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Campus Y fair
offers chance
to volunteer
Is a paying job too much to ask for?
Well then, don’t ask for it. There are
plenty of opportunities for the kind
hearted to volunteer their time this se
mester in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area.
The first-ever Community Volun
teer Fair is being held between 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m. today in Great Hall of the
Student Union. Representatives from
several agencies and campus organiza
tions will be there to seek volunteers to
help with worthy causes. The event is
sponsored by the Campus Y and the
Volunteer Action Center.
Help the mentally handicapped, fight
for the environment, work in soup kitch
ens or read to small children. You can
make a world of difference. Besides, it
looks great on your resume.
Too little stress in your
life? Run for office
Run for Student Congress. Become a
public servant. Be admired by some of
your friends and scorned by the rest.
You can pick up a petition to be placed
on February ’ s ballot outside of the Elec
tions Board office door in suite A of the
Student Union.
Petitions are due by 5 p.m. on Jan. 28.
All questions should be directed to Elec
tions Board Chairman Ron Barnes at
932-2836. The DTH is not liable for
your possible election should you de
cide to run.
Alien invasion exposed
as orbiting satellites
Hundreds of metal objects have been
circling the Earth and observing it for
35 years.
But don’t worry, they’re not aliens
plotting to enslave mankind. In fact, we
put them there.
The Morehead Planetarium will be
offering an astronomy class about satel
lites for fifth- tmd sixth-graders on Jan.
16. from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The class,
called “Spies in the Sky,” costs sls per
child and requires pre-registration.
Also, on Jan. 18, there will be a
special planetarium show at 7:30 p.m.
about upcoming astronomical events
including meteor showers, eclipses and
planetary groupings.
And on Jan. 20, there will be the first
of eight Wednesday-night sessions
about the ancient skill of navigation.
For more information, ticket prices
and pre-registration call 962-1236.
Music written and
performed by four guys
Is chamber music your thing? Well,
Billy Stewart, Robbie Link, John Hanks
and Christopher Deane sure like it. In
fact they have composed an evening
full of the stuff and plan to perform it
this Saturday night.
The performance will draw from the
ensemble’s classical training as well as
improvisational skills honed by their
experience as jazz performers. Stewart
is a faculty member from the UNC
music department.
The event will be held at the People’s
Security Theater at 120 Morris St. in
Durham. Call 967-7429 for more infor
mation.
Embark on the quest
for the Grail-Valkyries
The Order of the Golden Fleece, the
Order of the Old Well, the Society of
Janus and the Order of the Grail-
Valkyries. No, these are not ritualistic
cults, but University honorary societies
steeped in decades of tradition and valor.
Know someone who could use it on
their resume? Well, the deadlines for
nominations is Jan. 29 at 5 p.m.
The Order of the Golden Fleece is
open to students, faculty and staff of
“high character, who have made last
ing, innovative and extraordinary con
tributions of excellence to the entire
University.” Founded in 1903, the Or
der can now be reached at Box 10,
Carolina Union, CB #5210.
The Order of the Grail-Valkyries rec
ognizes student organizational leaders
“who have demonstrated excellent
scholarship, leadership, character and
service.” They are at Box 21, Carolina
Union, CB #5210.
The Order of the Old Well accepts
students of “high character” who have
demonstrated humanitarian service that
has not been previously recognized.
They can be contacted at Box 31, Caro
lina Union, CB #5210.
The Society of Janus is; for students
who have made outstanding contribu
tions to the “quality of residence hall
life, primarily through innovative pro
gramming.” Contact them at Box 21,
Carolina Union, CB# (you guessed it)
5210.
You will need to get an official nomi
nation form, so act now before the dead
line comes any closer.
University Station plans scrapped
By Paul Bredderman
Staff Writer
The developers of the controversial
University Station development with
drew plans Tuesday for a rural housing
project between Chapel Hill and
Hillsborough.
After months of opposition from lo
cal residents, the Amerivest/Kenan/
Cogswell development group aban
doned its plan to build a 1,300-home
development with a golf course and
central shopping area.
Several county residents threatened
to take legal action if the Orange County
Board of Commissioners approved the
plan.
Asa result, the Amerivest/Kenan/
Cogswell Group announced its intent to
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Mid-campus seeks an equivalent to North Campus' Circus Room
Congress calls for
hunger relief in
mid-campus dorm
Snack bar proposed for Carmichael
By Marty Minchin
Assistant University Editor
A resolution passed by Student
Congress at its Wednesday meeting
may result in snack-bar facilities for
hungry mid-campus residents.
Rep. Philip Charles-Pierre, Dist. 17,
presented the bill to congress.
