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Wednesday, November 20,1996
Aldermen approve
land-use regulations
■ The board passed
changes in storm drainage
and sidewalk modification.
BY ROB NELSON
STAFF WRITER
Loose ends were tied up Tuesday
evening as the Carrboro Board of Aider
men passed two resolutions it has been
working on for years.
The board unanimously adopted an
ordinance which amended the current
Land Use Ordinance standards to in
clude the Carrboro Storm Drainage De
sign Manual.
The manual, prepared by Town At
torney Mike Brough in consultation with
Town Engineer Henry Wells, contains
stormwater drain
age standards and
policies not found
in the current ordi
nance.
Carrboro
Mayor Mike
Nelson said the re
vised ordinance
would be very help
ful in the fiiture.
"This change in our
policy will provide
developers with
specific guidelines
for how we want
drainage in the
Carrboro Mayor MIKE
NELSON said
stormwater drainage
revisions would be
helpful.
town to be handled,” he said.
The board also approved another or
dinance to modify design requirements
for streets and sidewalks.
The amendment deals with such is
sues as the placement of trees along side
walks and the elimination of the bike
lane requirement. However, the work
could result in heavy construction on
sidewalks frequented by pedestrians.
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“This change in our policy will
provide developers with
specific guidelines for how we
want drainage in the town
to be handled. ”
MIKE NELSON
Carrboro Mayor
Nelson said some of the changes might
cause some difficulty with pedestrians.
“Members of the Transportation Advi
sory Board have expressed concern about
the dangers with sidewalks being tom up
for months and months,” he said.
A resolution introduced Tuesday night
by Alderman Alex Zaffron also went
unchallenged. The resolution endorsed a
set of recommendations set by the Tran
sit 2001 Commission.
The resolution calls for all transporta
tion plans to be included in the state’s
geographic information system and for
the state to provide incentives to encour
age transit and pedestrian-oriented de
velopment.
Zaffron said he believed the passing of
the resolution will send a message to
other towns across the state. “We want
transportation matters to be put on equal
footing with highway construction,” he
said.
Taking a break from the work at hand,
the aldermen also heard a presentation
by local architect Jack Haggerty, who
gave an overview of the techniques and
skills needed to interpret architectural
and engineering drawings.
Haggerty encouraged the aldermen to
devote some of their efforts toward town
development, especially in downtown
areas. “There are areas in Carrboro that
are underutilized, and it is important that
they be filled.”
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BY MIKE HIRSCHEL
STAFF WRITER
The holiday season is a time when
many organizations help the needy, and
this Thanksgiving is no exception.
Inter-Faith Council for Social Service
will be serving a Thanksgiving dinner for
those in need. The United Church of
Chapel Hill will be providing the meal.
“They do it totally on their own, ” said
Leila Dillon, finance director for the IFC.
“They have done that for many years.”
Richard Edens, a pastor at the church,
said they always served a meal to the
homeless on the fourth Thursday of ev
ery month, and Thanksgiving happens to
be one of those days. However, on
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might be more challenging, such as mak
ing structural changes to buildings and
even altering the University’s mindset.
“We need to emphasize breaking down
the distance that separates life inside the
class from outside the class,” said Lloyd
Kramer, the subcommittee’s chairman.
“The faculty have to send a message that
it’s important to them. This is a process
that means changing the culture of pro
fessors as well as students.”
Committee members have discussed
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Hooker also said the ideas generated
by students from other areas of the coun
try would benefit in-state students.
“It gives the students a cross pollina
tion of ideas,” Hooker said.
But Hooker did say in-state students
have a prior claim to slots over out-of
state students.
In making this change, Hooker told
the club he expected a tough fight in the
General Assembly, Hathaway said.
“He said it was going to be tough with
all of the North Carolina residents clam
oring for their children to go to UNC,”
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Thanksgiving they try to make the meal
more special.
“WehavetraditionallydoneaThanks
givingmealforanumberofyears,"Edens
said.
Sheila West, a volunteer from the
church who will spend her Thanksgiving
cooking and serving food at the shelter,
said the church would feed about 100
people.
West said she was looking forward to
helping out.
“I think it’s terrific,” West said. “It’s a
very rewarding thing to do.”
