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Monday, February 20,1995
Entertainment Tax Gets
The Annual Go-Around
BYKELLYSTEVENS
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill concertgoers could end up
paying an extra dollar to hear their favorite
bands play if a proposed town entertain
ment tax is passed.
For the 14th consecutive year Chapel
Hill residents have asked the Town Coun
cil to consider the implementation of a
luxury tax on selected big ticket entertain
ment events.
Chapel Hill resident Roland Giduz has
been the primary advocate of the tax since
he first petitioned the Town Council for
the tax in 1981.
Giduz said the town seemed to back the
proposed tax. However, University offi
cials have expressed strong resistance to
the proposal in the past, Giduz said.
Jeff Elliott, associate athletic director
for the University, said the idea of the tax
was “absurd.”
“If you’re taxing the concerts, you’re
putting us at a competitive disadvantage, ”
Elliott said.
He said the tax could discourage musi
cians from playing at the Smith Center.
The tax could reduce ticket sales, and the
musicians would not benefit from the added
dollar.
The town would only hurt itselfby imple
menting the tax, because concerts attract a
lot of business to the area, he said.
“If you charge an extra dollar here,
those same people will go somewhere else
and keep the dollar themselves,” Elliott
said.
Giduz said that while an entertainment
tax would be a legitimate source of income
for Chapel Hill it would not have a signifi
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BYMARIA VACEK
STAFF WRITER
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“This is a luxury tax. A fair,
legitimate source of revenue
for Chapel Hill. This tax
would not apply to students
who pay for admission to
athletic events in their fees. ”
ROLAND GIDUZ
Supporter of the entertainment tax
cant affect on university students.
“This is a luxury tax,” Giduz said. “A
very fair, legitimate source of revenue for
Chapel Hill. This tax would not apply to
students who pay for admission to athletic
events in their fees.”
Town Council member Mark Chilton
said he doubted the tax would go into
effect.
In order for the tax to be implemented,
it would have to be approved by both the
Town Council and the N.C. General As
sembly.
Inl993,thecouncilvotedinfavorofthe
tax, but the proposal never made it past
committee in the General Assembly. Giduz
blamed the tax’s failure at the state level on
a lack of support from the council.
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said he
thought it was too early to speculate on the
success of the proposed tax.
“I’m cautious about it,” Broun said. “I
want to know the impact it will have on the
Smith Center first.”
A public hearing on the matter will be
held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 27 at the Town Hall
on Airport Road.
Upward Bound program at UNC. The
students attend seven target schools in
cluding Chapel Hill High School, Chatham
Central High School and Durham High
School. Students enter the program during
their freshman, sophomore or junior years
in high school and remain in the program
until they graduate.
By keeping the students for two to four
years, the program gives students the
chance to grow in a nurturing yet intense
academic environment. “They grow in
spurts; sometimes slow, stopping and even
going backwards,” said Joyce Clayton,
director of Upward Bound at UNC. “But
students do blossom, develop skills and
acquire motivation. We see them graduat
ing and making a difference in the world. ”
Upward Bound is divided into three
phases; academic year, summer and bridge
components. During the year, students
participate in academic activities every
Saturday. They are taught and tutored in
various subjects, receive counseling and
advising, and are involved in programs
such as career education, college prepara
tion, financial aid and cultural exposure.
“It helps me with my studies, with tutor
ing if I need it,” said Shauna Williams, a
junior at CHHS. “It prepares you for col
lege and gives you credits in the summer on
a college-level basis.”
In the summer, students live on college
Century-Old Carr Mill Mall Gets a Face Lift
Mall Construction Will
Expand Three Stores and
Renovate Store Fronts
BYSARABARTHOLOMEES
STAFF WRITER
The paint cans, drop cloths, plaster and
yellow caution tape at Carr Mill Mall in
Carrboro are signs of expansion and reno
vation for the local plaza.
Carr Mill Mall shopping center recently
has begun renovations which include the
expansion of three stores and the addition
of new store fronts. Nathan Milian, man
ager of Carr Mill Mall, said the changes
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BY JASMINE PATEL
STAFF WRITER
Black squid, saffron and rose petals.
No, this isn’t the recipe for some sort of
witches’ brew, it’s a sample list of the 186
flavors of pasta Alphonse Doss is bringing
to Chapel Hill.
Doss is opening Abruzzi Pasta, a take
out pasta shop located at 243 S. Elliott
Road in Village Plaza, on Feb. 27.
Doss moved here from Florida, where
he owned and operated several restaurants
as well as a wholesale pasta factory.
The factory produces as much as 4,000
pounds of pasta a day for a clientele that
includes Marriott, Hyatt, Walt Disney
World and Universal Studios.
Doss said he was opening a takeout
pasta shop for the first time instead of
another restaurant because he believed it
campuses for six weeks, studying math,
science and English.
“Your day is mostly planned for you,”
Williams said. “You’re not there to play
around; you’re there to study.”
Jocelyn Scurlock, also a junior at CHHS
involved in the program, added, “During
the summer program, we tried to establish
a basis, and I have been very successful in
establishing that basis to help me do well in
school.”