The bill encourages the University,
Marriott Corp., which services the
University and the Division of Student
Affairs and Food Services Committee
to look into establishing a snack bar in
Carmichael Residence Hall.
“I thought it was a good idea,”
Charles-Pierre said. “I saw that North
Campus had some snacking facilities,
South Campus had some and mid
campus didn’t have any.
“I thought it would be profitable to
have a facility as well. North Campus
has the Circus Room, and South Cam
pus has three places where you can
purchase stuff.”
There are snack bars located in
Morrison, Hinton James and
Ehringhaus dormitories.
The snack bar would be located in a
room to the side of Carmichael Ball
room, where there is adequate space
for the facility, Charles-Pierre said.
University officials and Carolina
Dining Services, which would pro
vide the snacking facility, must work
together for the snack bar to become a
reality, Charles-Pierre said.
Charles-Pierre said he discussed the
idea with Chris Derby, director of Caro
lina Dining Services, who thought the
Growing local senior citizen population affects need for services
By Robert Strader
Staff Writer
The growing population of senior
citizens in Orange County, especially in
Chapel Hill, may force service agencies
to modify their services to accommo
date the larger numbers.
According to the 1990 census, the
number of citizens 60 years and older
living in Orange County was about
11,000.
But Jerry Passmore, the director of
the Orange County Department on Ag
ing, said the number of area senior citi
CAMPUS AND CITY
build a more traditional housing devel
opment, dropping its effort to amend
the county ’ s existing zoning ordinances
to make way for high-density housing
projects.
“We could not lead our investors in
knowing (neighbors) may threaten a
suit,” said Arthur Cogswell, one of the
developers.
“Asa matter of necessity, we fell
back to the current zoning, which would
be legally defensible,” he added.
The modified development, which
will be built on a smaller scale, will still
occupy 620 acres of land north and
south of Old N.C. 10 and east of New
Hope Church Road.
New plans for University Station will
cut the number of houses in half, from
1300 to 614 homes, Cogswell said.
concept was a good one.
“Right now (the snack bar) is just in
terms of ‘ls it possible, can it be done
and can the University and Marriott
work together on it?”’ Charles-Pierre
said.
Rep. George Battle, Dist. 17, said
he supported the idea of a Carmichael
snack bar.
“I think it’s a good idea,” he said.
“I think it will benefit not only
Carmichael, but the whole mid-cam
pus area. I think it will be a great
convenience to the mid-campus and
south-campus areas.
“I know this is something (students
living on mid-campus) have wanted
for a long time.”
Charles-Pierre said he thought that
a snack bar also would foster commu
nity in the mid-campus residence halls
and that there was enough room in the
proposed snack-bar site to put tables.
“I think it can also help commu
nity,” he said.
“Carmichael is very much acontact
dorm. The snacking facility is another
way to initiate community.”
Charles-Pierre said all of the stu
dents he had talked to about the snack
ing facility thought it was a good idea.
“I’ve talked to a couple of students,
and they’re very positive about the
idea,” he said. “My job is to get it
enacted.”
In addition to normal dorm rooms,
Carmichael also houses UNITAS, a
multicultural living-learning program,
and the French, Spanish and German
language houses.
zens may have grown to about 13,000.
North Carolina has the second-larg
est percentage of senior citizens in the
southeastern United States after Florida,
he said.
“The growth impacts everyone,”
Passmore said. “More volunteer agen
cies probably won’t be created. Rather,
existing agencies, like the (Orange
County) Health Department, will have
to refocus their resources on who they
serve.”
Passmore said he thought the mild
climate, the public transportation sys
tems, the variety of activities sponsored
“It won’t look like a village, it’ll look
more like a standard subdivision, run of
the mill,” Cogswell said.
“Most developers in the area are do
ing small subdivisions,” he said. “I think
the scale of this thing frightened people.”
Orange County Commissioner
Donald Willhoit described the decision
to revise plans for University Station as
“a missed opportunity” for the county.
“I thought that this was an opportune
time for Ameri vest to be proposing such
a development,” Willhoit said.
The board of commissioners recently
completed a rural character-preserva
tion study that explored ways to reduce
urban sprawl and preserve county green
space.
The board had considered the Uni
versity Station’s proposed rural village
Town Council recommend§
alternative street designs
Staff report
The Chapel Hill Town Council
unanimously approved a recommenda
tion Monday night to change both new
and existing roadways to increase safety
for pedestrians and bicyclists.
To alleviate problems caused by ve
hicle congestion, the town will encour
age new streets to be developed that will
be compatible with Chapel Hill’s vil
lage-like quality, the report prepared
for the council by Town Manager Cal
Horton stated.
