4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 17, 1989
By CHRISTINE THOMAS
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill and University officials
are working together to make the town's
newly expanded recycling service to
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough
a success.
Blair Pollock, solid waste planner for
Chapel Hill, said the expanded curbside
service did not include the University
community, but he and Phil Preete, waste
reduction and recycling coordinator for
the University, have a good communi
cating relationship concerning recycling.
Dim gets boost from town, University
Right now the objectives of the town
and the University serve different needs,
Preete said.
"The town is more concerned with
residential and business recycling,
whereas we (the Waste Reduction and
Recycling department) work primarily
with office waste. Eventually, once we
get beyond the major thrust of office
waste and they (the town) get beyond
the thrust of residential waste, we can
begin to overlap our efforts more."
The department focuses on the ad
ministrative rather than academic waste,
Preete said. The Student Environmental
Action Coalition (SEAC) concentrates
its efforts in the residence halls and on
student involvement.
Through the efforts of University or
ganizations and expanding curbside re
cycling by the town of Chapel Hill, both
on- and off-campus students can be
come more involved in recycling.
"I think it (recycling) is an important
thing to do because we are going to run
out of room to put trash eventually, and I
think recycling is an important step for
conserving the environrment," said
Chapel Hill to get state foods
for 3 transportation projects
By JULIE CAMPBELL
StaffWriter
Chapel Hill residents will be able
to ride new buses, park in new park-and-ride
lots and drive on a new inter
state since the N.C. Board of Trans
portation allotted state funds for the
projects.
Scott McClellan, administrative
assistant for Chapel Hill Transit, said
the town will get 14 new buses and
build two park-and-ride lots.
Five of the new buses will replace
old buses that have exceeded their
useful lives, McClellan said. "And,
after observing the growing ridership
of buses and monitoring town devel
opments, it was decided that nine
more new buses were needed."
When the additional buses arrive
they will push the maintenance facil
ity off Airport Road over the 50-bus
limit, he said. "Therefore, we are devel
oping and expanding maintenance to
accommodate the extra buses."
The money awarded Friday also calls
for building park-and-ride lots on N.C.
Highway 54 East by the UNC Continu
ing Education Center and off U.S. High
way 15-501 South off Dogwood Acres.
The park-and-ride lot beside the Con
tinuing Education Center will be com
pleted by the first part of next year,
McClellan said. A park-and-ride lot al
lows commuters to park free of charge
and ride a bus into town, saving them the
hassle of finding parking downtown.
The state also awarded a 3.5-mile
construction contract to a Durham firm
to widen U.S. 15-501N.C. 54 bypass
ing Chapel Hill to four lanes.
The board awarded the $5.8 million
contract to Nello Teer Co., the lowest
bidder, that calls for adding two lanes
on the east side of the bypass from east
of State Road 191 1 south of Chapel
Hill to the interchange of U.S. 15-501
and Franklin Street north of town. The
existing lanes will also be resurfaced.
W. B. Buchanan of Graham, who
represents Orange County on the
board, said work on the project was
expected to begin Nov. 1 and was
scheduled to be completed in Novem
ber 1991.
Buchanan said the contract was the
first of three contracts for widening
the 7.3-mile bypass from Franklin
Street to N.C. 54 at Old Fayetteville
Road in Carrboro. The board is sched
uled to consider contracts for widen
ing the remaining sections in the fall
of 1990.
Suzanne Wuelfing, a freshman from
Asheville.
Cynthia Stewart, a junior from
Raleigh who lives off campus, said that
the recycling expansion in her housing
complex had not affected her but that
she was involved with recycling efforts
through her sorority, Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
Kappa Kappa Gamma house man
ager Lynn Ainsworth said the installa
tion of bins for collecting newspaper
and aluminum cans in the sorority house
was going well.
"I think its great that people are be
coming more aware of the world around
them by recycling."
Pollack said 60 percent of the homes
participated in the expanded recycling
project during the first three days.
During the first quarter of this year,
the operations of Chapel Hill, Carrboro,
Hillsborough, various community or
ganizations and the University recycled
660 tons of glass, aluminum and paper,
Pollack said. This represented 2 percent
of the waste to the landfill, not including
the recycled brush, leaves and appli
ances. A commercial cardboard operation
works with about 50 community busi
nesses collecting about 3.5 tons of card
board per week. If it is not recycled,
each ton of cardboard takes up about 3
cubic yards of landfill space.
In the future, Pollock said the town
hoped to add commercial glass recy
cling to include such businesses as bars
and restaurants. He said the town was
also initiating a search for a new landfill
and new types of technology to con
serve landfill space.
To help strengthen the recycling ex
pansion, Pollock said block leaders were
needed to communicate the advantages
of recycling to their residential areas.
