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Friday, August 23,1996
Task force planning for Lenoir’s shutdown
■ Lenoir Dining Hall will
be closed for 15 months
starting in May.
BY JOHN SWEENEY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Planners promise the newly renovated
Lenoir Dining Hall will offer better ser
vice and more dining options to UNC
students, staff and faculty when it opens
in 1998. But Food Services Task Force
members first have to decide how those
people will be fed while Lenoir is closed.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Busi
ness Carolyn Elfland said the 60-year
old facility serves about 45,000 meals a
week, making it by far the largest food
services facility on campus.
“Lenoir definitely serves the majority
of meals on campus,” Elfland said. “It’s
going to be interesting to survive without
New allegations surface against former Chapel bookkeeper
STAFF REPORT
New allegations have been raised
against former Chapel of the Cross book
keeper Brian Mullaney, who has been
accused of embezzling from the Episco
pal church over a three-year period.
Mullaney, who served as the church’s
bookkeeper for five years, was arrested
Aug. 1 and charged with felony embezzle
ment, police reports stated.
Now, church leaders said they be
lieved Mullaney was also stealing money
from the church’s collection plates. As
DTH offers free ride to mall
STAFF REPORT
A fare-free bus will run from the Union
to University Mall this Saturday from 12
to 6 p.m.
Although this offer is designed for
students, anyone will be able to take
advantage of this one-time opportunity.
The bus will run on the half hour from
the Union to the mall, where it will make
two stops —one at Dillard’s and one at
Belk Leggett. The bus will return on the
quarter hour.
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In order to pre
pare for the May %
the task force is
facilities and meth
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those meals. ■
chairman of the Student Services
Student Services Committee
Committee and a SCOTT
taskforcemember, HAMMACK said he
said the committee hoped plans would be
originally explored Wished by December,
the idea of renting a large, climate-con
trolled tent to serve as a temporary dining
hall. But the cost of that plan, about
$70,000 per month, proved prohibitive.
“It looks like that’s going to be a little
too expensive for us,” Hammack said.
the church’s financial secretary, Mullaney
had access to the church safe where
money from the collection plates was
kept. The amount of money believed
missing and the suspected time period
have not been announced.
The initial embezzlement charge con
cerned over $470,000 that Chapel of the
Cross leaders said Mullaney embezzled
from the church’s Anglican Student Fel
lowship account.
The group is composed of University
students and the money in the account
shuttle bus to the mall for the first time
this year. The DTH is renting a Chapel
Hill Transit Authority bus to give those
without transportation a way to Chapel
Hill’s only mall.
Helen Hunter, a junior from Asheville,
said she thought die offer was nice for
students without transportation.
“I personally probably wouldn’t be
using it, but if I was a freshman I’d find it
convenient.”
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Elfland agreed, pointing out that the
University would have to rent the tent for
more than year. “When you talk about
(Lenoir) being closedfor 15 months, that’s
a whole lot of money,” Elfland said.
Hammack said the committee has dis
cussed several other options, at least on a
preliminary basis, including using the
concession stands in Carmichael Audi
torium, mobile catering stands placed
around campus and converting some
space in the Student Union to a food
services facility.
Elfland said the final decision would
probably combine elements of several of
those ideas. “It will probably be many
small solutions,” Elfland said.
Hammack said the task force makes
should take into account several factors.
“Obviously, we have to make sure there
is enough of a service for students to use
meal plans,” Hammack said. “We have
to find the most efficient way to serve as
goes to buying items for the group’s
weekly dinners.
Church leaders said they believed
Mullaney embezzled the money by forg
ing checks in the nameoftheßev. Stephen
Stanley, one of the four people allowed
to write checks on the account.
In a previous interview, Rev. Stephen
Elkins-Williams said the church first
noticed money was missing in May when
no bank statements for the account ap
peared at the church.
Elkins-Williams called Nationsßank
Friday
DDA Studio 1, anew semester-long the
ater workshop, will hold an open information
session today at 5:30 p.m. in Graham Memo
rial, room 216.
Auditions will be held Monday, Aug. 26.
To arrange an audition time, call Claire at 933-
8426 or Ted at 914-2838.
FOCUS, the graduate student chapter of
Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, is having a
free cookout today at 6:30p.m. at4l3 Granville
Rd. in Chapel Hill.
The event will take place rain or shine. Kids
are welcome. For more information, call 967-
9383.
The Carolina Union Activities Board Film
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many students as possible.”
But any plan would probably impair
service to some degree, Hammack said.
“I definitely think we’re going to see a
cutback in service, but, hopefully, that
will be minimal,” Hammack said.
So far, no definite decisions have been
made. Hammack said serious discussion
ofhow to replace Lenoir would not begin
until final plans for the renovations were
completed. Carolina Dining Services and
the Marriott Corp., which runs UNC’s
dining facilities, will take part in the dis
cussions. But Hammack and Elfland
agreed the plan needed to be in place by
the end of the fall semester in anticipa
tion of the looming renovations.
