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Funding Woes Still Plague NCCU
The long list of renovations
prompted Chancellor Julius
Chambers to appeal to the
Board of Trustees for funds.
By Courtney Obringer
Staff Writer
DURHAM - N.C. Central
University freshman Lakouviajackson
had to move out of her Eagleton
Residence Hall room for a day because
her ceiling leaked with Hurricane
Floyd’s waters and flooded the floor.
Student Jerry Terrell complained
about the damage to his room: roof
leakage, a broken cable and a dangling
light from his ceiling.
“Clean Me” written in dust on dirty
windows, rusted old vents, chipping
paint on railings, tom window screens
and overgrown grass are striking images
on the N.C. Central campus.
These conditions of disrepair, which
caused N.C. Central to fail state build
ing inspections, recendy prompted
Chancellor Julius Chambers to appeal
to the Board of Trustees for funding to
fix prolonged maintenance problems
and building code violations.
But board members advised
Chambers to look to the prospective
capital improvements bond issue for
funding. The bond, which would have
provided N.C. Central with a significant
chunk of the needed funding for build
ing repairs, awaits review by the N.C.
General Assembly.
Combined with the expected system
wide 30 percent enrollment increase by
2010 which would mandate better facil
ities, N.C. Central’s history of under
funding will continue to plague the
school until the bond issue is passed.
Following the Department of Labor’s
discovery of more than 130 types of
building code violations in 1997, N.C.
Central hired a private consulting firm
which found additional violations, esti
mated to be worth $53 million.
The initial code violations found in
20 campus buildings had been reme
died, said George Walls, special assis
tant to the chancellor. But the health
and safety violations found in the
remaining two-thirds of the campus still
need to be corrected.
Trustee Ralph Frasier said he realized
the need to remedy the safety issues, but
the board had high hopes for the bond
issue, which could supplement N.C.
Central’s gaping need for funding.
Walls said the school currently had
only $6 million to make renovations -
estimated to cost sll9 million in con
sultant Eva Klein’s 1999 capital
improvements study, which was com
missioned by the Board of Governors.
Klein’s study prompted the legisla
tive bond issue, which was never decid
ed on by the N.C. General Assembly.
Regardless of when the bond issue
passes, Paul Goldblatt, director of resi
dential life, said all residence halls had
a continual stream of re-occurring prob
lems, such as ceiling and window leaks.
The recent stormy weather has aggra-
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West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday,
saying all that was needed was
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s
approval.
Prime Minister Ehud Barak has
approved the terms, chief Israeli nego
tiator Shlomo Ben-Ami said.
Ben-Ami, who is also public security
minister, said the agreement brought a
“new atmosphere” to the talks, which
were revived last month.
“We need to look at it as representa
tive of anew phase of negotiations,”
Ben-Ami told The Associated Press.
The Gaza Strip, on the
Mediterranean coast, and the land
locked West Bank are about 24 miles
apart and separated by Israeli land. The
“safe passage” agreement would allow
Palestinians to use Israeli highways
along a fixed route between the territo
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Palestinians said that the agreement
over the route - delayed for four years
by previous governments was a sign
of good intentions.
They predicted Arafat would
approve the agreement and that the pas
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N.C. Central University buildings suffer from a variety of recurring maintenance issues, from torn
window screens to leaky roofs. More than SIOO million is needed to rectify the problems, officials say.
vated the grievances, he said.
Goldblatt said the perpetual prob
lems were related to N.C. Central’s his
tory of underfunding. Edward Eng,
director of the physical plant, agreed.
“Conditions are a result of years of
inattention,” Eng said. “Correcting defi
ciencies immediately is unrealistic.”
Eng said an ongoing capital improve
ments project had targeted several cam
pus sites for repairs, and a $2.9 million
renovation program was currendy in
the works, including updating plumbing
and electrical systems and correcting
asbestos problems.
“We are doing all the things that we
need to be doing to get deficiencies cor
rected,” Eng said.
While officials have targeted the
problems, funding deficits still plague
the campus.
“The main source of funding is the
bond issue,” Walls said. “If we got the
$ 119 million, we could go a long way to
correct the small things and big things
that are concerns to regulatory agencies
... we know what the problems are. We
just need the money to correct them.”
Trustee Brenda Brody also said the
bond would be very important in
addressing maintenance needs and
would provide the school with market
ing tools to attract new students.
Despite officials’ worries that struc
tural problems hinder the school’s
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But Spicer said the anticipated
enrollment increase mandated better
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“Education academia is here but we are
lacking sorely in facilities.”
Despite the need for maintenance
funding, anew S3O million biotechnol
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“Every donor likes to give to new
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Some N.C. Central students agreed
more funding should be allotted to the
maintenance of residence halls.
“(Renovations should) begin with
housing because we have to live there,”
said Nichole Easen, a freshman from
Clayton.
Although N.C. Central earned
money through alumni, grants and
fund-raisers, Spicer said she did not
believe the school had been allocated
enough money through the N.C.
General Assembly.
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Study: Smokers Lured
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A student-conducted study
found that stores placed
tobacco advertisements
next to places of purchase.
By Brent Kinker
Staff Writer
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that the tobacco industry was continuing
to find successful techniques for sub
consciously luring in smokers.
The study, conducted by students at
Stanford and Santa Clara universities,
reported that tobacco companies paid
62.4 percent of chain convenience
stores to prominendy advertise their
products.
The report indicated that many stores
placed cigarette advertisements near
purchase points such as cash registers or
check-out lines, a process called slotting.
“Although several nontobacco com
panies pay for similar services, the aver
age store received 78 percent of its slot
ting money from the tobacco industry,”
said Ellen Fleighery, spokeswoman for
the Stanford University center for
research in disease prevention. “And
cigarettes were the top selling product
for only 33 percent of the retailers.”
Tobacco companies pay stores to use
space around cash registers as well as
other visible areas to advertise and sell
their products, said Kurt Ribisl, assistant
professor at the UNC School of Public
Health, who participated in the study.
“It must be having an impact,” Ribisl
said. “Here they’re dedicating over $2
billion to slotting,” he said, pointing to a
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slide of the tobacco industries’ 1997
marketing budget
The slide showed that slotting funds
dwarfed all other advertising, including
billboards and magazine advertise
ments. It also showed that tobacco com
panies spent more than half of their
advertising budget on slotting in 1997.
“Tobacco companies are all trying to
buy the same prime placement,” Ribisl
said. “The cash registers and counters
are the best locations. Every customer
that goes through this store, including
teenagers, has to go through the point of
purchase."
Ribisl said tobacco companies used
several different display methods. “They
have utility trays, posters, calenders, ash
trays, change trays, overhead bins, signs
and message boards,” he said.
At TJ.’s Campus Beverage, located
on Franklin Street, Camel posters litter
the windows. More Camel signs are
inside the store, as well as Camel racks
on the counter and posters on the walls.
Although the store sells other brands,
they are hidden behind the counter.
“I know (Camel representatives) pay
to keep the prices lower and to hang the
posters,” said TJ.’s cashier, Jeff Martin.
“And they definitely sell a lot more
because of the prices.”
But down the street at Sutton’s Drug
Store, there are no signs of slotting. “I
don’t want to promote it, so I don’t
accept anything,” Sutton’s pharmacist
John Woodard said. “The cigarettes sell
themselves. It’s amazing how many stu
dents smoke.”
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