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Stories from the University and Chapel Hill
Jicha honored for serving
University since 1960
Donald Jicha, a professor in the
Department of Chemistry and associate
dean of the General College, received a
$5,000 prize last month for his work as
a teacher and administrator over the
past 37 years.
The award, created in 1961, honors a
faculty member who “through person
' al influence and performance of duty in
teaching, writing and scholarship has
best exemplified die deals and objectives
of Thomas Jefferson.”
Jicha, who is director of the fresh
man chemistry laboratory program, has
also won the Tanner Award for excel
lence in undergraduate teaching, in
1966 and 1990.
UNC journalism professor
collects national plaudits
Debashis “Deb” Aikat, assistant pro
fessor of journalism and mass commu
nication at the University, has been
named the Stephen H. Coltin
Communications Professor of the Year
by the International Radio and
Television Society Foundation, Inc.
Aikat was recognized for his accom
plishments in New York City on May
20.
He was honored along with radio
and television legend Dick Clark, CBS
news anchor Dan Rather, chief execu
tive officer of CBS Radio Mel
Karmazin and senior commissioner at
the Federal Communications
Commission, Jim Quello.
His award carries a $1,500 prize.
Pringle gets new position
as dean at Kenanf lagler
C. Knox Massey Professor John J.
Pringle has been named Associate Dean
for International Programs at the
University’s Kenan-Flagler Business
School.
In his new post, Pringle will help
integrate and coordinate the variety of
international business education activi
ties now under way at the business
school and plan how to strategically
expand them.
UNC professor appointed
Duke math journal editor
For the first time in its 62-year histo
ry, the Duke Mathematical Journal has
appointed a managing editor who is not
a Duke professor.
Dr. Jonathan M. Wahl, professor of
mathematics at UNC, will become edi
tor July 1.
He succeeds Morris Weisfeld, a
Duke mathematics professor who had
held the post since 1974.
“This is very unusual,” Wahl said.
“But the math communities at UNC
and Duke are very close; we have lots of
interaction, and there are many areas of
interest with overlap at both schools.”
Man showing fake badge
caught on Franklin Street
Salvatore Degraffenreidt, 36, of 311
Sunset Dr., was arrested Monday morn
ing after displaying a fake U.S.
Marshal’s badge to several Franklin
Street pedestrians, police reports state.
Degraffenreidt allegedly told people
he was investigating the larceny of some
beer that had been taken out of a truck
at a local store, reports state.
Degraffenreidt was released on S4OO
bond.
World traveler to speak
about trip through China
On Thursday, May 29, Sam
Fridhandler will share the story of his
unique experience of driving a GMC
Suburban with an attached Airstream
trailer 2,000 miles in China.
The former salesman traveled exten
sively as part of his vocation, and con
. tinued his travels after his retirement.
The presentation will be given at the
Chapel Hill Senior Center at 400 S.
Elliott Road from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
On June 5, Fridhandler will present a
second program on the travels of Wally
Byam, who designed and manufactured
Airstreams.
There is no fee for admission to
either program, but those who plan to
attend are encouraged to register at the
Senior Center or call 968-2070.
Local Smart Start project
earns award for efforts
The Orange County Partnership for
Young Children received one of ten
awards Tuesday at a statewide celebra
tion of Smart Start.
The Partnership received a cash gift
along with the award at a reception at
which Governor Jim Hunt and Speaker
Pro Tem Carolyn Russell served as
hosts.
The Partnership received the award
in recognition of its W.A.G.E.S pro
gram operated by the Day Care Services
Association.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Pollsite legislation bolts
to House, lags in Rules
■ The bill would allow
students to petition for
satellite sites on campus.
BY ERICA BESHEARS
EDITOR
A bolt of lightning sent a bill that
would allow satellite poll sites on college
campuses through the N.C. Senate and
into the House.
But another act of God might be nec-
essary to move
the bill, spon
sored by Sen.
Eleanor
Student could get
808 vote, voice
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Kinnaird, D-Orange, out of the House
Rules Committee.
“It was assigned to Rules
Committee,” said Rep. Verla Insko, D-
Orange, who will work with the bill in
the House as a member of the Election
Laws and Campaign Reform
Committee. “It might be appropriate to
say it is stuck in Rules Committee.”
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Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf (left) and council members Lee Pavao, Pat Evans, Mark Chilton and Julie
Andresen listen to a presentation Monday night at a public hearing about the proposed Meadowmont development.
Residents speak against connector
■ The Town Council
heard citizens’ concerns
about Meadowmont.
BY KATHERINE BROWN
CITY EDITOR
Residents of Pinehurst Road in the
Oaks neighborhood voiced their opposi
tion to a planned Meadowmont con
nector road at two public hearings
Monday and Tuesday nights.
The extension, as currently planned,
would feed traffic along Pinehurst Road,
through the Oaks neighborhood, and to
Meadowmont’s commercial center.
