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®he latlu ®ar Mnl ) V/ 1? BUB 104 yean of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Construction crews strike Hinton James water pipe ■ The Hinton Janies water supply was cut off for four hours Monday. BY KAREN JOYCE ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Students at Hinton James Residence Hall woke up to a surprise Monday morning no water. Construction workers on the Ram Road project busted the main water pipe supplying water to the students living in the high-rise residence hall. Workers dug into the six-inch cast iron pipe at about 9 a.m. after they failed to mark it on the construction path. “Well, they took the top of the main feed,” said Clay Davis, who works for the Orange Water and Sewer Authority. The water started functioning again Price chairs discussion on federal funds ■ UNC chancellors agreed that better technology was important to the system. BY EMILY HOWELL STAFF WRITER Making UNC-system schools more “wired” for technology tops UNC-sys tem President Molly Broad’s wish list for the U.S. Congress this year. Broad and other state education lead ers met in Raleigh Monday with U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., to discuss the re-authorization and improvement of the Higher Education Act. Both Broad and Nan Keohane, president of Duke University, stressed the importance of graduate pro grams and further use of computers and technology in the classroom. “Congress should look for ways to work with colleges and uni versities in N.C.C.U. Chancellor JUUUS CHAMBERS said minority college concerns, such as better computers, needed to be addressed. improving their technological capacity to further student and faculty access to the educational benefits of advanced telecommunications,” Broad said. Keohane cited a recent tax bill that required employees offered tuition sup port from their employers to pay taxes on those funds as an area Congress should re-examine under the HE A. "I encourage Congress to seek appro priate ways to ensure that students have access to the benefits of distance educa tion,” she said. Increased funding for computers also concerned N.C. Central University Chancellor Julius Chambers. He and St. Augustine’s College President Bernard Franklin stressed the need for further funding of historically black colleges. Many historically black schools look to the federal government for financial support, Chambers said, because they often fail to bring in the matching cor porate grants other universities receive. Franklin called the HEA to improve financial aid, especially for minorities. Panelists also emphasized the impor tance of funding graduate programs. “Many of the historically black col leges are trying to build graduate pro grams,” Chambers said. “But to do this we need to loosen the restrictions on the use of federal funds,” he added. Keohane said, “A strong federal investment in graduate education is essential if our nation is to produce sci entists and engineers needed to conduct the nation’s research and development into the next century.” at 12:40 p.m. “It was a state mistake, but it’s our line to repair,” said Roland Burnette, who also works for OWASA. Burnette said state workers were putting in a storm drain for the road, and workers just hit the water line by mistake. The drain was being constructed by the side of the entrance into the resi dence hall, and repairing the pipe required workers to tear up the asphalt drive. Workers who struck the pipe said the water flow from the pipe actually cleared away the debris, making the repair process much easier. Workers then constructed a tempo rary driveway to allow students access to the residence hall. Dick Waghome, shift supervisor for the Department of Transportation and Parking, said Monday morning he just ftifL : ':M Biffil ! DTH/ERIN SNYDER Teddy Boliek, 1, peels paint off a door on Jackson Circle in Odum Village. Studies show that paint containing lead can be hazardous if ingested. Tuition waiver proposal still in discussion stages BY GINNY HARRIS STAFF WRITER A recent proposal to grant graduate students who serve as teaching and research assistants tuition waivers is just that —a proposal. University administrators said although the pro posal is under con sideration, it is too early to draw con clusions. “It’s a very complicated issue requiring much more dis cussion,” Dean of the Graduate School Linda Dykstra said. “The core of it would enhance our ability to recruit the highest Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock. Will Rogers wanted to make sure that students were able to get in and out of the Hinton James parking lots. “We should have a temporary road fixed soon,” Waghome said. Nikie Mayo, a sophomore from Scranton, said the new temporary entrance into Hinton James was difficult to travel on. “Only one vehicle could get across at a time,” Mayo said. “It’s tiny. It’s just rocks on the side of the road... when we crossed, they went everywhere.” Students in the residence hall were not pleased with the earlier water short age, either. They couldn’t shower and had trou ble brushing their teeth with no water in the entire building for almost four hours. "I went to brush my teeth, and (the See WATER PIPE, Page 7 quality teaching assistants to Carolina.” Since it is a complicated issue, gradu ate students should not expect this waiv er in the near future. “It will be months,” Provost Richard Richardson said. “It must be put in context with all of the other requests for money for tech nology, the environment, improving the intellectual climate, etc.” The estimated cost for paying for the 2,700 assistants is $5.6 million. This money would have to come from the N.C. General Assembly or from the re allocation of other programs’ funds. Many universities across the country waive tuition and