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2 Thursday, June 8,1995 Carolina Brewery Offers Fine Cuisine and Beer Second Beer Dinner at Local Restaurant Provides Fun, Food and Foam MARYADEVOTO STAFF WRITER If you asked “Family Feud” contes tants to list foods that go with beer, they probably wouldn’t come up with crawfish bisque, lemon pistachio mousse or smoked salmon and caviar blinis. But these are some of the dishes you could find at one of the Carolina Brewery’s Beer Dinners held the first Monday of each month. “Chris Rice (co-owner) and I have been to tastings around the country, and we wanted to educate the Chapel Hill commu nity about how different beers can go with food,” said co-owner Robert Poitras. “For instance, beer with salad and beer with dessert are both European ideas that are unfamiliar to most Americans. But you can really enhance the flavor of beer with the right foods, and vice versa.” “Beer Dinner” may sound casual, but the Brewery’s is decidedly upscale, with a card declaring all six courses at each place and six glasses of varying shapes ready at your elbow to hold the beer that accompa nies each course. Master Brewer John Connolly has helpfully typed up a descrip tion of each beer; should you still be uncer tain about what you’re tasting, the staff is on hand throughout dinner to fill you in. At $39.95 a head, you could be getting your money’s worth just in terms of educa tion. But if that’s not enough for you, you can get your glass refilled at each course— and the glasses are full-sized, not tiny samples. Chef Roy Melton, Jr. oversaw the din ner, which was beautifully arranged in portions small enough not to leave you comatose at the end of course number six. The Beer Dinner is designed to explore the interaction between good food and good beer. One of the high points of Monday’s BLOOD FROM PAGE 1 survive. Accordingto the Red Cross, in order to meet the needs of the community, 1,350 people must give blood ever day in the ALCOHOL FROM PAGE 1 A memo from Fulton Crews, which circulated at the Center for Alcohol Stud ies and was dated April 21, listed “Kathy” as a member of the staff and stated that her working hours were 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ac cording to employee allegations, that “Kaihy” is Crews’ wife. TUESDAY uoA $1 Domestic Pints kiui | $3.50 Pitchers WEDNESDAY $1.75 Highballs $1.50 Domestic Dottles Thursday 750 Draft Idb Nile is Back! Live Music Friday Night! Call for More Details! mm ; | wf°- —i r * U * r _ DTH/ERIK PEREL Lemon Pistachio Mousse, served with Theakston's Old Peculier, is just one of the courses at the Carolina Brewery's second beer dinner on June 5. Patrons of the brewery paid $4O a plate for six courses of food and beer. menu was a saffron risotto croquette stuffed with a sharp goat cheese, served on a roasted red pepper sauce alongside the Carolina Brewery’s Franklin Street Lager. The la ger, which Connolly described as having “moderate bitterness,” seemed more than moderately bitter until I tasted it alongside the croquette; then it tasted crisply fresh. Veal medallions were tender and rare. The accompanying sauce, which included morels (a wild mushroom) and a reduction ofmalt, was a good match for the Brewery’s Copperline Amber Ale. The third course, a region. If the 78 percent ofblood donors in the Carolina region who donate once a year increased their donation to twice a year, there would never be a blood shortage. The Red Cross will have a blood drive on June 14 in the Carolina Union between 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. For all Crews denied the allegations that his wife still worked at the Center or had ever worked there. But all of the employees making the allegations claim that Adams currently works at the center. “She works every day from about 8:15 to 5,” a former employee said. Kathy Neal, director of public affairs at the medical center, declined to comment UNIVERSITY & CITY pleasantly smoky grilled eggplant, came with a stout and yogurt mint dressing cal culated to pick up the chocolaty flavors in the stout. I found it a little bland with the eggplant despite the shavings of orange zest on top. It did go well with the stout, which has improved dramatically since the Brewery opened in February. Sorbet, served late in a multiple-course meal to refresh the palate, is a Victorian idea well worth reviving. The Brewery’s was made from Lindeman's Peach Lambic, a summery beer brewed with fruit, and blood donors in the month of June, the Red Cross will draw a random name for a lunch for two, valued at $25, at Franklin Street’s 411 West. If you have any ques tions regarding blood donation please con tact the Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross at 942-2466. on the allegations. “I couldn’t respond to unsubstantiated claims from a former em ployee,” Neal said. Richard Hanes, a lab manager at the Center, said that he had seen no miscon duct on the part of Crews and that the allegations were unfounded. “I don’t understand how there could be a nepotism charge,” he said. “The charges are baseless and unwarranted.” served alongside a glass of the same stuff. It provoked a long discussion at my table about how to serve such an unfamiliar beer. With strawberries? With duck? “It’s kind of a realization to me that you could blend different beers withyourmeal,” said Charlie Pauli, a professor of Geology at UNC who attended the dinner. If the Brewery is trying to raise people’s con sciousness, they are clearly doing so. So far, the dinners have sold out. To make reservations, call the Carolina Brew ery at least a week in advance. Local Firm Buys Piece of The Big Apple BYJOHN SUTTON STAFF WRITER FGI, a 13-year-old Chapel Hill-based marketing firm, has expanded its national reach by virtue of a joint venture that adds New York-based Christopher Vincent Inc. (CVI) to the FGI network. The merger was announced May 22 and will maximize each company’s capa bilities, said Malcolm White, vice presi dent of public relations at FGI. “CVI