After being sworn in at the quasi-judi
cial hearings held by the Chapel Hill
Town Council, residents were allowed
to discuss their feelings about the
planned development. One after anoth
er, Pinehurst Road homeowners
expressed fears about increased traffic
volume and speeds, falling property val
ues, and flooding which could be wors
ened by development. They asked the
OWASA begins construction on water line
■ Some students are concerned
about the traffic problems
construction might cause.
BY ANDREA LEE
STAFF WRITER
Students returning to campus for summer
school found themselves maneuvering around
even more construction.
Orange Water and Sewer Authority began
installation of anew water line Monday, and is
expected to continue work until Aug. 12.
The new water line is needed to improve
water service to Chapel Hill and will help with
the water flow and pressure.
Recently, students have become frustrated
with construction projects, such as the renova
tion of Lenoir Dining Hall, because parts of
campus continue to be blocked off from walk
ers.
Similar feelings have emerged concerning
the OWASA construction.
“Besides causing inconviences, the construc
tion has become an eyesore of sorts," said Jason
Parker, a senior English major.
“But good things will become of it, so it is
needed.”
Todd Spencer, assistant engineering manag
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Kinnaird said
her bill passed the
Senate on the last
day for public bill
without being
killed by amend
ments because a
lightning bolt
knocked the
power out in the
chamber.
Members decided
to pass the bill and
adjourn. “It
passed, thanks to
Mother Nature.”
Kinnaird said she
planned to work
with House mem
Association of Student
Governments
President
JOHN DERVIN
said he wanted to
resurrect the
legislation.
bers to move all of her bills out of Rules.
“It’s a reasonable bill,” she said. “It
makes (voting) convenient for students
who are on campus.”
John Dervin, president of the
Association of Student Governments,
said he wanted to mobilize student lead
ers to fight for the bill.
council to disallow
the connector or
make it emer
gency-access only.
Jackie
Carsanaro said her
family had moved
to the Oaks for its
beauty and safety.
She presented the
results of a survey
she had done, say
ing Pinehurst
Road was used by
about 200 pedes
trians per day.
“About 80 percent
of those we sur
veyed were against
Council member
MARK CHILTON
made a motion to
schedule two more
nights of hearings on
Meadowmont's five
land use applications.
the connector,” she said.
Many parents talked about their con
cern for the safety of the 114 children of
Pinehurst Road.
“I ask you from the deepness in my
heart and from all the children on
Pinehurst Road,” Mark Vitali said, “to
please not connect Pinehurst and leave it
as an emergency connection only.”
“The construction makes traffic
worse and can be a real
inconvenience for students living
on or near campus .”
JENNA JORDAN
UNC junior
er for OWASA, said University officials insist
ed to him that the construction take place
between the spring and fall semesters.
OWASA has made provisions to reduce the
noise by restricting pavement-cutting and other
loud activities between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.
“The noise magnitude is no more than any
other type of construction noise,” said Spencer.
Besides the noise, students are also con
cerned about the extra traffic problems the con
struction creates.
“The construction makes traffic worse,” said
Jenna Jordan, a junior nursing major from
Lincolnton. “It can be an inconvenience for stu
dents living on or near cafnpus.”
To prevent traffic problems, Spencer said that
at least two lanes would remain open at all
times. This includes the portion of Columbia
Street where the construction will take place
and traffic on South Road.
“We’re trying to resurrect that bill,”
he said. “I’m trying to talk to the new
student body presidents.”
The bill would allow student leaders
to petition local elections boards for
satellite polling places on campuses. On
the UNC-CH campus, Mason Farm
precinct voters have to leave campus to
vote, and other students have to vote at
UNC General Administration.
Dervin said the bill shouldn’t be con
troversial because it would not mandate
poll sites. “It just gives us the right to
petition.”
Insko said she had heard both posi
tive and negative feedback from con
stituents. Board of Elections representa
tives have told her that it would cost
about $6,000 per voting machine for
satellite poll sites.
Legislators’ attitudes had slowed the
bill, she said. “I think it’s the philosophy
that voters need to make an effort to get
to the polls,” she said.
Insko said she did not know any
timetable for passing the bill or getting it
out of Rules Committee.
Each of Meadowmont’s five special
land use permit applications covers a
piece of the planned develoment: infra
structure, the village center, the apart
ment comlex, the swim club, and the
town park and middle school.
Monday nights’ hearing began with
reports on the applications by various
town boards, the Triangle
Transportation Authority and the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of
Education. Representatives said they
had concerns about the development,
but each board approved the
Meadowmont applications.
Former Chapel Hill Mayor Ken
Brown, said he thought it was inappro
priate and imprudent to reject the
Meadowmont proposal as a whole at
that point. “Meadowmont is an effective
use of this land,” Brown said. “The
alternative to this is random develop
ment, and we don’t need 400 more acres
of single-family homes without the
amenities of this plan.”
Others raised questions about some
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The N.C. Department of Transportation and
the Town of Chapel Hill requested that the con
struction take place at night because of the large
amount of traffic on campus during the day,
Spencer said.
Therefore, construction will take place
between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., Sunday through
Thursday nights
“The traffic flow will continue and will not
be restricted,” added Spencer.
