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®hv latlg Ufetr MM p HHb 104 yean of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 UNC outreach gets massive HUD grant ■ The $400,000 will fund a partnership with Duke to aid a Durham community. BY WHITNEY MOORE STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR UNC received hundreds of thou sands of federal dollars Wednesday to create a community outreach center in Durham. The $399,985 grant, part of $7.3 mil lion handed out by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will fund a unified effort between UNC and Duke University to help the southwest central area of Durham. The grant comes after three years of attempts by UNC to win the award. “This is our lucky year," said William Rohe, director of the Center for Urban & Regional Studies. “Last year we real ized we needed to focus on one section of a city, instead of different areas of several cities. “We chose southwest central Durham because neighborhood groups had already come together on their own,” he said. “We asked how we could help.” £(&, ■ BSP* gap DTH/SEAN BUSHER Gov. Jim Hunt speaks to local health professionals about their accomplishments with the Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program on Wednesday night in Hill Hall. This year marks the 25th anniversary of AHEC. Hunt visits Chapel Hill to praise health care education endeavors ■ Area Health Education Centers celebrated its 25th anniversary Wednesday. BY ANNE CORBETT STAFF WRITER Gov. Jim Hunt praised the achieve ments of North Carolina’s health care professionals at a ceremony on campus Wednesday night. The 25th anniversary celebration for the Area Health Education Centers Service hours may increase during holidays BY ELLIE MCGINNESS STAFF WRITER Students stuck on campus for long weekends and extended holidays can’t always find food. Student Congress wants to continue extending campus service hours during those holidays to accommodate the stu dents remaining on campus. “Last year we started to extend the hours of ftie (South Campus) Mini Mart and other food services during all breaks so that students wouldn't go hungry dur ing University holidays,” said Scott Hammack, co-chairman of the student services committee. One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul , and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Vincent van Gogh Andrew Cuomo, secretary of HUD, said more than 100 universities applied for 16 grants worth approximately $400,000 each. “We looked for universities located in the center of distressed communities,” he said. “The principle at work here (is) to build bridges between universities and communities.’’ Rohe said many factors contributed to UNC’s successful pursuit of the grant. “One reason is because we are collaborating with Duke on it,” he said. “That made a difference.” The support of UNC Chancellor Michael Hooker also helped secure the prize, as did faculty contributions. “(Hooker) wrote a tremendous letter on our behalf,” Rohe said. “Plus, we had all of our faculty workers agree to donate half their time. “(HUD) was very concerned that the ideas for the projects come from the community, not the university,” Rohe said. “We did a lot of legwork to put together a proposal in which ideas real ly did come from the community.” Ronnie McKoy, executive director of the West End Community Center in southwest central Durham, said resi dents responded to the uniqueness of the UNC group. Program offered Hunt the opportunity to honor AHEC’s founders. AHEC, established in 1972 to bring health care facilities to small communi ties around North Carolina, originated at the School of Medicine. “It’s good to be here to celebrate the 25th anniversary of AHEC,” Hunt said. “In fact, we don’t celebrate enough good things that they have done.” He said AHEC helped equalize health care across the country. “The people of this state have had 25 years of good quality health care no matter who they are or where they live.” Hammack said the only problems with extending the hours of services was finding funds to pay staff for the extra hours worked and find ing staff to work during the holi days. With fraternity and sorority rush and other student activities continu ing during the Labor Day holi- Co-chairman of the student services committee SCOTT HAMMACK wants to extend service hours. Thursday, September 4,1997 Volume 105, Isue 62 Reaching out, building up The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a $400,000 grant to the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, at UNC. The center will use the grant to build community relations in southwest central Durham. I 1. Crime Prevention 4. Building community wealth I H -improving communication -a variety of programs to aid ■ between community residents residents in increasing assets H and members of the Durham and disposable income H Police Department 2. Housing 5. Youth enrichment ■ -encouraging residents to become -life and job skills taught to .\S self-sufficient; conducting youth through oral history, iff 8 workshops to educate about photos, written expression \ ■ illegal housing administration 2. Economic development 6. Neighborhood coordination I "■ -matching employer skill needs -the headquarters for the center : ; H with job training; forming and will provide classes training for H training a neighborhood residents and publish a monthly :■ construction company community newspaper “This created a rapport between the university and the community,” he said. “We tend to look at the university on one level and the people who live there on another. This gets rid of the myths and stereotypes so we build relation ships.” Although faculty involved might ben efit from research generated during the community outreach project, UNC city “Our AHEC is one of the largest in the country and one of the most suc cessful,” he said. “We like to be first in North Carolina.” Hunt said his admiration for the AHEC program stemmed from earlier experiences when quality health care was not available. Asa child his home town often did not have a doctor. “When I was a little boy, we had a doctor but he got old and died, and we couldn’t get another one,” Hunt said. “I remember driving with my family to the See HUNT, Page 2 day, there were many students still on campus. Ruth Justice, unit supervisor of Union Station, stressed the importance of extending hours of