has been working a lot with interactive adver tising, design and marketing and, we have a need to get smarter about that,” he said. Chapel Hill Town Council member Jim Protzman is chief executive officer of FGI. “Like FGI, CVI creates smart ideas that produce results,” Protzman stated in a press release. University Takes Control of Patent Licensing BY JASMINE PATEL STAFF WRITER UNC and NCSU will assume the func tions of the Triangle Universities Licens ing Consortium (TULCO) when it is ter minated at the end of 1995. TULCO is a marketing and licensing organization governed by the two univer sities. Founded in 1987, TULCO has aided member universities in encouraging the commercial licensing of significant tech nological discoveries and inventions made by university researchers. UNC has strenghthened its on-campus technology transfer efforts since TULCO was formed. “TULCO was a great success but now our program has gotten to the point where we need to do it ourselves, ” said Thomas J. WILLIAMS FROM PAGE 1 July, and will spend the fall semester on paid leave to catch up with his work, said Professor Laurence Avery, chair of the English department. “I think people will be glad to see the statement,” Avery said. “It’s not a white wash and it’s not a condemnation. I’m satisfied that things were looked into and reasonable judgments were arrived at.” Since allegations of financial miscon duct and details of Williams’ divorce pro ceedings with his previous wife surfaced in April, many faculty members and gradu ate students in the English department HOOKER FROM PAGE 1 year ‘93 began the trend to increase higher education appropriations, and I credit that as much to Michael as I do to the fiscal climate.” System Director of Student Affairs Rita Nethersall said, “Massachusetts is abso lutely horrible, stinky, stingy with the state budget. He (Hooker) only had real input in three budgets. Under Michael, the budget did go up. You've got to give him credit, it was all very well done.” Besides raising the overall state appro priation for the university, Hooker had been given credit for getting funding for the school’s library component and the first capital appropriation for repairs and main tenance since 1988, Lemanski said. Nethersall explained that to achieve his budgetary goals, “Hooker recognized that the 50,000 UMass students were a great constituency. He took them seriously as a political force. He took the students to the legislature, in the flesh. “It was the most coordinated and well orchestrated event in the history of the new OWASA Chair Criticized Over ‘Secret’ Meeting BYWENDYGOODMAN CITY EDITOR Julie Andresen, chairwoman of the Or ange Water and Sewage Authority board, has recently come under fire for failing to give written notice of a subcommittee meet ing held at her house May 20. Andresen violated the North Carolina Open Meeting Law, which requires that notice of any meeting of a public body be given 48 hours in advance. “I made an error and it was inadvert ent,” said Andresen, who served on the Chapel Hill Town Council from 1985 to 1993. The controversy comes at a time when Andresen is preparing to ask the Chapel Hill Town Council to extend her tenure as OWASA board chairwoman for two months. “I still plan to ask for an extension, ” she said. “I don’t think this issue will matter because people understand that others make mistakes.” Andresen disregarded the idea that this could affect her rumored quest for mayor. “I will put change at OWASA ahead of my political ambitions,” she said. “If I stay on the OWASA board, I probably will not run for mayor.” Andresen said one of the attorneys she consulted was under the impression that failure to give notice of this meeting was in “the gray area.” She said that the failure to communi cate and give notice of the time and place of the meeting was at the heart of the controversy. “We didn’t use to give notice on sub committee meetings at OWASA, but when I became chairwoman, I changed this,” she said. “I just made a mistake.” RobertEpting, OWASA’sattomey, said there were two qualifications a meeting of this type must follow. The FGI network was founded in Chapel Hill in 1982 as an integrated marketing firm offering advertising and design, mar ket research, public relations and database marketing. The FGI network is the 85th largest research firm in the United States and includes FGI Chapel Hill, FGI Wash ington D.C., FGI San Francisco, Customer Manager Services Chapel Hill, CMS At lanta and now the new entity, FGI New York. FGI New York is a New York City based company founded in 1987 that cre ates and implements store brand commu nications programs. In 1990, CVI produced a breakthrough in store brand identity pro grams with the introduction of Reebok’s Pump brand. “CVI had a need for a really good cre ative department to expand its resources that they could offer to their clients. They Meyer, vice chancellor for graduate stud ies and research at UNC and chairman of TULCO’s board. “Faculty and students do research and sometimes anew discovery is made. We relied on TULCO for marketing it,” he said. “TULCO would take a patent and work with the product. Sometimes we get a royalty and sometimes the company will say the product needs more development and will give us a grant to work with it. “TULCO’s contributions to technology transfer have been a key factor in enhanc ing the academic-industrial interface on our campus and in developing our technol ogy development program into one of ex cellence,” Meyer said. Since fiscal year 1990 UNC has received $3,416,964 in royalties, according to the Office of Technology Development. The have followed the investigation closely. “Anytime you read allegations like that about anybody, and if it’s member of your department, it’s a more stressful time,” Avery said. “But we’ve gone about our business.” Nonetheless, in late May Avery issued a memo to the English department that said “all members of the English depart ment should behave in a professional way in the face of recent