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Friday, September 2,1994
Chapel Hill Trolley More Than Just a Bus Ride
BY MICHELLE LAMBETH
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The sound of bells filling the air on
Franklin Street may not be the Bell Tower
chiming the hour it could be Chapel
Hill’s trolley service.
In 1987, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Downtown Commission proposed to the
Chapel HiD Town Council purchasing two
trolleys and running a service, said Robert
Humphreys, president of the commission.
“They said the state would pay 90 per
cent of tire cost because it was a public
transportation service,” Humphreys said.
“AH we had to do was come up with the 10
percent of local funding needed."
The commission gave the town $30,000
for start up costs and, in 1988, got down
town merchants to agree to pay a tax of 7
cents per dollar on business property in the
downtown area—a municipal service tax.
“Each year, they subsidize the service,"
Humphreys said. “Of that money, $39,000
goes to the town to fund the trolleys.
"They’re sort of like the downtown’s trol
ley even though they belong to the town, ”
he said.
But, this April during budget discus
sions, the council was considering getting
rid of the service and selling the trolleys,
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reasoning that they could save $30,000-
•$40,000 a year.
“Based on public transportation rider
ship records from the past year, the council
saw that on the average, only half as many
people were riding the trolley as opposed
to the buses,” Humphreys said.
The council agreed to keep the trolleys
for one more year to see if the commission
could improve ridership. If they succeed,
the town will keep the trolleys permanently.
Humphreys said he and others were
working hard this summer to develop a
marketing plan to keep the trolleys run
ning.
“Our biggest problem is awareness, ” he
said. “No one knows where they go, what
it costs to ride, who is supposed to ride or
what time they run. Not many people are
going to get on something when they don’t
know where it goes and say, ‘Take me
wherever you’re going.’”
The service’s primary target would be
the UNC campus, Humphreys said. The
trolleys, which used to only run through
the downtown area, now also go through
campus and by the hospital.
“I think it’s a great service for students
and faculty to use when they want to go
downtown and have lunch,” he said.
The two trolleys run from 11 a.m. to
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Riders wait for one of Chapel Hill's two trolleys to begin another tour of the
downtown area. The service is subsidized by the Downtown Commission.
2:30p.m. Monday through Friday. It costs
a quarter to ride, which is five cents cheaper
than the bus that circles the campus.
Humphreys said people who had bus passes
could use them on die trolleys as well.
Beginning next Wednesday, the trol
EDWARDS
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Wijnberg, former executive chair of the
Employee Forum and current forum del
egate, e-mailed members of the forum and
the State Employees Association of North
Carolina District 25. She encouraged them
to contribute to Edwards.
Edwards had been on light duty since
July 1993 but said her health troubles had
not improved.
“My doctor thought just getting away
from the University would help,” she said.
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Rosh Hashanah worship:
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September 5
10:00 Tuesday morning,
September 6
at Chapel Hill High School.
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leys will be making Historic Downtown
Tours weekly until Thanksgiving. The
tours begin are sponsored by the Down
town Commission and the Chapel Hill
Preservation Society. The cost for adults is
$3.
Edwards said she would take leave with
out pay if she ran out of the donated shared
leave. To be eligible to receive shared leave
time, Edwards had to miss work for 20
days due to a serious illness and have her
department and the employee records divi
sion, which administers the shared leave
program for the University, approve her
application, according to Carmen Beard of
the records division.
Three discrimination suits filed by
Edwards are still being litigated.
One case is before the State Personnel
Commission, one before the N.C. Court of
HICKS
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occurred on June 5, Humphries said.
Harrison sentenced Hicks to serve six
months in prison. The sentence was sus
pended for two years with a fine of S2OO
and stipulations which require that Hicks
“not assault, harass or molest the victim
thereafter or interfere with the peaceful
living of the victim during the suspended
sentence,” the case record states.
Kathy Neal, UNC Hospitals spokes
woman, said Hicks’ status at the hospital
would be decided based on the medical
school policy on handling convictions.
Simmons said that because Hicks had
been returned to full student status, his role
at the hospital relied solely on that status.
Because Hicks was a medical student
andnotanemployeeofUNCHospitals, he
was not accountable under the normal
state policy concerning employee convic
tions, Neal said. Under state policy, if ap'
employee is convicted of a crime, there are
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Film Buff Seeking Musical
Scores for Silent Pictures
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. They were
never meant to be silent. In their heyday,
the films now known as “silent movies”
were alive with the rumble of kettle drums,
the sonorous tones of the organ, the whine
of violins.
