing a register district
where people couldregister their houses
with the town government as historical
sites.
Porto said the town should also try to
renew the expired lease for the Farmer's
Market at its present location for ap
proximately 10 years since it does not
know how long it will take to build the
Town Commmons.
"I am a strong supporter of the
Farmer's Market but under present
conditions we might lose it," Porto said.
Dean of Library Science to
leave post after 5-year term
Evelyn Daniel, dean of the School
of Information and Library Science
since 1985, will not seek reappoint
ment at the end of her term in June
1990. A national search for her re
placement has begun.
Daniel said she took the post with
a commitment to complete one five
year term in order to change the ori
entation of the school from one that
looked only at libraries to one that
focuses on the study of information
transfer and use.
"I believe I have been successful
in accomplishing this goal and now
wish to return to my own writing,
research and teaching," she said.
During her term, the school's name
changed from the School of Library
Science to the School of Information
and Library Science, reflecting its
broader curriculum.
Two new degree programs, a
master's in information science and a
post-master's, the certificate of ad
vanced studies, were added in 1988.
The doctoral program also was
strengthened.
Enrollment in the school increased
from 120 students in 1985 to more
than 170 this year. The school's
administrative offices have been
reorganized and two new positions
created.
In 1988, Daniel initiated a faculty
led strategic planning process to
develop a five-year agenda for the
school.
Science building to be dedicated
The Swing Building will be dedi
cated Oct. 6 as Isaac M. Taylor Hall
to honor the dean of the School of
Medicine from 1964 to 1971.
The dedication ceremony, which
Giduz expects all seven city council
candidates to participate in the forum.
Each candidate will speak for three
minutes, and then the audience will be
allowed to address questions to the
candidates.
PROBUS conducted a forum in the
last municipal election two years ago.
Reflecting on the interest shown by the
public in that forum, Giduz said he
expected more than one hundred people,
including club members and the gen
eral public, would attend.
Margaret Taylor, president of the
Alliance of Neighborhoods, said her
organization expected the third forum
conducted by the group would be a
success. The alliance is anticipating
participation by all seven city council
candidates in the Tuesday evening fo
rum. "The forum is a good opportunity for
citizens to learn what the candidates are
going to do," Taylor said. The forum
will be conducted by a panel of ques
tioners who will ask the candidates
questions and open the floor to mem
bers of the audience.
When each candidate was contacted
by the Alliance, he or she received a list
of questions to which he or she re
sponded with a written reply. These
replies will be available at the door for
members of the audience to review and
question, she said.
Joyce Brown, one of the seven city
council candidates who said she will
attend the forums, is the first candidate
to receive an endorsement from a
From staff reports
Nominations for the N.C. Journal
ism, Advertising and Public Rela
tions halls of fame will be accepted
through Dec. 1. The UNC School of
Journalism has been the headquar
ters of the Journalism Hall of Fame
since its inception in 1981, and the
Advertising and Public Relations
halls of fame, which were created in
1988.
Past inductees include broadcast
journalists Charles Kuralt, David
Brinkley and Roger Mudd; former
Wall Street Journal editor Vermont
Royster, New York Times columnist
Tom Wicker; and cartoonist Jeff
MacNelly.
Nominations, including a letter and
supporting material, should be sent
to Richard Cole, dean of the School
of Journalism, at CB 3365, Howell
Hall, Chapel Hill, N.C, 27599-3365.
Final selections will be made by the
Halls of Fame Committee.
In anticipation of the creation of a
united European market in 1992, the
UNC School of Business' Executive
Program is beginning a program to
take U.S. executives to visit Euro
pean businesses and to meet execu
tives and government officials.
The first trip, from Oct. 15-25,
will be a tour of West Germany.
In addition to meetings, the visi
tors will examine German competi
tiveness through briefings by Ameri
can and German experts and acade
micians and by visiting manufactur
ing plants and taking cultural tours.
Douglas Elvers, UNC professor of
Academic Accolades
University Briefs
is free and open to the public, will be
held at 4 p.m. on the lawn in front of
the building off Mason Farm Road.
The rain site is the Clinic Auditorium
on the fourth floor of the Old Clinic
Building.
University officials participating
in the ceremony will include Stuart
Bcndurant, dean of the School of
Medicine; UNC-system President
CD. Spangler; Earl Phillips, chair
man of the Board of Trustees; Chan
cellor Paul Hardin; and Christopher
Fordham, chancellor emeritus and
professor of medicine. T. Franklin
Williams, director of the National
Institute on Aging, will deliver the
dedication address.
Swing Building houses the De
partment of Cell Biology and Anat
omy, the Laboratories for Reproduc
tive Biology, the Program in Mo
lecular Biology and Biotechnology,
research laboratories of the Depart
ment of Psychiatry and a unit of the
Division of Laboratory Animal
Medicine.
A Morganton native, Taylor gradu
ated from UNC in 1942 and was a
member of Phi Beta Kappa. He
completed his studies at Harvard
Medical School in 1946. He joined
the UNC faculty as an assistant pro
fessor in 1952.
Library to become smoke-free
A no-smoking policy at the Health
Sciences Library will go into effect
Oct. 1. For smokers' convenience,
ash containers are available at the
library entrance.
community organization.
Last week, the Orange County
Greens Organization endorsed Brown,
who said she was delighted to have the
endorsement.
Dan Coleman, spokesman for the
Greens, said the organization is affili
ated with the national and international
Greens. It is an independent political
organization that promotes concern for
ecological and social issues.
The Greens chose to endorse Brown
because she is a member of the Greens
and because of her outstanding posi
tion on the issues the Greens support,
Coleman said. " " '
"We see Joyce Brown as an excel
lent candidate from our standpoint in
terms of her commitment and responsi
bility to the issues we value," he said.
"Her concerns are with such issues as
waste reductions, democratic process
in government, growth issues, energy
efficiency and affordable housing."
Brown said the issues she found most
important in this campaign include
traffic reduction, mass transportation,
bicycle routes and recycling.
"I think we need to greatly increase
recycling efforts," she said. "We need
to promote the use of recycled items
such as paper."
Brown said she thought one of the
less obvious issues but an extremely
one was energy usage.
"I think the town could promote
energy efficient lighting and the use of
energy efficient resources such as solar
power in town buildings."
business administrationand Jorgen
Bloech, a professor at the University
of Gottingen, West Germany, will
lead the tour.
The cost of the program is $6,500.
Participants are sponsored by their
organizations.
Future trips are planned to north
ern Italy and Japan.
For more information, contact
Nanty Meyer, Executive Program
director, at the business school, CB
3445, Kenan Center, Chapel Hill,
N.C. 27599-3445, or call (919) 962
3120. The School of Business' Young
Executives Institute is accepting
applications for its 20th session,
which begins Jan. 21.
One of the most widely known
executive education programs in the
country, the institute seeks to expand
the perspectives of managers by fo
cusing on general management con
cerns and skills.
The curriculum covers accounting
and control, corporate social respon
sibility, financial management, indi
vidual and organizational behavior,
long-range planning, labor-management
relations and international busi
ness. Participants must be nominated and
sponsored by their organizations.
For more information, contact
Linda Bowen, director, or Alberta
Braxton, program manager, Young
Executives Institute, CB 3445,
Kenan Center, Chapel Hill, N.C.
27599-3445, or call (919) 962-3240.