Clayton said students came back the
summer after graduation to participate in a
transitional program, trying to bridge the
gap between high school and college.
During the Bridge Program students
live on college campuses and are enrolled
in college-level classes. Clayton said the
program provided a “simulated college
experience so going to college is like drink
ing water; natural.”
All three phases include visits to cul
tural sites including Charleston, S.C., Bal
timore and Washington, D.C. “Youmight
think you’re there to have fun, but you
have to take notes,” Williams said.
She said that last summer she went to
the Museum of Great Blacks and Whites,
which gave her the opportunity to further
her education on black history and learn
how to write papers based on her notes.
The students in the program interact
academically and socially. “You become
like a family,” Scurlock said. “You have
fun, and you work together.”
Clayton added: “We’re one big family
but not always a heavenly family. We have
our stresses and strains, our happiness and
joys.”
She said all of the students involved had
parents that were concerned about their
children’s academic and social growth.
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The building which houses Carr Mill
Mall was constructed more than 100 years
ago. It originally functioned as a cotton
mill. In 1978, the building was converted
into a shopping mall.
Despite being more than a century old,
Milian said the renovations were not due
to the old age of the building.
“We are just trying to keep things new, ”
Milian said. “It’s like changing the win
dow decorations in a store front.”
Milian said the renovations mostly in
clude the expansion of stores owned by
current tenants and the construction of
renovated external store fronts.
He said existing stores would be shifted
and relocated within the mall in order to
would serve his customers better.
“The worst enemy of the human being
is stress,” he said. “If you eat in a hurry,
you won’t enjoy what you are eating, so we
prefer that people take it home and take the
time to enjoy it.”
Doss said his pasta could be sold less
expensively at a takeout restaurant because
he wouldn’t have to pay for a wait staff and
other expenses of a sit-down restaurant.
“For 25 percent of the price of a good
meal in a restaurant, you enjoy a good
meal at home,” he said.
Doss said he had chosen Chapel Hill as
the home for his new business because he
liked the people of North Carolina.
“We found in Chapel Hill lots of gour
met people who appreciate gourmet food, ”
he said.
“We like to manufacture something we
know people will appreciate. We know
in the success of a student.
Ernest Dark, academic coordinator for
Upward Bound, was part of the initial
effort to bring the program to UNC in
1966. “We have some who have struggles
and drop out, but they go to another insti
tution of higher learning,” he said.
According to literature provided by the
National Council of Educational Oppor
tunity Association, the Trio Program has
helped 2 million people nationwide gradu
ate from college. The program in Chapel
Hill has seen 100 percent of its students
enroll in college, and most years that figure
reaches 90 percent. “We plant good seeds,
and they sprout when it’s the right time,”
Clayton said.
Upward Bound sponsors three career
fairs a year to demonstrate its success in
giving individuals economic independence.
The success stories range from Ricky
Spoon, an assistant Wake County district
attorney, to Freddy Parker, who earned a
doctoral degree in history and has pub
lished two books on runaway slaves.
“Learning doesn’t know limits,”
Clayton said.
The students in the program are ambi
tious. Scurlock wants to major in English
at UNC, become a high school teacher,
and then go to law school and start her own
firm. She said the program was “a good
opportunity foranyonewhoisserious about
learning and helping themselves.”
Clayton said she hoped that eventually
the program would not be needed because
people would have equal access to educa
tion and an equal opportunity to succeed.
“I’m the daughter of a share-cropper
and a first-generation college student, ” she
said. “I believe that barriers can be over
come that are socio-economic, because
I’m living proof.”
“Carr Mill Mall is in a
beautiful old building, and
these small changes are
helping to enhance the mail's
appearance. ”
JASON STANCH
Carr Mill Mall employee
make room for the current expansions, but
no new stores will be added to the shop
ping center.
O’Neill’s Clothing, the Counted Cross
Stitch and Gallery Americas are the three
Chapel Hill is the place.”
Doss is from Bologna, Italy, and started
his career as an apprentice at Excelsior
Hotel, one of the largest hotel companies
in Europe.
“I used to like to eat, so I decided to
become a cook, and then a chef,” Doss
said.
He said he had worked in many famous
restaurants inEurope, including the Savoy
in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Negresco
in Nice, France. Doss said he also owned
several of his own restaurants in France.
After coming to the United States 23
years ago, Doss has been a pasta processor
for 15 years, he said.
In his restaurants in Florida, he would
make his own pasta, and it was so popular
that other restaurant owners would buy it
from him, he said.
Doss opened a factory and began to sell
TICKETS
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started Oct. 15,1993.
The new ticket formula eliminates rank
from the previous formula and places more
emphasis on seniority than on position
within the University.
This enables staff who have been work
ing at the University for a long time to have
better seats than some high-ranking faculty
members.
“[The new policy] is really about how
faculty want to treat staff," Brown said.
According to the original proposal, the
formula was not meant to be retroactive.
Some faculty ticket holders assumed they
would not be affected by the new policy,
but when seats were assigned for the 1994-
95 season, several had to settle for worse
seats.
The defeated resolution, proposed by
Professor Ronald Link, would have en
sured that faculty members who had good
seats during the 1993-94 basketball season
would retain those seats.
