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The University and Towns
In Brief
Carrboro Alderman
Announces Candidacy
Alderman Alex Zaffron filed for a
spot on November’s election ballot last
week.
Zaffron became the first resident to
announce candidacy for a seat on the
six-member Board of Aldermen.
He has served on the board since
1995 and occupies one of the three seats
that are up for grabs. The others are
those occupied by incumbents Joal
Broun and Hilliard Caldwell.
Zaffron could not be reached for
comment.
Center Co-Sponsors
Public Health Forum
The UNC-CH School of Public
Health’s Center for Public Health
Service will be one of the sponsors in a
public health policy symposium taking
place today and Friday in Raleigh.
The forum will focus on public
health impact of intensive livestock
operations and will feature several
School of Health faculty members.
Agreement Provides
Biologists Facility Use
An agreement between Argonne
National Laboratory and the University
will enable biologists to have direct
access to powerful X-ray facilities.
The new facilities will enable them to
complete projects at a much faster rate
and conduct more complicated studies.
Roper to Give Speech
At Annual Meeting
Dr. William Roper, dean of the UNC
School of Public Health will be the
keynote speaker at the Association of
State and Territorial Health Officials’
sixth annual meeting today in Asheville.
His address, titled “Vision for Public
Health - Challenges for Senior Deputy
Leadership," will examine opportunities
and challenges that arise from state
health care environments.
School of Journalism
To Move Next Week
The School of Journalism and Mass
Communication is making final
arrangements for its move from Howell
Hall to Carroll Hall.
The move-in date is tentatively
scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.
County to Co-Sponsor
Housing Workshop
The Orange County Department of
Housing and Community Development
and the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development will sponsor
an affordable housing workshop at 2
p.m. today.
The workshop will be held in the
meeting room of the Southern Human
Services Center, 2501 Homestead
Road.
The program is targeted to property
owners, landlords and property man
agement companies throughout Orange
County.
For more information, contact Tara
Fikes, director of the Orange County
Department of Housing and
Community Development at 732-8181,
ext 2490.
Recreation Department
Offers Softball Camp
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks
Department is sponsoring a softball
summer camp fromjuly 26-July 30.
The camp is open to all youth from
ages 9 to 13 and the entry fee is $54.
Registration will continue through
Sunday.
For additional information, contact
the Recreation Department at 968-7703.
U.S. University Team,
Haywood, Wins Gold
The men’s U.S. University Team
grabbed its sixth straight World
University Games gold medal and 40th
consecutive win by slamming
Yugoslavia 79-65 in Palma de Mallorca,
Spain. UNC center Brendan Haywood
had nine points in the victory.
The U.S. women dropped their title
game, 57-48 to Spain. UNC’s
LaQuanda Barksdale had six points and
five rebounds.
Track’s Christopher
To Jump in Pan Am
UNC senior LaShonda Christopher
will compete in the long jump at the
Pan Am games in Winnepeg, Canada.
The games begin July 24.
- From Staff Reports
Barranger Resigns
From Department
By Will Foushee
Staff Writer
The Playmakers Repertory
Company and Department of Dramatic
Art has suffered the loss of one of it’s
driving forces with the resignation of its
department chairwoman and producing
director Milly Barranger.
Barranger resigned from both posi
tions effective June 30 after serving 17
years as department chairwoman.
In a letter to the faculty, Barranger
stated she was resigning due to lack of
support for the department from the
College of Arts and Sciences, Pam
O’Connor, the Press and Marketing
Director for the Department of
Dramatic Art said.
O’Connor said Barranger would
remain on the faculty as an Alumna
Distinguished Professor.
“Barranger will be on leave next year
taking a ...l/uaiical to finish writing her
book,” O’Connor said.
Darryl Gless, Senior Associate Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, said
an interim for the position would be
announced Aug. 1 by Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences Risa Palm.
At that time a national search would be
Shortfall Causes
UNC Budget Cuts
A $9.8 million budget
deficit has led UNC to make
difficult cuts in department
and program spending.
By Katie Abel
and Rachel Carter
Staff Writers
When the fall semester starts, return
ing students will find that a budget
deficit will have cancelled some classes,
trimmed staffs and delayed promised
building repain.
The University is facing the $9.8 mil
lion budget shortfall, which provoked
campus administrators to ask deans and
department heads to cut between 1.6 to
10 percent of their budgets.
The budget could also receive a
major blow from an Internal Revenue
Service audit. The University could owe
up to $20.5 million.
