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Hooker backs
$7.1 million
Nike contract
■ The chancellor spoke
about the deal at Friday’s
Faculty Council meeting.
BY MARISSA DOWNS
STAFF WRITER
Chancellor Michael Hooker respond
ed to questions about the University’s
contract with Nike during this year’s
first Faculty Council meeting held
Friday.
The contract
has been criticized
for endorsing a
company accused
of imposing harsh
working condi
tions in other
countries.
Faculty mem
bers questioned
fire message
Behind the con
tract after Hooker
Said the University
has a responsibili
ty to its communi
ty-
Hooker defend-
Chancellor
MICHAEL HOOKER
said the working
conditions relative to*
what else is available
are really very
good.
ed the $7.1 million deal. “It is a very
complicated situation,” Hooker said.
Hooker also said he had toured Nike
apparel factories in Malaysia and
Thailand and he believed the working
conditions in those factories to be better
than those in other factories in the area.
“The working conditions would be
appalling to you and me,” Hooker said.
“But the working conditions relative to
what else is available are really very
good.
“It would be sad indeed if the appar
el manufacturers pulled out of those
economies.”
Other topics Hooker addressed
included the recent 4 percent increase in
faculty salaries and budgeting priorities.
The faculty also discussed a proposed
phased-retirement policy.
William W. Smith, special assistant
to the provost, said under the terms of
the policy, faculty members who retire
could continue to teach part time for
three more years.
He said between 150 and 180 facul
ty members would participate in the
program any given year, resulting in a
loss of 40 full-time faculty members.
Smith said several departments could
be hit hard by the decrease in faculty.
He said the General Administration
expects to take action on the phased
retirement policy, which is still in its
draft stage, by February 1998.
Student Body President Mo Nathan
also spoke to the council. Nathan said
the University needs to provide better
support for graduate students and more
direction for undergraduate students.
“We need help navigating in this
crazy world,” Nathan said. “As we get
larger and more technologically
advanced, we need to stress faculty-stu
dent interaction.”
Students sail through short lines at obscure campus eateries
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Holly Rincic takes advantage of the barren Union Cabaret last Friday during lunch. With new dinning facilities under
way, Carolina Dining Services officials finds that students are unaware of their eating options.
Water pipe bursts, some lounges flooded
BY JESSICA GALAZKA
STAFF WRITER
Some students temporarily housed in
Ehringhaus Residence Hall awoke
Friday morning to a “flood” of water
rushing into the lounges in which they
slept.
A water pipe in the sixth floor kitchen
burst shortly after 7 a.m., causing water
to pour into the fifth and sixth floor
lounges, where the students were tem
porarily housed.
“It was a substantial amount of
water,” said Allan Calarco, associate
director of student and staff services for
the Department of University Housing.
New business
school hosts
open house
■ Alan Greenspan and other public
figures spoke at the McColl Building
dedication ceremony Friday.
BYNAHALTOOSI
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
After the oversized scissors snipped the white rib
bon at Friday’s dedication of the McColl Building, the
new home of the Kenan-Flagler Business School,
onlookers poured inside to see the results of years’
worth of talk and planning.
The fact that Alan Greenspan, chairman of the
board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System
was holding those scissors only heightened the spirits
of those attending the elaborate housewarming.
The invitation-only event was marked with much
more pomp and circumstance, including remarks from
Greenspan, a buffet lunch and building tours, for the
more than 3,000 University administrators, state leg
islators, faculty, staff, students and alumni gathered.
Greenspan’s speech was prefaced with a standing
ovation from the audience. Outside, however, eight
members of the Carolina Socialist Forum handed out
fliers protesting his policies.
“Every time I come to North Carolina I find that it’s
one of the more cordial places on this earth,”
Greenspan said.
Although his speech probably did little to affect the
economic cycle, Greenspan stressed the importance of
educating the leaders of an increasingly global and
complex economy. He focused heavily on technology,
a feature of the $44 million facility which has
Internet connections at nearly every desk that has
been pushed to the forefront.
The business school has even partnered up with
technology companies Price Waterhouse, Dell
Computer Corporation, and Cabletron Systems to
develop and maintain the technology at the business
school as well as to use it as a test site for new methods.
“The University has made this important commit
ment at a time when our businesses and workers are
confronting a dynamic set of force that will influence
our nation’s ability to compete worldwide in the years
ahead,” Greenspan said.
Nationsßank Corporation’s chief executive officer
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Monday, September 15,1997
Volume 105, Issue 69
Residents said
water rushed off
the balconies
down to the
ground.
Students affect
ed by the flooding
have been moved
to Hinton James
and Mangum resi
dence halls. Teddy
Tate, a graduate
student from
Atlanta, Ga., said
housing officials
told the students
they would be
Director of Housing
WAYNE KUNCL
said it is unfortunate
the students affected
were in temporary
housing.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, University Chancellor Michael Hooker and
Nationsßank President Hugh McColl Jr. attend Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony for the business school.
and UNC alumnus Hugh McColl Jr. was also present.