“There are opportunities for applica
tion of these ideas in many areas of
town,” Horton said.
“I think (the report) puts forth some
interesting ideas that will make neigh
borhoods more comfortable places
where people come first and autoiio
Phoenix, student publications find
meeting production costs difficult
By Steve Robblee
Staff Writer
Student Congress’ decision to freeze
The Phoenix’s budget has brought the
issue of financial stability of student
publications back into the public eye.
Student Congress froze the Phoenix’s
funds at congress’ final fall meeting
because the magazine had overdue print
ing and telephone bills.
The Phoenix, a bi-weekly
newsmagazine, case marks the second
time in recent years that student govern
ment has had to become actively in
volved in maintaining the finances of a
student publication. Earlier this year,
congress created a Student Activity Fund
Office discretionary fund to help the
Yackety Yack, the University yearbook,
pay off a publishing debt and, in the
process, avoid a possible lawsuit against
the annual and student government as a
whole.
Yackety Yack, pay congress back
Leslye Lindler, Yack editor, said the
yearbook was back on its feet after the
embezzlement of more than sßo,oooby
former business manager Tracy Keene.
“Right now, financially, I would say
we are fairly stable,” Lindler said. “We
have an obligation to pay back Student
Congress.” The Yack is getting SSOO a
month from Keene, who admitted to
stealing the funds.
All of Keene’s payments are being
forwarded directly to congress, Lindler
said. At the current rate of payment, the
yearbook’s debt to congress will be
paid off in 15 or 16 years.
The printing costs for the Yack are
about SBO,OOO a year. The yearbook
staff receives $7,500 from congress.
Lindler said the majority of the
annual’s revenue came from subscrip
tion fees for the yearbook and from
portrait commission fees. Students do
not have to pay to have their picture
taken for the book, but the portrait com
panies pay the yearbook a fee for each
portrait taken.
Lindler said the Yackety Yack was
scheduled to come out every fall. She
said that this year’s issue would not be
out until February but that she thought
next year’s issue would meet its No
vember deadline.
The Daily Tar Heel
Kevin Schwartz, general manager of
The Daily Tar Heel, said that because of
the recent recession, now was not the
best time to be decreasing the
newspaper’s reliance on student funds.
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everyone.”
JERRY PASSMORE
DIRECTOR, ORANGE COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF AGING
through city senior centers and local
medical facilities, especially UNC Hos
pitals, attracted senior citizens to areas
like Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.
Janice Tyler, the Chapel Hill Senior
The Daily Tar Heel/Friday, January 15, 1993/
model as an alternative to the county’s
existing zoning patterns, Willhoit said.
“I did not intend to be a proponent for
the (proposed) development because I
thought that it needed modification,” he
said.
Willhoit said he helped set up discus
sions between county residents and the
developer and asked the Orange County
Dispute Settlement Center to mediate.
“I thought that perhaps we could
reconcile the differences between what
the developer wanted and the commu
nity wanted,” Willhoit said.
Cogswell said he thought that the
discussions had been a good idea but
that they only intensified opposition
among residents.
Willhoit said local residents hotly
debated whether the proposed 18-hole
biles second,” he added.
The report determined that altering
the physical design of local streets could
encourage drivers to be more cautious.
Town planners said winding, tree
lined lanes and median strips would
force drivers to maneuver more care
fully, according to the report.
Pedestrian walkways should be eas
ily visible and accessible from major
roadways, the report stated.
“Certainly, these proposals would not
be appropriate for all streets,” Horton
said. “It will be used in limited applica
tion.
In an attempt to encourage more en
vironmentally sound modes of trans
portation, the resolution also contained
a clause encouraging streets to be more
amenable to cyclists.
Schwartz said the amount of student
activities fees the DTH receives each
year has been decreasing since the 1990-
91 school year began. The paper had
received 16 percent of the student activ
ity fund prior to 1990-91, and it has
decreased its reliance on student funds
by 4 percent each year.
The spring 1993 dispensation of stu
dent fees will be the last time the 100-
year-old publication will accept student
funds, Schwartz said.
The recent economic recession hurt
the DTH just when the newspaper
planned to rely more on outside in
come, Schwartz said.
“What we needed to plan on was a 5
percent increase in sales each year,” he
said. “Shortly after we decided to give
back the (student fees), the recession
hit.”
Schwartz said the DTH cut out some
frivolous expenditures and did not in
crease salaries to compensate for not
meeting the projected increase in ad
vertising.
An eight-page newspaper costs about
$3,000 to print, including overhead,
Schwartz said. “And we do 161 (issues)
a year,” he added.
Despite the recession, Schwartz said
the DTH did not have any debts.
“We’re right about break-even
through December,” he said.
