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UNC Study Finds School
Construction Disparity
Counties across the state differ widely
in their methods of spending state funds
allocated by the General Assembly for
school construction, according to a study
conducted by the University.
Many school districts used state aid to
construct new buildings or to renovate
inadequate ones, the study says.
However, some used the construction
funds to pay off other debts or just saved
the money.
These results raise the question of why
school buildings have not been renovated
or replaced in every county in North Caro
lina.
Surprisingly, many of the state’s poorer
counties have been very successful in their
construction efforts while others have not,
said Charles Liner oftheUniversity’s Insti
tute of Government.
School Publishes Guide to
Health-Related Careers
The N.C. Area Health Education Cen
ters program, based at UNC’s School of
Medicine, has published a career guide
exploring trends and listing information
on health-related occupations.
“North Carolina Health Careers 1994-
95” profiles many jobs, from traditional
health care jobs such as doctors and nurses
to others like athletic trainers and veteri
narians.
“We feel it’s an excellent resource for
people who are influencing others in career
choices as well as the people making the
career choices themselves,” said Frank
DiMauro, guide editor and AHEC’s infor
mation and publications coordinator.
Journalism School Founds
Medical Reporting Award
The UNC School of Journalism and
Mass Communication has created the Pe
ter Lars Jacobson Award in medical jour
nalism.
The award honors Jacobson’s achieve
ments in establishing the study of medical
journalism at the University.
Jacobson, a neurologist, began teach
ingmedicaljoumalismin 1989, and it soon
became one of the most popular classes in
the journalism school, said Richard Cole,
dean of the school.
The first Jacobson Award will be pre
sented.in April 1995 to the journalism and
mass communication major who writes
the best story on a medical issue.
New Employees Join UNC
Staff Over Semester Rreak
The University added several new em
ployees to its staff during the semester
break.
Walter Bollenbacher, associate profes
sor of biology, has beea named associate
vice chancellor for research development,
anew position.
Bollenbacher said he intended to focus
on developing a portfolio of partnerships
between the University and corporations
to respond to competition for grants.
Donna Monti Young, a graduate of the
Kenan-Flagler Business School, has re
turned to her alma mater as assistant direc
tor for student services, also a newly cre
ated post.
The Division of Business and Finance
added two new administrators.
Roger Patterson is associate vice chan
cellor for finance, and Ann Dodd is direc
tor for quality improvement and assistant
to the vice chancellor for business and
finance.
Quaker Oats Grant to Be
Used for Nutrition Classes
UNC’s Department of Nutrition has
received a $75,000 grant from the Quaker
Oats Foundation for its Nutrition in Medi
cine curriculum, which requires nutrition
courses for first-year medical students.
Many physicians across the nation at
tended medical schools that did not re
quire them to take classes in nutrition, said
Steven Zeisel, chairman of the nutrition
department.
Author to Read From New
Work at Local Bookstore
Bertram Wyatt-Brown will be at
Mclntyre’s Fine Books and Bookends read
ing from his latest book, “The House of
Percy: Honor, Melancholy and Imagina
tion in a Southern Family,” at 11 a.m.
Saturday.
Wyatt-Brown is aprofessor of Southern
history at the University of Florida. His
latest book discusses the 200-year history
of the Percy family, one of the South’s
most influential families.
Volunteers Needed for
Women's Center Projects
The Women’s Center of Chapel Hill is
looking for volunteers to help with several
upcoming events and on-going activities.
The center is recruiting volunteers to
help in the office as well as volunteers to
prepare for their annual art show, which
will run from Feb. 23 to March 3.
The center is also looking for people
with trucks who can pick up furniture for
the Trash and Treasures Sale.
Anyone who wishes to volunteer can
call 968-4610.
The Women’s Center is located at 210
Henderson St. in Chapel Hill.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Revenues From Sun Bowl Won’t Meet Costs
BY KARI COHEN
STAFF WRITER
The University athletic department
spent an unprecedented amount of money
for the trip to the Sun Bowl in El Paso,
Texas, but the outlay was deemed neces
sary and expected by athletic department
officials.
Associate Athletic Director Jeff Elliott
said Monday that the University’s bowl
expenditures would probably exceed the
$900,000 allotted by the Atlantic Coast
Conference to pay forthe University’sbowl
expenses.
According to Brian Morrison, director
of media relations for the ACC, the money
that UNC was allocated for bowl expenses
was predetermined in the bylaws of the
1994 ACC Manual. The Sun Bowl paid
sl.l million to the University, $200,000 of
which went to the ACC coalition fund.
