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®lip latly Otar Brcl J? Volume 102, Issue 53 101 yarn of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Area Leaders Cautiously Celebrate Triangle’s New Celebrity Status Money magazine's annual survey boosts Raleigh/ Durham/Chapel Hill up four places to number one. Below are the top five areas the magazine named. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill 0 Rochester, Minn. 0 Provo/Orem, Utah O Salt Lake City/Ogden, Utah 0 San Jose, Calif. get ready for Football The North Carolina football team is hard at work, going through two-a-day practices to prepare for its first game Sept. 3. The Tar Heels will have to overcome injuries and the preseason heat to be ready to tangle with gridiron foes in the fall. BY STEVE ROBBLEE SENIOR WRITER Students will fight the heat this week while moving into their campus homes, but North Carolina football players have battled the elements since Aug. 12 twice a day, in practice. Some players have been working to get in shape while others are trying to impress the coaching staff enough to earn playing time when the Tar Heels’ season begins Sept. 3 against Texas Christian University. UNC head coach Mack Brown said that, with just eight starters returning, many of the positions were more open than they had been in the past. “There’s a lot of guys that are just happy to get a chance to prove them selves,” Brown said. “So this is really a year that some guys that haven’t played that are older have to play well for us to be successful. So I’m sure they feel some pressure and some ex citement at the same time.” Some other players have spent time during the summer practice season recuperating from injuries they suf fered last seaso”jpr during spring prac tice. Greg DeLong, last year’s starting tight end, went down in the fifth game of the season last year against N.C. State University with a tom anterior cruciate ligament in his knee. Please See FOOTBALL, Page 2A Editor's Note For some of you, reading this edition of The Daily Tar Heel is an inaugural welcome to the Southern Part of Heaven. And for some, it's a welcome back. But no matter how long you've called Chapel Hill your home, there's a place for you at the DTH. We're looking for students interested in writing, photography, graphics, layout and photography to build our staff this semester. Applications are available in the DTH office, which is located in the back of the Student Union in Suite 104. If you have any questions, call our newsroom at 962-0245. Good luck in class. BYLYNN HOUSER CITY EDITOR Money magazine announced in its September issue what many Triangle resi dents have said all along that the Tri angle is the best place to live in America. The article has people across the coun try calling for information about the area, especially after ABC-TV featured the Tri angle on “Good Morning America” last week. The interest is especially high after Fortune magazine ranked the Triangle last year as the number one place to do business. Money’s annual rankingofthe nation’s 300 largest metropolitan areas showed that out of nine categories, the Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill area had extremely high scores in four health, economy, housing and education. The other five >4t Tj MSmSm MM IfiPl ’-A 4 * JKII '3m • , , Mr . :.. jM. mf % jjjnK 1 \ JUt m. , ' ' ■■ * Mil PHOTO BVQWM IWiVEKON TOP: Offensive lineman Jerness Gethers takes a break from pass block drills Wednesday. BOTTOM: Freshman quarterback Oscar Davenport looks to pass to receiver D.J. Williams. Free safety Eric Thomas (38) tries to prevent Williams from turning upfield. New Chick-fil-A Prepares for Customers as Dining Hafl Renovation Nears End BY CHRIS NICHOLS SENIOR WRITER In the three weeks since summer school ended, perhaps the busiest place on cam pus was Lenoir Dining Hall. The reason for the flurry of activity is renovation. With a capital R. The makeover was not merely a facelift but a downright cosmetic overhaul. Exit the carpet, the partitions, the turn stiles and the salad bar. Enter checker board floors, ceramic tiles on the store fronts, in-house sandwich alterations and Chick-fil-A. Chapel Hal. North Carolma MONDAY, AUGUST 22,1994 categories were crime, transit, weather, leisure and the arts. The article noted several “intriguing” qualities of the region. One was the abun dance of young people, who are drawn by UNC, Duke University or N.C. State Uni versity, living in apparent harmony with approximately 13,550 retirees, drawn to the mild climate, cultural opportunities and plentiful doctors. The area has everything that senior citi zens look for, said Ray Reich, who is active in the Chapel Hill Senior Center. “I’ve talked toalot of senior citizens, and they’re very glad they made the choice to move here,” he said. The high-tech jobs at Research Triangle Park and an unemployment rate of 3.1 percent, about half the national average, were also important factors. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said the | W ~~ —“j j The Atlanta-based quick-service chicken restaurant, which has 560 vendors in 33 states, recently joined the Marriott team, which operates campus dining facilities. The grand opening is today, and both par ties expect immediate success. John Feathefston, a business develop ment consultant for the chdin, said three main factors had played into Chick-fil-A’s decision to open a store at UNC. “First of all, we consider UNC to be one of the premier campuses in the United States,” Featherston said. “As we look nationwide, it is really one of the great campuses in the country. It is Stupid is as stupid does. "Forrest Gump" ranking did not surprise him. “I always knew this was one of the best places to live, but it’s nice to have an affirmation of it,” he said. Still, the expectation that this will at tract more people and businesses to the area means residents need to increase their concern about issues such as transporta tion and environmental protection, Broun said. “We got to be the greatest place in America as a result of that protection, and we’ve got to keep it up, or 15 to 20 years from now, we won’t be the best place to live,” Broun said. Transportation topped Durham Mayor Sylvia KerckhofFs list of worries, but she