Phase II of the expansion service, in
volving collection from single-family
homes in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough,
will go into effect Nov. 13.
Post office key issue in alderman race
By TIM BENNETT
StaffWriter
Opponents of a proposed new post
office on Fidelity Court in Carrboro
who feel they have been ignored in the
selection of the site are campaigning for
candidates who support their cause.
Residents of the nearby neighbor
hood produced a flier encouraging op
ponents of the site to utilize only two of
their three votes in the upcoming elec
tions for the Carrboro Board of Alder
men. The flier urged people to vote for
Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird and aldermen
candidates Jacquelyn Gist and Michael
Nelson.
Bob Proctor, an associate professor
of mathematics and a resident of Fidel
ity Court, said that people from the
University community made up the
nearby neighborhood and that the land
under consideration was the only green
space left in the area.
By using all of their votes, people
opposed to the site could inadvertently
elect a candidate who supports the site
and help defeat another who opposes it,
Proctor said. The balloting system gives
three votes to each person, and the three
candidates with the most votes are de
clared the winners.
The flier asks voters not to use their
three votes, Proctor said. "What it comes
down to is the balloting system is defec
tive." The flier has been criticized because
of its negative tone, Proctor said.
"I think calling it negative campaign
ing is distorting. The only thing they are
upset with is asking people not to use all
of their votes. We are an ad hoc neigh
borhood organization. We are not con
nected with any specific candidates."
The aldermen have totally ignored
the opponents of the site, Proctor said.
"We had a petition with 148 signatures
and the board ignored it."
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eration, and the aldermen held a public
hearing on Dec. 13,1988.
"We tried to look at this as carefully
as possible," Bryan said. "We did hold a
public hearing."
The Carrboro Board of Alderman
offered to sell two acres of land in a
section of Westwood Cemetery to the
U.S. Postal Service for $480,000be
cause the post office's location on
Greensboro Street is too small.
The postal service is considering the
offer, and if it accepts, construction could
begin next spring, Proctor said. "The
election is our last chance."
Hiring hold
on faculty
at seminary
By SANDY WALL
StaffWriter
Following two days of meetings last
week, trustees at the Southeastern Bap
tist Theological Seminary at Wake For
est University implemented a morato
rium on the hiring of new faculty and
formed a task force to develop a perma
nent plan for the selection of new fac
ulty. The plan, agreed upon after a six
hour meeting last Tuesday, temporarily
resolved a conflict that has divided the
school for nearly two years.
The school has been plagued by .con
troversy since conservatives took con
trol of the school's board of trustees in
1987. One of the major controversies
has been the process by which new
faculty are hired. Moderate faculty
members have said in the past they feel
they do not have enough say over whom
the trustees elect to the school's faculty.
The controversy of hiring procedures
and other issues of "shared governance"
has led both the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools and American
Theological Schools to threaten to take
away the school's accreditation. '
Last week's meetings were high
lighted by the trustee-faculty workshop
in which all sides discussed their differ
ences, said Paul Brock, director of pub
lic relations and communications at the
school. The faculty and trustees had not
spoken in two years, he said.
Following the two days of work, the
plan was unanimously agreed to by all
parties, and the task force was set up,
Brock said, adding "nobody stood up to
say they disagreed."
The moratorium on hiring will allow
the school some time to develop a per
manent, procedure for hiring faculty,
said Dr. Lewis Drummond, president of
the school.
"It gives us breathing space to hope
fully resolve the problem," he said in a
telephone interview. "I'm very hopeful
we can come up with some sort of plan."
Under the agreement reached during
the meetings, Drummond will retain the
right to fill immediate vacancies on the
faculty should they arise.
The plan was agreed upon after nearly
seven hours of discussion between both
moderate and conservative trustees and
the school's faculty and was met with
positive reaction on all sides. ,
"It literally broke out in applause in
the end," Drummond said.
He said he was pleased with last
week's meetings and they showed all
sides were making progress. ,
"They (the meetings) were expeed
ingly positive. We're working together
for the first time."
The plan also calls for the forrnation
of a task force that will find a permanent
solution to the question of faculty hir
ing, Brock said. The task force is to be
composed of three trustees, three fac
ulty members, Drummond and a facili
tator, Brock said. The group will report
its findings to the trustees in March.
The results of last week's meetings
will be sent to both of the school's
accrediting agencies, Brock said.;
In other business, the trustees refused
to address and thus tabled a faculty
proposal that called for all masculine
references to God be changed to non
gender specific. Brock said. The pro
posal can theoretically come up at the
March trustee meeting, he said. ;
A proposal that called for requiring
all faculty to sign the Baptist Articles of
Faith and Message vow, anbther stick
ing point between the faculty and the
trustees, was referred to a committee by
the trustees, Brock said.
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