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Linda Love helps Zach Atkins with some paperwork at the University cashier's office Monday afternoon. Students have had to wait in long
lines to deal with their financial business.
New System Makes Financial Aid One Stop
BY JILL DUNCAN
STAFF WRITER
Students who receive loans or scholarships no w
wait in one line instead of two to receive their
checks and pay their tuition, thanks to anew
financial aid system.
The new system automatically sends the money
to their accounts once they have signed the appro
priate forms.
Students who receive aid that covers books and
other expenses can pick up their checks from the
cashier’s office, located in the basement of Bynum
Hall.
In the past, students waited in line at Pettigrew
Hall to receive checks for their grants and loans
and then waited again at Bynum Hall to pay their
tuition.
The cashier's office updated its computer sys
tem in October so as to become part of the student
Forum Slated on Plans
For UNC Land Usage
Chancellor Hardin, Trustee
Chairman Plan to Attend
Tonight’s Public Meeting
BY RYAN THORNBURG
CITY EDITOR
The Public-Private Partnership of
Chapel Hill will be sponsoring a commu
nity fomm tonight to discuss UNC’s plans
to develop more than 2,200 acres of Uni
versity land in Chapel Hill.
The meeting to discuss the future of the
970-acre Horace Williams tract and the
1,300-acre Mason Farm tract will be held
at 7:30 p.m. at the Friday Center.
Joe Hakan, president of the Public-Pri
vate Partnership, said the meeting had been
suggested by Chancellor Paul Hardin to
gather ideas from the community about
Council Alters Draft Priority List for Transportation Improvements
Vague Wording of Plan,
New School Prompt
Revision of Proposal
BY GRETCHEN HOFFMAN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The draft of the 1996-2002 Regional
Transportation Project Priority List was
approved by the Chapel Hill Town Coun
cil on Monday night after a few minor
adjustments in wording and ranking were
made.
Council members Joe Capowski and
Barbara Powell voted against the approval,
but the other six members in attendance
were in agreement that the list should be
returned to the Transportation Advisory
Committee with the changes.
UNIVERSITY & CITY
The remaining $900,000 went to the ath
letic department.
“It’s the team’s business to deal with the
money in whatever way they see fit,”
Morrison said.
Elliott cited a variety of reasons for the
net loss, including the Sun Bowl’s ticket
policy, whieh states that each participating
team must sell 8,000 bowl tickets to its
fans.
Elliott said the University was not able
to reach that mark and would have to pay
the Sun Bowl for the unsold tickets.
“Because of the mandatory tickets we
had to sell, we were not able to make our
expected profit,” Elliott said. “If we did
not have the ticket restrictions, we would
have made a sizable amount of money.”
The athletic department had anticipated
a profit of approximately $130,000 from
the bowl game before covering the cost of
the unsold tickets. Elliott did not know
information system, which links the registrar’s
offlC^^ r ' s office and the Office of Schol
arsfilfSSiißfSmdent Aid. Asa result, students no
longer have to jump from building to building in
receiving financial aid to pay for their tuition.
The system benefits students who receive aid
covering only costs of tuition and housing because
they do not have to stand in line at all.
Those receiving Stafford loans need only go to
the cashier’s office to endorse their checks and
receive any credit balance.
Julie Vulture, a junior receiving financial aid,
said she thought the new system made more sense.
“Instead of waiting in two lines, I only had to
wait in one,” Vulture said.
However, she added that waiting in the one line
at Bynum Hall had taken as much time as waiting
in two lines last semester had.
Trade Hanner, a sophomore from Bearcreek,
and Dwan Covington, a sophomore from Robbins,
the future of the land.
“Anybody that wants to speak their
mind before the chancellor will be able to, ”
Hakan said.
In addition to Chancellor Hardin, Hakan
said that UNC Board of Trustees Chair
man David Whichard would also be at the
forum.
Hakan said the partnership did not want
to shape the discussion in any way.
“The Public-Private Partnership is there
only as a conduit,” he said. “We’re only
there to help the town-gown relationship.”
Wayne Jones, the University’s vice
chancellor for business and finance, who
said he planned to be at the meeting, said
the fomm would give UNC administrators
additional input they might not receive at
a Town Council meeting.
“I think it was just to get input from the
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Mayor Ken Broun was absent from the
meeting.
Some council members said they were
confused about the wording of the U.S. 15-
501 improvements on the regional list.
“This council needs to set a time to talk
about the 15-501 corridor study,” council
member Rosemary Waldorf said.
