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■ The Transit and Parking
Task Force held three
forums to gather input.
BY ANDREW MEEHAN
STAFF WRITER
Proposed price increases for parking
permits drew criticism from faculty
members at a forum held by the Transit
and Parking Task Force.
Three forums were held to allow the
public to ask questions, air grievances
and make suggestions about die upcom
ing parking and transit plans
Wednesday afternoon.
The meetings opened with presenta
tions by George AJexiou, a member of
a consulting film that advised the task
force.
The presentation highlighted propos
als for next year, including two extra Ü
bqs routes, a tiered pricing system and
free transit for Park and Ride users.
Some faculty members said they
were concerned because permit prices
were going up at a faster rate than
employee salaries.
Todd Hux, a maintenance mechanic
with the Physical Plant, said employees
did not want a raise in parking prices.
“Mainly Average Joe people are
going to be hit the hardest," he said to
applause from the audience. “Everyone
just wants more of a piece of pie that
you’ve got.”
Willie Scroggs, chairman of the task
force, said the group tried to find solu
tions that would be fair to everyone.
Ruth Lewter, chairwoman of Dist.
19 of the State Employees Association,
said no one wanted parking prices to
increase, but realistically knew they
would increase.
She also said employees could not
continue to all drive their own cars.
“We as employees are, in a way,
spoiled,” she said.
Betsy Kane, a first-year law student,
said she was happy with the way the
task force had handled the parking prob
lem.
“I have rarely seen a plan that makes
more economic and policy sense,” Kane
said.
Some faculty members said they
were concerned about safety at remote
lots.
Scroggs said the task force was taking
safety into consideration.
“We will continue to charge the
department of public safety to do some
thing about (the safety of lots),” he said.
Scroggs suggested more lights in
remote lots and more patrols at those
lots, but he said extra security also
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B-GLAD member Christine Williams had notes prepared to explain why she was not speaking Wednesday. She and
other supporters of lesbian, gay and bisexual rights took a vow of silence in support of sexual equality.
B-GLAD makes silent statement
BYLESANAGY
STAFF WRITER
Fifteen members of Bisexuals, Gay
men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity
made a statement without saying a word
Wednesday.
This was the second year members of
B-GLAD participated in the National
Day of Silence for which 300 groups
from college campuses nationwide
protested the daily restraints placed on
the homosexual community.
Maria Pulzetti, a student at the
University of Virginia, started the event
in 1996 during UVa’s Lesbian Gay
Bisexual Union week. Students who
participated in the event Wednesday did
not speak from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Silence is deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.
Thomas Carlyle
Thursday, April 9,1998
Volume 106, Issue 29
Instead, participants passed out small
sheets of paper which explained that
they could not speak because they were
participating in the Day of Silence.
“The Day of Silence is to draw atten
tion to those who have been silenced by
hatred, oppression and prejudice,” the
paper stated. “Think about the voices
you are not hearing.”
At 5 p.m., a large roar erupted when
participants gathered in the Pit to cele
brate their success after making it
through the day without talking
B-GLAD President lan Palmquist
said the Day of Silence called attention
to the homosexual people who were
afraid of being chastised if they
expressed their sexual preferences.
Amanda Maris, a sophomore from
Aid to UNC Hospitals discussed
BY ASHLEY RYNESKA
STAFF WRITER
When the Board of Governors meets for its monthly meet
ing today, a lot will be on die line for UNC Hospitals.
The Budget and Finance Committee agreed Wednesday to
advocate an increase in funding for UNC Hospitals. The
amount of funding will be raised on May 11, if die proposal is
approved by die BOG.
William McCoy, vice president of the finance committee,
said the additional funding would preserve the high quality of
UNC’s healthcare system. “If we don’t restore die funding,
there will be a weakening in die hospital’s credibility” McCoy
said.
Divisions of UNC’s healthcare system, like the Clinical
Cancer Center and the Bum Center, will remain at UNC
Hospitals only if funding is available
UNC Hospitals also relies on funding in order to provide
specialty services, charity care and educational support for
UNC.
McCoy said, “If we don’t have enough funding, some divi
sions could be cut off, and the hospitals won’t be able to carry
on their mission as well as they could.”
Ray Fanis, member of the budget committee, said UNC
Hospitals needed financial support to provide care to all resi
dents of the state, regardless of ability to pay.
Also, the hospital, its patients and its facilities are essential
to providing teaching cases for medical students and for
attracting new faculty, Fanis said.
“It is important that die hospitals maintain their high qual
ity of care and education for medical students," he said.
But John Stokes, director of public relations at the UNC
School of Medicine, said there was a possibility the BOG
could reject the funding proposal.
“I am not going to say that I’m pessimistic about the issue,
I just don’t want to second guess anything,” Stokes said.
Columbia, S.C., and a B-GLAD mem
ber, said participating in the event
showed that bisexuals, homosexuals and
supporters could convey their message
without verbally expressing it.
