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Friday, January 22, 1999
Group to Provide
Low-Rent Homes
Renovations on apartments
in the Pine Knolls area will
improve kitchens, flooring,
walls, roofs and heating.
By Jeff Craw ford
Staff Writer
In this town, where low-income hous
ing can be scarce, a nonprofit organiza
tion has been working with the town of
Chapel Hill to refurbish five apartments
in the Pine Knolls community.
The apartments were in poor condi
tion because of a history involving
drugs, Terry Carver, project manager
with EmPOWEßment Inc., the organi
zation renovating the apartments.
“There happened to be a drug problem
in the past and we wanted to fix it up
and put something nice in the commu
nity,” Carver said.
EmPOWEßment is a Carrboro non
profit organization that works to put
low-income families in their own
homes. For it’s Pine Knolls project, the
Chapel Hill Town Council approved a
SIIO,OOO grant Tuesday to help com
plete the renovations, which Carver said
would be finished in March.
“We’ve been interested in this com
plex for quite a while,” said Myles
Presler, director of EmPOWEßment’s
renovation project. “We wanted to
secure it and make it better.”
Presler said EmPOWEßment had
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been looking at the property for a year,
but almost lost it “An investor had
already made an offer with the intention
of making it student housing.”
EmPOWEßment will add new gas
heating systems, kitchen cabinets, sinks,
windows, flooring, ceilings, walls and
roofs to the apartments. Steelmark, the
contractor for the renovations, donated
the new roof system, Carver said.
Out of the five apartments, three are
already occupied and the other two will
be occupied by low-income families,
Presler said.
Applicants will most likely be under
the Section 8 low-income housing pro
gram, although Presler said it was not a
requirement. “We’re not sold on giving
them only to Section 8 families,” he said.
Section 8 is a social services program
that helps low-income families pay their
rent and utilities.
Carver said the grant from the town
of Chapel Hill, which came through the
town’s community development divi
sion, would cover half of the work. “The
rest of the money will be paid through a
low interest loan of $185,000 through a
generous contribution by the McAuly
Institute,” he said. The institute provides
loans and grants to non-profit groups.
Presler said the apartments would
stay drug-free as well. “We’ve hired a
management company with a drug-free
addendum that the families must sign.”
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Districting Plans Draw Lines
By Rudy Kleysteuber
Staff Writer
Residents’ tensions ran high at a pub
lic forum Thursday as the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Board of Education presented
its redistricting plans.
“This will be the fourth redistricting
in eight years for our neighborhood,
and we feel it’s time to make a long-term
plan,” Chapel Hill resident Susan
Gardner said.
The school board’s redistricting com
mittee is considering four plans for
redistricting elementary and middle
schools and one plan for the redistrict
ing of high schools.
The board will make a decision at its
Feb. 4 meeting.
Residents from all over Carrboro and
Chapel Hill, who both supported and
opposed different plans, almost filled
the Chapel Hill Town Hall to capacity.
Many residents focused on their sat
isfaction with the current school districts
and said their children needed more sta
bility.
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ning stations get backed up,” he said.
Julie Deschamps, one of the reserve
processors, said she did not think any
one realized how much work was
involved in putting the documents in
computer databases. “It just takes a mas
sive amount of time,” she said.
But Taylor said the new system would
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on leadership issues specific to the
gav-youth community. Events include
speakers, workshops, musicians and a
dance.
Williams said the conference was
important because it filled in gaps in
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“We were shocked to see such major
changes that impact such a small neigh
borhood as ours,” said Sherri Evans-
Stanton, a Windhover resident.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Superintendent Neil Pedersen began the
meeting by saying that the redistricting
was necessary to relieve classroom over
crowding and account for new school
constructions and expansions.
Nonetheless, many residents were
troubled by the new districts.
“We are extremely concerned about
the amount of time our children will be
spending every day inside school
buses,” said Bernardo Caceres, a
Summerfield Crossing resident.
Lake Hogan Farms resident Rob
Clark spoke out against the creation of
small “satellite” districts far from resi
dents’ homes.
“A community school is one attended
by children living in neighboring devel
opments.”
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be convenient for students. “There has
been a great demand for us to switch to
electronic reserves and we finally found
a system we think will work. Electronic
reserve is the way of the future.”
Taylor said the process of developing
an electronic reserve system began after
the 1993 senior class donated money in
its class gift for the project.
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the support network for gay youths.
“It’s hard to be a queer young per
son,” she explained. “Especially in
high school, where you don’t have sup
port organizations like B-GLAD, and
you might have to face things like
other students, parents and church.”
Gay youths face many barriers,
Williams said, like homelessness and
high suicide rates. She said she hoped
that the conference would spotlight the
gay-youth community.
“It’s hard for a lot of young people
to find a community, especially in the
South,” she said. “There are barriers
here they wouldn’t meet in New York.”
More than 250 participants from 14
states are expected to attend.
Orchestrating a conference of this
size adds up to hours of work from
many people, Williams said.
Williams contributed by setting up
the conference at UNC. She worked to
Campus Calendar
Friday
1 p.m. to 2 p.m. - Dr. Steve Wing,
associate professor in the Department of
Epidemiology, will present “A Case
Control Study of Multiple Myeloma at
Four Nuclear Facilities” as part of the
department’s Cancer Epidemiology
Series in the John Cassel Conference
Room, 2101 G McGavran Greenberg
Hall.