She said she wanted a clearer indication
of the council’s feelings on the subject and
what the majority opinion was.
Pat Evans said she agreed that the coun
cil had not had adequate opportunity to
discuss the plans for the corridor.
“I think that if we’re going to make
improvements then we need to discuss
them first.”
Council member Mark Chilton said he
thought the language regarding the U.S.
15-501 improvements was vague. He sug
gested the deletion of the references to a
how many tickets the University had sold.
He also said the distance to El Paso and
the team’s large traveling party were rea
sons for increased expenditures.
In 1993, the University spent $595,000
on the Peach Bowl.
Last year, $578,000 was spent on the
Gator Bowl.
This year’s largest expense was the air
fare costs for the team and the band.
“The chancellor (Paul Hardin) was in
formed of how expensive the trip was go
ing to be, and he agreed that the band
should go to the bowl,” Elliott said.
“The band has performed well all year
and practiced hard. We felt like they de
served the opportunity to go.”
UNC Faculty Council Chairwoman
Jane Brown, who spoke out against bowl
expenditures in previous yean, said Mon
day that she had spoken with athletic de
partment officials and that she was satis
expressed similar sentiments. After waiting in line
for more than an hour, they both said that waiting
in one line had taken the same amount of time as
waiting in two.
Dionne Piggott, a freshman from Winston-
Salem, said she had waited in line for an hour and
a half. Asa Morehead scholarship recipient, Piggott
said she had never had to go to Pettigrew Hall
under the old system. She said she had only had to
go to Bynum Hall to receive her check.
“I didn’t have to wait in line last time, ” Piggott
said. “Maybe it’s more convenient for otherpeople,
but it isn’t for me.”
Eleanor Morris, director of the Office of Schol
arships and Student Aid, said in November that
she expected a few glitches with the new system,
but she also said that student aid officers would be
stationed at the cashier’s office to help the process
ran smoothly. She said other schools had had
automated systems for years.
Town May Build a Home for Skaters
BYIAURA GODWIN
STAFF WRITER
Local skaters, as well asthosewhowould
like to put the brakes on a possible skate
boarding park in Chapel Hill, will have a
chance to voice their opinions today at a
special Parks and Recreation Department
meeting at 7 p.m. in the Chapel Hill Com
munity Center off Estes Drive.
The meeting is designed to give the
department an idea as to what kind of park
would be best for the users so that they can
present the idea at the Feb. 13Town Coun
cil meeting, said Mike Loveman, director
of the Parks and Recreation Department.
Currently, the Chapel Hill town ordi
nance regarding skating in public areas
says a person cannot ride a bike, roller
skates, in-line skates or a skateboard on
Franklin Street or Rosemary Street from
Carrboro to Spring Lane, said Jane Cous
ins, spokeswoman for the Chapel Hill Po
lice Department. Spring Lane is just east of
downtown next to the University Presby
terian Church.
Chapel Hill Town
Council member
BARBARA POWELL
did not vote in favor of
the revisions to the
proposal.
freeway conversion
and references to the
Corridor Plan.
‘Tmnotreadyto
endorse a freeway
conversion,”
Chilton said. “My
observation is that
itisjustnotthatbad;
it is just not that
crowded.”
The council also
recommended to
the Transportation
Advisory Commit
tee that priorities
four and five on the
prliminary plan be
switched. Members of the council approved
ranking the widening ofHillsborough Road
shigher than improvements to South Co-
fiedwiththeirexplanationsforthenetloss.
“They are doing their best to keep costs
down and make it a worthwhile trip forthe
players,” Brown said.
“It would be hard to say to the band and
the cheerleaders and other members of the
team that they cannot go.”
Brown said she had not heard any com
plaints from other faculty members.
Elliott said that the net loss would be
covered with the money the University
would receive from the ACC bowl fund
and that the bowl season would turn out to
be a success.
“We receive $400,000 plus from the
conference coalition, and we may have to
dip into those funds,” he said.
Elliott said Director of Athletics John
Swofford would probably make a recom
mendation to the conference that it con
sider travel distance to the bowl when
allocating expense money.
UNC Researcher
Dies in Car Crash
BY HEATHERN. ROBINSON
STAFF WRITER
A Durham policeman has been accused of involuntary man
slaughter after his car struck a UNC researcher’s vehicle Jan. 1.
Thirty-six-year-old Ki Ha Chang, a visiting postdoctoral re
search associate at UNC, died at 6:40 a.m. Thursday at Duke
University Medical Center of injuries he suffered in the accident.