The problem with the new formula is
that it “was applied retroactively to the
great disadvantage of some and the aggra
vation of many,” Link said.
Brown said the number of people af-
Black History Month Spotlight
Imhotep
Contrary to popular belief, Einstein was not the
first genius in history.
The first documented genius was Imhotep. He
designed the long-standing Egyptian pyramids.
Campus Calendar
MONDAY
11 a.m. ACC Tournament Tickets: Students
may sign up to purchase tickets until 3 p.m. in the Pit.
NOON “Everything You Wanted to Know
About Black People, but Were Afraid to Ask,” talk
show will be held in the BCC. Evetyone is invited.
2 p.m. Learn how to use the UCS resources to
assist you in your career and finding an internship. In
307 Hanes Hall.
2:45 p.m. Resume Writing for Internships work
shop will be held in 307 Hanes Hall.
3 p.m. Career Clinic: Develop an action plan for
selecting a major or choosing a career, in the Univer
sity Counseling Center, 106 Nash Hall.
Job Search Correspondence workshop, on writ
ing cover letters and thank-you letters, will be held in
210 Hanes Hall
4 p.m. State Farm Insurance will hold a presen
tation in 209 Hanes Hall.
5 p.m. POW will meet in Union 209. Help plan
for Earth Day events. Find out details on the Spring
7reak trip to Joyce Kilmer, a beautiful old growth
forest, to restore trails and go white-water rafting!
6:30 p.m. ATAT Universal Card Services will
hold a presentation, open to students interviewing, at
the Siena Hotel.
Rent-A-Center will hold a presentation in 210
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stores which will be expanded by the cur
rent construction, Milian said.
UNC sophomore Jason Statudd, an
employee of Care Mill Mall, said the reno
vations were minor and the construction
has not caused any inconvenience for shop
pers at the mall.
“Care Mill Mall is in a beautiful old
building, and these small changes are help
ing to enhance the mall’s appearance,”
Statudd said.
Milian said renovations were not un
usual for the shopping center.
“It’s just part of the evolutionary pro
cess of the shopping center,” Milian said.
“All shopping centers must renovate in
ordertokeepupwiththetimes. Wearejust
renovating to keep things looking new.”
pasta wholesale, but that did not satisfy the
needs of individual customers who did not
want to buy large quantities of pasta. So he
derided to return to the retail business by
opening the shop in Chapel Hill. Doss said
he would continue to maintain his whole
sale branch in Florida.
Abruzzi Pasta will sell traditional pasta
dishes such as smoked salmon ravioli as
well as more unusual varieties such as
pistachio pasta. In Florida, Doss made
pasta in the Miami Dolphin team colors,
and he said he planned to do the same for
the Tar Heels.
The pasta will be made fresh on the
premises and then quick frozen. Custom
ers can watch the pasta being made in
machines that will be displayed in the front
window. Doss also plans to sell home
made gourmet sauces to complement his
fresh pasta.
“Most of the best faculty seats
are worse than the worst seats
were in Carmichael."
RONALD LINK
Professor
fected by the new formula was nominal.
“That affected 19 people, as far as we
can tell,” she said.
The accepted proposal included sugges
tions to the athletics committee for im
provement in the location of the faculty
seating block. It also questioned the legal
ity of the preferential seating location of
those who donate money to the Educa
tional Foundation (the Rams Club).
“The question isn’t location within the
pool, it’s the location of the pool itself,"
Link said. “Most of the best faculty seats
are worse than the worst seats were in
Carmichael (Auditorium)."
Before it was accepted, the proposal
was amended to include staff in the reloca
tion.
“That was civil,” said Brown at the
conclusion of the discussion. “I appreciate
that.”
Another black man, Cheops, actually built the
pyramids. A triple-leveled genius and great doc
tor, Imhotep also designed and helped in the
mummy preparation process. Imhotep —a long
legacy in African intellect.
Hanes Hall.
7 p.m. “Kiss Me Kate” auditions will be held
until 11 p.m. Sign up at the Union desk. For more
information, call 933-6240.
“Successful Programming? Leadership Tools”
workshop will be held in Union 226.
7:30 p.m. Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
will meet on the third floor of New West
TUESDAY
11 a.m. ACC Tournament Tickets: Students
may sign up to purchase tickets until 3 p.m. in the Pit.
2p.m. “RevisingtheStrategyforHealthforAll:
Pursuing Equrty in a Changing World” will be pre
sented by John Bryant, M.D., in 1301 McGavran-
Greenberg Building (School of Public Health).
5:30 p.m. It’s a Mexican Fiesta at Cameron’s
Kosher Cafe! $3.50 all-you-can-eat dinner will be
followed by Israeli Folk dancing at 7 p.m. at 210 W.
Cameron Ave.
7 p.m. “International Finance: Trade Capi
tal in Flux” will be presented by Arthur Lipper the
3rd in 100 Hamilton.
Students for the Advancement of Race Rela
tions will meet in the Campus Y basement.
7:30p.m. “Kiss Me Kate” auditions will be held
until 11 p.m. Sign up at the Union Desk. Call 933-
6240 for more info.