Speakers praised McColl’s repeatedly just as they did
the new facility.
Former UNC-system President C.D. Spangler’s
story of how he got a “dose” of McColl’s operation
style when he sold McColl a bank in a quickly formed
deal drew several rounds of laughter from the crowd.
“After we shook hands we went down to get a ham
moved to the top of the priority list for
permanent housing.
Tate, who lived in the fifth floor
lounge, said that when he saw the inch
of water on the floor, he was shocked.
“I thought to myself, 0.K., what do I
need to do? I woke up in the middle of a
puddle,” he said. “I was in the shallow
end.”
Kirk Gilligan, a senior from Red
Bank, N.J., said he thought they were in
the middle of a terrible rainstorm. He
said he traced the water to the sixth floor
and went to see what had happened.
Gilligan said workers had not yet fig
ured out what happened to the pipe.
Calarco said the water was turned off
burger,” Spangler said. “When the check came Hugh
reached for his wallet and for the check only to discover
he had left his wallet and his cash at home.
“I paid. Fortunately for the University, however, on
many subsequent occasions, Hugh hasn’t forgotten his
wallet and has opened it for the University very, very
See GREENSPAN, Page 2
BY SUMMER SAADAH
STAFF WRITER
Tucked away in different spots
around campus are dining options some
students might not notice.
The Union Cabaret, the carts outside
the Student Union and Carmichael
Ballroom are eating facilities which are
not receiving large numbers of cus
tomers.
Freshman Helen Huegerich is one
student taking advantage of the various
facilities.
She said she decided to eat at the
Union Cabaret to avoid the long lines at
Union Station.
“It was too crowded,” Huegerich
said.
“It was a hot day, and I enjoyed (the
air conditioning).’’
But the most recent statistics indicate
that the general lack of knowledge of
alternative eateries on campus is wide
spread.
According to Carolina Dining
Services customer counts, the total num
ber of customers buying food at Union
Station during the week of Aug. 23 to
Aug.3o was more than 28,000. During
in a matter of minutes.
Water and electricity were turned off
in the building for the morning but were
both restored in the early afternoon.
The elevator was also out of order
since water flooded the elevator shaft.
Rebecca Casey, assistant director of
housing, stated in a press release that the
elevator will be closed until later this
week.
“Luckily it happened when the staff
was already on campus,” Calarco said
adding that if it had happened at 3 a.m.,
it would have been a disaster.
Gilligan said they were lucky their
electronic equipment was in an area of
the room that did not get much flooding.
“I think one of the main
reasons that they are not
being used is that students
are unaware that they are
available.”
EMILY WILLIAMSON
Co-chairwoman of student services
the same week, however, the number of
customers at places like the Union
Cabaret and the University-run vending
carts was around 1653 customers com
bined.
“We went out last week and talked to
students at Ehringhaus and we went out
the week before and talked to some at
Old East and Old West, and one of the
things we were hearing is that everybody
is still not aware of what all the different
units serve," said Scott Myers, director
of CDS.
Myers added, “Certain things affect
how a normal week would go foot
ball games certainly help, weather helps,
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He and his roommates started pour
ing the water out as soon as they could.
There was about an inch to two inches
of water on the floor, he said.
They will also be given a SSO credit to
their UNC ONE Cards to cover inci
dentals and will not pay housing costs
while they are in their second temporary
home, he said.
Wayne Kuncl, director of University
Housing said, “It’s unfortunate that the
students affected were students in tem
porary housing.”
Tate said he now hoped to have per
manent housing in Craige Residence
Hall within the next two weeks.
“It’s really a blessing.”
Step show
to perform
on schedule
■ Some groups have been
preparing for the step show
since this summer.
BY LAURA STOEHR
STAFF WRITER
Despite funding concerns, the UNC
National Pan-Hellenic Council’s
Homecoming step show will continue
its annual tradition.
Friday night, the NPHC accepted the
Carolina Athletic Associations revised
proposal to co-sponsor the show.
“Everyone’s pleased that a compro
mise has been reached and we’re able to
present the show
we’ve been work
ing on,” said
Candice Wooten,
president of
Alpha Kappa
Alpha Inc.
The NPHC
voiced concerns
last week about
the CAA’s plans
for the organiza
tion and the fund
ing of the show,
and rejected the
CAA’s initial pro
posal.
“With both
groups collaborat
ing on (the step
if*
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CAA Copresident
JASON REYNOLDS
said he was happy
the two groups
could reach an
agreement on the
step show.
show), it will be the big event that it has
been,” CAA Co-president Jason
Reynolds said. “We were happy to
come to an agreement so that it would
continue.”
Changes in the leadership of the
CAA and the NPHC affected each
group’s perspective on how to manage
the show and hindered the original con
tract negotiations, said Michele Causey-
Dugger, NPHC president.
See CAA, Page 2
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Temporary housing blues
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