The vehicle of rookie Durham police officer Michael Copeland
struck the car Chang was driving, killing Chang’s wife, Yang Jin,
who died at the scene.
Their 2-year-old son
survived the crash
with only minor in
juries.
Copeland was
charged Friday with
two counts of invol
untary manslaugh
ter. The collision oc
curred after
Copeland made an
abmpt U-turn on the
U.S. 15-501 bypass
near the Durham
Freeway.
Copeland was
treated for neck and
back injuries at the
hospital and re
leased.
Police said that
Copeland was not responding to any emergency or police action
at the time of the crash. Durham County District Attorney Jim
Hardin reviewed all evidence gathered by police and concluded
that Copeland’s conduct had been careless and met the standards
for felony charges. •*'
Involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum 10-year
tence, but the term is usually reduced to three years, Hardin said.
Copeland said he thought he was turning into a northbound
lane when he made the U-tum. He was actually turning into a
southbound lane toward Chapel Hill.
Copeland has had six moving violations since 1986 and almost
had his driver’s license suspended in 1988. Since the publicity of
the accident, the police station has received three or four com
plaints from citizens about Copeland’s driving habits.
Copeland, who joined the police force in April, has been placed
on administrative leave with pay until the case is resolved, said
Durham police Chief Jackie McNeil.
Chang had worked in the division of infectious diseases at the
University’s School of Medicine since fall 1991. He received a
master’s degree from the University of Ethics in the United-
Kingdom. ;
Chang, a native of South Korea, was returning to Chapel Hilll - “
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“I feel skateboarders shouldn’t
be ostracized. I respect the
police and other people, and 1
don ’t want to be a bother. ”
MATT PETERSON
Skateboarder
There are also size restrictions on skate
board ramps located on private property
because of the noise they can create, Cous
ins added.
“The first offense, we ask them (skaters)
to stop. We can write a citation for viola
tion of a city ordinance,” Cousins said.
“Rarely do we write citations.”
Matt Peterson, a 17-year-old skater, has
been circulating petitions in support of a
park designed for skateboarders. “I feel
skateboarders shouldn’t be ostracized. I
respect the police and other people, and I
don’t want to be a bother,” Peterson said.
There are two potential locations for a
lumbia Street.
The change was made in response to
concerns about increased traffic that will
be created by the new elementary school
when it opens in 1996. The new school will
connect to the McDougle Middle School
in Carrboro.
This switch will do little to lessen the
chance of the improvements on Columbia
Street, Chilton said. “The chances that we
will get to number four are remote." The
chances that either project will be begun in
the next year are slim, he said.
The draft 1996-2002 Regional Trans
portation Project Priority List is a compos
ite ranking of roadway, transit, bicycle and
pedestrian projects desired by governments
within Orange, Durham and Chatham
counties. The Town Council approved
Chapel Hill’s priority list Oct. 24, and the
list was combined with those from other
Tuesday, January 10,1995
Sun Bowl Expenses
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Bowl in El Paso.
1995: Sun Bowl - $772,000*
1994: Gator Bowl - $578,000
1993: Peach Bowl 5595,000
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tickets.
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possible skateboarding park: the existing
Cedar Falls park and Northern Commu
nity Park, a site to be completed in three
years.
Peterson said he and his fellow skaters
could not wait three years. “We need a
place now, in the next couple of months,”
he said.
However, Loveman believes that there
are some advantages to waiting on the
Northern Community Park construction.
“One advantage to the Northern Commu
nity Park would be the skateboarding park
would be designed into the park,” he said.
The Cedar Falls Park, considered be
cause of its distance from houses, is the
only existing park being considered at this
stage, Loveman said.
Peterson believes this park could not
only provide a place for skaters but also be
a point of interest in Chapel Hill. “It could
attract people from all over and draw posi
tive attention to Chapel Hill,” Peterson
said. “This park could pave new roads for
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governments to compose the regional list.
Town Manager Cal Horton emphasized
that the council's concerns would be taken
into consideration but did not guarantee
any changes in either the wording or order
of the priority list. “It is a political pro
cess,” he said. “It is also a voting process.”
Capowski said he was happy that the
list included improvements forpedestrians
and bicyclists. “I think we’re turning a
comer toward mass transit, away from
roads solely for automobiles.”
The Town Council had placed the item
on its agenda as a public forum for the
purpose of receiving public comment on
the issue. However, no residents came for
ward to speak on the issue.
The Transportation Advisory Commit
tee will review the comments of the Chapel
Hill Town Council during its public hear
ing Wednesday.
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