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UNC Bond Package Dies
As Legislators Go Home
By Katie Abel
Staff Writer
Extensive renovation and construc
tion projects on UNC-system campuses
were put on hold Tuesday after the N.C.
General Assembly could not reach a
compromise on the proposed bond.
The House and Senate, pitted against
each other in a largely partisan fight, will
adjourn without resolving intense dis
agreements that had arisen during
recent weeks. Although a last minute
proposal emerged from legislative
chambers Monday that would have
given UNC-system campuses $750 mil
lion, the House still would not approve
the package without a public vote.
During the last week, a negotiating
committee consisting of 66 House and
Senate members struggled to reach an
agreement, but conceded Tuesday that
one was virtually impossible.
Journalism School Makes Move to Carroll
The School of Journalism
and Mass Communication
moved from Howell Hall, its
home since the 19605.
By Will Folshee
Staff Writer
The lights are on, the halls are filled
with boxes and the freshly painted walls
of Carroll Hall are littered with empty
display cases as professors in the School
of Journalism and Mass
Communication move into the school’s
new home this week.
With its expanded entrance and a
video wall with capabilities of showing
up to four different news stations at the
same time, Carroll Hall has taken on a
world class status, Thomas Bowers,
James L Knight Professor and associate
dean of the journalism school, said.
The new Carroll Hall has a produc
tion studio, electronic newsroom and
control room, Bowers said.
“We hope to be able to air newscasts
in the studio as a class to air on-campus
cable television,” Bowers said.
Bowers said he was excited, but sad
to leave Howell Hall, his home for over
28 years. “We finally have a first-class
home lor a first-class school,” Bowers
said.
Carroll Hall will also feature five
computer lab classrooms, a computer
Waldorf to Seek Re-election
Rosemary Waldorf, two-term
mayor of Chapel Hill, has
filed to run for a third term
in the upcoming elections.
By Jacob McConnico
City/State & National Editor
Mayor Rosemary Waldorf
announced Tuesday that she would seek
re-election to Chapel Hill’s top elected
office.
Waldorf, 46, Chapel Hill’s first female
mayor, has served
since 1995 and
was the only resi
dent to file for the
mayoral race as of
Wednesday.
In a local press
release Waldorf
oudined a 9 item agenda that she would
pursue if elected to a third term as
mayor. These priorities include:
■ Maintain a productive and stable
relationship between the town staff and
the Chapel Hill Town Council.
■ Maintain an open relationship
WEEKLY SUMMER ISSUE
UNC student
leaders, who spent
much of the sum
mer lobbying for
the bond package,
said the problems
would worsen
without any action
this session by the
General Assembly.
“The paint in
Murphy Hall is
going to continue
to peel and the
desks are going to
continue to
crack,” said Lee
Student Body
President
Nic Heinke
says legislators need
to better understand
campus problems.
Conner, graduate and professional stu
dent association president. “I think this
is a very irresponsible action for them to
take and the problems are not going to
go away.”
The main points of disagreement on
classroom in the library for teaching
about resources and searching and at.
open lab for students, Bowers said.
The newest advancement in Carroll
Hall will benefit the photojournalism
sequence, Bowers said.
“In Howell, we used traditional
chemical processing, but in Carroll
we’re using digital photography,”
Bowers said.
Carroll will also contain the Freedom
Forum Conference Center, built with
donations from the Freedom Forum in
Arlington, Va., the conference room fea
tures a 3x3 video wall, used for general
conferences and special instruction,
Bowers said.
“Our future is looking better and bet
ter, we have a better facility, more tech
nology and can back it with our tradi
tional strong teaching," Bowers said.
The expanded Park Library, increas
ing from 1100 square feet at Howell to
5000 square feet at Carroll, the library
boasts stations for PC hookups for the
Carolina Computing Initiative to a
Geographic Imaging System, which
tracks trends and demographics, Library
Director Barbara Semonche said.
Bowers said he was excited about the
addition of the Charles Kuralt Learning
Center, which would contain an exact
reproduction of the contents from his
Manhattan office.
Richard Cole, dean of the school,
See CARROLL, Page 2
between the town
and the
University.
■ Begin work
on a series of cap
ital improvement
projects approved
by voters in 1996,
including the
Northern
Community Park,
renovations and
additions to the
town’s police and
public works facil
ities and the new
southern fire sta-
Incumbent
Rosemary Waldorf
has announced that
she will seek a third
term as Chapel Hill's
mayor.
tion.
■ Address the town’s transportation
needs by lobbying the governor and the
legislature for more state funding of pub
lic transportation.
“We cannot look at Chapel Hill as a
microcosm, as a biological cell whose
walls cannot be penetrated,” she said.
“In transportation terms, we in Chapel
Hill are connected with Carrboro,
Hillsborough, Orange County, Durham,
Durham County, Chatham County,
RTP, Cary, Raleigh and Wake County.
Practical politics consists ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Thursday, July 22, 1999
Volume 107, Issue 52
the issue have been about the amount of
funds legislators think the universities
should be able to borrow and whether
the public should vote on the issue.
The Senate three weeks ago
approved a plan that would have given
$2.7 billion in bonds to state universities
and 300 million to community colleges
and avoid a referendum.
But last week the House came back
with a proposal that required voter
approval for $1 billion in bonds and
S2OO million for community colleges.
The Senate immediately rejected the
House proposal and the negotiation
committee was then set up.
Conner said partisan issues over
shadowed the true purpose of the bond
legislation, which was first introduced as
a result of an 18-month study pinpoint
ing the construction needs of UNC-sys
tem campuses during the next 10 years.
Rob Lamme, spokesman for Senate
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Jay Eubank, director of career services for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, moves into his
new office in Carroll Hall while Terry Ashley, project representative, checks the building for last minute quirks.