3 p.m. to 4 p.m. - Department of
Disability Services will be holding a
forum for an assistant director of dis
ability services in Union 210-211. All stu
dents are encouraged to come hear can
didate Anne K Bryan’s ideas. For more
information, call 962-8299.
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“Oh colleagues, you have such an
awesome responsibility,” Bumpers said.
Though mostly serious, he also
brought laughter to the floor. He
recalled how he and Clinton had once
survived a rough plane landing in
Arkansas one snowy day. “We jumped
out and ran away unscathed - to the dis
may of every budding politician in
Arkansas.”
But he reminded his recent col
leagues that he was not there as
Clinton’s friend but as a former senator
concerned about the precedent a con
viction of Clinton would set.
He argued that the Founding Fathers
had put impeachment in the
Constitution “to protect the public, not
punish the president.” Earlier, Clinton’s
private lawyer charged that House
impeachment prosecutors had ignored
evidence that would exonerate the pres
ident in an “attempt to fit some of the
facts into a sinister pattern” of obstruc-
UNIVERSITY MALL
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“People will still be loyal,” he said.
“There are strong demographics in
Chapel Hill, and none of that will
change,” he said.
Ranelli said the newly renovated
University Mall would be an attraction
for the people of Chapel Hill. “We are
going to make the mall very very nice;
there will be all new floors, new ceilings,
new lights, new shops, new everything.”
Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce
find building space on campus, orga
nize security and provide information
about Chapel Hill.
“Christine’s done a ton of work,” B
GLAD co-chairman lan Palmquist
said. “She really laid down the ground
work for the conference.”
John Harrison, program director for
the N.C. Lambda Network, was of the
same opinion.
“The energy she’s brought into her
work and the impact on other young
people is incredible,” he said.
In addition to her dedication to the
conference, Williams also serves as the
chairwoman for the National Queer
Student Caucus, an affiliation of the
United States Students Association.
Her passion to advocate social jus
tice is fueled by her own experiences.
“Christine is a passionate person,”
Harrison said. “When she sees injus
tices, she can’t turn a blind eye. She
on campus? Then join the “Greening
of Carolina” - Green Games! Come
find out how you can participate in run
ning UNC’s campuswide annual recy
cling competition at this semester’s first
meeting in the Union near the Cabaret.
7:30 p.m. - Discussion on the equal
ity of men and women: come share your
ideas and hear the Baha’i perspective in
an open environment where diversity of
thought is encouraged. Frank Porter
Graham Lounge.
Saturday
noon to 5 p.m. - The 14th Annual
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural
Festival will be held at the McKimmon
Center at N.C. State University.
Sponsored by the African-American
Cultural Center of N.C. State. A variety
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tion of justice. “The direct evidence dis
proves the charges,” David Kendall
argued as the Clinton team completed
its opening presentation.
Kendall’s presentation was methodi
cal, unrelenting and a stark contrast to
that of Bumpers. He spared no words
for the president’s critics in denouncing
the Whitewater investigation as “tortu
ous and meandering” and said he was
before the trial to rebut the “rhetoric” of,
the House prosecutors. The final prej
sentation came one year to the day after!
the Lewinsky allegations became public*
and thrust the presidency into crisis.
“The rule of law is more than
rhetoric. It means that in proceedings
like these, where important rights are
being adjudicated, that evidence mat
ters. Fairness matters. ... The presump
tion of innocence matters,” argued
Kendall, who has represented the pres
ident through a variety of legal contro
versies dating to 1993. “The rule of law
is not the monopoly of the House man
agers, and it ought to be practiced in
these proceedings as well as talked
about in speeches,” he said.
President Joel Harper said Southpoint
mall would not have a large impact on
the downtown businesses of Chapel
Hill.
“It will hardly affect Franklin Street
because there is too different a client
basis,” he said.
He also said the new mall would not
drain Orange County dollars.
“We are already losing the money to
Car)' Town Center or Crabtree, so it
would just go to another mall.”
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takes it very personally.”
Williams said her work against injus
tices began when she saw her high
school teachers, including her mother,
involved in a labor dispute.
. She also campaigned against homo
phobia and heterosexism after seeing
discrimination against her gay friends.
Her interest intensified after she
came out in college.
“As an out dyke, I see how issues of
homophobia effects my brothers, sis
ters and me personally,” Williams said.
She said she didn’t view her work as
just a mission, but a duty. “There’s so
much injustice in the world. It would
be a waste of my time to sit around
and whine. I feel really intensely about
how inequitable our system has
become.”
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features@unc.edu.
of workshops andentertainment will be
held at this free event. Fore more infor
mation, call 515-5210.
8 p.m. -“I Have A Dream,” a
musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. will be held at the Stewart ’
Theatre at N.C. State University. Tickets
are $ 12 for adults, $8 for students and ss'
for seniors and children. For tickets, call
515-1100 and for more information, call
515-5210.
Sunday
1 p.m. to 5 p.m. - The Department
of Dramatic Art and Play Makers
Repertory Company will hold an
open house in their new building on
Country Club Road. Refreshments, pre
sentations and tours will be offered. For
more information, call 962-7259.