A contractor hired by OWASA began
installing the 1,700 feet of pipe for the water
line on the east side of Columbia Street at
Cameron Avenue.
From there, the installation will proceed
south toward the intersection of Columbia
Street and South Road.
The pipe will then continue eastward on the
north side of the street, finally reaching the Bell
Tower.
The line will also provide opportunities for
the future needs of UNC Hospitals to be met.
Heavy equipment and a 24-inch iron ductile
pipe will be used to install the water line.
“If construction is being done to make some
thing on our campus more aesthetically pleas
ing, I don’t mind the temporary problems it
causes,” said Cena Hackler, a sophomore from
Myrtle Beach, SC.
“But when you know the intent is to install
water pipes, the construction is just annoying."
Special lips for safe saaner oa campas
■ Lode your residence hall room door, even if you're going out only briefly, or if
you're going totakeanaporgotobedforthe night.
■ When going out, plan your route in advance and never waft alone. Take advan
tage of the campus lighting corridor.
■ Park your car in awe Wit area and keep valuables out of sight. When approach
ing the car at night, have your keys in hand and look inside the car before you get
in. Be wary of anyone asking for directions or handing out flyers.
■ Police cal boxes we located across campus. Some models require you to press
a red button, while others require that you Bft a telephone receiver. Either will
notify police of your whereabouts.
■ The Point-toFoint Shuttle Service (962-7867) operates after dark and can be
used for trips to and from campus locations and campus parking areas.
■ If you've locked your keys in the car or if your battery is dead, cal foe UNC
Motorist Assistance Program at 962-8006 weekdays from 7 am. to midnight.
■ University Police will offer increased campus security with the Abemethy Hall
Annex this month. Additional officers will patrol campus beginning this summer.
UNC police set to open
annex on North Campus
H Campus police will also
hire four new officers to
heighten their visibility.
BY JOHN SWEENEY
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
In an effort to better reach out to the
community it serves, the University
Police Department is expanding its
operations on campus.
The next few months will see the
addition of a police station annex and
four new patrol officers for the depart
ment.
“One of the things we’ve heard, not
only through one-on-one contact, but
also through our survey, is that one of
the things people want is more contact
with uniformed personnel,” University
Police Chief Don Gold said.
The new annex, to be located in a
small building between Swain Hall and
Abemethy Hall, might open up as soon
as next Tuesday, Gold said. The build
ing was being used for storage.
Until now, University Police officers
have had to travel all the way from their
main station—located beside Morrison
Residence Hall. — to North Campus
when conducting business there.
The new annex will not only alleviate
that problem, but make University
Police more visible to faculty, students
and staff, Gold said.
“It will also become an opportunity
for officers to work with people in the
Some UNC professors lack
new technological equipment
■ One official said the need
for modern computers
on campus was a concern.
BY JOHN SWEENEY
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
While UNC stands poised at the edge
of the 21st century, some of its faculty
are technologically mired in the late 80s,
saddled with computers that no longer
meet their needs.
And that’s cause for genuine concern,
said Chief Information Officer William
Graves.
“I think it’s extremely important right
now for any faculty who wants (an up
to-date computer) to have one,” Graves
said.
The problem is one of funding, he
said. The University is constantly seek
ing money to buy new computers, but
many in state government do not recog
nize the importance of technology in
higer education.
Some department are able to allocate
their own resources specifically for com
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community,” Gold said.
While the annex will not be open 24
hours a day, Gold said he planned to
establish regular hours. A courtesy
phone will be placed at the side of the
building.
In addition, University Police will
have a more pronounced presence along
the red-brick paths of the UNC campus.
“During the summer, we will add five
new officers, four of whom will operate
primarily on foot or on bike,” Gold said.
They’re going to be very visible, making
contact with people.”
Despite the new initiatives, Gold said
students should not take their safety for
granted.
“This is a very safe environment, we
feel, but we’re not immune to crime,” he
said. “People need to be safe.”
Throughout the year, University
Police offer several programs designed
to increase student safety. The depart
ment also creates specialized seminars
to meet the needs of particular student
groups.
Lt. Angela Cannon, the campus
crime prevention officer, organizes
many of these programs. Gold said
interested students can contact either
Cannon or himself regarding these pro
grams.
And with safety becoming more and
more of a concern for many students.
Gold said it was important for
University Police to maintain strong ties
to the student body.
“Any opportunity that we have to talk
to students we relish.”
puting, but many are too strapped for
cash to do that.
“There’s always a have and a have
not kind of problem in these situations,”
Graves said.
University administrators are exam
ining alternate solutions to the problem.
One possibility is leasing rather than
buying —new computers.
“In the future we’re looking at some
kind of institutional lease programs that
would be designed to replace machines
on a two- or three-year life cycle,” he
said.
For now, though, faculty are accept
ing hand-me-downs from students.
As the computers located in student
computer labs become outdated, they
are replaced with newer ones, all paid
for with student fees.
Brent Caison, manager of computer
labs at Information Technology
Services, said about 288 computers
were being replaced this year. But they
won’t be simply gotten rid of.
“Any time we get a computer that stfll
has a few years of life left in it, we try to
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