The Catalyst
The Catalyst is another campus pub
lication feeling the sting of the reces
sion.
David Kaplan, one of four Catalyst
editors, said the magazine was an inde
pendent student-run journal of social
and political commentary.
Kaplan said the magazine had diffi
culty finding advertisers to buy space
on its pages and blamed the advertising
drop-off on the recession.
Since advertising is the only source
of revenue for the magazine, The Cata
lyst staff is having problems paying the
bills, Kaplan said. “It’s kind of arevolv
ing debt system,” he said. “And we have
no money in the bank ever.”
But Kaplan said he remained opti
mistic about the financial future of The
Catalyst. “The recession’s kind of end
ing so we’ll probably do better in the
future,” he said.
Lambda
■ Lambda, the student magazine of
Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and Al
lies for Diversity, has yet to publish an
issue this school year.
Lucy Sweetman, a B-GLAD mem
Center’s administrator for the Orange
County Department on Aging, said the
center probably would have to be ex
panded to accommodate the growing
number of senior citizens.
“The county has acquired land on
Homestead Road to be the site of the
Southern Orange Country Services
Complex, which is designed to consoli
date all the government services for
Orange Country and provide additional
services,” Tyler said.
Passmore said some senior citizens
had simple needs, such as having their
trash service take their garbage cans to
golf course constituted public green
space.
The golf course is still included in the
new plan but will not be accessible to
everyone as a preserved green space,
Cogswell said.
Cogswell said Amerivest might re
open discussions “if we had documented
agreement (from residents) that a plan
... would be accepted without legal
challenge.”
But Willhoit said it would be diffi
cult to obtain a pact from residents.
“You don’t have an organized group
that you’re dealing with, so you could
never get a sign-off on it,” he said.
Members of Citizens Against Uni
versity Station, a group formed to op
pose the development, could not be
reached for comment.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joe Capowski said the use of the alter
nate-street plan would depend on the
number of new local developments.
Horton said, “It is to be used by
advisory boards as they review future
development proposals.”
Capowski said that the plan could
affect streets already in existence but
that it would not be likely.
“There are such severe budget con
straints,” he said.
Capowski said few new roadways
would be built, except in new develop
ments. He added that the plan was un
likely to affect major roadways such as
Franklin Street.
“That (plan) does not mean every
new street will be manufactured as wind
ing,” he said.
ber who is involved with Lambda, said
the magazine’s first issue of the year
should be out later this month. “We
should be going monthly (starting in
January),” she said.
Sweetman said that B-GLAD was
planning a benefit concert at the Cat’s
Cradle Feb. 7 and that some of that
money would go toward Lambda.
Sweetman said the Lambda staff was
trying to raise its own money as insur
ance against defunding by Student Con
gress.
Last February, Student Congress
passed an amendment to the group’s
budget that stated that the content of
Lambda would be subject to post-pub
lication censorship by congress mem
bers since it received student funds.
This year’s congress rescinded the
amendment.
Lambda received s2,ooofor printing
and publicity from congress this year.
The Black Ink
Corey Brown, co-editor of The Black
Ink, the newspaper of the Black Student
Movement, said the publication had
survived despite a cut in its student fees
allotment from the previous year.
“I think this year we’ve made do
pretty well,” Brown said. “I wouldn’t
demand any more money, but I would
say we can do with no less.”
Brown said the Black Ink office still
needed equipment like a telephone an
swering machine for the office and
newsracks to put on campus. These
purchases have been put off because of
lack of funds, Brown said.
Brown said that five issues of the
Black Ink were produced during the fall
semester and that six were planned for
the spring.
In addition to student funds from the
BSM budget, The Black Ink receives
revenue from advertising, Brown said.
The Carolina Critic
The Carolina Critic, a conservative
based student-run magazine, does not
receive student funds, said Jim Copland,
the editor.
“(Our budget) comes from advertis
ing, subscriptions, donations and foun
dation grants,” Copland said.
Copland said The Carolina Critic
would have the money to print five
issues this semester.
The cost to produce an issue of the
Carolina Critic has increased by at least
S2OO dollars during the fall semester
because of a redesign in format, Copland
said. He said an issue now cost between
S6OO and SI,OOO to print.
the streets for them.
“However, not all senior citizens are
alike,” he said. “There are some people
in their 80s who are still very active.”
The structure of cities, businesses
and service agencies will have to be
rethought,Passmore said.
“Issues of accessibility are impor
tant,” Passmore said. “Already, bus sys
tems in cities like Chapel Hill have
adopted an ‘easy rider’ bus program
that allows for door-to-door pickup.”
Tyler said, “There is a big increase in
volunteerism across the county as a
whole.”
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