said the article was also a wonderful re minder. “Sometimes we get down on our- Please See TRIANGLE, Page 6A our feeling that it will be our top campus in the country.” He said he expected the sales from the Lenoir stand to exceed average mall store earnings by 25 percent, largely because of the steady flow of foot traffic and the gen eral popularity of the store and its prod ucts. Another factor was the University’s geo graphic location, in the South along the Atlantic seaboard where a slew of the res taurants are located, leading executives to believe that students would be familiar with the chain. A third reason he cited was Chick-fil- —J§ Goldsboro 58 || ftfil R°=*<Y Mount 81|! ftmntfsaaay iff£ 220 Hickory IQSJ 7.75% | Greenville 127 | tNMrtltaiS2fi Fayetteville 1741 SOURCE: MONEYMAGAZINE Students Pay More For UNC Education BYKELLYRYAN EDITOR For the second year in a row, the Uni versity cashier’s office sent students a not so-welcome reminder that school was around the comer—a fall semester tuition bill slightly higher than last year’s. As part of a record $1.9 billion budget the UNC-system Board of Governors ap proved July 29, semester tuition increased 3.3 percent for in-state students from $423 in 1993-94 to s437in 1994-95. Out-of-state students will pay 6.5 percent more, or $4,200 rather than $3,944. UNC-system President C.D. Spangler said the system always tried to avoid tu ition increases as UNO’s mission was to maintain access to education for North Carolina’s students. Raising tuition for out-of-state students slightly more than for ill-state students coincides with UNC’s policy to provide education for residents, who pay for the system through taxes. This budget is the highest the system has ever passed, Spangler said. “It’s the greatest increase we’ve ever had, ” Spangler said. “The General Assem bly has always been favorable to the Uni versity of North Carolina, but it can act only when it has the funds from taxes." Undergraduate fees also went up from $304 a semester in 1993-94 to $347.71 in 1994-95. General student fees cover costs for athletics, health services, student ac tivities, and educational and technical ex penses. Male Students Bear Brunt Of Campus Space Shortage BYKELLYRYAN EDITOR Asa slew of incoming freshmen and transfer students lug TVs, dressers and refrigerators into their residence halls this weekend, the room at the top of the stairs won’t be much of a room at all for 144 students. UNC has 6,800 residence hall spaces, but as of Aug. 12, the students mostly male had been assigned temporarily to triples or TV and study lounges, Assistant Housing Director Rick Bradley said Wednesday. That number had dropped from a June 10 count 0f673 students with out housing. Thirty-two lounges in almost every cam pus dorm are being used to handle the overflow of on-campus residents. Between two and eight students have been assigned to each lounge with bathroom facilities and new door locks. Of the students assigned to temporary rooms, 44 are male freshmen, 72 are male junior transfers, and 10 are male off-cam pus or readmitted students. Only 18 are A’sstrongrelationshipwithManiottCoip., which operates dining services on about 400 college campuses nationwide, includ ing UNC. Thirty of the restaurants have opened on college campuses already and 25 more are slated to open this frill, he said. Chick-fil-A is not the first chain store, or “branded concept,” on campus. It joins Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, TCBY and Dunkin' Donuts. TCBY and Dunkin’ Donuts dif fer, though, as they have products on cam pus but no operating equipment. One Marriott administrator lauded the new competition. News/Features/Aiis/Sports Business/Advertising C 1994 DTH Publishing Crap. All lights reserved. * HOW MUCH? So, the total tuition and fees bill for the year is $1,524.42 for an in-state student and $9,050.42 for an out-of-state student. About $ 1.3 billion of the system budget comes from appropriations by the N.C. General Assembly. The remaining funds are generated by each of the 16 campuses. The University operates on a biennial capita budget, which means that the ad ministration approves an increase in tu ition and fees for two years in a row. So, the percentage increase mirrors last year’s. University Cashier Kermit Williams said Wednesday that the Chapel Hill campus had billed students at the end of June for all the projected increases in tuition and fees. All but one of the proposed fees were approved, which means that some stu dents will be credited $ 1 for the difference. Some also will be charged an additional dollar because the administration didn’t approve a particular fee. It is typical practice for the cashier’s Please See TUITION, Page 6A female, and they are all off-campus or readmitted students. Bradley said only students who had missed the May 2 housing contract dead line had been assigned to temporary quar ters. “One of the things we did last year was looked at trends and saw that more women werebeingadmitted,” Bradley said. “Now, we’re back on the other side.” Last year, more women than men felt the housing crunch, so housing officials had, in anticipation of another high fresh man enrollment, converted some male suites to female. Bradley said all on-cam pus residents should be in their permanent rooms by the end of September. Reassign ment priority will be given to those in triples. To gauge how many students decided at the last minute to live off campus or those who opted not to attend UNC at all, hous ing officials sent letters midsummer to re turning students promising full deposit re funds if they had had a change of plans. Please See HOUSING, Page 6A “Chicken is popular,” said Charles Hackney, marketing manager for Carolina Dining Services. “Chicken is one of the most accessible branded concepts that you can bring on a college campus.” Although the renovation is nearly fin ished, there are still some finishing touches left, Hackney said. One of those remaining touches is new tables and chairs, which he said would be arriving soon. In addition to the newest tenant, which occupies the space once containing the entree and vegetable line, there are four Please See LENOIR, Page 6A 962-0245 962-1163 1
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