A movie wasn’t just flickering shadows
in black and white—it was an event, often
featuring a full orchestra plus an organist.
When three decades of “silent” films
ended in 1929, the orchestras were dis
banded, the organists fired, the music lost.
Gillian Anderson’s mission is to find
those forgotten movie scores and bring
them to life again.
“It’s rejoining the halves of an original
work of art that has been cut in twain,” says
Anderson, a music specialist at the Library
of Congress.
Timing the music to match the action
on screen is an art in itself. Anderson has
done this for 17 silent movies, including
D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” and “Way
Do wn East ” and two Charlie Chaplin films.
Her latest project is the 1922 German
vampire movie “Nosferatu” aptly sub
titled “A Symphony of Horror.” She con-
Appeals and one before the N.C. Supreme
Court. She has won the latter two cases
in which the court awarded her back pay,
, attorneys’ fees and a promotion—but the
University appealed both.
Court dates have not been set, but it will
be at least six months before the Supreme
Court hears the case and eight months to
one year before the Appeals Court trial,
according to Edwards’ attorney, A1
McSurely. The SPC case has not been
decided, but Edwards will appeal if she
loses, McSurely said.
Edwards also is contacting other black
grounds for immediate termination, but it
isn't mandatory that the employee be fired.
The victim said Thursday that she was
apprehensive about talking about the events
surrounding the assault without consult
ing her lawyer.
She did say she was looking forward to
putting the whole incident behind her and
moving on. “I feel bad that this whole thing
happened to me, but I’m not going to let it
stand in the way of enjoying Carolina.”
She hopes to join UN C women’s groups
to help others facing the same situation.
Campus Calendar
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Want to be a radio DJ7 WXYC 89.3 will hold an
open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday. There
will also be an interest meeting for fall DJ hiring on
Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Union Film Auditorium.
N.C. Rosh Hashanah services will be held Mon
day night at 7:15 in Rosenau hall. A dinner will be
held at 5 p.m. Reform services will be held at 10 a.m.
in Union 205. Conservative services will be held
Tuesday at 9 a.m. Call 942-4057 for information.
Athletic Passes will be distributed from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. Students must bring a picture ID.
QHfe Daily alar Heel
ducted the National Symphony Orchestra
in the premiere of the reconstructed score
in August. She will take the film to Ann
Arbor, Mich., in November and to New
York next May.
The premiere showed how it might have
been back then: the energy of live musi
cians, applause and occasional nervous
laughter from the audience, the film care
fully projected at the proper speed so the
action is flowing, not jerky.
“There has been an entire generation
brought up on the notion that silent films
ran at this crazy speed, everybody rushing
around, with just a little tinkling piano
going in the background,” she said.
"That’s a perversion of the original.”
At the peak of the silent film era, some
500 U.S. theaters had full orchestras to
accompany films, Anderson said. Smaller
cinemas had 10-piece or five-piece en
sembles; only the smallest theaters offered
a lone pianist or organist.
Many films arrived at movie houses
with only a “cue sheet” listing snippets of
music to be played with each scene. The
music was drawn from catalogs of thou
sands of interchangeable mood pieces.
state employees who have been through
similar grievance suits, including some from
UNC, to file a complaint with the U.S.
Department of Justice and the Civil Rights
Commission, according to McSurely.
Edwards said she was considering filing
a complaint alone and had drafted a letter
to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. “I
want the Justice Department to answer for
me, how is this fair? (Will the federal gov
ernment) allow the University to create
another Blackmore vs. Friday?” she asked,
referring to a discrimination case that took
UNC 17 years to settle.
SMOKE
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you know, they’ll say you can't smoke in
the Pit because you might offend someone.
“It’s ridiculous. It’s like saying you can’t
drink coffee because the smell might make
someone sick.”
Rahman said the policy probably would
not keep him from going to football games
but that it might keep him from staying.
“It’s annoying to have to keep moving, ”
he said. “It’s also disturbing to the people
around me. If it’s a boring game, I’d prob
ably just leave.”
He said he thought the University had
gone too far by banning smoking in an
outdoor area.
“Smoking is a legal thing. There are
things that bother a lot of people; you
aren’t going to stop doing all of them.”
When informed about how the policy
would be enforced and asked if he would
smoke at the games anyway, Rahman re
plied, “Yeah, I probably would.”