To that end, Hammack said he hoped
planning for the shutdown would begin
soon. “If I don’t see some serious action
within the next couple of weeks, I think
we’ll have to go to Marriott and let them
know we need to get to work.”
only to be told the statements had been
sent to Mullaney’s personal post office
box since 1994.
While at Chapel of the Cross,
Mullaney was an active congregation
member. He also served as a Sunday
School teacher. Asa result, church lead
ers are calling the alleged embezzlement
a betrayal.
Mullaney is expected to cooperate with
police and not fight the charge. His attor
ney, Kirk Osborn, could not be reached
for comment.
Committee presents Bruce Willis and Brad
Pitt in “Twelve Monkeys” at 6:30,9 and 11:30
p.m. Admission will be $2.
Items of Interest
The Carolina Union Activities Board Film
Committee will present “Fast Times at
Ridgemont High” on Saturday, Aug. 24, at 9
and 11:30 p.m. Admission is free.
The Daily Tar Heel will hold staff interest
meetings Sunday, Aug. 25 and Monday, Aug.
26. Sunday’s meeting will be held in Union 224
from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Monday’s meeting
will be held in Union 205 from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
All interested persons are encouraged to at
tend.
UNC women, come to the kickoff for this
year’s Women’s Issues Network, Monday,
Aug. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Union 213. Everyone
is welcome.
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Council gets back to
grindstone with retreat
■ The Town Council meets
Saturday to plan strategies
for upcoming meetings.
BY MARY-KATHRYN CRAFT
STAFF WRITER
Students are not the only ones return
ing from the summer break to work.
Saturday, the Chapel Hill Town Council
will end their summer vacation with a
planning retreat at the Aqueduct Confer
ence Center.
The retreatlasts from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. and will include discussion of issues
such as council roles, priorities and pro
cedures.
Council member Joe Capowski said
there would be a brief session on the roles
expected of the mayor, council and town
attorney.
“There are not any significant changes
in the expectations of the mayor, council
or attorney,” Capowski said.
Council member Pat Evans said she
felt it was important to bring the compre
hensive plan for development up to date
duringtheretreat. She saidtheplanshould
be updated every five years, and Chapel
Hill’s plan had not been revised since
1986. “Technologies have changed and
priorities of residents have changed,”
Evans said.
Evans said the council needed to find
out the specific concerns and priorities of
residents and what they expect from the
comprehensive plan.
Campus Calendar
will hold their weekly meeting Monday, Aug.
26 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held on the
top floor of New West.
Carolina’s oldest coed a cappella group,
Carolina Tar Heel Voices, will be holding
auditions for basses on Monday, Aug. 26 and
Wednesday, Aug. 28 from 9-11 p.m. Sign up
for an audition time at the Union Desk. Loca
tion is also available at the Union Desk.
UNTTAS Multicultural Living and Learn
ing Program, located on the fifth floor of
Carmichael Residence Hall, is accepting appli
cations for this semester. One can be picked up
at the Union desk, Carmichael desk or outside
room 528 Carmichael. The deadline is Aug.
28. For more information call 914-1338.
Pottery by Colleen Black-Semelka will be
presented at the Carolina Union Gallery
through Aug. 31. The exhibition is free and
open to the public and can be viewed from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
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Another important planning issue is
continuing the small area plan for down
town Chapel Hill, Evans said. “Our
downtown is our economic core,” she
said. “We need to see how we can keep it
vital, lively and improved.”
Such development issues and criteria
for the council’s priorities will be dis
cussed during the retreat, Capowski said.
He said council members would be look
ing into formulating a concrete defini
tion for the issues that can be discussed at
council meetings.
“Meetings are getting long,” he said.
“We had to establish a threshold of the
things not important enough (for discus
sion at council meetings).”
Capowski said he had served on a
committee designed to develop the
council’s priorities. The committee de
cided the council’s top priorities should
be issues which affect a great number of
people or cost a lot of money .
Although the retreat provides an op
portunity to work on priorities and plans
for the upcoming year, Capowski said
this retreat would not be the most pro
ductive one of the year. The council holds
retreats each year in late August and
January.
“In my opinion, the second retreat of
the year is more important,” he said.
Council member Julie Andresen said
the January retreat was important.
“I think the retreat six months ago was
a useful exercise, ” Andresen said. “Even
though we are each elected by the citi
zens, we have to work together effec
tively.”
Patty Young displays Watercolors and
Pastels at the North Carolina Arts Gallery at
407 W. Weaver St. inCanboro. The eventrans
through Aug. 31 and can be viewed Monday
through Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays
14 p.m.
Kallisti!, the UNC Student Pagan Organi
zation meets every Wednesday night at 7:30
p.m. in the Frank Porter Graham Lounge of
the Student Union. All are invited.
If you’d like to advertise your club or orga
nization meeting in The Dally Tar Heel Cam
pus Calendar section, just drop by the DTH
office in Suite 104 of the Student Union and fill
out a Campus Calendar slip. The deadline for
a Campus Calendar announcement is 1 p.m.
on the day before you’d like it to run. There is
no cost, but you must be an officially recog
nized student organization to use the Campus
Calendar.