student services. “It is very important for things to stay open for students during holidays because we do have so many exchange students and other students who stay on campus for these breaks,” she said. Justice also said she wouldn’t have a problem finding staff to work during these holidays. She said plenty of people wanted to work Labor Day weekend. “We were even over-staffed on See SERVICES, Page 2 and regional planning professor Emil Malizia said that isn’t the focus. “Our first priority is to do something positive for the community,” he said. “From the North Carolina perspec tive, the most important thing is that HUD has been funding these things for years,” said Malizia. “For the first time North Carolina has a seat at the table.” Residents support s6l million bond ■ The public had a chance to hear specifics about the Nov. 4 bond referendum. BY BARRETT BREWER STAFF WRITFR More than 70 people, including the Orange County Commissioners, turned out Wednesday evening to discuss how they should market the $60.6 million bond issue to Orange County voters Nov. 4. A group of Orange County staff and citizens met to discuss strategies for the 1997 bond referendum. Orange County Manager John Link identified the bond referendum meeting as a chance to update the county for the future. “We are trying to get organized in terms of the five bonds,” Link said. “All five bonds allow the county to be prepared to enter the 21st century, to provide for the overcrowding of schools, BRUSHING UP urn ML . ili fjSHpfl .it,, J&fl J DTH/IENNIFER GUTHRIE Becky Slattery (left), Elizabeth Lowry and Scott Oliver, slap new paint onto the cube outside the Student Union on Wednesday. Front-yard parking lots distressing to residents BY AMY CAPPIELLO CITY EDITOR Parking in Chapel Hill has been an issue for years as limited lots have forced students and commuters to search for other parking venues. Some residents rent pieces of their yard as parking spaces. But these “front-yard park ing lots” bother residents in the Westside neigh borhood. The neighborhood association pro posed an ordi nance to limit front-yard parking to the Chapel Hill Town Council ear lier this year. The council will hold a public hearing on the proposal Sept. 15. Pauline Chapel Hill Mayor ROSEMARY WALDORF said she thought parking in front yards was an unsightly problem. Grimson, whose husband, Baird, is the president of the Westside Neighborhood Association, said the ordinance was pro posed to protect the the neighborhood’s appearance. “The reason we felt that we to provide for the building of parks and to address affordable housing.” The bond referendum proposes the allotment of $60.6 million into five dif ferent bonds for construction and reno vation of public facilities. The five bonds will affect affordable housing, public buildings, sanitary sewer systems, parks and recreation facilities and both Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. In the winter of 1997, the Capital Needs Task Force assessed the need for between $51.7 and $61.7 million to properly fund recommended renovation and construction projects. The proposed bonds will attempt to pay back the $60.6 million debt with a property tax increase of 3.85 cents per SIOO of valued property phased in over several years, Link said. Without the bonds, property tax would increase by 10 to 11 cents accord ing to county officials, he said. Betty Eidenier, co-chairwoman of the bond education committee, said she was in support of the bonds and felt there New*/Features/Aro/Sport*: Business/Advertising; Chape! Hill, North Carolina C 1997 DTO Publishing Coip. All rights reserved. needed to do this is that the front yards are totally filled up with cars,” she said. “ Most other neighborhoods wouldn’t allow this to happen.” The proposed ordinance does not call for eliminating front-yard parking but for limiting it to 40 percent of the yard. Although many students utilize this type of parking, Grimson said the ordi nance does not target students. “There are a lot of people who work for the University that also pay a fortune to park in front yards. An anti-student issue is not what we’re proposing at all.” Nevertheless, Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf said she believed students, who face tremendous parking problems, would be very interested in next week’s public hearing. But she said the proposed ordinance was needed. “I sympathize with people’s trans portation problems, but if you get a neighborhood, and every front yard is turned into a parking lot for three, four, five or six cars, it really becomes a nui sance.” Student Body President Mo Nathan said he believed it was not up to the Town to limit front-yard parking. “It’s not the Town’s land,” he said. “It’s the students’ property, the local residents’ property. They should be able to deter mine what happens on their property.” would be little opposition Nov. 4. “If the bond issue is voted down, (renovations and construction) will still be done more slowly and over a longer length of time,” Eidenier said. “In the long run this is the cheapest way to pay for it.” Orange County Commissioner Stephen Halkiotis spoke in favor of the bonds. “I think it is a modest bond package to provide for a wonderful opportunity in five distinct areas,” he said. “These are issues that deal with our quality of life which is what Orange County is all about” Bill Strom, bond education commit tee co-chairman, said he felt the county residents who attended the meeting sup ported the referendum. “I think it is real ly exciting,” he said. “Obviously there is lots of momentum and support for the bonds through the town and county.” Halkiotis said he detected public con cern. “I’m excited about the quality of people in this room. They are who work and care for their fellow people." INSIDE Drama on campus The dramatic arts live and breathe on campus with a multitude of E 9 theater groups. Their performances both educate and entertain. Page 5 Who’s who among colleges? High school scholars request UNC sixth out of universities nationwide to be notified of Who’s Who award winners. Page 2 Congress: no ’fresh-women’ Student Congress passed a resolution against the proposed ’first-year students' title. Jane Brown and other professors are upset about the vote. Page 4 Today's weather Sunny; low 70s Friday Sunny high 70s 962-0245 962-1163
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