Graduate and Professional Student
Association President Lee Conner said
he doubted any departments would
escape cuts.
“I think we’re in a situation that
everyone is going to feel the pinch,"
Jewelry Store to Donate Street Clock
Local officials say a 10-foot
-2-inch clock could improve
the ambiance of Chapel Hill
and become a landmark.
By Jacob McConnico
City/State & National Editor
Instead of meeting at the Franklin
Street post office or in front of the
Morehead Planetarium, residents and
visitors could soon make plans to ren
dezvous by the clock.
Ken Jackson, owner of Wentworth &
Sloan, a jewelry store located at 167 E.
Franklin St., has donated a 10-foot-2-
inch tall clock to the town. The clock
will be placed on the street in front of
Jackson’s store.
Emily Cameron, a landscape archi
tect for the town, said the clock would
become a popular attraction.
“In terms of ambiance people could
use it as a landmark like, I’ll meet you at
the clock,” she said.
Jackson could not be reached for
comment, but a memo issued by the
town stated that the clock was worth
$3,000.
Cameron said town costs would be
minimal for the installation of the clock,
and Wentworth & Sloan would take
care of maintenance.
“We would have to pay for the instil
lation,” she said. “Probably what we’re
looking at is a concrete pad and what
ever hardware is needed (to attach it to
the street). It would have a pedestal like
a light pole."
Cameron said the clock was operat
ed by a battery and looked Victorian in
style.
In addition, Jackson stated in his peti-
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Milly Barranger
started to seek a replacement for
Barranger.
Gless said he wanted input from the
Department of Dramatic Art in making
a decision on the new replacement.
“Input will be coming the depart
ment, by speaking with faculty, staff and
students,' Gless said.
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Conner said. “I
just hope that ours
isn’t dispropor
tionate.”
Student Body
President Nic
Heinke said he
thought students
would not loss any
essential pro
grams.
“I think the
Administration
has so far done an
excellent job mak
ing sure that the
priorities of the
Vice Chancellor for
Student Affaire
Sue Kitchen said
student services
would not suffer
because of cuts.
University are in order," Heinke said.
Heinke said that he had faith in Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs Sue
Kitchen’s ability to make changes with
out sacrificing student needs.
Kitchen said the mandated cuts
sparked her to implement several
improvements, but all student services
would continue to remain intact.
One of the ways the department will
save money is with a smaller First Year
Initiative Program, Kitchen said.
See BUDGET, Page 5
Hour is Nigh for Chapel Hill's First Street Clock
The owner of Wentworth & Sloan, a jewelry store located at 167 E. Franklin St, has donated a $3,000 Victorian style dock to go on the sidewalk
in front of the store. Installation of the clod will be accomplished as part of an annual town streetscape plan intmded to improve sidewalks.
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tion to the Chapel Hill Town Council
that he would take steps to protect the
clock from vandalism.
These measures include, the installa
tion of unbreakable glass, steel filler
between clock sections to prevent it
from being disassembled and a lock to
prevent pedestrians from opening the
battery or gear compartments, reports
state.
In exchange for the donation Jackson
had requested that the face of the clock
read either, “Donated and Maintained
by Wentworth & Sloan” or “In Memory
of Richmond Sloan" or “167 E. Franklin
Street.”
Sonna Loewenthal, assistant town
“I will make a recommendation to
Dean Palm, who will make the final
decision,” Gless said.
Barranger brought nationally recog
nized shows to the stage of the
Playmakers Repertory Company by
recruiting noted faculty, resident theatre
artists and administrators that brought
the arts to UNC.
Barranger was also crucial in the $2
million fund-raising campaign to build
the Center for Dramatic Art, which con
tinues through endowments and the
annual Playmakers Ball.
In 1997, Barranger hosted the world
premiere of Horton Foote’s “The Death
of Papa”, in which the leading roles
were played by Matthew Broderick and
Ellen Burstyn.
Barranger was not available for com
ment Wednesday.
English professor James King called
Barranger’s decision to resign rather
surprising.
King said Barranger’s resignation
was because of the overwhelming
responsibility of her two positions and
the time they took.
“She held two full time jobs, and I
See BARRANGER, Page 5
Compromise Sparks Dispute
Developers say the permit
issued for an office building
at the Meadowmont site
poses a parking problem.
By Jacob McConnico
City/State & National Editor
While small battles are being con
ceded over the Meadowmont develop
ment, the town has ensured that the war
will rage on.