“Our need is to be better connected,
more multi-modally and more quickly.”
■ Address affordable housing issues
in order to maintain diversity in the
town.
“We need strong public policy actions
to maintain the diversity of Chapel Hill
- after alt, it’s that diversity that attracts
so many newcomers to our area,” she
said.
Waldorf was elected to the Town
Council in 1993 and has served two
terms as mayor since 1995. She ran
unopposed in 1997.
Don Hartman, who worked on
Waldorf’s campaign, sajd he doubted
anyone would run against her in 1999.
“She is such an effective mayor,” he
said. “I think it would be suicidal to run
against her.”
To date, Ruby Sinreich, Bill Strom
and Jim Ward have announced they
would seek Town Council seats.
Incumbents Flicka Bateman, Pat Evans
and Julie McClintock have not filed for
re-election and Joe Capowski said he
would not run again.
The City/State & National Editor
can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu.
General Assembly Kills Bond Money
After weeks of bickering, the N.C. General Assembly was unable to reach a settlement on a
bond package that would allow construction for state universities and community colleges.
■ Eva Klein, a consultant hired by UNC, said during the next ten years, UNC-system campus
es would need $6.9 billion for construction.
■ The N.C. Senate proposes a $3 billion bond deal for state universities and community col
leges,
■ The House of Representatives rejects the Senate bill and passes its own. The House bill
gives the UNC system campuses $1.2 billion, provided the bond passed on a referendum
scheduled for May.
■ The Senate votes 33-14 against the House proposal. A negotiation committee comprised of
66 legislators is set up to come to a bond settlement.
■ On Monday, the House of Representatives rejected a proposal to borrow $750 million for
construction for state universities and community colleges. The House insisted on public vote
for any money given to UNC-system campuses for construction.
■ On Tuesday, the General Assembly fails to reach a compromise, effectively killing the bond
issue until the next session begins.
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, said
Senate leaders had done everything in
their power to work out a compromise
with the House.
“Basically we bent over backwards to
accommodate those folks,” he said.
Officials Try to Tie Up
Bond, Budget by Fall
Provost Dick Richardson
said UNC officials had
whittled the budget
shortfall to $7.8 million.
By Rachel Carter
Senior Writer
After spending most of the summer
trying to get a billion-dollar bond pack
age through the N.C. General Assembly
for the UNC-system campuses,
University officials expressed disap
pointment after legislators abandoned
the bill.
“The bond issue has been totally con
suming," Provost Dick Richardson said.
“It was terribly hard for us. We think we
made a compelling case."
The University could see a 44,000
rise in enrollment over the next 10
years, which would make construction
necessary, Richardson said.
The bond proposal went through sev
eral different versions before House and
Senate leaders decided that they would
Lamme said the House members
who would not support a package that
did not include a referendum were real
ly against aiding the state’s universities
See BOND, Page 2
be unable to com
promise.
“It’s a question
of finding the
political solution,”
Richardson said.
UNC leaders
would begin
rethinking lobby
ing efforts in a few
weeks, Richardson
said, after having
a chance to tick
their wounds.
Finances have
dominated the
administration’s
Provost
Dick Richardson
called the
legislature's rejection
of the bond package
''terrible."
summer. Richardson has been also
working on the million dollar budget
shortfall and expects to wrap discussions
about the deficit up at the end of the
week.
“We were looking at an sll million
shortfall but then got it down to $7.8 mil
lion,” Richardson said. He said that after
getting the deficit down to $7.8 million,
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Students
Mull ONE
Card Perks
Some students say despite
the new functions on UNC
ONE cards, they do not plan
to switch to Wachovia.
By Will Folshee
Staff Writer
UNC ONE Cards will be beefed up
in the fall with an ATM function and
later a check card option, but some stu
dents say they have mixed feelings on
whether the features are enough to
make them change banks.
Students will have to obtain a
Wachovia account to reap the benefits
of the new OneCard since it has been
chosen as the vendor for UNC.
Associate Vice Chancellor for
Auxiliary Services Carolyn Elfland said
in order to take the ONE card off cam
pus and make the ATM and check
cards an option, UNC needed to part
ner with a financial institution.
Senior Alge Crumpler, who banks
with CCB, said said despite the advan
tages a Wachovia account presented, he
would not bite.
“I’ve been with CCB for years, and
I’ve never been dissatisfied,” Crumpler
said.
But senior communication studies
major Terry Steckowich said the new
features were enough to make him
switch. Steckowich banks with
Nationsßank.
“It would be a benefit to be able to
take the OneCard to anyplace,”
Steckowich said.
“It would also be nice if students
were able to use the OneCard at the
ATM,” he said.
Some incoming freshmen who got
word of the Wachovia deal said they
were already making plans to make
their ONE cards ATM-ready. Incoming
freshman Chris Collins, who banked
with Family Trust, said he was switching
to Wachovia as soon as he arrived at
UNC in the fall.
“I’m planning on banking with
Wachovia because of the new added
features on the OneCard,” Collins said.
But some students said the hassle of
changing banks was not worth the new
ONE card options.
Sophomore Jeremy Roark said he
would continue to bank with First
Union. “I use my expense account, but
it wouldn’t be worth the trouble to
change banks.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
INSIDE
Kubrick's Final Film
Under his
masterful
direction,
Stanley
Kubrick’s
last film
raises
w v a
unanswerable questions about honesty,
trust and revenge among a backdrop
of sexual depravity. The result is
breathtaking cinema at its best.
See Page 5.
Track Star Ends Career
UNC senior
Nicole
Gamble fin
ished her
career with
America
titles and a
national
champi
onship in
indoor triple jump. Gamble also earned
spots of three national teams for her
efforts in the long and triple jump.
See Page 2.