negative publicity about one of our number.” Avery said he had regularly updated the department’s advisory committee, which consists of eight faculty members and four graduate students, on the progress of the investigation. “I wanted a core group in UMass. It was as much a media event as anything else, and it worked,” she said. Thomas Finnerin, Massachusetts’ Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, said that he was “very favor ably impressed” with Hooker. “(Hooker) inherited a group of circum stances, and he improved them in every way. Partly, he was in the right place at the right time,” Finnerin said. “I disagree with the whole concept oftuition-retention, and he was very strongly decided on that issue. I respected his advocacy, his passion. He and I had our moments. He stood true, faced the wind, to what he believed to be a higher, a better, priority.” Student Trustee AlLizana said, “Under Hooker’s administration, the tuition and fees didn’t go up. And that’s the first time ever. UMass is the second most expensive state school in the United States." In 1988 Massachusetts went into a re cession and the legislature had a budget crisis, Lemanski said. “Tuition-retention was put in place, at the request of the university, because the legislature realized that they couldn’t fund the university sufficiently,” he said. latly (Ear Urrl “I willput change at OWASA ahead of my political ambi tion. If I stay on the OWASA board, I probably will not run for mayor. ” JULIE ANDRESEN OWASA Board Chairwoman “Every meeting of a public body is an open meeting and any committee is a pub lic body,” Epting said. “If it is not a regular meeting, it requires notice of the meeting given 48 hours in advance, telling the time, place and pur pose of the meeting.” Epting said that the meeting of the sub committee Andresen had at her home fell under this policy. Epting said that although Andresen said she announced the meeting at a previous open OWASA meeting, she had not neces sarily complied with the open meeting law. “I am not criticizing her, but that does not comply with the law because she didn’t say the time and place and she still would have had to give written notice,” he said. Epting said the purpose of the open meeting law was to assure public access to the information being presented at the meeting. Andresen has also been criticized for having too much power on the OWASA board because of the number of subcom mittees on which she holds a seat. “It’s not a case where I have taken over, I’m just trying to get work done,” she said. “The work load has been very positive for the utility, and I am not prepared to do anything to jeopardize the accomplish ments that the OWASA board has made over the past year.” are going to be using us for that purpose, - ” White said. CVI has been headed by President and CEO Tom Butta, who will retain the same title with FGI New York. “This venture greatly enhances FGI New York’s ability to do what it does best - to work as strategic partners with our clients, not just narrowly focused commu nications vendors,” he said. “The end ben efit is smarter, more innovative thinking that has a greater impact on our clients’ businesses.” - ~ • FGI New York’s client list includes several large names. The FGI network as a whole caters to such clients as GTE Mobilnet, Reichhold Chemicals, Wandel & Goltermann, Tangram Enterprise Solu tions, Interactive Magic and Maola Milk & Ice Cream among many others. money from royalties is distributed among the inventors, die originating departments and the program. Francis J. Meyer, associate vice chan cellor for technology development and di rector of the Office of Technology Devel opment, said significant inventions came out of the health affairs division and the chemistry, physics, biology and computer science departments. “A great variety of discoveries haye been made including pharmaceutical com pounds, diagnostic agents, and medical devices for the treatment of patient dis ease,” he added. Francis Meyer said he would hire people on the University campus 1 to assume the roles of TULCO as it is phased out. “The new positions will market and license in ventions from faculties and students here - . ” the department to know what was going on,” he said. Both Avery and Williams said that at no point in the investigation was Williams asked to resign. Just before the allegations of misconduct surfaced in April, Williams’ colleagues decided not to promote him to full professor. He currently draws $64,000 a year as an associate professor. “I’m certain that my colleagues had good reasons, ” Williams said of their deci sion, but he did say he was disappointed. While Williams said he had no plans to seek a job elsewhere, he did not rule out the possibility. “This is my home,” he said. “But the ftiture is uncertain. ” Shimada and Williams plan to get married June 24. “To blunt the effects of the cut-backs to higher education, (the legislature) allowed tuition-retention. The university chose to use that opportunity. “Instead of slashing programs, they increased tuition,” Lemanski said. Amherst Faculty Senate Secretary John Bracey credits the “grass-roots” lobbying of the students and parents for the 1993 legislature rejection of tuition-retention. “The undexgrads went to the Legisla ture and said, ‘we don’t want tuition-reten tion.’ On a key issue, they beat Michael. It’s very rare that students beat a president on financial issues. I bet it wouldn’t hap pen in North Carolina,” Bracey said. Hooker was in favor of tuition-retention when he came to UMass in 1992, apd promised the student body that he would not increase tuition more than the rate of inflation. Under the system of tuition-re tention, UMass was able to maintain its services and programs in the face of severe budget cuts by directly holding onto stu dents’ tuition and fees, Lemanski said. “What the university did was replace the state funding that they weren’t getting by increasing tuition,” he said.
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