Council members voted 8-1 last week
to approve a permit for an office build
ing on the 435-acre mixed use site, but
terms governing the parking lot at the
complex were contested by representa
tives of Capital Associates, the firm that
is developing that portion of the site.
Anne Stoddard, associate partner in
Capital Associates, said her firm would
not be open to an agreement if the coun
cil did not amend the resolution
“If (the council) doesn’t agree with it
then they are never going to get it at all,”
she said.
The dispute was over a provision in
the permit that called for 86 of the build
ing’s 900 parking spaces to be convert
ed to a park and ride lot once the build
ing reached 95 percent occupancy if one
of the three following conditions were
met:
■ At least 15 percent of the employ
ees who regularly work in the buildings
manager, said the addition of a clock
could promote tourism.
“It will add interest to the streetscape
of Chapel Hill,” she said.
Cameron said the town was working
on the north side of Franklin Street
between the Bank of America Plaza and
the post office as part of an annual
streetscape project.
The project began last month and
calls for an increase in the number of
trees, bike racks and trash cans.
In addition, work crews have
repaired cracks and widened the side
walks.
Cameron said the town had planned
to extend the curb at the comer of
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Visitors to UNC's campus were in for a shock this week as the
temperature plummeted unusually low for mid-July. Drizzles are
expected to continue today and taper off sometime this weekend.
are using transit, bicycles or other means
rather than single-occupant vehicles to
commute to the buildings on a daily
basis, as determined by a written survey
distributed to employees.
■ A physical count and survey of
persons visiting the buildings demon
strates that at least 15 percent of the per
sons arriving do so by transit, bicycle or
other means rather than single occupant
vehicles.
■ A physical count demonstrates that
at least 15 percent of the parking spaces
provided for the buildings are vacant on
a regular basis.
Representatives
of the group had
agreed to the terms
at a June 30 work
session with a
council subcom
mittee.
However, Larry
Sitton, attorney for
“1 think we had. some good
faith negotiations here and the
terms are being changed. ”
Julie McCuntock
Town Council member
the group, said the proposal would not
work unless it were amended to state
that two out of three conditions must be
met.
“I concede that it was agreed upon,
but it doesn’t matter,” he said. “This is
a deal breaker.”
Council member Kevin Foy, a mem
ber of the council subcommittee, said
the negotiations had gone well and he
was under the impression that every
thing had been worked out.
“When we made the final proposal it
Henderson and Franklin streets, but
with school starting soon she was not
sure that crews would have time.
“We’re hoping to finish before the
students come back," she said.
“Hopefully, we will at least have it walk
able. We’re shooting for Aug. 13.”
Cameron said the clock would not be
installed until most of the work on the
sidewalk was done.
“We may want to wait until the trees
are put in,” she said. “I imagine once
(the clock) is in it will be pretty perma
nent."
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was agreed that it would be one of the
three,” he said.
Stoddard said the third condition
posed a major problem because of the
nature of new office buildings.
“Tenants in most markets lease more
space than they need initially," she said.
“These parking spaces will not be able
to be filled.”
Council member Pat Evans made a
motion to amend the resolution to read
two out of three, but the proposal was
defeated by a 5-4 vote. Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf and council mem-
bers Lee Pavao,
Edith Wiggins and
Evans dissented.
During negotia
tions the town
asked the develop
er to cut 115 of its
proposed 951
parking spaces.
The firm agreed to
reduce the number of spaces by 51.
Julie McClintock, a council member,
said the group’s objections were a sur
prise.
“I think we had some good faith
negotiations here and the terms are
being changed,” she said.
The commissioners decided not to
amend the resolution and passed the
measure that calls for one of the three
conditions.
See MEADOWMONT, Page 5
Council
Endorses
New Study
A council subcommittee has
released a report outlining
the needs of homeless teens
in Orange County.
By Jacob McConnico
City/State & National Editor
Homeless teens in Orange County
could soon receive relief from anew
county commission being recommend
ed by the town of Chapel Hill.
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted
unanimously last week to pass a resolu-
tion to forward a
report completed
by the Youth
Steering
Committee, a
group appointed
by the town to
study the needs of
homeless teens in
the town and the
county.
Marti Pryor-
Cook, chairman
of the committee
and director of
the Orange
County
Department of
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Chapel Hill Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf
supported a study
recommending a
county employee to
help homeless teens.
Social Services, said the group had met
for the past four months in order to
See HOMELESS, Page 5
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