The Freedom House Recovery Cen
ter, a women’s halfway house and a detox
facility, will have special Thanksgiving
happenings, Executive Director Trish
incorporating outside intellectual activi
ties into coursework for credit, develop
ing department associations for faculty
and students and creating a fund for de
partment luncheons.
To encourage more involvement in
“free-time" activities, the committee
would like to initiate programs in resi
dence halls and award faculty involve
ment in extracurricular activities.
“We don’t want to undercut the rec
ognition of research or other things that
faculty are doing, but there is nothing
wrong for recognizing active involve
ment in student activities, ” Kramer said.
Hathaway said.
Hathaway said another one of
Hooker’s comments concerned an in
crease in the the responsibility of the rest
of the UNC system in educating the North
Carolina populace, decreasing the bur
den that falls on UNC’s shoulders.
“(Hooker) said out-of-state students
are better for the University because they
pay higher tuition,” Hathaway said.
Chair of the Los Angeles Carolina
Club Suzanne Wertz said some of the
alumni in attendance agreed with
Hooker’s ideas about bringing more out
of-state students into UNC because it
would increase diversity.
Wertz said Hooker used the example
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Hussey said residents and volunteers
would cook and eat Thanksgiving dinner
together. The holidays are hard times for
people to be without their relatives, she
said.
“We try to create family for them,”
Husseysaid. “Ithinkit’sreallyimportant
that (the residents) don’t have that feel
ing of separation and aloneness.”
The Salvation Army of Durham, Or
ange and Person counties also has spe
cial Thanksgiving plans.
Sandy Porter, director of financial
development, said the group would pack
a complete Thanksgiving meal for the
blind and elderly and would distribute
the meals two days before the holiday.
Ideas that could face bigger obstacles
include revamping the advising system
and decreasing the semester course load
so students have more time to participate
in organizations.
As for structural changes, plans are
already in the works for the Center for
Undergraduate Excellence, to be housed
in Graham Memorial. The center, which
will contain classrooms, will also foster
interaction by serving as a meeting place
for students and professors in the newly
renovated Great Lounge.
“People will come to the center on
their own accord, because it’s cutting
of the University of Virgina’s high rank
ing in U.S. News and World Report
magazine’s list of the best colleges in
America to prove his point about the
value of bringing in more out-of-state
students. “Hooker said that one of the
reasons that (UVa.) was ranked so high
was that it admitted more out-of-state
students,” Wertz said.
Hooker said UNC was below average
in the number of out-of-state students
enrolled at the University.
But Hooker also said UVa. could jus
tify a higher number of out-of-state stu
dents because the state of Virginia sup
ports that university a lot less than the
state of North Carolina supports UNC.
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Porter said 111 people were scheduled
to receive a meal and the number would
increase.
“These people can’t afford to provide
a meal like that (by themselves),’’ she
said.
Many other organizations are helping
the needy, so they are focusing on the
blind and elderly, Porter said.
“Sometimes this is a forgotten popula
tion,” she said. “If we weren’t helping
them, they wouldn’t be having a Thanks
giving meal.”
Salvation Army Volunteer Jennifer Liu
will help pack the meals.
Liu said she was excited about the
opportunity to help. “It’s the season to
help others.”
edge and attractive,” said George
Baldwin, chairman of the Honors Pro
gram Student Advisory Board. “Wewant
the Great Lounge to be open, not
schedulable, to facilitate interaction.”
The center, which some say will im
prove the intellectual climate, will be a
model for future building renovations,
Kramer said.
“The lounge alone will be a valuable
new resource that we haven’t had be
fore,” Kramer said. “It’s ideal for the
kind of discussion we’re talking about.
Maybe we need to think of other build
ings that could do the same things.”
Campus Calendar
Wednesday
noon - The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center will sponsor “Around the Circle” with
Charles McKinney.
4 p.m. - The UNC Undergraduate Sociol
ogy Club will hold an organizational meeting
for the upcoming semester in Union 206.
4 p.m. - The UNC Classics Club will
sponsor a lecture in 100 Murphey Hall.
7 p.m. - The Human Relations Committee
will sponsor a Roofie Education Day in the Pit.
7 p.m. - Habitat for Humanity will have a
Honduras-style dinner Union2ll-212.
7 p.m. to 8 p.m. - The UNC Japan Club
will have a Temaki-Sushi Festival at the con
versation table in 210 Dey Hall. Bring $3.
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