Maris said the Day of Silence was
also a protest against common uses of
language that exclude homosexuals. For
instance, she said people tend to ask
women about their husbands, assuming
that they are heterosexual. “The basic
language doesn’t accept everyone.”
Kurt Davies, a freshman from
Whispering Pines, said he participated
in the event to remind himself what it
was like to be afraid to publicly express
his sexual preference. “Also, to remind
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Jeffrey Houpt, dean of the School of Medicine, said he
was positive the BOG would support the proposal.
“I am hopeful that the proposal is passed, because
increased funding will ultimately affect the medical school
students.”
According to a report issued by the Lewin Group, the
UNC School of Medicine ranks as the fifth highest public
school in funding grossing over SIOO million annually.
If specialized programs receive financial aid, medical stu
dents could be exposed to advanced education and training.
According to a N.C. Health Professions Data System
report, UNC Hospitals provide the only training program in
the state for dentistry.
Furthermore, UNC has trained 23 percent of active N.C.
physicians.
“It is important to realize the hospital and medical school
are interdependent,” Houpt said.
“The health of one affects the health of the other.”
UNC officials warn
of PCP-laced drugs
BY SHARIF DURHAMS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Drugs, such as marijuana and ecsta
cy, sold in Chapel Hill could have an
extra kick —one that is dangerous and
potentially deadly for users.
University officials have heard of
symptoms from confidential users and
suppliers that show that these drugs
could be laced with phencyclidine or
PCP.
Matthew Sullivan, coordinator of the
substance abuse program at Student
Health Service, said the drugs caused a
vastly different experience than a user
might expect.
The officials discourage all drug use,
but they want users to know that the
dangerous mixtures are in the area.
Dr. Allen Hamrick, who works in
SHS Psychological Services, said users
and their friends should be cautious.
“If you’re using, be careful about
your supply. You’re not going to be able
to tell.”
While ecstacy users typically “expect
to feel like they’re on top of the world,”
and marijuana users have a positive
experience, PCP-laced drugs tend to
change things.
Ingested in small amounts, PCP
works like a hallucinogen, which can
create false perceptions and cause
numbness, amnesia and disassociation,
New ordinance might make
development process faster
BY REYNOLDS RICHTER
STAFF WRITER
Anew land-use ordinance could soon
make large-scale development easier in
Chapel Hill.
Die Horace Williams Zoning Work
Group presented a mixed-use zoning
ordinance to the
Town Council
Monday that
would create a
procedure for
developing tracts
150 acres or larger
in size.
Council mem
ber Joe Capowski
said the new ordi
nance applied pri
marily to the
development of
the University
owned Horace
Williams Tract.
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there aren’t any
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Sullivan said. He said users might feel as
if they’re stepping out of themselves.
“They end up doing things like stand
ing in front of trains and jumping off
buildings because they think they have
superhuman abilities,” Sullivan said.
Users can become violent, especially
as the drug’s effects wear off.
Users are frequently hospitalized and
can have strong reactions that require
hospitalization for 15 days. The residual
effects can last for months.
PCP was developed as a veterinary
tranquilizer. It has been a major street
drug since the 1980s, when suppliers
started using it as a way to dilute the
drug and sell it for more money.
Sometimes PCP-laced drugs are used
to give users a little extra “bang for their
buck” by enhancing their experience
while on marijuana or ecstacy, Sullivan
said. Other times, dealers lace the drugs
maliciously.
Judicial Programs Officer Margaret
Barrett said most drug cases seen by the
Honor Court involve marijuana use.
She has one piece of advice for stu
dents who would consider using the
potentially contaminated drugs—don’t
“We’d like to think this wouldn’t be
relevant to people, but it may be,” she
said. “My main concern is that someone
could be harmed in a way that they
weren’t expecting or that they could be
harmed at all.”
other tracts that size in town,” he said.
One goal of the new zoning ordi
nance is to speed up the developing
process for luge tracts of land, said
Bruce Ruriberg, associate wee chancel
lor for Facility Management at UNC
Developers must now seek individual
special-use permits for each facility in a
mixed-use development, a process
which often takes up to a year, he said.
The proposed zoning ordinance
would eliminate the need to seek indi
vidual permits, Runberg said. “Although
there are several steps, (the new zoning
ordinance) would be advantageous to
the owner of a large tract,” he said.
“If you (developed the tract) with the
current process, it would be very cum
bersome, and you would have to submit
dozens of different special use permits.”
But the plan has a catch. One of its
components, the power of the town to
create development agreements with
developers, needs to be made into law by
the state legislature before the ordinance
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Does man make the art, or does art
make the man? This week's Diversions
looks at how recent films and other
art mediums raise the issue of
art imitating life and life
imitating art. Page 5
art imitating life and life
imitating art. Page 5
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Pepsi celebrates its 100th anniversary
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