fees for graduate stu dents who teach and assist with research. N.C. State University uses money from its own budget and not from the legislature to fund its waivers. Richardson said UNC would like the money to come from the legislature. See TUITION, Page 7 Provost RICHARD RICHARDSON said the issue was complicated and still in the preliminary stages of discussion. Tuesday, September 23,1997 Volume 105, Issue 75 ' DTH/JENNIFER GUTHRIE Orange Water and Sewer Authority workers clean up water that burst from the main water pipe Monday beside Hinton James Residence Hall. UNC family housing residents worry about lead paint danger BY KATE HARRISON STAFF WRITER Mark McConnell, a resident of UNC’s Odum Village student family housing, had no idea the paint flaking off the walls in his apartment could cause anything more serious than a messy floor. McConnell, who has an infant daughter, was surprised to learn that there could be lead paint beneath some of the chipping paint in his residence. “There’s paint peeling off shelves and windows, there’s paint peeling out side, there’s paint peeling everywhere,” he said. “I didn’t get anything saying there might be lead in it.” McConnell was one of several Odum Village residents who said they had never seen information about the pres ence of lead in the complex’s interior and exterior paint. When the dust and chips from lead paint are inhaled or swallowed over a period of time or in very high amounts, serious neurological damage and learn ing disabilities can result, especially in children under age 6, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It can also cause headaches, memory problems and kidney damage in adults. In Odum Village, there is still lead content in some of the window compo nents and baseboards indoors, as well as some of the playground equipment and the door and window components out doors. Ray Hackney, industrial hygiene manager for the University’s Department of Health and Safety, said Area foster families offer children support, guidance BYSEJALVORA STAFF WRITER When Tracy was 8 years old, the idea of family had a very different meaning. Released into foster care by her birth parents at age 8, Tracy was with one fos ter family before eventually finding a place she could call home. And this home is with Carol and Conrad Kunkle of Hillsborough, who were hand-picked by Tracy’s birth parents because they wanted their daughter to grow up in a two-parent household. The Kunkles, who took Tracy in as their first foster child in the spring of 1990, said she has created anew dimen sion to their fives. “She had a lot of feel ing,” Mrs. Kunkle said. “She had many foster parents to deal with; it was hard for her to figure out where her allegiance despite the lead content in some of the paint, lead would not pose a health risk unless the lead portions were exposed. “It’s when it’s chipping that it can be a problem,” he said. “Especially for chil dren, since they tend to put their hands in their mouths more.” Hackney said the recent annual inspection of the complex had shown the exterior paint to be “in good shape. ” Ruth Thomson, area director of Odum Village, said she sent out a Get the lead out Recent testing of paint at Odum Village Apartments showed that lead was present on windows, doors and other surfaces. No. of No. of- % Surface samples positive samples positive Interior surfaces (living room, bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom) Wall Window components Baseboard Cabinets Exterior and common interior areas Door components Window components Hallway ceilings, walls Interior staircase Hand rails ■ / Playground equipment SOURCE: UNC HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFICE was.” Tracy touched the Kunkles so much they decided to adopt her two years later at age 10. “We worked well as a family and we knew it was right,” Mrs. Kunkle said. The Kunkles did not have any chil dren of their own, which sparked their interest in becoming foster parents. “I think a lot of people have a distorted view of foster care, and it’s a real shame,” Mr. Kunkle said. “But we had friends who gave us good advice and put us in touch with the right people.” Some of those people included staff members of the foster parenting pro gram with the Orange County Department of Social Service. Jenifer Montsinger, the program supervisor, defined foster care as a tem porary living system for children who cannot remain in their own homes because of abuse, neglect and depen dency. See FOSTER, Page 7 fommunity °VTRI\& News/Features/Arts/Sports: 962-0245 Business/Advertinng: 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina © 1997 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. newsletter in February informing all ten ants of the lead paint content in the complex. “Not everybody got a release form when they renewed their leases because they had received the newsletter. That was our way of explaining to the resi dents about it,” she said. “Now, it might be that not all residents read the newslet ter.” See LEAD, Page 7 20 0 0% 63 12 19% 21 2 10% 5 0 0% 21 \ 13 62% 25 12 48% 1 0 0% 7 7 100% 1 1 100% 18 3 17% DTH/CAROL ANN WOODDY INSIDE At career fairs, style counts Your resumes are printed and your shirts are pressed. What else do you need before this week's career fairs? The DTH career fair supplement. Today's weather Mostly cloudy; high 70s Wednesday: Rain: high 60s iws3 Apply now Applications are now welcome for the fall 1997 Joanna Howell Fund project. The win ning proposal will be published in The Daily Tar Heel. To apply, submit a detailed proposal by Oct. 3. Call 962-0245 or drop by the DTH office in the Student Union for further details. If you know someone who should be "senior of the week," contact the senior class office with nominations at 962-9898.
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