The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XVI, Number 25
Charlotte, North Carolina
Thursday, October 30, 1980
Campus
Included
In Parkway
By Frank Cox
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
The Mecklenburg County Parks
Department is planning a series of
parks and paths along creeks
throughout the county, including
Mallard Creek, which borders UNCC.
In the future, this system of parks
and paved paths will be linked
together providing citizens with
around 100 miles of'bike and walking
paths, hopefully to be used as an
alternate transportation route.
This project, called the Charlotte
Greenway system, will eventually
reach from Matthews in the southern
part of the county to Cornelius in the
north.
Most of the funding now available
for the project is coming from $4
million approved in a 1978 bond vote.
The planners, however, hope to use
this money for the parks and hope to
get land donated for the connecting
hike paths.
Park officials noted that, since the
land needed is along the banks of
creeks and virtually all of it is part of
the normal flood plain of the creeks,
most of it could not be developed for
residential or commercial uses any
way.
Having the bike paths and the park
around Mallard Creek will be an add
ed plus for the UNCC communtiy.
This should also help the hazardous
situation for students who try to ride
their bikes to school along the busy
Highway 49.
The section along Mallard Creek is
in the first phase of the plan. Phase
one calls for acquisition of the land by
1983, either through donation or pur
chase. Construction of the paths and
parks will begin as soon as possible
after the land is acquired. All of this
depends, however, on the funds
available and the willingness of cit
izens to donate the needed land along
the creeks.
Phase II, III
Cafeteria
By Kevin Lyons
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
A plan to build a new cafeteria on
campus was announced recently and
Leo Ells, Vice Chancellor of Business
Affairs, said if the bids taken on Oc
tober 21 turn out to be viable, the
cafeteria could be ready as soon as
November 1981.
The cafeteria, which will be built in
the vicinity of the Phase II and III
photo by Bob Henderson
Mallard Creek, one of many creeks included in the new Charlotte Greenway
Project scheduled to begin in 1983.
Ready November 81
apartments, will be used by students
living in those apartments as well as
those students who will be living in
Phases IV-A and IV-B when they are
completed.
The cafeteria will also serve as an
alternative place to eat for both
students and faculty. Ells said that
there probably will be certain
“specialty kitchens,” that may in
clude “either a pancake house type at
mosphere, or a pizza house at
mosphere.”
The proposed cafeteria, which wil
be designed to accomodate between
800-1,090 students (the residence hall
cafeteria is designed for 2,000), cur
rently has a budget of $1,490,000.
Aide Won’t
Discuss
Student Aid
By Chip Wilson
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
President Carter’s top lieutenant
refuses to speculate on the future of
federal student financial aid if Ronald
Reagan is elected. However, he is
quick to remind young voters that it
is a high priority of the incumbant.
White House Chief of Staff Jack
Watson told a group of college jour
nalists that he was not sure of the
position of Reagan on student aid,
but that it could possibly decrease
given other statements of the
Republican challenger on government
benefits.
“Aid to education has been a high
priority of the President. He has been
responsible for a $72 million increase
in the current student aid programs,”
Watson said. “He has created high
water marks for educational
funding. ”
In the interview, the Carolina Jour
nal joined other college newspapers
from Florida, Texas, Tennessee and
Louisiana in asking questions about
Carter’s performance in office.
One interviewer asked, if the Presi
dent would handle the influx of Cuban
refugees in a different manner, could
he have done it over?
Watson responded: “When the
President announced that he would
let the refugees in, it did not mean he
encouraged the resulting floatila.
What the news media did not em
phasize was his statement that
American laws were to be enforced.
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